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You may have noticed that the precinct bench, situated close to the outward bound bus shelter, has disappeared.
After three years wear and tear it has been necessary for it to go for refurbishment. It should be reinstalled soon.
Heavy downpours caused flooding in Crosspool on Saturday with the drainage system unable to cope with the volume of rain that fell.
Over a period of just a few minutes, water collected in the area at the bottom of Benty Lane where it joins Sandygate Road.
It doesn’t seem that the flood caused any lasting damage, with most of the water appeared to have drained away by today.
Did the downpour cause flooding problems on your road in Crosspool yesterday?
Four new National Open College Network (NOCN) computer courses are starting next month in Crosspool. The topics for this term’s courses are:
More details are on the poster below, including the start and expected finish dates for each course.
Perhaps you have a friend or relative who would be interested in building their confidence on a computer? Anyone wishing to join any of these courses should contact Ian, Crosspool Forum, on 0114 335 1674 or email crosspoolforum@fsmail.net.
Sheffield residents are being asked to give their opinion on local library services ahead of the council’s plan to make savings in this area.
Interim Director of Community Services Jan Fitzgerald has indicated that some services could change due to the amount of money that needs to be saved.
She said: “Some of the savings will have to come from our library services. Whilst trying to protect frontline services, we cannot guarantee that they will be untouched given the scale of the savings which will be required.”
You can give your views at www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraryreview or via a paper form which can be picked up at at any library or First Point. The consultation runs until 8 October.
Crosspool is currently served by two mobile library services and the nearest local lending library is in Broomhill.
Students from Tapton school in Crosspool celebrated their A Level results yesterday.
There were 236 candidates with 658 A Level entries between them. 30% of entries were graded A and A*.
The Star newspaper reports on some of the successful students.
A house on Darwin Lane in Crosspool has been nominated for this year’s Sheffield Design Awards.
Ranmoor House is located opposite the King Edward VII Lower School field. It is designed by local architect Coda Studios and includes zinc cladding to reflect the city’s industrial heritage and art deco features.
The Crosspool house is up against other buildings and locations including The Sheffield Tap pub, South Street park, Tudor Square, JG Graves Woodland Discovery Centre in Ecclesall Woods, Park Hill flats and the university’s Arts Tower.
In September last year, the house was featured in BBC TV programme To Build or Not To Build.
A Crosspool-based fitness initiative will be holding a free, charity health and fun day on Sunday 16 September from 12-4pm at Hallam football club on Sandygate Road.
The event is being held to promote healthy living in the community and raise money for The Sick Children’s Trust. There’ll be activities such as football and other sports to get involved with, a healthy BBQ with lots of great ideas for a more nutritional grill, stalls from various health-related traders and a raffle, bouncy castle and games. Smoothies and drinks will be available from the new Hallam clubhouse.
Former Tapton pupil Kate Hill is organising the fun day as part of her FunMeFit initiative. FunMeFit is a central hub for local sports clubs, activity groups and larger organisations to list details about what they’re doing so that families in Sheffield and further afield can choose what activity to try next and get active.
Kate recently moved back to Crosspool after a decade living in other areas of Sheffield. She said: “We’re a family trying to help other families feel like part of a community with support and resources to get healthy and find fun activities to take part in. I organised this free event to make more people aware of what we’re trying to do and to raise money for a very worthy cause. Whatever the weather, there will be lots going on.”
Kate is also looking for any local businesses to support the fun day, for example through raffle prizes or healthy BBQ food. You can get in touch with her using kate@funmefit.com or via the FunMeFit website.
FunMeFit charity fun day – 16 September 2012
A rabbit and hutch belonging to a six year-old girl was stolen from a garden on Manchester Road last weekend.
The owners are appealing for people to get in touch if they saw anything or know the whereabouts of the grey and white rabbit, who is called Abu.
Abu and his hutch are thought to have been taken between 7 and 9pm on Sunday 5 August. A van or large car was probably used due to the weight and size of the two-story hutch. The vehicle will probably have been parked near or opposite the Jet petrol station around that time.
If you can help then please call 07828 869313. A reward has been offered.
Police officers will be offering advice and answering questions to Crosspudlians on Wednesday 29 August outside Spar.
The Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) will be in Crosspool from 2–3pm. It’s your opportunity to meet some of the team and to get community safety advice, discuss any issues that are relevant to you or to get crime reduction information.
Representatives from the South West Community Assembly will also be there.
Meanwhile, the latest Crookes Safer Neighbourhood Area newsletter from the police highlights their efforts to combat thefts of pedal cycles and items from motor vehicles in the locality. They also flag up milk thefts from people’s doorsteps in the early hours – you can phone 101 to report any suspicious activity.
Below is a bullet point summary of Thursday’s meeting you can also download a PDF copy (74KB).
25 Crosspool residents, Cllr Geoff Smith, and 7 members of the Forum Management Committee attended. A guest gave a presentations :.
from April meeting – none.
PCSOs Phil Whitaker & Tony Hizam. (for Louise);
After a recent Meeting at Hallam Football Ground Ian Hague presented Mrr Clegg with some pertinent local questions. Emailed responses having been received, these are as follows:
Geoff Smith was asked to look into why Veolia will only accept card payments for the purchase of green waste bagsthis year.
The ‘20s Plenty’ scheme has decided to designate the ‘Steel Bank area (Crookes, Commonside, Walkley) for the signage to make it a 20 zone, though this may take a year to implement.
Crosspool Festival Week – Rev France Eccleston said this had been very successful – & we had two dry weekends!- Some £1524 was raised for the Ryegate Child centre Fund. Residents were asked to contact the committee if they wish to help nest year – the Open Gardens scheme will need a new organizer.
The Summer Fayre; Ian Hague said thiswent well – £726 was made, all to go back to the community. The Union flags in the precinct have proved very popular – these were erected for the Jubilee and will stay up until the Olympics are over.
The Car Boot Sale was a wash-out this June, but it is hoped another can be held in September.
Disco – after the success of the Christmas one Ian is hoping to hold another.
Computer course; this has proved very popular again; Ian expects to hold more in Sep 2012 – names to him please. There will be a beginners’ course, advanced (internet) course, & possibly desk top publishing course.
Kate Hill gave a presentation about her website – FunMeFit – a portal for the whole of Sheffield to get active, & to share their activities on. She hopes to run a Fun Day on 16th Sep at Hallam Cricket Club to fund-raise for this.
The next Open Meeting will be Thurs, 25th October 2012. 7pm, St Columba’s.
Download minutes from Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, 26 July 2012 (PDF, 74KB)
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