Category: Bidston

Election Expenses – election of a councillor (elections declared on 6th May 2011) – Birkenhead (Bidston & St. James, Birkenhead and Tranmere, Claughton, Oxton, Prenton & Rock Ferry)

I spent the morning inspecting election expenses returns for candidates in the 2011 local elections to Wirral Council in the Birkenhead constituency. I have requested copies of the returns and invoices but here are the total amounts declared (split down by ward). I’ll double-check these figures when I get copies of the returns tomorrow:- Bidston … Continue reading “Election Expenses – election of a councillor (elections declared on 6th May 2011) – Birkenhead (Bidston & St. James, Birkenhead and Tranmere, Claughton, Oxton, Prenton & Rock Ferry)”

I spent the morning inspecting election expenses returns for candidates in the 2011 local elections to Wirral Council in the Birkenhead constituency. I have requested copies of the returns and invoices but here are the total amounts declared (split down by ward). I’ll double-check these figures when I get copies of the returns tomorrow:-

Bidston & St. James ward
Brace (Lib Dem) £279.02
Romnes (UKIP) £33.81
Vickers (Conservative) £169.00
Smith (Labour) £516.00 ELECTED

Birkenhead and Tranmere ward
Allan Brame (Lib Dem) £0.00
David Martin (UKIP) £33.81
Patrick Cleary (Green) £217.02
Philip Davies (Labour) £994.00 ELECTED

Claughton
Barbara Sinclair (Con) £639
Bethan Williams (UKIP) £33.81
Roy Wood (Lib Dem) £0.00
Steve Foulkes (Labour) £827 ELECTED

Rock Ferry
Chris Meaden (Lab) £594 ELECTED
Ann Flynn (UKIP) £33.81
Peter Heppinstall (Lib Dem) £0.00
Joyce Hogg (Green) No return submitted
Barbara Poole (Conservative) £169

Oxton
Bowler (Green) No return submitted
Kelly (Lib Dem) £1120.60 ELECTED
McDonnell (Con) £169
Williams (UKIP) £43.81
Patrick (Labour) £942.00

Prenton
Broadshaw (UKIP) £33.81
Ferguson (Con) £169
Holbrook (Lib Dem) £1129.61
Mitchell (Green) No return submitted
Doughty (Labour) £1112.69 ELECTED

Planning Committee Site Visits

Further to the Planning Committee decision to have site visits for a number of applications the following have been agreed (all on the 5th September 2011):-

5th September 2011

12 NOON APP/11/00561 – REFURBISHMENT & EXTENSION TO EXISTING BUILDINGS INTO 21 APARTMENTS AT 98 BIDSTON ROAD, OXTON, CH43 6TW

1245 APP/11/00613 – FIRST FLOOR REAR EXTENSION AT 2 DINGWALL DRIVE, GREASBY, CH49 1SG

1330 – APP/11/00645 – Land to north of BEAUFORT ROAD, and to the East of WALLASEY BRIDGE ROAD, WEST FLOAT BIRKENHEAD, CH41 1HG

You can find more information on each planning application by either reading the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting or by entering the planning application numbers in the Application Quick Search box on Wirral Council’s website.

Election Results (NHS Foundation Trust Governor) Bidston ward

These are the results for the governor election for Bidston ward.

Total eligible to vote: 366
Total voted (52): 14.2%

Those 52 votes were split as follows:-

John Brace (Liberal Democrat) 21 (40.3%)
Jean McIntosh (Labour) 31 (59.6%)

As there was one position, Jean McIntosh was elected with a majority of 10 votes.

I wish Jean McIntosh the best of luck for her next three year term as governor starting in September.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Bidston ward)

Voting has finished in the Bidston ward election for the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust election for a governor in the Bidston ward.

A report is going from those running the ballot from those running the ballot (Electoral Reform Services) to the trust and the result should be announced (or known) by tomorrow.
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