To be uploaded to conservation.ecclesfieldgroups.com shortly. [Version dated 2020-02-25 by JP]

Agenda for the Conservation meeting of
2020-02-25
at 19:00 in “The Stocks”

A. Chair: RT.

B. Apologies:

D. Agenda items (see next paragraph for details).

  1. Whether to support the ePetition for speed cameras on Town End Road.

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 2020/03/24. Whatever is decided will be put on conservation.ecclesfieldgroups.com

On the Agenda Items.

1 . Whether to promote such a speed camera, e.g. by linking the petition from our website. See The Star article on the Police’s recent use of a Speed Gun to enforce the 30mph limit on Town End road.

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.


Emails Received e.g. on conservation.ecclesfield@gmail.com


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.

* Members noted that the old RBS site at 75 The Common, has been taken off the market – presumably sold. There has been a suggestion on Facebook that it was bought to turn it into a Costa Coffee.

* Previous meetings agreed that our web site should link to the Black Bull's advertisement for a manager at https://www.findmypub.com/properties/view/25611.

* Following our submission to it, 361 respondents agreed, as we did, that Local Authorities should have a duty to consult before felling street trees. However, 367,disagreed. In spite of what might appear a narrow defeat, the Government’s “Environment Bill” containing the requirement (In section 101) is due to have its second reading on 26th February. Click for a legal summary.

* We are continuing to liaise with the Frack-free Group to find out whether the current moratorium on fracking might fail to prevent waste water coming to Ecclesfield (as reported here).

* We still have to move our website to https:, and copy our photographs and other historical material to the low-cost Amazon cloud.

* We have purchased the bits and repaired our Gazebo. The Flag Banner modifications still ongoing.

* 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 have a baseline figure for the radioactivity in
Blackburn brook, ready to check for any increase, whether due to fracking or any other discharges.

*  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. If we get a “duty to report”, then we might want to concentrate on those to which the new duty applies.

*  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 Jan to 23rd Feb 2020. [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 interpretations, made after briefly scanning some of the planning documents]

Presumably because we do not have a December meeting, a number of the applications below have been approved without us being able to discuss them ...

Pending or Under Appeal

Granted

Not Granted

The next SCC Planning Committee meeting is on 17th December 2019, but I could not see any Ecclesfield applications mentioned in the agenda. Interested members might be able to check the agendas for the next meeting, which is on 10th March and further meetings nearer the time at democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId=373 .


Alcohol Licensing