Acocks Green Ward Committee Weds 10th September 2014

by Roger Harmer on 13 September, 2014

Wednesday’s Acocks Green Ward Committee meeting was a relatively well attended event, in part no doubt due to the agenda, but probably also in part due to it being held centrally, in the Library. New attendees included Mushtaq Hussain, who will be the Council’s new Service Lead for Yardley District and Mohammed Irfan who will be looking after Community Chest Applications from now on.

The key agenda items were:

1) An update on the Warwick Road Local Sustainable Transport Funding (LSTF) works. Phil Santos and Jaswant Chahal reported for the Council and Mark Weaver attended on bebalf of Fitzgerald Construction, who have been awarded the contract. Mobilisation of the contract will start on Monday (15th Sept) with the first shovels in the ground likely to be in around mid October and completion by the end of May (depending, in part, on the weather. There will inevitably be disruption, but efforts will be made to minimise it and boards will be put up along the area affected by the works giving emergency numbers to contact if things go wrong. If there are issues you are concerned about, you can also contact me.

2) The Roll out of Wheelie Bins. Kevin Mitchell, Assistant Director of Fleet & Waste Management, gave an update on the roll out of wheelie bins with Noel Delaney from Redfern Road Depot in attendance too. All the homes in the Redfern Road area have now been assessed with 93% assessed as suitable for wheelie bins. Acocks Green’s bins are likely to be delivered in mid to late October with collections starting from them in w/c 24th November. Until then you should keep using the black bag and recycling boxes collection system. A booklet will be delivered with each bin giving more details about the new system, which will include a new collection day for many people.

3) Planning Applications. There weren’t that many controversial planning applications. As noted in my previous post Lidl have had to resubmit their application (which I and the rest of the ward committee and the Acocks Green Focus Group have opposed) to increase their delivery hours due to their cheque with their first application bouncing. Included in the current applications were a note of the discharge of some of the terms and condition with Morrison’s application to build a store on the Spring Road / Shaftmoor Lane site. We wait to see if this is an indication that theĀ  store will be built.

4) Tree on the Green. There was a discussion about Amey’s plans to remove the tree on the Island oppposite the Inn on the Green. They say this is necessary as it is leaning over the road and is therefore a potential hazard to traffic. Many residents are unhappy that a healty landmark tree is to be removed for such reasons. I asked that Nick Brown, Amey’s senior tree officer check the assessment and that the tree is only removed it is a real risk. I am concerned that Amey are being over cautious in their assessments and that it is important that the facts are checked before the tree is taken out. It is also crucial that a replacement tree is planted in the Island. This was agreed by the Ward Committee.

The next meeting of the Ward Committee is on Wednesday 29th October in Acocks Green Baptist Church on Yardley Road.

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