The Time the Place | Walter Halls Music Night

The Time the Place | Walter Halls Music Night by The-Time-the-Place

In this week’s program we show-case Walter Halls School Music Night. We also have news from the Defend Council Tax Benefits Group; Mapperley Councillor Emma Dewinton successfully defends one of her constituents from the threat of eviction due to the bedroom Tax, and highlights of the June Night Sky.

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The Time the Place | 20 May

In today's program. Plans for the new ASDA store in Carlton Road are under revision again. A full news bulletin, plus video of St Georges' Day parade in Nottingham; Moffatt Close Community Garden; and St Ann's residents pay tribute to The Dambusters 70 years on. This was the last social gathering at the now closed Westminster pub.

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Comment   I live opposite where this store would be and wholeheartedly support ASDA building a larger store with Petrol Station. Local businesses survived with the co op and therefore, should survive now ... Unless they are the ones selling beers and spirits to the homeless people in the area. The local council should ask the local people who have got homes in the area what they want, and not make decisions based only on their opinion, especially as I bet they do not live in this area. Come on ASDA stand up to them and give us the large store our area is desperate for. Anonymous

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£400,000 improvements for Walter Halls school

The City Council agreed yesterday to allocate £2.3m new funding to carry out improvements in school buildings. The works range from small improvements, such as boiler replacements, to comprehensive refurbishments, such as the £400k improvement works to the Year 5/6 block in Walter Halls Primary School.

The funding, which was higher than anticipated, has been given by central Government to the City Council. The Council then consulted school condition surveys, local asset management plans and expert specialist contractors before agreeing the allocation of funds yesterday. The highest priority was given to works relating to Health and Safety requirements, with funding allocated to other schools based on the level of risk to the school of inclement weather.

Councillor Mellen said: "We are delighted to be able to announce our programme of works to improve school buildings across the city. The bigger than expected investment in school buildings supports the Council's strategy to ensure that every child and young person has access to the very best facilities, so that they can get the most out of their school life and have the best possible chance to reach their full potential.

"This programme runs alongside our primary school expansion programme, which is transforming spaces in many primary schools in the city."

Pete Strauss, Head Teacher of Walter Halls Primary School, said: "This is wonderful news for Walter Halls School. We have been concerned about the condition of our Year 5 and Year 6 classrooms for a long time, and it's great to know that the local authority has found the money to fund these improvements.

"Our children deserve the very best education. That means not just making sure they are taught an exciting and relevant curriculum by brilliant teachers, but also making sure that they are taught in suitable classrooms that are in a good condition and provide a pleasant environment for learning. This funding will deliver that for us and we are very grateful."

Community Cafe network aims to please

The Community Cafe Network links together a number of community cafes open to the local community, including Stonebridge City Farm open daily, and at St Edward’s Park in Carlton Road; open on Thursday & Friday mornings. The Thursday morning breakfast club is free for visitors.

Visit there website here

For more information please contact the Project Coordinator David Jones 07794343697. Or Marie Buchanan – Chair of Sneinton Hermitage Community Association (Charity No 505992). This Charity is ultimately responsible for the FIG funded part of this project.marie2dance@hotmail.com

Award winning Developer to revamp Robin Hood Chase

Wilmott Dixon the Developer behind the successful St Ann’s Valley Centre is also the new developer for phase 2 of the ambitious scheme to regenerate the Robin Hood Chase nearby.

ASRA Housing association will manage the houses to be built on the Chase upon their completion.

City Council Project Manager Gill Callingham, who along side Alan Parker are managing the Robin Hood Chase redevelopment, said today “Wilmott Dixon had done such a nice job building the St Ann’s Valley centre, and they worked really well with the local community, we felt it was important to have them on board from the outset.”

She said Wilmott Dixon have now drawn up the new plans for the Chase, and are presently working with ASRA and the city council to finalise the number of homes to be built in order to make the scheme financially viable.

Once this is complete, and contracts signed, there will be wide ranging consultations with local shopkeepers, and the local community taking place. The planning application will to be submitted in July, and any demolition work on the redundant commercial units, and former health centre, will take place in the autumn around November 2013.

The Time the Place | St Ann’s Well

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On Tuesday 11th June 10:30am – 12 Noon Colin Haynes will be giving a talk about St Ann’s Well at the St Anns Library in the St Ann’s Valley Centre. Colin Haynes set up the St Ann’s Well Wishers’ group a short time ago, and in April they launched an online petition asking for any archaeological dig on the site of St Ann’s magical well to be carried out as soon as possible. Please sign Colin’s petition here

This TV program takes a look at St Ann’s Well and its place in history, based on my own research from 1995 onwards.

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Head Teacher Peter Strauss says Farwell to Walter Halls school

On Thursday 23rd May Walter Halls Primary and Early Years School, near the top of The Wells Road, is holding its annual ‘Music Night’.

The annual event -- 6pm – 9pm – gives children at the school the chance to play musical instruments, and perform songs, in front of parents & visitors.

Peter Strauss, the Head Teacher, has just announced that he has accepted the position of headmaster of another school, and will be leaving Walter Halls later this year. A meeting of the school’s governors is to meet later this month to appoint his successor. In a letter to parents this week, Peter Strauss said he has had many happy years at Walter Halls Primary and Early Years School, and will miss all the school children and staff.

Next year 2013 Walter Halls Primary and Early Years School is holding its 75th anniversary, 1939 – 2013, which will be a special occasion for the school and local community.

Kingsthorpe Close plans -- residents taken by surprise

in Mapperley on Bank Holiday Monday, I visited Kingsthorpe Close, the proposed new development area, to take a look around.

This is what the area looks like today.

Developer Keepmoat Homes is to submit a planning application shortly, to build a number of new social houses on the former site of Kingsthorpe & Kildare flats in Mapperley.

The developer already has permission to build 111 new homes, on the Stonebridge Park Estate in St Ann’s.

Residents in Kingsthorpe Close were surprised by the news. The locals I talked to, said they had not been consulted by the City Council or the Developer, about the new plans over the last year.

Locals were especially annoyed by the prospect of a large new children’s play area, being laid close to their homes.

The Kingsthorpe Close estate has a children’s play ground, which local residents say is plagued with youths doing drugs, and antisocial behaviour, which has blighted there life’s. They said they did not want another.

All of the houses in Kingsthorpe Close are relatively new, about 25 years old, and are fitted with storage heaters, which the residents tell me, are very expensive to run. They constantly have high electricity bills as a result.

So they were all intrigued to find out what new heating system would be installed in the new houses, and whether it would allow them to be upgraded to Gas central heating, once the new development was complete.

Sneinton ‘Stop’ Tra Launches new face book page

With a family Fun Day coming up on Saturday 8th June, King Edwards Park in St Ann’s has now launched a new Face-book page.

It has already gained two dozen members and the number is increasing all of the time.

You can visit them on this link

King Edwards Park

Crime figures: for March

On the Stonebridge Park Estate the level of crime was low during March

Lytton Close; Theft 1
Magson Close; Theft 1, Violent crime 2
St Matthias Road; Theft 2
Melville gardens subway ASB 1

ASB = Antisocial behaviour

Crime map and figures taken from the Police.UK website.

Teddy Bears picnic fun down on the farm

In fine sunshine Stonebridge City Farm held a successful family event on bank holiday Monday. The Teddy Bears picnic was attended by lots of local families who enjoyed the day to the full.

Sadly this event was spoiled by a local resident named Kevin Redmond of St Ann’s, who approached a number of families asking them not to take photographs of their own children, and then used insulting language when they refused.

A grand day out at Moffat Close

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St Ann’s Projects held another successful day at their Moffat close community garden on Saturday. The weather was fun & sunny.

Colin Haynes came along to show a number of illustrations and inform locals about St Ann’s Well.

Colin is asking people to sign his online petition calling on Nottingham City Council to excavate the site of St Ann’s well & help preserve our local heritage.

You can sign Colin’s online petition here.

Local Shopkeepers object to new store plans

On March 25th Heron Foods submitted a planning application to convert the former Westminster Pub in St Ann’s into two large new shops. Heron Foods which mainly sells frozen food products would occupy one of the new units, while another retailer would occupy the other. On April 10th the application was amended to allow a ‘hot food take away’ to occupy the second ground floor unit.

Local shopkeepers have now collected a petition containing about 500 signatures objecting to the plans. The petition was handed into the city council on Monday 29th April.

The shops concerned; Flints in Ransom Road, The Chase Fish Bar, and the general stores in Ball Street & Bartholomew's Road are objecting because it would affect their trade, which may result in local job losses. They also seriously object to the ‘hot food takeaway’ being part of the Heron plans, because it would mean a significant increase in antisocial behaviour in the area. With yobs intimidating their many customers.

In St Ann’s itself, its fair to say everyone wants the new store to open in the near future because it is desperately needed in the area. With the closure of all the shops on the nearby Robin Hood Chase in less then 16 weeks, it leaves just two local shops, and two pubs in the St Ann’s.

The planning application will now be determined by city planners, and is likely to go before the planning committee sometime in July.

Willmott Dixon to revamp the Robin Hood Chase

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Updated With the closure of St Ann’s Post Office on the Robin Hood Chase in 16 weeks time the remaining shopkeepers have all said they too will close. After more than 40 years of trading, the Chase shopping precinct looks set to come to the end of its current lifespan.

Project Manager Alan Parker was on the Robin hood Chase on Thursday meeting with the shopkeepers to discuss their future. Many are asking for some form of compensation prior to closing down because they blame the City Council for the many of the problems which has led to the Robin Hood Chase shops closing over recent years.

The planning blunder of building the Chase neighbourhood Centre in the middle of the precinct which has seriously damaged their trade. Allowing the former Co-op store to sell newspapers & magazines, which led to the closure of the Newsagent. Granting an alcohol licence to the Co-op, which in turn caused the closure of the off-licence store.

In other news, Willmott Dixon has been disclosed as the developer behind the new plans for the Robin Hood Chase, while the ASRA Housing group, formerly Leicester Housing Association will manage the new homes on completion.  Alan Parker is presently waiting to sign contracts with Willmott Dixon & ASRA before holding a public consultation event on the Chase in the next few weeks. A planning application will be submitted in July.

This comes as no surprise because the present CEO of ASRA, Matt Cooney (Shown here), was once the city council Housing Manager based on the Robin Hood Chase a few years ago.