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The new issue of the Crosspool Clarion is currently being distributed. Download and read a PDF of it below.
Current issue: Autumn 2016, volume 13, issue 3
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The 51 bus switches today to its summer service.
The new timetable also shows the changes in the Western Bank area.
The new issue of the Crosspool Clarion will soon be landing on your doormat. Download and read a PDF of it below.
Download Crosspool Clarion Volume 13 Issue 2 Summer 2016 PDF (4.2MB)
The Crosspool Clarion is the official newsletter of Crosspool Forum. It is a free, quarterly publication, with over 2,700 copies delivered to local households.
Some back issues of past editions of the Clarion are also available to download.
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You’re invited to come and leave your household waste in the Crosspool Community Skip on Tuesday 10 May 2016. It’ll be in the The Sportsman car park on Benty Lane from 8am (not 7am as previously published) and will be picked up promptly at 11:30am.
Please note, the skip is for household waste only. The following items will not be accepted:
The skip will be supervised at all times.
Calling all Crosspool residents! Can you help us?
Many drivers living in Crosspool will use the Redmires Road/Blackbrook Road junction on their journey to Hathersage and into Derbyshire.
People living on the old Lodge Moor Hospital site using the crossroads every day are campaigning to get improved signage and traffic calming measures on Blackbrook Road. This is because there have been several collisions and many more frightening near misses at the junction recently.
The council have said it is not a high priority, and we are afraid there will have to be a further serious crash, with someone getting killed this time, for improved measures to be taken.
If you use the junction regularly, and have had a collision there, or been involved in a near miss yourself, please contact Mike at mike@petersmichael1.plus.com and let him know when and what happened.
A Crosspool resident has written a book inspired by the children she fosters.
Martha, Ginger and the Mischievous Magpies is based on stories Anne Murphy has told to children in her care over the years.
“We keep chickens which the children love. I started telling the children stories and the ones about the chickens Martha and Ginger went so well I decided to write them down,” said Anne.
“The children were my inspiration and they are also my biggest critics – they liked the stories so that’s good enough for me.”
In the story the two chickens change places with a pair of mischievous magpies and unexpected adventures follow with other animals including a fox and a squirrel.
The book has colour illustrations by Anne’s partner Gavin Holliday and has been published privately.
Anne and Gavin have been respite foster carers for several years and care for children from birth to 18 years
“Becoming respite foster carers was a big decision but it was something we wanted to do. You want to create a home for the children and telling the stories about Martha and Ginger has become part of that,” added Anne.
Martha, Ginger and the Mischievous Magpies is for sale, price £5. If you are interested in a copy contact Anne Murphy at anne.murphy@sheffield.gov.uk.
Resurfacing of the Gladstone Road to Manchester Road section of Fulwood Road will begin on Monday 21 March and is expected to last about two weeks. The work will take place 7pm to 7am.
A 34-year-old man is currently in hospital in a life threatening condition after the car he was travelling in crashed into a wall in Crosspool.
At around 10.45pm last night (Sunday, 6 March), the man was driving a blue Ford Puma along Sandygate Road towards Crosspool, when he was in collision with the kerb and is believed to have lost control of the car, close to the junction with Hallam Chase.
The car then rolled and was in collision with a wall, throwing him from the car.
He was taken to hospital where his condition is described as critical.
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or who may have been in the area at the time is asked to call 101 quoting incident number 1136 of 6 March 2016.
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A long-running dispute over parking in the residential area near Claremont Hospital has moved closer to being resolved.
Staff from the hospital have been leaving their cars on nearby roads leading to claims by residents of blocked driveways and on one occasion an ambulance being denied access because of double parking.
The residents’ case was taken up by local councillors Anne Murphy and Geoff Smith who have fought a near two-year battle to end the disruption.
Now a range of off-road parking places are being provided for staff by the private hospital on Sandygate Road.
Councillor Murphy said: “The problem is that there is no staff parking on the hospital site and some staff were moving across the road and parking on Sandygate area roads, which is a really lovely residential area.”
“Parking on grass verges, parking across driveways, even on a driveway in one case. An ambulance was stopped from getting through by double-parked cars. The residents had a lot of problems.”
Following representations by councillors Murphy and Smith and the residents, the hospital management arranged for staff parking at the nearby Crosspool and District Youth Sports Trust and at the Masonic Hall, in Crosspool, with park-and-ride service.
Some staff refused to use the places but a meeting with councillor Murphy and residents at the hospital alerted the management to the problem.
Now the hospital is to provide extra spaces at The Plough on Sandygate Road.
Councillor Murphy said: “There’s now no reason for staff to park in the Sandygate area. There may still be some parking by hospital visitors or patients at times but hopefully this should be an end to staff all-day parking.
“It has been more than been 18 months and three meetings with the hospital but it now seems that we have achieved something that will help the residents and provide parking for hospital staff.
“We have made the hospital management take us and the residents seriously.”
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