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Petition Calderdale Planning Committee to refuse supermarket retail impact assessment and planning application

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Please consider signing Incredible Edible Mytholm’s petition (Scroll down the page a bit to find it.) The petition calls on Calderdale Planning Committee to refuse a developer’s retail impact assessment statement, about the effects on the town of a hypothetical supermarket, and the related supermarket and hotel planning application.

The retail impact assessment statement makes it clear that no supermarket is associated with the planning application or is interested in locating on the site on King St, Hebden Bridge. So this is a speculative planning application aimed at whacking up the sale price of the site. It’s not aimed at creating a handy alternative to the Coop for Hebden’s discontented shoppers.

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Greenwash Companies at Conference of Polluters

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You can find info about the corporate capture of the COP 19 Climate Talks in Warsaw here.

This infographic shows the greenwashing companies that sponsored the UN climate talks in Warsaw – a move that many have protested on the grounds that, as tobacco companies are not allowed to take part in World Health Organisation conferences, fossil fuel companies should be excluded from climate talks.
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Planning Officer recommends 3rd Dec Planning Committee to permit deferred supermarket application

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On Tuesday 3rd December, Incredible Edible Mytholm’s Chair and Secretary will present Calderdale Planning Committee with a petition signed by 302 people, calling on the Committee to reject the Setbray/Belmont Homes planning application for a supermarket and hotel on the Mytholm Works/Brown’s Field site on King Street, Hebden Bridge.

The Chair, Margaret Boyle, will also speak against the planning application.

If the Planning Committee decide on 3rd December to approve the supermarket planning application, IncredibleEdible Mytholm’s plans for a community-owned sustainable food business, eco attraction and eco hotel on the site – as envisioned in the header to this post – will almost certainly be dashed.

The IEM response last August to the supermarket retail impact assessment is here.
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Welcome to IncredibleEdible Mytholm’s AGM – 7pm, Monday 25 Nov

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All Incredible Edible Mytholm members, supporters and interested people are welcome to attend the AGM on Monday 25th November, 7pm at the Fox & Goose.

This is a chance to find out what IEM has been up to over the first, eventful year of its existence; and for IEM members, a chance to nominate, second and elect members to a new Management Committee.

IEM Management Committee members do many and varied things, so no matter where you’re coming from, if you’d like to be part of the Management Committee you’re likely to find activities that suit you.
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“Serious risk” identified in Calderdale NHS commissioning groups’s relationship with regional Support Unit

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First posted on 21 November, this article is now updated to include a reply from Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group’s Chief Finance Officer and a small amount of information from West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit.

“Serious risk” is the highest category of risk in the NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group’s risk register.

This is the level of risk that the Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCCG) has identified in its relationship with the organisation that’s meant to be supporting it – the West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit (WSYBCSU).
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Bedroom Tax Protesters To Lobby Calderdale Council Meeting, 27th November

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On 27th November, Calderdale Protest Against the Bedroom Tax campaign is putting a question to the Council, to find out what exactly have they done since April, when the Council made commitments to oppose the Bedroom Tax and support people suffering under it.

The campaigners are hoping for a big show at Halifax Town Hall, Crossley Street, HX1 1UJ, from 5pm. The Council meeting starts at 6pm, but the campaigners want to be there from 5pm on to ‘meet and greet’ Councillors going in.
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Project Wild Thing at Picture House 26th Nov

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“Like David Attenborough and Morgan Spurlock got drunk and had a baby”, Project Wild Thing is a feature-length documentary that takes a funny and accessible look at a complex issue, the increasingly fragile connection between children and nature.

It screens at HB Picture House on Tuesday 26th November. Doors open at 7.15pm, film starts at 7.45pm.

Tinderwood Trust will be there so you can talk with them about their Forest School. Gullsedge, a website that trades new and used outdoor & adventure gear, is sponsoring the screening.
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NHS on highway to hell? Conflict of interest question hangs over £515m ambulance contract

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A key employee at West & South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit is at the centre of allegations that the CSU has failed to uphold public service values. Together with a private company whose director also works for the WSYBCSU, the CSU is commissioning a £515m 5 year urgent care ambulance service.

Sarah Fatchett, who has been Chief Operating Officer at the CSU & has led the CSU’s IT services since the CSU was set up, is also a founding director of 365 Response Limited, a company founded in 2012 to manage urgent care ambulance services. As of August 2013, it had £300 capital.
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