Labour-run Redcar & Cleveland Council only managed to reduce carbon emissions by 0.4% last year, despite signing a pledge to aim for 10%. Under pressure from the Lib Dems, the Council agreed to sign up to the 10:10 Campaign in 2009. This commits the Council to aiming to reduce its carbon use by 10% in […]

Liberal Democrats on Redcar & Cleveland Council have attacked the Labour Town Hall bosses for allowing an 8% increase in spending on business mileage by staff. The extra mileage occurred in 2010 compared with 2009 figures and came to light in a report to the Council’s Cabinet earlier this week. This resulted in an extra […]

Liberal Democrats on Redcar & Cleveland Council are asking why it is necessary for two vehicles to be used for recycling collections. The Labour-run council currently uses two different vehicles, one for paper and another for glass and cans. Lib Dems think this is wasteful and bad for the environment. Today the Council’s Scrutiny Board […]

Keeping up the pressure following Labour’s massive local election defeat in Redcar town, the Council’s Lib Dem Group have put forward a formal motion for the Council to stop the “vertical pier” development. Following the local elections Labour now have only four councillors in the town compared with 11 for the Liberal Democrats. West Dyke […]

Liberal Democrats on Redcar & Cleveland Council are concerned about the Labour Council stopping green waste collections without warning. The Council has stopped its alternate weekly collection of green waste from 1 November for the winter as a cost cutting exercise. However, the Council only informed the press of this on 26 October. Lib Dem […]

Liberal Democrat councillor Chris Abbott is asking Redcar & Cleveland Council to contact the RSPB to see if red kites can be released into the wild here. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds recently launched a successful scheme of this kind in the Leeds area and in other parts of the country. Chris, […]

It doesn’t take much to start to tidy up an area and restore a bit of pride. Well done to new Councillor Eric Howden for getting ornamental signs at the entrances to Dormanstown. There were previously no signs at all. Dormanstown has an interesting history, having been laid out after the first world war as […]

Liberal Democrats on Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council today successfully persuaded the council to back a campaign aimed at driving forward cuts in the authority’s carbon emissions. Lib Dem Councillor Irene Curr (Coatham Ward) submitted a motion to today’s Council meeting calling on the Labour-run Council to sign up to the “10:10 Campaign” to reduce […]

Liberal Democrats on Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council will next week call on councillors to back a campaign aimed at driving forward cuts in the authority’s carbon emissions. Councillor Irene Curr (Coatham Ward) has submitted a motion to the Council meeting on 15 October calling on the Labour-run Council to sign up to the “10:10 […]