Canberra Crescent Petition Goes to Stoke-on-Trent City Council Friday, 28 March, 2025 Yesterday, a meeting of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's councillors officially received the petition raised by local residents and supported by the Meir Park Residents Association and signed by over 1,100 residents. Lead petitioner Ali Dhatt was absolutely fantastic in putting forward the anger and frustration of residents, and it was great to see a number of residents in the public gallery. You can... Local News
Boris Confirms It’s #HS2AllTheWay to Stoke-on-Trent 12th February 2020 The saga of Stoke-on-Trent and HS2 stretches back a number of years - however this week’s announcement by PM Boris Johnson confirms that the city will continue... Local News
Transforming a City... 30th January 2020 City Council budgets are always a controversial subject, with a focus often on the negative. However, there is another side to this, behind the revenue budget... Local News
Personally Speaking: 'Make your New Year resolution really count in 2020' 27th December 2019 One issue that has been at the forefront of political debate in Stoke-on-Trent this year has been children’s social care and the rising number in the care of... Local NewsOpinions
Cracking Down on Blue Badge Fraud 23rd December 2019 One of the less known roles that Stoke-on-Trent City Council fulfils is around audit and fraud. Recent changes mean that housing benefit fraud is now... Local News
Five Year Lease for Macari Centre Announced 23rd December 2019 Over the last year, I’ve made several trips to the Macari Centre, a street homeless centre in the city centre set up by Lou Macari in 2015. The centre is in... Local News
Reviving Trentham Mausoleum 20th December 2019 One of the projects supported by the incredibly successful Community Investment Fund is Trentham Mausoleum, which this Christmas opened up for a very special... Local News
LGiU Podcast - GE2019: What’s at Stake for Local Government? 6th December 2019 In between campaigning, I managed to find five minutes to have a chat with LGiU about what I think is at stake for local government in the forthcoming general... Opinions
Conservative Party Conference 2019 - View From the Fringes 30th September 2019 Over the last few years, I’ve taken part in increasingly more events and fringes at Conservative Party Conference, becoming increasingly aware that outside the... Opinions
Conservative Party Conference 2019 - Centre for Cities : Money, Power, Elections 30th September 2019 Centre for Cities : Money, Power, Elections Good afternoon, thank you for inviting me to speak today about money, power, elections, three topics most media... Speeches
