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Cue
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Ooo, is Entrust in trouble? I like that building, looks all modern and stuff.
Gramaisc
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Joint venture with Capita - a less-than-rock-solid operation, perhaps?
https://www.ft.com/content/f9d57eaa-0766-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5
Cue
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It would certainly make a good office block, especially in the vicinity of affordable lunches... Tech Park has tasty pantry who you need to remortgage your home to buy from regularly.
Excuse the broken record, I recently found myself potentially needing to expand business operations from my home office and contractors to a proper office and employees.
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Pooryorick
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They could save a huge amount by amalgamating the County and Bozough coucils and installing them in one building, possibly Marks & Spencer when it closes.
See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42819664
See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42819664
Cue
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How about jamming them all into that little office on the Marston Grange development? The one next to the show home.
Then they can experience the joy’s of the new lights.
Even better, they probably messed up the infrastructure somehow so Trent Water will no doubt have to dig it up right outside their new office.
And just to top it off, they won’t have any parking.
On that note, does anyone know what generally happens to the showroom office?
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markpa12003
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Are you suggesting the County becomes a unitary authority? A number of areas have done this with mixed success, for example we now have Cheshire East and Cheshire West. Ive had regularly dealings with these two authorities. One authority is a shambles, the other is doing better. Both authorities have lost loads of planning appeals because theyve failed to provide enough houses.
Tilly
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A million quid on 'rebranding' shambles?
https://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/cheshire-east-spend-up-945000-14140501
Pooryorick
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Yes. A unitary council would at least save overpaying two chief execs and reduce the communication problem that contributed to the hospital collapse
Ridiculous idea. Mark is right and you only have to look at the mess cheshire and stoke are.
Staffordshire is a far larger authority and I am not sure they can even cope with their current workloads and duties let alone those if they merged with borough and district councils.
they may save some money but that would only be clawed back by the state leaving local redundancies and less capability to manage services than they have now.
Staffordshire is a far larger authority and I am not sure they can even cope with their current workloads and duties let alone those if they merged with borough and district councils.
they may save some money but that would only be clawed back by the state leaving local redundancies and less capability to manage services than they have now.
Mikinton
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Thinking back to the unitary debates of the mid-1990s, several models were put forward, none of them very attractive. Do we have one unitary for the whole county (so voters in Tamworth etc have some input into decisions around bin collection in Stafford, say) or do we have several smaller unitaries with boroughs taking on the responsibilities of the county (like education and social care)?
The Hawk
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There are good arguments both for and against Unitary Authorities, but the biggest cost always seems to be the cost of actually changing from one to the another.
The current system of Local Government may not be the best one, or the one we would come up with if we were starting with a blank piece of paper, but it does to work (to a degree), so let sleeping dogs lie I say.
Far better to concentrate efforts on solving the Social Care crisis and the inextricable link it has to many of the problems the NHS is suffering from.
The current system of Local Government may not be the best one, or the one we would come up with if we were starting with a blank piece of paper, but it does to work (to a degree), so let sleeping dogs lie I say.
Far better to concentrate efforts on solving the Social Care crisis and the inextricable link it has to many of the problems the NHS is suffering from.
Pooryorick
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Nothing to do with corruption that Chesh and Stoke and Sandwell are in a mess?
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Are you seriously saying that's Stoke's problems are nothing to do with corruption?
Really?
Pooryorick
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A little bit of corruption never did anyone any harm.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...sons-lodges-operating-secretly-at-westminster
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...sons-lodges-operating-secretly-at-westminster
Mikinton
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proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
https://m.facebook.com/Stoke-on-Trent-City-Council-Corruption-730281913783985/?locale2=en_GB
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-23684747
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/ne...oke-arrested-in-council-corruption-238774.amp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-15302830
https://www.localgov.co.uk/Exclusive-Stoke-corruption-probe-update/2916
I could go on and on and on but, frankly, it's too depressing. I chose to no longer work with or bid for work with SOT as the whole mess is so awful.
