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Broxtowe NEWS & VIEWS - MAY 2015 The Contents: SMaRT Introduction Page 2 Bringing People Together Wendy Pages 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 Jobs & Business Growth Pages 9 & 10 ELECTION RESULT SPECIAL Councillors and useful contact details Pages 11-14 Housing Pages 15 & 16 Environment Pages 17, 18, 19, 20 & 21 Community Safety Pages 22 & 23 Wendy Davis (74) from Eastwood receives messages and pictures from her family in South Africa on her TV thanks to a new scheme which is being trialled by 40 tenants in Broxtowe Borough and those who live in properties run by the Nottingham Community Housing Association (NCHA). Simple messages, like ‘are you OK’? ‘don’t forget your doctor’s appointment’ or ‘lock the door before you go to bed’ can all be delivered in a pop-up window on the TV. As well as receiving messages from SMaRT, friends and family can send messages to the system too. They simply download a free INCORPORATING App or create an online account and can then send user’s photos, videos, or simple text messages. The receiver can respond by using a basic remote control. Continued on page 2… The Vision for Broxtowe Borough Council Listening and responding to ensure the delivery of efficient and effective services ELECTION SPECIAL Pages 11-14 Introduction from the Chief Executive A New Era How to pay over the phone using We are about to start a new era at Broxtowe with a Council a debit card controlled by a Conservative Just phone our Customer Services section and have majority. The newly elected all reference and debit card Councillors are listed inside this details ready. newsletter. Or call freephone We expect to have a strong emphasis 0800 952 0040 to use our Ruth Hyde OBE Richard Jackson, on promoting a successful economy, on 24/7 telephone service to Chief Executive Leader of the Council protecting the green belt, encouraging pay for any of the following: successful town centres and rising to the • Council Tax challenge of further spending reductions. our area; that all areas of our Borough benefit from our connectivity to a Core We will be putting together a new • Housing Rent Corporate Plan to guide activity over the City of Nottingham; and that we retain • Garage Rent next four years. the distinctiveness and quality of life in Broxtowe for the benefit of local residents. • Business Rates Over the years at Broxtowe, councillors Beeston is one of Nottinghamshire’s of different parties have worked well • General Invoices most important town centres, so we together in the interests of the local (includes Lifeline must make sure that we complete the community and we expect this will Payments, Trade re-development. Stapleford, Eastwood continue in the future. We will work hard Waste, Housing and Kimberley also have important town to see that Broxtowe flourishes and Benefit Overpayments, centres which we will work to improve seizes the unique long term opportunities Allotments, Pest Control) afforded by the potential of having an to achieve a result that future, as well as HS2 hub station in our area. Before that current generations will be proud of. • Other services (includes bulky domestic happens though there is a need to ensure There is much to do but we look forward collections the success of the implementation of to serving you to deliver excellent public the Local Enterprise Zone partly within services over the next four years. PLEASE NOTE: These services are not available on the freephone number. Continued from the front cover SMaRT Please call 0115 917 7777) SMaRT Messenger Wendy is a simple set-top (All debit cards are accepted, except for Visa Broxtowe Matters is published twice a box installed in the year by Broxtowe Borough Council and home which allows Electron) the Broxtowe Borough Partnership to keep messages to be residents informed about its services and delivered directly to the work it does in the borough. a TV. NCHA’s SMaRT (support management It costs just 18.5p per copy to print and distribute Broxtowe Matters to more than and response team) 50,000 homes and businesses in the is installing and maintaining the system. borough. It is produced from sustainable resources from managed forests so that SMaRT Messenger is just one of many projects new trees grow to replace the wood cut the Council is undertaking to help tackle for pulping. If you do not wish to keep loneliness and isolation particularly for the this magazine for future reference, please elderly. If all goes well, NCHA are hoping that recycle it in your green-lidded recycling bin. the system will be available for a small cost to Broxtowe Matters is printed by Mercia residents by 2016. Image, an independent company, and distributed by the Royal Mail. WHY WASTE TIME . We welcome your comments and views so if you would like to make a comment about this newsletter please contact Broxtowe Borough Council’s Corporate Communications on 0115 917 3743/3825. Do it online . www.broxtowe.gov.uk 2 Bringing People Together ‘In Our Hands’ The National Holocaust Centre in partnership with people who they perceive the Holocaust, as well as a place of testimony and Broxtowe Borough Council as different to themselves, encourage tolerance and learning. It was built to is working in local Primary from race, religion, gender understanding in the local honour those who died, and Secondary schools, as and sexuality to physical or community. give those who survived a well as Eastwood Children’s mental illness. voice and to educate future The National Holocaust Centre on a project which generations. Children, young people Centre at Laxton remains aims to tackle areas of hate and families will visit the only centre dedicated For further information crime. the National Holocaust to Holocaust remembrance about the project, please The project aims to shift the Centre and take part in and education in the UK. contact Broxtowe attitudes of children, young a learning programme It plays a unique role as Borough Council on people and adults towards that teaches them about a memorial, a museum, 0115 917 3657. by funding from AwardsforAll Community Celebration and the NHS Nottingham West Lifestyle Fund. Broxtowe Community This year's event will feature Celebration Group will host a programme of music and Broxtowe Community the Borough’s eleventh dance performances by Celebration Group organises annual Community local schools, community a variety of free community Celebration at Round Hill groups and organisations as events throughout the year Primary School, Foster well as a host of activities for and is always keen to involve Avenue, Beeston between all ages, including cultural more people to perform, 11.00am and 4.00pm on drumming, international provide activities, share Saturday 13th June 2015. dance workshops, sports, information or volunteer at arts and crafts. Many the events. This FREE event, celebrating local organisations will the rich culture and diversity For more information, provide information stalls of the Borough of Broxtowe, please contact Sajada and everyone will have attracts hundreds of visitors Akbar on 0115 917 3712, the opportunity to sample every year and brings email sajada.akbar@ mouth-watering foods from together people of all ages broxtowe.gov.uk or visit around the world. from many different cultures the Broxtowe Community and communities. The 2015 event is supported Group Facebook page. Highest Honours Five people have been people every four years by More information about For more information, recognised as Honorary admitting them as Honorary the new Freemen can be please contact Freemen of the Borough of Freemen or Aldermen of the found at www.broxtowe. 0115 917 3210 or email Broxtowe. Borough – the two highest gov.uk/aboutus [email protected] honours that this Council Broxtowe Borough Council can bestow. admitted Jessie Clarke, Ron Faulks, Patrick Hamilton and Barry Thorley as Honorary Freeman in recognition of their contributions to the local community. Burgermeisterin Maria Unger from the Borough’s twin town Gütersloh was also admitted as an Honorary Freeman to recognise her contribution to Broxtowe Borough over the past 20 years. Councillor Stan Heptinstall Broxtowe Borough Council MBE, Mayor of the Borough recognises the outstanding of Broxtowe 2014/15 with Patrick Hamilton, Ron Faulks, Jessie Clarke and Barry contributions of local Burgermeisterin Maria Unger. Thorley with Mayor of the Borough of Broxtowe 2014/15. Broxtowe MATTERS - May 2015 3 Bringing People Together Bramcote Bereavement – Caring Support Professionalism, been launched at the compassion and care are Crematorium over the past at the heart of Bramcote few months including a new Bereavement Services Nottsbus connect service, and its new customer 510 from the Crematorium focused website www. to Stapleford, Toton, ‘Caring Companions’ bramcotebereavement. Attenborough and Beeston. org has been specially A Befriending Service A new memorial was also developed to help families, installed earlier this year to A local befriending • To know a friend will be friends and the bereaved give friends and family a service is helping popping around in a day easily access all the unique way to remember to tackle loneliness or two can be a huge support they need to make their loved ones in the amongst older people in boost to an individual. arrangements in a caring comforting setting of the Broxtowe Borough. environment. • Someone to share life’s Crematorium’s Reflection Voluntary Action ups and downs with. The loss of a loved one is Garden. Broxtowe’s service offers • To have that vital link to a difficult time and the new For more information a weekly visit from one the local community. site offers an improved please visit www. of their trained volunteers layout and navigation • Or just a good old bramcotebereavement.