Kendal Town Councillors have been getting a sneak preview of the programme for this year’s Mintfest, now only two weeks away. As a newcomer to the event, I’m amazed at what’s on offer. The organisers claim: In just over 2 weeks’ time Kendal will be hosting one of Europe’s leading street arts festivals – Mintfest. [...]
Tuesday this week saw the beginning of the month double bill of Planning Committee followed by the full meeting of Kendal Town Council. Planning Committee excelled itself by recommending all the applications for approval, which meant we finished in time for the new format ‘prayers’ / ‘thought for the evening’ session as agreed last month. [...]
Two contrasting views this week of what “the environment” can mean. The Town Council has members on various organisations in the town. Three of the councillors (a record number) expressed an interest in South Lakes Action on Climate Change / Towards Transition (SLACC/TT) – the group who successfully gained Transition Town status for Kendal this [...]
Interesting debate at the Planning Committee tonight. We were considering a planning application for works at a house in the conservation area in Kendal, to replace an existing porch / conservatory of little merit with a new design. The owner and the architect had obviously studied the Green Building Bible and taken it to heart. [...]
I seemed to spend all of Tuesday walking to and from the town centre on Council business. In the morning there was a briefing for new councillors on the role of Local Area Partnerships (LAPs). Dilligent readers may remember I spent Monday evening at a meeting of the Neighbourhood Forum, a body set up to [...]
During the Mayor’s Sunday Service, Kendal’s new Mayor asked for the Parable of the Good Samaritan to be read. This must be the most famous answer ever to the question “Who is my neighbour?” So it was with some interest that I went along to a meeting of the Kendal Neighbourhood Forum, a forum run [...]
I went along to the opening of a fascinating little exhibition at Kendal Library this morning. Kendal is an ancient wool town – the town’s motto is Pannus mihi Panis (Wool is my Bread) – and a sample book dating back to 1769 somehow survived the centuries to become one of the town’s treasures. This [...]
