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.
New Welcome to Crosspool flower box
Street light problem on Manchester Road
For at least the last 24 hours, a run of street lights have been out on the bottom part of Manchester Road between Broomhill and the Shore Lane junction.
This has resulted in almost pitch black conditions for pedestrians as soon as darkness falls around 5pm. It is not known whether the problems have been caused by the recent works taking place along various points on Manchester Road.
Street Force has been alerted to the problem. Until it is resolved, pedestrians and drivers are advised to take extra care.
Street Force street lighting information
Contact Street Force to report a faulty street light
Minutes from Crosspool Forum seventh AGM and Open Meeting, 28 October 2010
Below is a bullet point summary of Thursday’s meeting. Extended minutes can also be downloaded.
Download full AGM/Open Meeting minutes (Word document, 20KB)
Matters arising and Chairman’s report
- Second computer course (St Columba’s) very successful
- More spring bulbs have been planted. Christmas trees are expected to be erected in early December.
- Crosspool Forum website has really taken off – thank you to Robin Byles
- Another successful Summer Fayre and first-time Crosspool Festival; both are planned to continue next year – helpers and ideas please
- The Crosspool Harvest scheme has had some set backs but hopes to rally
- The Motor World site (Turner Investments) – planning officer recommends refusal
- The Forum Committee still has a vacancy for one more member.
- Treasurer’s Report and balance sheet was presented.
- Police report and incidents -PCSO Garry Hizam
- Graffiti artists have been making reparation – ‘restorative justice’
- The week beginning 1 November the police will be cracking-down on school childrens’ behaviour in the Crosspool shops area
- Operation Dark Night from 31 October to 5 November will target disruptive behaviour.
Environmental Enforcement Officer (Sheffield City Council) – Andrew Ashforth
- Crosspool shops and business correct waste-disposal project. All businesses must have special arrangements for the removal of their non-domestic waste, and ensure the rear of their property is kept clean and tidy, as well as the front.
- Scrap collecting vehicles – in four days Andrew has stopped and searched 6 of these. Householders (arranging for eg fridges to be removed) must ensure the company they deal with has the correct licence to do this work – or will be held liable of the item is then fly-tipped.
- Tyres are not to be put in skips – the skip companies will give advice on their disposal.
- Wheelie bins must be removed from the highway as soon as possible after emptying – residents can be fined if they persist in not doing so.
- Portable CCTV cameras – Sheffield City Council have a few available they can fix on lampposts to target fly-tipping sites.
- Nuisance bonfires on allotments to the rear of gardens; talk to the allotment association chair about getting all the allotment owners to have one big fire rather that lots of little ones, or composting the waste.
- Should residents wish to contact Andrew at the council, his telephone number is 0114 293 0347.
Garden Waste scheme (green bags)
This scheme is being phased out and shortly no more green bags will be available. After 8 November residents will need to phone up for the next date of full bag collection in this area, but from February 2011 a waxed/hessian bag scheme may be in place; these will be reuseable.
Anyone needing more green bags this autumn and winter – or indeed with far too many unused ones! – to contact the Clarion so these bags can be put to good use and not wasted.
Planning
- Vernon Terrace bus shelter – no further information.
- Crosspool Tavern old car park entrance – this should have been ‘greened over’ a year or so back – this will be chased up.
- Benty Lane/Manchester Road junction; an urgent Highways engineer’s visit is requested; a ‘no right turn’ onto Manchester Road sign, or mini roundabout is needed here.
- Crosspool Coffee Shop – an application to allow this to become a house has been accepted.
Download full AGM/Open Meeting 28 October 2010 minutes (Word document, 20KB)
Slimming World Crosspool gets new consultant
A new consultant is taking over the Slimming World group in Crosspool.
Emma McGowan will now be running the group, which meets every Wednesday night at 7pm at St Columba’s Church on Manchester Road. Her first meeting is tomorrow night (Thursday 27 October).
Emma said: ‘It’s not long until Christmas and the party season now but there is still easily enough time to lose at least a stone, without starving yourself or going without.’
For more information about the group and the offers available call Emma on 0114 233 5205 or 07941 062363. There is also background information in the Word document below.
Crosspool Slimming World – A whole new world (Word document, 40KB)
Lost tabby cat – can you help?
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.
Tavern Service Station planning application submitted
A planning application (10/03112/FUL) to extend the Tavern Service Station on Manchester Road is currently pending consideration.
Due to limited space in the existing premises, the service station is currently forced to turn away customers when it is too busy. In good weather, work and repairs can be undertaken on the front forecourt, but the owner is looking for a permanent solution.
It is proposed to extend the premises to provide four additional vehicle work stations. The overall standard of facilities will be improved, with the MOT testing areas re-sited.
The existing workshop and office occupy a site fronting Manchester Road, with access for pedestrians and vehicles from the main road. There is off road parking for a dozen cars with space for three work stations within the workshop. It is proposed that the new extension will run through at the same level, with access remaining as present via the Manchester Road.
For visual and aesthetic reasons, the extension will be constructed with facing materials to match the existing. A pitched roof will incorporate lights to provide both light and ventilation.
The overgrown area to the rear of the workshop, at 16-20 Sandygate Road, is currently used for the disposal of unwanted goods. The property and freehold owners are willing to sell the land to the service station owner and have made no objections to the proposed extension works.
A right-of-way for both the current owners of the 16-20 Sandygate Road property and the service station will be retained as a landscaped and paved access.
View Tavern Service Station planning application (10/03112/FUL)
Spring bulb planting continues on Saturday 9 October
Crosspool Forum is inviting local residents to join in with the planting of 1,000 crocus and 3,000 daffodil bulbs.
The first planting session took place yesterday and the plan is to continue this coming Saturday, 9 October 2010.
If you can spare an hour and would like to join in then meet 10am at the junction of Delph House Road and Manchester Road.
Computing courses at St Columba’s church hall
Two new computing courses started last Friday at St Columba’s church hall on Manchester Road.
The 12-week IT National College Introduction to ICT course is for beginners with no knowledge or just a basic knowledge of computers. It starts at 9am each Friday and is followed by a more advanced course at 11:45am.
Students are asked to pay just £30 for a 12-week course, with concessions for those on benefits.
Advanced students wishing to gain experience using the internet are also given the option of attending a course at a Foxhill computer suite taking place on either Monday or Thursday mornings.
Anyone wishing to join a course should contact Ian Hague on 0114 335 1674.
Fire in property near Shore Lane/Manchester Road
A fire in a property on the edge of Crosspool is currently being attended to by South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue (9pm, 13 September 2010).
Fire crews were alerted around 5pm when plumes of smoke were seen coming from the roof of a derelict house within the grounds of Sheffield University’s Ranmoor Village accommodation.
Building work was taking place on the property, which is near to the modern Shore Court accommodation block and is located between Shore Lane and Manchester Road.
The smoke drifted as least as far as the Arts Tower and was visible from other vantage points across the city.
Information available this evening has been limited, but it is not thought that anyone has been hurt in the incident. The cause of the fire is unknown.
At around 7.15pm, National Grid engineers arrived to isolate the gas supply to the property from Manchester Road. This work will not affect gas supplies to nearby houses.
As of 9pm this evening, the bottom end of Shore Lane was closed and police were directing cars away from the top end of the road. Manchester Road is open as normal.
Update 17 September: The fire brigade has confirmed that nobody was hurt in the fire and it is not being treated as suspicious.
BBC news story about the incident
South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue report and photos on Facebook
Photo of smoke taken from across the city
Background information about Manchester Road speed signs
We’ve been given a bit more information about the speed signs which were recently deployed – and removed – from Manchester Road.
The signs are known as Speed Indication Displays (SIDs) and form part of an ongoing speed awareness campaign.
In essence, a portable SID sign is able to detect the speed of oncoming vehicles with a set range and display an LED display back to the driver indicating the speed of that vehicle along with a happy or sad face depending on compliance with the prevailing speed limit.
In addition, the device can capture speed and vehicle flow data for future analysis.
The Road Safety Team at Sheffield City Council has developed a system of programmes and schedules for Speed Awareness Campaigns with some of the Community Assembly Areas whereby they provide the team with a list of sites where speeding has been a cause for concern either to residents or brought to the attention of officers by local Members.
The SID sign(s) are then rotated around these sites on an eight-weekly basis and data gathered to be assessed against ‘before’ data where available in order to assess their effectiveness.
The reason for this approach is that recent studies on the use of SIDs and Vehicle Activated Signs (VASs) have concluded that they are most effective when rotated around a number of sites as this reduces the likelihood of driver familiarity with a specific sign in a specific location.
Crosspool News - crosspool.info 
