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Candidates from three political parties are vying for votes in a by-election in the Great Hollands South ward of Bracknell Town Council. Voters are selecting one candidate for the town council, which has 26 members. It is made up of 21 Conservatives, 4 Labour party members and a lone Liberal Democrat, Councillor Thomas Parker. One of the seats for Great Hollands South is currently vacant. Great Hollands South ward has three seats on the council, and is currently represented by Councillors Lizzy Gibson (Conservative) and Michael Gbadebo (CON). Both of them also serve on Bracknell Forest Council. Cllr Gbadebo was also elected Deputy Mayor of the borough on Wednesday, April 28. Therefore voters will be going to the polls to elect a new member. ....
AN ARRAY of solar panels are set to be installed at Leighton Grange, Crewe, to help offset Cheshire East’s carbon footprint. The move, which will be accompanied by tree planting measures if approved at Tuesday’s (February 2) cabinet meeting, is predicted to ‘provide 26 per cent of the Council’s Carbon energy inset target’. Offsetting is the practice of ‘negating carbon emissions by creating or funding initiatives to capture additional carbon from the atmosphere or create additional low carbon energy or heat’, which CEC calls ‘insetting’ when it occurs within the authority’s boundary. A pre-cabinet report says: “It will not be possible to achieve the council’s net [carbon] zero ambitions without making use of some council land assets to provide sequestration or energy generation projects. ....
DENBIGHSHIRE County Council’s Cabinet has approved its budget for the 2021/2022 financial year, with an increase of 3.8% in council tax for the county’s residents. The draft settlement announced by Welsh Government in December showed an increase of 3.6% in the budget for Denbighshire and in cash terms this means an increase of £5.4 million. The budget still has to go to Full Council for approval on January 26. In setting the budget, councillors have considered the fact that there are £10.6m budget pressures facing the authority, including continued pressure on social services, education, schools and waste service. In light of the better settlement, the Council has been able to keep the increase in council tax as low as possible, with this year’s increase of 3.8% lower than last year’s increase of 4.3%. ....