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Rooksdown Reporter Spring 2009 1 ROOKSDOWN REPORTER Issue 2 Spring 2009 Brought to you by Rooksdown Parish Council EDITORIAL ROOKSDOWN PARISH COUNCIL Rooksdown is going to have some Welcome to the second edition of the Rooksdown Reporter benches. Where would you like them to be Do you have any issues or stories placed? you would like to be covered in the Please email us on Rooks- next Rooksdown Reporter? [email protected] Or you can drop a note into the If so, please get in touch: Rooksdown Community Hut next to the play park in Mill Road. Email: [email protected] by 31 March Contact us on the above email Rooksdown Parish Council address if you would like to help, or Meetings advertise in the next issue SaxonWood School at 7.30 Monday 23 March As well as the Rooksdown Monday 27 April Reporter, there are a number of ways Monday 1 June to find out what is happening in Monday 29 June Rooksdown: Monday 27 July There are a number of noticeboards Come along and meet your around Rooksdown, Parish Council • By the telephone box Gillies At the 2009 Drive , Annual Parish Meeting • On the side of the Community & Hut next to Mill Road Park, Annual Meeting of the Parish • Park Prewett Road next to the Council Medical Centre Monday 1st June at • Mill Road. SaxonWood School 7.30pm DISCLAIMER The views expressed in the Rooks- down Reporter are not necessarily those of the group. We do not accept liability nor warrant any product or NEXT ISSUE : SUMMER 2009 service advertised in the Rooksdown Reporter. 3 ROOKSDOWN EVENTS For more info or tickets contact Rooksdown Community Association- Quiz Night (Weybrook Golf Club) Fri 20 March at 7.30 Woodland Walk Mill Road Green Sat 9 May 2-4pm Summer Fayre Mill Road Green Sat 18 July 2-4pm Story Time Mill Road Green Fri 7 August 12-12.30 Quiz Night Weybrook Golf Club September Skittles Night Bowls Club Sat 25 April 7.30pm Mobile Library every other Thursday at 3.45 to 4.15 by the telephone box Gillies Drive. Community Wardens—Wednesday Workout 3.30 to 4.30 pm Football Field by Nightingale Gardens opposite telephone box Easter Holidays Wed 8 & 15 April Whitsun Holidays Wed 27 May Summer Holidays Wed 29 July 5 & 12 & 19 & 26 August Mobile Play Schemes by the Big Lottery & Basingstoke Play Ltd Mobile Play Scheme Thursday 28th May 10am until 12 noon, On Mill Road Green (dates to be arranged during the Summer Holidays.) Rooksdown Community Association Meeting SaxonWood School at 7.30pm 3 March, 31 March, 6 May, 9 June, 7 July Everyone is welcome. Help and ideas are always needed. Come along and meet the Community Association. We also have regular Rooksdown News Articles in the Basingstoke Gazette on Thursdays and there is also a website www.rooksdown.org.uk 4 ROOKSDOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Rooksdown Community Association is a small, friendly group of people and are always on the lookout for more volunteers and would be very interested to hear of anything you think we should be doing or could be doing in Rooksdown. email: [email protected] With the new year now underway, the Community Association has already started scheduling dates and planning events for 2009. The Woodland Walk and Summer Fayre are proving increasingly popular so these will be going ahead, again along with the Quiz Nights. As the number of residents within Rooksdown is still growing, hopefully we will have an even bigger turn out this year. All we need now is the sun! We cannot make these events happen without volunteers so if anyone can spare some time no matter how little, either on the day or to help with preparations beforehand, please do contact the Community Association. CALLING ALL PARENTS OF SMALL CHILDREN The number of residents that have young children and babies in Rooksdown is rapidly growing and one thing that our community is really lacking is a toddler group or somewhere for mums and babies to meet for coffee. Hopefully once the community centre is built there will be opportunity to set up something for families, but in the meantime I would like to let everyone know about the new Surestart centres. The Honeycomb children’s centre will be open from 21 st February, Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm and alternate Saturday mornings. The centre is located behind Chiltern Primary School and serves the local areas of Buckskin, Winklebury and Rooksdown. The facility will have play rooms for people to drop in and meet whilst children can play, and a variety of themed sessions for children under 5. For more details you can contact them on 01256 331574. We have also arranged Diana from the library to come and do Storytime on the green again during the summer holidays so make sure you put Friday 7 August at 12pm in your diary! Sue Lussenden—Committee Member 5 COUNCILLORS PAGE Cllr Karen Cherrett Rooksdown continues to grow in spite of the economic downturn. Parts of Limes Park seem to have ground to a halt but progress in other schemes means that there is still a lot of work going on. This is a positive sign for those working here and for people needing homes. The time it is taking to complete the whole of Rooksdown remains frustrating. Many of us moved into the area more than a decade ago with the promise of a new community with its own shops, school, surgery and community centre. Continued interruptions to the build schedule, caused by past issues over land release or the current economy means that we are still waiting. Rest assured that I am on the case. The Council has few if any, formal powers to force progress, but informally I have been pressing the developers and council officers to meet regularly and discuss how different phases of the community can be finished or at least brought up to a reasonable state. The support of residents (through the Community Association and the Parish Council), and of our County Councillor, Stephen Reid, has really helped to raise the profile of Rooksdown as a community with a growing voice that cannot be ignored. Together we have succeeded in: · getting as far as design stage for the new community facility – community consultation on the designs will start in the spring · encouraging the PCT to consider bringing forward its plans for a permanent surgery in Rooksdown · persuading the developers to listen to concerns re the amount of advertising distracting motorists on Rooksdown Avenue · enabling enforcement action on the land owners to lop and trim trees in the Spinney · secured road adoptions in Mill Road through to Vespasian Gardens and Balsan Close (outstanding for nearly a decade) · encouraged the developers to complete street lighting ring mains in stages at Limes Park so that lighting can be provided ahead of completion (when it was planned) I am increasingly aware of just how long it can take to get seemingly simple things done – confusion over land ownership and split of responsibilities in the area is the main cause – but tackling the issues as a community certainly helps. 6 COUNCILLORS PAGE Cllr Karen Cherrett The community is still growing - Limes Park is less than half built and the hospital accommodation is also expanding – but we are one community. I would encourage anyone who wants to get involved in local activities or with views on local topics to contact me or any of my Parish and Commu- nity Association colleagues. Getting involved can really make a difference. Finally I have had many comments about the rat running through the es- tate as a result of the A340 road-works. With the works scheduled to complete very shortly it is hoped the rat running will lessen. Conversa- tions are continuing between the developers, hospital, Police and Hamp- shire County Council to find a solution – proposals to impose daytime road closures raised as many complaints as comments of support. It is difficult to know how to resolve this in everyone’s best interests – so can I ask everyone to be patient. In the meantime please keep your speed down on the roads and be courteous to other road users. That way we can at least go someway to minimising risk of accidents. E-mail – [email protected] OLDER DRIVERS Older drivers have a wealth of experience, confidence and tolerance. However sight, hearing, reaction time and judgement of speed and dis- tance will not be as sharp as it once was. People who have been driving for a number of years and who want to update their driving skills or to gain confidence, might be interested to know there is an scheme available from the persons home using their own car. Road Safety Officers managed the scheme dprovided by Approved Driving Instructors who have a good understanding of the needs of the older driver. For further information please contact: Road Safety Office on 01962 874600 or email: [email protected] 7 HEADWAY Brain Injury Association Action for Brain Injury Week - 11-17 May 2009 - This year cyclists of all ages will be encouraged to wear helmets as part of this awareness-raising week. Join in the fun by wearing a hat for Headway on Friday 17 May. "Tee off" with Headway - Thursday 18 June 2009 - Charity Golf Day hosted by Snooker Legend Willie Thorne. Kilworth Springs, a par 72 championship course measuring 6718 yards, is situated in rural Leicester- shire. Get your team of four together and come and join us! London to Paris Cycle Rides - 3-7 June, 1-5 July, 9-13 September 2009.
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