I decided the time is ripe to remind ourselves of some of the low points of the Laman Street fig saga. Flashback time. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘transparency’
Reminders about radars 20.11.2011
November 20, 2011
Anti-fig people use radar investigation as an example of NCC’s evidence to back up their risk claims so it’s timely to remind ourselves of what a great example of the scientific approach radar investigation has been in the hands of Newcastle City Council. (more…)
Another reprieve 14.9.2011
September 14, 2011
Last night Council gave the fig trees a reprieve when they voted on independent assessment of their risk. (more…)
Tents and Radars and Spring 3.9.2011
September 3, 2011
Tents have been in Civic Park for over a week and I expect will stay there until the next Council discussion about Laman Street on Sept 13th. Go down and visit, have a chat, take a photo, sign the petition, get the latest dirt news on what’s happening – make a memory you can tell your children about how you helped save those magnificent trees. (more…)
Slide show 2.9.2011
September 2, 2011
Slide shows had an undeserved bad reputation in the days before digital cameras. Now that they’re DIY – and do it alone – there’s no excuse for whining about them: just don’t look.
Here’s a slide show of the protest in Civic Park on Monday morning just gone - where people gathered to form the community picket line in advance of the trees being taken out. (more…)
Long Weekend at last 10.6.2011
June 10, 2011
Even though so many of us think having a foreign hereditary monarch as our head of state is a bit bizarre in this day and age, I’ll warrant most of us are happy that we”re celebrating her birthday. Long weekends are just yummy. (more…)
Joanne McCarthy on ‘Local councillors for democracy year’ 15.1.2011
January 15, 2011
Joanne McCarthy writes some great columns in the Herald but one this week tops them all for me.
Independent review commissioned by residents 31.8.2010
August 31, 2010
I was so busy being alarmed by the permanent signs on Laman Street this weekend that I failed to notice the hinge in the middle of the signs. This nifty little number turns into a shiny silver sign with ‘Drop and Pick up only’ on the bottom. (more…)
Fig Jam meeting 24.8.2010
August 24, 2010
This is a picture of the danger council saved us from after the Pasha Bulker storm in 2007. (more…)
Thoughts from other people 19.8.2010
August 19, 2010
Fee Drelincourt from the Laman Street Action Group was incensed by Newcastle City Council’s plans to help the community ‘celebrate’ chopping down the history of the Laman Street figs. She said in her media release:
