On Wednesday evening we pushed out a few new updates to the CllrTweeps website. The most obvious of which is a new layout for the list of councils. As the number of councils on the list has grown, we felt it was becoming more and more difficult to track down the one you were after. To make things easier, we’ve split the list into alphabetical sections, and provided links to allow you to jump to a particular letter [...]

The CllrTweeps website has been on the go for a fair old while (in Internet terms) now and was the first site of its type of councillors, councils and their residents.  However, even when it was set up we were aware that the site would not last forever.  This was not some metaphysical angst about [...]

The latest councillors to be added to our listings are:
Paul Gittings - Labour - Reading Council
Zaffar Van Kalwala - Labour - London Borough of Brent
Lynne Faulkner - Conservative - Bedford Council
Stephen Ellis - Conservative - Staffordshire Moorlands Council
John Briggs - Conservative - North Lincolnshire Borough Council
Val Loseby - Liberal Democrat - Lydd Town & Shepway [...]

With the new website we’ve been a little remiss in highlighting the most recent additions, so here’s a bumper list of newly(ish) added councillors:
brolfe - Lib Dem - Folkestone TC
cllrharrington - Independent - Stockton BC
lukeakehurst - Labour - Hackney
John_Muldoon - Labour - Lewisham
nickbason - Lib Dem - Waltham Forest
CouncillorKeith - Labour - Suffolk CC
ipswichlabour - [...]

Lichfield District Council has just launched a service that will send you a twitter message when a new planning application is received for your area.  All you need to do is submit your twitter username and postcode.  As the service is powered by PlanningAlerts.com, whenever a planning application is received from any of the supported [...]