The night sky ~ December 2012

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Winter’s lack of daylight is in some ways a restriction on outdoor activities, but it does provide at least one fun opportunity: the chance to enjoy great views of the night sky. Winter brings a new set of constellations to the Pacific Northwest, and cold, clear, moonless nights in the wilderness can offer some of the best chances to observe the stars all year (provided you’re dressed warmly).

The most prominent constellation in the winter sky is Orion, the Hunter. To spot him, look towards the southeast for a band of three stars—this is his belt. To the upper right of the belt is Bellatrix, a bright blue star representing Orion’s left shoulder (as he is facing us), and to the left is Betelgeuse, an old, enormous orange star that indicates his right shoulder. Below the belt hangs Orion’s sword, which might appear to be a bit fuzzy. This is because two of the three stars that make up the sword aren’t actually single stars—they are blobs of gas and stars called the Trapezium and the Orion Nebula. While it’s fairly easy to notice the fuzziness of these objects with the naked eye on a clear night, a pair of binoculars will help resolve their shape and reveal more subtle details.

Nearby are Orion’s two hunting dogs, Canis Major and Canis Minor. Extend Orion’s belt to the left and look for Sirius, the head of Canis Major (the Great Dog) and the brightest star in the night sky. Directly above Betelgeuse, Orion’s right shoulder, is Procyon, the head of Canis Minor. Procyon, Sirius, and Betelgeuse together form the quasi constellation known as the Winter Triangle. If you again use Orion’s belt as a pointer and follow it to the right, you’ll find Aldebaran, another giant orange star, which is one of the brightest in the sky. Aldebaran appears to be following a cluster of stars—the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, after a Native American legend of young women who climbed into the sky to avoid angry bears. Pleiades is a good test of how clear the observing conditions are. Six stars are usually visible to the eye, but on a very clear night you might be able to pick out 9, and up to 14 with binoculars.

By Jeff Acquino

Twelve new houses to be built in St Ann’s

Windmill Lane [St Ann’s]

As part of its 10 year program to build new social houses around the City, Nottingham City Homes has submitted a planning application to build 12 new houses on vacant land off Walton Avenue.

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The application was submitted to the Development Department on 13th November.

The development site is located between St Ann’s to the North and Sneinton to the south, with Colwick to the east. It is a former garage and parking area. However the buildings have been demolished and the area grassed with a tarmac path running through the centre. Large boulders have been placed behind the back edge of the pavement to prevent vehicular access to the site.

The application is for the development of twelve two storey dwellings on behalf of Nottingham City Homes in partnership with Nottingham City Council. Two of these dwellings have two bedrooms and the remaining ones have three bedrooms.

There is a public footpath to each side of the site, providing access between Windmill Lane and Walton Avenue. These are to be retained and the presence of the new dwellings will provide enhanced surveillance of the paths from the new dwellings.

Consultations with local residents have already begun, and the closing date for objections or comments is expected to be 15th December 2012.

New traffic calming proposals – Beacon Hill Rise Road

Stonebridge Park residents living in Limmen Gardens, and locals living in Nugent Gardens opposite, have today received new planning proposals to modify the traffic calming measures at the top of Beacon Hill Rise Road near their homes.

The four red squares on the plan are raised ‘speed cushions’ to slow down traffic on this section of road.

Presently during the hours of darkness speeding cars race one another down hill towards Sneinton Market. Recently one of these speeding motorist’s lost control and crashed into the side of the corner shop in Robin Hood Street.

Any comments on these proposals should be returned by Friday 7th December.
Jennifer Williams, Senior Officer Accident Investigation. Traffic Safety, Development Dept.’
Nottingham City Council. Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham. NG2 3NG

Time shift: Wright & Dobson factory 1999

This aerial photograph has recently become available which shows the Wright & Dobson lace finishing factory in Carlton Road, Nottingham, while in was still open. The factory was also known as ‘the Albany Works’. Soon after this image was taken there was a fire in the ventilation ducts on the roof of the main building, and the factory closed soon after. We believe that the site was demolished in 2000. The Co-op store can be seen on the lower right, this closed in 2008.

Developer Blueprint (Igloo) intend to put in a planning application “before Christmas” to build a new ASDA store on the vacant land where Wright & Dobson’s once stood, and a number of new social houses on the site of the Co-op once the store and warehouse have been demolished.

Limmen Gardens planning application 12/02954/PFUL3

An artist impression of the two proposed houses on the site of the former pedestrian underpass (Now filled in), as seen from Beacon Hill Rise Road.

An artist impression of the proposed new houses on the site of Limmen Gardens as seen from Limmen Road. The entrance of the proposed new side road can be seen at the centre of the drawing indicated by the tree. 71 Limmen Gardens is the existing house on the right of the drawing.

The new planning application for Limmen Gardens has now been submitted by the Developer ASRA-Group, formerly Leicester Housing Association. It is very comprehensive and the first impression is that ASRA has spent a lot of time getting it right. While the application is on the City Council Planning website, this site continues to experience regular IT problems. I have therefore put together a Portfolio of the new plans which can be downloaded here. [52 MB].

The closing date for comments & objections is 16th November 2012.

There is no Crime/Antisocial Behaviour assessment for Limmen Gardens in the planning application, and at the recent public meeting of Stonebridge Park Tenants & Residents Association the local Beat Manager, PC Paul Dean, confirmed that neither his team or the Police had been consulted by ASRA. In addition Nottingham Drug Partnership has also confirmed that they had not been consulted regarding the new plans.

This seems strange as their are regular occurrences of drugs and ASB on Limmen Gardens, especially in the long footpath between the two rows of houses. With three new homes being built on the green open space at the rare of 71 Limmen Gardens, this long footpath is extended in two directions.

While several mature trees are to be cut down as part of the building schedule, I have been informed that new trees will be planted in the gardens of some of the new houses. The particularly nice Weeping Willow tree in one home owners’ garden is being retained, and as the roots go under the site of the proposed new side road, the road building plans have been modified so as not to damage the tree.

On going consultations have taken place with the 40 home owners & tenants in Limmen Gardens, involving home visits, since September 2012, assisted by Mark Lowe of the City Council.

For Nottingham City Council the Planning Officer is Joanna Briggs, and the Project Manager is Debra Ross. Michelle Walker is the Project Manager for ASRA. The plans for the Limmen Garden Phase 4 Scheme have been produced by Geoff Perry Associates Ltd on behalf of Lovell Partnerships Ltd & ASRA.

By Richard Pearson

Chase Co-op closure: NHS signs contract with private developer?

I had an interesting conversation today with a manager of the Co-op. In 2010 the Co-op shown great interest in wanting to build a new store on the site of the NHS Wellspring Health Centre located at the front of the Robin Hood Chase shopping precinct. Until recently negotiations were seen to be going well, until the NHS suddenly let it be known that they had signed a contract with a private developer?

As the land is privately owned by the NHS, City Council officers said that they had no control over the situation. However, council officers must have been aware of the NHS being in talks with a private developer earlier this year, and decided to keep quiet about it, because, to use their own words “it was commercially sensitive.”

As a result of this recent NHS announcement, Co-op Managers decided at the end of October to close down their store on the Robin Hood Chase on November 17th giving just 17 days notice. Removing their business from St Ann’s after serving the local community for the past 40 years.

This Comment by Chris Shannon has just been received:

“They [The Co-op] should be bloody well ashamed of themselves.Their roots are as community based self help societies set up with the goal of bypassing the monopolies and enabling working class people access to reasonably priced food. They have made money out of that constituency ever since! Shame on them, they are abandoning the very people they are in existence to serve”!

Have your say, send us your comments about the Chase Co-op Closure, and we will do our best to publish all of them.

By Richard Pearson.

ASDA planning application to go in ‘before for Christmas’

I have spoken to Alice Rossi from Developer igloo today, and asked about the progress of ASDA putting in their planning application.

She said “Things are moving ahead, and we are as keen as anyone to get the project underway. We still have work to do, but we are hopeful of a submission by Christmas this year.”

ASDA plan to build their new store on the site of the former Wright & Dobson lace finishing factory in Carlton Road, along with a number of new social houses on the site of the closed Co-op next door.

The new ASDA store is even more needed now, following the announcement by the Co-op that they intend to close down their store on the Robin Hood Chase on 17th November, after 40 years. The Carlton Road Co-op closed in 2008.

By Richard Pearson

Residents try to save the Chase Co-op

The Co-op store on the Robin Hood Chase is set to close down on November 17th, despite opposition from Nottingham East MP Chris Leslie, St Ann’s City councillors, and local residents.

The Co-op store has been part of the Robin Hood Chase for 40 years since it first opened in 1972.

Now a number of St Ann’s residents have got together to form a ‘Save The Co-op Group. The organisers have begun an on-line petition, and aim to hold a protest gathering outside the store from 4pm on Friday 9th November.

The group say that while Nottingham City Council have offered to let the Co-op group have the Robin Hood Chase premises rent free, management at the Co-op have “refused to negotiate.”

They add that “the store is a greatly needed asset for the local community, and is the last remaining food supermarket in the area for elderly pensioners & people on low incomes to use, without having to bus into Nottingham City Centre.”

The group are now asking all tenants & residents who live in St Ann’s, to give up a few minutes of their time to join the protest gathering outside the Co-op store, to show their support in wanting to keep the Co-op open for the local community.

External wall cladding ~ How it came to be . . .

From left to right: Mr Nick Murphy (CEO Nottingham City Homes); and St Ann’s ward councillor Dave Liversidge.

My name is Richard Pearson; I am a Co-opted member of Stonebridge Park Tenants & Residents Association (SPTRA), and act on behalf of SPTRA to lobby government departments, companies, and council officers to provide new sources of funding for new improvements to our estate. My aim is to turn our area into a nice place in which to live, and benefit all tenants & residents living here today. I am also the website manager.

Looking around the Stonebridge Park estate today, and seeing all the scaffolding, along with the new wall cladding being fitted to most of the older housing, it is very pleasing to see that all my hard work seeking the funding from energy companies has been rewarded.

It all began nine months ago when Nick Murphy became the new Chief Executive of Nottingham City Homes in November 2011, and joined me on a fact finding tour of Stonebridge in early December. He had the bright idea of using funds from the government’s Community Energy Saving Programme CESP & the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) schemes. In which energy companies pay for the new cladding on owner/occupier properties.

Read more by clicking on the link

A few days later at the public meeting of SPTRA, Regeneration managers at Nottingham City Council poured cold water on the idea, and suggested that Stonebridge Park ‘may not qualify under the criteria.’ To qualify St Ann’s & Stonebridge Park had to come within an index of deprivation.

However, I pointed out that the City Council’s own figures showed that the St Ann’s Ward was high on the list for being a poor neighbourhood.

After writing to the Department for Energy & Climate Change, and speaking to St Ann’s Councillor David Liversidge; I established that St Ann’s does qualify for funding under both the CESP & CERT schemes. Unfortunately the number of properties in St Ann’s were few in number on the Index, and Nottingham City Council had already decided to spend all of its available funding on 1,000 properties in wards in the north of the city, including Aspley.

St Ann’s councillor Dave Liversidge then suggested the best way forward was to apply for energy funding through Nottingham Energy Partnership (NEP).

Nick Murphy gave his full support to the proposal and also wrote to Housing Regeneration Manager Mr Mark Lowe at Nottingham City Council offering all the assistance of Nottingham City Homes to help obtain a successful outcome. I also wrote letters to NEP and power companies urging them to provide financial assistance.

Good news came in April 2012 when N.Power agreed to provide about £950,000 under the CESP scheme to fund external wall cladding on the Stonebridge estate. Then local councillor Jon Collins (Leader of Nottingham City Council) made an executive decision in which the City Council topped up this money to make a total fund of £2.9m, so that the whole of our estate would benefit.

E.On then came forward and signed its own contract with the City Council to provide money under the CESP programme to clad 735 ‘no fines’ homes around Nottingham, including a number in St Ann’s.

The difference between the two contracts is that the under the N.Power scheme home owners were being asked to make a contribution of £6,550 towards wall cladding, while under the E.On contract the average price of cladding to all properties was only £5,500. Therefore, home owners on Stonebridge were getting a bad deal. I pointed this out on a number of occasions to City Council officers.

Since then local councillors & managers at Nottingham City Council have worked very hard to obtain additional funding to assist Stonebridge home owners.

At the next full meeting of Nottingham City Council on 9^th September an urgent decision taken by local St Ann’s councillor Dave Liversidge on 25^th July is to be agreed in full.

Councillor David Liversidge, who is the portfolio holder for adults, housing and the community, agreed to provide City Council funds of £99,000 to enable home owners to join the scheme by the August deadline, by reducing the amount home owners would have to contribute for the wall cladding.

Today the average cost of external wall cladding for home owners is just £2,170

Posted by: Richard Pearson

Video update: Cladding day 100

FIFTY-SIX Days to completion. The external wall cladding is progressing well with WATES contractors now carrying out work in Jersey Gardens & Limmen Gardens, adjacent Rocket Park in the middle of our estate. Some locals are still very unhappy with the ‘cabin-look’ cladding, and its awful colour scheme. This is because they say that WATES contractors failed to consult them before they agreed for this cladding being done; they were ‘all kept in the dark.’

This video presentation begins in Melville Gardens in the north of our estate, then Pym Walk, Jersey Gardens, Flewitt Gardens, Ferrers Walk, Dennett Close, Lytton Close & Eastam Close, then back to Lytton Close. Then into Paxton Gardens, Stonebridge Road, and ends with a view of the homes in Paxton Gardens adjacent Beacon Hill Rise Road.

Celebrate Remembrance Sunday at The Westminster Pub

In St Ann’s The Westminster Pub is the place to be on Sunday 11th November who are hosting their own Remembrance Celebrations from 2pm onward.

During World War I (1914 – 1918) St Ann’s Churches recorded that 923 soldiers died in battle.

St Ann's church 387
St Catherin's 64
St Emmanuel 123
St Bartholomew's 154
St Marks 95
St Luke 100

Poster Designed by Pete Loft

EU tax move ‘will penalise first time buyers’

Sarah O'Grady writing in today’s Daily Express says the European Union wants to put tax on the sale of new homes in the UK.

An EU plan to slap VAT on new homes will send prices soaring, experts warned yesterday.

Brussels quietly issued a consultation document that proposes scrapping the current zero VAT rating..

The move to charge the full 20 per cent is part of a plan to standardise tax rates across Europe. It would drive up the average price of a new home by £48,000 from £238,000 to £286,000 and have a catastrophic impact on the UK.

The huge increase would price people out of the market, make it even more difficult to get a mortgage and bring the building industry to its knees.

Only about 130,000 homes were built across Britain last year – a historic low. Any reduction in numbers would exacerbate the country’s housing crisis.

..The EU’s Consultation Paper, “Review of existing legislation on VAT reduced rates”

It is the second attack on the Housing Market in the last few months

A crippling EU regulation that could have damaged the UK’s buy-to-let mortgage market has now been averted thanks to intense lobbying by the National Landlords Association.

Update: National Audit office – Housing benefit reforms

The National Audit Office has reported today on how the Department of Work and Pensions is placed to tackle the significant challenge of implementing the reforms to housing benefit.

As part of the measures announced in the emergency budget in June 2010 and the Spending Review of October 2010, the Government announced changes to housing benefit, including reductions to local housing allowance rates for private rented sector claimants and deductions in payments to social sector tenants in under-occupied homes.

Full report - Managing the impact of Housing Benefit reform

The Department is actively preparing for the implementation of housing benefit reform, using available data to assess the impact of the reforms on current entitlements. It has estimated that the reforms will result in around two million households receiving lower benefits, with a smaller number receiving substantially less. Claimants with large numbers of children and those living in areas of high rent such as London will be most affected.

The Government intends the reforms to improve incentives to work and lead to positive changes for claimants. Reforms could also lead to hardship or an increased risk of homelessness. How tenants and landlords will respond is highly uncertain at the moment and the Department has commissioned independent research to evaluate the impact of the reforms after implementation.

The Department is also working with local authorities to identify the extent to which the reforms will increase the administrative burden on the authorities. It clearly has further ground to cover. Many people know very little about the changes to housing support; and the extent to which claimants have been informed varies according to where they live. Surveys of private rented sector respondents found that 87 per cent knew little or nothing about the changes that would affect them.

Uprating local housing allowance by the consumer price index, rather than local rent inflation, could put pressure on the supply of affordable local housing. The speed and extent of shortfalls could be significant. Downward pressure on rents or increased employment would mitigate the impact but NAO analysis indicates that, on current trends, 48 per cent of local authority areas in England could face shortfalls by 2017.

The Department has put in place transitional support through increased funding for discretionary housing payments. It needs to work with other departments and local authorities to monitor emerging issues and manage risks for both private and social tenants.

By Amyas Morse
Head of the National Audit Office

Editorial Comment by Richard Pearson: Today Housing Benefit is paid directly to the landlord to help towards the cost of the rent of the property. However, the Housing Benefit reforms set out by the government calls for this payment to be given directly to the tenant, and the tenant is solely responsible for paying this to the Landlord along with the rent payment if any. Critics say that the elderly \ disabled will be left with the stark choice of using Housing benefit to pay for food & heating, and paying their rent. And that those people troubled with drugs misuse or alcoholism will spend the money on dugs or alcohol rather than paying their rent, leading to a significant rise in evictions when the reforms come into force. 

Now open - The Depot Climbing Centre

The Depot Climbing Centre, Nottingham

This new centre in St Ann’s has now opened its doors to the public, and having been inside today, the transformation of the former electric board substation building at the side of the Gala bingo hall,  has been an amazing achievement.

The venue is located at the junction of St Ann’s Well Road, King Edward Street & Bath Street.

Telephone 0115 9589214

All children and families are welcome.

The opening times are: Week days 11am – 10pm, and weekends 10am – 8pm.

Prices: Normal adult entry £7.00 (peak) & £6.00 (off peak). Membership being £3.50.

People who have never tried climbing before can book onto an Induction course which is £9.00. Please telephone the venue for availability.

By Richard Pearson

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Die Fotografien zeigt eine der Wohnblock Menschen benutzen, um leben auf unserem Landgut bis 2007. Thesen Wohnungen wurden alle bald nach abgerissen, so dass heute die Hälfte unserer Immobilien ist ein Barran Wildnis wartet auf neue Häuser hier gebaut werden.

Stonebridge wird in eine moderne Siedlung verwandelt. Die Bewohner, die hier leben haben oben zu setzen mit verschiedenen Problemen in den letzten sechs Jahren. Die Hälfte der Einwohner wurden ein neues Zuhause gefunden und Nachbarn sind weit verbreitet in der ganzen Stadt von Nottingham getrennt. Freunde haben Kontakt miteinander, weil dieser verloren.

Die Häuser, dass diese Bewohner zu bewegt worden waren alle nicht eingerichtet und in einem schlechten Zustand, die schöne Häuser, die sie oben, gebaut hatte und lebte in der Stonebridge Park Estate seit 1976 verglichen.

Die erste Phase des Hausbaus war Teil bezahlt von der britischen Regierung £ 5.6m. Der Rest wurde vom Entwickler mit Hilfe der Gemeinderat £ 5.4m gefunden.

Im Jahr 2010 gab es einen Wechsel der Regierung hier in Großbritannien, und die Banken-Crash im Herbst 2008 verursacht große Probleme, neue Geld, um neue Häuser zu bauen.

Nun hat sich dies geändert, und ein Entwickler möchte weitere 104 Häuser zu bauen, und ein anderer will 16 zu bauen.

Diese Website wurde eingerichtet, um alle Anwohner & Hausbesitzer aktuell zu halten mit der neuesten lokalen Nachrichten eingestellt. Auch, um Außenstehende einen Einblick in das, was es ist wie durch Regeneration zu gehen.

Die Verbreitung des guten Nachbarn und der Verlust von Freunden. Der Staub und Schmutz in ihren Häusern und auf ihren Autos verursacht durch den Bauprozess. Stromausfälle und die Miss Vertrauen der Gemeinderat Offiziere.

Es gibt auch eine Perspektive auf Städtebau, Architektur, lokale Geschichte und des Bauprozesses durch unsere Video-Updates alle zwei Wochen.

Wir decken auch lokalen Crime & unsoziales Verhalten rund um unser Immobilien, und wie es wirkt hier lebenden Menschen.

The Night Sky Funktion wurde hinzugefügt, weil dies durch unsere weltweiten Publikum von Freunden empfohlen wurde.

Wir haben viele Stammgäste aus den USA, Australien, Russland und der Europäischen Union und anderen Orten sowie wie die Philipper und Afrika.

Wir sind immer auf der Suche nach guten Ideen zur Verbesserung unserer Website und alle Ihre Rückmeldungen und Kommentare sind sehr willkommen.

Von Richard Pearson

Stonebridge Park Halloween party is ‘a great success’

The Blue Bell Hill Community centre ‘rocked’ on Friday evening when they held their annual Halloween Party. Children from all over the estate, and St Ann’s, joined in the fun by dressing up as their favourite spooky character. The evening was seen to be a big success …showing that the ‘community spirit’ was very much alive in our neighbourhood.

Are housing development managers playing Scrooge this Christmas?

While pre planning to take photographs all around the estate at the weekend, I visited Flewitt Gardens today and walked down the footpath between the two rows of houses, and it seemed rather odd. The external wall cladding was looking good, it was going on a treat. It was the external works which was the problem. All of the houses facing the newly built homes along the south side of Flewitt Gardens were having 1.8m fencing installed along one side of the footpath, while there was an obvious gap along the other side, adjacent five properties.

It seems such a shame that Mark Lowe & Derrick Roberts at the City Council, could not make some funds available just to fence these 5 back yards, and help reduce crime & antisocial behaviour in the area.

By Richard Pearson

Update: Nottingham Energy Partnerships

Join us at the Broadway cinema Friday 26th October from 6pm

 

We are heading down to Nottingham's art house cinema to celebrate the release of our 'Greener Living Solid Wall Insulation' trailer...It will air before every film (including the highly anticipated Skyfall, Mr Bond's latest offering) for a whole week capturing the interest of thousands of cinema goers.
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Environmental impact of all UK care homes calculated

NEP has produced a ground-breaking report revealing the full carbon emissions of residential care homes in the UK.
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November 23rd - last chance to book in for FREE loft and cavity wall insulation

URGENT: the race is on to get your FREE* loft and cavity wall insulation before it is too late.
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It'll be a Super Warm Winter for Bulwell Hall residents

in September Bulwell Hall Estate became Nottingham's second Super Warm Zone. NEP is working with project funders Eon and partners Nottingham City Homes to deliver free home energy makeovers to the estate's 600 cold and drafty homes.
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New Recruits and away day

This Autumn we are very happy to welcome Jade Blair, Mai Nguyen and Mark Cureton to the NEP team.
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The new Robin Hood Chase

This is the proposed master plan for the Robin Hood Chase as published autumn 2011.

Zone 1: Joint Service Centre (4250 square meters gross) and associated 60 space car park.

Zone 2a: At present this area is occupied by the closed St Ann’s Health centre, car park area and retail units with maisonettes above the shops.

This will become a mixed use retail and commercial area with associated parking. The development is seeking to establish the principle of 835 square meters of retail space, a 400 square meter restaurant space, and 475 square meter office. This retail/commercial zone would be located in the south west corner of the site adjacent to The Robin Hood Chase green corridor. No layout plans have been submitted for this zone.

Zone 2b: The retained Chase Neighbourhood Centre and new parking area in the central area of the site.

Zone 3: Residential use – The development is seeking to establish the principle of developing the northern part of the site for between 12-18 family houses. No layout plans have been submitted for this zone. Access to these new social houses would be by Aster Road vie Hunger hill Road.