Borough Councillor Surgery

I will be holding my first community surgery between 10.00-11.00am on Friday 29th May at Aldeli.

Please do come along and speak to me about any community issues that are affecting you and I’ll do my best to help.

Alternatively, please feel free to just come along and join me for a coffee.  I look forward to meeting everyone.

Craig :-)

Hi Craig,

one thing you may be able to help with: the surface of the car park in the park has begun its ‘annual crumble’.
If approached, CEC will send someone along to pour tarmac into the holes.
Any chance?

Hi Duncan and Craig
I have already asked Ansa if they can sort out the surface of the car park. It is dangerous. I am sure someone will trip in one of the holes and really hurt themselves one of these days.  It needs completely resurfacing I think, not just filling in the holes.

Hi,

I may be wrong but I think it is not ‘ansa’.
The trouble with ‘fixing’ the whole surface, the last time CEC were asked, was that if they did that, there would have to be parking meters put in, which may not be very popular with the users of that car park?
Could always try CEC again?

Hi Duncan,

Yes, I will be following it up with CEC later this week. I think the pavement in front of the Car Park is also very dangerous, so will be following that up too.

Thanks,
Craig

Good Morning Craig,

1. any response from CEC re. repair works to the Park’s car park surface?
2. I’ve been happily deleting emails and shredding documents concerning the park; I came accross a missive from CEC (a few years back) that included an estimate of the cost to CEC of a full renovation of that car park. The figure was £150,000.
3. Amongst the possibilities for easing the village’s parking problems, are the PC considering enlarging the car park in the Park? The old PC considered it, but found more opposition than approval.  It would be good to know the latest thinking.

Hi Duncan

I hope you’ll be able to make the Parish Council’s public meeting tomorrow evening?  I believe it is their intention to tell all who attend exactly where they are on a wide range of burning issues and (gasp) invite comment and discussion.  I’m sure you’ll get a good overview of what’s going on and it will hopefully mean that our Parish Councillors can deal with a whole range of questions like yours in one go, thus allowing time to get on with the job, in the meantime.  See you there?

Hi Craig,
as the P.C. councillor for parks and open spaces, do you include the A.E. cemetery (as I did)?

If so, there was a matter in progress that you may care to pick up on. There are several benches in the cemetery that need some t.l.c.. Rub down? Re-wood staining? The benches are not owned by CEC (they were put in by grieving relatives of the deceased) and so there is (say CEC) no responsibility for CEC to spend the money for the t.l.c.. The former P.C. had not actually decided whether or not to find the cost.
Is this something that the new P.C. might debate?

Hi Craig,

another one for you. Sorry if I seem to be ‘on’ at you but you are now the P.C’s go-to guy for the park.

During the recent ‘spring clean’ of the park, which started back in March I think, a lot of overgrown veg. was removed.
Part of that uncovered much more of the fence between the AESG tennis courts (I think that’s what they are?) and the edge of the park alongside the bowling green.
The fence is a ‘picket fence’ of chestnut palings. (I hope I’ve got the terminology right there!).
Alas it seems that this fence is ‘covered’ in barbed wire. I had intended to take this up with the school governors, after the election. Oops, no longer my job! Over to you.
I did manage to elicit from ‘ansa’ Officers that they had neither records nor memory of putting barbed wire there. I also doubt that ‘Mount Grace School’ (as it was then) would do that.
Who owns the fence? Who is responsible for the barbed wire? Who might take on the task of removing it; as I had hoped would be done?

Good luck with this.

My next Community Surgery will be on Friday 26th June at Aldeli, starting at 10am.

Please come and join me for a coffee and/or chat about any local issues affecting you.