There is a proposed planning application for a Council 'one stop health shop' which will be based in Tower Hill and consist of various medical facilities; a 'primary health care' facility (whatever the hell that means) plus various health related schemes would be housed there. Also proposed is a nursery (another private one?) and possibly a pharmacy. Half a dozen GP's would be nice (we'll need them soon with the thousands of extra residents moving here) but it seems that we can't get GP's to actually stay in the community long term any more before they quietly leave to better pastures.

More School Playing Fields/Public Fields eyed up by Council.

The proposed site is to the north east of the school buildings of Ravenscroft Primary School in Tower Hill and at the rear of local homes by Chesterfield Drive. The proposed site is made up of a section of the School Field and Public Open Space. Basically it's another bit of grass field to dig up for Knowsley Council. Perhaps this is the only land that can be used - but given the amount of land dished out to contractors and developers, it seems that Knowsley Council have a very nasty habit of reclaiming green fields instead of more suitable areas. It seems that we have been robbed blind when it comes to the Council simply protecting what was supposed to be our heritage. Everything successive generations fought for is being plundered; land left for us is transformed into millions of pounds profit for Wimpeys.

They sell with the recklessness only someone using public money can summon up in financial dealings

Meanwhile your kids are playing 'dodge death' in the streets as the volume of traffic increases and playing areas are sold, not even to the highest bidder. We lose all round. Knowsley Council are carrying on the great Tory Tradition of selling publicly owned assets to private concerns whose only motive is profit. Just like the Tories they sell with the recklessness only someone using public money can summon up in financial dealings. Kirkby has a long history of public funds being used in this manner.

Greedypool FC

Liverpool FC have made millions off us here in Kirkby due to the gutless Judas brigade of Labourites who will be trying to get voted in again next year. Kirkby Times will be encouraging the natives to take these clowns on - The St Kevin's Sell Off Councillors will be pleased to know that any info Kirkby Times has can be used by ANY individual or Party to print off a dozen good leaflets which unmask the lot of you. Graphics included. The Greens, the Lib Dems and much more besides is waiting to have a go at the Labour Party here in Kirkby. You've never had a contest here, this will all change.

How the Council can get away with digging up green fields

The planning application points to the Unitary Development Plan which is referred to a lot by the Council and referred to in this planning application. Luckily for Knowsley Council they are 'allowed' by this great plan to be able to dig up green space as long as it can prove the green space has 'no special features' and that the vegetation is of 'no special quality'. No reference is made to the fact that Tower Hill has become a place once surrounded by countryside almost, to one which is being enclosed by massive housing estates and the industrial estate. Every blade of grass left here is 'special quality', every patch of green is a 'special feature' when your living in a concrete jungle for the most part. Even the surrounding farms, those not yet sold off for housing, are hardly 'green' and are dosed in chemical cocktails each year.

Knowsley Councils Unitary Development Plan

There is an old version of the Unitary Development Plan on the Councils website but Kirkby Times has been privileged to have glimpsed a copy of the replacement Unitary Development Plan which will soon be dissected and interpreted into simple language. As you could imagine the plan is riddled with annoying buzz words such as 'Core strategy' 'regeneration' and 'objectives' and the usual meaningless bureaucratic mumbo jumbo so loved by the idiots with degrees who write these things.