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Drains in town centre being replaced as they are loose and a hazard to those on foot plus delivery vehicles. I've stumbled on them several times so am glad the council are seeing to them.

Voted no as there are developments which are renewing areas of Stafford. The unwanted retail units often long-term vacant are in private hands, Highguyuk's map being the prime example. The real lack of natural spaces (ie grass, flowers, trees) is a problem, I'd love for the Tipping Street...

Went into the new development the other day and massively disappointed. I feel money would have been better spent upgrading the Guildhall. Having walked around Burton the other week the plethora of centres that were full (and not of card / mobile / charity shops) was much more appealing than...

It's at roundabout by Wagon & Houses, both lanes heading into town closed, work van is an Eon so likely street lamp repair, fire engine too which makes sense for collision and police trying to look busy. Just looked on BBC website and A34 Stone Road at Walden Avenue junction too as you said...

Foregate Street at Grey Friars towards town closed, police / fire / work vans everywhere, not sure what is going on. How nice routing traffic via Tillington Street -> Marsh Street -> Fancy Walk -> Albert Terrace -> Sandon Road to bypass. Hard enough driving down Tillington Street in a car with...

You have this outsourcing business down to a tee, do you work for Capita by any chance?

It's also lower than the annual cost of employing the person so in the medium to long term it's an efficient way to reduce staff numbers and salary commitments. But where the work is still being done, just outside Staffordshire, that'll hit local businesses unless new local jobs are created...

There are many more to come with entire sections being outsourced to external providers - plenty of cabinet papers visible in public domain around the back office services. Time will tell if it saves money or not in the long run, but the number of staff actually employed in Staffordshire is...

Why doesn't Mark Joynson get an officer into a police car to drive round the estate and let the ANPR system ping the uninsured, untaxed and unMOT'ed vehicles, deal with these by mass removal or crushing - breakers yard only a few minutes up the road. Couple of unmarked cars for a few evenings...

Hi, I'm a resident director of a block of flats in Stafford looking to switch provider of cleaning, maintenance, insurance, utilities, repairs, gardening, collection of service charges, accounting etc. Anyone use or used Castle Estates for block management services and if so what are they...

Silver BMW estate - noticed it myself on way home last night, if it's the same car I think it is he's one of the drifters who think it's acceptable to try and circle the roundabout during the early hours, if so it's no loss and I hope it's a write off.

At least the culprits have been caught. Whilst many of the car lads are just hanging out sensibly on the gym/car wash park or at Maccy's there is a handful who take it onto public roads as Eccleshall Road, Stone Road and Foregate Street has pairs/groups of lads racing, redlining 2nd/3rd gear so...

Just been over to the gym and all the emergency services still on site so hope everyone is ok. The whole area is a hot spot of anti social behaviour, I live just round the corner and all you hear from 8pm till 2am most nights is engines revving, cars racing, tyres screeching and horns...

Yes it is that building linked by Gramaisc on Google street view. The '4 desks to 6 staff' comment earlier in this thread will be where a team or service has a 'hot desk' arrangement with staff not based in the office throughout the working day, anyone who is at their desk all day has an...

Being open at 3am is helpful as I cannot sleep when my neighbour has all night parties.

That's my apartment demolished then. :P Fully agree the majority of the area is a dump or falling apart bar the odd retail unit (Halfords, Screwfix, Dunelm etc).

Member of Puregym myself, downstairs is resistance and free weight equipment, how they've used the pool area and positioned other equipment is generally well laid out, could have been 'grouped' better, but everything has ample space. I go around 10 or 11pm few times a week, generally it's...

Only ideas I can come up with; - Beaconside - convert to dual carriageway - likely couldn't happen now with all the homes being built, may have helped with creation of an eastern bypass by continuing Beaconside passed fire station to Tixall Road (to avoid Blackheath Lane / A518) then continue...

Seen the Papa John's scooter taking shortcuts down pedestrian footpaths and skidding up to junctions then racing off revving like mad - really annoying and anti-social so not using the store out of principle. This weeks offenders: X9 DRG - 3 Series - Red light jumping at Island Roundabout from...

Gridlock around the island north of the town come 5pm is a natural habitat for red light jumpers and junction blockers even when it's blatantly obvious it'll cause mayhem resulting in drivers shouting, blaring horns and cutting into next lane without checking mirrors to drive behind offending...