Christmas lights go on across Willenhall today in spite of the best efforts of Walsall’s Tory lead Council reports Cllr Ian Shires Chair of the Willenhall Partnership. “My thanks go to the hard work put in by members of the partnership. In particular I’d like to thank the Community Forum for their persistance in pressing this [...]

Colleagues in the Short Heath Lib Dem Focus Team have just received news that that a plan to squeeze in an access road which would have run in-front of the Woodlands Shopping Centre in Wood Lane, Short Heath. Commenting on the refusal of planning permission Short Heath Ward councillor Doreen Shires said “This is good [...]

The Chancellor should have cut income tax to make the tax system permanently fairer, say the Liberal Democrats Commenting on the Pre-Budget Report, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, Vince Cable said: “The Government acknowledges that the UK tax system is inherently unfair, but then announces that it will hit those struggling to make ends meet with yet [...]

Willenhall’s partnership have put forward the following public rights of way for further action: Myrtle Close to Oaken Drive on the Woodlands Estate, Short Heath Stroud Avenue to Redpine Crest, Brackendale, Short Heath Calves Croft, Temple Bar, Willenhall Myrtle Close/Oaken Drive:-  Public consultation will take place in the area affected by a proposal to put in fencing [...]

What a difference a month makes. Last month Tory cabinet education supremo councillor Zahid Ali was recommending to his Tory colleagues that Sneyd School close. Last Thursday (20th November 2008) at a packed meeting of the all party Children’s and Young Peoples Scrutiny Panel he was forced to back track and admit that there were other [...]

Astonishing what you can get away with. A 2% cut in interest rates within a month indicates that someone is either being very clever in revitalisingthe economy or they don’t know what they are doing, nor have they for quite some time. There should be a lot of red faces in the country at the [...]

The Children’s Scrutiny and Performance Panel will meet in on Thursday 20th November 2008 to hear evidence and investigate possible ways forward for Sneyd Community School. The meeting will be in public and will take place at the school in Vernon Way off Sneyd Lane at 6pm. Yet again Willenhall North Ward councillors Ian Shires, Pete [...]

Problems of lack of parking facilities in Shepherds Drive, Short Heath are being investigated by Willenhall Housing Trust as part of their environmental improvements programme for 2009/10 following a petition organised by colleagues in Short Heath Ward reports Lib Dem cllr. Doreen Shires. The programme for this year has been finalised, but because of the problems [...]

Work is being carried out shortly on the roadside gulley at the corner of Chaucer Avenue and Tennyson Road in order to resolve the flooding problem reports Lib Dem cllr. Ian Shires. This is part of ongoing works following a number of complaints to the Lib Dem Focus Team. Just a bit further along Chaucer Avenue where it [...]

The November meeting of Willenhall Local Neighbourhood Partnership takes place Thursday 13th November 2008 (sorry for the short notice but www.ianshires.mycouncillor.org.uk has suffered some “essential maintenance” over the past week). The meeting will take place at 6pm at the “Lighthouse Children’s Centre” Heath Road, New Invention. On the agenda there will be the following presentations:- Environmental Issues: This [...]