[This agenda was last updated on 2014-01-19 by JP]
[To see if members think it helps, I have bracketed items limited to the Conservation area with C> <C]
Agenda for the Conservation meeting of 2014-01-20
at 19:30 in “The Stocks”
A. Chair: Mr Ian Deans will chair the meeting.
B. Attendance and Apologies:
C. Minutes: Acceptance or amendment to the minutes of the previous two meetings, prior to them being published on our web site [I will probably email the last minutes as usual, but print out copies of the one before that and bring them to the meeting - JP].
D. Agenda Items
1) C> Any comments on the Village Christmas tree and our joint Christmas tree festivals <C
2) Amey’s Streetworks Contract, including …
a) C> Response to concerns over the felling of the Sycamore on Stock's Hill / Yew Lane (ID) <C
b) Need for detailed inventory of trees in Conservation Area (ID)
c) Feedback on the road-show at the co-op 16th January 2014, and potential follow up (JP & ID)
3) Update on proposed planter, on Church Street/Chapeltown Road (ID)
4) Proposed response to HS2 consultation (ID). See below
5) Do members wish to change the dates, venues and arrangements for future meetings? See below
6) Do members wish to withdraw their “Registration of Interest” in Ecclesfield Library? See below
X. Planning Applications – see planning applications to be emailed shortly.
Y. Any communications, information, or other business that members may wish to bring up.
Z. Confirmation of the date of the next meeting.
Communications,
e.g. on 
- We received an email from an Ecclesfield resident who had just come across our web site. He made some interesting references to William Greens; the caretaker’s house for Morwood Vulcan; Colley Road School, Arthur Kay, the Working Men’s Club, Ecclesfield Dam, Firth Brown Tools, and Granville Collage. [If anybody wants to take this further, perhaps by recording the information, just let me know and I will forward the email - JP].
- We received a request from the interior design firm, Artbeat of Derby to supply historical photographs from 4conservation.ecclesfieldgroups.com. So far, all the photographs they have listed were from the Chapeltown and High Green archive, who seem eager to supply them directly. However, the majority of files on our site did not come from that source, but were donated to us directly. Members may therefore want to say something about how they would like us to reply if Artbeat mention these other files, or perhaps say something more generally. [Meanwhile, I will keep members and especially donors informed – JP].
- We received an invitation to bid for funding from “Sheffield Culture Consortium” for activities associated with the Tour de France. Apparently they have £50,000 which they want to focus on five “hubs”. Unfortunately, Ecclesfield isn’t one of these which, as KF may confirm, probably rules us out. [However, if members wanted I could still reply, e.g. by supporting any bid and mentioning our very successful “Olympic Torch Party- JP”]. See http://northsheffield.wordpress.com/ and scroll down.
- We were
told that there has been a meeting to discuss what the writer describes as
“major alterations to Whitley Hall. There don’t seem to have been any
planning applications for Whitley Hall since 2010, but the writer had
received a letter about it, and there are discussions at http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10258959
. [If anybody has any comments or wants to look into what is happening
at Whitley hall before I thank the sender, let me know- JP].
The writer also mentions traffic problems in Ecclesfield, something which members have expressed agreement with in the past. - We received a warning of bogus callers wearing branded clothing and impersonating Amey staff. Amey do not (LAP-North’s emphasis) charge people for surfacing drives.
- We were sent several emails over Christmas about events and things, which I could not report to members in time, and have not listed above. To some extent our (normally) monthly meetings make this inevitable, but it was especially pronounced during the two month gap. [I nevertheless, thank all who sent us the information -JP.]
Information watch
- As per the
agenda item on HS2, there is a proposal for us to reply to the invitation
to comment on the second stage route. The email containing this agenda is
prefixed with a link to the member’s area of our web site containing a
draft.
In addition to anything we do as above, anybody can make comments directly at http://hs2.org.uk/route-consultation until 31st January. - As per the
agenda item above, there is a proposal that we should email Sheffield City
Council to formally withdraw our Registration of Interest in Ecclesfield
Library in favour of “Friends of Ecclesfield Library”.
Our registration resulted in us being given library briefing documents showing what would be needed to keep Ecclesfield Library open. We responded by trying to make all the Ecclesfield groups we knew of, aware of these documents including, when it was formed, the Friends. This done, the proposer argues, our continued registration is no longer necessary, and may even mislead people seeing our name listed.
The reason the proposer suggests mentioning the Friends in any email to the Council, is that as far as the proposer knows, they are the only group to have met the library review team, and the only ones to be actively looking for volunteers to keep Ecclesfield Library Open. - As per the agenda item on meeting dates, there is a proposal that we should change our meeting day to the third Wednesday in the Month, but keep everything else the same. [The Stocks have confirmed that Wednesday is their quietest day, and I checked this by going down to the Stocks at 8:00 and finding that indeed, the lights were off, and all was quiet in the lounge bar – JP]
- Mr. Darren Ward has told us that the Heritage Lottery Bid by the Ecclesfield District Archiving Group went in and did so before its deadline. [When we know the result, I will put an explicit item on the immediately following agenda. Meanwhile, I Take on board what some members said at the last meeting about wanting to concentrate on the Conservation Area and its History, and would be happy to work to give the Ecclesfield Village Archive a strong Conservation Area content. If anybody want to suggest ways in which that might be done, just contact me or bring it up in any other business – JP]
- If we are in the “River Don catchment area”, then members might be interested in a meeting to conserve and improve this at the Stocksbridge Council Chambers on 14th February. See http://northsheffield.wordpress.com/
- The Government are proposing to change [loosen I think- JP] regulations on control of listed buildings. To comment, go to https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/enterprise-and-regulatory-reform-act-secondary-legislation-to-accompany-the-heritage-provisions-a-consultation before 27th January. Buildings affected are listed at http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/sheffield/ecclesfield .
- The Government is consulting on the conditions under which photographs etc. can legally be placed on the Internet if the copyright owner cannot be found. This might apply [help?] to many of the images in our Ecclesfield Village Archive. See http://www.ipo.gov.uk/consult-2014-lost.htm before 28th February to comment.
- The Government is consulting on a proposal to reduce the speed limit on the M1, between junctions 28 to 35A from 70 to 60 mph. See https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/m1-junctions-28-to-35a-maximum-mandatory-speed-limit before 3rd March 2014.
- If anybody wants it, there is a better link to the epetition against a Motorway service station on Smithy Wood, at https://sheffield.moderngov.co.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=121&RPID=556370&HPID=556370&TPID=556372. Deadline is not until 20th October 2014.
