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Traffic
In
response to our petition and our two surveys of the traffic on Church
Steet, the Northern Community Assembly have prepared an extremely large
and thorough report. (Click the following link to see
details of both our traffic surveys).
The report acknowledges the difficulty which pedestrians have in
crossing Church Street due to the amount of traffic, but says that it
is difficult to find a good site for a crossing. The report, and our
request remains on file, but we understand that the project is not
recomended for inclusion in this years limited budget.
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Bradbury's
The
January 2012 modifications to the plans for a Garage/Workshop on the
"Bradbury's Haulage site between Yew Lane and Town End Road do not seem
to answer the objections raised in our meeting last year. Our letter
of objection to Sheffield City Council Planning department therefore
remains. Click 11/03358/FUL¬
to "Submit" your own comments to Sheffield City
Council
on the current application.
Also, although controlled by its visitors rather than by the
Ecclesfield Conservation Group, clicking on the map opposite should
bring up a Wiki entry showing the (already half-completed)
building. |
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We
note that the planning application for a mobile phone mast in the
centre of the Grenoside Conservation Area has been withdrawn. Click on
the picture on
the right to see the application.
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Click here
to see
a "crime map" for Ecclesfield, or here for South Yorkshire Police's Facebook page,
or here to
stay up to date with short timely messages from Sargent Hammond. |
- We thank Ecclesfield Parish Council for their grant
towards the cost of the Christmas tree we are erecting in the grounds
of St. Mary's Church. As a result, we are looking for a large conifer.
If anybody knows of
one that might be available, please email us at
.
- We are looking forward to decorating our (joint) tree for the Christmas
Tree Festival. It can be seen in St. Mary's Church from 10th, 11th,
12th December (with refreshments and stalls - admission £1).
--- NEWS for Nov 2010 ---
- Our proposed "Heritage
Board" just missed getting
the necessary number of votes at
the "You
Choose Event" event at
Newton Hall, Chapeltown
on 16th November. We are open to
ideas for other sources of funding, so if anybody has any ideas, please
email .
- We are sending a special Christmas card to South Yorkshire Police
congratulating PC Peter Booth for his recent awards and thanking him
for his continuing good work as community policeman.
--- NEWS FOR Oct 2010 ---
- We are helping the Bloom Group to spread soil and plant bulbs at
Ladycroft Meadow (between St. Mary's
Lane and the Park) on Saturday 30th October.
--- NEWS FOR AUG-SEPT 2010 ---
- We thank everybody who called in at our stand at the Ecclesfield Gala
on Sunday 5th September.
- We passed a resolution supporting the efforts being made by Sheffield
Wildlife Trust to purchase Greno Wood.
--- NEWS FOR JULY 2010 ---
- Sheffield City Council's draft
"Development Framework Map",
is now closed for new comments, but the map can be seen here, using
this key.
--- NEWS FOR JUNE 2010 ---
- We were pleased to receive some historic
pictures, which we have displayed here.
- We thank our local Rotary Group for the good reception they gave
our Chairman, and for the encouraging things they said about the
possible renovation of the village stocks.
- Lots of work has been done on LadyCroft
Meadow. Materials were paid for by the in-bloom group, and we
thank the two Payback
teams for the work that they are putting in.
- We welcome the new "Village Notice" board at
the Morrisons entrance to Ecclesfield Park, and on Ladycroft Meadow
facing St. Mary's Lane.
- We were pleased to hear of plans to put a speed indicator on The Wheel.
- We note the concerns about the fuel to be burnt at the controversial
biofuel generation plant on
Loicher Lane,
and are monitoring progress (see below).
- We thank the St. Mary's Lane Trust for their donation of £200
--- EARLIER NEWS ---
- We have dug holes and planted 2 traditional Medlar trees and 1
Mulberry tree on St. Marys Church
Green next to Priory Road.
- We have received an email
from the new owner of the Ecclesfield
Methodist Chapel asking if we
know of any organisations interested in renting/leasing the building.
See Sheffield
City Council's Conservation Area Appraisal, section 7.21. There is
now a planning application for the building, some aspects of which we
have objected to.
- The
entrance to the Old Quarry off Town
End Road has been cleared up and
bulbs planted.
- Both of the sign posts
have now been refurbished and installed
outside
St. Mary's Church. See http://ecclesfield.wikia.com/Conservation.
- If anybody notices dead horse
chestnut trees, or even dead
branches, please inform the owners (E.g. Sheffield
City Council) or Click
here for advice
- You can see (and even comment on) the work that we have done on
the Priory Road wall, at http://ecclesfield.wikia.com/Conservation
. We are likely to do further work on the steps.
- We have helped plant four trees on
the land adjacent to Town End Road as
part of the "Ecclesfield
Improver
Project". We thank Sheffield City Council Parks Department for
providing such special trees.
- We have a draft document looking at the meaning of Townscape
Merit.
- You can Email us on .
Just say if you want to
be emailed copies of agendas or minutes, or if you want us to stop
emailing.
--- PLANNING APPLICATIONS WE ARE
MONITORING---
Aldi on the old Rollem Fabrications
site. See application 11/01426/FUL¬
to see our letter commenting on the application.
--- PLANNING APPLICATIONS DECIDED---
The application for a Bio-fuel, Power
station
on Loicher Lane has been withdrawn. see application 09/02979/FUL¬
.
We note application10/01338/FUL "Old Methodist Chapel" has now been
granted, but for 6 apartments (plus a resident caretaker flat), not the original 8. Further changes include an increases
to the area of obscure glazing, which the
Conservation Group wrote to comment upon.
(In case of difficulty viewing the planning documents above,
click instructions for installing Adobe Reader)
---OTHER CONSERVATION DOCUMENTS---
Conservation Issues,
Letter from SCC about buildings in the
Conservation Area
Aims of the Ecclesfield Conservation Group,
Constitution of the
Ecclesfield Conservation
Group Ecclesfield
Conservation Group procedures
Preserving what is best about the
Sheffield
Village of Ecclesfield
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USEFUL LINKS---
Historic Buildings For Sale or
Rent, Pictures of
Ecclesfield, Walks around
Ecclesfield, other Ecclesfield Groups... www.ecclesfieldgroups.com
2007.07.06 Meeting with SCC
Conservation
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