Great Public Meeting tonight with Huw Lewis from Nexus, who also spoke about the new North East Combined Authority. Some really interesting stuff and we appreciate Huw giving up his time to come. Lively questioning especially when we strayed onto the issue of bus service contracts at the end. The Combined Authority looks like it could be good for the North East, though we certainly don’t want them to slow down the AB&T Re-opening but wanting to see yet more business cases, repeating work already done by Northumberland County Council. In a follow-up email (2nd March) Huw assured us this would not be the case; the new Authority will only add value to the process.
