SEPTEMBER 2015

Park life Top marks for our parks see pages 6-7

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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 ƒƒ Improving regeneration and employment ƒƒ Providing housing solutions ƒƒ Protecting the Multi-storey revamp brings environment ƒƒ Reducing crime and disorder wider parking bays ƒƒ 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 breaststrokeC 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. ƒƒ 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 ƒƒ Secure the fences and gates around your property. ƒƒ Keep your dog on a lead when appropriate and train it not to run off. ƒƒ Give your pet lots of exercise and toys to prevent straying and nuisance barking returns caused by boredom. ƒƒ 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. ƒƒ 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 ƒƒ Stray and lost dogs Straying dogs are a public nuisance more people cannot afford ƒƒ Microchipping because they can cause road accidents, theT cost of caring for a pet and ƒƒ Dog fouling damage property, foul public areas, and abandon them. ƒƒ Responsible dog potentially can harm themselves, other ownership education Dealing with abandoned or stray animals and people. ƒƒ 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. which last year paid £77,740 to Dogs. Although it is a 24-hour service, provide its dog control service. Please report all dangerous dog concerns it has limited provision outside office to Nottinghamshire Police on 101. The owners of dogs that are picked hours. up must, under the Act, pay a £75 Follow us on Twitter @MDC_News and You can also report dog fouling to be release fee to reclaim their pet. If a on Facebook.com/mymansfielduk where removed by calling 01623 463463 dog is not claimed by its owner within we publish photos of the stray dogs we or by filling in a form on the council’s seven days, the ownership of the dog pick up to help reunite them with their website at www.mansfield.gov.uk/ is transferred to a rescue centre which owners. dogmess. will attempt to rehome the dog.

www.mansfield.gov.ukwww.mansfield.gov.uk | September | August 2015 5 News

Festival fun sets the tone for

summerThousands of people enjoyed a great day out at Mansfield’s three summer festivals in parks across the district.

ing George V Park and For sports lovers, there was a climbing Titchfield Park, both in wall and multi-skills challenges. Mansfield, and Carr Lane To celebrate their new Made in Park in Warsop, provided Mansfield exhibition, Mansfield Museum theK venues for a range of free, fun- laid on a mining gala at Titchfield Park packed activities for all the family. featuring pit pony rides and music from Attractions included spectacular birds the Pleasley Colliery Welfare Band. of prey demonstrations, circus skills For details of future events, visit workshops, mini dog shows and a www.mansfield.gov.uk/whatson. Meet the Beasts stall, where people got their hands on some real life critters.

6 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 Blooming marvellous! Fingers are crossed as we await the results of the East Midlands in Bloom competition. Judges from the competition were given a whistle-stop tour of the district’s award-winning parks, town centre, open spaces and £200k community projects in July. Among the projects they visited were St Edmund’s Church boost for parks Community Orchard, Longyards Park life in Mansfield is thriving following a allotments, Mansfield Woodhouse Cemetery, Wynndale Primary £202,250 investment in parks across the district. School and Quarry Lane Local Nature Reserve. he King George V Park in Black range of equipment suitable for all ages. Winners from the East Midlands Scotch Lane, Mansfield now has The play area is unique to Mansfield, as it is in Bloom competition, to be an exciting new £60,000 play made of wood and was chosen to blend in announced this month, may then area with top quality facilities for with the surrounding woodland areas. compete for the Britain in Bloom Tchildren aged two through to teenagers. title. Last year, Mansfield was Fitness fans are also benefitting from the awarded silver gilt in the city Youngsters can now enjoy a range of play installation of £52,250 worth of outdoor category. equipment including swings, springers, gym equipment at both Kings Walk, and rockers and a large multi-use unit containing Racecourse Park off Southwell Road West. Mansfield's East Midlands in a slide, roundabout, educational panels and Each piece of equipment has instructions Bloom portfolio can be found on talking tubes. showing how it works, or users can scan our website at www.mansfield. QR codes with their smartphone to watch a . Litter bins have also been installed and gov.uk/mansfieldinbloom short video for more information. families can make use of benches and picnic tables. All the projects have been delivered by the council using Section 106 contributions from A state-of-the-art £90,000 outdoor play area developers of residential developments near on Kings Walk Open Space off Berry Hill the parks. Lane is also nearing completion and should be ready in mid-September. It offers a wide High five for our parks in Mansfield Woodhouse, are among a Recent projects that the group has been record-breaking 1,582 parks and green involved in include creating a family spaces that received a prestigious Green picnic area at the Mill Pond and pond Flag Award – the mark of a quality park dipping with the Mini Maun Club and King or green space. Edward's Primary School. The group works tirelessly to keep the area clean A Green Flag flying overhead is a sign and well maintained. to the public that the space boasts the highest possible standards, is beautifully Thank you to our Parks team, friends’ maintained and has excellent facilities. groups and local schools who do a great job of keeping our parks and opens ive parks in Mansfield district In addition to the five parks, Maun spaces in peak condition all year round. have been named among the Conservation Group won a Green Flag very best in the UK. Community Award for their work at For more information on the FCarr Bank Park, King George Quarry Lane Local Nature Reserve. It is range of activities that take place in V Park, Titchfield Park, all in Mansfield, the first time a group in the district has our parks and open spaces, visit plus Peafield Park and Yeoman Hill Park won a Community Award. www.mansfield.gov.uk/parks.

www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 7 Recycling

Mansfields clean up – around the world Cool he third annual International Clean Up Mansfield Day was recycling the biggest and most successful event yet, with moreT than 50 participants sprucing up Mansfields around the world. Taking old fridge to The event in June was organised by the tip is best option council and attracted community groups, schools, businesses and individuals both here and in Mansfields in Texas, If waste is subsequently found fly- Connecticut, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Householders are being tipped by an untraceable rogue trader, Massachusetts, in the USA, plus Ontario it is often the householder who faces in Canada. urged to dispose of prosecution for failing in their household duty of care or for fly-tipping. In the UK, Mansfield BID was joined old fridges at recycling by staff from Royal Bank of Scotland, centres after a significant Alternatively Mansfield Building Society, Boots and rise in the number of white M&S to paint benches, railings and householders can bollards in Mansfield town centre. goods that are fly-tipped take their rubbish, in Mansfield district. Pupils and staff from Asquith Primary including old fridges, School picked up litter on Jackson's Field. to their local recycling Meanwhile, Neighbourhood Wardens and he council investigated centre for free other council staff, including members of 1,914 fly-tipping incidents the Environmental Health and Community in 2014/15, including 101 To avoid this, they should check the Safety teams, also took part in community incidents of white goods – waste disposer’s credentials and obtain litter picks. Tup from just four incidents two years a receipt, which includes the contact previously. Elsewhere, local conservation groups, number and address for them. the Scouts, Framework and Corner House Of the 1,914 investigated incidents, Alternatively householders can take Care Home were busy trimming hedges, 1,060 were cleared by our cleansing their rubbish, including old fridges, to planting flowers, weeding and carrying out department at a cost of £48,956. The their local recycling centre for free, or wildlife surveys. total figure investigated included 854 on pay for the council’s bulky collection private land, which the council has no Participants are invited to an awards service, which costs £20.40 for the first responsibility to clear. ceremony at the end of September when three items and an additional £6.15 for certificates and prizes will be presented. The sharp increase in the fly-tipping each extra item. of white goods is thought to be due to Following the success, the date for next changes in the rules for the disposal year's event has been set for Friday 10 of fridges leading to many scrapyards June. You can find further details and refusing to take them. To arrange for collections of sign up online at www.mansfield.gov.uk/ bulky items from your home, email cleanup. This means old fridges left out on cleansingservices pavements for scrap dealers to take @mansfield.gov.uk or call away are often stripped of the parts that 01623 463463. To find out where your are sellable leaving the rest dumped for nearest recycling centre is, visit the council to clear up. www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/ Residents are being reminded that they living/waste/recycling-centres/tip- have a duty to ensure that any waste locations/ or call Nottinghamshire removed from their homes is taken County Council on 0300 500 80 80. away by legitimate traders who have a waste carriers’ licence

8 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 Waste not want not… as bottle tops, greasy pizza boxes or No thanks! Have you ever wondered plastic bags in their recycling bin. ƒ what happens to all the Contaminated waste accounts for about ƒ Shredded paper, kitchen roll, tissues, 13% of Mansfield’s recycled waste. It metallic wrapping paper ƒ recycling waste you put in can result in whole loads of waste being ƒ Takeaway pizza boxes ƒ your blue bin? rejected by the MRF and going to landfill. ƒ Tetra packs, juice cartons ƒ We aim to reduce this contamination ƒ Plastic bags and cling film ƒƒ Ice cream tubs, food cartons, punnets he answer is on your doorstep rate to 5% which, along with increased recycling, could help cut landfill tax and trays. because Nottinghamshire’s ƒ charges of £100 a tonne. ƒ Paint tins Materials Recovery Facility ƒƒ Pots and pans T (MRF) is in Forest Town. ƒƒ Glass bottles and jars At the Veolia plant in Warren Top tip: ƒƒ Bottle tops and plastic and metal lids Way, recycling waste from seven Hang a bag on the bathroom door for from jars ƒ Nottinghamshire district authorities shampoo bottles and toilet roll tubes. ƒ Video/cassette tapes is sorted and packed into bales for ƒƒ Foil and foil food trays ƒƒ Plastic coat hangers reprocessing elsewhere. It will be turned So what goes in the blue bin? into new goods, such as toilet paper, ƒƒ Polystyrene newsprint, plastic boxes, and steel or Yes please! ƒƒ Food waste aluminium cans. ƒƒ Plant pots ƒƒ newspapers, magazines, ƒƒ Nappies The council produces 7,082 tonnes Paper: envelopes, directories, catalogues, office of recyclable waste each year, which paper represents 37% of its total waste ƒƒ greetings cards, cereal collection. The cost of waste disposal Cardboard: boxes, egg boxes, card packaging could be cut further if more people ƒƒ clean yoghurt pots, pop and recycled even more of their waste. Plastic: milk bottles, cleaning product bottles, Often it is recyclable waste from the toiletry bottles, margarine tubs bathroom that fails to make it into the blue ƒƒ Metal: clean food tins, empty aerosol bin. Many people wrongly put items such cans, drinks cans, biscuit and sweet tins

Mansfield Trade waste is your business Trade Waste ur waste collection or Environment Agency enforcement your costs by sending less rubbish to and recycling services officer could lead to a £300 Fixed landfill. can offer a reliable and Penalty Notice. At the tipping facility at our Waste competitively priced trade With the council’s service, there are Transfer Station you only pay for what wasteO solution for businesses large no set up costs, no annual duty of you tip with a minimum load of just or small. care charges and no VAT. Income 60kg. All businesses have to dispose of generated goes towards providing For more on Mansfield District their waste in accordance with the council services for the benefit of the Council’s Trade Waste service, contact Environmental Protection Act 1990, local community. 01623 463092, email tradewaste@ which means it must be stored in Bins come in a variety of sizes to suit mansfield.gov.uk or find details at suitable containers while awaiting your business. We also offer trade www.mansfield.gov/tradewaste. collection by a licensed waste carrier wastes green sacks for very small for disposal at a licensed facility. amounts of waste or weekly general As waste is passed from one party waste and weekly or fortnightly to another it should be accompanied recycling collections for larger by a waste transfer note, which must businesses. be retained for two years. Failure to Recycling as much of your business’s produce transfer notes to a council waste as possible will help to cut

www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 9 Your council Back row, Cllr Stewart Rickersey, Cllr Dave Saunders, Cllr Andrew Tristram, Cllr David Smith, front row, Cllr Roger Sutcliffe, Executive Mayor Kate Allsop and Cllr Mick Barton.

Meet Cllr Barry Answer

Family is very Mayor important to Kate and Keith. They have two sons, two daughters and Allsop four grandchildren.

On 7 May 2015 Kate Allsop was elected as Mansfield’s Executive Mayor. She is the second Executive Mayor of Mansfield following Tony Egginton’s 12-year term.

ate has been a political She is patron of the Women in Business also takes an annual sunshine filled figurehead locally for more group and governor and vice chair of holiday with her sister and Keith. The than 20 years. She started Vision West Nottinghamshire College. dogs don’t get left out either – they get out as a ward councillor She is also the chairman of a local an annual break to Devon and Cornwall servingK the residents of Oakham patient participatory group at Forest at the end of the summer. and Berry Hill Wards and in 2002 Medical Practice. She loves walking the dogs and chatting she joined the Cabinet as Portfolio Local criminals beware - Kate has to residents when she is out and about. Holder for Regeneration, where she been a local magistrate in Mansfield for Kate is a dab hand in the kitchen - remained until the recent Mayoral six years and now sits on appeals at Keith’s allotment vegetables are a house election. Nottingham Crown Court and also sits at staple followed by an array of cakes and During her time as Portfolio Holder, Nottingham Magistrates’ Court. puddings. Kate has overseen projects including Kate lives in Grange Farm ward with her She’s a busy lady but she wouldn’t have the Townscape Heritage Initiative, husband Keith and their two cavalier it any other way. Kate has an open door development of business incubation King Charles spaniels. policy at the council and tries to answer units, the Woodhouse Gateway project her emails personally when possible and more recently the new bus station Family is very important to Kate and the development of Queen’s Place. and Keith. They have two sons, two Contact Kate at mayorkateallsop@ daughters and four grandchildren. Kate mansfield.gov.uk or call 01623 463048.

10 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 District ward map The Cabinet The Cabinet is responsible for most of the day to day decisions affecting the running of the council. Members of the Cabinet are called Portfolio Holders 20 and each has a specific area of responsibility.

Meden Vale The Portfolio Holders are:

Church Warsop Cllr Mick Barton 33 Deputy Mayor and Portfolio Holder for Public 19 Warsop Vale Protection (including Environmental Health, MARKET WARSOP CCTV and Neighbourhood Wardens)

Shirebrook Sookholme Cllr Roger Sutcliffe

Spion Kop Portfolio Holder for Resources 17 (including the council's finances) Cllr Andrew Tristram 25 Portfolio Holder for the Environment

MANSFIELD (including parks, leisure centres and street 34 WOODHOUSE 10 Pea eld cleaning) Pleasley North eld 16 26 Cllr Dave Saunders Clipstone 5 9 Portfolio Holder for Regeneration (including Bull Farm 32 36 22 business advice and town centre management) Meet 1 18 MANSFIELD 12 Forest Town Cllr David Smith 27 4 Carr Bank 35 6 Portfolio Holder for Cultural Services, Town and Ladybrook 15 13 21 24 District Centres (including events, Mansfield 3 29 28 Oak Tree Museum and Mansfield Palace Theatre) 7 8 31 11 Mayor Sutton in Ash eld Cllr Barry Answer Berry 14 Hill Portfolio Holder for Housing 23 30 Bellamy Cllr Stewart Rickersey Portfolio Holder for 2 Rainworth Corporate Services (including markets, customer Allsop services and internal and external audit)

1 Abbott 14 Lindhurst 27 Penniment 2 Berry Hill 15 Ling Forest 28 Portland Coalition formed 3 Brick Kiln 16 Manor 29 Racecourse A coalition has been formed between the two UKIP councillors and Mansfield Independent Forum. 4 Broomhill 17 Market 30 Ransom Warsop Wood Councillor Nick Bennett, who was re-elected in May Bull Farm & 5 as a Labour ward councillor for Kingsway, has joined Pleasley Hill 18 Maun Valley 31 Sandhurst Mansfield Independent Forum. Cllr Bennett left Labour 6 Carr Bank 19 Meden 32 Sherwood in July.The coalition now has the majority by one. 7 Eakring 20 Netherfield 33 Warsop Carrs The political balance of the council is as follows: 8 Grange Farm 21 Newgate 34 Woodhouse Labour 9 Holly 22 Newlands 35 Woodlands 18 members 10 Hornby 23 Oakham 36 Yeoman Hill Mansfield Independent Forum 11 Kings Walk 24 Oak Tree 16 members (17 including the Mayor)

12 Kingsway 25 Park Hall UKIP 2 members 13 Ladybrook 26 Peafields Total - 37 members

Find out which ward you live in by visiting our website The next full council meeting is due to take www.mansfield.gov.uk and clicking on Find it (to the place on 22 September. right of the images on the homepage). Just enter To find dates, agendas, reports and minutes of your postcode and click on Ward, councillor and council, Cabinet and committee meetings, visit election information. www.mansfield.gov.uk/meetings.

www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 11 Your council Your councillors

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Abbott Berry Hill Brick Kiln Broomhill Bull Farm & Carr Bank Barry Answer Andrew Tristram Terry Clay Ian Sheppard Pleasley Hill Stuart Wallace UKIP Independent Forum Labour Independent Forum Sonya Ward Independent Forum banswer@ atristram@ tclay@ isheppard@ Labour swallace@ mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk sward@ mansfield.gov.uk 07984 441810 07891 256205 07759 395958 07725 466607 mansfield.gov.uk 07743 957739 07759 554744

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Eakring Grange Farm Holly Hornby Kings Walk Kingsway Stewart Rickersey Ron Jelley Martin Wright Joyce Bosnjak Stephen Harvey Nick Bennett Independent Forum Independent Forum Independent Forum Labour Independent Forum Independent Forum srickersey@ rjelley@ mwright@ jbosnjak@ sharvey@ nbennett@ mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk 07837 026009 01623 628190 01623 644042 07740 845737 07854 106565 07860 551660

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Ladybrook Lindhurst Ling Forest Manor Market Warsop Maun Valley Sally Higgins Roger Sutcliffe Bill Drewett Katrina Atherton John Kerr Mick Barton Labour Independent Forum Independent Forum Labour Labour Independent Forum shiggins@ rsutcliffe@ bdrewett@ katherton@ jkerr@ mbarton@ mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk 01623 611301 01623 405219 07976 437255 07821 417646 01623 845315 07788 712446

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Meden Netherfield Newgate Newlands Oakham Oak Tree Andy Wetton Sharron Adey Andy Sissons Sid Walker Kevin Brown Vaughan Hopewell Labour Labour Independent Forum UKIP Independent Forum Labour jwetton@ sadey@ asissons@ swalker@ brownk@ vhopewell@ mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk 01623 842138 07988 756095 07784 988199 01623 451185 07809 063362 07846 042022

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Park Hall Peafields Penniment Portland Racecourse Ransom Wood Ann Norman Lesley Wright Stuart Brian Lohan Steve Garner John Smart Labour Labour Richardson Labour Independent Forum Labour anorman@ lwright@ Labour blohan@ sgarner@ jsmart@ mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk srichardson@ mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk 07709 036258 07920 058873 mansfield.gov.uk 07704 425591 01623 634243 01623 467862 07803 057604

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Sandhurst Sherwood Warsop Carrs Woodhouse Woodlands Yeoman Hill Dave Saunders Sean McCallum Peter Crawford Amanda Fisher David Smith Lee Probert Independent Forum Labour Labour Labour Independent Forum Labour dsaunders@ smccallum@ pcrawford@ afisher@ dmsmith@ lprobert@ mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk mansfield.gov.uk 07968 294249 07955 841845 01623 843740 07412 097891 07974 009293 07919 952252

www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 13 News Nominate your sporting champ Mansfield Sports In association with the Recognition Armchair Club and the Chad, we are seeking nominations Awards Nominees must either live or pursue for the Mansfield Sports ƒƒ Junior team of the year their sport within Mansfield district. ƒƒ Junior sportsperson of the year Recognition Awards 2015. Entry forms are available from sports ƒƒ Junior sports leader of the year clubs and leisure centres or online at ƒƒ Junior disabled sportsperson of the total of 10 awards are up for www.mansfield.gov.uk/nominate. year grabs on Monday 7 December The deadline is Friday 13 November ƒƒ Club of the year at John Fretwell Sporting 2015. ƒ Complex, Sookholme, ƒ Disabled sportsperson of the year ƒ AMansfield, from 7pm to 9pm. ƒ Sportsperson of the year For further info or tickets to the ƒƒ Coach of the year awards ceremony, contact Sports Nominations are sought for achievements ƒƒ Team of the year Development Officer Shaun between 1 November 2014 and 31 ƒƒ Volunteer of the year (this also includes Hird on 01623 463371 or October 2015 in the following categories: referees, officials, administrators etc) [email protected].

Town Hall gets vital £550k restoration

ssential work to into Clumber House. The Town maintain and restore Hall will be closed to the public parts of the Old Town until further notice. Hall in Mansfield The council is looking at a isE being carried out until range of options for the future December. of the Town Hall to ensure the The work, which is costing building is put to good use and about £550,000, includes contributes to the regeneration rebuilding chimney stacks, of the town centre. refitting most of the roof, The car park at the back of replacing stonework and the building is closed so that it repointing the exterior lime can be used by the contractor mortar. Interior work involves Aura Conservation Ltd. The restoring period features in fountains in the Market Place various rooms and installing cannot be used during the new floors in the connected work. shop units. We apologise for any Mansfield BID has moved inconvenience caused during out of the building and into this essential work that will Clumber House, in Clumber ensure the integrity of the Street. At the time of going to building is maintained. print, council staff were moving

14 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 Youth Mayor to focus on sport and fundraising

Mansfield’s new Youth Mayor I want young is 15-year-old Jake Baldry from people to think about Samworth Church Academy. their talents and interests

ake will be representing young bring communities together for a good "I have a particular interest in Cancer people across the district, cause, but they also provide young Research, as members of my family have taking their voice to the Mayor, people with an opportunity to showcase had cancer.” members and council officers, their talents. Jake would also like to improve sex asJ well as acting as an ambassador “I want young people to think about education for young people, making them for Mansfield. their talents and interests and maybe aware of the dangers they can face and A keen rugby player, Jake is hoping to come up with ways of using their skills helping them to remain safe. He would get more young people involved in sport. to raise money for charity,” said Jake. “I also like to build stronger links with the “I’ve played rugby since I was six,” he would like to see more young people in British Youth Council. said. “I believe that sport is good for Mansfield getting involved in events like Jake, who will be the eighth youth mayor young people’s mental and physical Children in Need and Comic Relief, and since the post was created in 2008/09, health. It makes you fitter, helps you to raising the profile of those charities. will take over from the current Youth make friends and results in less stress Mayor Danielle Bridges in October. and depression.” He was appointed following an Getting involved in fundraising for charity uncontested Mansfield schools election, also sits high on Jake’s manifesto, as he in which he was the only eligible believes that charity events not only candidate.

Anyone that wants to vote must be registered. To make sure you Don’t lose are able to have your say at the elections next year, simply check your vote the form and return it as quickly as possible. ouseholds should have If you're not currently registered, we'll received a form asking send you information explaining how residents to check whether to do this or you can just go online the information that to apply to register at Happears on the electoral register www.gov.uk/ . for those living at their address is register-to-vote correct. It's particularly important that anyone The forms were sent to homes in July who has moved address recently looks registered so that they can be as part of the council's annual voter out for the form and checks whether encouraged to do so. registration canvass. Reminders were they are registered. sent out in August to those who had With Police and Crime Commissioner Any residents who have any questions not yet returned the forms. elections taking place across can contact the Elections team at Nottinghamshire in May 2016, this is The aim of the form is to ensure that Mansfield District Council on an opportunity for residents to make the electoral register is up to date and 01623 463345. sure that when the elections take place to identify any residents who are not they will easily be able to take part.

www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 15 Housing Housing scheme is set to save NHS £1.3m a year

Mansfield District Council has joined forces with two other Mrs Giles' son Kiko with their pet greyhounds agencies to expand a housing scheme that speeds up the CASE STUDY discharge of older and disabled residents from King’s Mill Hospital. Emergency surgery left

he hospital discharge scheme, run in mum and son homeless conjunction with Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical Commissioning Group and fter 26 years in the Not only was Mrs Giles (51) left Nottinghamshire County Council, is pub trade, and having disabled, it also left her unable to beingT expanded and is expected to save the NHS never relied on continue as landlady of the Star in around £1.3m a year. anyone for anything, Mansfield Woodhouse and meant Alife suddenly dealt Alison Giles that both she and her son were District council staff working in the hospital offer a cruel blow. homeless. advice and support to patients who have housing issues. It has dedicated two bungalows and two The Mansfield Woodhouse pub Mrs Giles spent five weeks in apartments with adaptations for temporary care landlady stood on some staples King’s Mill Hospital recovering for discharged patients who are either homeless which pierced her shoe and her but without anywhere to go, she or have homes that are no longer suitable for their foot. As a diabetic, she knew she could not be discharged. MDC’s needs. should have seen a doctor, but hospital discharge scheme thought it would be fine if she just rehomed Mrs Giles and her son, For these people, county council social workers put a plaster on it. Kiko (16). organise the necessary care and support while a permanent home is found by the district council, Unfortunately she was far Housing staff found a bungalow which shares its housing service, Homefinder, with from fine. Her poor circulation in Mansfield Woodhouse to meet Ashfield District Council. as a result of diabetes meant Mrs Giles’s new mobility needs. the injury in her foot quickly A temporary ramp was arranged The scheme was set up last October and has helped turned gangrenous and she and further adaptations were fast around 30 patients. The expansion will enable it to was admitted to the Queen’s tracked. support about 60 people a month at an annual cost Medical Centre in Nottingham in MDC staff also gave Mrs Giles of £233,000 to the Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical December 2014 to have her right welfare rights support advice Commissioning Group. leg amputated below the knee. to ensure that her income was

16 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 One home lettings scheme serving two districts

Homefinder is a social housing lettings scheme run in partnership with Ashfield District Council (Ashfield Homes) and local housing associations.

Homefinder gives you more choice and BAND 4 control over where you live by allowing ƒƒ Band 4: Applicants with a housing need you to search and bid for council and who are unsuitable to hold a tenancy,for housing association properties in example someone with a history of anti- Mansfield and Ashfield districts. You social behaviour. need to complete only one application form to apply for housing in both BAND 5 districts. ƒƒ Band 5: Applicants who are suitably Normally, you qualify to join the Housing housed, for example owner occupiers and Register if you have a local connection to applicants with no local connection needing either district, for example working or living a 60+ home. there for at least two years. I don’t know The type and size of properties you are where I would have You may be exempt from needing a local eligible to bid for depends on the number connection if you are: of people in your household and your been without the household type. ƒƒ in HM Armed Forces, hospital discharge ƒƒ fleeing violence from outside the area, Homefinder allows applicants to apply for ƒƒ a tenant of another social housing landlord homes with a spare bedroom, but a financial scheme’s support. who is seeking to downsize, or assessment will be carried out to assess ƒƒ interested in a flat prioritised for elderly whether the applicant is able to afford the tenants. rent. Those eligible to join Homefinder are placed How we shortlist tenants maximised now that she was in one of five housing needs bands which reliant on benefits. reflect how urgently you need to move. To join our Housing Register you need to register with Homefinder. “I have never claimed for anything If you have an emergency need to move, in my life,” said Mrs Giles, “so to such as being homeless, you may be placed Bids received by Homefinder are prioritised to come and start here and claim in Band 1. If you have no housing needs you produce a shortlist of applicants. If more than for everything has been difficult. may be placed in Band 5. one person in a band applies for a property, the applicants are sorted by the date their Mansfield’s welfare rights officer BAND 1 helped me with all the paperwork.” priority was awarded. Eligible applicants are ƒƒ Band 1: Applicants with a severe or invited to view the property. Mrs Giles is now trying to get used emergency need for rehousing, for To register with Homefinder, visit to life with a prosthetic limb and example homeless families. a wheelchair which has not been www.amhomefinder.co.uk. If you do not easy. BAND 2 have access to the internet, contact the Homefinder team on 01623 463402 for a ƒ As well as helping Kiko pack and ƒ Band 2: Applicants with urgent housing Social Housing Application form. move their belongings to their needs, for example if they are overcrowded new home, the hospital discharge by two or more bedrooms. You can email Homefinder@ mansfield.gov.uk or contact us through your scheme also provided a food BAND 3 parcel and helped to furnish the Homefinder account, which is created on the home. ƒƒ Band 3: Applicants with low housing Homefinder website when you register. needs, for example if they are overcrowded Mrs Giles said: “I don’t know by one bedroom. where I would have been without the hospital discharge scheme’s support.”

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18 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 What's On The Big Switch On 2015 The countdown to Christmas 2015 begins in Mansfield on Sunday 15 November. This year’s event is set to be another festive Trading extravaganza with lots of FREE entertainment for all the family throughout the day in the town centre. It will be followed by a spectacular stage show including live music and your favourite Christmas hits to get you in the festive spirit. Paddington™ will be making personal places on Mansfield Market appearances at intervals throughout the day. Don’t miss the opportunity to visit Santa in his grotto and tell him what you’d like for ansfield Market Christmas. is under new You can buy perfect gifts at a Christmas craft management and market and join in the countdown to the launch we are looking of Mansfield’s Christmas lights display. forM more traders. There will be lots of FREE and low-cost Whether you are an experienced activities across the district throughout the trader or a first time market Christmas period. Look out for our Mansfield trader, why not give Mansfield Xmas Festival What’s On guide, which will a try? The market is in a prime be delivered to all homes in the district and location in the centre of town and community outlets and online at gives you a great opportunity to Selling the right product at the right www.mansfield.gov.uk/switchon from the start up your own business and price is the key to success, says end of October. become your own boss. veteran trader Raymond Siddall. To receive our What’s On guides straight to We offer great stall rents. It is One of Mansfield’s longest-serving your inbox, email only £10 per stall for a Monday eventsandpromotions@ market traders is the Siddall family. with the words What's On as or Wednesday, £15 per stall mansfield.gov.uk The business has been trading on the subject line to be added to our mailing list. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Mansfield Market since the 1950s and £20 per stall on a Saturday. has passed down three generations. We are looking for new and Raymond and his wife, Enid, along unusual lines. We would with their son, Steven, sell bedding, particularly like traders that cushions and soft furnishings in sell candles, craft items, toys, Westgate every Thursday. workwear, furniture, garden items Raymond said: “I love trading on and stationery to name just a few. Mansfield Market because I get to We offer great incentives for new serve some lovely customers and traders. New traders receive one there is always a buzz around the town week’s free rent each month for centre. Becoming a market trader is the first four months. a great way to start a business and I’d really recommend it. You’ll be To apply for a stall or for advice, successful if you have the right product contact Nicola Harvey, the market at the right price.” supervisor, on 01623 463818, or email nharvey@ He said the council offered a lot of mansfield.gov.uk. benefits to traders such as providing them with free parking, a holiday You can also complete a market entitlement and reduced rents during stall application form by visiting January, February and March (known . www.paddington.com www.mansfield.gov.uk/markets by traders as the kipper season). © P&Co. Ltd./SC 2015

www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 19 Housing Poppy Fields continues to blossom

ork is progressing well on our Poppy Fields Extra Care Scheme, off £1.7m project brings Chesterfield Road South, inW Mansfield. homes and jobs The first phase of the £11m development will have 64 units for people aged over 55 The 12 houses – five with three who have additional care needs. It Work is under way to bedrooms and seven with two will allow them to live as independently build 12 family council bedrooms - will be owned and let as possible with care staff on site 24 by the council. To apply to live in hours a day. homes in Mansfield. one, residents must register with the There will be five two-bed bungalows and council’s Homefinder service. five two-bed houses available for older he £1.76 million The project is being funded by the person’s shared ownership. These are development in Pye Avenue council with help from a £216,000 expected to be finished by the end of is one of several housing grant from the Homes and November, with the first residents moving schemes being built for the Communities Agency (HCA). into their homes soon after. Tcouncil, which will see more than The development, constructed by There are also ten one-bed bungalows 170 homes being built over the next Geda Construction, of Kegworth, for people with low-level dementia, which couple of years. Leicestershire, is expected to provide are set in a courtyard and have separate Building on the site began in June and work for about 120 people, plus communal areas and landscaped is expected to take a year to complete. four apprentices and several work gardens. It will transform the former disused experience students. The development is built in the style of a garage site, which attracted anti-social village with a village green and communal behaviour and fly-tipping. hub including a kitchen, lounge and television area, allotment space and sensory garden as the focal points. Making life easier Work has started on the second phase to provide 20 properties for the over 55s enants have moved into two and is due to be completed in June 2106. new council-built bungalows There will be 12 bungalows and eight designed to support the apartments for people who need support needs of disabled people. rather than care. Residents will also have T access to the community hub. Karen and Peter Plant and their 19-year-old son, Michael, have moved To find out more about the ten shared into one of the homes on Bonington ownership properties, contact David Road, Mansfield. Blount on 01623 422777. be adjusted in height and a wet room “Our son, Michael, has Down’s with hand rails. syndrome, autism and ADHD and has had surgery for spinal problems,” said The properties were offered in the first Karen. “Moving to a bungalow has instance to existing tenants, who were made it a lot easier to care for Michael, living in larger properties and wished who is sometimes wheelchair-bound, to downsize. This freed up homes for due to problems with his knees.” tenants who needed more bedrooms. The two-bedroom bungalow features a kitchen with a sink and hob that can

20 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 From only Independent living £110,000 in affordable £1.7m project brings homes... homes and jobs Mansfield District Council is offering five bungalows (£125,000) and five houses (£110,000) for sale on the exciting new Poppy Fields extra care development, off Chesterfield Road South, Mansfield.

The properties all have two bedrooms. Poppy Fields offers a unique opportunity for people aged 55 and over to buy a brand new property on shared ownership terms and live independently while receiving support tailored to their needs. For sales enquiries, contact David Blount Estate Agents and Surveyors on 01623 422777 or visit www.davidblount.co.uk For all other enquiries, contact Rob Purser, the council’s Strategic Housing Manager, on 01623 463123 or email [email protected]

www.mansfield.gov.uk/poppyfields

www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 21 AUGUST - DECEMBER 2015

What’swww.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre On

September 30 October 8-12 September 14 October Talon – The Best of the Eagles The Invention of Baked Beans - Miss 31 October Detail Dance Company Nightingale The Blues Brother Experience The Musical 18-19 September November Bad Girls The Musical – Inspirations 1 November Theatre Company 15 October Sleeping Beauty – 20 September The Irish House Party Moscow Ballet La Classique The Great American Songbook – 16 October 3 November Masque Productions The Drifters Rebranded Tour Jane Austen's Emma 22-23 September 17 October 10-14 November Don’t Rain on my Parade – The Bee Gees Story – A White Christmas – Masque Productions Clare Sales School of Dance Nights on Broadway 16-17 November 24 September 20 October Into the Woods – New Youth Theatre Austen’s Women Waiting for Godot – 25 September London Classic Theatre 18 November Neil Sands’ Christmas Memories Rock ‘n’ Roll Paradise 22 October All the Little Lights 18 November Galliarda 22 October Du Port d’Amsterdam au ciel de Paris 19 November (The music of Edith Piaf and Circus of Horrors – Jacques Brel) Welcome to the Carnevil 23 October 20 November Mercury: Queen – The Legend Lives On Barry Steele’s Roy Orbison and Friends 24 October One Night of Elvis starring 26 September Lee Memphis King Dave Spikey – Punchlines 25 October Festival of Remembrance 27 September Blidworth Brass Band and Mansfield District Male Voice Choir October 7 October Anita Harris – My Life in Showbusiness 11 October Mozartissimo 28 October Tree Fu Tom Live 13 October Psychic Sally on the Road 28 November – 3 January 29 October Aladdin Pantomime Gulliver

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22 www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 What’s www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre On Metal Box Reminisce of Artwork Exhibition The museum’s Metal Box Artwork temporary days gone by exhibition runs until 31 October. This display expands on the section devoted to the company in our permanent Made In Mansfield exhibition and is a sequel to our very popular 2011 installation, featuring items of tinware from the company. On display are the original paintings and drawings which featured on scores of Metal Box products.

Christmas Market

From September we’ll be piloting a new Memory Café at the museum. The museum’s popular Christmas market will take imed at people living with Our first Memory Café will be free to visit on place from 3-5 December. dementia, their carers and 16 September from 3pm to 4pm and is called It’ll be open from 10am to families, the Memory Café Dress Up Afternoon Tea. There’ll be lots of 7pm on the Thursday and will be a monthly event with a hats and handbags to rummage through, 10am to 4pm on the Friday varietyA of themed reminiscence activities. photos of fashions through the ages and and Saturday. Safe spaces that are welcoming to people music to hum along to while you look. Cake, living with dementia can be hard to find tea and coffee will be available. Donations are Last year’s event set a record and we’re excited to be able to use our welcome to cover refreshment costs. with more than 40 stalls and resources to offer this new service to the over 3,000 visitors. We’re also looking for donations of tea cups, people of Mansfield. saucers, teapots and tablecloths to assist with There will be a wide range of We’ve had a range of Reminiscence Boxes the café element! To donate items or original gift ideas for on a range of topics available to hire for a for more information, please contact everyone on your number of years. Now we’ll be using the Sally Evans on 01623 463088 shopping list – themes from those boxes for our Memory or [email protected]. don’t miss it! Cafés. Each one will use a different box and activities available for those who want to join in. There will also be space to relax for those who just want to enjoy a cup of tea in a safe social setting.

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www.mansfield.gov.uk | September 2015 23 Contacting the council

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