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Broomhill Online
A community website for Broomhill (Sheffield) |
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SAVE THE SECRET GARDEN: ROUND 2 UP AND RUNNING AND NEEDS YOU!! The new plans for the site are pretty much the same as the previous plans and do nothing to conserve the historic gardens and the plant collection on the site. The council are inviting comments and objections on this new planning application right up to the time it comes before the Planning Board. We do not know when this will be but it is unlikely to be earlier than the end of January 2010. So please help our campaign by lodging your objections and comments via the Council's IDOX system. You can access the planning application 07/01380/FUL and submit your comments by following this link. If you want to review for yourself the details of the planning application you will not find them posted yet with 07/01380/FUL (we have complained about this!). Instead, you need to look at the related application for demolition of the existing buildings on the site; this is where the latest site layout plans etc are posted. Follow this link and browse through the various documents showing layouts, streetscenes etc. The document entitled 'Conservation Area Statement' is particularly interesting as it describes how the developer considers the objections to the previous planning application have been addressed. We will be doing everything in our power to convince the planning board to refuse permission for this development. If you can volunteer to help out with leafletting, publicity, fundraising, viral marketing or anything else that might help our case, please email secretgarden@thebang.org.uk New to the area and wondering what all this is about? Read our campaign page to catch up. The Secret Garden was saved from redevelopment as a housing estate last year, thanks to the BANG's vigorous and well-supported campaign to oppose planning permision for the site. For a full report on the public planning inquiry, that allows you to download and read BANG's case and evidence, follow this link. Looks like we'll need to do it all again.
Late-night noise nuisance and disorder in Broomhill The start of the academic year usually brings with it the prospect of disturbed sleep to many of our residents. The first port of call for anyone being disturbed by noise or disorder is the '101' service that operates every night until 2am. This single number will allow your complaint to be passed to the Police or to the Environmental Protection Service, as appropriate, depending on the nature of the complaint. We have made the point to the Council that disturbance often occurs later than 2am; we would like to encourage residents to call 101 the following morning if they are disturbed after 2am so that their complaints do not go unrecorded. BANG are working closely with the Council and Police on this issue and if you would like to let us know about problems in your street you can send us an email addressed to disturbance@thebang.org.uk, making sure you provide at least the following information: Your name and address (we will keep these data confidential); Date of the disturbance; What you heard or saw; The consequences for you (e.g. I was woken in the early hours).
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