King Edward VII lower school on Darwin Lane will host a Korean food sale on Saturday 17 May.
It starts at 10:30am and runs to 12:30pm.
Summer 2014 Crosspool Clarion out soon
The new issue of the Crosspool Clarion will soon be landing on your doormat. If you can’t wait, then download and read a PDF of it below.
Download current issue: Summer 2014, volume 11, issue 2 (PDF, 3.1MB)
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Crosspool Clarion, Summer 2014, volume 11, issue 2 (PDF, 3.1MB) Crosspool Tavern introduces pay and display parking
- Community skip
- Items wanted for Crosspool Fayre
- Lydgate Green needs your unwanted plants
- Planning permission update
- Tai Chi in Crosspool
- Computer courses
- Sportsman fundraiser
- Crosspool Ladies
- Come with me to Norfolk Island
- Hagg Lane allotments
- Getting more from your polytunnel/greenhouse
- Guide dog boarders needed in S10
- Pagan Festivals at Burnt Stones in Medieval Times
- Open Meeting minutes
Download current issue: Summer 2014, volume 11, issue 2 (PDF, 3.1MB)
The Crosspool Clarion is the official newsletter of Crospool Forum. It is a free, quarterly publication, with over 2,500 copies delivered to local households.
Some back issues of past editions of the Crosspool Clarion are also available to download.
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Road resurfacing project roadshow arrives in Crosspool on Tuesday
You’ll have the chance to find out more in Crosspool next week about Streets Ahead, the project to renew the roads, pavements and streetlights of Sheffield.
The Streets Ahead roadshow arrives in Crosspool at The Sportsman pub on Tuesday 13 May from 2-4pm and will then move on to The Florentine 5-7pm.
Resurfacing work is already underway in areas of Tapton Hill and work around Crosspool is scheduled to continue throughout 2014.
This online map allows you to search by postcode to find an approximate date for when the work will take place on your street.
New fitness courses launch at King Edwards Community Sports Centre
A series of fitness courses have launched in Crosspool as part of a fitness, health and wellbeing initiative.
Following successful courses in Stocksbridge, Handsworth, Stannington and Wisewood,  ACTIVEHEALTH Sheffield is now using the community sports centre at King Edwards’ school on Darwin Lane to host activities.
Courses coming up in May include Bums, Tums and Pins and Weight Loss programme.
All activities are delivered by qualified instructors who provide professional advice and support throughout.
ACTIVEHEALTH Sheffield – Crosspool courses
Tablet/iPad course starts Monday 12 May 2014
Crosspool Forum is helping organise a course to help those less confident using tablets build their skills.
The 10-week course starts on Monday 12 May 2014 at the Scout Hall on Benty Lane and runs 1-3pm. Topics include:
- Identify the iPad’s features and use settings
- Use the iPad’s on-screen keyboard efficiently
- Use multi-touch gestures on the touch screen display
- Manage apps and make use of Safari and iTunes
- Capture photos and videos by using the iPad’s camera
- Identify Safari’s useful features and gain practical experience using a web browser
- Use the Settings more efficiently to personalise an iPad
- Experience using the App Store to download and use an application
- Gain practical experience of using both the Mail and Messages apps
- Find out about FaceTime
It costs £60, or £10 for those in receipt of means-tested benefits.
To enrol or find out more, please contact us on 0114 250 0613 or email info@heeleydevtrust.com.
Help lay a bark chipping path on Hagg Copse this weekend
Could you spare some time to help lay a new bark chipping path on Hagg Copse this Sunday, 11 May?
Join other volunteers from 10am for a Hagg Copse clean-up morning. No experience is required, but if you have a pair of gardening gloves to wear and a spare shovel that would be useful.
Hagg Copse is a community green area on the corner of Coldwell Lane and Manchester Road, maintained by Crosspool Forum.
Convenience store development proposed for Crosspool Jet petrol station site
Crosspool’s Jet petrol station would be demolished and replaced with a retail development if a new planning application for the site is approved.
Application 14/01275/FUL would see the building of a double-storey A1-class retail unit with parking for ten cars. It would extend to 354 square meters gross internal area.
No occupier for the unit has been announced, but the application states that discussions with several parties are ongoing and that “it is anticipated that it will attract a general convenience store operator selling everyday items such as groceries, alcoholic and soft drinks, tobacco, and newspapers.”
Full details of the scheme are on the council website, including site plans and a detailed planning statement (PDF, 657KB).
You have until Monday 19 May  now extended to the 2nd June   to comment on the proposals.
This planning application follows the news last week that just up the road plans have been submitted for an extension to the former Crosspool Coffee Shop house.
Bullet points from Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, 25 April 2014
Download a summary of bullet points from last Friday’s meeting:
Crosspool Tavern introduces pay and display parking
As of today, you will need to pay to park in Crosspool Taven car park.
It costs £1 for a maximum stay of two hours. You’ll receive a £1 refund when you place your first order in the pub.
A sign explains: “For the security and convenience of our customers, it is intended to operate this car park on a pay and display basis. This change is to improve the availability of car park spaces for customers.”
Crookes ward local election candidates confirmed
The six Crookes ward candidates standing in the 22 May election have been revealed:
- John Clapham – UKIP
- Nick Hall – Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts
- John Hesketh – Independent
- Shaffaq Mohammed – Liberal Democrat
- Anne Murphy – Labour
- Jonathan Peters – Green Party
European Elections will also be taking place on the same day. For these, you vote for a political party to represent your views in the European Parliament, not an individual candidate.
So on the day you will be able to vote for one ward candidate and one European political party.
If you haven’t registered to vote then you still have time to do so before 6 May.
Voter registration – Sheffield City Council
Full list of Sheffield local election May 2014 candidates (docx, 82KB) (Crookes ward details are on page 8 of the document)
The Star: More on each candidate
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