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What’s in Wirral Council’s 96 page Hoylake Golf Resort contract?
Continuing from yesterday’s post about the cancelled hearing, I’d better once again state I was the person who made the information request.
Here however is a brief chronology of what has happened so far.
12th December 2016 – EIR request made to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by myself for 122 pages of information. Continue reading “What’s in Wirral Council’s 96 page Hoylake Golf Resort contract?”
Two day hearing about Hoylake Golf Resort contract information request cancelled
Updated 14.2.18 with further clarification. The matter was listed on the 14.2.18 for a 15 minute telephone conference between parties and the judiciary.
Although I’m not a party in this matter (the parties are Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council (Appellant) and ICO (First Respondent), I was the person who made the original EIR request on the 12th December 2016.
The two-day open hearing for appeal EA/2017/0191 (Wirral Council’s appeal of ICO decision notice FER0672223 that was listed for the 13th & 14th February 2018 both days starting at 10:00 am at the Liverpool Civil and Family Court, 3rd Floor, 35 Vernon Street, Liverpool, L2 2BX has been cancelled.
Unfortunately I only received notice of this change this morning by email at 10:53.
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So what happened each month in 2017?
2017 was such a newsworthy year it’s hard to know where to start.
January
The year started with councillors on Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority furious over the refusal of planning permission for a new fire station in Saughall Massie.
Continue reading “So what happened each month in 2017?”
Should EU laws on the environment be disregarded by the British judiciary before the UK has left the EU?
In a follow-up to yesterday’s story Wirral Council’s Cabinet agree 150 year lease for fire station in Saughall Massie I am going to write an editorial on a related matter. I’ll start by pointing out that I was the Appellant in the First-tier Tribunal matter referred to and Applicant in the related Upper Tribunal case.
Below is an opinion piece, I am not a legal professional and one of the costs decision referred to is sub judice. However as Editor I have decided there is a public interest in these matters being written about for various reasons.
Wirral Council asked Liverpool City Region Combined Authority for £1.65 million towards new road for Hoylake Golf Resort
Continue reading “Wirral Council asked Liverpool City Region Combined Authority for £1.65 million towards new road for Hoylake Golf Resort”
