Video: Latest Update 21 July

Rocket Park looks really nice now that the landscaping is in place. The footpaths are now being surfaced and the banks have been rounded and smoothed ready for new grass to be laid. The Long Hedge Site looks nice too with its two rows of houses with completed exteriors. Of course there is still work to be done here. Nearby on Magson close there is a great deal of activity with workers putting the foundations in place for the new St Matthias apartments, this area of the Regeneration Scheme is a hive of activity at the moment. The timber roof has now been put onto the large block of houses on the Eastham Close site, and the roofs are also being put on the row of houses along the Dennet Close_bottom row site. This video is a compilation of photographs taken around the Stonebridge park Estate on 21 July, with a suitable musical complement!

Don’t forget, the next Public Meeting of Stonebridge Park Tenants & Residents Association is on 3rd August at 7pm, which is being held at Stonebridge City Farm. SPTRA may be contacted by E-mail at: stonebridgetra@gmail.com

Stonebridge park Regeneration Scheme

VIDEO: Regarding LHA Charity Work

 

Mr Richard Pearson received this kind message from LHA_ASRA in the last few days, and it inspired me to include this video from 2007 of the St Ann’s Flower Girls taken at our last major event held at the neighbourhood Centre on the Robin Hood Chase. The then Mayor of Nottingham (and local Labour Councillor) Des Wilson attended. The Flower Girls, all volunteers, helped teach locals and disabled people the art of flower arranging. Our group was very successful, and this demonstrates just what can be achieved doing local charity work of this kind. We wish LHA every success with their charitable work in our local community.

By Mrs June Gaskell (St Ann’s Flower Girl).

 

Dear Mr. Pearson,

 

We do want to find a suitable resolution to the [Eastham Close] footpath issue and I will read your report to consider the best way forward…

 

The scheme has provided employment for 10 unemployed young people from both the St Ann’s and city… You may have seen last week the news coverage of the young trainees volunteering at the farm.

 

My team here are also exploring the opportunity to work with a local charity to provide our staff time for a volunteering reading support scheme in St Ann’s.

 

We really want the project to be a success and need your help to achieve this.

 

I note from Nottingham City Council that a consultation meeting is planned for August 3rd and I am very happy to participate in this. I will use your reports to see what changes to the scheme can be realistically made to improve the environment for existing residents.

 

Kind Regards

Lisa Culhane

Group Head of  Development & Regeneration

VIDEO: Stonebridge 1 July 2011

By Sharon Easom: sharoneasom@rocketmail.com

This is the latest film of the Stonebridge Park Estate. It begins at Rocket Park, and then we see the Fairholm Court area, the Long Hedge site at the top of Magson Close, Magson Close behind the Coop, and we then see the view from Dennet Close Road. Here the film changes and we then see the flats facing Beacon Hill Rise Road, Eastham Close Road, Dennet Close bottom-row, and finally Eastham Close. This is our first film, it was a team effort, and we were all careful to stay outside the perimeter fence throughout we hope you like it!

The main feature of the film is landscape changes to Rocket Park with new footpaths being laid, and the circular area in the middle, which I presume will be the new children’s play area. Work began here about a month ago and is not expected to be completed until the autumn.

Rocket Park: 1 July 2011

Reporter: Mr Patrick Henshaw. patrickhenshaw@ymail.com

The central area of Rocket Park is being laid out in a large circle, outlined in light coloured bricks. I like the four new footpaths now being laid which lead into the centre of the Park, its all going to look really nice when its finished, I have lived here for a number of years and this is a big improvement from before. Work began at the end of May, so a lot has been done to Rocket Park over the last 4 weeks.

Dennet Close Bottom-row: 1 July 2011

Reporter: Mr Richard Pearson. richard.pearson53@yahoo.co.uk

Work is well advanced on this row of houses, the wooden roof beans are now in place and it just gives the appearance of Coronation Street, up north. I can imagine nipping into The Rovers Return for a quick pint, and chatting to Ena Sharples in the street. I really like these houses, and they are proper houses made of bricks, and are far superior to the Wimpey's built houses nearby.

Eastham Close Site: 1 July 2011

Reporter: Mr John Bailey. johnbailey78@ymail.com

I live on the Estate and today there is only two topics of conversation: how fast the new houses and flats are being built, and to such a high standard of workmanship. The second is the small size of the two houses which are being built on Eastham Close. They are quite prominent and look quite nice from the outside.

The House plans published on this blog two weeks ago tell a different story. I just cannot understand why there is no closet downstairs, a small room to hang up your coats, and put cleaning stuff in like brushes, mops and a vacuum cleaner. The kitchen seems small as well, I don’t think there would be much room to use the ironing board. There is also nowhere to put your washing to dry if its raining out, or if you have to go to work during the day. The person living here would have to use a clothes horse, and ironing board in the living room.

The block of houses being built nearby is now up to the third level, and seems so high. I agree with Richard Pearson about the bottom row. I asked workmen on the site and they said that these were all kitchens. The living rooms are on the middle level they said, so the bedrooms must be along the top. My wife and I cook a Sunday roast each week, and with three large saucepans boiling away there is a lot of steam. Even with a window open it still condenses on the cold window glass and walls. In the ground floor kitchens of this new block of houses there are no ventilation grills. Nowhere for the steam to go except onto the walls and in the air. The people who do move in are going to have a big problem with mould and damp, I wouldn’t like that at all.

The photographs below show the Eastham Close Site as it is today.

The bottom photograph shows the same block of houses as seen from Eastham Close Road.

Pevril Pub Site: 1 July

Reporter: Sharon Easom. sharoneasom@rocketmail.com

It was quite a delight to see the new block of flats from Beacon Hill Rise, and the new houses along Eastham Close Road nearing completion. I have lived on the Stonebridge Park Estate for over 12 years now and remember the Pevril pub very well. It was once a very popular venue for locals, and I went in quite often. Laying the foundations for the new block of apartments along Dennet Close must have been quite difficult. Workmen dug a deep trench and poured concrete into moulds to form the walls. Now that the foundation is in place it would seem that work will now begin on the new apartment block.

The new block of flats at the front of the site has maroon coloured doors, and white double glazing and finished in sand coloured bricks. Everyday work men are inside this block finishing the interior.

The photographs below show the Pevril Pub Site as it is now. It seems unbelievable, but only 22 weeks have gone by since Lovell first began building on the Stonebridge Estate and work has advanced to fast.