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Thanks to the high standard of the photographs submitted by local residents, all 300 of the 2016 Crosspool Calendars have now been snapped up.
Crosspool Forum would like to give a big thank you to all the photographers and advertisers who entered into the community spirit to make the Crosspool calendar a must-have Christmas acquisition.
Money raised will go towards Crosspool Forum funds for local events and improvements to our neighbourhood.
A new coffee shop opens in Crosspool at 8am on Monday morning.
Nest is located in the old Lounge @ Crosspool shop, next door to the Crosspool Pets and near the Sheffield-bound bus stop.
The owners are promising a new format, including fresh coffee and homemade cakes. The premises has been refurbished over the last few weeks.
To begin with, Nest opening times are Monday-Friday 8am-4pm; Saturday 9am-2pm.
Lounge @ Crosspool closed in June.
The 48th youth pantomime will take place at The Beacon Stephen Hill church during half term in February 2016.
Performances of The Little Mermaid take place Wednesday 10 to Saturday 13 at 7.30pm each evening and there will be a matinee performance on the Saturday afternoon.
Tickets remain at last years prices: £5 adults and £4 for children of primary school or below. They can be purchased from:
The off-centre markings on Sandygate Road will be reviewed by Sheffield city council’s road safety auditors early next year.
The lines were positioned on the newly-resurfaced road with the intention of improving the safety of cyclists being overtaken going up the hill and to slow traffic coming down the hill.
Residents raised concerns over the markings online and at the Crosspool Forum Open a Meeting in October.
Since then Crookes Councillor Geoff Smith has been following it up. He explains: “Transport Planning in the council suggested the marking change as part of Cycle PFI Opportunities and Transport Planning provided the brief for Amey designers. Amey then designed the changes and Amey Road Safety auditors audited the design changes before they were implemented.
“After the Open Meeting I raised this again with the council’s traffic engineers. They informed me that after zone works are complete a zone audit is carried out by Amey’s road safety audit team. They are qualified road safety auditors. The audits comply with national guidance and are specified in the contract between Sheffield city council and Amey.
“This particular zone may not be fully completed until May of next year. So I have requested that, given the public concern, an audit of the Sandygate Road marking change is carried out on its own as quickly as possible, and that the outcome is made public.
“In this instance, as Amey have carried out the first audit, then there is an element of them doing the same thing twice, so this audit will be carried out instead by the council’s road safety auditors who have not had any involvement in the process. This provides more independence.”
The new issue of the Crosspool Clarion will soon be landing on your doormat. Download and read a PDF of it below.
Current issue: Winter 2015, volume 12, issue 4
Download Crosspool Clarion Winter 2015, volume 12, issue 4 (PDF, 3.2MB)
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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A planning application has been submitted to add a two-storey side extension and alter the roof design of Crosspool’s Pop Up Shop.
The changes would create three flats and extended retail space on the ground floor of the Lydgate Lane building.
Application 15/04122/FUL is open for comments until Monday 7 December 2015.
View application 15/04122/FUL on the SheffieldCity Council website
The 51 bus route will be changed slightly due to resurfacing works for the next three Sundays.
On Sundays 22 and 29 November and 6 December from 6am to 5pm the Crosspool-bound 51 bus will travel as normal to to Western Bank then go left down Clarkson Street, right onto Glossop Road, left to Fulwood Road then continue as normal to Lodge Moor.
City-bound journeys are unaffected.
The dedication of the Crosspool Forum vice chairman Steve Reynolds has been recognised with him being presented with the 2015 Crosspool person of the year award.
The award, set up in 2013 by Crosspool Forum on a suggestion by St Columba’s minister Reverend Frances Eccleston, acknowledges commitment, accomplishment and achievement by individuals in the neighbourhood.
On the recommendation of the Frances, Crosspools first award winner was Sue Havenhand, the retired headteacher of Lydgate Junior School.
In 2014 some 50 residents, at an open meeting, proposed and voted Ian Hague, Crosspool Forum Chairman, as the person to receive the award.
For the 2015 award, voting slips were compiled from a shortlist of people, nominated by the public and published in the Crosspool Clarion. Steve Reynolds, receiving the most votes, was presented with an engraved tankard and certificate at last week’s open meeting.
A new calendar featuring Crosspool scenes will go on sale in local shops this week.
Many of the photos in the calendar are once again taken by local residents and there are also some archive shots showing familiar locations looking very different from times gone by.
The 2016 Crosspool calendar is available from Wednesday for just £4 from the Crosspool Pets, Enhance, GT News and Charisma and at the Open Meeting on Thursday 29 October.
Last year’s calendar sold out after two reprints so get yours while you can!
Money raised will help Crosspool Forum funds for local events and improvements to our neighbourhood.
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