Christmas in Upminster
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WE OPPOSE THE INCREASE ON JANUARY 2020 PARKING CHARGES email: [email protected] The Voice of the Community www.ucra.co.uk UPMINSTER & CRANHAM RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION Christmas In Upminster Happy New Year We hope you have all had a great Back in 2013 your Residents Councillors decided to have a proper event Christmas and wish you a very in Upminster for the Christmas. This event has grown every year in it’s Happy New Year. popularity... Firstly I would like to thank all our A record number of local residents attended the Christmas Lights event on volunteers, who have over the past year continued to help deliver the Thursday 21st November. Thanks to the Upminster Bell School for allowing Bulletin and collect subscriptions, the fun fair rides to use their car park in St. Marys Lane. The children enjoyed and who have also yet again exceeded our the free rides and we in the Residents Association expectations. The Association would also like to extend a very were pleased to sponsor these. warm welcome to all the new households that There was a variety of stalls along Station Road joined us in 2019. We are looking forward to including our friends from the Windmill together working with and representing you in 2020 Last year was another challenging and busy year with a nice selection of commercial stalls. Waitrose for the Residents’ Association. Sadly, in March were giving away some nice minced pies.. Councillor Clarence Barrett, our Group Leader, Great to have the choir from the local Churches passed away. He was one of the good guys, a truly Together and LMT Dance School. Gemstarz honourable man, and the Town Hall and our local community will not be the same without him. Dancers and The Decibellas Girl Band all Frustratingly, we also firmly believe that the performing. minority Conservative administration has not been Together with The Toy taking on board the views of our local residents in Upminster and Cranham. This is clear in the way Story Characters and they introduced the increased parking charges, singing from Elsa and as well as the withdrawal of the 30 minutes free Anna from Frozen. parking in Upminster. In addition, there has been a number of planning applications to build Thanks must also go to Havering Street watch, housing on both Upminster’s Pitch and Putt and local Radio Station Time FM and the Police. First the Cranham Brickfields site. Local opposition to Aid was provided by Primary Ambulance. these proposals to build on our public spaces and We were joined by our Cranham Councillor green belt has rightly been very strong. Your local Resident Association’s Councillors, in conjunction colleagues John Tyler and Linda Van den Hende with local residents and businesses will continue and Laurance Garrard, David Godwin and Paul Knight from the Emerson to strongly oppose these unpopular policies and Park Residents Association. planning proposals imposed on our community by the minority Conservative administration. Havering East Rotary also managed to get Santa to attend with the children To end on a positive note, this year’s Christmas’ enjoying meeting him. Lights event in Upminster was very well attended, Special thanks must go to Jacqui Best and Nicola Bowen from the Council’s and it was great to see so many local residents there, especially the children enjoying themselves. Communications Department for their huge input in putting the event As always, please do not hesitate to get in touch together. with ideas or issues you would like us to contest or celebrate on your behalf. Councillors LINDA HAWTHORN RON OWER & CHRIS WILKINS Here’s to another productive and fruitful New Year. Councillor CHRIS WILKINS Chairman, Upminster and Cranham Residents Association 01277 375237 Upminster & Cranham Edition 07956 950711 The site is within the green belt more visibility in the Town Centre Outline Planning and the applicant suggests the in particular. There is some good Filati, Upminster news on motor vehicle crime with a Application on special circumstances justification We have received some nice reduction of thefts of vehicles from is through Havering’s lack of comments on how well the Christmas Green Belt delivery in housing quotas, in 31 to 15 for the same three months Window display at Filati, the Mens accordance with the Mayor of in 2018. The news on residential Clothes shop in Station Road, looks. Over 200 residents attended London’s, London Plan. The site burglary is not so good with an Well done. a public meeting held by the has seen natural growth over increase from 15 to 18 in the same Cranham Ward Councillors at the years and a number of trees period in 2018. Make sure doors the end of November to discuss on the site are protected with and windows are locked when the Subscriptions the outline planning application property is empty and with the dark Tree Preservation Orders. The We have tried to reach a record evenings, lights on a timer switch are to develop 98 properties to the out-line application proposes number of homes this year. rear of Kerry Drive. Details from the removal of at least 9 trees recommended. There has been an If we were unable to get to you and each of the submitted reports that have TPO’s, along with the increase to 12 from 4 in robbery in left an envelope please return it to us. were discussed starting with what loss of the natural environment the same period. Most victims and Subscriptions per household are still developer proposes to develop: 18 for our local wildlife. Cranham perpetrators are school children. only £2 per year. We need to raise – 2 bed houses, 30 - 3 bed houses, Councillors will be keeping a The message is, keep mobile phones funds to assist you our community. 12 4/5 bed houses, 21 – 2 bed close eye on the application and hidden as most of these crimes are A warm welcome to new members. flats and 17 – 1 bed flats, which will update residents as and when opportunist. There have been some would be in multiple blocks which information becomes available. successes in the joint operations would be 2 – 3 storey in height. with British Transport Police, where Windmill Quiz The proposal suggests there Cllr GILLIAN FORD drugs have been found and potential Night would be 160 parking spaces and perpetrators warned to keep away from the area. There will be some The windmill’s annual quiz night will that the residents would not be take place on Saturday 29th Feb, 2020, required to open their windows speed gun activity over the next few Upminster Police weeks. In the past most of those it’s a leap year, at St. Laurences Church due to the ventilation systems main hall in Corbets Tey Road. 7.30pm speeding have been local, which is they will introduce, mitigating Update start, tables of 8, bring your own food against the noise from the M25 always disappointing. It appears that and drink. Tickets are £6 each. This is the Corbets Tey office will remain as and air pollution. However the From 4th December the Upminster always a popular event, so please book the base for Cranham and Upminster increase in vehicular traffic SNT (Safer Neighbourhood Team) early. Contact Cllr Linda Hawthorn on officers for the foreseeable future, would compound the noise and will have its full complement of [email protected] or on This is being kept under review. impact on air quality for existing officers, 2 PCs and 2 PCSO’s, together 01708 225451. All profits to go to our restored windmill. residents, with no access to noise with our Sgt Bargus who we share. Cllr LINDA VAN DEN HENDE and air improvement options. This is good news and should mean Cllr LINDA HAWTHORN continued on page 3 Tel: 01708 229857 Mobile: 07415 096551 / 07860 801377 2 We will excavate the soil from these We provide further details on where can be found at Lower Thames trenches to look for archaeological and when these surveys will take place https://highwaysengland. features. on our website, as well as a Frequently citizenspace.com/he/m25-junction- Crossing Update Asked Questions section. 28-supplementary-consultation/ We will replace the soil once the Archaeological Trial Trenching excavations and investigations are https://highwaysengland.co.uk/ beginning soon 10 Key proposals are outlined in the complete. archaeological-trial-trenching- consultation: Highways England are currently and-surveys-on-the-lower-thames- The noise level of these investigations undertaking a series of ground crossing/ is similar to a tractor or other farm 1. Mitigation proposals investigations and surveys at locations machinery. 2. Weald Brook mitigation works in Thurrock, Havering and Gravesham. M25 3. High-pressure gas main Details given are: These surveys are Where will the investigations take diversion helping us improve our proposals place? Junction 28 4. Proposed construction and develop our application for the compound Development Consent Order. The locations for the trial trenches are Improvement mainly on private farmland, on or near 5. Proposed satellite compound What are we doing? the proposed route alignment. 6. Redesign of the A12 eastbound Scheme – exit road We are digging shallow trenches to The work may be visible from nearby Supplementary 7. Ingrebourne River mitigation assess the archaeological features of a roads and properties. works site. When will work take place? Consultation 8. Drainage ponds and access Before we dig the trenches, we tracks Highways England have undertaken will undertake non-intrusive The first phase of these surveys will 9. Location of replacement of a supplementary consultation electromagnetic surveys to detect any start in November 2019 and continue gantry on the M25 Junction 28 Capacity sub-surface anomalies such as utilities, until March 2020.