Blog Posts

  • Warm homes – grants and advice for home owners.

    West Suffolk Council has completed more than £1.5m of energy efficiency improvements to around 150 homes – and it aims to deliver improvements to another 150 by the end of March when current Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) funding is due to end.  As well as helping residents stay warm and keep their… Read more

  • West Suffolk planning applications: unavailability of ‘Public Access’ system

    Many of you use the West Suffolk planning application public access system to view planning applications and to submit comments on them. I encourage you all to use this system to have your say on planning applications. There is guidance as to what is a valid comment and what is not. This guidance has been… Read more

  • Clare sluice – and sluices more generally

    I have raised the issue of Clare sluice at todays Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley partnership meeting. My comments have stimulated significant debate and an action to get the Environment Agency in front of this partnership to explain themselves. A number of other sluices were mentioned in a similar situation. The issue is that… Read more

  • Our Queen – the one and only.

    Our Queen – the one and only.

    The Queen has impacted all our lives and will be sorely missed. Her dignity and strength coupled with her dedication to her duty made her a formidable force in the world. It was my honour to have served in her armed forces for many years. My oath to the Queen is enduring. I had lunch… Read more

  • Why is the electricity price so high when nuclear, wind and solar is so much cheaper to produce?

    It’s all about the price of gas used to fire up power stations to supplement nuclear and wind capacity. This is called marginal pricing. It is a market place for times gone by. It needs changing. What is marginal pricing and the “merit order”? Marginal pricing refers to electricity prices being set by the variable… Read more

  • Application for a sex establishment licence – Heaven in Newmarket

    As a West Suffolk Councillor I have a responsibility to my ward and to the district more widely. An example of this is the need for sex establishments to have a licence. Such an establishment has an impact in many ways on many people. If they must exist then I believe they need to be… Read more