Winter 2017 High-rise flats safety assured My Dales NEWS from your neighbourhood My Dales road safety update

After the tragic events at Grenfell Tower in Kensington, London, we have spent time along with officers from Nottingham City Homes, Fire Service and the Council reassuring residents of Kingston, Manvers, Bentinck and Colwick Woods Courts in about their safety. The cladding on these blocks is a different material to Grenfell Tower’s cladding. Safety checks have been completed and there are now plans to introduce Residents have raised concerns about parking and safety around sprinklers into the buildings. the Nottingham Academy site. The Dales councillors have worked with the Council’s Traffic and Highways team, local residents and Resurfacing the Academy to find solutions to the issues we are facing. Double yellow lines, barriers, Billy and Belinda bollards and further parking restrictions around Sneinton roads the site have now all been implemented. Parking Enforcement have been focusing their work St. Stephen’s Road and Newark Street in the ward in this area and this has resulted in a number of parking infringement tickets being in Sneinton have had much-needed issued. resurfacing work recently and further work was also carried out to resurface The Academy has a new gate open on Hereford Road, that provides a new entrance to the site. parts of Sneinton Dale. It is hoped that this will ease some of the parking, congestion and safety issues around the site. Meet your local Community Protection team in Dales Your local Community Protection Officers, paid for by Nottingham City Council through your Council Tax, are here to keep you and your neighbourhood safer. You might see them patrolling your neighbourhood and working with local councillors, the police and other organisations to improve things where you live.

They can help you if you’re having problems with noisy neighbours or other anti-social behaviour including street drinking, graffiti, littering, stray dogs and dog fouling.

Call 0115 9152020 or report your problem online at www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/reportit Week of Action Welcome to Bakersfield! The most recent Week of The long awaited Action in June was a great ‘Welcome to success, with a number of Bakersfield’ sign has partners working together to been installed on improve the neighbourhood. the Oakdale Road This week of action focused on the roundabout. St. Stephen’s Road area. Funded by the local councillors The Family and Community Team after discussions with residents helped to organise a Playing Out the roundabout, sign and new session for local young people and planting will make an attractive there was a residents’ tea and cake entrance to Bakersfield. session in Newark Crescent. A new leaf Our work’s After a number of trees on Sneinton not done yet! Boulevard had fallen down in recent We want to tackle issues years, it was decided to carry out a of speeding on Oakdale survey to establish the health of the Road and will be consulting remaining trees. residents about possible solutions. Sadly, it was found that most of the survivors were diseased and likely to die soon. As a result nearly all We want to take forward the second the trees had to be felled in June. phase of the development on Tricketts Park, securing funding and carrying The local Dales councillors are committed to out consultation about outdoor gym replacing these trees over a three-year period, this equipment and planting. time with proper tree pits. There will be protective railings around the trees. The work will be done over We will continue to tackle parking a longer period to enable the costs of tree issues in the Hardstaff and Edale Roads replacement to be met from local budgets. area. Your local councillors Councillor Councillor Councillor Gul Nawaz Khan David Mellen Neghat Nawaz Khan gul.khan@ david.mellen@ neghat.khan@ nottinghamcity.gov.uk nottinghamcity.gov.uk nottinghamcity.gov.uk 07971 570 688 0115 876 3795 07891 287 522

Surgeries are held at: Dales Centre, Sneinton Dale Every Saturday, 10.30am to 11.30am and every Wednesday 6pm-7pm. Your local news To find out where Be a hero! your nearest grit Pick up a piece of litter... Nottingham bin is and to view gritting routes in You kept it clean! your area go to: We saw great results from our spring clean focus – nottinghamcity.gov.uk/ with dog fouling down 11%, and fly tipping down by winter 4%! Over 150 people signed up to become a Not- tingham Clean Champion too – helping us to look after their local area. Keep up the good work!

You can report a problem to us, such as fly-tips, dog fouling and graffiti, at ...and pop it in the bin. www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/reportit Thank you for keeping Nottingham clean! My Dales What’s On! Join in the FREE Christmas celebrations! The Dales Centre Christmas Tree Light switch on takes place on 4 December, 2pm, on Sneinton Dale. Local families, schools, nurseries and child care providers will meet Santa, sing carols and watch the lights being turned on. The St Christopher’s Church Hall Christmas Market, will be on 6 December, 3.30 to 8pm. Meet Santa, shop for presents, eat festive food and listen to seasonal music including a performance by the Academy Choir. Everyone welcome. Dales councillors wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!