Campaigning Community Local Elections
17 February 2023 / 17 February 2023 by Geoff Mason
With less than 3 months to go to the May local elections, this year you’ll need to show photo ID before you can vote. The Government insists that this is to prevent ‘personation’ or voter fraud and yet according to the Electoral Reform Society, there were only 33 cases of personation in 2019 which is […]
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Boundary Commission Local Plan Planning Policies
6 January 2023 / 6 January 2023 by Geoff Mason
We hope everyone had a good Christmas – even if their water had to be trucked into Tesco’s carpark for collection… Water played a big part in shaping a year that most people would like to put behind them, with lack of it causing wildfires in the hottest summer since 1976, followed by winter weeks […]
Planning
17 December 2022 / 19 December 2022 by Geoff Mason
John Hurst writes 'the last fortnight has shown us two examples of the failure of successive Councils to plan positively for our town'
Policies
14 November 2022 / 22 December 2024 by Geoff Mason
While Liz Truss has been trying to cut taxes for the wealthiest, more and more people across the UK are resorting to foodbanks. Here in the town, we read in last week’s Times of Tunbridge Wells that the Nourish Community Foodbank is struggling to meet demand as rising energy bills and the cost of living […]
