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Welcome to Horsehay & Lightmoor News!

The aim of this blog is to act as an information resource for residents of Horsehay & Lightmoor ward and I will be posting news items here as they occur, along with some background information. If there is anything you would particularly like to see featured, or have any questions at all about life in Horsehay & Lightmoor please do leave a comment, or email me: clive.mollett@telford.gov.uk

Best wishes

Clive

Cllr. Clive Mollett

Thursday 17 April 2014

Super-fast Fibre Broadband - Progress!

There may yet be a brighter future ahead for residents currently left behind on the information super highway thanks to lack of exchange and cabinet fibre upgrades.

Funding for this work has been made available in the past by the Coalition Government through BD UK with an initial budget allocation of £700,000 for Telford & Wrekin. Inexplicably these funds were refused by the ruling Labour administration, which claimed it was unable to afford the match funding involved (that's the same administration which has just conjured up a pot of £13 million for various vanity projects in its favorite parts of the Borough). Telford & Wrekin was one of just four local authorities in the entire country to decline the opportunity to invest in this key business and community resource.

Government has recently announced a further fund of £1.42 million to be available for Telford & Wrekin through BD UK. I am most grateful to my Conservative colleague Cllr. Eric Carter who has managed to cajole the administration into constructing a bid for these funds. Match funding will be made possible through the Marches LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership), who have rightly recognised the importance to business of super-fast broadband in their strategic action plan.

All the elements are now at hand to solve the problems and there can be no excuses for non-delivery.

Tuesday 15 April 2014

Advice Surgery for April

This month's Advice Surgery will be on Saturday 19th April from 10.30a.m. to 11.30a.m. in the Community Room, Horsehay Village Hall.

These sessions are for any resident of Horsehay and Lightmoor ward (inlcuding Lawley from St John's Church to the south side of Peppermill) to attend with questions or concerns about any aspect of local life.

You don't need an appointment. I look forward to meeting you on the day.