Burngreave
Area Panel
All
of your Councillors on the Burnrgreave Area Panel would like
to send seasonal best wishes to you and hope that you all
have a happy Eid, Christmas and New Year. And now let’s
get on with finding out what your Area Panel have been doing
during November and what is planned for 2003.
Don’t
forget you can contact the Area Panel and Burngreave Area
Action Team: 12–14 Burngreave Road, Sheffield S3 9DD;
tel: 0114 276 9134 or e-mail: s.bolton@unisonfree.net
Also,
all minutes and agendas for past Area Panel meetings are available
on the Internet at www.sheffield.gov.uk.
SECONDS
OUT, ROUND TWO
Your
Burngreave Area Panel Community Chest is opening its second
round and is offering grants of up to £200 to help local
groups who are or want to do things that help make Burngreave
a better place to live and work in. You can get more information
and an application form by contacting us at the office (see
above) and remember that the closing date for getting your
completed application forms back to us is Friday 31st January
2003. The Area Panel will then have the very difficult job
of looking at all the forms and deciding who it will be able
to fund.
SPRING
SURPRISE
Local people, children and workers have planted over 3,000
daffodil bulbs at different places around Burngreave during
November and come the Spring next year you can look forward
to a burst of colour. In October we asked you where you wanted
to plant bulbs and you gave us a fantastic response. The planting
got started in November with young people who had been to
court and were now helping to make amends in their community
joining with the Council’s Rangers and the Streetforce
Environment Stewardship Team to plant 1000 daffodils on Spital
Green and in front of your library. Later on in the week Councillor
Jackie Field, the Chair of your Area Panel, and Council workers
were helping local people plant bulbs at Parkwood Springs
Open Space, Osgathorpe Park and at Devon Gardens. Local children
and young people at Byron Wood, Pye Bank and Firvale schools
also got involved by planting bulbs in tubs, planters and
sites at their school.
GETTING
ABOUT
Your Area Panel has been listening to what you have said about
the problems you have getting about Burngreave by foot, bicycle,
bus and car and the ideas you have for making travel safer
and easier. Because of this your Area Panel have got together
with New Deal for Communities to do something about this and
the first step is to develop a Transport Strategy for Burngreave.
This Transport Strategy will help by making sure that everybody
–from people who plan roads to bus companies –
work together on what you feel will help improve travelling
around Burngreave and Sheffield. The work to put together
the first go at the Transport Strategy will have to take all
the things you have already told us and put these together
with all the surveys other people have done. When this is
done we will be able to talk to you and local groups to ask
you what you think of the Strategy, what needs to be left
out and what else needs to go in. We will be working on putting
together the first Version of the Transport Strategy in the
New Year so please watch out for news or contact the office
to find out more.
LIGHTEN
UP
As part of your Area Panel’s work to help brighten up
and bring a bit of colour to where you live, next year we
are arranging to get you some extra Bring Out Your Rubbish
days and put up flower boxes and hanging baskets at Spital
Hill and Page Hall shops. Before all of this the Area Panel
are working to get festive lights put up on some of the trees
on Spital Green and we would like to invite you all to the
turning on of these on Friday 20th December 2002 at 6.00pm.
There will be food and refreshments available on the evening
and we hope to have a local celebrity to come along to flick
the switch.
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