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La Dolce Vita Italian restaurant in Crosspool has opened a new cafe.
It is open from 10am-4pm, Monday to Saturday for Italian coffees and hot drinks, light lunches, salads, pastries and homemade cakes.
The Sandygate Road cafe/restaurant is also currently running daytime deals on panini, pizza, cake and coffee.
A meeting is taking place in February to discuss the idea of starting a local Women’s Institute (WI).
If you’re interested then come along to The Sportsman pub on Thursday 9 February for a 7pm start. More information is available from Craft Angels – you can pop into the shop or call them on 0114 266 7339.
The Women’s Institute community organisation has existed since 1915 and has over 208,000 members across 7,000 WIs. It has experience a resurgence in recent years, with WIs such as the Seven Hills group in Sheffield being over subscribed.
If you haven’t already made a note in your diary then the dates for this year’s Crosspool Festival are 7-15 July 2012.
We’ll post more information on this site when details are confirmed.
In the meantime, why not refresh yourself with what happened in previous years?
Sheffield council has outlined plans to build new homes on Lydgate Reservoir on Evelyn Road, Hadfield Service Reservoir in Crookes and Canterbury Crescent, Fulwood in order to meet government housing targets.
The Lydgate Reservoir land is located at the end of the Evelyn Road cul-de-sac. It is thought that once the reservoir has been decommissioned, Yorkshire Water will market the site after 2017 or 2022.
The council is asking for residents and businesses to comment on the potential new housing plans between 16 January and 27 February 2012.
A drop-in session with Area Planner Sarah Smith has been called at Stephen Hill Methodist Church for Thursday February 2, from 3-8pm. If you have any questions about the consultation, please telephone the Sheffield Development Framework Consultation team on 0114 205 3075.
More information about the plans and consultation
One Evelyn Road resident, David Smithson, said: “If this pleasant and quiet dead end were to be the sole access to this site, the prospects of an unacceptable increase in traffic and the resultant noise pollution would have detrimental consequence on me and my neighbours’ health and wellbeing. 20 dwellings would probably mean 30 or more cars added to usage of the road.”
The sites are three of 18 in Sheffield earmarked as part of a strategy to build 1,110 new homes.
You are invited to Crosspool Forum’s Open Meeting on Thursday 26 January at St Columba’s Church. It starts at 7pm.
A provisional agenda is below. Come along to give your concerns on local issues to local councillors, the police and council officials.
Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, Thursday 26 January 2012 (PDF, 49KB)
Date of next meeting Thursday April 26th
Water was leaking from the pavement adjacent to the Tavern Service Station on Monday morning. Police attended at around 9:30am to direct pedestrians around the potential hazard.
Shortly after 10am, Water UK (H2o) arrived to assess and repair what turned out to be a very large rip in the water main, thought to have been caused by the especially frosty conditions.
At around 2:30pm Water UK (H2o) was informing residents that they would be turning the water supply off to enable them to repair the leak. Unfortunately turning off the water and the subsequent repair proved more problematic than was first anticipated.
At teatime tonight, engineers were still working on the repair. We hope to have more information tomorrow.
Wednesday 18 January update: A new section of water main has been inserted, the hole has been filled in, and a matching top surface will be laid on Thursday to complete the repair.
Information from the South West Community Assembly about the proposed 20mph scheme. Consultation meetings run by the South West Community Assembly are taking place locally in Crookes and Fulwood the week commencing 23 January – see below.
We may get some feedback to report at Crosspool Forum’s Open Meeting on the 26 January.
Later this year Sheffield councillors will be looking at the potential for 20mph zones in Sheffield.
So that members of the public are better placed to feed into this process the South West Community Assembly is holding a number of Information Sessions in the local area.
Highways and Road Safety Officers will present information on 20mph Zones and be on hand to answer your questions at these sessions. We will also ask you about the areas that you feel should be a priority.
Fulwood
Monday 23 January
Presentation at 6:00pm
Nether Green Infant School
Stumperlow Park Road S10 3QP
Crookes
Tuesday 24 January
Presentation at 6:00pm
Westways Primary School
Mona Avenue S10 1NE
For more information please use the contact details below to get in touch with the team.
www.sheffield.gov.uk/southwest
www.sheffield.gov.uk/southwestnews
communityassemblysouthwest@sheffield.gov.uk
0114 203 7212
The new owner of the ‘Coppice House Farm Shop’ Mike Kilner says, “thanks to the loyalty of existing and new customers, the shop has, after just four months of trading, exceeded all his expectations during its first festive period”.
Mike would like to offer a big thank you to all who helped him make it a success, and looks forward to continued growth for the future.
Coppice House Farm itself is still run perfectly well under the expert guidance of Frank Revitt. Frank took over the reins from his father, who had farmed the valley for well over 50 years.
Councillors have granted permission for a new three-bedroomed townhouse in the garden of a property on Headland Drive.
The application received 14 comments from neighbours.
Planning application 11/02809/OUT
On Saturday afternoon police attended the ATM machine located outside Spar in Crosspool precinct.
Once again someone had reported that they had had a problem with the machine and that money had been removed from their account. The police rang the owners, Bank Machines, to report the problem. Bank Machines told the police that they are not able to send an engineer until midweek.
An ‘out of order’ sign has been placed on the machine.
Problems were previously reported with the machine back in October and again in December.
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