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AUGUST 2021 SHOP LOCAL, HIRE LOCAL email: [email protected] The Voice of the Community www.ucra.co.uk UPMINSTER & CRANHAM RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION Lower Thames Speeding and Other Traffic Crossing – Community Impacts Consultation Problems – Further Updates The project team want your further views Following on from last month’s article, we’d like to provide a further update. We held a very on plans to build and operate the new constructive meeting in July with Council Officers. In short, we went through the Highways’ Lower Thames Crossing, a proposed new Advisory Committee’s (HAC) report that dealt with speeding and traffic problems in certain road connecting Kent, Thurrock, Essex and areas in Upminster and Cranham. Havering through a tunnel beneath the River Some of the key points covered were the ongoing speeding in St Mary’s Lane, as well as the Thames. ongoing parking problems in the James Oglethorpe Primary School area. During the meeting The Community Impacts Consultation we were informed that a Council Officer had been assigned to assist with taking forward a will give people the opportunity to review number of actions contained in the HAC report. This will include visiting a number of areas/ and comment on the plans, proposals to sites and looking at design options with residents, and then providing solutions to the issues reduce impact on the local community and identified. When this has been completed consultation will commence, which may include environment. Topics include changes to a number of options, taking on board the views from local residents. Can we urge residents traffic, air quality, noise and vibration, as well as the impact of the new crossing on the to participate in any consultations which may affect their neighbourhoods. If you have any environment and landscape. comments regarding the above, please email us at [email protected] . The consultation will also include some Cllrs LINDA HAWTHORN, RON OWER and CHRIS WILKINS changes made to the project since the previous consultation in 2020. This includes a reduction in the area needed to build and Planning Applications on the operate the scheme, a smaller impact on local properties and woodland, and new public spaces on both sides of the River Thames. They have also summarised how the feedback UCRA Website provided during earlier consultations has Every week, Havering Council publishes a list of planning applications received within the been used in the development of the project. previous seven days. This is known as the Weekly Planning List. When a planning application is Your views are sought on the plans and how it received, the Council have a legal duty to inform people living in surrounding properties, so that may affect you, as well as how they have used they are able to submit comments. Depending on the type and size of application, the Council the feedback from previous consultations. may be required to inform people in a wider area. A series of public information events are Following an enquiry from local ward Councillors, we have become aware that the number of planned. Upcoming local events will be held households informed of a planning application is often much fewer than most people would at Thames Chase Community Forest Centre, expect. We have therefore decided to publicise each Weekly Planning List on our website soon Pike Lane on Friday, 13 August between 11am after it is published, so that local residents can see whether any planning applications have been to 3pm and Brandon Groves Community submitted near to where they live. Club in South Ockendon on Wednesday, 1st To view the applications visit www.ucra.co.uk and search for 'planning applications'. If you have September between 2pm to 8pm. any concerns, ward Councillors may be able to assist residents in any observations they wish to Find out more and have your say online from make and in some cases, can call-in applications to Committee. Cllr JOHN TYLER 14 July to 23:59 on 8 September 2021 at www. highwaysengland.co.uk/ltcconsultation Windsor Property Extensions Family Business Est. 25 Years Extension Specialists Garden Room Specialists - Extensions - Loft Conversions - Garage Conversions - Bespoke Garden Rooms - Renovations Phone: 01277 37 52 37 Mobile: 07958 787 297 Email: [email protected] windsorpropertyextensions.com Upminster & Cranham Edition Business Est. 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In Cranham Councillors for over sixty years. we are currently looking for help North of Upminster station is with two separate rounds, one Cranham ward and the Dury Falls covering several sets of fl ats in Estate represented by Councillors Avon Road at the shops end, and [email protected] [email protected] Gillian Ford, Linda Van den Hende the other in Briarleas Gardens, Chris Wilkins 07960 059195 John Tyler 07982 962925 and John Tyler. which also has some low-rise South of the station is Upminster fl ats included. If anyone is able ward, which also includes the to assist, please contact Cllr John Cranham Cathedral Estate Tyler on 07982 962 925 or via and North Ockendon and is johntylerUCResidents@outlook. represented by Councillors Linda com [email protected] [email protected] Hawthorn, Ron Ower and Chris Wilkins. Contacts details can be Upminster ASSOCIATION CONTACTS found here on page 2. Commercial Advertising Bulletin Editor Police Martin Flower 07785 244212 Pauline Mastroianni No Right Turn Please note telephone number for [email protected] [email protected] the Upminster Police team Upminster Organiser Cranham Organiser & Residents’ May we remind drivers turning 020 8721 2726. Chris Wilkins 07960 059 195 Association Website right from Howard Road into [email protected] John Tyler (07982 962925) Station Road, apart from being www.ucra.co.uk Tel: 01708 229857 Mobile: 07415 096551 2 The experimental scheme will despite having a smaller shopping of June and a total of 104 cars Temporary last for a minimum of 6 and a area than Upminster. were checked, with an average Experimental maximum of 18 months from To view the statement on the speed of 28 MPH. There was, the 21 June 2021. After that time closures, see Information about however, a number above 30 Traffic Scheme the Council will either need branch closures and the review MPH, the highest being 56 MPH. - Minster Way, to remove the restrictions or undertaken on the Upminster In Dennises Lane a speed check make them permanent. People branch visit www.halifax.co.uk/ with a team of police officers took Hornchurch can send in their comments for branchfinder/branch-closures. place on 1 July with 148 cars in the first six months to:Interim html# . total checked. The average speed In mid-June, a temporary Assistant Director Public Realm, traveling from South Ockendon Cllr JOHN TYLER experimental traffic scheme in Town Hall, Main Road, Romford was almost 37 MPH where the Minster Way, Hornchurch went RM1 3BB. speed limit is 40 MPH and 2 live. This means that the following Cllr JOHN TYLER Essex Life tickets were issued as their speed restrictions currently apply: was 50 MPH. Speed checks at this It was good to see Upminster • You are no longer allowed to location are difficult as there are featured in the July's edition of limited places for officers to safely turn left from Wingletye Lane Halifax Bank Essex Life in their regular monthly into Minster Way when you are stand, but the police will repeat Branch to Close article, entitled Doggy Days Out. the exercise when additional traveling from the direction of The reporter visited Thames the A127. officers from the traffic division in Upminster Chase, Upminster park, the are available. • You are no longer allowed Windmill field and Clockhouse In late June, Halifax, a division of to make a right turn out of Gardens and praised all highly. Cllr LINDA VAN DEN HENDE Bank of Scotland plc, announced Minster Way into Wingletye Essex Life is a well-established that the Upminster branch of Lane. magazine, always with well Halifax will be one of 15 branches We love your written articles and is well worth • You are no longer allowed to to be permanently closed from 26 reading. emails drive across Wingletye Lane October 2021. from Minster Way into Maywin Cllr LINDA HAWTHORN Please remember when emailing Drive. This will be a sad loss for Upminster, as the Halifax is the us to give us your full contact Enforcement cameras are in place last bank left in our town (the Speeding details. As you can imagine we and motorist who fail to observe Nationwide being a Building get a lot of emails, but we do need these new restrictions will be Society). It is particularly Speeding is an ongoing issue in to know where they are coming issued with a penalty charge unfortunate, as Hornchurch still a number of locations.