To be uploaded to conservation.ecclesfieldgroups.com shortly. [Version dated 2019-09-23 by JP]

Agenda for the Conservation meeting of
2019-09-24
at 19:00 in “The Stocks”

A. Chair: RT is away, so we might just have an informal discussion.

B. Any apologies

D. Items we might discuss include (see below for details)

  1. Reports on our attendance at the Gala and in St. Mary’s Church.

  2. Update on the re-printing of our Industrial Heritage Leaflets.

  3. If we want to complete it, the South Yorkshire Police Road Safety survey.

  4. Progress on the re-launch of our on-line archive.

X. Any Planning concerns. See the penultimate section.

Y. Any questions or comments on the “Emails received”, “Information watch”, or “Outstanding Interests” sections below; or any other business.

Z. To confirm or change the next meeting date of 22nd of October.


On the Agenda Items

1. Two plastic brackets broke in the wind, putting our gazebo out of action during the Gala. Similar gazebo parts are available on ebay for e.g. £4.98. We might want to give them a try, although the dimensions don’t look right to me.

We also found that we had to put a collar on our flag banner to extend the pole and eliminate some creases which prevented the words being visible. We could continue to do this, but since it weakens the joint between the poles, we might prefer to put the problem back to the supplier.

3. South Yorkshire Police have an online survey on road safety issues until 27th September at https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=155309464212 which we might like to complete.

4. Amazon S3 looks cheap enough to host our archive. I have therefore created a test site, which members can check out at thorpe-hesley.ecclesfieldgroups.co.uk. If I can get the photographs etc. off the old disks, and find some good album software to compile thumbnails, and generate the necessary static web pages, then we can have our archive back.

The items in the next few sections will not be gone through one by one, but can be discussed in any other business if any member wishes to bring them up.


Information watch


Outstanding interests

If any members can help, or want to bring any of the following up for any other reason, they can do so in any other business.

* Fortunately, when I checked, there were no planning applications for the old co-op building, and our High Street is surviving. Nevertheless we are still trying looking for ways of get the SCC to answer our list of questions about the survival of our High Street, and hoping that the Parish Council will produce a local plan including provision for High Streets. Also, The Star (Aug 16th) reported on 20 historic buildings (none of them in Ecclesfield) which Sheffield City Council are trying to save.

* We are continuing to liaise with the Frack-free Group to find out whether fracking waste is coming to Ecclesfield.

* It might have got stuck behind other business, but following our submission to it, we are expecting the Government to publish the results of their Consultation on Protecting and Enhancing England's Trees and hopefully increase the protection given to trees and woodlands.

*  We have a baseline figure for the radioactivity in
Blackburn brook, ready to check for any increase, whether due to fracking or any other discharges. However, it occurred to me recently that if anybody can suggest a suitable access point, a measurement upstream of FCC environmental might also be useful.

*  We have a fireproof trunk for
storing archive material. Members might prefer a more generally accessible location if one can be found [As well as perhaps other things such as our Gazebo].

*  We still have plans to survey
major trees within the Conservation Area.

*  Sheffield City Council’s
alcohol licensing system is still not on-line. This not only makes it difficult for anybody to find out what restrictions apply to any licenses granted in the past, but we may be missing some of their new decisions, since we can only see the latest (2 week?) decisions.


New planning applications

The following planning applications and appeals were found by searching for Ward = “East Ecclesfield”, Parish = Ecclesfield Parish Council”, postcodes S35 9?? and S35 1TE, validated from 23rd Jul to 22nd Sept 2019. [You may be able to click on the underlined links, and then the [Documents] tab to see the drawings etc. Otherwise, just go to planningapps.sheffield.gov.uk/online-applications/, then enter the “Ref. No” for the application you are interested in.
The contents of brackets and italics are my interpretation - made after briefly scanning some of the planning documents]

Still pending

Decided

The next SCC Planning Committee meeting is on 8th Oct. Interested members might be able to check when the agenda is published nearer the time at democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId=373 .


Alcohol Licensing