June 23rd 2018, 11am to 2pm
Summer Fayre in aid of the Clifford PTA and St Andrew's Psalter Lane Church: Stalls - Cafe - Games - Raffle - Competition - Prosecco and Strawberries!
Our Vintage Summer Fayre is back! Loads of children's games, @BrewFoundation ales, prosecco and strawberries, cream teas, maypole dancing, face painting, tattoos, homemade cakes, plants, books, cards and more!
108 Psalter Lane, Sheffield, S11 8YU
On Friday 15 June Muslim Nether Edge neighbours, friends and colleagues began celebrate Eid al-Fitr the “festival of breaking the fast”. This marks their completion of annual Ramadan act of fasting and devotion.
If you are celebrating, we wish you Eid Mubarak ! (Blessed or Happy Eid!)
Print / view the map at www.yardsaletrail.co.uk and pick your route between 11am and 4pm on Sunday June 17thto pick up some bargains around the area ...
Update courtesy Viv Lockwood of Banner Cross Neighbourhood Group
The Planning Committee of the Council met yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon to hear the application to develop the Baldwin’s Omega site. Following representations from residents and a Planning Officer hired by the neighbourhood group from around the area, the Planning Committee approved the application with a number of conditions. These conditions do not, however, affect the substance of the proposals but only with its implementation. (see attachment)
This is therefore the end of this unfortunate saga. There is no real scope for taking the matter further through a legal process as the outcome would be the same.
The resident group fought a very effective campaign and they were well represented in the hearing. At stages throughout the development proposals they had the developers on the back foot and caused them to pause, a disturbance to their plans which clearly infuriated them. Errors they made along the way were pounced on and the council’s Planning Department clearly knew they had some very articulate people to deal with. At the same time, it is undeniable that the council, like all councils, is under intense pressure from government to find brown-field sites for new housing developments.
However, for whatever reason the decision went against them and the development will now go ahead. None of the objections have been disproved; the blocks of flats will still be overbearing and the sole access point to the site will remain hazardous. It is an over-development and in a fair world should not have been allowed. But planning law is a minefield and on this occasion it became apparent that despite the questions raised at the hearing from councillors there was not sufficient support amongst them to refuse the application and the final vote was something in the order of 4 to 6 in favour.
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Organisers have issued the following update:
"The protection of private data is important to us. The Farmer’s Market only holds the bare minimum of information that is provided to us by you, our individual stallholders. This comprises the name of your business; the trader’s name, your email address, phone number and post code. We also categorise the type of product you offer (organic veg, street food, jewellery, crafts etc), which we appreciate may change from market to market, and what type of insurance you carry. A few years ago we also asked for your bank details as well, but we no longer do that and have destroyed all such records. Occasionally we need to ask for your bank details so that we can make a refund, but such detail is not held except by reference to the original email you will have sent us.
When emailed circulars, such as this are issued, we use the Gmail contacts list that builds up over time and only issue it as a blind copy so that other recipients are not listed. We believe the list is up-to-date, but occasionally people tell us they are no longer trading, so we take them off the contact list. If you don’t want to be contacted again, please tell us. When we issue the list of stall locations before each market, this is issued as a PDF file, with only the names of other stallholders and their locations for that market. We plan also to build up a photographic record of stalls, to help us with future planning and NENG publicity but trust this would not be considered an intrusion on privacy."
Visit the market's Facebook page to learn more about forthcoming events or get in touch with organisers.
Click here for a full list of the gardens open this year.
Marion Rout writes...
Well, our gardens have survived the wettest winter imaginable and the onslaught of the 'Beast from the East' with surprisingly few casualties and the few glorious days of sunshie in early May have enabled us to enjoy the sudden burst of growth and colour. And what a display ! The cold late spring has resulted in an explosion of flowering that I've never seen before in my garden. The rhododendrons, azaleas, camelias and magnolias and now the viburnums and laburnams have all preformed spectacularly this year, to say nothing of the wisteria that threatens to invade the house with its exotic purple clusters and heady scent. It's some compensation for the months of miderable weather early this year but as thoughts turn to preparing for the annual Garden Open on June 24th I feel a little anxious abour what will be on show at the time.
For all the proud local gardeners who have offered again this year to 'open up' it's a busy time making sure that the garden is looking its best. This year, the thirteen gardens demonstrate a typical cross-section of Nether Edge gardens large and small, and gardeners with a range of interests. Not surprisingly for the area, most are on sloping sites and feature fine specimin trees both native and exotic. There are gardens planted for their displays of flowering plants and others that provide fruit and veg for their keen gardeners. All are fun, full of new ideas and well worth visiting !
There is no charge to visit the gardens featured her but you will notice that charity donations are welcome. Indeed, the organisers are proud to have raised thousands of pounds for their chosen charities over the years. All venues will be identified by balloons and posters and free location maps will be available. Some will be providing teas and refreshments. Please note the different opening times and plan your day accordingly. Let's hope that the sun shines...
The following appeal and story are courtesy Viv Lockwood of the Banner Cross Neighbourhood Group.....
"I’m sure you will be interested in the local story below but first there is an important request.
We are asking residents to keep a sharp look out for a large pine box and discarded jewellery and other items anywhere in the general area between Blair Athol Road and Endcliffe Park but especially in the following roads: Blair Athol, Murray, Carrington, Huntingtower, Peveril, Greystones, Ranby and Rustlings. Some items may have been thrown into skips, over hedges and into gardens. They are from a burglary and have little or no monetary value but are sentimentally important to the owner.
Please tell your friends and neighbours about this.
Anyone finding any of these items, please call 0114 2557198 or email: bannercross.ng@gmail.com
The story
On Sunday afternoon (3 June), I received an email from a member who lives on Brincliffe Edge Road. It warned that at around 2.00pm a young man had knocked on their door saying he was “looking for Jason”. He was very polite and left when told there was no-one of that name living there.
However, he had aroused suspicions and was followed at a distance to see where he was going but then vanished from sight. The alert that this gave rise to included a good description of him and the clothes he was wearing. Our member placed it on the Facebook website: ‘Friends of S11’.
At just before 7.00pm that evening I received a phone call to tell me that another member’s house had been broken into. Our members were away but the caller, their neighbour, said the police were there and the burglar alarm was sounding. I went round to the house with the description of the young man from the earlier episode to give to the police. The double-glazed patio door at the rear of the property had been smashed with a large stone and was in small fragments both inside and outside the house.
While there, our members returned only to find the mess and to attempt to assess what had been taken. It was clear that the burglar had entered their rear garden from a property on Blair Athol Road, having scaled a wall and thrown a stone through the door. With the burglar alarm sounding he then went upstairs and spent long enough to take a pine box full of sentimental items collected over many years, including from when their children were babies. Our members were clearly shaken by the experience as we all would be.
The following morning, the story took an unexpected turn. Our member in the ‘Jason episode’ received a message from a resident on Blair Athol Road. He had seen the young man acting suspiciously on Sunday and decided to follow him. He went from Blair Athol to Hungtower roads then Murray to Greystones, Ranby to Carrington and finally Peveril to Rustlings. He had a box with him at Ranby but was throwing items away and then the box itself, possibly on Peveril but generally around the Greystones Road to Rustlings Road area. He appeared to be untroubled at being seen. The resident did find some of the items in a skip and went looking for others but is sure that other items will have been thrown over hedges and into gardens.
He called the police who reacted very quickly and were able to pick up the young man on Ecclesall Road. He had some things from the house on him and was arrested and taken to the police station. Notice of the arrest appeared briefly in yesterday’s Star.
It is now known that the young man had been released from prison just two days before. He had been convicted of burglary and had received a four year sentence of which he had served half and then let out on license. He has spent most of his adult life in prison and was desperate to go back. It provides for him the only stability and routine he has ever known in a life which has been chaotic. He has now appeared in court and has been sent back to prison for which he is delighted.
For us as a community, this episode shows how much we owe to one another in our daily lives. The attacks on property by this young man were simply random, wherever he thought a house was empty. Had the first house not bothered to put out a warning and the resident on Blair Athol not bothered to follow an individual acting suspiciously he would never have been caught and would have gone on to find other victims. Thankfully, we live in a community where we do keep an eye out for each other and where we don’t close our curtains to forget about the world outside our windows.
At the same time, we can spare a thought for the kind of lives that some people find themselves experiencing and the way our society deals with them. There is an element of tragedy here that anyone could find a routine and a stability in life only behind the walls of a prison. It’s likely that the only social contacts he has are to be found in the faces of others like himself and the people who control his world. That’s not in any way to excuse what he did or the anxiety he has inflicted on others but it is to remind ourselves that there are others who are not so fortunate in their circumstances as we are who live in one of the best and most neighbourly parts of the city.
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Septermber 2018 will bring you another Festival full of events. There is something for everyone with concerts, dance, food, bowls, art, literature, keep fit, whatever takes your fancy. All culminating in our family friendly ‘Party in the Park’ on Sunday 23rd.
All the residents of Nether Edge are invited to come together and celebrate our neighbourhood.Like our Facebook page to keep up to date.
Notice from Sheffield City Council:
"Sheffield has begun the journey to becoming a zero-carbon city by 2050 with the launch of its bold new Green City strategy with an ambitious six-point plan and launch of a new partnership to tackle the issues.
The Green City strategy outlines how Sheffield can be a city which is more resilient to climate change, is taking action to reduce its impact on the climate and is supporting individuals and businesses to help create a clean low carbon economy.
We’re now asking you to tell us about your experiences and actions to tackle climate change and behave more sustainably. We would like to know:
Click here to take part in the short survey
Please complete as much or as little of the survey as you like. The survey closes on Tuesday 29 May 2018.
Thank you for taking the time to participate, your feedback is really important to us. We are also developing future engagement opportunities so we can all be involved in working towards Sheffield becoming a low carbon, climate resilient and sustainable city."
Fund-raising event at the Lantern Theatre
A tale told by the Idiot Theatre Company through music, comedy and miscellaneous entertainment...
0114 255 1776
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18 Kenwood Park Road, Sheffield, S7 1NF