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Broomhill Online
A community website for Broomhill (Sheffield) |
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This website is sponsored by BANG and is a resource for those living and working in Broomhill. We hope it will help to inform the Broomhill community about local current affairs, and encourage people to get directly involved. You can browse around this website to find out what makes Broomhill a special place and get a flavour of what our community has to offer. If you are a new resident, we hope that the local information section will help you link up to the community more quickly. Welcome to Broomhill! If you are planning events that you would like local residents to know about, you can publicise them on this site by sending details to the webteam. If you own a local shop, business, or offer other community services, and would like to be included in our local information section, please get in touch with the webteam. We hope that many of you will want to join into debates in our news + views section, and even better, will join BANG! About BANG.... The aims of Bang are explained in our Constitution. In order to further these aims we campaign on local issues, attend meetings as community representatives, organise local events, and disseminate information to the community through channels such as this website. BANG was founded in 1973 when the area was under threat from a Development Plan, which included a dual carriageway through Sale Hill, Lawson Road and Taptonville Road, as well as threats to houses from University and Hospital expansion plans. As a result of opposition to these plans by BANG on behalf of the residents, most of Broomhill was made a Conservation Area. This has provided protection for both the buildings and the environment of Broomhill and remains a major focus of our activity. BANG has also successfully campaigned for pedestrian crossings, parking facilities, regulation of night-time disturbance and the creation of public open space in Broomhill. We check planning and license applications and object to those we feel are inappropriate, such as the conversion of houses to bedsits, offices and more take-aways. We work with our elected councillors and council staff to improve social cohesion; tackle litter, traffic and parking problems; improve the vitality and appearance of our district centre; clamp down on irresponsible landlords and letting agents; and care for the environment in Broomhill. BANG has given much serious thought to how best to manage the impacts of the large student presence in the area. We seek to reach and engage with all sections of the community. We publish a quarterly newsletter, The Banger, which is distributed to households in central Broomhill. Contact BANG.... Email Chair@thebang.org.uk Postal address: BANG, PO Box 4753, Sheffield S10 9EY Telephone: 0114 299 8838. This is an answering service only, with your message please leave your 'phone number or other means of contacting you. We also have a fax number: 0870 974 8886 (top)
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