News from around your district 27.3.08
Stories from the villages of Bawtry and Finningley for the week ending 27th March.
BAWTRY
Vacancy for town councillor:
Following the resignation of Sarah Hill due to family commitments, Bawtry Town Council is due to co-opt a new member. Anyone who wishes to serve as a town councillor should contact the town clerk on 01302 771244.
Grant for trees and seats:
The 5,400 which is due to Bawtry from the Doncaster District Councillors fund may be spent on sprucing up the town centre.
Bawtry Town Council's Market Hill Committee will consider spending the money on replacing trees which have died around the Market Place car park and providing seats in the town centre.
Another suggestion was to provide new notice boards around the town. Councillors had considered putting the cash towards re-opening the toilets in Gainsborough Road, Bawtry but decided against that fearing that Doncaster Council would not give the required ongoing commitment in future years.
FINNINGLEY
Housing development opposed:
Several Finningley residents attended the annual Finningley Parish Meeting last week to protest about plans to build houses on 1.8 hectares of land at the rear of Bury Farm, Old Bawtry Road, Finningley.
Among the objections were exposure to noise and air pollution from Robin Hood Airport, which is only yards away from the site, and an increase in traffic along the narrow Old Bawtry Road, which would cause danger to present users.
Finningley parish chairman David Lindley assured residents that the council has already objected to the plans because the development was contrary to the Unitary Development Plan which laid down that there should be no growth in Finningley.
School children to confront speeders:
South Yorkshire Police want local residents to become more involved in the fight against speeding motorists in the outlying villages of the Doncaster District Police area.
Finningley's community constable Pc Brian Pyle told Finningley parish councillors that he was keen to implement Speed Watch – a scheme where local residents would operate speed guns and pass details of speeding vehicles to police.
Pc Pyle said that he wanted to use local school children to confront any offender to hammer home the message that speeding had serious consequences. "Using children in this way has quite an impact on drivers," said Pc Kyle.
Under the scheme parish councils would be expected to purchase the speed equipment used. Some years ago Finningley Parish Council made a grant to South Yorkshire Police to purchase a speed gun to be used by police in Finningley but the cash was returned after the scheme failed to get off the ground.
Finningley misses out on grant:
None of the 11,000 which district councillors for the Finningley Ward can allocate on projects in the ward will be spent in Finningley.
District councillor Yvonne Woodcock told Finningley Parish Council last week that all the money would go on road improvements in the Cantley area of the Borough.
Coun Woodcock said that because the money had to be spent by April and the urgent nature of road repairs and upgrades in Cantley it had been decided to spend the money there without further consultation.
Parish councillors objected to the money being spent on one area of the ward which did not raise a precept.
Parish councillor Keith Robinson said: "Why isn't it shared round instead of going to Cantley. We are financing Cantley." Coun Woodcock assured Councillors that Finningley would be considered next year.
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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