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Broomhill Online
A community website for Broomhill (Sheffield) |
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Submitted by Bang Admin 23rd october 2006 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: To promote high standards of planning and architecture in Broomhill; To educate the public on the geography, history, natural history and architecture of Broomhill; To secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic or public interest in Broomhill. In order to further these aims we campaign on local issues, attend meetings as community representatives, participate in local events, and disseminate information to the community through channels such as the 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. BANG has also successfully campaigned for pedestrian crossings, parking facilities and the creation of a landscaped play area. We check all planning applications and object to those we feel are inappropriate, such as the conversion of houses to offices and more take-aways. We also concern ourselves with litter, traffic and parking problems, road and footpath sweeping and repair, houses in multiple occupation and the care of the environment of Broomhill. BANG is represented in talks with both Universities about how best to manage the large student presence in the area and on the Broomhill Forum which has similar aims. We publish a quarterly newsletter, The Banger, which is distributed to all members (some 400 at present). (top)
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