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Comment on Green Deal: political opposition gathers, energy giants waver – but a Midlands business forms coalitions and goes ahead by Midlands business forms coalitions | Green Deal Consulting

Midlands business forms coalitions | Green Deal Consulting — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:06:05 +0000

[...] Green Deal: political opposition gathers, energy giants waver – but a Midlands business forms coalitions and goes ahead, reports Localise West Midlands. [...]

Comment on LWM and others in the region want to know more about locally based SMEs by An SME directory for the West Midlands? « West Midlands Producers

An SME directory for the West Midlands? « West Midlands Producers — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:37:22 +0000

[...] Summarised from the Localise West Midlands website: [...]

Comment on Solving fuel poverty – an update by Ashok Patel

Ashok Patel — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:51:58 +0000

Hi Phil.
I am glad there is green deal is being promoted In Birmingham. And it is coming from Local company with international connections.Also in Energy production.

I do hope though the initial hype does not fizzle out because of future storms in financial and banking,or political crises, that not predictable.

I was talking to some people from Eon, who said they wanted to insulate 23,000 homes in Birmingham, but quit after 3000.Now they prefer working in Wolverhampton and Sandwell because planning department does not put expensive time delays in clearing the applications for planning permissions.

Comment on Waitrose Bags Fair Deal Award from West Mids Dairy Farmer by The memory and cause of this stalwart campaigner will live on » Fair Deal Food UK

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:53:52 +0000

[...] years later he nominated Waitrose for a Fair Deal award as they were the first supermarket to respond to the crisis that has been facing dairy farmers for [...]

Comment on The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement disappoints the region’s high street retailers by glenda

glenda — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:58:32 +0000

Dudley & West Bromwich have been dieing for years and I see the local Councils are strangely quiet on this business rates issue, however Its no good blaming the Government, as from 2013 a substantial amount of business rate control have been devolved to our local councils.

Put simply if councils fill empty shops, this is classed as growth and Councils can now keep up to 50% of the rates of any growth created.
Put another way all traders in a high street could all have a business rate reduction if a Council improves growth in their town.

Comment on Waitrose Bags Fair Deal Award from West Mids Dairy Farmer by Will Waitrose lead the way and urge its peers to trade fairly with British dairy farmers and other food producers? » Fair Deal Food UK

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:48:17 +0000

[...] 2007, Waitrose received a “Fair Deal” award in recognition of the price they offer dairy farmers for [...]

Comment on Campaigns and links by Fair Deal Award presented to MP Andrew George at the Annual Conference of the Family Farmers’ Association » Fair Deal Food UK

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:34:29 +0000

[...] To read more about Fair Deal Awards go to the Localise West Midlands website. To read the Bill, download pdf from link on [...]

Comment on Housing reflation and housing inflation – Alternative inflation … by LWM_Lydon

LWM_Lydon — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:31:03 +0000

This is one of the main reasons why we believe there should be a special index to register inflation as it effects pensioners. Germany used to have such indices before they went into the Euro. There is a pensioners inflation index run by the UK Office for National Statistics – but even they don’t pretend to take it seriously.

Comment on Housing reflation and housing inflation – Alternative inflation … by Brian Rhodes

Brian Rhodes — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:51:04 +0000

There appears to be conflicting information on collecting Regional inflation figures. Para. 5 of annexe C (page 15)mentions nine regions for collecting rental data whilst the last para. on page 28 proposes not to collect regional figures. Reduces considerably any confidence in methodology being developed for OOH.

Comment on Housing reflation and housing inflation – Alternative inflation … by Brian Rhodes

Brian Rhodes — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:32:10 +0000

As a pensioner I am concerned that there is no mention of council tax in OOH. For many mature pensioners who are lucky enough to have paid off their mortgages, council tax can be larger than fuel or water costs. A figure is included in RPI but as it is apparently an average throughout GB one wonders how relevant the figure is, council tax should surely be regionalised. I have asked ONS whether, if OOH is applied to RPI, council tax will still be a separate item? Haven’t had a reply yet.