Dear Members,
We are contacting you so
near to Christmas because, as usual, there are some urgent planning issues
that need responses despite the holiday season (see below). In addition, the
Government has seen fit to allow pubs to open for 36 hours over the New Year,
apparently without needing special permission. This was presented as a
‘good’ thing, though Tony Blair will presumably not be subjected to the
unpleasant behaviour of crowds of young people on his doorstep. We are
urging you to write to Harold Best MP to make your feelings known on this
subject. It is surely not right to have blanket nation-wide arrangements
for opening hours when some pubs are already causing all-year-round problems
for their neighbours?
Two dates for your diary:
Celebrate Headingley Classical Music
Concert
January 26th
6 p.m. St Columba’s Church Hall
This is
the next event in the ‘Celebrate Headingley’ calendar and follows the very
successful concert which was part of September’s celebrations. Plans are
underway for another weekend event in September 2002, but in the meantime,
please come and enjoy some beautiful music. Refreshments too!
Headingley Network AGM and New Year
meeting
January 27th 7.30 p.m.
Headingley Community Centre, North Lane
We have
had a very eventful year, have expanded our membership and are looking forward
to making new and positive things happen in Headingley! Come and hear about
them, join in the planning and meet your neighbours. New members welcome.
TWO urgent ISSUES:
CITRUS club
has applied for an extension of its opening hours to 2 a.m. for the playing of
pool and snooker. This is not currently an application for an alcohol licence,
but we think it is likely to follow. Anyway, the consequences of people coming
out onto the streets at that time are obvious to all those who live nearby. This
is the thin end of a very large wedge – the 24-hour city coming to our
neighbourhood.
PLEASE OBJECT IN WRITING TO
APPLICATION 26/492/01 to address below
THE ARC
has applied to extend its balcony around the whole frontage of the building.
This will mean that there is more outdoor drinking space, leading to increases
in noise and disruption to local people as well as a domination of
publicly-owned space, the rose garden. It will also increase the total number of
drinkers in The Arc, with the usual increase in anti-social behaviour.
PLEASE OBJECT IN WRITING TO
APPLICATION 26/501/01 to address below
Dept of
Planning, Selectapost 5, Merrion House, 110 Merrion Centre, Leeds LS2 8SH
HEADINGLEY NETWORK
Headingley Network is a community association
which "will defend and advance the
interests of Headingley and its residents
by having the following aims and objectives:
a)
To promote the preservation and the protection of the environment
in Headingley.
b)
To co-operate with our local police, to assist in the prevention of
crime, to seek a local police station.
c)
To assist in the prevention of anti-social behaviour in any public
place, e.g. vandalism, drunkenness, rowdiness and
intimidating behaviour.
d)
To oppose any so-called 'developments' that in the opinion of the
'network' would not be to the benefit of the wider community, e.g.
take-away food shops, public houses or extensions to public houses,
sporting venues and public entertainments.
e)
To curb unsightly and dangerous advertising, e.g. the so-called 'A'
boards and flyposting.
f)
To campaign for traffic-calming measures, including street
closures, one-way systems and a residents' parking scheme where residents
and the 'network' see these as necessary.
g)
To seek improvements in funding allocated to street-cleaning,
footpath and road maintenance.
h)
To campaign for responsible management of homes of multiple
occupation.
i)
To co-operate with
any group or individuals, including the elected Leeds City Council members
in meeting the above objectives.
These
objectives were amended at the first AGM on 4/12/97
CONTACTS
If you wish to
contact us for any reason, please use the following numbers or email
addresses:
Chair: Lesley
Jeffries
0113 – 2741011
lesley@webbjeff.free-online.co.uk
Secretary: Ray
Park
0113 – 2955251
Minutes Secretary:
Rachel Harkess
0113 – 2756652
Membership
Secretary: Martin Cook
0113 – 2759576
martin@leecook5.idps.co.uk
Treasurer:
Richard Crossley
0113 – 2742763
rcrossley@supanet.com
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Merry Christmas and Peaceful New Year to all our members.
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