SOCIETY Volume 13, Issue 2 INSIGHT Bring Back Radical Joe and Harry W Smith?
Summer 2017 Volume 13, Issue 2 SOCIETY INSIGHT Bring Back Radical Joe and Harry W Smith? Could a contributory factor to the Grenfell Tower disaster be the parlous state of local INSIDE PAGES..... government finances? The reasons for the terrible fire may be View from the complex and may only be revealed by the Chair.........................3-5 Public Inquiry, but if one of the causes was lack of local government capacity then the Civic Voice Design consequences may be far reaching. Councils Awards………….6-7 today have, on average, less money than they had available in 2010. Most have Pontefract at the much less, between 20% and 40% less, and Races..........................7 councils are expected to see their government grants go down by at least 15% Addingham by 2020 on top of the 37% reduction since Membership Issues..8 2010.* Civic Day at We see the consequences of this reduction in Skipton.......................9 funding in lack of resources in planning Image from http://photos.wikimapia.org departments, poorly maintained roads, Selby Conservation volunteers helping to run our libraries, Areas survey……...9 problems with funding schools, neglect of council owned property or problems Empty Buildings in providing social care to the elderly and Halifax...............10-11 vulnerable. It is estimated, for example, that the cost of tackling the backlog in road Dean Clough Mill maintenance is now £12 billion. Award…….....12-13 Image from http://www.cityam.com Have we been here before? In mid-Victorian Ilkley Conservation Birmingham the infrastructure was in a dire state with an 1859 report saying that Exhibition…….….14 the poorer districts of the town required not only sewerage but water, proper road surfaces, pavements, open spaces, air, ventilation and less overcrowding.
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