Interested in volunteering in schools in Chorlton, Whalley Range and Old Moat?

Many local schools are keen to have people over 55 volunteering regularly. Primaries and high schools need people doing all sorts of things: hearing children read, helping them to cook, garden, sew, playing music, describing how life used to be, etc. 

If you're interested please contact Roger on 0161 881 1613 or roger.bysouth@intergen.org.uk For more info seewww.intergen.org.uk . 

Happy Returns Swap Party

Save upto £250 on your Electricity and Gas Bills #gmfairenergy

GM Fair Energy: Reduce your gas and electricity payments:
Friday 25 January 2013 10am-12noon at Chorlton Library
Bring a recent gas and electricity bill
www.gmfairenergy.com
Or you can call 0800 009 3363 GM Fair Energy
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Manchester is joining 15 other authorities in a scheme where households are 
encouraged to join a collective group that then auctions its power supply to 
secure the best deal. Around 60% of people don’t shop around for gas and 
electricity and never switch supplier: as a result they may be on high-cost 
default tariffs. Residents who sign up have nothing to lose – there's no 
obligation to take up the new price offer - and if they do take it, the 
switch will be done by the selected provider - they needn't take any action 
themselves, so it couldn't be easier.

Manchester residents will be able to sign up during January, and the City 
Council is actively encouraging people to do so with a major campaign. The 
campaign is very important as households may see a real difference to their 
energy costs, and the more people that sign up, the lower the tariff will 
be.

Registration is either on or offline, and in other areas, quite a large 
proportion of people have signed up offline, presumably because it's harder 
for those without web access to shop around. Signing up is quick and easy - 
you just give your basic contact details and a few details from a current 
energy bill. There will be drop-in sessions at Chorlton Library on Friday 
25 January 2013 10am-12noon

www.gmfairenergy.com

#gmfairenergy

Or you can call

0800 009 3363

Run for Freedom from Torture

Chorlton Leisure Centre have teamed up with human rights charity FREEDOM FROM TORTURE

to offer you reduced-entry places in the

Bupa Great Manchester 10k 26 May 2013

 GREATER MANCHESTER MARATHON, 28 APRIL 2013

Freedom from Torture is the only UK charity that is solely dedicated to the treatment of torture survivors

www.freedomfromtorture.org

  

·       Pay just £25 for your place (worth £37) if you raise at least £250

·       Free Freedom from Torture running top (worth £15)

·       One month’s free membership to Chorlton Leisure Centre

·       Regular training tips from a qualified instructor & experienced runner

·       Freedom from Torture Runners pack

Personal training programme, nutritional guide & fundraising tips

Last year, Freedom from Torture Bupa runners in the North West raised over £7,500 - why not challenge yourself to a run this year and help raise money to support our vital work!

Interested in running?

Contact Alice on 0161 236 5744 or anicolay@freedomfromtorture.org

Guest Blog from Cllr Simon Wheale: Labour making the wrong choices for Manchester

Cllr Simon Wheale is the Leader of
the Manchester Liberal Democrats

By releasing the council budget to the Manchester Evening News, and putting their spin on it before anyone could possibly read the facts, Labour’s Town Hall bosses have shown where their priorities lie. Playing politics rather than doing the right thing.

By rejecting £1.5million of Government subsidy to freeze the Council tax, and proposing to increasing the Council tax by an inflation busting 3.7%, they have made the choice to pick the pockets of the hard pressed Manchester Council Taxpayers rather than accept cash from Government.

For every £100 they put up Council tax they are only receiving £64 because they turned this free government money down. The Liberal Democrats will fight Labour’s cuts to front-line services across Manchester.

What is more, if Labour had taken the £1.5m of government money they refused, it would save all the leisure facilities and libraries threatened with closure including Levenshulme Baths & Library, Burnage Library, Chorlton Leisure Centre and Withington baths.

Will will always argue for more cash for Manchester, but it doesn’t help our case when we have £150,000,000 in reserves, or when Richard Leese gets a chauffeur driven car at local taxpayers’ expense, or when nearly half a million pounds of Council money was blown in one night last September, on a free concert and bar for VIP celebrities and Labour Councillors.

Or when cash is offered, it is turned down.

Recent Planning Applications - Jan 2013

Below are recently submitted Planning Applications in the Chorlton area. You can find out more information about any of the proposals on the City Council's Planning Portal at http://tinyurl.com/yv6lex or by contacting the South Area Planning Group Manager - Roger Hall; Tel: (0161) 234 4536; email: r.hall@manchester.gov.uk . You can also make a Planning representation (in support or opposition) to Mr Hall or the designated planning officer for each application. Please feel free to contact me on (07947383740; cllr.v.chamberlain@manchester.gov.uk) if you wish to discuss any application and please also send me a copy of any representation you make.


101147/LP/2012/S1 72 Nicolas Road Chorlton Cum Hardy Manchester M21 9LR Certificate of Lawful Development for proposed single-storey rear extension

101171/FH/2012/S1 31 Chorlton Green Chorlton Manchester M21 9FQ
Single storey rear kitchen extension and 2 no. small roof lights to rear dormer.
  101149/CC/2012/S1  Key Lock & Safe (Manchester) Ltd 615B Wilbraham Road Chorlton Manchester M21 9AN CONSERVATION AREA CONSENT for the demolition of existing single-storey building to enable redevelopment in association with planning application ref: 100685/FO/2012/S1 for three-storey live/work unit

101214/NMC/2012/S1 59 Keppel Road Chorlton Manchester M21 0BP
Non-Material Amendment to planning permission ref: 096372/FO/2011/S1 to allow insertion of windows to side and rear

101244/FH/2012/S1 13 York Road Chorlton Manchester M21 9HP
Erection of single-storey extension to side and rear to create additional living accommodation
  101128/TEL/2012/S1 St Werburghs Road Adjacent To Gable Of 2 Elladene Park Whalley Range Manchester M21 0XN PRIOR APPROVAL for the erection of a 14.7 metre high monopole with 3 no. antennae (within GRP shroud) and 1 no. 300mm dish and 3 no. equipment cabinet units at the base.
  101208/TCA/2012/S1 63-65 Upper Chorlton Road Whalley Range Manchester M16 7RQ Works to trees
  100480/FH/2012/S1 46 Wyverne Road Chorlton Manchester M21 0ZN Part retrospective - Erection of 2 storey side extension, part single/part 2 storey rear extension and rear dormer to form additional living accommodation and singlestorey detached garden store

Local Shops need your business at Christmas

This is the column I wrote for today's Manchester Evening News: