Newsletter Autumn 2004
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Sprotbrough & Cusworth Parish News Published by Sprotbrough & Cusworth Parish Council Printed on recycled paper Autumn 2004 A new skate park in early 2005 PARISH councillors have made an early New Year’s resolution - to create a top class skateboard park for local youngsters. The project was given the ‘green light’ after Sprotbrough and Cusworth Parish Council secured a £25,000 grant towards the cost of the project from waste recycling business WREN. The cash is from a landfill tax - money raised by charging local authorities and other waste contractors for disposing of waste in landfill sites. Grants are available to areas like ours which are situated close to landfill disposal sites like the one at Scabba Wood on Cadeby Road. The grant windfall from WREN gave the project the welcome boost it needed. As Sprotbrough and Cusworth Parish News went to press tenders for the project were being received and the successful contractor was due to be announced. The work is set to cost around £80,000, with the lion’s share being funded by the parish council. Coun Pat Haith, Chair of Sprotbrough and Cusworth Parish Council, said: “This is a great step forward for our plans to create more facilities for local young people. We expect building work to start in January and, depending on the weather, take around six weeks to complete. This means the skatepark will definitely open in early 2005. “We are grateful to WREN for its support for our bid. The grant has gone a long way towards financing the scheme.” The proposed design for the new skate park is now itching to be brought off the drawing board and built on Sprotbrough’s Anchorage Lane playing field, on a site behind the new changing rooms and close to the Scout hut. National charity, Groundwork Trust, is managing the project for the parish council. The design - pictured right - includes various ramps and a large bowl, together with a seated area and a grid at the entrance to prevent dogs from entering the area. Local youngsters and residents gave the plans a big ‘thumbs-up’ at a special consultation event held at Anchorage Lane in February. More than 50 young people came along to give their views to Groundwork Trust, left. The skate park was designed with input from local resident Steve Gratton, a former skateboarding and BMX champion. STOP PRESS - calling all skate board and BMX fans. A meeting to form a ‘Friends of the Anchorage Lane skate park’ group will be held in the Committee Room, Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough Road at 7.15pm on Tuesday 14 December. Steve Gratton and Area 51 Group members will be there. Please come along. For more information ring the Clerk, or Deputy Clerk to the Parish Council on 01302 788093. ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY FIRST A new local initiative from Doncaster Council, aiming to make our community a cleaner, tidier and safer place to live. Hello from the local Community First team • public conveniences Team Leader - Sharon West • community safety - through community safety wardens Community First Officer - Pat Williams • customer services Community Safety Warden - Tom Fent Community Safety Warden - Michael Eardley We are always looking for ideas to improve the way that we deliver all Doncaster Council services. Community First is a significant step towards THE Mayor launched Community First across Doncaster borough in September 2003. Community First is a new way of providing a range of improving our performance, responding to community needs and working council services at neighbourhood level. We have a number of staff including with residents to achieve excellent services. those listed above working in and around the local area. Our Community First officers assist residents in accessing services by directly You can contact the Community First team, which is based within your own taking requests from customers and ensuring that the services provided are community by telephoning Customer Services on (01302) 736000. You can delivered to the appropriate standard. Our staff will be working towards the talk to any member of the team working in the area to request a service or creation of safer, cleaner and tidier neighbourhoods. to provide your views and contribute to the development of services across Doncaster Council. Our Community First officers and safety wardens are also authorised to issue COMMUNITY FIRST DELIVERS THE FOLLOWING SERVICES: £50 fixed penalty notices to anyone who litters the environment and dog owners who will not clean up after their pets. Please note that the dog fouling • grounds maintenance, public rights of way laws include all highways in the borough where the speed limit is 40 mph or • waste collection service, street cleansing less and include the verges as well as the footpaths. We are now taking a • pest control, dog wardens proactive approach to issuing fines and prosecuting individuals. Introducing your new Community First safety wardens - Tom and Michael TARGETING THE FLY TIPPERS WE would like to take this opportunity to say ‘hello’ to all the people OPERATION Fly Tipper was officially launched across the of Sprotbrough! You may have seen us already, on patrol in our orange Borough by Mayor Martin Winter In April this year - and is jackets. We are keen to help and welcome opportunities to speak to already making its mark in our area. residents. We are part of a borough wide team but work specifically in Sprotbrough to provide a high visibility patrol and to observe and report incidents we come across such as anti social behaviour, street The scheme was launched to complement the Mayor’s FLAG crime and environmental issues such as fly tipping and graffiti. initiative (Fighting Litter, Abandoned Cars and Graffiti). We hope to provide a reassuring presence to the residents of A dedicated response team monitors identified hot spots across Sprotbrough. As Safety Wardens we are highly trained in several areas the Borough to target fly tipping - which is an environmental of crime prevention so please feel free to enquire about the services crime - and take action against offenders. we can provide such as domestic property surveys, property marking, bogus caller presentations to the elderly along with personal attack alarms. Also ask us about providing smoke alarms for the elderly Resulting from evidence found in the Nursery Lane area of and ‘message in a bottle’ medical aids. Our service and advice is Sprotbrough, two fixed penalty notices were issued last month. completely free and confidential. Investigations are also ongoing following further evidence found in other hot spot locations on the west side of Doncaster. Sprotbrough is a lovely place to live and we want to work with you to keep it attractive and safe. We hope to reduce crime and the fear of crime and will seek to enhance its physical appearance by reporting Early indications show that this initiative is proving successful environmental issues and problems. and it’s hoped that a scheduled evaluation, followed by more awareness raising early next year, will be both encouraging and When you see us, please stop and talk to us - we are happy to help effective. with your enquiries! ● To contact any member of the Community First Team please ● All Operation Fly Tipper enquiries should be made ring (01302) 736000. through the FLAG hotline on (01302) 736050. TEAM TRAINED TO SAVE LIVES IN SPROTBROUGH The team shares an AED and other equipment as well as a mobile telephone to enable them to keep in contact with SYAS’s communications SOUTH Yorkshire Ambulance Service (SYAS) is looking for more centre at Rotherham. Whilst on duty they can be called on to respond volunteers to join a newly formed community team that’s trained to to calls in the Sprotbrough area to administer treatment until an save lives in Sprotbrough. ambulance crew arrives. Members of the six-strong Sprotbrough First Responders’ squad The service is put into action once a 999 call has been received and an provide immediate care to people in the local area who : ambulance has been despatched. Members have already responded to ● have collapsed; emergency calls in the Sprotbrough area, mainly to administer oxygen ● are showing signs of having a heart attack; or to people who were having difficulty breathing. ● are having difficulty breathing. Sprotbrough and Cusworth Parish Council is backing the scheme by Volunteers work on a rota basis, giving as little or as much time as providing the Goldsmith Centre free of charge for the team to use for they can. They have all been trained in resuscitation and the use of an their six-weekly refresher training sessions automatic external defibrillator (AED) - used to deliver a controlled electric shock to the heart - as well as other skills to enable them to ● If you would like more information about the Sprotbrough scheme, deal with incidents confidently. A number of similar schemes operate in or are interested in joining, please contact Julia Massey at South communities across the Doncaster area and SYAS is keen to encourage Yorkshire Ambulance Service on 01709 820520 ext 857. Julia would more volunteers to get involved. The training is free and the skills also like to hear from anyone interested in starting a similar scheme in members learn can prove invaluable. Cusworth or Scawsby. THE CHURCH THAT COST JUST £1,610 TO BUILD Bob’s policing the local ‘patch’ Rev Bob Stevens takes a journey down Memory Lane to uncover the history of the former Sprotbrough Road Methodist Church MEET PC Bob Williams - our new community officer. SEEING the new Newton Medical Centre on Newton Lane PC Williams has taken over the Cusworth, Scawsby, reminded me of the building it replaced - Astley Hall - which was Scawthorpe and Sprotbrough beat from PC Chris Sprotbrough Road Methodist Church until 1977.