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North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/596 Written by Lee on Monday, 15th May 2006 Here is a parliamentary written answer on this topic. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060511/text/60511w05.htm Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many (a) members of departmental staff and (b) external consultants were employed to research and write the North East regional planning assessment for the railway; [68876] (2) what the total cost was of (a) preparing and (b) producing the North East regional planning assessment. [68877] Derek Twigg: The preparation and writing of the draft North East regional planning assessment (RPA) was carried out by a single consultancy firm procured by the Strategic Rail Authority at a fee cost of Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/597 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 16th May 2006 Geeze, Lee ... I could scream at times when I see the amount of money that gets spent on project XXXXX or consultants on YYYYY - I certainly question whether there's excessive money spent on decision making and reporting at times. Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/598 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 16th May 2006 P.S. Lee - I note your comment that you'll recommend this to Douglas Alexander as a good solution. Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/604 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 17th May 2006 Link to Jacobs Consultancy website. http://www.jacobsconsultancy.co.uk/key_staff_ANichols.shtml It would appear that Jacobs were the consultants hired for the Kent and the West Midlands Regional Planning Assessments. Hang on. I dont recall either of those RPA's having been published yet. Surely the SRA havent spent the money already? That would make the running total spent so far on RPA's Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/616 Written by Lee on Friday, 19th May 2006 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=237.msg597#msg597 date=1147753467] I've heard a figure of 5 million pounds per annum quoted as the cost of saving ALL of the services threatened. Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/617 Written by Lee on Saturday, 20th May 2006 Quite a few items of interest today. http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=97199 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4997572.stm http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article548981.ece http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,1778955,00.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=386942&in_page_id=1770 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2188500,00.html Personally , I was rather struck by the wide range of people who are prepared to both stand up and speak out on issues such as these. Maybe there is hope for Melksham yet. Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/618 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Saturday, 20th May 2006 Yes, Lee, I do see elements of hope. Some influential people are pushing / talking ... and I'm finding much more high level support. We may see some more actions / meetings / pushings soon. In the meantime, it's fabulous if people can let their councillors, MP, GOSW in Bristol and the DfT (names on the web site) know that they are stiil concerned / disgusted at the short straw that seems to have been dealt to Swindon - Southampton and Melksham Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/624 Written by Lee on Saturday, 20th May 2006 More Articles. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/20/nrail20.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/20/ixuknews.html http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006230353,00.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17105955%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=taken%2dfor%2da%2dride%2d-name_page.html http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=748662006 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17105545%26method=full%26siteid=66633%26headline=railway%2drip%2doff%2d-name_page.html Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/628 Written by Lee on Monday, 22nd May 2006 Some more articles on this. http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article548913.ece http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,1779466,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,1780325,00.html Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/636 Written by Lee on Thursday, 25th May 2006 [quote author=Lee link=topic=237.msg604#msg604 date=1147830317] It would appear that Jacobs were the consultants hired for the Kent and the West Midlands Regional Planning Assessments. Hang on. I dont recall either of those RPA's having been published yet. Surely the SRA havent spent the money already? That would make the running total spent so far on RPA's Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/735 Written by Lee on Saturday, 1st July 2006 Here are some more recent articles. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2248275,00.html http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=97668 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2251207,00.html Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/753 Written by Lee on Monday, 3rd July 2006 [quote author=Lee link=topic=237.msg636#msg636 date=1148562559] [quote author=Lee link=topic=237.msg604#msg604 date=1147830317] It would appear that Jacobs were the consultants hired for the Kent and the West Midlands Regional Planning Assessments. Hang on. I dont recall either of those RPA's having been published yet. Surely the SRA havent spent the money already? That would make the running total spent so far on RPA's Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/762 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 4th July 2006 Here is another article on this. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2254898,00.html Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/820 Written by Lee on Monday, 10th July 2006 [quote author=Lee link=topic=237.msg596#msg596 date=1147732139] Here is a parliamentary written answer on this topic. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060511/text/60511w05.htm Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many (a) members of departmental staff and (b) external consultants were employed to research and write the North East regional planning assessment for the railway; [68876] (2) what the total cost was of (a) preparing and (b) producing the North East regional planning assessment. [68877] Derek Twigg: The preparation and writing of the draft North East regional planning assessment (RPA) was carried out by a single consultancy firm procured by the Strategic Rail Authority at a fee cost of Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/1681 Written by Lee on Friday, 20th October 2006 Quite a few Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - related Parliamentary Written Questions coming up : Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what opportunities he has provided to hon. Members to contribute to consultations on regional planning assessments for the railways. Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish submissions received from (a) elected councils, (b) passenger transport authorities and (c) regional assemblies before the publication of regional planning assessments for the railways. Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consultations he has held with passenger transport authorities over regional planning assessment for railways. Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what formal opportunities local councils have had to contribute to consultations about regional planning assessments for the railway. Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what opportunities elected members of local authorities on regional assemblies have had to contribute to consultations on regional planning assessments for railways. Re: North East Regional Planning Assessment For The Railway - 237/1727 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 25th October 2006 To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what opportunities he has provided to hon. Members to contribute to consultations on regional planning assessments for the railways. (2) what consultations he has held with passenger transport authorities over regional planning assessment for the railways; (3) what formal opportunities local councils have had to contribute to consultations about regional planning assessments for the railways. Mr. Tom Harris: Typically in the development of the Regional Planning Assessments we have held a series of workshops which have included officers from regional planning and development bodies, local authorities, statutory rail passenger bodies. The Regional Planning Assessments have benefited from this constructive engagement which has been used to shape the findings. Where hon. Members have requested meetings then we have welcomed the opportunity to have these discussions. Where priorities have been identified for further development they will be considered in the Network Rail Route Utilisation Strategies and in the development of franchises and will then be subject to formal consultation. Dr. Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish submissions received from (a) elected councils, (b) passenger transport authorities and (c) regional assemblies before the publication of regional planning assessments for the railways. Mr. Tom Harris: Although we routinely discuss regional planning assessments as they develop with regional and local interests, there have been no formal consultation exercises and therefore no formal submissions. Dr. Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what opportunities elected members of local authorities on regional assemblies have had to contribute to consultations on regional planning assessments for railways. Mr. Tom Harris: We routinely discuss regional planning assessments as they develop with regional and local interests, though there have been no formal consultation exercises. link to index of articles |
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham. Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome. The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users. We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can. -- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021 | |||
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