Feedback from today's Valley Residents meeting
Attended the Valley Residents Association meeting in Whitehaven this evening.
Highlights of the meeting were
* The association is currently conducting a survey of its members and everyone who lives in the Valley Park area about the local one-way system and other traffic measures. The results will be fed to John Dell at Capita who is conducting a review on behalf of the County Council.
* If you have views on this please get your comments in by the end of this month. If you are a Valley Residents member you should already have a response form which can be returned to the addresses given on it. For obvious reasons I am not going to put the addresses of the people organising the survey on the internet, but if you are a local resident, would like your views considered, and do not have a survey form to hand, I suggest you write a letter with your views about traffic in Whitehaven and the one-way systems in Foxhouses Road and Calder Avenue in particular, address it to "Valley Residents Association Traffic Survey" and deliver it to St Gregory's & St Patrick's School, Esk Avenue. (The school is one of the collection points for the survey.
* I repeat, survey responses must be recieved by the end of this month (June 2008)
* One of the two local Police Community Support Officers, PCSO Annabel Crawford was also at the meeting and introduced herself.
* Alan Forster-Faircloth, who is a Community Involvement Officer for South Whitehaven, talked about the Neighbourhood Management Programme. His presentation covered a wide range of issues from smiley speed cameras (they frown at you for speeding instead of giving you penalty points and a fine) to grants available for community action. Following on from this, one of the four Commmunity wardens covering South Whitehaven introduced himself and gave a short description of their work.
* Finally, a local resident raised the issue of a notice which had been served on one of his near neighbours - no names, no pack-drill - who had been served a letter from Copeland Council, asking her not to sing in her own home. The person who raised the issue, and who was incensed that this letter had been sent, said that the lady concerned had not been singing at anti-social hours - the latest was 8pm - and that she was a serious singer whose voice was pleasant to listen to.
While I am aware that we were only hearing one side of the story, it did sound that whoever complained about this had gone a bit over the top. Provided you don't do it at full volume in the wee small hours, things have come to a pretty pass if you can't sing a song in your own house without someone calling down Environmental Health on you!
Highlights of the meeting were
* The association is currently conducting a survey of its members and everyone who lives in the Valley Park area about the local one-way system and other traffic measures. The results will be fed to John Dell at Capita who is conducting a review on behalf of the County Council.
* If you have views on this please get your comments in by the end of this month. If you are a Valley Residents member you should already have a response form which can be returned to the addresses given on it. For obvious reasons I am not going to put the addresses of the people organising the survey on the internet, but if you are a local resident, would like your views considered, and do not have a survey form to hand, I suggest you write a letter with your views about traffic in Whitehaven and the one-way systems in Foxhouses Road and Calder Avenue in particular, address it to "Valley Residents Association Traffic Survey" and deliver it to St Gregory's & St Patrick's School, Esk Avenue. (The school is one of the collection points for the survey.
* I repeat, survey responses must be recieved by the end of this month (June 2008)
* One of the two local Police Community Support Officers, PCSO Annabel Crawford was also at the meeting and introduced herself.
* Alan Forster-Faircloth, who is a Community Involvement Officer for South Whitehaven, talked about the Neighbourhood Management Programme. His presentation covered a wide range of issues from smiley speed cameras (they frown at you for speeding instead of giving you penalty points and a fine) to grants available for community action. Following on from this, one of the four Commmunity wardens covering South Whitehaven introduced himself and gave a short description of their work.
* Finally, a local resident raised the issue of a notice which had been served on one of his near neighbours - no names, no pack-drill - who had been served a letter from Copeland Council, asking her not to sing in her own home. The person who raised the issue, and who was incensed that this letter had been sent, said that the lady concerned had not been singing at anti-social hours - the latest was 8pm - and that she was a serious singer whose voice was pleasant to listen to.
While I am aware that we were only hearing one side of the story, it did sound that whoever complained about this had gone a bit over the top. Provided you don't do it at full volume in the wee small hours, things have come to a pretty pass if you can't sing a song in your own house without someone calling down Environmental Health on you!
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