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First South Yorkshire has announced the timetable for the 51 bus route over Christmas and new year.
No buses will run on Christmas day, Boxing day or new year’s day, and a Saturday service will operate on many other days over the festive season.
Full details are on the First South Yorkshire website:
Summary of Christmas and new year First bus services (2010/11) in South Yorkshire
Earlier on today, volunteers and the Crosspool Forum committee met to put up illuminated Christmas trees above shops in the precinct.
It is the sixth year that Crosspool shops have been decorated with Christmas trees. As the photos below show, thankfully the team was blessed with fine weather compared to last year’s driving sleet!
As you enter Crosspool via Manchester Road, keep an eye out for the new flower box under the Welcome to Crosspool sign.
The £20 box was prepared by Valleyside garden centre and paid for by Crosspool Forum.
Crosspool families are invited to the Out Cow Molly bonfire from 2:30pm on Saturday at Cliffe House Farm in Dungworth.
The free event includes a fire engine which will be giving rides all afternoon to raise money for the fire museum, a barbecue serving Yorkshire highland beef burgers, hot drinks, a Bradfield Brewery bar and of course a big bonfire which will be lit at 5pm.
Cliffe House Farm was originally a dairy farm dating back to 1947. With the price of milk falling, in 2007 the family decided to diversify into dairy ice cream and Our Cow Molly was born.
Our Cow Molly currently supplies its excellent range of ice cream to outlets including Bamforth’s in Crosspool, The Three Merry Lads pub in Lodge Moor and Cream coffee shop in Broomhill.
At today’s West and North Planning Committee meeting in the town hall, planning application 10/02657/FUL to enlarge the premises currently occupied by Motor World on Lydgate Lane was rejected by a majority of five votes to three with one abstension.
The rejection was primarily on the grounds 0f parking and access.
An amendment to the original plans was submitted prior to the meeting and indications are that the developers will lodge an appeal in due course.
Prior to the planning committee meeting on Tuesday, the planning officer’s report recommends that the committee refuse planning permission for the convenience store application 10/02657/FUL on the grounds of unsuitable/unsufficient car parking accommodation and inadequate on-site servicing provision and servicing from the highway.
A decision by the planning committee is expected at the meeting on Tuesday.
Planning application report for committee – see pages 34-42 (PDF, 3.7MB)
Agenda for 2 November 2010 meeting
A presentation is still to be made to the planning committee at the meeting on Tuesday 2 November at 2pm at the Town Hall on Pinstone Street.
You are invited to give your feedback on the presentation by leaving a comment below before it is finalised on Sunday 31 October.
A reminder that you are invited to another meeting tonight at 6:30pm in St Columba’s church hall to discuss the proposed convenience store planning application in Crosspool.
The meeting has been arranged as a follow-up to the Extraordinary Open Meeting in September at which residents were given the opportunity to express their views on the proposed enlargement of the current Motor World premises on Lydgate Lane. Iain and Andy were voted by those present to represent them at the upcoming council planning meeting.
Tonight’s meeting includes the following on the agenda:
It is possible that the application will be considered by the board at the council’s 3 November planning meeting.
23 December update: the match has been postponed
The oldest football ground in the world in Crosspool is to host a Boxing day rematch between the world’s two oldest football clubs.
On Boxing day 1860, Hallam FC played Sheffield FC in the world’s first inter-club football match. The 2010 rematch at Sandygate marks the 150th anniversary of this historical game.
The day will include refreshments plus pre-match and half-time entertainment. And of course the Plough pub is just over the road from the ground.
Tickets are on sale now and are limited to Sandygate’s capacity of about 1,000. Standing is £10/£7 concessions, seating is £15/£12 concessions.
Buy tickets online from theoldestfootballgroundintheworld.com
As part of the 150th anniversary celebrations, an England C team will also play a Hallam XI at Sandygate on Tuesday 19 October.
More than 200 years of friendship will be celebrated in Sheffield on Tuesday 19 October at an open day hosted by the Oddfellows.
Visitors to Tapton Hall on Shore Lane in Crosspool will be treated to birthday cake and drinks to mark the bicentenary of the fellowship society whose motto is ‘Making friends, helping people’.
The event, organised by the Oddfellows’ Over 50s Friendship Centre, runs from 11am to 3pm with stalls offering plants for sale, book club information, card making, and advice from the University of the Third Age.
The Oddfellows is a not-for-profit social organisation which runs a network of 151 branches across Britain. With a membership of 120,000, it offers a dedicated Citizens’ Advice Bureau phoneline, care information, and financial welfare support such as help with legal aid and funeral costs.
For further information telephone 01709 838 673 or visit www.oddfellows.co.uk.
On Thursday 7 October a seven-year-old tabby cat called Marco went missing from his home on Barholm Road. Have you seen him?
He’s got a red collar with a disc containing his name and phone number. The owners are asking whether local residents could check garages, basements, greenhouses and sheds in case he is trapped inside.
There has been a possible sighting of him up near the Sportsman pub on the other side on Manchester Road.
If you think you might have seen Marco, please ring the owner on 230 5162.
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