Please find below the Agenda for the Adel Association meeting on Thursday 21st March 2013 at 7.30pm in The Stables, Back Church Lane, Adel.
MEETING OF ADEL ASSOCIATION – MARCH 21ST 2013
I look forward to seeing you on Thursday.
Caroline Anderson
Secretary
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The A660 Joint Council draws your attention to the following presentation at HEART Centre on the 25th March 7.00pm.
The first presentation of this talk was given on 27 February to a packed audience – “full to standing”. By popular demand Alderman Donald Townsley has kindly agreed to repeat the presentation for those who were unable to attend the previous talk.
This is the first of two excellent extracts on diesel-electric hybrids and battery buses. See the attachment here……… They are from Don Townsley’s talk which will be repeated on the night. They show what can be done with electric buses.
NGT is the single biggest scheme, affecting not just our Neighbourhood, but neighbourhoods from Hunslet to Holt Park, that will be promulgated in our life-time. Its effects will be profound, whether you are for or against.
NGT is not a political issue but one which affects people of all persuasions across the whole of Leeds, with implications for travel, community life and the future finances of the City.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the facts about NGT and form a balanced opinion without the sales pitch.
Look forward to seeing you there.
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Cllr Barry Anderson has informed us that the Chairman of the Outer North West Area Committee as agreed to hold a debate on NGT at the next Outer North West Area Committee meeting which is due to take place as follows:
“Meeting to be held in The Stables, Back Church Lane, Adel, LS16 8DW on Monday, 25th March, 2013 at 2.00 pm
The Agenda for this meeting is set out below. If you would like to come along and give your views in the public forum section on NGT you would be most welcome to attend.
Please see Agenda here……..
I accept that the timing of this meeting might not be acceptable for a number of residents who are working but this is the usual day and time for the Outer North West meetings.
Once the public forum is over there will then be a debate amongst the Councillors present.”
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The Council’s Executive Board meets on Wednesday 13th March, included on the agenda
To approve that a report should be presented to Full Council recommending the submission of the required Transport and Works Act Order (TWAO) and associated applications for NGT to the Secretary of State for Transport.
Here is a Link to the report asking for their approval for the scheme:
New Generation Transport information pack FINAL.doc
If this agenda item is approved by the Executive Board, the Full Council meeting in April, will be asked to agree to the expenditure of £19.2m to meet the Council’s share in the development costs for NGT.
These are costs associated with preparing plans and documents required for the submission of the required Transport and Works Act Order (TWAO) and associated applications for NGT to the Secretary of State for Transport. All required before the public enquiry stage and any final decision is made by the Government as to whether to release government(?) money for the scheme.
This expenditure should be viewed against the massive groundswell of public opinion which sees the NGT trolley bus scheme as being flawed and inappropriate, not to mention the council cutbacks being made last year, this year and expected for next year. Assuming common sense prevails and scheme is rejected after a public enquiry, then all this money will have been wasted.
NGT is not a political issue but one which affects people of all persuasions across the whole of Leeds, with implications for travel, community life and the future finances of the City.
The A660 Joint Council position, is to oppose NGT in the form of the trolley-bus.
This is the single biggest scheme, affecting neighbourhoods from Hunslet to Holt Park, that will be promulgated in our life-time. Its effects will be profound, whether you are for or against.
Further thoughts concerning NGT are in the attached document.
The email-addresses of Members of the Executive Board are as follows:
<andrew.carter@leeds.gov.uk>, <stewart.golton@leeds.gov.uk>, <keith.wakefield@leeds.gov.uk>, <judith.blake@leeds.gov.uk>, <mark.dobson@leeds.gov.uk>, <peter.gruen@leeds.gov.uk>,
<richard.lewis@leeds.gov.uk>, <lisa.mulherin@leeds.gov.uk>, <adam.ogilvie@leeds.gov.uk>, <lucinda.yeadon@leeds.gov.uk>
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Please see below recently received from Adel Players which may be of interest to you.
“It isn’t just what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us.
“It is all kinds of dead ideas, and all sorts of old and obsolete beliefs.
“They are not alive in us – but they remain in us none the less, and we can never rid ourselves of them…”
GHOSTS – coming to Adel on 24-27 April… tickets on sale now…
Website: http://www.adel-players.org.uk/forthcoming-productions/
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