Residents take clean up action in Doherty Walk

All Council tenants living in the Foxwood area should by now have received a ballot paper on which to make a choice about priorities for next years (2015/16) estate improvement programme. Click here for details

Doherty Walk looks very tidy following community action by local residents over the weekend.

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Still some problems with overgrown hedges in part of the estate while we have asked for action to reduce littering problems at the shops.

Shops forecourt now needs refurbishment and better litter control

Shops forecourt now needs refurbishment and better litter control

Some hedges still need cutting

Some hedges still need cutting

 

Cycle facilities – Council send mixed messages on importance

With multi million projects providing little used now cycle paths in some arts of the City, residents are beginning to ask why existing facilities are being allowed to deteriorate.

Surfaces are cracking, rusting barriers need a coat of paint while some routes are now completely blocked by overhanging bushes.

The Council needs to get its supervision and maintenance procedures sorted out

Bushes block cycle path

Bushes block cycle path

Leaves need clearing from paths

Leaves need clearing from paths

Cycle barriers need painting

Cycle barriers need painting

Restore Community Centre grants says LibDem candidate

Sanderson House community centre

Sanderson House community centre

With concern growing over threats to voluntary groups using the Burton Stone Community Centre, Westfield LibDem candidate Andrew Waller has called for the grants to local community centres to be reinstated.

In the Westfield area, both the Foxwood and Chapelfields community centres have seen their grants cut by the Labour Council.

Both centres are now relying entirely on the work of volunteers.

The committees at both centres are working very hard to keep them open but, in the long term, both would benefit if an annual grant of £15,000 was reinstated.

This would allow them to employ a part time caretaker and expand use of the facilities.

Former Labour Leader David Scott claimed on Thursday that “There is not one member of this (Labour) Cabinet I would offer a proper job to, not that many of them know what a proper job is”.

The £14,000 a year that these, apparently ineffective, Cabinet members draw in salary payments would be better spent on sustaining local community centres.