St Edmunds Residents Association Meeting.

Including speakers and a discussion on Housing and tenancy issues in St Edmunds.

Agenda for the fifth meeting of the Association,

7.00 to 8.00pm Monday 3^rd September 2012. Victoria Road Church Rooms, Cyril Street.

1. Apologies
2. Introduction of two speakers on housing. The question will be the rights and duties of tenants and landlords. This will be followed by questions and a discussion.
3. The churchyard, progress on the 'Park'.
4. The MUGA. (Multiple use games area.)
5. Minutes of the last meeting.
6. Matters arising.
7. Any other business.
8. Date of next meeting
9. 8.00pm, meeting closes.

If you know of anyone who might be interested in the Residents Association please let us know and let them know about the meeting. Email addresses (where possible) make it much easier to contact people and distribute agendas and minutes.
Suggestions are welcome for speaker or main subject for future meetings.
We have a group on Facebook called St Edmunds Residents Association

And a Blog at---   http://stedmundsra.blogspot.co.uk/

Jim Wishart, secretary
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17^th August, 2012.

St Edmunds Churchyard- project to convert this churchyard to a public park.

Our association has voted to try to open the churchyard to the public as a park. The list of 'things to do' is long and to a degree a bit indeterminate as there is more than one possible type of park that the area could become.
In the meantime we have made an application for design aid under a scheme promoted by the Design Council. There are limited resources available, in fact only ten projects will be helped across the whole country but we have worked on the basis of 'nothing ventured nothing gained'.

The Design Council web page can be found here

I have filled in the application form and sent it off, it includes the following:-
Part 3: About your project
1. What is the name of your project?
        St Edmunds Churchyard Park.
2. Please describe your project – why is it needed and what do you want to do?
        The cemetery is closed to the public at the present time. The St Edmunds Church was demolished in the early ‘70s. The land is a very tranquil spot behind a five foot high stone wall. There are not many gravestones so there is a large area of grassland and trees which would make an ideal place for relaxation or a pleasant diversion on a walk for the local people.
We need to open up the churchyard by the provision of new entrances, a reduction of the height of the wall, some attention to the existing gravestones, construction of paths maybe crossing the area, consideration of street lighting, litter bins and seats.
We need a landscape architect’s advice and work to design a scheme and to price it.
All we have to do now is wait for a result.

"What A Load Of Rubbish" - Tony Clarke's Blog

Interesting piece by Councillor Tony Clarke on his Independent Blog. Specific interest to members of the association is the part titled "WHAT A LOAD OF OLD RUBBISH", commenting on Enterprise as represented at Monday's meeting.

Some of us told Mr Keiron King (Enterprise representative) that some of what they were doing wasn't working on Monday, but of course he told us otherwise.

http://tonyclarkeindependent.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/simply-matter-of-bins-and-bugs-topical.html

Government Grant Meeting 16th May 2012

Details regarding a meeting concerning a Government grant potential.


"As you are probably aware, the old/NCC St. Crispin's Ward has been awarded approximately £85,000 (over four years) in government funding to support community action towards improving the area as a place to live.  
A provisional Panel has been set up to plan a process for deciding how to spend this money.  The Panel are now planning a public event, running from 6 p.m. till about 9 p.m. on Wednesday 16 May at the Open Door Centre on Kettering Road.  Food will be provided.  I hope that you will be able to attend: please put this date in your diary now!  The event will be open to all residents of St. Crispin's Ward so feel free to pass this information to anyone living in the area."
email from the Borough Council.

Meeting Agenda for 14th May 2012

This Monday sees the next meeting for the association, with our main guest Enterprise. The following is the agenda for the meeting.

1. Update by Peter Strachen (Borough) on the Action Plan resulting from the Consultation exercise.
   
2. New Treasurer, Audrey Russell.
   
3. Enterprise, (contractors), presentation and questions.
4. Report on policing by Kevin Halfpenny.
5. The churchyard, progress on the 'Park'.
6. Minutes of the last meetings and matters arising.
7. Any other business.
8. Date of next meeting
9. 8.00pm, meeting closes.

If you know of anyone who might be interested in the Residents Association please let us know, name address and email.

Suggestions welcome for speaker or main subject of the next meeting.

We have a group on--- Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/groups/181811315262835/
Jim Wishart, secretary

Follow-up to Q&A Meeting: Secretary comments

SERA, news from the front.
The first meeting was well attended and it seemed obvious through the energetic contributions that there is a need to have an outlet for local opinions. There was a deliberate decision at this first meeting to avoid a formal structure and although the process may have seemed somewhat uncontrolled, most people got heard. In future there will be the more mundane duties on the agenda such as 'approval of the minutes of the last meeting' and 'matters arising'.
Although it might seem that not much has happened since our last meeting there has been progress behind the scenes.
The Reverend Mike Hills has asked to be kept informed on progress on the Churchyard Park. He offered a meeting place at his church, St Michaels. We have another volunteer to serve on the steering committee. I hope that a first meeting will be held shortly.
The minutes of the meeting have been started but they were delayed by family circumstances. We plan to post them on the blog site soon. We have a volunteer to help with the Minutes in future.
Peter Strachan has produced a summary of the Consultation exercise which is very useful and which I hope to add to the minutes of the last meeting.
The street gardens need weeding and the chairperson will be out there doing that today (she said).
Get your questions ready for the 14th May meeting when Enterprise, the contractor doing our street cleaning and waste disposal, will attend.
Jim Wishart
secretary

Calendar

A new calendar has been added to the very bottom of the blog. This will contain the dates for all future meeting for the association.

To view this scroll to the bottom past all current blog posts.