You can unsubscribe at any time. Ourexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Ourexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. https://www.facebook.com/103263604622965/videos/577444039798726 SNP members Mark Kerr and Claire Barclay had called for an overturning of the Culture NL decision, which came into effect two weeks ago and now means a … SNP accused of ‘control freakery’ by own MP as power struggle erupts over top committee roles The race for the Scottish Labour deputy leader post is on. SNP councillors Mark Kerr and Tommy Cochrane brought forward a motion calling for action and adding: “Bus transport is a problem, and just stating that we … This would revitalise the council by providing transport links from north to south, such as buses from Coatbridge to Cumbernauld.”Fortissat representative Councillor Cochrane added: “There are a number of rural communities where buses are fighting with each other during the day but at night you can’t find one.“I’d like to see the council be more involved in transport – I’ve put in a proposal to call for a rail link between Shotts and the Airdrie to Bathgate line, and on the bus side of things we could do it better and greener, with the possibility of electric buses.”Both the SNP and Labour groups on the council agreed with the motion, which passed by 61 votes to seven.The council had previously unanimously agreed to “explore options for a council – or publicly-owned transport network to serve the area” back in December 2016 after the idea was brought forward by Labour member Heather McVey.She said at the latest meeting: “I congratulate my colleagues on bringing this back to council; it’s not just rural North Lanarkshire where there are difficulties – it’s travelling from north to south across the authority.“There are some parts which are so congested that people are getting buses past their doors every two minutes while other areas of Lanarkshire shut down after 5-6pm; it’s about hotspots, where there are blanks and where there’s over-provision.“Our citizens deserve better transport and I hope the transport bill affords this authority the opportunity, as there’s research going on and a genuine desire to look at this.”Councillor Ian McNeil added: “People are stuck in villages after 6pm, as there are no buses and they can’t afford a car or taxi.”William Goldie said: “We have the opportunity to look at providing a bus service for North Lanarkshire and start from scratch for local people.”First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had told Holyrood in her programme for government statement last September: “We will introduce a new transport bill which will include measures to improve public transport [including] giving local authorities a range of options to improve local bus services.”An unsuccessful amendment from Conservative councillor Nathan Wilson called for the working group to investigate a municipal bus service and produce “a detailed and informed report which will set out the benefits and risks”.He called for it to “ascertain whether a council-operated service is [a] practical, affordable [and] effective use of resources”, saying: “It can’t be a burden on depeleted council resources.”North Lanarkshire Council headquarters in Motherwell.When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters.
SNP members Mark Kerr and Claire Barclay had called for an overturning of the Culture NL decision, which came into effect two weeks ago.Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A proposal to reverse the cost-cutting holiday closure policy now affecting 10 community centres in Wishaw and the surrounding areas was defeated at North Lanarkshire Council’s latest meeting.SNP members Mark Kerr and Claire Barclay had called for an overturning of the Culture NL decision, which came into effect two weeks ago and now means a total 26 facilities across the area close outside school term time.They include Gowkthrapple, Netherton, Wishawhill, Waterloo and Cleland community centres; along with those in Salsburgh, Harthill, Jerviston, New Stevenston and the Andrew Hamilton centre in Carfin.The councillors’ motion called for the local authority to “support maintaining facilities to be used for public good all year [round]” and to revert to “52-week, given the long-term negative effect on usage and the needs of the groups who use these facilities”.It added: “As the sole shareholder, we have to put our most vulnerable constituents’ needs ahead of corporate decisions.”However, the Labour administration put forward a successful amendment attributing the “hard decision to reduce 26 centres to term-time opening” to “funding cuts by the Scottish Government”.It noted that “Culture NL is an arm’s-length external organisation and registered charity and has a properly constituted board”; and that councillors are “sympathetic to those community groups affected”.The new policy came into effect two weeks ago at the end of the school summer term following a usage review, and is intended to save £400,000.Users of the 10 affected local centres will be offered alternative premises for the 14 weeks per year in which their local community centres are now closed.Culture NL chief executive Jillian Ferrie told the Wishaw Press in May: “We will still have a further 42 sites that will either operate 52 weeks of the year or as per the existing bookings.“This change allows us to protect highly valued services such as libraries, community centres and vital frontline services.”When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Register of Interests; Type Description; Contracts: None: Election Expenses: £680.71 from Kilsyth SNP
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