We will be holding meetings with Labour Housing Minster Huw
Lewis next month to discuss unfair service charge issues faced by constituentsin Grangetown, a recent meeting was held and attended by Labour Assembly Member Vaughan Gething. We will keep you updated
The Labour team have been developing a business plan to
ensure the future of the Channel View through the development of an IntegratedChildren’s facility. The first youth club of this plan will be opening in the centre early 2012.
The Labour Team called a meeting in November between
residents, the police and our Labour Assembly member Vaughan Gething. This wasto deal with increased reports of problems in the area. As a result of this, and with the help of our Labour MP Alun Michael, the Labour Team is currently applying for CCTV installations in the area and we will also be pledging to complete the well over due alley gating consultations that Lib Dems have failed to deliver.
The Labour Team met Cardiff Devils ownership team a number of times to discuss the ice rink and issues around the sports village. We have been working with the wider Labour Team to secure a future for the sports village and also planning a community strategy with the devils for Grangetown. We will have more news on this during the New Year.
Cardiff Bus has reduced Bus Services in Grangetown due to delays they were facing in the city centre as a result of the infratsutcrure problems. This has caused much hardship for residents particularly in the Windsor Quay and Channel View Area of Grangetown. Current Lib Dem councillors also failed to hold consultations due to these changes. The Labour Team held another round of discussions with Cardiff Bus and we expect to hear back form them within 3 weeks.
The fight to save Grangetown & Tremorfa Nursery Schools was raised at today’s First Minister’s questions by Local Assembly Member Vaughan Gething. Mr Gething welcomed the First Minister’s statement on safeguarding and improving nursery provision in Wales. In response to a question raised by Mr Gething today in the Chamber, the First Minister reaffirmed that in any proposal to reorganise nursery education the impact on the standard of education will be of paramount importance.
Vaughan Gething said: “This is a very welcome and important restatement by the First Minister that the quality of children’s education must be the overriding consideration when deciding how to organise nursery education. It makes it even clearer than ever before that Cardiff Council must look again at their crazy proposal to close the 2 outstanding nursery schools in Tremorfa and Grangetown.
No part of Cardiff Council’s consultation proposal sets out how the standard of nursery education would be maintained or improved by removing the governing bodies of 2 outstanding schools and raising huge unanswered questions over the future staffing and resourcing for any remaining provision.
I will make no apology for being unashamedly on the side of children and parents to maintain the excellent
provision that already exists.”
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I would like to thank the Shree Swaminaraya Temple in Grangetown for the warm welcome received at the Diwali celebration last week. The atmosphere and mood along with the stage performances were fantastic and it was great to see the youth rewarded for examination results and achievements. It was also great to see the wider community enjoying the occasion and learning more about the meaning of the Diwali celebrations. I am sure there would be support for looking at ways the City could do more to celebrate occasions such as this.
