The Time the Place | Housing Allocations Policy

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In this week's program we have a video of the King Edward's Park Fun Day, and the Teddy Bears picnic at Stonebridge City Farm. We take a look at the proposed changes to the Nottingham Housing allocation policy, and the new planning proposals for Bath Street. We also have the latest news on Student loans. and Disability Living Allowance.

Shown here is the Planned Netherfield development

Robin Hood Chase consultations delayed again

The Robin Hood Chase Regeneration Scheme is moving closer to reality. Project Officer Alan Parker said today that things were more exciting. Both the Developer Wilmot Dixon & the Asra Housing group were close to agreement. The next stage is for the Executive Board of the city council to be asked to give its approval for the submission of the planning application. However, this is unlikely to happen before 16th July. This means that consultations with St Ann’s residents and local businesses will not now take place until August at the earliest.

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

Until next Monday, have a nice week, Good bye for now

Richard Pearson

St Ann's Valley Centre "Highly Commended"

St Ann's Valley Centre became the latest joint service centre in Nottingham to receive recognition yesterday when it won "Highly Commended" in both the Community Benefit and Regeneration categories in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) 2013 Awards for the East Midlands.

The RICS Awards showcase the most inspirational regional initiatives and developments in land, property, construction and the environment. The Community Benefit and Regeneration categories recognise outstanding achievement in providing facilities which directly benefit the local community and schemes that have conserved or improved the built or natural environment in a way that has contributed to the viability of the area.

The judges visited St Ann's Valley Centre as part of the judging process. Award winners were announced at a ceremony in Nottingham's Conference Centre last night.

St Ann's Valley Centre was developed and built through a partnership between NHS Nottingham City, Nottingham City Council, Nottingham City Homes and the local community. The building was designed by local architects CPMG and built by construction company Willmott Dixon, which was recently awarded silver in the Considerate Constructors Scheme for its work on the Centre.

St Ann's Valley Centre has also been short listed for Library of the Year in the Bookseller Awards. The winners will be announced on 13 May.

St Ann's is one of several joint service centres in the City. Bulwell Riverside Joint Service Centre was nationally recognised as the Best Community Project in the 2012 Partnership Awards.

Terry Allen, Chief Finance Officer, NHS Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group, said: "I am really pleased that our vision to provide modern accessible multi agency facilities in the heart of local communities has been recognised. In the St Ann's Valley Centre we have proactively engaged with partners to provide a "warm welcome" to patients and residents whilst designing and programming complementary services and promotions to improve the health and wellbeing of local people."

Councillor Dave Liversidge, Nottingham City Council's Portfolio Holder for Adult Services, Housing and Community, said: "St Ann's Valley Centre has been an enormous success and I am delighted to see the community's involvement in the Centre recognised. Nottingham City Council knew that local involvement was critical to the Centre's success and we worked hard with NHS Nottingham and our other partners to ensure that citizens helped decide what the centre should look like and how it should operate. It's great that the RICS judges have understood and recognised the strength of community ownership of the building.

"I am also pleased to see the Centre recognised for regeneration. St Ann's Valley Centre is the first part of the regeneration plans for St Ann's. We are now completing feasibility studies on further renewal work in this very deprived area of the city".

Gill Moy, Director of Housing for Nottingham City Homes, said: "We work very closely with our tenants to make sure that we get our services right for them. So we're delighted that the involvement of tenants and other residents in the St Ann's area is being recognised through these prestigious awards."

Mr Anderson from the St Ann's Valley Centre Friends Group, who has been involved in the Centre from the very beginning, said: "Lots of local people had the opportunity to feed into the Centre's design and structure. It's wonderful that it has won Highly Commended. The Centre gives the area a new look and it's a blessing for the people of St Ann's to have something so positive."

Press Release

Update: Homes & Communities Agency – Right to Buy

 Updated  George Osborne's flagship scheme to boost the housing market may not help first-time buyers and could cost the Treasury large sums, MPs warned today.

The government will guarantee mortgages for three years from January where applicants can put down a 5% deposit.

The Treasury Committee warned the chancellor's plan made the government an "active player" in the market with a financial stake in propping up prices.

Labour say the plan amounts to a "spare home subsidy" to existing home owners.

Ministers aim to extend the current Help to Buy scheme to make it easier for first-time buyers or those looking to trade up to get access to home loans if they do not possess substantial equity of their own.

Example: for a £100,000 home the buyer will need to find £5,000 (5% deposit), the government will then add £15,000 to make the total deposit to £20,000 (20%) of the purchase price.

Further information for buyers is available from the Treasury website.

Potential buyers through Help to Buy should contact their local Home Buy agent, details can be found on the Home Buy website. Potential buyers should also read the Help to Buy Buyer’s Guide (to follow).

Subject to the terms below, it is intended that Help to Buy will replace First Buy from 1 April 2013.

What is the Help to Buy equity loan scheme?

Help to Buy is an equity loan scheme that makes new build homes available to purchasers struggling to buy. The Help to Buy equity loan is funded by the Government through the HCA.

Help to Buy is available in England from registered house builders and will run until 31 March 2016, or earlier if the funding is taken up. House builders may register with the HCA at any time.

The Help to Buy product will be available to eligible purchasers and will be paid directly to registered house builders. It offers a maximum 20% equity loan (minimum 10%) on new build properties up to a maximum purchase price of £600,000. The equity loan will be made by the HCA to the purchaser; there is no house builder contribution.

The HCA will agree projected unit sales and funding forecasts with house builders registered and contracted to deliver Help to Buy. These will be agreed for each of the initiative’s three years, initially for 2013/14, and subsequently for 2014/15 and 2015/16. Forecasts will become the anticipated contractual delivery position. They will be periodically reviewed by the HCA and may be increased or decreased, based on delivery performance.

• House builder registration/participation guidance - PDF (157KB)
• House builder standard contract template - Excel 2010 (53KB)
• House builder standard contract template - Excel 2003 (105KB)

Key contacts

For general Help to Buy enquiries please email helptobuy@hca.gsi.gov.uk

Video update: Stonebridge Park Estate

Stonebridge Park Tenants & Residents Association SPTRA is looking to reform at a public meeting at the Blue Bell Hill Community Centre on 6th March.

The meeting is being held in the Centres’ committee room between 7pm – 8:30pm.

There is strong local interest in continuing the good community work of SPTRA which was originally launched by Mrs Maureen Graham a decade ago, and everyone is keen to form a new steering committee.

This is the latest video taken around the estate today in what was lovely spring weather.

We are still waiting for ASDA to submit its planning application, and for Developer Keepmoat Homes Ltd to be given approval to build 110 new homes on Stonebridge Park. Works to install new traffic calming measures at the top of Blue Bell Hill road adjacent Nugent Gardens/ Limmen Gardens begins on Monday morning.

Rocket Park consultation plans

This is the 2011 Rocket Park ‘Master plan’

*  Bottom right Rocket Park as it is today, after it was landscaped in the summer of 2011. The yellow areas are the proposed ‘wild flower meadows.’

*  Top right shows the central circular grassed area with the proposed swings & play platform.

*  The distinct yellow spiral is a proposed ‘Daffodil maze.’

*  Top left shows the area immediately above the circular green, adjacent Limmen Gardens, which would be the site of the new slide, climbing ropes & climbing boulders.

*  Finally the bottom left plan shows the proposed ‘dry river bed.’ This is on the south western corner of Rocket Park among the clump of trees leading in from Jersey Gardens.

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St Ann’s Academy in dispute over Work Parking Levy

Local Councillors Jon Collins, Dave Liversidge & Sue Johnson began a review into improving the safety of thee roads in St Ann’s in January in order to reduce the problem of double parked cars in Church Road & Stonebridge Road, and prevent some motorists using Beacon Hill Rise Road as ‘a race track’ during the hours of darkness.

In Church Road which links Abbotsford Drive with St Ann With Emmanuel Church in the heart of the estate, the City Council want to introduce restrictions to prevent double parking, after locals complained that they had difficulty getting in and out of their drives, and parking outside their own homes.

However, on Wednesday Paul Worley, Principal of the nearby Sycamore Academy wrote a letter to all 12 of the residents along Church Road asking them to oppose the new restrictions because teaching staff at the school use the lane for parking to circumvent the City Council’s Parking Place Levy which was introduced a year ago.

Employers inside the Nottingham City Council administrative boundary that provide 11 or more workplace parking places (excluding registered Disabled Blue Badge Holders) have been required to pay a Working Place Parking Levy (WPL) charge since 1st April 2012, and this year the cost of the WPL, from 1st April 2013 - 31st March 2014, will be increased to £334.

The depute centres on new Academies insisting upon their teaching staff paying the WPL and not the school itself because it would have to come out of school funds.

In St Ann’s the former Sycamore school, which caters for 260 pupils aged 5 to 11 has benefited from a £1.9 million investment through the former government's Primary Capital Programme. It became an academy on 19 July 2012 when the Sheriff of Nottingham, Councillor Merlita Bryan, officially opened the remodelled Sycamore Academy.

However, the NASUWT union is continuing to tell its members to refuse to pay the Work Parking Levy. In 2012 the teaching union wrote to all of its members to advise them about their stance.

When the levy was introduced Bernie Pardon, a national executive member of the union, said "We believe teachers should not have to pay the charge and we are advising members not to pay it.

"Schools with more than ten parking places are going to have to pay the levy. We are asking any that if the City Council does decide to charge staff that they consult them first.

"If this does not happen, we will pursue a course of action on our members' behalf."

Nonetheless, this week the city council has again warned that fines of over £334 per space will be handed out for non-compliance by schools not under its control as they will be breaking the law.

Road safety measures for ‘hazardous’ St Ann’s road

Beacon Hill Rise Road in St Anns  – used as a ‘ race-track’ during the hours of darkness.

The next meeting of the Area 6 Committee which covers The Dales, St Ann’s & Mapperley wards will meet on Tuesday to discuss a number of topics.

Councillors will receive a copy of the Mapperley Ward Executive Summery which indicates that In November 2012 (compared to November 2011) there has been a reduction in all crime of 14.91% in the region. It also says that in November 2012 (compared to November 2011) all Antisocial Behaviour in Mapperley was down by 49.35%.

There is also to be a ‘Week of Action’ in St Ann’s shortly. Work is already underway with residents living on Cromer Road, Ransom Rd and Chandos Street.

St Ann’s councillors Dave Liversidge & Jon Collins have implemented a road safety review of Beacon Hill Rise Road & Stonebridge Road, in order to introduce measures to cut down on the number of double-parked cars, and speeding vehicles.

Beacon Hill Rise Road has become a race track during the hours of darkness due to the absence of raised humps in the road to slow traffic down, while the street lighting along these roads is poor and inefficient.

Councillor Dave Liversidge said today “We are very hopeful & determined to put new traffic calming measures in place in the interest of the safety of local residents, and we will have a chance to discuss this subject at our next area meeting.”

With all of the street lighting in the vicinity due to be replaced in August this year, councillors hope to find money from the Capital fund & other sources to put new traffic calming measures in place as soon as practical.

Lovell’s leave Stonebridge Park Compound

Updated This week Construction company Lovell Partnerships have now began the task of moving their site offices off the Stonebridge Park Estate, and have now started returning the Flewitt Gardens site back to its original state. Lovell’s moved onto the land on 6th December 2010, and the turf cutting ceremony occurred four days later.

Housing Development Officer Debra Ross said today “I have spoken to Lovell's and they inform me that they will be returning the site back to how it was before the compound was situated there - which is in accordance with what we agreed with Lovell's when we allowed them to use the land. Lovell's inform me that this will involve the provision of 3 sets of railings along the front in order to prevent vehicles being driven onto the land.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photo lower right shows how the site looked just prior to when Lovell’s moved onto the land.

Antisocial behaviour to go unpunished?

Criminals who commit minor offences could escape prosecution if their court cases are deemed to cost too much or are too complex, under new guidance

Suspects arrested for offences such as minor assaults & antisocial behaviour could avoid prosecution as the authorities weigh up whether it would be worth bringing charges in the biggest shake-up of the rules for 20 years.

Prosecutors will now consider whether the cost of charging someone is excessive given their alleged role in the crime and any likely sentence.

Bit-part players in cases involving multiple suspects could also avoid court as prosecutors focus on “the main participants in order to avoid excessively long and complex proceedings”.

The changes to guidance for prosecutors were  unveiled by Keir Starmer QC on Monday, the director of public prosecutions.

John Fassenfelt, chairman of the Magistrates’ Association, said he was concerned the use of a “proportionality test” would lead to “more and more cases being dealt with by a caution or not being taken through the criminal justice system at all”.

The new code comes after Ministry of Justice figures showed one in four violent criminals were avoiding court as thousands were let off with a caution each year.

Traffic calming measures – just cosmetic fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The triangular brick traffic calming measures along the new sections of Dennett Close Road & Blake Close where originally set in place nicely and their levels were adequate to prevent cars travelling at speed along these new roads. However, once the tarmac surfaces were put in place, these calming features became ill-effective because their levels became the same as the surrounding road surface. Therefore they are just cosmetic and provide no useful purpose.

I brought this important point to the attention of Andrew Gregory, Head of Development Management and Regeneration at Nottingham City Council.

In response Mr Gregory said: “Your letter outlines concerns you have about the safety of the road proposed as part of Asra’s development [in Limmen Gardens]. These stem from concerns you have regarding the new roads that has been constructed on Blake Close/Dennett Close. I have spoken to our Highways team and have been informed that the road has been constructed in accordance with the approved design and has been through a full technical approval process, including 2 Road Safety Audits to date, the findings from which helped inform the final approved design. The height and format of the features is for a visual and textural contrast, but due to the number and spacing of driveways these had to be kept low to not prohibit access or manoeuvres into/out of drives.

“The proposed access road to be constructed on in Limmen Gardens will be of a similar design to previous phases, but of course takes the form of a cull de sac arrangement, and therefore the amount of traffic using it will be limited. This new road will have a raised build out at its entrance to reduce its width, however as with previous phases any further feature within the road layout will need to be kept low to allow residents to enter and exit their drives.”

In my opinion these so called traffic calming measures provide no useful purpose whatsoever and will remain ill-effective. It is a shame because the Stonebridge Park scheme has proved very popular with all the new residents who have moved onto the Stonebridge Park Estate in recent months, and their children are at risk of injury from fast moving vehicles.

By Richard Pearson

D.H. Lawrence attraction set to re-open

In Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre in Mansfield Road re-opens to the public on Tuesday 28th January after a period of closure from Christmas Eve which allowed staff to do essential cleaning and maintenance work.

The D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre houses exhibitions and artefacts about the writer's life, and hosts an annual programme of events. The venue is a faithful recreation of the birthplace and early home of the writer D.H. Lawrence.

David Herbert Lawrence was born here in 1885, and was the fourth child of Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall.

After attending Beauvale Board School he won a scholarship to Nottingham High School. On leaving school in 1901 he was employed for a short time as a clerk at the Nottingham firm of Hayward’s, manufacturers of surgical appliances, and from 1902 as a pupil teacher at the British School in Eastwood.

Lawrence was a prolific writer - of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, and criticism. His works are heavily autobiographical and the experiences of his early years in Nottinghamshire continued to exert a profound influence throughout his life.

During his last years Lawrence spent much of his time in Italy making only brief visits to England, the last in 1926. He died on 2 March 1930 at Venice in the south of France.

.Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday, October to March 10am - 4pm. April to September 10am - 5pm (closed Mondays, Bank Holidays). The entrance fee is £5.

For more information contact the Heritage Centre; Tel 01773 717353

The new 2013/14 Council Tax Support Scheme

The next full meeting of Nottingham City Council (NCC) takes place on Monday, 28th January

At the meeting the Deputy Leader of the council, Mr Graham Chapman (shown here), is recommending that the meeting agrees to adopt the new Council Tax Support Scheme (CTSS) in full, which was also the recommendation of the Executive Board meeting in December.

In summary, the Local Government Finance Act 2012 states that each billing authority in England must adopt a council tax reduction scheme no later than 31 January 2013; and the first financial year to which that scheme relates must be the year beginning with 1 April 2013. The 2012 Act also inserts a new Schedule 1A into the Act; it provides that for each financial year, each billing authority must consider whether to revise its scheme or to replace it with another scheme.

It is being recommended at the meeting that in the light of the consultation feedback last year, NCC takes the opportunity to reduce the financial burden on some of our most vulnerable citizens for 2013/14 by adopting a CTSS that enables NCC to access the transitional funding available from the government for one year only. It is also recommended that the City Council adopts the Council Tax Support Scheme 2013/14.

In order to comply with the criteria set out by the government to access the one-off transitional funding, the 2013/14 CTSS will include the following elements:

1 Putting a maximum limit on the amount of council tax support that can be paid to all working age people, so that working age households who get 100% help with their Council Tax bills now can receive a maximum of 91.5% help in 2013/14;

2 All working age households will pay at least 8.5% of their Council Tax bill in 2013/14

3 There is no sharp reduction in support for those entering work.

It is also recommended that the following additional elements are included following consideration of the findings of the council’s formal consultation exercise:

1 The second Adult Rebate is removed

2 Backdating is retained

3 Setting a minimum award level of 50p.

In order to comply with government regulations, the 2013/14 scheme also includes a guarantee that low income pensioners will see no change to the help they currently get with their Council Tax bills.

The current National Council Tax Benefit system is a means tested benefit system and when calculating the amount of Council Tax Benefit, the amount of money the household has to live on is taken into account. There are certain sources of household income/benefits that are not taken in to account. Under the 2013/14 CTSS this will not change and the following households will continue to be recognised:

1 Households with Children – Child Benefit will not be taken into Account when household income is calculated

2 Households with a disabled person – will continue to receive Benefits such as Disability Living Allowance and other allowances towards living costs.

3 Households with a carer – will continue to receive an additional Allowance towards living costs

4 Households with a war widow or disablement pension – War pensions will not be taken into account when household income is calculated

Update: Dept. for Communities and Local Government

New planning measures will ensure empty and underused offices can be swiftly converted into much-needed housing to make the most use out of previously developed land, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today (24 January 2013).

The changes will make the best use of developed sites by allowing existing buildings to be quickly brought back into productive use. New permitted development rights will allow office space to be converted into new homes without the need for planning permission from the local authority.

This new change of use right will provide badly needed homes for local people and will make a valuable contribution to easing the national housing shortage. It will help create jobs in the construction industry and help regenerate our town centres by increasing footfall in high streets.

The permitted development right will be in place for 3 years, and because local circumstances vary, local authorities will have an opportunity to seek an exemption if they can demonstrate there would be substantial adverse economic consequences.

Further reforms will also help boost rural communities and create jobs by allowing agricultural buildings to be converted for other business uses without the need for planning permission.

Buildings no longer suitable or needed for agricultural use could be transferred into new growth-boosting ventures that benefit rural areas, such as shops, restaurants, small hotels and leisure facilities and offices, under new permitted development rights.

Town centre buildings will also be able to easily convert to help new shops, business start-ups and community projects keen to set up in high streets.

The new rules will allow a range of buildings to temporarily convert for up to 2 years and will speed up the process of bringing vacate high street buildings back into use.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said: “We want to promote the use of brownfield land to assist regeneration, and get empty and under-used buildings back into productive use.

“Using previously developed land and buildings will help us promote economic growth, provide more homes and still ensure that we safeguard environmentally protected land.

“We are absolutely determined to support people striving to bring life back to their communities and high streets.”

The Keepmoat Master plan December 2012

Middle right & bottom right: Jersey Gardens. Bottom middle: Top of Wray Close. Middle left: the site of the former Fairholm Court elderly person’s complex in Flewitt Gardens. Rocket Park is clearly shown middle left, and Limmen & Melville Gardens are shown on the top left of this Master plan. The red & orange lines represent the pipework of the EnviroEnergy District Heating Scheme.

Keepmoat consultation event kicks off £11m scheme

Stonebridge City Farm was the venue for a successful 5 hour public consultation exercise on Thursday when representatives from Developer Keepmoat Homes Ltd exhibited their pristine £11m plans for the Stonebridge Park Estate.

Charlotte Wood, Trainee Graphic Design/Bid Co-coordinator at Keepmoat Homes set up the presentation.

Shown in the photo left to right are Zahid Khan of BMK Architecture, Charlotte Wood (Keepmoat Homes), and Peter Shambrook Regional Development Manager of Keepmoat Homes Ltd.

Keepmoat Homes submitted a planning application on 24th December to build 110 new houses in the Jersey Gardens & Flewitt Gardens area of the estate, after successfully bidding for almost £800,000 kick start funding from the government’s Homes & Communities Agency in 2012.

Keepmoat Homes Ltd are also working on plans to build a number of new houses on the site of the former Kings Thorpe flats complex in Mapperley.

The Regional Development Manager of Keepmoat Homes Ltd, Peter Shambrook, said today “Our development plans have been technically challenging because of the different levels of the site, and we are very pleased with the proposals that we have come up with.

“We had the original 2009 Master Plan drawn up by the City Council five years ago which we used as a frame work, and in just 6 months we were able put together our plans.”

Peter then shown me copies of the proposals saying that the long footpath linking Melville Gardens with Jersey Gardens Road would disappear altogether, and that the adjacent 3.5m steep drop to the lower land would be landscaped to build up the ground making the area look nicer.

This would also be the case with land either side of Jersey Gardens Road leading into the estate from St Matthias Road.

A 1.8m wooden fence would also be introduced around all of the new homes on the upper level of Jersey Gardens adjacent St Matthias Road, to make them safe for new families with children set to move in after completion in 2015.

Zahid Khan of BM3Architecture Ltd, who designed the scheme, added “All of the new houses are of a modern design and they take into account the layout of the landscape, a small number of which overlooks Rocket Park. We think that new young families will be pleased with them and they will be very popular.”

Zahid then shown me the housing layout, and the different house designs along with external cladding finishes.

Keepmoat Homes Ltd will be constructing all of the 110 new houses themselves, and intend to take on a number of local apprentices, as well as providing employment for local people.

Meanwhile the ASRA Housing group have just been given planning permission to build 15 new social houses in Limmen Gardens; work will begin here in the spring.

On the right: Peter Shambrook (Keepmoat Homes), and Debra Ross (Nott’m City Council) studying the new plans.

Housing Development Manager Debra Ross from Nottingham City Council, said today that she was already applying for funding to provide off road parking areas, perimeter iron railings, and rear wooden fences for the original properties in Limmen Gardens.

“Eventually we aim to provide these external improvements around the whole of the Stonebridge Park estate, although it can only be done in phases as the funding becomes available,” she said.

The plans may be viewed on the City Council’s Planning website using the Ref 12/03501/PFUL3.

Keepmoat Homes - consultation event

Stonebridge house building plans are approved

Conditional planning permission was granted to ASRA this afternoon to allow them to build 15 new houses in Limmen Gardens. The planning officer for Nottingham City Council is Joe Briggs. None of the imposed conditions gives any reference to the likelihood of increased antisocial behaviour which will occur as a result of this development, and this is despite objections being submitted from locals who expressed concerns to planners.

Construction firm Lovell Partnerships Ltd will begin work in Limmen Gardens in March, and the completion date is expected in January 2014.