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Gordon Kerr »
Barnet Needs More Sports Facilities, Not Superstores
Posted on 4:47pm Wednesday 6th January 2010
Readers are urged to ask that the Council’s draft Local Development Framework (LDF) make better provision for sports and recreation facilities. The LDF is an exceptionally important document in the context not only of the open space at Claremont Road, but also impacts all other present and future sporting and recreational sites throughout Barnet.
Author Unknown »
A seasonal offering
Posted on 3:26pm Wednesday 23rd December 2009
I awoke at the crack of dawn on Christmas Day 65 years ago to the raucous background noise of the NCO at Meanee Barracks in Colchester shouting "Wakey, wakey".
Jack Cohen »
The Dowager Leader
Posted on 11:12am Friday 18th December 2009
The full Council meeting on Monday descended in to farce. I can not recall any Council Meeting under any Political Control that ever ended up in such a shambles. There were so many vignettes that I would be blogging well into the New Year with these delights.
Author Unknown »
Is Signy a saint or sinner?
Posted on 12:29pm Thursday 17th December 2009
Bouncy comedian Jimmy Tarbuck tried to catch me on the hop when we got together at the 'Saints and Sinners' Club Christmas lunch at the InterContinental Hotel. We had been discussing the decline of Liverpool Football Club when we were joined by two other guests. "Do you know Dennis?" one of them asked Jimmy.
Jack Cohen »
Christmas With The Aliens
Posted on 2:25pm Tuesday 15th December 2009
No this blog is not about tonight’s full Council meeting. Last week I was at St Agnes’ RC Primary School in Cricklewood. I have been a Governor there since 1988. This was my twenty second Christmas play. As usual it was the story of the Nativity. But this time we had space ships and sat-navs thrown in. So hence the tile of their play “Christmas with the Aliens”
Jack Cohen »
Talking Rubbish ?
Posted on 1:17pm Saturday 5th December 2009
On Monday I attended the Finchley and Golders Green Area Environment Sub Committee. My Colleague Cllr Monroe Palmer was unable to attend so I was there as his substitute. The meeting started at 7pm and was all over at 725pm. This committee is a bit like the Area Forum except it has the powers to make decisions. But nothing new in that the vice chairman did not turn up. Is there also a special allowance for the post of vice chairman?
Jack Cohen »
Our Gracie
Posted on 9:20pm Saturday 28th November 2009
Finchley and Golders Green Residents’ Forum is always a good place to start the week. Last Monday’s meeting was better attended than usual. The Council suggested that the good turn out was because of the promise of consultation on the Council’s budget and the Council’s new planning document “Direction of Travel”.
Jack Cohen »
Brent Cross
Posted on 4:43pm Tuesday 24th November 2009
Year ago, A Conservative Government, I believe it was commissioned an Inquiry into The Planning System. A report was produced by The Nuffield Foundation. Amongst the recommendations was one which said objectors should have the right of appeal in major planning applications. The Report was quietly shelved.
Dennis Signy »
Bombed out as a hero
Posted on 11:34am Tuesday 24th November 2009
MR Chalk, the rather austere headmaster of Finchley County School at the start of the second world war, once observed that my form 2B was the worst that he had encountered in 27 years as a teacher and he particularly singled me out as a no-hoper academic.
Jack Cohen »
The Cat's Out of The Bag
Posted on 12:16pm Saturday 21st November 2009
Whilst all the attention was on the marathon Brent Cross planning meeting this week, it was events at the Business Management Overview and Scrutiny Committee that could have a much more profound impact.
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