No election for parish council

by Lisa Reeves

Friday 8^th April 2011

Fri 8^th Apr 2011

The list of candidates for Alderley Edge Parish Council has been announced today, which will come in to effect after the elections on May 5th.

There will be no election for the Parish Council because it has not been contested, only nine candidates registered and there are nine seats on Alderley Edge Parish Council.

Three new faces will be joining the Parish Council: Joseph Bergin, Melanie Connor and Sue Joseph. They will replace the three parish councillors who chose not to stand for re-election: Alan Jones, Paul Tomlinson and Yvonne Wrinch.

The six parish councillors who will remain on Alderley Edge Parish Council are: Duncan Herald, Frank Keegan, Matthew Lloyd, Mary Maczkowiak, Nigel Schofield and Mike Williamson.

All 11 Alderley Edge Parish Councillors are members of the Conservative Party.

Tags:: Elections, Parish Council

Comments

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Duncan Herald

Tuesday 12^th April 2011 at 12:01 pm

Are we elected unopposed because we do such a wonderful job? At so cheap a price?

Or because no one else is daft enough to take it on?

P.S. Please pick up your dog's mess.

P.P.S. Please put rubbish in the park's bins rather than on the grass...yes I know the bins get full and I am trying to arrange a more frequent rubbish removal.

James Garrett

Tuesday 12^th April 2011 at 2:32 pm

Its a shame there is no one standing up for the parish council. Then we might get people we want rather than a parish council who are in by default.

Duncan Herald

Tuesday 12^th April 2011 at 4:16 pm

Good Afternoon James, well anyone could have stood for the parish council... its a bit of a shame to blame the Tory Councillors; I for one would have welcomed some other candidates to spice things up a bit... I don't think it is that people don't care; I get people approaching me to solve drainage problems and problems with the park... and we beaver away over the parking problems... and we appointed a PCSO (paid with your money) and we support his many endeavors in the village... and we are still trying to get the PCT to get the new medical centre organised and we fight the good fight to prevent the planners blighting our village etc. etc.

Is it possible that people do on the whole think that the existing parish council does a fair job? We don't just go on forever; we have a 3/9 new councillors now. If you have a particular problem yourself, well here we are; you only have to ask! Or next time, you might stand?

James Garrett

Wednesday 13^th April 2011 at 9:06 am

Duncan. Good Morning! I am no way political or could I spare the time to put my name forward to be a parish councillor. I just don’t think that we get much communication on what the parish council are doing in the village. The only information that I can see that we get is through this great website run by Lisa Reeves. Having looked at the parish's website, it doesn't look as though it’s been updated for years!!!.

Its nice to see some new people joining the parish and hopefully they will bring some new ideas and bring the village forward as well as preserving it. Alderley seems be coming a village of charity shops, restaurants and supermarkets who are the only businesses who are able to afford the sky high rents that are almost as expensive on a £ per sqft as prime central London!!

Are the new homes being built in the village really a blight? As the business people buying them are surely a blessing to the village as they are contributing through high council tax and the builders are keeping people in the construction industry in work and they are also shopping in the village shops.

My worry with the village is that it is becoming a weekend party destination. This was confirmed when a friend of mine sent an advert to me a couple of months ago done by Premier inn where it said," Come to Alderley Edge and meet a Footballer" !!! This was advertised in their local paper in Lancashire. Is this really what we want the village to become?

I could ramble on and on and realise that the parish council have limited powers over Cheshire East and that you do the job for the love of the village and not for the money for which I applaud you all.

Duncan Herald

Wednesday 13^th April 2011 at 10:57 am

Hi James,
cor ! Praise !
One reason for us oldies becoming parish councillors is that we have the time I guess. When you too are an oldie, you may come and join in! I ts not really political to a high degree; we are all Tories 'cos people in Aldeley Edge like to vote the Tory ticket (quite right too!).

The parish council's website is a tad 'weak'; we may 'have a go' at improving it, once the elections are over.

You are sadly so right about the village becoming a 'play'/party place and I would also accept that high rents are a deciding factor in that.

New homes are a good thing...but if you saw some of the proposed plans you too would disagree...there's a plan out at the moment, for a 5 story luxury apartment on the Congleton Rd. out of the village; is that 'in keeping'? Some think not? I am not one of the 'thatched cottages and victorian villas' are the only thing we should support; for one thing, a victorian villa only really works if it has the servants it was designed to have! I wish!

One of the 'things' we are about at this time is trying to claw back some of the section 106 monies generated in Alderley Edge, to use to build 'affordable homes' near the village instead of the money from Alderley Edge being used to build such housing elsewhere(reverse Nimby?).

Re. knowing what the parish council are doing in the village...with things like the park, its easy to see what we achieve but preventing 'wrong' things isn't really visible...there are plans to introduce a regular news letter; but we are very chary of spending YOUR money on what might seem like OUR self-aggrandisement.