Category: Wirral Council

Wirral Council was invoiced £36,000 by consultancy for work on the “delivery of a more effective urgent care system in Wirral” before consultation on changes had even finished!

Wirral Council was invoiced £36,000 by consultancy for work on the “delivery of a more effective urgent care system in Wirral” before consultation on changes had even finished!

Wirral Council was invoiced £36,000 by consultancy for work on the “delivery of a more effective urgent care system in Wirral” before consultation on changes had even finished!

                                

Venn Consulting invoice Wirral Council Urgent Care
Venn Consulting invoice Wirral Council Urgent Care

Last year there was a well responded to consultation on “urgent care” that ran from 20th September 2018 to the 12th December 2018 on the proposed closure of walk-in centres on the Wirral. During that consultation a petition of 3,853 residents opposing the proposed closures was presented to a public meeting of Wirral Council councillors. At that same meeting sixty-two councillors agreed a resolution that stated, “Council is totally opposed to any outcome which would see the closure of existing walk-in facilities and minor injury and illness facilities at current urgent care locations in Wirral”.
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EXCLUSIVE: Wirral Council “considered lending” £1.5 million to Tranmere Rovers Football Club!

EXCLUSIVE: Wirral Council “considered lending” £1.5 million to Tranmere Rovers Football Club!

EXCLUSIVE: Wirral Council “considered lending” £1.5 million to Tranmere Rovers Football Club!

                                 

GVA Financial Consulting Limited invoice regarding Tranmere Rovers Football Club loan advice
GVA Financial Consulting Limited invoice regarding Tranmere Rovers Football Club loan advice

An invoice (which you can read for yourself above) from GVA Financial Consulting Limited to Wirral Council dated 30th January 2019 was for financial advice costing £6,000 on whether to lend £1.5 million to Tranmere Rovers Football Club.
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Wirral Council spent £12,000 on “Message in a Bottle” Sculpture in New Brighton

Wirral Council spent £12,000 on “Message in a Bottle” Sculpture in New Brighton

Wirral Council spent £12,000 on “Message in a Bottle” Sculpture in New Brighton

                                       

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Lulu Quinn Ltd invoice for Message in a Bottle Sculpture stage one £10,000

Wirral Council spent £12,000 last year on a sculpture called Message in a Bottle that currently floats alongside the jetty at New Brighton Marine Lake. The invoice above for £10,000 was for the first of two payments Wirral Council made last year for the sculpture.

The 8 metre long plastic bottle was bought last year from Bath-based Lulu Quinn Ltd (since then that company has been dissolved). Funded by an Arts Council grant, it was installed as part of the Three Festivals Tall Ships Regatta 2018 as part of the Changing Tides Creative Programme.
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Wirral Council’s Cabinet agree to recommend consultation on draft Local Plan in early 2020

Wirral Council’s Cabinet agree to recommend consultation on draft Local Plan in early 2020

Wirral Council’s Cabinet agree to recommend consultation on draft Local Plan in early 2020

                           

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Cabinet (Wirral Council) 30th September 2019 Part 1 of 2

House building on the Wirral 2018
House building on the Wirral in 2018

In the familiar setting of Committee Room 1 at Wallasey Town Hall this morning, Wirral Council’s Cabinet made a number of decisions and outlined how councillors thought some of them would benefit Wirral people as well as taking the time to highlight a few awards that had been won.

Yet, despite all the positivity on the agenda there was also the contentious and controversial Local Plan (previously called the Core Strategy Local Plan) which Labour’s support in the past for had been seen as one of the reasons why Labour lost their majority on Wirral Council in the May local elections earlier this year.
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What did 21 invoices show Wirral Council spent money on?

What did 21 invoices show Wirral Council spent money on?

What did 21 invoices show Wirral Council spent money on?

Cllr Jeff Green (right) is the current Chair of Wirral Council’s Audit and Risk Management Committee
Cllr Jeff Green (right) is the current Chair of Wirral Council’s Audit and Risk Management Committee

A few months ago I exercised a right under section 26 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 for invoices, credit card statements or requests for payment connected to various payments Wirral Council made during the 2018-19 financial year. Wirral Council is currently predicting it will overspend its agreed budget in 2019-20.
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