Meeting Sketch
Fletton,Stanground & Woodston Neighbourhood Committee 21st September 2011
A good turnout at the Polish Club on 21st September and as the newly appointed chair Councillor Allen flexed her muscles to take on all contestants, the top table cryptically asking if anyone was intending to record the meeting? Could be the revival of local radio in Peterborough, following the news that Heart has left town for another more rural hayseed location in the county.
Still we do have a splendid morning show on the Peterborough feed from BBC Cambridgeshire, but down to business, the pre-meeting forum with Councillors holding informal one to ones with the assembled throng, although the table for the Stanground East Ward, not fully comprehending the rules, the Councillor packed his table with Stanground Central ward residents...
A spirited presentation by the Youth Forum, down to two ( who scuttled out of the meeting as soon as their points were made) with the usual over elaborate powerpoint presentation which added little to the well presented script - Councillors had better be on their toes as these young people are now getting the hang of clearly presenting their demands. Why has Enterprise taken away the litter bins from the Stanground inline skate and skateboarding park instead of just clearing them? Why is there so much litter on the site? (for answer see first question...) Wrong kind of footpaths... But Cllr Walsh who recently demonstrated her own newfound devotion to skateboard prowess announced that by March next year (a few weeks before the local elections) £34,000 worth of sophisticated LED flood lighting would be installed so the neighbourhoods young people (and the odd councillor, if they so wish) can skate around the clock or until the lighting timer device switches off. Seriously this is good news for a well used facility originally kicked off by the Stanground Youth Project Group with local neighbourhood policing assistance.
There is seating for spectators and the recent championships bode well for the future....we just have to put the nearby maintained but redundant bowling green to good use now. How about a Petanque (Boules) pitch or 5 a side football?
Later would be an NHS presentation from Cathy Longbone basically saying the population of 175,000 is all heavily binge drinking, grossly overweight, chain smoking slobs who must exercise more ( bang goes Peterboroughs night time economy!) but earlier in the agenda it was announced that £17,000 in 106 money is to be spent following a full public consultation to install outdoor gym equipment in PARK FARM. Good grief! We are also being introduced to a Park FarmYouth Forum but hopefully some of our binge drinking, smoking, overweight residents will be swinging from the high bars rather than propping up the horizontal bar!
Cllr.Harper who has come in for some stick in recent weeks over CLF awards, did however look the part in a smart new suit, white shirt and tie and a shiney metal badge seemingly been worn by a few councillors but no one was letting on as to why they had been awarded the gongs...perhaps someone could suggest a suitable citation and we'll ask Paul Stainton to feature the most apt responses on Peterboroughs last remaining radio station BBC Cambridgeshire. Should however point out we do have a Hospital Radio service and the NHS is also looking for volunteers ...
The full meeting reports will be posted on the PCC website in due course, and there isn't space here to go into all the detail but this sketch should give a flavour of the well-attended meeting and the outcomes.
The 'desert' of Peterbrough was the description of Stanground by Peterborians claimed Cllr Rush (dressed in usual smart casual attire) who wanted to walk on the wild side... and he would be spending £1,500 to achieve this nirvana. [ (nirvana (nērvä`nə), a state of supreme liberation and bliss, contrasted to samsara or bondage in the repeating cycle of death and rebirth. The word in Sanskrit refers to the going out of a flame once its fuel has been consumed; it thus suggests both the end of suffering and the cessation of desires that perpetuate bondage]
Simply with some volunteer assistance ( the Cllr. already has the gardening equipment in his shed.. what about Community Payback people as well, Brian? ) a whole tract of overgrown footpaths and byways leading from Stanground to the new Carbon Challenge project ( Posh footy ground) and then onto Fletton Quays - the whole area (new to me) is called Stanground Lode and if it's maintained on completion will certainly be a welcome improvement. I can feel the community collective poundage dropping as we speak...no time for a drink either.
A lively debate ensued on traffic calming measures for Coneygree Road at the junction with Elwood Road £15,000 has been earmarked to prevent a series of car crashes and the same stretch of garden wall being rebuilt time after time after time. Hopefully in the improvements the adverse camber just prior to the wretched junction will be corrected as this is really is the root cause of the problem and that might be the case as traffic calming measures employed on Park Farm were hailed as being very effective.
Not to be outdone in the green credentials department Deputy Leader Cllr Matthew Lee (Fletton) (always well presented with well polished expensive shoes) launched the 'Plant a Tree for Lee' campaign, in reality planting trees to effectively foil the menace of verge parking which is now choking the life out of our communities and in extreme cases forcing mums to walk with their prams on the roadway and preventing the passage of emergency vehicles.
No one would deny the deputy mayor who graced the meeting as Cllr Serluca (Fletton) who is also planting a few trees with the view to frustrating the curse of verge parking and adding to the neighbourhoods green credentials.
Having presented the various projects and proposals to take up the allocation of the capital budget of £25,000 for 2011/12. The asembled company was given twenty minutes to consider the options and make any comments before the formal vote was taken. They were all carried.
The open forum prompted a few questions about a seemingly flowering tree which is destined to be for the chop. Apparently it will make way for a parking place! Tree Specialists had given the tree the last rites and feared for public safety and its future well being. This old friend sadly had reach the end of its useful life and would have to go. Cllrs were urged to plant a few more in its place and forget about the parking space... the publication of the tree experts written report to council might help clear the air on this ....
#### by Julian Bray sitting in for Morag Irving
.. (C) Stanground & Park Farm News 2011 (C) Park Farm Neighbourhood Watch 2011, Peterborough,UK E&OE Tel: 01733 345581 ALL ENQUIRIES LOCAL NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE: 0345 4564564 OR Dial 999. If you have any information about crime contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org. No personal details are taken, information is not traced or recorded and you will not go to Court. >> Broadcast Quality ISDN 01733 555319 ISDN Codecs G722 & ATX >> Media Enquiries: JULIAN BRAY 01733 345581 http://tinyurl.com/STANGROUNDPFNW
Fletton,Stanground & Woodston Neighbourhood Committee 21st September 2011
A good turnout at the Polish Club on 21st September and as the newly appointed chair Councillor Allen flexed her muscles to take on all contestants, the top table cryptically asking if anyone was intending to record the meeting? Could be the revival of local radio in Peterborough, following the news that Heart has left town for another more rural hayseed location in the county.
Still we do have a splendid morning show on the Peterborough feed from BBC Cambridgeshire, but down to business, the pre-meeting forum with Councillors holding informal one to ones with the assembled throng, although the table for the Stanground East Ward, not fully comprehending the rules, the Councillor packed his table with Stanground Central ward residents...
A spirited presentation by the Youth Forum, down to two ( who scuttled out of the meeting as soon as their points were made) with the usual over elaborate powerpoint presentation which added little to the well presented script - Councillors had better be on their toes as these young people are now getting the hang of clearly presenting their demands. Why has Enterprise taken away the litter bins from the Stanground inline skate and skateboarding park instead of just clearing them? Why is there so much litter on the site? (for answer see first question...) Wrong kind of footpaths... But Cllr Walsh who recently demonstrated her own newfound devotion to skateboard prowess announced that by March next year (a few weeks before the local elections) £34,000 worth of sophisticated LED flood lighting would be installed so the neighbourhoods young people (and the odd councillor, if they so wish) can skate around the clock or until the lighting timer device switches off. Seriously this is good news for a well used facility originally kicked off by the Stanground Youth Project Group with local neighbourhood policing assistance.
There is seating for spectators and the recent championships bode well for the future....we just have to put the nearby maintained but redundant bowling green to good use now. How about a Petanque (Boules) pitch or 5 a side football?
Later would be an NHS presentation from Cathy Longbone basically saying the population of 175,000 is all heavily binge drinking, grossly overweight, chain smoking slobs who must exercise more ( bang goes Peterboroughs night time economy!) but earlier in the agenda it was announced that £17,000 in 106 money is to be spent following a full public consultation to install outdoor gym equipment in PARK FARM. Good grief! We are also being introduced to a Park FarmYouth Forum but hopefully some of our binge drinking, smoking, overweight residents will be swinging from the high bars rather than propping up the horizontal bar!
Cllr.Harper who has come in for some stick in recent weeks over CLF awards, did however look the part in a smart new suit, white shirt and tie and a shiney metal badge seemingly been worn by a few councillors but no one was letting on as to why they had been awarded the gongs...perhaps someone could suggest a suitable citation and we'll ask Paul Stainton to feature the most apt responses on Peterboroughs last remaining radio station BBC Cambridgeshire. Should however point out we do have a Hospital Radio service and the NHS is also looking for volunteers ...
The full meeting reports will be posted on the PCC website in due course, and there isn't space here to go into all the detail but this sketch should give a flavour of the well-attended meeting and the outcomes.
The 'desert' of Peterbrough was the description of Stanground by Peterborians claimed Cllr Rush (dressed in usual smart casual attire) who wanted to walk on the wild side... and he would be spending £1,500 to achieve this nirvana. [ (nirvana (nērvä`nə), a state of supreme liberation and bliss, contrasted to samsara or bondage in the repeating cycle of death and rebirth. The word in Sanskrit refers to the going out of a flame once its fuel has been consumed; it thus suggests both the end of suffering and the cessation of desires that perpetuate bondage]
Simply with some volunteer assistance ( the Cllr. already has the gardening equipment in his shed.. what about Community Payback people as well, Brian? ) a whole tract of overgrown footpaths and byways leading from Stanground to the new Carbon Challenge project ( Posh footy ground) and then onto Fletton Quays - the whole area (new to me) is called Stanground Lode and if it's maintained on completion will certainly be a welcome improvement. I can feel the community collective poundage dropping as we speak...no time for a drink either.
A lively debate ensued on traffic calming measures for Coneygree Road at the junction with Elwood Road £15,000 has been earmarked to prevent a series of car crashes and the same stretch of garden wall being rebuilt time after time after time. Hopefully in the improvements the adverse camber just prior to the wretched junction will be corrected as this is really is the root cause of the problem and that might be the case as traffic calming measures employed on Park Farm were hailed as being very effective.
Not to be outdone in the green credentials department Deputy Leader Cllr Matthew Lee (Fletton) (always well presented with well polished expensive shoes) launched the 'Plant a Tree for Lee' campaign, in reality planting trees to effectively foil the menace of verge parking which is now choking the life out of our communities and in extreme cases forcing mums to walk with their prams on the roadway and preventing the passage of emergency vehicles.
No one would deny the deputy mayor who graced the meeting as Cllr Serluca (Fletton) who is also planting a few trees with the view to frustrating the curse of verge parking and adding to the neighbourhoods green credentials.
Having presented the various projects and proposals to take up the allocation of the capital budget of £25,000 for 2011/12. The asembled company was given twenty minutes to consider the options and make any comments before the formal vote was taken. They were all carried.
The open forum prompted a few questions about a seemingly flowering tree which is destined to be for the chop. Apparently it will make way for a parking place! Tree Specialists had given the tree the last rites and feared for public safety and its future well being. This old friend sadly had reach the end of its useful life and would have to go. Cllrs were urged to plant a few more in its place and forget about the parking space... the publication of the tree experts written report to council might help clear the air on this ....
#### by Julian Bray sitting in for Morag Irving
.. (C) Stanground & Park Farm News 2011 (C) Park Farm Neighbourhood Watch 2011, Peterborough,UK E&OE Tel: 01733 345581 ALL ENQUIRIES LOCAL NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE: 0345 4564564 OR Dial 999. If you have any information about crime contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org. No personal details are taken, information is not traced or recorded and you will not go to Court. >> Broadcast Quality ISDN 01733 555319 ISDN Codecs G722 & ATX >> Media Enquiries: JULIAN BRAY 01733 345581 http://tinyurl.com/STANGROUNDPFNW
NB I have asked the chair to clarify this before the next meeting.
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