About Wrinehill

  Betley Parish Council Asset Register Each year local Councils are expected to update their Asset Register.   The Asset Register is part of the end of year accounting process so this needs to be addressed.   Parish Councils are not excluded from this exercise. An asset has several contexts:   it can be financial, business or personal.   In   a governance scenario all three appear to be enshrined in the term Asset and this would include any item with a long-term existence, purchased with public funds, which needs to be accounted for – whether it is cash/property- land/ equipment/ investments, Xmas lights/Xmas animals/SIDs and poles/statues/poppies/war memorials/benches/picnic tables/notice boards/display boards/ loudhailers/laptops /apps and other peripheral hard and software. For accounting purposes assets are listed on a company’s/Council’s balance sheet as either current assets (cash etc) or non-current assets (buildings, machinery and other tangib...

 Well finally,  I am delighted to report something positive - that Staffordshire County Council Highways Department is getting around to dealing with the constant flooding in Wrinehill . It appears to be carrying out all the repair and remedial work suggested (by the wrongfully defamed Councillor) and the land owner (who was being vilified)  in 2023.   Had action been taken in a timely manner so much inconvenience and damage to the road and verges and personal property  could have been avoided.   It is also amazing and salutary that all the mud was recently cleared by a local resident. This work also highlights the mis/disinformation that was circulating at the time regarding the cause of the flooding and confusing and getting in the way of a remedy - ie it was the fault of the the HS2 project and that it should be the one to take responsibility (and pay for any damage) etc..  That, in my view, was potentially libellous, and certainly rub...