Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 06/10/2026thealternativecouncil.ukthealternativecouncil.ukThe Alternative CouncilUnmasking the Curious World of Local Councils 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 06/10/2026substack.com/@shropwatchsubstack.comShropWatch | SubstackIndependent project tracking Shropshire Council complaints, governance and accountability. Sharing documented experiences, verified evidence and updates on the Government’s Best Value process. Not aff... 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The relationship between Boningale is interesting. There is a PI and a org called Shropwatch investigating and placing FOIs. Shropshire Council LD group busy looking the other way 100 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Shropshire is an enforcement free zone and has been for 20 years, it’s policy 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 05/10/2026These people have only one idea to grow the economy and make wealthy people wealthier, disaster capitalism, destroy what’s left of the environment and natural world until there is nothing left and they have extracted the last penny in profit 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A bonkers electoral system where relatively small changes in vote share produce wildly different results, maybe there is a difficult decision to take there 010 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Think there’s an application for one here, land diversification, charge people to walk your dog in a field and boost the local rural economy. Next up convert your old barn into a rat invested maze and charge people to take their cats 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Maybe you have a competent planning authority we don’t in Shropshire 010 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It’s national policy from 31 Oct, all LPAs will be doing this! 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 20/09/2026He’s keeps playing his war hero card. He strikes me as someone who at least tries to justify his position. I don’t think he’s extreme enough to stand as a Reform candidate, he would be better off in the Tory party although not having gone to Sandhurst may black ball him. 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Usual suspects want to get in there with their roundup and plant dahlias in neat rows 121 2
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires. campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/196457/...campaigns.nationaltrust.org.ukI've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires. 011 1
Reposted by Tony LeggBrian Eversham @brianecambs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thanks so much for your support. This really is a wonderful site - a chalk spring, a neutral spring and an acidic spring from the Greensand meet in the central marsh - I can't think of a site of this size with such diversity, and the plants and invertebrates to prove ti. 2218 21
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not irreplaceable habitat under NPPF, so basically everything that does not have a statutory protection is grey belt? never vote Labour 120 2
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Chair of the SPC gets a £11K allowance. Is this VFM for a bankrupt Council (both financially and morally) 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Oh dear the suicidal tendencies of the LDs never ends, enjoy your 10% its all you’ll ever get 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 27/08/2026How many of those Labour MPs who oppose are in safe seats? 010 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Disclaimer, I have never permanently moved a road sign during high spirits 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Pretty much every overseas “Officers Mess” used to have a stolen local sign above the bar. I remember seeing one in the UK and the horrified CO ordered them to put it back 100 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Great headline generator, gambling addict Vince the Mormon cat banned from T G Jones for stealing scratch cards 010 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 22/08/2026We have a serious cat community in our area and Vince would fit in perfectly 030 3
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A Devon Cllr stated they should build prisons in the North where it’s wet, dark and miserable 110 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 21/08/2026At a recent planning meeting when Cllrs complained about the loss of biodiversity, the Case Officer shrugged his shoulders and simply said the government has told us to build houses 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 13/08/2026More likely they’ve got interest free loans lined up enabling them to continue to fundraise after purchase without increasing the debt. 111 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The decision will be made behind closed doors by officers with no democratic oversight. I don’t see any material planning conditions that they won’t be able to overcome with conditions. The government has removed all democratic oversight and you would be better off campaigning against that 100 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This will not go to committee so this needs to be done before the end of the consultation period 020 2
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Had a quick look at the docs. It’s looks like the developer are going to challenge that the Woodland Classification W1 (priority habitat) is applicable and get it de-classified. You will need to get an independent qualified ecologist to get evidence to support the W1 classification. 220 2
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The second battle for Shrewsbury was lost when Rayner first became housing sec 100 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 22/07/2026One word Shropshire, it’s been run and administered by idiots since I left here in the 80s and got worse since I returned in 2014 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Shropshire Council economical with the truth as always, never enforced so they allow it unchallenged 110 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Wow, look forward to the Council receiving pothole repair of the year from King Charles 010 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Expanding Trench Wood www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/appeals/tren... Another huge fundraising effortworcswildlifetrust.co.uk 000 0
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Well the government refused to include land for conservation in its community right to buy scheme, vested interests of the elite and wealthy not to be challenged 150 5
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 01/07/2026They will need loans to make up the difference, it’s possible they’ve got benefactors lined up to provide interest free loans 100 1
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 27/06/2026There going to put statues of all the Council leaders responsible for this farce in the arches, the smaller one is for Nutting 010 1
Reposted by Tony LeggGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The Government Estate Nature Plan has been published – revealing the first official map of all central government land, and that 37% of the public estate is being protected & managed for nature (thereby counting towards the 30by30 goal). Thread 1/ assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a3ce5... 810043 100
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Kemi, no we’re not those Tories, we’re the new old Tories, the old old Tories have defected to Reform 120 2
Tony Legg @xyz1964.bsky.social · 10/06/2026That’s what I mean’t, NE says 15m buffer zone for development and I’ve seen it enforced in planning appeals, but they generally hope no one notices and ignore it 000 0
