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Newport Pagnell Councillor Corner
Cllr Douglas McCall
New Mayor, Cllr Derek Eastman
New Lib Dem Mayor
Cllr Derek Eastman was elected as the new mayor on the 10th September.
I am delighted that my fellow Newport Pagnell South ward councillor and friend, has been elected as the new Mayor of Milton Keynes.
Derek has lived in Newport Pagnell for nearly a quarter of a century and I have known him personally for about 20 years. Derek is now in his 10th year as a Milton Keynes councillor. He was a councillor for five years from 2002 to 2007 in the old Middleton ward and is now in his fifth year as councillor for Newport Pagnell having been elected back onto the Council in 2010. Derek has also been a Newport Pagnell Town Councillor since 2000. Good luck, I am sure you will do us proud.
Ousebank Gardens
MK Council’s Fix It Team Leader, Robbie Caddock, must be congratulated for his innovative approach to dealing with an old tree stump in Ousebank Gardens next to the children’s play area.
Robbie employed local tree carver Ian Freemantle who produced this lovely treehouse or pixie house from the stump of the old beech tree.
Thank you to both for this innovative addition to the children’s play area.
Treehouse in Ousebank Gardens, Newport Pagnell.
How to contact us
If you need to contact any of the Newport Pagnell South Liberal Democrat Focus Team please email us on NewportSouth@ mklibdems.co.uk.
Write to (no stamp needed): FREEPOST RSLR-SSHC-GKUS, Newport Pagnell South Focus Team, Newport Pagnell, MK16 0BW. Follow me online: douglasmccall. mycouncillor.org.uk
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Missing signs have not yet been replaced
I have been complaining to Milton Keynes Council for a year or two about the numerous directional signs that have been missing from the grid roads of Milton Keynes. Some have been missing for more than two years.
I am pleased that, at last they have a project to replace the missing signs, but I am rather confused at the way they are going about it. They are replacing signs that are still in place, while missing signs have still not been replaced.
An example of this are signs being replaced on the V10 Brickhill Street between the H4 Dansteed Way and the H3 Monks Way, but the missing signs at the Willen roundabout have not.
This does not seem to be a common sense approach to me. I would have thought the priority would have been the missing signs first, but then the council does often work in mysterious ways.
Seeing double: MK Council has erected new signs where signs already exist, but has not replaced missing signs.
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