01/06/2025 / 01/06/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
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Blog 23 – available here: https://open.substack.com/pub/cllrmhb/p/cllr-mhb-blog-900?r=2a6l7i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
24/05/2025 / 30/05/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
As Planning meetings are held at the Barnstaple Rugby Club I can easily cycle there (electrically-assisted) from home – about five miles. Last Wednesday’s meeting was particularly heartening. We were asked to consider how S.106 money – funds due to a local council from a developer to create social value – should be allocated in […]
10/05/2025 / 10/05/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Blog 20 Artur Dron’, Ukrainian soldier poet – White Cross wind farm decision – Webinars – VE Day – Gaza – Garden Mark Haworth-Booth May 09, 2025 CLLR MHB BLOG Blog 20 Artur Dron’, Ukrainian soldier poet – White Cross wind farm decision – Webinars – VE Day – Gaza – Garden Mark Haworth-Booth May […]
06/05/2025 / 06/05/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
The news came on Friday, just before we sat down for lunch with friends at the Jack Russell in Swimbridge, was a rare treat. The treat became rather more of one, with a bottle of Prosecco, when we saw how emphatically Cllr Sara Wilson, our excellent candidate, had won the county council seat for Ilfracombe […]
03/04/2025 / 03/04/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
PHOTO – Dennington Hill, Swimbridge The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s (AIA) Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey has found that £16.81bn is required by councils to bring the network up to their ‘ideal’ conditions. The annual survey, which was completed by 78% of councils responsible for roads in England, London and Wales, also found that […]