To be uploaded to conservation.ecclesfieldgroups.com shortly. [Version dated 2019-10-22 by JP]

Agenda for the Conservation meeting of
2019-10-22
at 19:00 in “The Stocks”

A. Chair: RT.

B. Apologies: BS, LS.

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

  1. Industrial Heritage Leaflets.

  2. Whether the Group want to move their website to https://conservation.ecclesfieldgroups.co.uk.

  3. Whether the Group want to support Ecclesfield’s new air pollution monitoring pages.

  4. Our reply to the request for information by the new owner of the Old Mill building.

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

2. Moving the Conservation web site to https, would give users more security in that it would be much harder for anybody to intercept and change its pages. Moving our site to .co.uk, would show users that we have been verified as being located in the UK. The down side is that it is difficult to make either change without some users failing to find the new site. However when Google finally accepted any such changes, it should make the site easier to search for. Note that the village website has already moved to .co.uk., and both the Library and Bloom group remain on it. Unless anybody has any objections, our published first-contact email address could also change to a more authoritative .co.uk address, and cloud storage of our pages could be moved closer to the UK, by changing to the Amazon servers in Ireland.

3. The air pollution pages give the current readings from the new St. Marys Lane PM10 and PM2.5 sensor, and can be found by Googling for:-

ecclesfield pm10

Since the pages are new, an exchange of links with the Conservation web site would make them easier for people to find, and any endorsement by the group would give them more authority.



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


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.

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

* 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 has published their intension to press ahead with an Environment Bill, including the duty to report.

*  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. 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 30th Aug 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 interpretations, made after briefly scanning some of the planning documents]

Still pending

Decided

The next SCC Planning Committee meeting is on 29th October 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 19th November and further meetings nearer the time at democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId=373 .


Alcohol Licensing