Councillor Allan Andrews, Coventry Conservative Spokesman for City Services, has criticised the decision to postpone the July meeting when Councillors were to discuss Project Transform and called it a “cynical move.”

Project Transform is a partnership between Coventry City Council, Warwickshire County Council and Solihull MBC to examine options for the future of waste disposal, with an estimated cost of over £1bn. Plans for a new super incinerator at Whitley are due to be submitted in the autumn, but the postponed meeting will further delay specific details for public consultation being made available.

Commenting on the uncertainty, Councillor Allan Andrews said: "I am very disappointed that the next meeting for Councillors has been cancelled. It strikes me as being a cynical move to further delay announcing plans for public consultation. We were told early in June that the planning application had been withdrawn, when in fact it had only been postponed until the autumn. Now the July meeting has been cancelled it seems to me that they are doing everything they can to avoid letting us know what their plans are.”

Cllr Allan Andrews, Coventry Conservative Spokesman for City Services, has spoken of his disappointment and surprise that the Labour Group failed to send any representation to a vital meeting on the future of Project Transform, despite holding two of Coventry’s 3 seats on the Member Panel and making a number of public statements on this issue.

Project Transform is a partnership between Coventry City Council, Warwickshire County Council and Solihull MBC to examine options for the future of waste disposal. The Member Advisory Panel is made up of 3 elected members from each Authority. Coventry’s representation is Cllr Lindsley Harvard (Labour), Cllr Tony Skipper (Labour) and Cllr Allan Andrews (Conservative). Only Cllr Andrews attended the meeting held in Solihull today.

Cllr Kevin Foster, Deputy Leader of Coventry Conservatives, has today (Sunday 23rd May 2010) written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP, calling on him to scrap the previous Governments offer of £129m of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Credits for Project Transform.
 
Project Transform is a partnership between Coventry City Council, Warwickshire County Council and Solihull MBC to examine options for the future of waste disposal. The offer of PFI funding had been made by the previous Government and is based on providing a new facility to replace the Waste to Energy Plant in Whitley in 2015.

Coventry Conservatives will be joining members of The Coventry Partnership in Shelton Square on the 15th of May 2010 at 11:00am, to stand up to hatred by saying "NO" to homophobia and Transphobia.  The day exists to raise awareness of the fact that discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-spectrum people still exists and manifests in many forms both in Coventry and world-wide.

There are 75 Countries in the world today where it is a criminal offence to be gay and/or lesbian.  People are punished and imprisoned because of their sexuality and in a further seven countries that punishment is death. 

Cllr Kevin Foster, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Coventry South, has reacted to the Prime Minister's statement this morning that a General Election will be held on 6th May 2010 by stating that the fight is on for the future of our city and tens of thousands of hard working Coventrians.
 
Kevin has pledged to put the needs of hard working Coventry families and the 11,000 people looking for work across the City at the heart of his campaign. He has cited a Conservative pledge to hep nearly 70,000 Coventry workers avoid Labours tax on jobs (the planned National Insurance Rise next year) and delivering more apprenticeships, as well as skills training, as key parts of his plan to secure recovery and get Coventry working again.

Cllr Kevin Foster, Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Coventry South, has called for an immediate General Election following increasing divisions within the Labour Party resulting in today's (6th January 2010) dramatic developments.

Former Cabinet Ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt have called for a secret ballot of Labour MPs on the future of Gordon Brown's leadership. Yet Kevin believes there is only one secret ballot that should be held on the future of Gordon Brown and it should involve all of Coventry's voters, not just the two Labour MPs who live in the City.