Cllr Mike Butcher

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Off to help with the 4th Hopton Annual Fete. Fete open from 11am – 4pm, why not come along? The weather forecast is promising!  His Worship The Mayor of Great Yarmouth will officially open the event.  I will post some photos later!

This Snug equipment was displayed on Hopton Playing Field on a very wet Friday 13th August for the children of Hopton to see and play with.  It is designed to encourage children to use their imagination to construct different designs. Snug has been doing a tour round the borough recently to gauge children’s reaction.  The equipment was funded by the Big Lottery Fund, Change for Life, NHS & GYBC.

If you would like to see more, please go to www.great-yarmouth.gov.uk/play

Doing a tour of Great Yarmouth Town Hall with Karline from Member Services, showing a group of Portugese English Students around our historic building/office.

Attended pre-meeting of Audit & Risk this afternoon with the head of Financial Services in preparation for the full meeting on Monday evening.

I will be representing Great Yarmouth Conservative Association at the above meeting as our Chairman Barry is on holiday.  The meeting is in Swaffham Wednesday evening.

Chaired this monthly meeting as usual.  We are in the church vestry for the last time as our new village hall will be handed over to us on (we hope) 20th August so we should meet in there in September!  It is getting very exciting as we are almost there with just about everything now working.

Attended this morning to put the point on behalf of residents who were concerned about the later opening of a food concession in Hopton.  The application was granted as applied for.

Received an email today from GYBC Customer Services saying that people with roof problem had called to say how pleased they were that someone had attended to repair their roof the next day after I had visited!  Makes you feel good sometimes!

Visited a council tenant in Gorleston this afternoon whose roof has not been properly repaired almost two years after the lead flashing was stolen.  Have spoken to department concerned and they will be sending someone out asap!

In preparation for the Maritime Festival on September 4th & 5th where Laura Goodman, myself and (hopefully) other Councillors will conduct guided tours around the Town Hall, I went round with Laura Goodman to see how it should be done…….very interesting indeed!  We were accompanied by a young German girl of 17 who was doing work experience with the Mercury office.  Hopefully, other Councillors will volunteer to conduct these tours?