Robin Garrido: Last News

Talks are now to take place over a call for night trams for workers, lone women and revellers in Salford. A debate on whether to ask Transport for Greater Manchester to introduce trams until 2am on weekdays and 4am at weekends stalled at a Salford city council meeting because of lack of time.

The Mayor of Salford has pledged to build hundreds of new council homes over the next four years if re-elected.

Salford Red Devils may move out of of the city to find a ground as the crisis over the lease on their stadium continues. As reported in the Manchester Evening News the future of the club is in jepoardy due to a row over the ownership of its stadium, the club says.

A controversial plan to build 450 homes on green belt land in Worsley has been submitted to Salford city council. Residents turned out in force a year ago to register their opposition to the plan for the 42-acre plot on land known as Hazelhurst Farm between the busy A580 East Lancs Road and the slip road to the M61.

The home stadium of Salford Red Devils and Sale Sharks rugby clubs is a step closer to being under the full ownership of the local city council. This follows a Salford city council cabinet meeting today which agreed on a ‘statement of strategic intent’ for buying 100 per cent of what would become the City of Salford Community Stadium (CoSCoS).

A row has erupted after the opposition leader on Salford council called for the "cycle of single young women and girls in the city becoming pregnant" to be broken. Leader of the Conservative group, Robin Garrido, made the comments at a full council meeting where a progress report on the initiative Tackling Inequalities: The Salford Way was delivered.

An outdoor activity centre based in Botany Bay Woods in Salford has been granted approval despite concerns over excess noise and threats to wildlife. Adventure Now is already in operation boasting activities such as archery, crossbowing, axe throwing, air rifle shooting, quad biking, bushcraft and orienteering as well as team building exercises and education provision.

this link, enter your email address, and select 'MySalford News'. That's all there is to it.But Worsley councillor Robin Garrido, who represents the area, opposes the plans for this site which he described as a 'breathing space' behind the houses.He said: "It doesn't have to be there for any particular purpose – just to create a barrier."We're losing so green space much these days."He added: "There are a lot of brownfield sites around the city of Salford."If you don't have any brownfield sites, you start looking at others.

A heated debate took place during a council meeting about the governments proposal on future planning.A motion was put forward on Wednesday by the Labour group to publicly denounce the governments latest consultation on future planning.The government revealed plans to speed up the planning process by cutting out ‘unnecessary bureaucracy’ in the planning phase.The motion was met with strong opposition from the Conservative group with councillor Arnold Saunders calling the motion “pompous” and councillor Robin Garrido describing the motion as a “political football”.City Mayor Paul Dennett lead the call for a withdrawal of the consultation he described as “anti-democratic” and wanted the motion to call for three key factors in the future of