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Why is Wirral Council putting on agendas that chairs of public meetings can “halt any recording?”
Earlier this month I wrote a story about what happened when I tried to film a public meeting of the Birkenhead Constituency Committee headlined Why does Wirral Council believe it can direct how filming of its public meetings are done (when not filmed by themselves)?
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Wirral Council’s Standards Panel met to consider complaint made about Cllr Paul Hayes’ quote in a press release
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VIDEO: Wirral West Constituency Committee (Wirral Council) 4th October 2018 – what levels of housing in Wirral’s greenbelt are needed for the Local Plan?
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The Wirral West Constituency Committee met for a two and a half hour public meeting on Thursday evening (4th October 2018) at St Chad’s Church Hall in Roslin Road, Irby.
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What’s in Wirral Council’s 96 page Hoylake Golf Resort contract (part 2)?
Earlier this year, as a result of a First-tier Tribunal case in which I was not a party (although I had made the original information request) I received a redacted copy of the 96 page Development Agreement between Wirral Borough Council and Nicklaus Joint Venture Group Limited that is for the Hoylake Golf Resort project (or Hoylake International Golf Resort as it’s referred to in the Development Agreement).
In February I published images of the first 25 pages, as well as the index and cover page. I also linked to a copy of the whole contract.
At there are questions about the Hoylake Golf Resort likely to be asked at the Wirral West Constituency Committee on Thursday evening, I thought it might be useful to publish images of some more of the pages of rest of the contract.
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Why does Wirral Council believe it can direct how filming of its public meetings are done (when not filmed by themselves)?
Since a legal change in August 2014, I have filmed eleven public meetings of Wirral Council’s Birkenhead Constituency Committee with no problems.
The press release issued by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in 2014 can be read at that link.
The 2014 legal change contained in the Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 amended both the Local Government Act 1972 and Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 (both of which had previously given a power to Wirral Council to stop filming at public meetings).
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