Pinders Heath Residents Association

PINDERS HEATH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

MEETING MONDAY 4TH JUNE 2018

7.30PM A G E N D A

HEALTH AND SAFETY

APOLOGIES AND WELCOME TO GUESTS

POLICE MATTERS

Crime Report for our Ward

(Item 1 from ‘Parking Issues’ to be discussed with Police)

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING HELD ON MONDAY 5TH MARCH 2018

MATTERS ARISING FROM MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF MONDAY 5TH MARCH 2018 NOT COVERED ELSEWHERE ON THE AGENDA

PARKING ISSUES

Visibility issues when exiting Pinders Heath due to cars parked on Aberford Road

Reporting parking issues to Council –

telephone 01924 306090 ​email: [email protected]

CITY FIELDS/WERR UPDATE

TREASURERS REPORT

ESTATE AUDIT

Pot hole report ready to submit to Council

LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE

Fencing off woodland area restricting access to footpath from the Green

Litter Pick - Date for next litter pick - Friday 15th June 10.00am

Grass cutting on the Bunding

Bollard on footpath entrance to The Green at Clark Grove

Mobile Library

Snow Wardens

JAPANES KNOTWEED

WEBSITE/FACEBOOK

COMBATING LONELINESS INITIATIVE

Luncheon Club St Swithens

Other clubs and services (suggestions from the floor)

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

DATE OF NEXT MEETING - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

MONDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2018

The Fencing in the copse at the top of the estate has cut oiff our traditional access to the footpath via the green. Come along to our next meeting to talk about this situation

lost keys somewhere on Barnstone Vale between no. 27 and Coppice Close.if found please contact no. 27. Thank you.

Hello everyone.

Please set aside Monday 4th June at Trinity Methodist Church 7:30 - 9:00pm

All residents are welcome.

PINDERS HEATH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON MONDAY 5TH MARCH 2018   7.30PM AT TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH

PRESENT

Peter Fenlon - Chairman

Chris Harrison - Treasurer

Jane Holmes - Secretary

25 Residents

IN ATTENDANCE

Councillors Olivia Rowley, Ros Lund,Stuart Heptinstall

Sgt Zoe Kempa

PCSO Ash Aspley 

HEALTH AND SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Chairman outlined the Health and Safety arrangements for the meeting and actions to take in the event of an emergency.

The Chairman thanked the Councillors and the Police representatives for their time in attending the meeting which was much appreciated by the residents

APOLOGIES

Mike Starford sent his apologies.

POLICE MATTERS

Sgt Zoe Kempa addressed the meeting along with her colleague PCSO Ash Aspley and gave a comprehensive report on crime and police activity in our Ward 16. Zoe said she was settling in and getting to know the area. She said that they were issuing tickets to drivers who were parking on Aberford Road. She then outlined the crime stats for the previous three month period for our Ward 16, which were not particularly high and were the same types of crimes as last year.

They were 508 violent crime, public order 266 and criminal damage 263 - this was mostly to gardens, cars and property. She said that race hate incidents had shown a slight increase over the previous year.

A resident asked what were the arrest and detection rates for crime in our Ward, especially for violent and serious crime. Zoe said she would try to get this information for the next PACT meeting.

The Chairman thanked Sgt Zoe Kempa and PCSO Ash Aspey for their report and for the time they had taken to attend the meeting.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING HELD ON MONDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2017

MATTERS ARISING FROM MINUTES NOT COVERED ELSEWHERE ON THE AGENDA

The Chairman informed the meeting that the previous website had not been renewed due to the high cost and the new website was almost ready. it was hoped the minutes of this meeting would be posted to the new website in due course.

THE GREEN

The bunding on the Green was looking good now it was greened over. It was hoped this would prevent travellers coming onto the Green again but we would have to wait and see what happened in the summer.

The benches were now in situ and thanks were voiced for Councillor Rowley and the Treasurer for organising these benches. As these benches had a somewhat rustic appearance it may be that they will be varnished in due course to make the seating surface a little smoother.

It was agreed that lights should be purchased every year for the Christmas trees which were planted on the Green.

It had been suggested that a notice board on the Green would be helpful for disseminating information about the estate, but it was felt that the way ahead now was to develop the website.

Talking Bench - a proposal was put forward by a resident that one of the benches could be designated as a Talking Bench - a place where residents could sit if they wanted to have conversations with other residents. It was hoped this would help to reduce loneliness and isolation amongst residents. This had been adopted in Sheffield and had proved popular. A full discussion took place on this proposal and it was agreed a notice/sign would be placed on one of the benches

to the effect that it was a “Talking bench”.

Following a visit by Councillor Heptinstall it was agreed a bollard was needed at the entrance to the Green from Clark Grove - it seems there had been one in the past. This bollard had been ordered and the Councillors would chase it up.

TREASURERS REPORT

The Treasurer gave his report to the meeting. He reported there had been income of £13.92 from the previous meeting and £500 grant from Wakefield Council. The Grant was for bulbs for the green spaces around the estate and new banners to advertise the name of the new website.

He reported there had been expenditure of £21.99 on batteries and printing costs.

The balance was £974.44.

Councillor Rowley confirmed that the grant must be spent on the items that were requested in the bid and within the deadline specified on the letter sent with the Grant.

CITY FIELDS/WERR

A long discussion took place regarding the fact that some drivers were speeding along the WERR which was in fact a 30mph road. Various options were discussed to deter speeding such as flashing warning lights. However the Police were catching drivers who were speeding along this road and no further changes were planned for the present time.

A discussion also took place regarding the type of housing that was being built and if the builders were providing the much needed “affordable housing”. Councillor Heptinstall said that the planning committee always raise the issue of affordable housing with building companies.

A proposal was discussed regarding the idea of inviting residents from City Fields to join our residents association. The general feeling of the meeting was that they were not in favour of this approach but to keep it as an ongoing issue to see how the City Fields estate develops over time. It as felt City Fields would have different areas of concern to those of PHRA and different local councillors for the most part.

PARKING ISSUES -EXTENSION TO DOUBLE YELLOW LINES ON BARNSTONE VALE

The Councillors informed the meeting that there was a shortage of engineers within the Council to deal with the large number of traffic/parking issues. However the Councillors said they would keep this matter under review to see how it progressed.

ESTATE AUDIT

A report would be sent to the Councillors in due course with the issues - mostly pot holes - that require attention on the estate, to see if they could be dealt with by Wakefield Council

LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE

The next litter pick was scheduled to take place on Friday 23rd March at 10.00 am.

Mobile Library - it was reported to the meeting that this service was under review to provide the most cost effective service to users. Residents were urged to use the service - or lose it if it is underused in our area. The review of the service is to re organise the routes. Currently the mobile library visits our estate on a Tuesday on a three weekly cycle. Times and dates are listed on the Library website.

St Swithuns Community Centre

The services available at St Swithuns on Eastmoor were outlined to the residents. Some leaflets were available for residents to take away with them. The activities were many and varied such as learning Spanish, arts classes, fitness classes and an opportunity to mix with like minded people.

Snow Wardens

Cathy Walters agreed to be the co-ordinator for the estates snow wardens.

WEBSITE/FACEBOOK

The Chairman advised residents that a new data protection act was coming into force quite soon. This would require residents to positively opt into having their data - such as e mail address - being stored by the residents association. Once more information was available residents would be contacted via e mail or a letterbox drop.

The Treasurer then went on to update the meeting on the new website. He confirmed that the address of the website was - pindersheathresidentsassociation.webs.com. Residents have to be invited to become a member. The e mail address linked to this website is - [email protected] He advised that if residents e mail heathpinders then an invitation will be sent to become a member

The facebook site for the residents association was Pinders Heath. It was a closed site for private members - that is Pinders Heath residents only.

The Treasurer said that e mails would be sent out to members of the old website asking them if they still wished to be a member and that if so residents should reply to the e mail to confirm this.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

CCTV - Cathy raised the issue of having cctv installed on the estate. She felt it would be a good idea to have cctv coverage of anyone entering or leaving the estate. A discussion took place around the pros and cons of this and the costs. The general consensus of the meeting was that this should be re visited in 12 months time when technology would have improved and this could lead to it being much less expensive.

LONELINESS AUDIT - Cathy asked the meeting if there were any views around undertaking a loneliness audit of residents on the estate. She said she felt that this was an area where a residents association could help to improve the lives of residents. A full discussion took place around the issues of loneliness and isolation and following which it was proposed and seconded that Cath be involved in developing a loneliness audit for the estate.

The meeting closed at 9.15pm.

DATE OF NEXT MEETING

The next meeting is to be held on Monday 4th June 2018 at 7.30pm.

The next PHRA meeting will be on Monay 4th June 2018 and will be once again at Trinity Methodist Chusrh. All residents are welcome.

We met again at Trinity Methodist Church for a lively good humoured meeting with 24 members in attendance. We also had in attendance two mebers of the polise to deliver the local crime report and all three of our wards coucillors. The discussions were wide ranging and informative.

Please see the Photo Gallery for some shots from the meeting.

All residents welcome.

Please note our next metting to which all residents are welcome.