The Soup Dragon, an initiative of Hebden Bridge Transition Town Health group, is open on Friday afternoons between 12 and 3 at Holme Street Arts centre (next to Hebden Bridge post office). Everyone is welcome to drop in and enjoy organic soup provided by Fern and Clive from the Nutclough and organic bread donated by Saka Bakery. There are regular talks and workshops exploring mind, body and spiritual well being.
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Today in St George’s Square, people showed a lively interest in signing Incredible Edible Mytholm’s petition asking Calderdale Planning Committee to refuse the supermarket and hotel planning application for the Mytholm Works site on King Street, Hebden Bridge.
To date, just over 300 people have signed the petition.
If you haven’t signed yet, but would like to, the online petition will stay live until 5pm on Sunday 1st December. Here’s the link to the online petition: Click here
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Calderdale Council’s Green Economy Review Group invites businesses and community groups to a drop-in session to talk about their views on saving energy in Calderdale.
The drop in session is at Halifax Town Hall on Wednesday, December 4 between 10am and 1pm
Cllr Scott Benton, Chair of Calderdale Council’s Economy and Environment Scrutiny Panel said that businesses and community groups’ views on energy saving will feed in valuable information to help plan for the future.
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At a public meeting on 3rd December in Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Shan Oakes – one of the Green Party’s Prospective European Parliamentary Candidates for Yorkshire & Humber – will speak on Fighting for Fairness: from Local to Global.
All are welcome at the 7.30pm meeting in the HB Town Hall Terrace Room. Calderdale Green Party is organising the meeting.
People who are attending the Planning Committee meeting at 6pm in Halifax Town Hall may be able to get back to Hebden Bridge in time for this meeting, if they’re so inclined.
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Since Incredible Edible Mytholm created its online Petition yesterday, people have been emailing questions and comments to the IEM Secretary.
Here is a kind of generic response to commonly raised questions and comments about petition.
Thanks for your questions and comments, hope this helps with the discussion.
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.
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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If you haven’t done this survey yet, please have a go now – we’ll be closing it at 10pm on November 5th.
Time was, the proverb went “Where there’s muck, there’s brass.”
But now Calderdale is part of a West Yorkshire hotspot for positive investors – people who invest their savings in businesses that create positive social and environmental results, as well as making money.
This information is included in Positive Investing in the United Kingdom, a report by Ethex, the UK’s first online exchange for positive investments.
Two vacancies on the Council have arisen following the resignations of Councillor Julia Gibson & Councillor Matthew Talbot. They represented WHITE LEE WARD and CALDENE WARD
The Town Council will now fill these posts by co-option, since no poll has been claimed within the advertised period.
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