Work is now well underway on the Unthank Road Tesco Express. I won’t pretend – I’m principally concerned about the architecture of the store. As previously mentioned I would much rather

This is a re-hash of a post from a previous now defunct blog  - I just had to re-publish it (it’s been edited). Some years ago I was a member of Norwich City Council Planning committee. I once refered to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts as an example of great architecture whilst we were considering some [...]

21/04/10 – re-edited from a defunct blog of mine… Near where I live Tesco want to build an express store. For several years a vociferous campaign by a motivated section of the local community has successfully had several planning applications refused. The Norwich Green Party who are politically motivated against Tesco have been very active [...]

02/04/10 – re-edit of a post from a defunct blog of mine… …it’s another political post! I stood for re-election in 2003. The Norwich Green Party were on the rise and I was up against Bob Gledhil. Despite having less time due to work I decided to stand again. But with the entire City Council [...]

I was as a Liberal Democrat Councillor on Norwich City for 5 years (1999-2004). It’s not an insignificant period of time so I guess politics is going creep into this blog. We received our Council Tax bill the other day with the accompanying justification pamphlet. Steve Morphew is the leader of Norwich City Council.  Once he wanted to be the [...]