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The, trader led, Acomb Alive organisation has been involved in the installation of small illuminated Christmas trees outside local shops (left) to create a festive atmosphere for the last few years.
Acomb Alive has also funded a large Christmas tree outside the Gateway centre.
This year (2016) they would like to add to the festive atmosphere with the installation of festoon lighting in the main shopping areas.
Please support the project and help to get Acomb looking even more festive this year.
They are using the new “Spacehive” crowdfunding site which has already had at least one success this year.
You can access details of the project and follow its progress by clicking here.
Strimming needed under play equipment in Grange Lane park
The City has £415,000 available to invest in new play provision. However, many existing sites are being excluded from consideration for improvement because they have “recently” had investment from the Playbuilder programme, the National Lottery or similar.
That means that 4 sites in Westfield – Chesney’s Field, (Foxwood Lane) Playbuilder 2009/10, Grange Lane Playbuilder & Yorventure 2010/11, Acomb Green Big Lottery Fund 2012 and Cornlands Road 106 and Yorventure – will not benefit.
It seems a shame to us that resources are not to be distributed based on the number of children resident in each area.
Westfield’s newest playground – located in the Cornlands park – is increasingly popular
It does mean though that some playgrounds, like the one in the Tedder Road park, may qualify for an uplift. The absence of a playground aimed at children living in the Kingsway West area has been an issue for a long time so perhaps that neighbourhood also may benefit.
Suggestions are being invited through the summer edition of “Shine”
The report also talks about high usage playgrounds being inspected each week to ensure regular maintenance and repair work is carried out.
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The Council has today agreed to impose a 40 mph speed limit on Wetherby Road (and Bland Lane) between the A1237 and the built up area. Signage is also to be improved.
It is hoped that the buffer zone will encourage drivers to slow down before they reach the 30 mph limit. A similar buffer zone on Askham Lane has not proved to be very successful
We have doubts about this plan which will do nothing to control the speed of vehicles leaving the City. An occasional visit by the speed camera van would be more effective as a deterrent.
However the re-election of the old crime commissioner recently means that speed enforcement will continue to be focused on villages and trunk roads. The later produce the bulk of the nearly £1 million income that the North Yorkshire police derive from the camera vans.
Unused area on Ascot Way should be used to ease car parking problems
We’ve reported that repairs are needed to bus stop boarding areas on Hamilton Drive
“Kick about area” needs litter removing
Carriageway is uneven at Queenswood Grove/Hamilton Drive junction
Salt bin on Ascot Way has been vandalised
Cat found
Green and other waste dumped next to Hob Moor beck
Road markings in Stuart Road hammerhead have worn away
