Happy New Year Keep Emerson Park Clean Fighting Local Crime
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Together we can make JANUARY 2020 a local change Your Local Voice on the Council Delivered Every Month by the Residents’ Association of Emerson Park - Part of the Havering Residents’ Association Happy New Year Our Website The Emerson Park Team of the Havering Residents Association would like For the latest news and copies of to wish all our members, deliverers and distributors a very happy New previous Bulletins please check out our upgraded website at www.raep.org Year. We have made great progress over 2019 with strengthening our links with the other Residents’ associations in Havering. With this greater unity we look forward to being in a position to be able to run the council with Christmas Lights local people making decisions for local residents in 2022. The Emerson Park Team helped with the Upminster Christmas lights Laurance Garrard, David Godwin, Paul Knight illumination recently, hundreds of local residents braved the cold to see Keep Emerson Park Clean the entertainment and the switch on. We mentioned the “Love Clean Streets” App last week which we have been using to report litter to the Council, we are monitoring response rates and will let you know how effective this service really is. We had many requests for assistance which we have passed to street care for roads that appear to have missed the cleaning rota. If you have a litter build up please use the App or let us know, we are also scheduling some litter pick-ups in the near future in badly affected areas. Fighting Local Crime Residents on the County Park estate, having seen an increase in burglaries and thefts over the last few months, are investigating a private security service for increased protection. Please be vigilant, make sure you lock windows and doors so as to make it harder for them. The “Ring” door bell with its video recording has been very effective in some areas and should be considered as a viable element to your home security. If you do see anything please report any incidents to the local police – for emergency, please call 999. Non emergency, please call 101 or you can reach the Emerson Park SNT on 0208 7212512. 01277 375237 After adventures aplenty on Course run over three terms on your behalf. If you still would Christmas his previous 7 voyages, Sinbad taught by two EBU Accredited like to join our membership Lights For returns home for good. But, Bridge Teachers. The cost of the please fill out the Membership when the Persian Pearl of Peace whole 30 week course is £275 Application Form on page 22. Charity mysteriously disappears, Sinbad which includes Club and EBU It was great to see the Christmas must set out on an epic adventure Membership and course book. Lights again at 6 Herbert Road to clear his name and rescue This can be paid in full or by Coffee On The they look fantastic. the Caliph’s beautiful daughter term. Why not come along to - Princess Miranda. Will Evilena the first free ’Taster Lesson’ (7th Corner The Dobbins family this year and the wicked Old Man of the February) to see if Bridge is for Come One, Come all.....and eat are collecting for King George Sea win the day? Or will Fortuna you. You only sign up for the cake! At the Chapel we want to and Queens Hospital Christmas show Sinbad the way? course if you wish to continue. draw our wonderful community Appeal which raises funds for gifts Come alone (no partner required) together to benefit from each for children in hospital over the or with a friend. Also running at other’s company and enjoy festive period. New Year – New the same time is the EBU Year ourselves. Come and have some fresh ground coffee, choose Please give generously. 2 Improver’s Course for those Hobby? wishing to improve on their game. from a selection of teas with no other purpose than enjoyment. Learn to Play Bridge Year 1 Contact Tony French for more Thursdays 10.00 - Noon at The Beginner’s Course and Year 2 information or to register your All Saints Chapel, 13-15 Butts Green Rd, Improver’s Course attendance on 07957 406088. RM11 2JR. Players Do you like playing cards? Playing Bridge offers an enjoyable All Saints Players present entertainment, a mentally Residents Your Help “Sinbad the Sailor ...... His 8th stimulating experience and an Voyage” a pantomime by Alan P opportunity to make new and Association Please Frayn at All Saints Church Hall, lasting friendships as part of a Membership If you are able to volunteer and Ardleigh Green Road, RM11 2LG growing social scene. Why not on Thursday, Friday, Saturday Membership renewals continue to deliver around 40 Bulletins in begin the New Year learning to your area or drop off Bulletins to 16/17/18 January 2020 at 8pm play the greatest card game in the come in for which we thank you, with a matinee performance at most importantly for the messages 4/5 of our deliverers. Then please world? Upminster & Cranham do get in touch. If you are able to 2.30pm on the Saturday, tickets Bridge Club will again be running of support and encouragement £7.50. Details from 01708 456683 from you. This shows that the help please contact Laurance on Beginner’s lessons on Friday 07973 856195. or [email protected]. lunchtimes at Cranham. This is good people of Emerson Park uk the full English Bridge Union’s value our work with the Council We appreciate your support. 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. 10. Potential use of existing access Improvement scheme. This follows waste and unexploded ordnance. track Most of the work will take place some design changes to the scheme This is a standard health and safety Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm with the following statutory consultation requirement. possibility of some weekend working. that was held earlier this year. What is involved? Balfour Beatty will be carrying out The proposed scheme involves these works on behalf of Highways the provision of a new two-lane Before digging the trenches, we will loop road between the M25 anti- scan the area using a magnetometer England, alongside Oxford Archaeology who specialise in archaeological clockwise and associated slip roads. (detector) attached to an all-terrain The proposed loop road will exit utility vehicle. excavations. They will be wearing PPE which will be branded with Lower the M25 to the north of the existing We will use mechanical excavators to Thames Crossing, working on behalf of junction and then circle round to dig shallow trenches approximately 30 Highways England. join the A12 eastbound. 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