Craig Whittaker is urging more entrepreneurs in the Calder Valley to apply to the Start Up Loans programme after figures revealed nearly £1m has already been handed out in the area.
In this week's Inside the Council column, Coun Colin Raistrick (Independent, Hipperholme and Lightcliffe) discusses the calls to changes in the NHS and views on climate change.
Calderdale Council Leader Tim Swift has revealed a list of more than 20 actions the council can achieve in the next 100 days to improve people’s lives.
Calderdale Council is slowly moving towards common policies which would regulate driver training and driver suitability for hackney carriage, private hire and dual badge drivers across West Yorkshire and York.
Fifty letters of objection – and two of support – have been lodged over plans to extend a Hebden Bridge mill to develop eight holiday let apartments which could generate an estimated £100,000 a year in income.
The Leader and the Chief Executive of Calderdale Council will share their vision for the future of West Yorkshire in conversation at the Piece Hall in Halifax.
A Calderdale school is looking to develop a new artificial grass pitch – but it is floodlighting which might make it available later into evenings that is causing objectors to the plans concern.
Meeting the challenge of enough social housing of the right type being made available has led to councillors making recommendations for Calderdale Council’s Cabinet to consider.
The frequency of grass cutting throughout Calderdale has been revealed following a resident’s request about when an area near her home will be trimmed.
