News Updates 2013
17 June
Jai Food and Wine of 430 Hartshill Road have been granted their application to sell alcohol from 8am to 10pm. They will be open from 6am to 10pm.
18 June
Sentinel item - Stop this Parking "free for all" say families.
Residents in streets surrounding the University Hospital of North Staffordshire want the Residents' Permit Parking Scheme to be extended to include Sundays.
26 June
Sentinel item - Planning permission for development of Former Dyson Industries site granted. 110 houses, shops, and a pub/restaurant.
27 June
Sentinel item - Planning permission for temporary car park for 247 cars on Outpatients site. This takes the number of spaces to 730.
3 July
Sentinel item - 24 drivers caught speeding on Hilton Road on Sunday 30 June by Speedwatch volunteers. One lorry was recorded travelling at 60 mph.
10 July
Sentinel item - 1,019 drivers fined for parking illegally around UHNS. This covered 35 streets in Hartshill and Harpfields, including 451 in Hilton Road and 131 in Ashlands Road. Comments on the Sentinel website included "That's less than 3 a day - I can show them where they can book 30 in 20 minutes - outside any school" and "If they got rid of that big seating area outside the main entrance and all those trees they could fit another 500 cars in - people don't visit hospital to sit in the sun or look at trees".
12 August
Sentinel item - Ashlands Road/Hilton Road junction traffic lights. The City Council has agreed to make changes to the junction including adjusting the right turn lane markings. Coronation Road residents' only parking and limited waiting parking. Positive feedback from residents but some businesses unhappy about amount of parking available to customers. Highways will produce a Traffic Regulation Order and invite comments by end of September.
15 August
Turkish Delight 475-477 Hartshill Road have made an application to vary there hours of opening. Application 55615/VAR refers. The consultation period ends 3 September. At present the hours of opening are 11am to 11pm. The new hours would be 3pm to 12am Monday to Thursday and 3pm to 12.30am Friday and Saturday. Mr Iqbal claims that 75% of his business comes through the website JustEat.co.uk and that they will remove his business from their database if he closes before 12am. He has lodged a list of names of people supporting his application. Many are customers who are not from the immediate area. The Council have written letters to all those previously contacted about his other applications. There have been no objections. [The application was refused - Mr Iqbal is a partner in the business which is operated by Mr Mustafa Ceylan. It was reported at the Residents' Committee meeting on 3 October that one one night the business was still operating at 12.30am]
15 August
Notes of the PACT meetings on the 1 July and 5 August can be found via a link on the Other Organisations page.
24 August
A consultation about changes to parking on Hilton Road between Springfields roundabout and Ashlands Road. The City Council are contemplating installing pay and display parking on the Hospital side of the Hilton Road and double yellow lines on the opposite side of Hilton Road (in part). Only those people on Hilton Road have been consulted, despite the fact that other roads maybe impacted upon, particularly at weekends when residents' permit parking does not operate and cars may park in those areas rather than pay for parking. New road markings have been placed at the traffic lights at the Hospital entrance on Hilton Road.
31 August
A exhibition of the plans for the lighting of the temporary car park on the cleared COPD site was staged in the foyer at the main entrance of the Hospital showing the lighting effects of the various lighting columns. There is an application to install two more column in the centre of the new temporary car park. A decision is expected after 17 September.
Sentinel item - Planning permission for development of Former Dyson Industries site granted. 110 houses, shops, and a pub/restaurant.
27 June
Sentinel item - Planning permission for temporary car park for 247 cars on Outpatients site. This takes the number of spaces to 730.
3 July
Sentinel item - 24 drivers caught speeding on Hilton Road on Sunday 30 June by Speedwatch volunteers. One lorry was recorded travelling at 60 mph.
10 July
Sentinel item - 1,019 drivers fined for parking illegally around UHNS. This covered 35 streets in Hartshill and Harpfields, including 451 in Hilton Road and 131 in Ashlands Road. Comments on the Sentinel website included "That's less than 3 a day - I can show them where they can book 30 in 20 minutes - outside any school" and "If they got rid of that big seating area outside the main entrance and all those trees they could fit another 500 cars in - people don't visit hospital to sit in the sun or look at trees".
12 August
Sentinel item - Ashlands Road/Hilton Road junction traffic lights. The City Council has agreed to make changes to the junction including adjusting the right turn lane markings. Coronation Road residents' only parking and limited waiting parking. Positive feedback from residents but some businesses unhappy about amount of parking available to customers. Highways will produce a Traffic Regulation Order and invite comments by end of September.
15 August
Turkish Delight 475-477 Hartshill Road have made an application to vary there hours of opening. Application 55615/VAR refers. The consultation period ends 3 September. At present the hours of opening are 11am to 11pm. The new hours would be 3pm to 12am Monday to Thursday and 3pm to 12.30am Friday and Saturday. Mr Iqbal claims that 75% of his business comes through the website JustEat.co.uk and that they will remove his business from their database if he closes before 12am. He has lodged a list of names of people supporting his application. Many are customers who are not from the immediate area. The Council have written letters to all those previously contacted about his other applications. There have been no objections. [The application was refused - Mr Iqbal is a partner in the business which is operated by Mr Mustafa Ceylan. It was reported at the Residents' Committee meeting on 3 October that one one night the business was still operating at 12.30am]
15 August
Notes of the PACT meetings on the 1 July and 5 August can be found via a link on the Other Organisations page.
24 August
A consultation about changes to parking on Hilton Road between Springfields roundabout and Ashlands Road. The City Council are contemplating installing pay and display parking on the Hospital side of the Hilton Road and double yellow lines on the opposite side of Hilton Road (in part). Only those people on Hilton Road have been consulted, despite the fact that other roads maybe impacted upon, particularly at weekends when residents' permit parking does not operate and cars may park in those areas rather than pay for parking. New road markings have been placed at the traffic lights at the Hospital entrance on Hilton Road.
31 August
A exhibition of the plans for the lighting of the temporary car park on the cleared COPD site was staged in the foyer at the main entrance of the Hospital showing the lighting effects of the various lighting columns. There is an application to install two more column in the centre of the new temporary car park. A decision is expected after 17 September.
9 September
Sentinel item - Hilton Road Pay and Display parking on the Hospital side of Hilton Road. People living on the opposite side belief the scheme could result in more motorists parking on their side of the road which is residents' only parking during the week. Residents' Committee member George Booth "It is already a nightmare on a Sunday and after 9pm in the week. The hospital staff that work a night shift park in front of our houses" Councillor Conteh "What could be a concern is displacement parking" [this would affect Oliver Road, Lionel Grove, Lodge Road, Ashlands Road and Longfield Road where residents' only permit parking does not apply on Sundays]
19 September
Sentinel item - Late night lighting will encourage yobs. The Hospital has confirmed that lighting will be switched on through the night on the new extended staff car park on the former Central Outpatients site. This may encourage anti-social behaviour. [the issue is whether the lighting will intrude on people's properties and also whether the lighting needs to be on all night when staff will be able to park on the Hospital car parks].
21 September
Sentinel item - A new multi-storey car park plan for the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. New chief executive Mark Hackett has started discussions after being surprised that the hospital complex does not have a bigger multi-storey car park. Reg Edwards, Joint Acting Chair of Hartshill and Harpfields Residents' Association "when the Central Outpatients and Infirmary sites are eventually sold off their will up to 1,000 fewer spaces for staff, so something needs to be done to stop them parking in side streets". Hospital Corporate Services Director, John Simpson "we have a number of short-term measures to help meet demand but we know we need longer-term solutions. With this in mind we have commissioned a review of parking capacity looking at all options for increasing provision.
24 September
Sentinel item - Hartshill residents complain about hospital shuttle bus "nightmare". Neighbours living in Ashlands Road, Ashlands Crescent and Ashlands Grove have signed a petition objecting to the frequency of buses which take UHNS staff to different parts of the site. Joanne Locker started the petition "it's an absolute nightmare when you have cars parked on both sides of the road and you have two buses trying to get past each other. I don't understand why they can't alter the route, instead of sending all the traffic down here. I did count the number of buses coming down Ashlands Road in the morning before 8.30 am and there were 58 in 45 minutes. The ridiculous thing is, some of them had one or two passengers on board. There is so much congestion during peak times of the day and it can be difficult getting in and out of our drives. It doesn't help that sometimes the bus drivers don't allow us to come out". John Simpson, Director of Corporate Services said they were looking into residents' concerns. "We expect that once the new car parks at the City General are complete by August 2014, the number of cars using Ashlands Road will decrease".
3 October
Sentinel item - Hilton House will be opened next week by Lovett Care, catering for 40 residents.
5 October
Sentinel item - Former Hire Shop Hartshill Road - renewed application to use as tyre fitting/MOT centre - a previous application was rejected. This new application differs in that all work will take place within the main building and the rear building which was to be used for MOT tests will be for storage only. There will be no Sunday working. Application number 55639/FUL. Closing Date for objections 25 October.
5 October
Planning Application 55850/PRA 485A Hartshill Road (rear of 485 Hartshill Road - corner of Riseley Road) - Change of use from office to residential (studio apartment). [This building was once used byJohnson's the Funeral Directors].
5 October
Sentinel item - Newcastle Players closing down and will be putting the former Church Institute which they used for their workshop up for sale.
9 October
Sentinel item - PC Terry Dunn who patrols in Hartshill and Basford has won Staffordshire Police's Christopher James Award for Community Police Officer of the Year for his work in the area. Chief Constable Mike Cunningham said "Terry is particularly skilled at defusing potentially awkward situations and finding a peaceful solution to a problem".
25 October
COPD - New Temporary Car Park - This is expected to be completed in late November. The issue of lighting the Car Park was discussed at a meeting today with UHNS attended by Councillor Pender and Reg Edwards (Joint Acting Chair - Residents' Association). It was agreed that their would be lighting tests to test the effect of the lighting on neighbouring houses. The first will take place between 5pm and 6pm this Monday 28 October.
28 October
The Newsletter goes to the printer today and will be available for distribution week ending 9 November.
31 October
Sentinel item - Hartshill butcher Richard Holloway has won through to the regional finals of National Sausage Week contest with his traditional pork sausage.
15 November
City Council item - via Councillor Conteh - Hilton Road TPO (Pay and Display installation etc). Works are expected to take place in the first week of December, weather permitting). The parking proposals for Coronation Road are expected to be carried out in February, being delayed by objections.
18 November
City Council item - Section 59 signs banning motor bikes from Parks have been manufactured and will be affixed to lamp posts at the entrances to Hartshill Park, Lodge Road and Richmond Street Parks.
26 November
The planning application for the former HSS Hire Shop has been approved with several conditions as to noise suppression and the need to preserve the privacy of residents in Vicarage Road affecting by the proposal to create a MOT Centre and tyre fitting service in the premises. The business is allowed to operate from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday and until 5pm on Saturday. No work is to carried out on Sundays or Bank Holidays.
Sentinel item - Hilton Road Pay and Display parking on the Hospital side of Hilton Road. People living on the opposite side belief the scheme could result in more motorists parking on their side of the road which is residents' only parking during the week. Residents' Committee member George Booth "It is already a nightmare on a Sunday and after 9pm in the week. The hospital staff that work a night shift park in front of our houses" Councillor Conteh "What could be a concern is displacement parking" [this would affect Oliver Road, Lionel Grove, Lodge Road, Ashlands Road and Longfield Road where residents' only permit parking does not apply on Sundays]
19 September
Sentinel item - Late night lighting will encourage yobs. The Hospital has confirmed that lighting will be switched on through the night on the new extended staff car park on the former Central Outpatients site. This may encourage anti-social behaviour. [the issue is whether the lighting will intrude on people's properties and also whether the lighting needs to be on all night when staff will be able to park on the Hospital car parks].
21 September
Sentinel item - A new multi-storey car park plan for the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. New chief executive Mark Hackett has started discussions after being surprised that the hospital complex does not have a bigger multi-storey car park. Reg Edwards, Joint Acting Chair of Hartshill and Harpfields Residents' Association "when the Central Outpatients and Infirmary sites are eventually sold off their will up to 1,000 fewer spaces for staff, so something needs to be done to stop them parking in side streets". Hospital Corporate Services Director, John Simpson "we have a number of short-term measures to help meet demand but we know we need longer-term solutions. With this in mind we have commissioned a review of parking capacity looking at all options for increasing provision.
24 September
Sentinel item - Hartshill residents complain about hospital shuttle bus "nightmare". Neighbours living in Ashlands Road, Ashlands Crescent and Ashlands Grove have signed a petition objecting to the frequency of buses which take UHNS staff to different parts of the site. Joanne Locker started the petition "it's an absolute nightmare when you have cars parked on both sides of the road and you have two buses trying to get past each other. I don't understand why they can't alter the route, instead of sending all the traffic down here. I did count the number of buses coming down Ashlands Road in the morning before 8.30 am and there were 58 in 45 minutes. The ridiculous thing is, some of them had one or two passengers on board. There is so much congestion during peak times of the day and it can be difficult getting in and out of our drives. It doesn't help that sometimes the bus drivers don't allow us to come out". John Simpson, Director of Corporate Services said they were looking into residents' concerns. "We expect that once the new car parks at the City General are complete by August 2014, the number of cars using Ashlands Road will decrease".
3 October
Sentinel item - Hilton House will be opened next week by Lovett Care, catering for 40 residents.
5 October
Sentinel item - Former Hire Shop Hartshill Road - renewed application to use as tyre fitting/MOT centre - a previous application was rejected. This new application differs in that all work will take place within the main building and the rear building which was to be used for MOT tests will be for storage only. There will be no Sunday working. Application number 55639/FUL. Closing Date for objections 25 October.
5 October
Planning Application 55850/PRA 485A Hartshill Road (rear of 485 Hartshill Road - corner of Riseley Road) - Change of use from office to residential (studio apartment). [This building was once used byJohnson's the Funeral Directors].
5 October
Sentinel item - Newcastle Players closing down and will be putting the former Church Institute which they used for their workshop up for sale.
9 October
Sentinel item - PC Terry Dunn who patrols in Hartshill and Basford has won Staffordshire Police's Christopher James Award for Community Police Officer of the Year for his work in the area. Chief Constable Mike Cunningham said "Terry is particularly skilled at defusing potentially awkward situations and finding a peaceful solution to a problem".
25 October
COPD - New Temporary Car Park - This is expected to be completed in late November. The issue of lighting the Car Park was discussed at a meeting today with UHNS attended by Councillor Pender and Reg Edwards (Joint Acting Chair - Residents' Association). It was agreed that their would be lighting tests to test the effect of the lighting on neighbouring houses. The first will take place between 5pm and 6pm this Monday 28 October.
28 October
The Newsletter goes to the printer today and will be available for distribution week ending 9 November.
31 October
Sentinel item - Hartshill butcher Richard Holloway has won through to the regional finals of National Sausage Week contest with his traditional pork sausage.
15 November
City Council item - via Councillor Conteh - Hilton Road TPO (Pay and Display installation etc). Works are expected to take place in the first week of December, weather permitting). The parking proposals for Coronation Road are expected to be carried out in February, being delayed by objections.
18 November
City Council item - Section 59 signs banning motor bikes from Parks have been manufactured and will be affixed to lamp posts at the entrances to Hartshill Park, Lodge Road and Richmond Street Parks.
26 November
The planning application for the former HSS Hire Shop has been approved with several conditions as to noise suppression and the need to preserve the privacy of residents in Vicarage Road affecting by the proposal to create a MOT Centre and tyre fitting service in the premises. The business is allowed to operate from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday and until 5pm on Saturday. No work is to carried out on Sundays or Bank Holidays.