Inspecting the Accounts of your Council and also getting information about the Common Good

In June or July each year the Local Authority should put a public notice in the local
newspaper. This will be headed up:
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 – Draft Accounts year to 31 March 200X
This will give the place and dates when the draft accounts of the Council can be inspected.
Anyone can take copies of extracts of these, and all books, deeds, contracts, vouchers and
receipts will also be made available. Enquiries concerning this will be directed to a
designated officer of the council who will be named on the public notice.

GO APE CANCELS POLLOK PARK PLANS

In a press statement today, Jerome Mayhew of Go Ape said:

“Having taken into account National Trust for Scotland’s request that we try
to avoid constructing additional buildings in the park, we have carefully
explored the possibility of using a part of the existing Knowehead Lodge as
our customer reception and equipment store. However, we have concluded that
the amount of work required to adapt the building to incorporate our
reception area would be too extensive and impractical. We have therefore
decided, after much thought, not to go ahead with building a course in
Pollok Park.

It’s a question of trusts for venues and parks

Scotsman
It’s a question of trusts for venues and parks
Published Date: 06 May 2009

IMAGINE Rihanna getting priority over the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to perform at the Usher Hall or a regular programme of commercial events on all the city’s parks. Sweeping changes being considered in the Capital would see not-for-profit trusts take over the running of many of our parks, galleries and concert halls from the city council.
The idea raises the prospect of more investment in run-down facilities, less public subsidy and perhaps bigger-name performers being lured to Edinburgh. But it also raises fears about potential price rises and less public accountability.

In Trust for Scotland

In Trust for Scotland has been formed to help organise members’ opposition to the lack of consultation
The Board and Council of the National Trust for Scotland have shown blatant disrespect to donors, volunteer supporters and employees by failing to consult them about the deep and sudden financial crisis and their incredible decision to close or mothball eleven properties held “in trust for the nation”.
Website signing the Motion

Guess Who’s going to need deep pockets to satisfy pester power. Kelvingrove rippoff

IN ALL his adventures in time and space, the Doctor rarely needs anything as basic as money. However, fans visiting an exhibition about of the Time Lord may be hoping their wallets – like the Tardis – are bigger on the inside.

Admission to the show, opening today at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, costs up to £9. Accompanying merchandise includes £95 pewter Dalek salt and pepper shakers. Remote-controlled Daleks are available at £50, with Dalek helmets at £40.

Speak out on path plan (Dumfries and Galloway)

I REFER to your article, ‘Have a say as paths plan is created for the
region’, (E&L, February 26) and to Dumfries and Galloway Council’s glossy
leaflet Core Paths.

Considering Langholm’s history of common lands being eroded and lost to
landowners, any public consultation under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act
2003 – the legislation is supposed to recognise our “right to roam” – should
be of great interest to people.

However, Dumfries and Galloway Council and Langholm community council have
mishandled this consultation by inhibiting the public’s participation.

Developer collapse hits city plan

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The development was the biggest project in Edinburgh since the Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh’s biggest development project in a decade has been put on hold after the firm behind it went into administration.

PLANET OF THE APES

PLANET OF THE APES
MORE ON Go Ape, the company that transforms
boring old woodland in Britain’s parks into fun
aerial assault courses (Eye 1214).

Save Our Schools! Glasgow, 2009

Save Our Schools! Glasgow, 2009
Showing schools threatened with closure (red), and those involved by virtue of being the dumping grounds for those children whose schools were deemed too unimportant to remain open (blue)

Opportunity for city council to rescue Canongate from the ashes of Mountgrange” say campaigners

With Caltongate Developers Mountgrange in financial distress, a window of opportunity has arrived for city planners and the council to reconsider their stand on how the New Street Site is to be developed.