Leafleting in Chestnut Drive
March 5, 2024•34 words
Leafleting: Local Elections May '24
Out delivering local Stroud District Green Party newsletters this morning to the houses around Chestnut Drive and Symn Lane in Wotton.
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Retail Crime - Market Towns
March 5, 2024•95 words
Retail Crime - Rural Market Towns
As I shopkeeper in Wotton I think I approve, but I also have considerable experience dealing with the fallout when this sort of thing goes horribly wrong....
There has been a noticeable increase in retail theft in recent times, cost of living and all and it affects the viability of smaller shops.
It's interesting to note that the retail crime plan, to tackle this sort of thing, has recently been removed from the Police and Crime Commissioner's web site.
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Read postGFirst LEP being disbanded
March 7, 2024•324 words
Our Local Enterprise Partnership, GFirstLEP, is finally being disbanded.
I wish they had spent as much effort developing their Industrial Strategy (which has been in draft form since 2019) as they have put into their "final hurrah" knees-up for 200 local dignitaries.
The LEP been a total failure for small and medium sized businesses in the county from day one. Unelected, yet overseeing £500m+. of investment in the county.
Their draft Industrial Strategy encompassed just about every possible...
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