The Conservative candidate for Police Czar has criticised me, publicly, for leaving a meeting of the Council [after one hour of speeches by Conservative Cabinet members] to chair the Southwell Safer Neighbourhood Group! In a Tweet message he said “Prof/Cllr Harris’s stay so brief he did not raise the issues he said he would. Priorities […]

Christine Thorby the Inspector for the District Council’s plans for the Southwell area will carry out her inspection 11-13th  and 18-20th December 2012. at Kelham Hall. She has said that she will be asking three questions on Southwell: Would the scale, density and greenfield location of allocated sites be appropriate and contribute to the sustainable […]

Bizarrely, the County Councillor for Southwell has submitted a request under Freedom of Information for all my enquiries from the County Council. In the last four years I have made nine requests: 1. Nov 2008: the Minster School replacement sports pitch 2. Dec 2008: Submissions made by Members for improvements to the road and pavement […]

Due to the six week cycle of District Council meetings – compared with the monthly cycle of Southwell Town Council meetings, there was little to report directly tot he Town Council this month. The Cabinet meeting is to be held on Thursday Oct 18 and there are a number of important issues on the agenda […]

The appointed Inspector is Christine Thorby MRTPI, IHBC, who will conduct the Examination of the District Council’s plan for housing around the edge of our town. She determine whether the Plan is ‘sound and legally compliant’, and she will submit a report on this to Newark and Sherwood District Council. The Inspector has decided that […]

The District Council is now controlled by a group consisting of the 22 Conservatives and 2 Independents who have a joint group meeting. There are Labour [15], Independent [4] and the Liberal Democrat groups [Christine Rose Sutton-on-Trent, Julian Hamilton Southwell East and Upton and Peter Harris, Southwell West] There are usually no meetings of the […]

Following my earlier note on the road between Norwell and Cromwell, it will be closed from 3 September 2012 to 22 September 2012 so that Nottinghamshire County Council’ s Highways Department can carry out repairs to culverts that run under the road between the two villages. It is expected that the work will take 3 […]

Many years ago, the development at Humberstone Road should have had a play area installed by the developers. I have been campaigning to get the play area installed, but there have been disputes between the District Council and the developer[s] on how the play area – and the required planting should be put in – […]

At our regular Surgery – held every month on the Saturday before the Town Council’s Planning meeting – there were more complaints about blocked drains in Southwell. Drains along Westgate and Lowes Wong were the ones that were the subject of concern – and I have reported these in to the County Council. Sometimes the […]

I am disappointed, but, I’m afraid, unsurprised that we are not selected as one of the 27 towns to be supported in the Portas Project. I did not think that the application made on behalf of the town by the N&SDC was at all strong. However, now that we are not part of the High […]