There has been a furious response from the Medway Labour Group to Tony Jeacock's letter in the Medway Messenger (24/07/15) regarding the Planning Committee's stance on the redevelopment of the Forrester's Hall site in Gillingham South. They feel it is an unjust personal attack on Labour (although the Conservative-run council was also criticised in the piece), and that events did not play out in the way they are described.
Having suffered years of a Conservative-led Local Council Authority not listening to concerns of local residents ("Consultations are to advise residents of what we have already decided, not to discuss with them to reach a mutually acceptable arrangement"), Gillingham South residents now have a batch of newly elected Labour councillors who promised the earth during the Local Election campaign and then immediately let their residents down.
From April 2017 the Budget will remove the automatic entitlement to housing support for new claims in Universal Credit from 18-21 year olds who are out of work.
As the election campaign dust begins to settle over the MedwayTowns, and the rest of the country, people who bothered to engage in the election process will begin to wonder whether or not they have done the right thing, both nationally and locally.
Local Pharmacist stands up for Strood Rural residents Local Pharmacist and business manager Vanessa Roach is standing up for local residents in this year's elections.
Thomas first came to know the Medway towns in the 1990s attending all the local courts through his practice as a barrister. A...