Gosforth eFocus No 23
GOSFORTH POST OFFICE - LATEST
The Post Office is going ahead with the closure of the St Nicholas post office in the heart of Gosforth and moving it to a convenience store in
Salters Road. (Councillors have visited it - it's a fine establishment, just the wrong place for a vital community resource) The story was reported in the Evening Chronicle here http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/fears-over-gosforth-high-street-7973794
(The councillors maintain it was the photographer who made them look like Three Angry Men!)
TOWN MEETING PLANNED
All 9 Gosforth councillors are pressing for a Town Meeting to be arranged so that local people can express their views on developments affecting the High Street. More details as soon as possible - we're hoping that the Council will leaflet all 3 wards.
FENCING PROPOSALS BY RED HOUSE FARM FC
Parklands and Fawdon councillors have objected to Planning Application 2014/1466/01/DET by Red House Farm FC which envisages more than half the land to the north of Kingston Park Road being fenced off for their exclusive use, with 5 metre (16 feet high) fences and floodlights to enable night-time, all year round use of an artificial playing surface.
So far over 200 people have commented via the Council's website, mostly hostile. Cllr Robin Ashby summed up councillors' views, saying "The application is excessive in area and height, and the reasons for the highest fences given by the applicants seem spurious. Little regard seems to have been paid to other users of this public open space. The track record of the applicants in living in harmony with their neighbours is questionable, and gives rise to doubts about the future. Undoubtedly in order to get sports body funding for developments some control over some area would be necessary : But not this one."
"CREEPING OVERDEVELOPMENT"
This is what Cllr Robin Ashby called the 67-bed planning application for a care home at Melton Park (on the site of the old Northumberland Records Centre) Even before the ink was dry on the approval, a further application was made to increase the size to 70 beds. The applicants claimed that the current tiny car parking provision was adequate up to 70, and they could add further spaces. So where will this stop? The applicants are making a mockery of the planning process. Previous objections will not be carried forward - it's necessary to make the case all over again - but objectors should be notified direct, as well as notices appearing on lamp-posts etc.
CAMERAS v BOLLARDS - GREAT PARK / BRUNTON PARK
An update from Cllr Pauline Allen is available from gosforth.efocus@gmail.com.
SILVER LININGS - CLUB FOR OVER 50s
An over-50s club is meeting at Kenton Park Sports Centre on Thursdays based around a presentation/discussion topic each week (like Rotary, Probus etc). A flyer is available from gosforth.efocus@gmail.com - all from north Newcastle are welcome
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 9th NOVEMBER
The Lord Mayor of Newcastle will lead the two minutes silence at the City War Memorial in Eldon Square on Sunday, 9 November 2014, when a Service will be held and wreaths placed on the Memorial.
After the Service, the Lord Mayor will take the salute at the March Past of the Parade at Grey's Monument.
Prior to the Service the Lord Mayor will place wreaths on The Renwick War Memorial, The Burma Star Memorial, The Memorials to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and The South African War Memorial.
NEWS RELEASES
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MEANWHILE, IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS
John, Lord Shipley, spoke in a short debate on Housing: Private Rented Sector (14 Oct 2014 - full text here)
Lord Shipley: My Lords, the Minister referred to the success of Build to Rent, in that it will have built some 10,000 homes by 2015. Do the Government have any plans to extend Build to Rent? Have they given any thought to the creation of a housing investment bank, which could lend money and create more housing units in the private rented sector, thus giving greater foundations to those who are renting.......
and the next day on Energy: Onshore Wind Farming - Question for Short Debate (15 Oct 2014 - full text here
Lord Shipley: My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Quin, for initiating this debate. I received a few days ago a copy of the National Trust members' magazine. In it was an article entitled Powering the Future. It talked of the role of that great industrialist and inventor Lord Armstrong, who introduced renewable energy to his home at Cragside in Northumberland, which is now owned by the trust..
and on the Construction Industry (23 Oct 2014
Lord Shipley: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan, for initiating this very important debate and pay tribute to the widely acknowledged efforts over many years of the noble Lord, Lord Prescott, to build affordable homes. I welcome the debate. The recession led to at least one benefit, particularly for social housing providers, in that construction-related activity became...
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