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SEPTEMBER 2015 Park life Top marks for our parks see pages 6-7 /mymansfielduk @MDC_News www.mansfield.gov.uk Contents Welcome to the September edition of CCTV system to get Inside this edition £524,000 you will find: News 2 – 7 upgrade Recycling 8 – 9 Your Mayor and councillors 10 – 13 Housing 16 – 17 The council is replacing its old fibre optic CCTV What’s On 22 – 23 system with a state-of-the-art wireless system. Contacting 24 the council he upgrade, which will The council expects the new wireless cost £524,000, has become system to not only offer CCTV security in If you know someone who necessary as much of the previously hard-to-reach areas, but to pay lives in the district but does current equipment for itself within six years. not receive a copy of My Tis nearing the end of its There are already a number Mansfield by 11 September, useful life. please email of contracts in place on the publicrelations@ The central control mansfield.gov.uk or contact Work to replace the old current system that off-set the 01623 463021 with their full system started last room at the Civic Centre cost of running this service. address and postcode. month and will take will also be refurbished It’s expected that the about six months to with energy-efficient split- wireless system will open All material published in complete. It includes screen monitors, a new IT up new markets because it My Mansfield, including adverts, replacing some will be capable of reaching articles and all other content system and a new cameras and erecting recording system. different areas. is published in good faith. My wireless signal poles The major upgrade will not Mansfield accepts no liability for in some parks and open only help to detect and reduce any errors or omissions and does spaces. not endorse any companies, crime, but will also encourage products or services that appear The central control room at the investment and revitalisation in the town. Civic Centre will also be refurbished with in the publication. For more information about energy-efficient split-screen monitors, our CCTV service, visit Front page: Pictured in Titchfield a new IT system and a new recording www.mansfield.gov.uk/CCTV Park is Robbie Childs aged 2. system. 2 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 News Free P arking Housing and regeneration in boost for town top five targets mproving housing, isitors to Mansfield The new parking fees, which are regeneration and will soon be able designed to boost the local economy by job opportunities in to park for encouraging visitors and residents to the Mansfield area 30 minutes spend longer in the town centre, areI among the five top Vfor free in all Mansfield will take effect following a priorities published in our District Council pay and consultation process, which is Corporate Plan and Annual display car parks. due to be completed in mid- Performance Report for September. In addition, drivers parking 2015. in the Four Seasons and The provision of free parking The easy-to-read document Walkden Street multi-storey for 30 minutes will help residents sets out our vision, targets car parks will be able to to visit the town centre for a short and priorities for improving park for three hours for time at no cost. the lives of local residents, the price of two. The new fees, which will be businesses and visitors over Cashless parking will reviewed regularly, will remain in the next year. also be introduced at the place until 31 March 2016. The council intends to focus council's 17 car parks For more information about on five priorities for the year with no administration FREE parking in Mansfield, visit ahead, including: fees for those who pay www.mansfield.gov.uk/parking. by mobile phone. PARKING Improving regeneration and employment Providing housing solutions Protecting the Multi-storey revamp brings environment Reducing crime and disorder wider parking bays Supporting vulnerable people Walkden Street multi-storey car park has recently undergone extensive refurbishment and now has extra wide parking bays. The document also puts the spotlight on some of our major achievements over he spaces are the same width Among those delighted with the larger the past year and provides as standard parent/child spaces are Susan and Kenneth Hunter financial information on the spaces and bays for blue from Mansfield Woodhouse. authority's performance, badge holders. T Mrs Hunter said: “We park here regularly, and about how well we are This makes them among the widest as the wide bays make it easier for us to meeting our targets and in Nottinghamshire – ideal for people get in and out of the car. We have a big addressing the challenge of travelling with young children and those vehicle and we are older people, so it’s a budget cuts. with larger vehicles such as vans and real pleasure using this car park.” The Corporate Plan and 4x4s. Annual Performance Report 2015 is available at ...ideal for people www.mansfield.gov.uk/ travelling with young corporateplan. children and those with larger vehicles such as vans and 4x4s. www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 3 News It was an incredible week for Ollie and Charlotte who are both now looking ahead to the Paralympics next year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pride of Medal-winning stars swim into record books Mansfield's swimming stars are looking ahead to next year’s Paralympic Games after bringing home four medals, a world record and three European records from the IPC World Championships. harlotte Henshaw broke her medal in a very tight finish, just 0.3 in 2010 and bronze medallist in 2013. own European record twice as seconds behind the winner. She has been a medallist in every major she took a silver medal in the International Paralympic Committee Both Ollie and Charlotte are coached by women's SB6 category 100m Swimming Championship since 2009, Mansfield District Council's Swim Coach Cbreaststroke at Tollcross International apart from 2014, when she unfortunately and Development Officer Glenn Smith Swimming Centre in Glasgow in July. had to withdraw from the IPC European at the Water Meadows Swimming and Championships due to illness. Ollie Hynd MBE won a gold medal - Fitness Complex. The competition pool Great Britain's first gold medal of the at Water Meadows was recently renamed They both belong to the Nottinghamshire championships - in the SM8 200m the Hynd and Henshaw Competition Pool ASA county Swim Squad, Nova Centurion individual medley, setting a new in recognition of the achievements of - Mansfield Squad. European record and remaining unbeaten Sam, Ollie and Charlotte. Glenn said: "It was an incredible week in this event since 2011. Ollie has won 19 medals - nine of them for Ollie and Charlotte who are both now He won a second gold medal in the men's gold - and is the current Paralympic, looking ahead to the Paralympics next S8 category 400m freestyle where he World, European and Commonwealth year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." knocked 1.78 secs off the world record, Champion. For information on swimming lessons, which had been held by his brother, Charlotte is the current European public swimming and leisure swimming retired Paralympic swimmer Sam Hynd, record holder for the women's SB6 times, visit www.mansfieldleisure.com. since 2010. 100m breaststroke, the Paralympic In Ollie's third and final race, the men's silver medallist from London 2012, and S8 100m backstroke, he won a bronze World Championship silver medallist 4 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 The owners of dogs that are picked Are you a up must, under the Act, responsible pay a £75 release fee to reclaim their owner? pet. Here are our top tips for being a responsible dog owner. Pick up your dog’s waste – it is an offence not to do so. The council provides free Scoop the Poop bags. Visit www.mansfield.gov.uk/dogfouling for a list of venues. Bagged dog waste can be put into any general waste bin. Rover Secure the fences and gates around your property. Keep your dog on a lead when appropriate and train it not to run off. Give your pet lots of exercise and toys to prevent straying and nuisance barking returns caused by boredom. Neuter your dog. Neutered male dogs In the past year the council’s Dog Control Service are less likely to stray and it may also has picked up more than 700 dogs – up by around encourage less aggressive behaviour. 100 on the previous year. Microchip your dog and ensure it wears a collar and ID tag – the council offers a competitive microchipping service. he increase is thought to be The service includes dealing with: Contact 01623 463189. a reflection of the financial climate, which has meant Stray and lost dogs Straying dogs are a public nuisance more people cannot afford Microchipping because they can cause road accidents, theT cost of caring for a pet and Dog fouling damage property, foul public areas, and abandon them. Responsible dog potentially can harm themselves, other ownership education Dealing with abandoned or stray animals and people. General advice/liaison dogs 24/7 – a legal responsibility for with other organisations If you find a stray dog, try to secure it the council under the Environmental and contact us via dogcontrol@ Protection Act 1990 – is a costly In the Mansfield area, this service mansfield.gov.uk or 01623 463189. business, and not just for the council, is provided by Davinhulme Security The out of hours number is 01623 463050.