Spring 1998 Issn 0965-8912
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'DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 49 SPRING 1998 ISSN 0965-8912 Dore Playground Project All those living in and around Dore know how inadequate the existing facilities for play are on the Dore Recreation Ground. The Dore Playground Action Group has been formed with the aim of improving the play area by fencing it off and providing suitable flooring and equipment. This is inevitably expensive, with only so much money available towards the project from Council funds. So far the local Cub Scout movement have been very supportive and have raised money for the Playground and the Dore Fun Run organisers have promised monies from this years planned event. The Lodge of Industry number 6579 have presented a cheque for £500 on behalf of South Yorkshire Freemasonry, and Dore to Door Catering have offered a gingerbread house for auction. Other financial pledges have been made by Garfitts International Ltd of Halfway, and by Turf Machinery Ltd of Woking. Many thanks to all who have helped so far, but we have a long way to go to raise the necessary cash. So please can you help. Do Drawing of the Lych Gate by Sheffield artist Brian Smith who will be exhibiting a selection of you work for or know a local company or watercolours and sketches of Dore Village at the Open Day on the 7th March. organisation that might be able to make a donation or offer help in kind? If so please sound them out for us, or pass on details for us DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY to follow up. Alternatively please support any Doorsteps to disappear fund raising events we run or if you can please OPEN DAY let us have a donation. Money raised is being Saturday 7 March In future all new homes will have to be built held in a special Dore Village Society Charity 9am to Ipm with "level thresholds", to ensure access for Account and with Council help all expenditure Old School, Dore wheelchairs. This follows a decade of lobbying will be net of VAT. For more information by organisations representing the disabled and contact Julie Brooks on 262 0712, or write to the elderly and is likely to be implemented by Mrs Samantha Porter, Dore Playground Action April 1999. Group, 21 Causeway Head Road S 17 3DR. Dore Recreation Ground The J oseph Rowntree Foundation first suggested the idea of a "Lifetime Home" that As we go to press there is consternation would last from cradle to grave. 16 changes Letters over notices that have appeared in the were suggested by their recent report - changes recreation ground announcing proposals to that the average home would have to undergo, Dear sir, plant 1,000 trees. This will be done by the including many internal ones. Most of these I would like to draw your attention to the International Tree Foundation following an have been accepted by the Construction dangerous situation at the foot of Causeway approach by them to the Recreation Dept for a Minister Nick Royston. Head Road by the Midland Bank, paper shop suitable site. The level threshold is already mandatory for etc. Pedestrians wanting to cross the road, Unfortunately the Dore Village Society was public buildings, shops and offices, many of have to walk between the cars, and wait in the not initially consulted on this proposal, nor which now suffer water damage in heavy rain. road until it is safe to cross. was it advised in advance of the tree felling Steep slopes must also be avoided, resulting in Regretfully, a fortnight before Christmas, I recently carried out at the Town Head Road a complete redesign of the plot. If a car can was hit twice by a car reversing out as I was entrance. reach the back door, that can be the level about to cross the road. Finally, the driver saw Arrangements have now been made to meet threshold. The only exemption will be for that I'd been hit, stopped and got out, Council officials on the site, before work takes houses built on steep slopes where steps are otherwise I would have been run over. As I place, and to ensure planting follows the unavoidable. Much of Sheffield is built on have had ongoing problems since a hip development plans drawn up for us by steep slopes so it will be interesting to see replacement, it was a very painful experience, Sheffield Wildlife. where exemptions will be allowed. and frightening too. We believe the proposed trees will be native So the doorstep, so useful for keeping out If for some reason, drivers can't park facing species and planted at I metre intervals along dust, draughts and downpours will go. the way they are going, I would like to ask existing boundaries within the site, not open Carrying your bride "over the slope" doesn't through the magazine, that they be extremely areas. The space actually taken up will be sound quite so romantic. vigilant for pedestrian waiting to cross the small, and no doubt there will be a high Gillian Farnsworth road. D Cobain (Miss) subsequent mortality rate. INSIDE: The Dare Village Society; Wildlife garden; Farming notes; Planning; Clandestine Newts; Matrimony in mind; Spring Diary; Letters & News. historic information, and as a medium for Calling all readers raising environmental awareness. The Society DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY also periodically publishes books, leaflets and Spring Meeting Dore to Door comes to you courtesy of the maps covering the history of development of 7pm Wednesday 4 March Dore Village Society. But are you a member? the community, its environment and amenities. Old School Hall We would like you to know a little more about There is also a set of notelets showing local Illustrated talk by Tony Davis the Society and the work it undertakes. Hence views and an annual Christmas Card. from the National Trust the information on this page and the Public meetings. Public presentations by forthcoming Open Morning on Saturday the outside speakers on subjects of interest and 7th March. relevance to the community, including appropriate debate. These are open to anyone The Society living in Dore and are free of charge. Environment Weeks Dore Collection. Collecting, cataloguing, The Dore Village Society was formed in displaying and research on, material relevant Sheffield Environment Weeks this year will 1964 and has been run by a changing band of to the history and locality of Dore. We have run from Saturday 9th May to Monday the volunteers ever since. It is in its way unique, been building up the collection by the 25th inclusi ve. being a cross between a community purchase of material, copying of photographs Last year there were a record breaking 235 association, historical society, environmental & documents etc Please let us know if you events involving 92 organisations or Council group and parish council. Most fundamentally have any old pictures of Dore, memories, or departments. Events ranged from exhibitions it is whatever the residents of Dore want it to items of interest. The Society now has its own to talks, from clean-ups to surveys, and over be! room at the Old School, used for storage, 10,000 people took part. This year offers an Since 1993 the Society has been a registered research and committee meetings. equally exciting programme, so watch out for charity, with officers and committee elected at Conservation & Planning. Protecting and details in the press and locally. an AGM each May. It is involved in numerous enhancing the local environment by - Once again the Dore Village Society will be projects, most of which people are perhaps monitoring and commenting on planning taking part, including circulating leaflets unaware of. So here goes: applications (especially in ·the conservation giving details of recycling options. However, Aim. The aim of the Society is to foster the area), - active membership of organisations if you have any ideas or suggestions, or if a protection and enhancement of the local having overlapping objectives to those of the group you are involved in will be taking part, environment and amenities within Dore, to society, - working with and petitioning the please let us know. Our environmental contact encourage a spirit of community and to record local authority and its councillors, - initiating, is Roger Millican who can be reached on 262 its historic development. funding and progressing ideas and projects 0012. with a direct environmental or community Main activities: benefit. The Society is an associate member of CPRE, the Open Spaces Society, Friends of Gala & Festival Week Communication & publishing, Dore to Ecclesall Woods (FEW), Abbeydale & Door is published quarterly as a means of Shepherd Wheel Action Trust (ASWAT), and A varied programme is once again being communication within the community, as a the Royal Horticultural Society. planned for this years Scout and Guide Gala & platform for the publication and exchange of Dore Show. Organising and sponsoring the Festival Week, which will run from 4 - 12 July. annual September village horticultural and There will be a wide range of events put on by crafts show. local organisations. More details will be DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY Dore Playground Project. Raising funds included in the next Dore to Door. Registered Charity No. 1017051 for, and organising, improvement of the Sarah Hackel would like to hear from The Society aims to foster the protection children's play facilities within Dore anyone who would be interested in helping and enhancement of the local environment Recreation Ground. This is the first initiative with the Village Well Dressing. This year, the and amenities within Dore, to encourage a as part of a wider recreation ground plan is to erect the Well Dressing on the Green spirit of community and to record its improvement project based on our public on Saturday 4 July, so as to be on view during historic development.