Asset Management

OPEN EMAIL to Cllr Rosenau and Cllr Pervez

To Councillor Ruth Rosenau : Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Planning and Transportation

Please provide the list of Council Buildings across the City that are under consideration to close and relocate to the City Business District

Please provide for each building

1. Name and Location of the Building
2. If Council owned or rented
3. Number of Staff Based in the building
4. Plans for future of building
5. Cost of backlog maintenance

If you do not have the information to hand and feel the need to submit a Freedom of Information request, please do do in your own name and forward the reply when your have received it.

Please reply on how you will be answering my query.

Thank you

Ian Norris

Bethesda street is a danger zone

Stoke on Trent City Council Introduced acces restrictions in Jabuary/February 2012on Bethesda Street (from John Street to Albion Street)No motor vehicles except for:

- Permit holders at any time

- Buses and hackney carriages at any time

- Access to off-street premises at any time

Reason : To allow bus stops to be located outside the Potteries Museum and to allow the road to operate as one of the main bus routes from the new bus station

Truth behind the Headlines

Stoke on Trent Council have recently received a lot of criticism over the belief that highly paid officers and Councillors were being given ipads as perks rather then any real need.

Could the situation have been handled any? was it sensational reporting from the local media or poor communication from Councillors and officers?

The local paper reported

“Stoke-on-Trent City Council, which is cutting £24 million this year, has spent more than £29,000 on 110 iPads.

The council has so far failed to issue them to any of its staff or councillors but said it is planning to allocate some of them to schools and children’s centres to aid learning.” 

Changes to Disabled Parking in Hanley

Changes to the road system in Hanley to allow Buses easier access to the new Bus Station measn the relocation of Disabled Parking bays and the introduction of loading/unloading restrictions to prevent Blue Badges holders using double yellow lines for parking. Steven Mallam took a trip around Hanley to find ALL disabled parking bays in full use (except for John Street car park all EMPTY), this is backed up by the Councils recent survey.

City council appoints top class Assistant Chief Executive

After a two day assessment centre Stoke-on-Trent City Council is pleased to announce the successful appointment of Charlie Stewart to the post of Assistant Chief Executive.

Charlie Stewart is currently the Strategic Director of Resources at Brighton & Hove City Council where he is a member of the Strategic Leadership Board directing all support services (Policy, Partnerships, Performance, ICT, HR and OD, Communications, Property, Legal and Democratic Services, Emergency Management) and City Services (Revenues and Benefits, Register Office and Bereavement Service. He is also responsible for partnership development and championing shared services across Brighton & Hove City.

Cabinet Members Gagged?

On Tuesday 8th May The Sentinel published a story on how much local councils have recently spent on iPads, it claimed that Stoke-on-Trent Council had spent £29,000 on 110 iPads, but had yet to distribute any. Cllr Hamer said that some would go to children’s centres and schools, to increase parental involvement with child learning at an early age.

New leaner Traffic Regulation Order for Hanley

Below my questions and answer from Stoke on Trent officers

What measures are to be put in place to prevent negative impact on the proposed public realm improvements in Albion Square and Parliament Square, from the proposed relaxation of access to Percy Street and Tontine Street?

We do not expect there to be a significant increase in the volume of traffic in Albion Square or Parliament Square as a result of the relaxation of the access restrictions for Percy Street to allow access for loading and unloading of goods at any time rather than before 10am and after 5pm.  It will mean that there will be some traffic in the

Changes to Hanley to allow Buses to access the Bus Station

The below image is what we was lead to believe was the future for parts of Hanley, but after discussions with Local traders, Leading Councillors and officers are now proposing that vehicles can now continue to use these streets to access the shops involved.

 

The Golems

On reading about the art walk around the city 5th May with preview today got me thinking I really should finish my google map of stuff around stoke, will deffo be trying to add and complete through the summer.

If anyone has info on the pieces I can add, pleaase feel free to comment or edit map yourself it should be open to all.ll so glad its sunny today for the Guerrilla Knitted Cottage Garden

That is a

Little Earthquake, The Golems

Saturday 5th May, 10am-2pm

Is anyone moving for the Demolition

If other are coming then the demoltion of east/west precinct will be starting soon so what plans do existing retailers have, I asked Blacks

Have you a date for when your Hanley Store will be closing, and will you move to temporary store before moving into a City Sentral store?

Ian

their reply

Dear Ian,

Thank you for your email.As far as we are aware the Hanley store will not be closing.

Kind regards,