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TODAY

 

Friday, October 9th 2009

 

 TIERS FOR TOYTOWN

 

If Enid Blyton were to lose the plot for a story about Noddy and Big Ears in Toytown she would be wiser than to look no further than Bingham, NG13 8 in Nottinghamshire, for inspiration: -

 

·         On the one hand, Nottinghamshire County Council hand out bus franchises, like cloakroom tickets for a tombola; to block the town centre with buses queuing up to trade their wares then,

·         Rushcliffe Borough Council send in civil enforcement officers to charge the bus drivers for stopping on yellow lines on designated bus routes, as all the bus stop areas are filled by innumerable other buses, whilst,

·         Bingham Town Council, deigning not to involve themselves in the vehicular destruction of the town centre, decides to run a competition for the design of a new clock, sponsored to the tune of a £10,000 grant from the aforementioned Nottinghamshire County Council, to be sited on the godforsaken Eaton Place shopping precinct. This precinct is kept in such a bad state of repair by its landlord that tenants suffer damage to their stock through leaking roofs awaiting repairs.

·         Nottinghamshire County Council, with their pockets bulging with taxpayers money propose over £130,000 for new cycle tracks when nary a cyclist is ever seen and the state of most of the road surfaces in the town not designated to get cycle tracks are next to unfit to cycle on then,

·         A former resident, now a Londoner, and a town planner to boot, sticks his oar in to redesign the town to relocate,

·         A school to a Rugby pitch; and replace it with a new health centre, which Nottinghamshire Primary Health Care Trust has now taken more than two years to decide where might be a suitable place to build it.

 

Fancy the post mortal challenge, Enid. I am sure you would do no worse than the souls of the living dead in charge about this place.

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Friday, 09 October 2009

The Letters Editor

Dear Sir

Ref: Heritage Fears Manor House, Advertiser Friday, 09 October 2009.

            Heritage Fears and Wardens start carpark patrol, both front page articles in the Bingham Advertiser confirms how officials running the town are blasé, hardly surprising it stagnates. Apparently, carpark patrols handed out dummy tickets. If issuing fixed penalty notices is done for a laugh, then why weren’t dummy tickets handed to the dedicated bus drivers who are battling to get their money back?

To demolish the Manor House would be sacrilegiously irresponsible; especially after eminent councillors are fanatical about making the Precinct a grade2 listed building even though it is an architectural embracement. The Manor House should be the most celebrated structure in the Market Place.

            Within the last 50-years Bingham has lost most of its finest buildings. Its biggest loss was the rambling old Victoria Rectory, knocked down to make way for Robert Miles School during the 1960’s. To save the prestigious Manor House grant it grade 2 listed Status. Then, restore it to its former glory, using money from the community chest.

Yours faithfully

Nigel Starbuck

 

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Buses issued with parking tickets

Yes2bingham, formulated the transcript to get drivers their money back  

Monday, 21 September 2009

 Penalty Charge Number NQ06074910 served 15July. 2009

 

By Civil Enforcement Office RNQ613 to

 

Premiere Bus vehicle registration number MX04 VLZ

 

Service bus registration number MX04 VLZ was operating from Bingham when it was issued with a parking ticket.

 

Such action is counter productive, when Nottinghamshire County Council subsidizes the route.

 

In reality the Council should be heralded with praise in its quest to promote public transport. 

 

The numbers of buses frequenting the Market Place, Bingham is confirmation the Council means business.

 

For this initiative to succeed bus parking must be permitted in-between timetabled journeys.

 

It beggars belief the parking ticket was issued when the bus rested along Newgate Street posed to collect passengers at Moor Lane a distance of 20-yards.

 

Contrary to the fact, the bus was on an authorised route specified by Nottinghamshire County Council and sanctioned by the Road Traffic Commissioners?

 

Whilst there are parking restrictions in the vicinity the same restrictions must not apply to buses.

 

There is photographic evidence that private motor-cars were illegally parked in close proximity to the bus on that day none collected a parking ticket.

 

It is felt that the bus is a casualty of victimization! 

 

Apparently, the parking ticket was issued because the driver Mr Geoff Briggs was not with the bus!

 

How come? When bus drivers work an 8-hour shift and in that time they are entitled to breaks, enabling them to leave their work place i.e. the bus.

 

Examine this matter very carefully. If breaks are not permissible, then ‘Health and Safety’ legislation is beached. Putting very serious onus on what is ‘enforceable parking ticket adjudication?’

 

The fault is not with drivers like Mr Briggs or bus companies, but with the authorities that sanctioned the routes.

 

Bus services in Bingham are excellent, credit must go to all the parties making them possible, however the flaw is; there is no where for buses to park in between journeys.

 

Parking a bus is not like parking a car where drivers can find a quite street and park.

 

A complication in this case is - Buses are contracted to stay on route, and the obvious place to park is where they do so, along Newgate Street.

 

Bingham is not like an ordinary town, it lacks a Bus Station or any nominated parking facility for buses.

 

Consequently there is not any rest facilities, which makes life for bus drivers difficult.

 

In this instance Mr Geoff Briggs left his works station i.e. the bus to answer a call of nature.

 

The biggest obstacle to consider is if it is not permissible for drivers to leave their buses to go the toilet.

 

Then that is clear breach of the Health and Safety Act 1974 and a blatant breach of their Human Rights. Ref: the Human Rights Acts 1946 to 2008.

 

The best remedy in this case would be nullify Mr Briggs parking ticket and reimburse him.

 

It is widely understood the Ticketing Authorities are doing a sterling job of work throughout the Borough relieving traffic congestion.

 

Likewise, Premiere Buses are doing what they are contacted to do and the quality of life will step up a gear once Geoff Briggs parking ticket is waived and he gets reimbursement.

 

In the meantime every best wish.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Nigel Starbuck

 

 

 

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TODAY

 

Sunday, September 6th 2009

 

 

PUBLIC INCONVENIENCE

 

Application for data under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act      

OPEN LETTER  

To: - Sue Wass [mailto:swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk]

c.c.

Bingham Town Council: 'info@bingham-tc.gov.uk'

Department of Health: dhmail@dh.gsi.gov.uk

 

Dear Sue Wass,

Unfortunately, we now appear to have reached a hiatus in dialogue, and more importantly, activity.   In consequence, under the terms of  THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT,  we would be most grateful if you would bring us up to speed over the comprehensive detail of your departmental activity in dealing with the matters arising.     Thank you for entering into previous correspondence over the above subject, the transcripts of which are reproduced below.  

• Under your 'Duty of Care' are you ensuring that your Market Official visits the Station Street Lavatories each week to ensure that the Contractor who undertook to maintain and open them is doing so?

 

• Why have you decreed that these facilities should be for market traders only and not  'Public Conveniences' ?

 

• Who is responsible for checking to ensure that public buildings in the town such as the one highlighted in this debate, The Chesterfield Arms, other Public Houses and Public Buildings generally, comply with the terms and requirements of the   Disability Discrimination Act ?

 

• If there is action needed to be taken, please provide full notification of Rushcliffe Borough Council's intentions to implement the terms of this Act.

 

Yours sincerely,  

yes2bingham      

 

TRANSCRIPTS

  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: yes2bingham <yes2bingham@googlemail.com>
Date: 2009/8/16
Subject: Fwd: FW: Public Conveniences
To: swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk


Dear Sue Wass,

Further to the brief response to your email yesterday, we now add additional comment for your perusal.

Closer inspection of the disabled toilet door reveals that there is a blank keyhole at low level - satisfactory for wheelchair users.
Is it possible that this had formerly held a lock?
As to the modification of a metal door. It would   [not]   be beyond the wit of a metal worker to modify the door to fit the necessary RADAR lock.

You leave some of the points that were raised, unanswered: -

1.     What is the value of 'Anti-Vandal' paint if you continue to close the lavatories for fear of vandals?
       
2.     Have you ever stopped to consider that vandalism' may not be per se, but more likely due to the frustration of the general public finding a 'public' facility locked tight and unavailable, even at reasonable  [weekday]  hours and weekends?
       
3.     What are your proposed intentions to ensure that an adequate Public Convenience is provided in BINGHAM for at least 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for 52 weeks of the year? 
        If you are not willing to take up the y2b offer of properly attending to the toilets, then could you not at least consider assigning to us a key so that: -             

•  FREE OF CHARGE TO YOU  we will ensure that the people of BINGHAM and our visitors have facilities for an adequate time?
  
  3.     More to the point at this strategic point - in BINGHAM's case, the A52 and the A46, would you not consider the following? : -

    Throughout the United Kingdom are towns adjacent to major trunk roads signposted  

[with brown signs]  to provide Local Services for the travelling public.    

Would you consider that Rushcliffe Borough Council would raise their profile >>>>>    [   

Rushcliffe - a great place

 

We're first for customer satisfaction and first for value for money.

 

To find out more go to:http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/doc.asp?cat=11058&doc=9949=11058&doc=9949

 

  ]     <<<<< for being seen to be a caring Council if they made Public Convenience facilities available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?  

• This would have considerable benefit to BINGHAM as well, in bringing trade to the town.

 

• As to your concerns about leaving facilities 'unattended after normal working hours', we would be pleased to discuss with you several means of ensuring that your Public Conveniences would be available, yet secure, 24 hours a day.

 

Perhaps you would be considerate enough to discuss the matters above with your colleagues so that between us, Rushcliffe Borough Council and yes2bingham.com (Limited), will collectively make BINGHAM a place that residents and visitors are proud to be associated with.

Particularly bearing in mind the mantra attached to your email: -

 

Rushcliffe - a great place

 

We're first for customer satisfaction and first for value for money.

To find out more go to:http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/doc.asp?cat=11058&doc=9949=11058&doc=9949

 

We look forward to your response at your earliest convenience [pun notwithstanding!]

Yours sincerely,

yes2bingham

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: yes2bingham
Sent: 15 August 2009 19:51
To: 'Sue Wass'
Subject: RE: Public Conveniences

 

Dear Sue Wass,

 

Thank you for your honest and comprehensive reply.

yes2bingham will await the outcome of your deliberations and look forward in due course to your advice on the matters achieved.

 

Yours sincerely,

yes2bingham

 

-----Original Message-----

http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/doc.asp?cat=11058&doc=9949

Sent: 14 August 2009 10:05

mailto:swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk

Subject: Public Conveniences

Thank you for you email of the 9 August regarding the above.

I apologise for the delay in the fitting of a RADAR lock on the Eaton Place toilets, but this has turned out to be more complex than first thought. This is due to the present door being made of metal. Our locksmith is checking out whether this type of door is suitable to have a RADAR lock fitted. If not it would mean the door being replaced with a wooden one or similar material  which, in itself brings problems because less substantial doors tend to attract vandals. The Bridgford Park toilets for instance were constantly being kicked in and have had to have wrought iron bars fitted. This means of course, that although a RADAR lock has been fitted to the disabled toilets they are still not accessible 24 hours.

 With regard to other points raised: Station Street toilets are not owned by Rushcliffe Borough Council, they were sold two or three years ago, on the proviso that they were opened each Thursday solely for the use of the Market Traders. East Bridgford and Cotgrave, as far as I am aware, do not have public conveniences. Radcliffe on Trent toilets are maintained by the Parish Council.

I will chase the fitting of the lock for Eaton Place and will let you know as soon as I can what works will be carried out and a time frame.

 Once again I apologise for the delay

Regards

Sue Wass

Estates Section

Tel  0115 914 8344

Fax 0115 914 8452

mailto:swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk 

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Rushcliffe - a great place

 

We're first for customer satisfaction and first for value for money.

To find out more go to:http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/doc.asp?cat=11058&doc=9949

 

To contact Rushcliffe Borough Council call 0115 981 9911 (8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday),

http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/doc.asp?cat=11058&doc=9949

 

Sunday, August 9th 2009

 

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Public Inconveniences

 

OPEN LETTER

To: - Sue Wass [mailto:swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk]

c.c.

mailto:swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk

mailto:swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk

 

Dear Sue Wass,

Thank you for your email response of July 13^th 2009.

With reference to the only functional public lavatories in Bingham: at the Newgate Street Car Park/ Eaton Place location. Your response to the enquiry in respect of public conveniences made reference to your failure to open them for reasonable hours using vandalism as an excuse for early closure.  The building has a large sign warning that it is protected by anti - vandal paint. What is the point of this? 

The agreement to fit a RADAR lock is a victory for common sense, thank you. However, it is now August 9^th 2009, almost a month after your advice. How long will it be before you actually have the RADAR lock fitted?

The facilities are not open dawn to dusk and have remained closed at the weekends. The lavatories on Station Street which best serve the shops, and particularly the Market on Thursdays, remain fast shut.

  

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

As a consequence of the Rushcliffe Borough Council’s failure of ‘duty of care’ to the residents of the borough and their visitors: -

y2b limited offer to undertake the contract for the opening, closing and maintenance of the public lavatories at Bingham, East Bridgford, Radcliffe-on-Trent and Cotgrave, and any others that currently may fall within your jurisdiction within a radius of 5-miles from Bingham, for the sum of £ 500 per week [Sunday to Saturday] inclusive of transport costs. You to provide all necessary stores.

Opening hours to be 7.30am to 7.30pm - 7 days a week.

Contract to be reviewed – April 2010.

If Rushcliffe Borough Council, or your present contractors, cannot be trusted to provide a reasonable service then it is about time you trusted y2b to do it for you.

Kind regards,

yes2bingham.

 

TRANSCRIPTS OF PREVIOUS CORRESPONDENCE.

1. yes2bingham comments: - 

Reply from Rushcliffe Borough Council

Thank you for your email: -

-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Wass [mailto:swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk]

Sent: 13 July 2009 15:39
To: yes2bingham
Subject: Re: Public Inconvenience in Bingham

The reply below states that the facilities are open 'dawn to dusk'. This is being economical with the truth. They are often closed in the early morning; 8.15am [when the W.C.s were found to be closed] is about 4 hours after dawn in high summer, when this campaign began. Also they are found to be closed in the early evening well before dusk at this time of year.

What about weekends, don't RBC feel the urge for lavatories then?

2. Rushcliffe Borough Council comments: -

Your enquiry regarding the toilets at Eaton Place Bingham has been passed to the Estates Section. Calls regarding the opening times and general maintenance of the toilets come under the jurisdiction of this section, although I am not aware of any enquiries regarding having a RADAR lock fitted.

 These facilities are only open dawn till dusk due to the amount of vandalism and general abuse directed toward them. I cannot see that fitting a RADAR lock would be a problem and will look into the matter. Please contact me if you have any further queries.

Regards

Sue Wass

Estates Section

Tel  0115 914 8344

Fax 0115 914 8452

mailto:%5bmailto:swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk%5d

 

3. yes2bingham to: -

To Rushcliffe Borough Council 

Herewith correspondence generated on our website: - yes2bingham.com.

Perhaps you would be kind enough to reply with your comments and proposals, without undue delay.

WE URGENTLY NEED TO FIND AT LEAST 20 DISABLED PEOPLE, ANYWHERE, WHO ARE PREPARED TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED AGAINST THE FUTILITIES OF RUSHCLIFFE BOROUGH COUNCIL

4. Trascript of letter received by yes2bingham:

 Hello y2b,

Thanks for letting me know about this.

You can certainly add my name to the disabled persons list for the public convenience problem and pass it on to the Rushcliffe Council.

 I think another interesting point is that a pub the size of the Chesterfield Arms is breaking the law under the Disability Discrimination Act by not having disabled access toilets.

 

5. Transcript of letter received by yes2bingham:

Your article about the Public Conveniences reflects my own views and you may be interested to hear my story: -

My son, who is disabled and uses a wheel-chair, was sharing a drink with his cousin in the Chesterfield Arms. They had no toilet suitable for him so he went to use the disabled toilet in Eaton Place, only to find it locked and not fitted with a RADAR key; that allows disabled persons to use toilets throughout the country.

My cousin contacted the council, who were very unhelpful, and after several telephone calls said that they would only consider fitting a RADAR lock if at least 20 disabled people made representation.

 

6. Letter to the Editor

Tuesday 30th June 2009 - Bingham Advertiser.

Sir,

Your News Views over recent months has featured a regular diatribe over the poor quality of the public conveniences in Newark. The complainants would be well advised to keep clear of Bingham where public conveniences are worse.

This will deprive the town of valuable trade.

On Market Days - Thursdays – many additional people visit the town. The only public lavatories for more than twelve thousand residents and visitors are at the Newgate Street Car Park/Eaton Place location and are often closed well after the market has begun. The others on Station Street were in deplorable condition and closed a long time ago. How does Rushcliffe Borough Council explain its duty of care, particularly to the market traders, over this appalling anomaly?

 

Web Comment from A Guardian Article.

• News
• Society
• Local government

Britain's busted flush

Victorian pioneers brought the modern toilet to the world. Now, a lack of investment has seen a huge decline in public lavatories, and a nation caught short.

• Buzz up!
• Digg it

• Simon Busch
• The Guardian, Wednesday 23 April 2008
• Article history

"Let a publicke benefit expell privat bashfulnesse," implored John Harington, favourite godson of Elizabeth I and prominent among the crowded pantheon of British toilet heroes. He was decrying the barriers to such sanitary improvements as his flushing water-closet, which he invented in 1596. That same inhibition, often masked by humour, prevents us from seeing in the toilet a powerful barometer of the health of society as a whole. "British public toilets have been in freefall," says Richard Chisnell, chairman of the British Toilet Association (BTA), and we may recognise in their decline and privatisation a wider sign of the ever diminishing public sphere.

Mores are rarely stronger than around those doings for which toilets were designed and we are inclined to assume that our modern ways were ever thus, including the apparent inevitability of private provision of once public goods. But toilets show that not to be so. A millennium before Christ, the citizens of Troy, Julie Horan records in her book, The Porcelain God, were thought to have defecated in public, out in the open. For the ancient Romans, public latrines were as sociable a place as the baths.

A golden age

Much closer to our own time, Louis XIV of France would entertain guests while seated on his close-stool; he thought it rude to leave a gathering for the toilet. His courtiers would pay handsomely to attend his "petit coucher", his final deposit before bedtime. It was not until the end of the 18th century in Britain that the bodily shyness Harington hinted at solidified and the excretory functions came to be viewed, in Horan's words, as no longer "natural and inevitable" but something to be "hidden and ignored".

Yet it was also in the Victorian era that Britain's lavatorial superiority reached its height. Spurred on by fears of epidemics, principally of cholera, among the labouring poor, a triumvirate of toilet pioneers founded a sanitary empire in Britain that the world would seek to emulate.

That achievement has now dwindled to the point that public toilets have halved in number in the past decade, and imminent changes to the Public Health Act will facilitate, through more charging for use, privatisation of this most necessary of public goods.

The Victorians invented the toilet mechanism that, barely altered, we still use today. For the public, such changes have taken some getting used to. For centuries, the chamber pot was the preferred container, its contents quite acceptably tossed out into the street. A century before, notes Lucinda Lambton in her book Temples of Convenience and Chambers of Delight, human lavatories, precursors of the modern public toilet, would wander the streets carrying pails and wearing capacious cloaks with which to shield their customers.

A pious disdain for excessive attention to cleanliness contributed to the poor take-up of farsighted Harington's toilet, the first such device with moving parts, and it would be another 200 years before the water-closet began to take hold. It was then that another Briton, Alexander Cummings, invented an odourless device, subsequently improved upon by his compatriot Joseph Bramah, who niftily hinged the bowl flap to prevent it freezing shut.

Improvements to the design by the 19th-century British trio Thomas Crapper, Thomas Twyford and George Jennings ushered in the golden age of toilets. The latter inventor, triumphing over Victorian prudery but aided by another period novelty, "the excursion", would go on to install outdoor toilets throughout the land. Soon his elegant slate conveniences, with their cast-iron arches, decorative panels and even pergolas, also graced the streets of Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong and Sydney.

These toilet adventurers not only cleaned up public space but also expanded it, freeing citizens to wander without being caught short. For women, such liberation was particularly marked: excluded from simple stand-up pissoirs they would urinate furtively, beneath broad skirts, on the street - when they left the private realm of the home at all. Older public toilets, like many pubs, typically still have twice the provision for men, on the antiquated understanding that it is mainly they who stride the public realm.

Now Labour, perhaps sensing that free toilets mark territory as public, and recognising the extent, hastened by Thatcherism, of their decline, has been increasingly clamorous about their fate. Ministers have been making all the right noises, responding to such statistics as that nearly one in five public toilets has closed in the past three years and that the remainder form a continuum of dereliction.

In a landmark speech to the BTA in 2006, the then minister for local government, Phil Woolas, spoke of the need for "a cultural change in the way we think about this very important issue". "Around the world, 2.6 billion people [lack] adequate sanitation," he said, widening the theme, and "sanitation is dignity". In March, the communities minister, Lady Andrews, invoked dignity and freedom once again - namely, the withdrawal of both from older and disabled people and families with young children deprived of proper access to public toilets. "We need to reverse this decline," she said. The trouble is that ministers then went on to propose a costive dribble of piecemeal "modern solutions".

To frightening automated pods lurking on street corners, night-time pop-up pissoirs (with their curious fantasies of greater female continence) and SatLav, text-messaged directions to the nearest toilet, was added most recently Community Toilet Schemes, according to which local businesses would be paid to let the public relieve themselves. It is a haphazard approach of more or less privatised parts. Changes to the Public Health Act that have already passed through the Lords, removing an anomaly preventing charging for urinals, will only further smooth the path to businesses profiting from our necessity.

Temples of sanitation

Almost perversely ignored by the government is the simple, comprehensive approach of funding a new generation of public toilets, complete with attendants. (Gongfermors, cesspit cleaners, had among the best-paid jobs in medieval England.) Yet Woolas's intention to keep the "legislative option", of forcing councils to provide public toilets, in his "back pocket" remains unchanged - his metaphor in unwitting proximity to the possibly ultimate source of the fiscal tightness pervading Labour policy and unlikely to loosen under Gordon Brown.

Meanwhile, innovation in toilet manufacture has moved to Asia. China spent £20m creating 3,500 "five-star" tourism toilets for the Olympics this year, says the BTA. That country threatens to wrest the cloacal crown from Japan, where even standard models have heated and massaging lids that open automatically, along with the crucial targeted water jets, followed by a blow dry; one toilet plays a Mendelssohn opus. These are the modern equivalents of Victorian Britain's sanitary temples, tempting to use even if you don't need to. Britain, meanwhile, remains perched on a cracked old crock whose seat was probably stolen some time ago.

 

 

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TESCO

 

-----Original Message-----
From: yes2bingham
Sent: 16 July 2009 06:08
To: Geoff Whittaker
Subject: Re: Safety concerns regarding proposed TESCO store, Bingham

 

I am grateful for you comprehensive response.

This has been reproduced in our website: - yes2bingham.com in order to

advise as many people as possible of all the information and the

comments raised in respect of the TESCO project.

 

On 7/15/09, Geoff Whittaker <geoff.whittaker@nottscc.gov.uk> wrote:

> Dearyes2bingham

> I refer to your e-mail concerning the above matter which was sent to the NCC

> website.

> The County Council is a statutory consultee and provides comments to the

> planning authority on planning applications. The ultimate decision on any

> proposed TESCO store will be made by Rushcliffe Borough Council.

> We are aware of the points you have raised.

> TESCO and their consultants will need to resolve them as part of any formal

> planning application.

> TESCO will need to discuss their proposals with both Network Rail and the

> Railway Inspectorate as regards the level crossing.

> Please be assured that we will try to ensure that neither highway nor rail

> safety is compromised by this proposal, as far as we can.

> 

> Regards

> Geoff Whittaker

> Principal Highways Development Control Officer

> Nottinghamshire County Council

> Communities Department

> Trent Bridge House

> Fox Road

> West Bridgford

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From: Nottinghamshire County Council [mailto:nottscc@custhelp.com]
Sent: 14 July 2009 11:58
To: yes2bingham
Subject: FW: Safety Concerns to consider for TESCO on Chapel Lane Bingham [Enquiry: 090709-000023]

 

Recently you sent Nottinghamshire County Council an enquiry. Our response is detailed below, along with your enquiry, under the heading 'Enquiry History'.

We will assume your enquiry has been resolved if we do not hear from you within 7 days.

Thank you for contacting us.

Please do not reply to this e-mail. If you wish to add anything to your original enquiry please click here.

 

Subject
FW: Safety Concerns to consider for TESCO on Chapel Lane Bingham
Enquiry History
Response (Joanne Brown)	14/07/2009 10:57
Thank you for your email regarding safety concerns of the proposed new TESCO at Bingham. This has now been forwarded onto our Highways South Office for their attention. Many thanks
Customer yes2bingham	09/07/2009 12:40
OPEN LETTER Bingham Town Council Rushcliffe Borough Council Nottinghamshire County Council Nottinghamshire Constabulary Nottinghamshire Fire Service East Midlands Ambulance Service Health and Safety Executive Network Rail TESCO TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN TESCO v The People, Historical Heritage and the Safety of the Environment of Bingham The siting of a new supermarket at the location proposed by TESCO at the junction of the existing Sercon Builders Supply Merchants entrance, Chapel Lane and the Nottingham to Grantham Railway Level Crossing raises several safety issues. * * Recently in the Bingham Advertiser particularly featuring... d.howell@newarkadvertiser.co.uk ...there has been a high profile campaign in respect of traffic danger at the railway level crossing * * The proposed entrance to the supermarket is a great deal less than 100 yards from the level crossing. In the event of a traffic violation at this junction it becomes almost inevitable that at such a time anxious drivers will be blocking the exclusion box in between the rail barriers. * * When the barrier is closed for up to a maximum of 6 minutes, the road will again almost inevitably be gridlocked. * * In extreme circumstances [worst case scenario] the railway line could also be blocked at the level crossing at a time when a train is waiting to be released into up-line section from the Rectory Box: or a train is waiting to leave Bingham Station to proceed on the downline to Nottingham. At such times the barriers must be closed. How would a paramedic, an ambulance, a fire engine or police vehicles proceed to the scene, whether on the proposed TESCO supermarket site or other units on Moorbridge Industrial Estate; or indeed, further afield to incidents or emergencies on the A46, or in the outlying villages, in these traumatic circumstances? Nigel Starbuck [yes2bingham] 27 Carnarvon Close Bingham Nottingham NG13 8RR Telephone: - 01949 839350   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     -----Original Message----- From: form-processor@webs.com [mailto:form-processor@webs.com] Sent: 12 July 2009 13:07 To: yes2bingham@gmail.com Subject: Webs.com: FORM RESPONSE   --------------- Form Response ---------------   01 - Your Name<br> = T Hayes 02 - Your Email Address<br> = hayes160@btinternet.com 03 - Your Telephone (if you'd like us to call you)<br> = 04 - Best time to call you?<br> = 05 - How can we help?<br> = Hi   I wanted to share this news article we you.   I sadly due to work commitments was unable to attend the recent meeting hosted by TESCO about it's proposal.   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3350420/Another-eco-town-bites-the-dust.html   Seems a little 'convenient' to me that the recent A46 upgrade, along with the immanent final decision due on the Eco town at Newton coincides with TESCO wanting to move into Bingham.   Bingham town centre has everything you could need and many people walk to get their shopping...it also promotes a feeling of community and pride... we have only just seen a fruit and veg shop open... what impact will a TESCO have to these small businesses?.. Eco-friendly to drive and park at a TESCO superstore?? I think not! ... I'm hoping that the people of Bingham have a conscience and will still support local shops and where possible walk there.   The only possible benefit to TESCO opening is the 230 new jobs... but where will those employees shop... TESCO ! Those local businesses that may be forced to lose jobs/close...what is the overall net effect?   I'm not usually one for posting comments but I do feel very strongly that local government and councils need to fully assess the risks and impacts before lining their pockets...   --------------- End of Form ---------------   This is a form response generated on webs.com for yes2bingham. If you believe that this is an unsolicited email, please visit http://members.webs.com/pages/report and file a complaint.   You have 23 submission(s) remaining.     !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   From: CPRE Campaigns [mailto:Campaigns@cpre.org.uk] Sent: 09 July 2009 15:47 To: yes2bingham Subject: RE: Safety Concerns to consider for TESCO on Chapel Lane Bingham   Dear Sirs,   Many thanks for your email detailing your open letter regarding the proposed TESCO development.  I have forwarded it to CPRE's Nottinghamshire branch, for their information.   Best wishes   Sam Harding

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Public Conveniences

 

yes2bingham comments: -

The building has a large sign warning that it is protected by anti - vandal paint. What is the point of this? 

The agreement to fit a RADAR lock is a victory for common sense. 

   

-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Wass [mailto:swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk]
Sent: 13 July 2009 15:39
To: yes2bingham
Subject: Re: Public Inconvenience in Bingham

 

Your enquiry regarding the toilets at Eaton Place Bingham has been passed to the Estates Section. Calls regarding the opening times and general maintenance of the toilets come under the jurisdiction of this section, although I am not aware of any enquiries regarding having a RADAR lock fitted.

 

These facilities are only open dawn till dusk due to the amount of vandalism and general abuse directed toward them. I cannot see that fitting a RADAR lock would be a problem and will look into the matter. Please contact me if you have any further queries.

 

Regards

 

 

Sue Wass

Estates Section

Tel  0115 914 8344

Fax 0115 914 8452

swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk

 

 

 

To Rushcliffe Borough Council

 

 

 

Herewith correspondence generated on our website: - yes2bingham.

 

 

 

Perhaps you would be kind enough to reply with your comments and proposals,

without undue delay.

 

 

 

Nigel Starbuck

 

[yes2bingham]

 

 

 

 

 

TRANSCRIPTS

 

 

 

Thursday, July 9th 2009

 

 

 

Published at 0650

 

 

 

24 hour Public Conveniences

 

 

 

 

 

WE URGENTLY NEED TO FIND AT LEAST 20 DISABLED PEOPLE, ANYWHERE, WHO ARE

 

 

 

PREPARED TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED

 

 

 

AGAINST THE FUTILITIES OF RUSHCLIFFE

 

 

 

BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

 

 

 

 

--------------- Form Response ---------------

 

 

 

01 - Your Name<br> = Brian Maddison

 

02 - Your Email Address<br>

 

= maddisonb@bridgeway-consulting.co.uk

 

03 - Your Telephone (if you'd like us to call you)<br> =

 

04 - Best time to call you?<br> =

 

05 - How can we help?<br>

 

 

 

= Congratulations on "yes2bingham", I wish you well for the future and I

will follow your progress with interest.

 

 

 

Your article about the Public Conveniences reflects my own

 

views and you may be interested to hear my story: -

 

My son, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair was sharing a

 

drink with his cousin in the Chesterfield Arms. They had no

 

toilet suitable for him so he went to use the disabled

 

toilet in Eaton Place, only to find it locked and not fitted with a

 

RADAR key that allows disabled persons to use toilets

 

throughout the country.

 

My cousin contacted the council who were very unhelpful and

 

after several telephone calls said that they would only consider

 

fitting a RADAR lock if at least 20 disabled people made representation.

 

 

 

This is a form response generated on webs.com for

 

yes2bingham.

 

If you believe that this is an unsolicited email, please visit

 

http://members.webs.com/pages/report and file a

 

complaint.

 

 

 

You have 24 submission(s) remaining.

 

 

 

--------------- End of Form ---------------

 

 

 

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Wednesday, July 1st 2009

 

 

 

Published at 0630

 

 

 

24 hour Public Conveniences

 

 

 

Letter to the Editor, Tuesday 30th June 2009 - Bingham Advertiser.

 

Sir,

 

Your News views over recent months has featured a regular diatribe over the

poor quality of the public conveniences in Newark. The complainants would be

well advised to keep clear of Bingham where public conveniences are worse.

This will deprive the town of valuable trade.

 

On Market Days - Thursdays - people flock to the town. The only public

lavatories for more than twelve thousand residents and visitors are at the

Newgate Street Car Park/Eaton Place location and are often closed well after

the market has begun. The others on Station Street were in deplorable

condition and closed a long time ago. How does Rushcliffe Borough Council

explain its duty of care, particularly to the market traders, over this

appalling anomaly?

 

 

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Nigel Starbuck

 

[yes2bingham]

 

27 Carnarvon Close

 

Bingham

 

Nottingham

 

NG13 8RR 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Here Comes Summer

 

From May to September, you’ll find a sizzling selection of free activities taking place in Rushcliffe so you can get out

and enjoy the summer without spending a small fortune.

Go to http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/herecomessummer for your free guide to this summer's events and activities.

 

To contact Rushcliffe Borough Council call 0115 981 9911 (8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday), email customerservices@rushcliffe.gov.uk

or visit www.rushcliffe.gov.uk.

 

 End of Publication.

 Next reports Wednesday, July 22nd 2009. 

 

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Friday, July 17th 2009

 Incoming............@0020

Tesco

Villages in bloom

Public conveniences

The man on the moon [editorial special]

 Bingham Churches Walking Group 2010

 

 

 Tuesday, July 14th 2009

Published at 1115

Featuring: -

• Public Conveniences
• TESCO

 

Public Conveniences

yes2bingham comments: -

The reply below states that the facilities are open 'dawn to dusk'. This is being economical with the truth. They are often closed in the early morning, 8.15am is about 4 hours after dawn in high summer, when this campaign began. Also they are found to be closed in the early evening.

What about weekends, don't RBC feel the urge for lavatories then?

 

fromSue Wass swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk>

dateMon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:39 PM
subjectRe: Public Inconvenience in Bingham

Reply

 Your enquiry regarding the toilets at Eaton Place Bingham has been passed to the Estates Section. Calls regarding the opening times and general maintenance of the toilets come under the jurisdiction of this section, although I am not aware of any enquiries regarding having a RADAR lock fitted.

These facilities are only open dawn til dusk due to the amount of vandalism and general abuse directed toward them. I cannot see that fitting a RADAR lock would be a problem and will look into the matter. Please contact me if you have any further queries.

Regards

Sue Wass
Estates Section
Tel  0115 914 8344
Fax 0115 914 8452
swass@rushcliffe.gov.uk

 

yes2bingham to: -

To Rushcliffe Borough Council 

Herewith correspondence generated on our website: - yes2bingham.com.

Perhaps you would be kind enough to reply with your comments and proposals,
without undue delay.

 Nigel Starbuck

[yes2bingham] 

TRANSCRIPTS

Thursday, July 9th 2009

 Published at 0650

24 hour Public Conveniences

WE URGENTLY NEED TO FIND AT LEAST

20 DISABLED PEOPLE, ANYWHERE, WHO ARE

PREPARED TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED

AGAINST THE FUTILITIES OF RUSHCLIFFE

BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

--------------- Form Response ---------------

 

01 - Your Name<br> = Brian Maddison

02 - Your Email Address<br>

= maddisonb@bridgeway-consulting.co.uk

03 - Your Telephone (if you'd like us to call you)<br> =

04 - Best time to call you?<br> =

05 - How can we help?<br>

 

= Congratulations on "yes2bingham", I wish you well for the future and I
will follow your progress with interest.

 

Your article about the Public Conveniences reflects my own

views and you may be interested to hear my story: -

My son, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair was sharing a

drink with his cousin in the Chesterfield Arms. They had no

toilet suitable for him so he went to use the disabled

toilet in Eaton Place, only to find it locked and not fitted with a

RADAR key that allows disabled persons to use toilets

throughout the country.

My cousin contacted the council who were very unhelpful and

after several telephone calls said that they would only consider

fitting a RADAR lock if at least 20 disabled people made

representation.

 

This is a form response generated on webs.com for

yes2bingham.

If you believe that this is an unsolicited email, please visit

http://members.webs.com/pages/report and file a

complaint.

 

You have 24 submission(s) remaining.

 

--------------- End of Form ---------------

 

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Wednesday, July 1st 2009

 

Published at 0630

 

24 hour Public Conveniences

 

Letter to the Editor, Tuesday 30th June 2009 - Bingham Advertiser.

Sir,

Your News views over recent months has featured a regular diatribe over the
poor quality of the public conveniences in Newark. The complainants would be
well advised to keep clear of Bingham where public conveniences are worse.
This will deprive the town of valuable trade.

On Market Days - Thursdays - people flock to the town. The only public
lavatories for more than twelve thousand residents and visitors are at the
Newgate Street Car Park/Eaton Place location and are often closed well after
the market has begun. The others on Station Street were in deplorable
condition and closed a long time ago. How does Rushcliffe Borough Council
explain its duty of care, particularly to the market traders, over this
appalling anomaly?

 

Yours faithfully,

Nigel Starbuck

[yes2bingham]

27 Carnarvon Close

Bingham

Nottingham

NG13 8RR

 

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Here Comes Summer

From May to September, you’ll find a sizzling selection of free activities taking place in Rushcliffe so you can get out
and enjoy the summer without spending a small fortune.
Go to http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/herecomessummer for your free guide to this summer's events and activities.

To contact Rushcliffe Borough Council call 0115 981 9911 (8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday), email customerservices@rushcliffe.gov.uk
or visit www.rushcliffe.gov.uk.

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 TESCO

 

Monday, July 13th 2009

Published at 1400

Dear yes2bingham,

There has been much copy in the Bingham Advertiser about TESCO coming to town, however there has not been one chirp of protest from any of the 14 councillors sitting on the town council - is this because the development of a TESCO store will provide development tax which could be used to build the new community centre?

Name and address supplied

 

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Sunday, July 12th 2009

Published at 2200

The News today features: -

• A New Community Centre for Bingham Town Council

TESCO

 

A New Community Centre 

Bingham Town Council still appear determined to build a new Community Centre and to this end have already allocated £1000+ resources for design purposes [see report on page 8 of The Bingham Advertiser, dated Friday, July 10th 2009]

Despite this yes2bingham notes there are the following obstacles: -

No land has yet been considered or allocated.

No mandate has been clearly sought from the residents of Bingham as to whether there is a clear majority of approval in the community for the expenditure of over £1,250,000 for such a project; bearing in mind that the Town Council were responsible for the unsuccessful Town Pavilion, which was subsequently handed over to the Rugby Club for their use.

In the absenceof other locations might not BTC consider making any prospective community centre an add-on to the recently completed sports pavilion. This is well located for easy access and has the advantage of many of the features such as kitchen facilities, bar and lavatories that would not have to be repeated.

For occasional large occupation a marquee could easily be erected on the lawned area adjacent.

A great deal of the community chest has already been expended on the pavilion. Before the commencement of any further works in the town the BTC should have to produce detailed accounts for the full costs on the pavilion. 

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TESCO

 

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From:	form-processor@webs.com
To:	yes2bingham
Date:	1:06 pm
Subj:	Webs.com: FORM RESPONSE

--------------- Form Response ---------------

01 - Your Name<br> = T Hayes
02 - Your Email Address<br> = http://mail.google.com/mail/x/10dcywqa4k7d2-/?v=b&cs=wh&to=hayes160@btinternet.com
03 - Your Telephone (if you'd like us to call you)<br> =
04 - Best time to call you?<br> =
05 - How can we help?<br> = Hi

I wanted to share this news article we you.

I sadly due to work committements was unable to attend the recent meeting hosted by Tesco about it's proposal.

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fearth%2Fearthnews%2F3350420%2FAnother-eco-town-bites-the-dust.html

Seems a little 'convenient' to me that the recent A46 upgrade, along with the immanent  final descision due on the Eco town at Newton coinsides with Tesco wanting to move into Bingham.

Bingham town centre has everything you could need and many people walk to get their shopping...it also promotes a feeling of community and pride... we have only just seen a fruit and veg shop open... what imapct will a Tesco have to these small businesses?.. Eco-friendly to drive and park at a Tesco superstore?? I think not! ... I'm hoping that the people of Bingham have a conscience and will still support local shops and where possible walk there.

The only possible benefit to Tesco opening is the 230 new jobs... but where will those employees shop... TESCO! Those local businesses that may be forced to lose jobs/close...what is the overall net effect?

I'm not usually one for posting comments but I do feel very strongly that local governenment and councils need to fully assess the risks and impacts before lining their pockets...

--------------- End of Form ---------------

This is a form response generated on webs.com for yes2bingham.


 

 

Vince Hill <vincill.uk@googlemail.com>	Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:11 PM
To: hayes160@btinternet.com
Thank you for your response. There are many serious points over this issue and our local community needs much more involvement to raise the profile of the debate to be able to tackle TESCO effectively. You will be able to read on our website the many concerns we have already raised but we need others to enter the fray. To help us I ask you to email all the people in your address book, wherever they may be, and get them to write directly to the TESCO email address that was in the literature at their 'exhibition'. The amount of work they have already done on the site details suggest that they consider the operation a foregone conclusion. This email format is a prime example of y2b in action in the locality where a weekly newspaper cannot, or appears to possess neither the will nor the gumption, to effectively raise the profile of such an important debate in the community. The Bingham Town and Rushcliffe Borough Councillors were noticeable by their absence at the displays. My guess is that by their avaricious natures they will be in favour of the scheme, not for the good of Bingham, but for the money that will be generated from the rates on the site. Finally, how many of the 230 jobs will be any more than part-time. Visit one of the major supermarkets in the area and count the number of the members of staff at any one time. Return a few hours later and see how many faces you recognise from the previous visit. Regards, Vince Hill.

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Thursday, July 9th 2009

 

BREAKING NEWS

 

Published at 1315

Read more about these two items below: -

• TESCO
• 
  
• 24 HOUR PUBLIC CONVENIENCES

 

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BREAKING NEWS

 

 

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OPEN LETTER

 

Bingham Town Council

Rushcliffe Borough Council

Nottinghamshire County Council

Health and Safety Executive

Network Rail

TESCO

 

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

 

Ref: - TESCO v The People, the Historical Heritage 

        and the Safety of the Built Environment of Bingham

 

 

The siting of a new supermarket at the location

proposed by TESCO at the junction of the existing

Sercon Builders Supply Merchants entrance, Chapel

Lane and the Nottingham to Grantham Railway Level Crossing raises several safety issues.

 

• 
  
• Recently in the Bingham Advertiser  particularly featuring
  

         

           there has been a high profile campaign in respect of traffic danger at                 the railway level crossing

• 
  
• The proposed entrance to the supermarket is a great deal less than 100 yards from the level crossing. in the event of a traffic violation at this junction it becomes almost an inevitability that at such a time anxious drivers will be blocking the exclusion box in between the rail barriers.
• 
  
•  When the barrier is closed for up to a maximum of 6 minutes, the road     will again almost inevitably be gridlocked.
  
• 
  
• In extreme circumstances the railway line could also be blocked at the level crossing at a time when a train is waiting to be released into up-line section from the Rectory Box: or a train is waiting to leave Bingham Station to proceed on the downline to Nottingham. At such times the barriers must be closed.

 

How would a paramedic, an ambulance, a fire

 engine or police vehicles proceed to the scene,

whether on the proposed supermarket site or other

units on Moobridge Industrial Estate; or indeed,

further afield to incidents or emergencies on the

A46 or in the outlying villages in this scenario?

 

Nigel Starbuck

[yes2bingham]

27 Carnarvon Close

Bingham

Nottingham

NG13 8RR

Telephone: - 01949 839350

 

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Published at 0650

The News today features: -

 

• TESCO
• 
  
• 24 HOUR PUBLIC CONVENIENCES

• To: y2b

 Posted at 22.07 Wednesday July 8^th 2009

 

I find Susan Harley's written response troubling. How come a

representative at Rushcliffe Borough Council knows nothing of  TESCO

intentions?

It does not make sense. Do they take us for plonkers?

 [Name and address supplied]

 

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• y2b comments: -

 

Further to your comment last night, we concur with your concern.

 

 It might be considered a typical knee-jerk reaction to our uncovering the

lack of public announcement over such a fundamentally important issue,

that Rushcliffe Borough Council, the progressively more silent Bingham

Town Council, or any of the other representatives included in our open

letter referred to in yesterday’s report below, have noticeably chosen to

hide behind the coat-tails of Bingham Community Concern to confirm the

  exhibition.

 

As is evidently becoming more prevalent, our political representatives

apparently run in fear of the large corporations.

 

 

***

 

Some resident in Bingham have friends or relatives in

Sleaford, Lincolnshire.

 

 

 Go to our Photo Gallery about

 

TESCO

 

and see the details there

 

 

This information from the.. SLEAFORD Target,

dated June 17th 2009

....came from Anne on St. Giles Avenue, Sleaford.

 

We acknowledge the Editorial Feature.

Particularly, hannah.bence@targetseries.co.uk      

 

***

 

 

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• BREAKING NEWS

 

Published at 1315

 

-----Original Message-----

From: rob maddison

Sent: 09 July 2009 10:12
To: y2b
Subject: Re: FW: Public Inconvenience in Bingham

 

 Hello y2b,

Thanks for letting me know about this.

You can certainly add my name to the disabled persons list for the public convenience problem and pass it on to the Rushcliffe Council.

I would however appreciate it if you only passed on my email solely to the council and not use it for anything else.

 I think another interesting point is that a pub the size of

the Chesterfield Arms is still breaking the law under the

Disability Disability Act by not having disabled access

toilets.

Best wishes,

Rob M

 

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--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Vince Hill <vincill.uk@googlemail.com> wrote:

 

> From: Vince Hill <vincill.uk@googlemail.com>

> Subject: FW: Public Inconvenience in Bingham

> To: spaceshipsarecool@yahoo.co.uk

> Date: Thursday, 9 July, 2009, 8:11 AM

--------------- Form Response ---------------

 

01 - Your Name<br> = Brian Maddison

02 - Your Email Address<br>

= maddisonb@bridgeway-consulting.co.uk

03 - Your Telephone (if you'd like us to call you)<br> =

04 - Best time to call you?<br> =

05 - How can we help?<br>

 

= Congratulations on "yes2bingham", I wish you well for the future and I will follow your progress with interest.

 

Your article about the Public Conveniences reflects my own

views and you may be interested to hear my story.

My son, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair was sharing a

drink with his cousin in the Chesterfield Arms. They had no

toilet suitable for him so he went to use the disabled

toilet in Eaton Place, only to find it locked and not fitted with a

RADAR key that allows disabled persons to use toilets

throughout the country.

My cousin contacted the council who were very unhelpful and

after several telephone calls said that they would only consider

fitting a RADAR lock if at least 20 disabled people made

representation.

 

This is a form response generated on webs.com for

yes2bingham.

If you believe that this is an unsolicited email, please visit

http://members.webs.com/pages/report and file a

complaint.

 

You have 24 submission(s) remaining.

 

--------------- End of Form ---------------

 

y2b comments: -

A copy of the above dialogue and the original posting is to be forwarded

to Rushcliffe Borough Council.

 

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--------------- Form Response ---------------

 

01 - Your Name<br>

= Spider

02 - Your Email Address<br>

=Witheld

03 - Your Telephone (if you'd like us to call you)<br> =

04 - Best time to call you?<br>

= anytime

05 - How can we help?<br>

= Just to say hello y2b and welcome to the world wide web.

 

--------------- End of Form ---------------

 

This is a form response generated on webs.com for

yes2bingham.

If you believe that this is an unsolicited email, please visit

http://members.webs.com/pages/report and file a

complaint.

 

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Wednesday, July 8th 2009

 

Published at 20.47

 

 

 

TESCO

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visit

 

yes2bingham.com

 

 

HAVE YOUR SAY

 

yes2bingham comments: -

• 
  
• the proposed location will cause difficulty for residents wishing to shop at peak times which also coincide with the present railway timetable that already causes serious traffic congestion on Chapel Lane, Kirkhill, Newgate Street, Fairfileld Street and even Nottingham Road/Long Acre.
• the introduction of a petrol station will inevitably draw trade from the existing stations in the area on Grantham Road, Saxondale Island and the two near East Bridgford Garden Centre.
• TESCO's statement that they will not detract from trade that already operates in the Bingham area is a falsification.

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Below are transcripts of email correspondence that

yes2bingham have had with Nottinghamshire County Council/

Ruschcliffe Borough Council in respect of the TESCO plan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Harley [mailto:sharley@rushcliffe.gov.uk]
Sent: 08 July 2009 08:54
To: y2b

Subject: Re: Land between Bingham Railway Station, Margidvnvm Island and the existing A46 Fosse Way Railway Overbridge.

 

Good afternoon,

I understand there will be a public exhibition relating to this and I enclose dates provided by Bingham Community Concern for your information.

"Wednesday 12.30pm to 4.30pm, Thursday 1.30pm to 7.30pm and Friday pm.

A team of 4 or 5 will be willing to receive the public's comments and hopefully, answer questions"

At the present time no plans have been deposited with Planning and

Place Shaping. Should an application for planning permission be made

then there will be the usual formal consultation process.

Yours sincerely

S D Harley

Head of Planning and Place Shaping

sharley@rushcliffe.gov.uk

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OPEN LETTER

To: -

Bingham Town Council:

Rushcliffe Borough Council:

Nottinghamshire County Council:

East Midlands Development Agency:

The Crown Estates:

 

To Whom It May Concern:

 

 Reference: Land between Bingham Railway Station, Margidvnvm Island and the existing A46 Fosse Way Railway Overbridge   

 

There is much speculation in the Bingham area as to the planning intentions over the proposed use of this land for the development of a distribution centre for one of the major supermarkets, particularly now that the A46 up-grading work has commenced.

 The area concerned borders Chapel Lane and the Moorbridge Industrial Estate and is approximately encompassed by the following Ordinance Survey Grid Reference points: -  

South East corner of former Moor Lane Allottments [SK705 402]

Margidvnvm Island                                               [SK700 414]

The existing A46 Fosse Way Railway Overbridge      [SK692 402]

Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act please furnish me with any details of your knowledge of proposals for the development of this land. 

 

Yours faithfully,

Nigel Starbuck

[yes2bingham]

27 Carnarvon Close

Bingham

Nottingham

NG13 8RR

Telephone:  01949 839350   

 

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Saturday, July 4th 2009

 

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More TESCO news: -

 

•        Over 50 years ago, in 1953, TESCO opened its first UK

               self-service store.

•        In 1968, 41 years ago, the term ‘superstore’ was first used

               when TESCO opened their branch in Crawley, west Sussex.

•        35 years ago, in 1974, TESCO started selling petrol at its out

               of town stores. Other supermarkets joined the bandwagon –

               try finding an independent petrol station now. The country is

               littered with abandoned forecourts.

 

Out of town stores over the last 40 years have sprung up throughout the

United Kingdom, mushrooming and spreading like virulent cancers to eat

away the hearts of the towns to which they are attached.

Convenient they may be, but do we want the heart of our historic market

town destroyed?

 

If anything should be constructed on the Chapel Lane site,

it should be of a commercial and industrial element.

 

Providing local jobs to cut the severe delays and high

carbon footprints created by the daily attempts to get to

work in Nottingham.

 

The choice of this location is evidently dictated by the

assumption that Newton Eco-town will go ahead and the

new TESCO will serve both communities. 

 

•        The major supermarket chains now cater for a complete

               range of products from food to clothing and most general

               retail products. They provide banking and online shopping

               services causing the demise of local amenities in small towns

               across the length and breadth of the country.

•        In the event of the provision of a large supermarket what will

               happen to the centre of the historic market in Bingham?

 

•        Do we really want all our shopping needs catered for, mostly

               only accessible by  motorised transport, ‘across the tracks’' on

               a road subject serious traffic delays during the whole of the

               anticipated shopping hours from 8.00am to 10.00pm?

 

 

JOIN THE DEBATE AND HAVE YOUR SAY.

 

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Friday, July 3rd 2009

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BREAKING NEWS…………………….

 

TESCO have written to households in Bingham about proposals for a

new TESCO store to be sited on Chapel Lane. They make bold claims

about adding to the shopping facilities in the town, but if the experience

of other locations is anything to go by they will suck existing retailers and

the market traders dry.

 

• If they are so keen to set up in Bingham in competition with single traders, Sainsbury’s Local and the Co-op, they should take over the Pioneer in Eaton Place which has stood as a beacon to retail inefficiency in Bingham for the last ten years?

• The road at Kirkhill/Chapel Lane railway level crossing suffers major congestion up to 30 times a day. How will this be improved by putting a supermarket on the ‘wrong side of the tracks’ for customers to drive to?

• How do TESCO propose to reinstate Moor Lane railway crossing ?

 

Have your say: -

1.        CONTACT US

2.        Email: - community.line@tesco.net and put your point of view to Eoin [John] Dardis   

3.        Go to the exhibition at Bingham Council Offices, The Old Court House, Church Street

           at one or more of the following times: -

•          Wednesday, 8^th July 2009 at 1.00pm to 4.00pm

•         Thursday 9^th July 2009 at 2.00pm to 7.30pm

•         Friday, 10^th July 2009 1.00pm to 4.00pm

 

AND Have your say !!

 

 

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Thursday, July 2^nd 2009

 

The construction today features: -

 

Park - and - Ride

 

Constructing the site

In light of the continuing traffic gridlock into Nottingham there is increasing frustration over the delay by Council(s) to resolve the issue of a Park – and – Ride at Bingham.

The irony of anticipated £400,000,000 expenditure on the new A46 is that it will do little to alleviate the flow of traffic on the A52 towards Nottingham. It is designed merely to extract the A46 from the existing confluence at Saxondale Island and carry traffic over this problematic area to its own anticipated delays when the dual carriageway bottlenecks at Farndon to a single carriageway round the Newark by-pass.

·         Yesterday a resident Ray proposed the consideration of a P – A – R scheme at the Department of Transport/ Saxondale Island/Nottingham Road.

·         Today we have a request from Patricia to re-consider the scheme at Moorbridge adjacent to the railway station.

POST YOUR OWN THOUGHTS ON THE CONTACT US SECTION IN THE LEFT HAND COLUMN LINK ABOVE AND JOIN THE DEBATE.

 

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