Kingswells News

1 KINGSWELLS NEWS NEWSLETTER FOR THE COMMUNITY OF KINGSWELLS ISSUE ONE OCTOBER 2003 The communication void in Kingswells is filled. At last a newsletter to fill the communication void Many people keep valuable left by previous publications. bikes and golf clubs in the shed. Take action now to Kingswells Community Council and Claire Burt the protect your property. webmistress of Kingswells, are working in There also continues to be partnership to bring you this new community driven reports received regarding newsletter. anti-social behaviour by local youths, particularly around the This first issue has been sponsored by the Kingswells Community shopping centre and primary Project, but future editions will need to be self financing. school with regards to under- It is anticipated a not-for-profit company will be set up to raise age drinking and vandalism’s. funds for the newsletter through an annual sponsorship deal - yet If you are a youth and one of to be finalised. Any surplus funding will be ploughed back into the those responsible for causing community to ‘beautify’ Kingswells to purchase hanging baskets, annoyance you may be putting tubs and shrubs to improve the appearance of the area. your parents in a situation where they may have to pay If you can provide funding or wish to contribute to future for any damage caused by you! newsletters with pictures or articles or help with distribution, we want to here from you. Contact the Kingswells Community Council If you are a parent do you or Claire via the website: www.kingswells.com or by post c/o Kingswells Community Centre. know where your children By Claire Burt are tonight? Parents can never be 100% Police sure what their children are Contents : doing when they are out with Report their friends. However, good P.2: An update from Cllr Peter parenting involves speaking Stephen By Jim Watson, with your children and check- ing their arrangements with P.3: Lights Out Campaign Constable G9504 other friends and parents. Mastrick Community Beat Officer This may save you further Badgers of Bellfield Recently there has been a distress when you are asked to P4: Girlguiding in Kingswells spate of break-in’s to sheds in attend a Police Office or more the Kingswells area. importantly when they cause P.5: What’s going on in the shed? Residents are asked to be annoyance to your neighbours P.6: Moaning Milly more vigilant and report or other less able members of anything or anyone your community. Too ‘MUCH Spin… they consider to be of a If you wish to discuss any P.7: Girl’s night out suspicious nature in their area. issues or are interested in Also consider what you keep in starting up a Neighbour Hood P.8: KCC business in brief your garden shed. Is it Watch Scheme then contact Constable Jim Watson tel. KCC Who’s who valuable? If so, is your shed properly secured. 386980 or 386000. Keep up dated with local news visit WWW.KINGSWELLS.COM. Email: [email protected] 2 NEWSLETTER FOR THE COMMUNITY OF KINGSWELLS ISSUE ONE OCTOBER 2003 Residents of November. Agreement in Kingswells and principle was finally achieved surrounding area. to effect change, but the work involved, and the funding, I am so pleased to see that takes longer! I am still hope- Claire Burt in conjunction with ful that this will be approved Kingswells Community by November 03, but I am Council have taken the working closely with the initiative and succeeded in Community Council on this producing a successor to the one. Meantime - please obey “Blether”. I think it is so the “turn right” signal as you important that as a community leave the shops – recent near we have a means of misses have caused much con- communication so that the cern, and those guilty parties many issues arising can be will have the book thrown at addressed or at least debated. them if charged. This publication gives me the General opportunity to make comment PETER STEPHEN, on current matters, and to Arrangements are ongoing some extent takes pressure off Councillor for Newhills Ward (still at the talking stage) to getting my own “Focus” 11 Coldstone Avenue improve the pond on Newsletter out as frequently as Kingswood Drive. The I otherwise would prefer to do. KINGSWELLS, improvements at the Shopping I can almost hear the sigh of Tel/Fax 01224 744607 Centre should be underway by the time you read this, and it relief from all those who assist Snippets my wife and I to deliver to would be nice if we could use each household! Dog bins:in recent weeks, the recycle bins at the Park & six additional bins have Ride, although I have to say not the most accessible place School Extension: I must start by been sited in the Corse/Wellside/Concraig to have them sited. updating you on the School and Derberth areas. With the extension which is now running tightening of Finally ongoing correspondence at least 12 weeks in arrears to legislation now, and fines on the level of Broadband to programme. As you know, the being levied, there should be local users is a sore point. two objections to the plans, less irresponsible dog owners Any readers with a logical plan meant that the original about to assist me in my approach to application was referred to the Formation of Residents’ Groups:We BT could perhaps give me the Executive on the basis of a benefit of their input. have recently become more “willingness to approve”. Thanks and best wishes mean- aware of the need to group Sport Scotland then became time. ourselves in order to stand-up involved with a further Cllr. Peter Stephen complication which was only against “developer recently cleared. The formal arrangements” to pass on the approval should be received by cost of maintenance ie. Grass the time you read this article, cutting, children’s play areas and hopefully by then we may etc. Two groups are currently also be seeing the test borings forming – one in Wellside, and etc. being done on the ground. one in Coull. Talk with me if you have a problem. At best, it will be January Traffic Layout:The one way traffic before the real work starts, layout at the shops is diaboli- and this would also be cal – I raised this with City dependent on the weather. Roads Department last Keep Kingswells Clean Keep up dated with local news visit WWW.KINGSWELLS.COM. Email: [email protected] 3 NEWSLETTER FOR THE COMMUNITY OF KINGSWELLS ISSUE ONE OCTOBER 2003 LIGHTsOUT CAMPAIGN leave lights on within their Badgers and Bellfield properties when it is left From Grampian Police unoccupied by using timers on By Eric Jensen Grampian Police are reminding lamps and radios to come on home owners that with the at selected times. Constable clocks going back at the end of Lambley of the Crime October the dark nights will Reduction Unit stated be drawing in. In recent years “Although many householders there has been specific times are preventing break ins to identified at this time of year their home using good physical when break ins to houses security in door and window occur. With dusk falling at just locks, the use of timers, out- after 4pm houses are left in side security lights and even darkness before people return The Common Badger house alarms are still very home from work nearer 6pm. Badgers can be highly elusive important. Leaving a light on Once again this year Grampian and it usually takes a really is a simple and effective Police in Aberdeen City, in determined effort to locate measure and although it does conjunction with local these fine animals, which are not give a guarantee, it Neighbourhood Watch not uncommon here in the certainly reduces the risk”. Schemes, are running the northeast. It is a great pity Neighbourhood Watch “Lights out, you’re out” that badgers are killed so members will be spreading the campaign during the last two often these days on our message amongst their weeks in October. This country roads; indeed, a dead community to make residents campaign has been badger on the grass verge is aware and to use good successfully run over the past the only encounter most security, hopefully encouraging few years and heightens people will have with Brock. communities to look out for awareness of residents in Environmental consultants each other. various areas in the city to commissioned by AFC initially For further information contact protect their houses from reported, “no evidence of Constable Lambley, Crime opportunists thieves. activity or occupation by Reduction Unit on tel – 01224 Home owners are advised to badgers was recorded” during 386875. their October 2001 survey of the Bellfield site. Yet a few months later there was a Lights Out - Top 10 Tips wealth of trace evidence that Check all doors are locked and secure Don’t leave keys under a doormat or badgers living round about when leaving the house and also during other such places. were foraging across the farm! the night. These findings were duly Security code your property using an pointed out to the Planning Use a timer switch on radios and lights to ultra violet pen with your postcode and Department early in 2002. give the impression that someone is home. house number. In a neighbouring parish I recently watched four adult Fit external security lights at the front Note all the makes, models and serial badgers and two well-grown and back of your home. numbers of electrical property in your cubs leave their sett just house.

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