Nottinghamshire Free Spaces Newswire Archive

Sustainable Communities Bill Public Meeting

Date: 25th May 2006
Time: 7:30pm (duration ~ 2 hours)
Venue: Queens Walk Community Centre, Queens Walk, The Meadows, Notts NG2 2DG

Have you noticed the following things happening in your community?:

Closure of local independent shops

Closure of the local Post Office

Closure of the local bank branch

Decline of local street markets

Closure of the local pub

Closure of local services e.g. health centres

Green spaces being built on

More traffic and less people walking on the streets

Less public transport services

More "clone" branded shops and huge superstores

Local Works is the campaign that aims to change this situation that is known as Ghost Town Britain. Instead we want local sustainability, which has these 4 measurements:

1. Thriving local economies
2. Environmental protection
3. Social inclusion
4. Active democratic participation

Please come along to the Public Meeting to discuss the Sustainable Communities Bill. Guest speakers include Alan Simpson MP and Jon Beresford from NAIL ) Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill)

On June 4th there will be a Sharphill mini green festival, following on from the Nottingham Green festival.

Went for a walk with Tim around the fields, so he could show me, on the ground, what area the development will affect.

The BBC having gone, here are some pictures of folks at the camp. Chillin' on a sunday afternoon.

If you go down to the woods today ...... you'd be sure of a big surprise...... well no bears found, but the cameras of the BBC 'Politics Show' in the East Midlands were there.

Sounds on the Downs is a free festival planned to take place on the downs at the University of Nottingham (near Derby and Lincoln Halls) on Wed 7th June, 2pm-10pm.

This is being posted thru doors now.
Get on it!

A protest camp on the site of a proposed development of 1200 houses is entering its second week.

good things on in May - don't miss them - use your very own poster to remind you whats on.

In July this year, the powers that be will release their decision to build 1200 non-sustainable houses across the field around sharphill woods,

As you look south across Nottinghamshire, you may see a prominent wood on a hill, with an additional ‘lonely tree’. That’s just past west bridgeford. BUT...

download Sumac Posters, then display

The next climate camp gathering is happening in Leeds in 2 weeks. It is an ideal opportunity to get involved in organising this exciting camp. Please email us if you are interested in going from Notts as we might be able to sort some transport.

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The Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council, Mr Gordon Mitchell, came on a tour of Radford district of Nottingham on Monday morning. While in the area, he, and a couple of councilors, dropped by at the ASBO squatted centre on Burns Street, for a bit of a chat.

In their latest issue of the bi-monthly mag, 'Front Page', they've given the ASBO squat on Burns Street, a bit of write up.

Nottingham City Council has announced a new measure to reduce the 'problem of begging' on Nottinghams streets. A press release given out yesterday (Feb 27th) states: 'Nottingham City Council is urging members of the public to help them eliminate begging in the city by erecting signs in begging hotspots telling them to call the anti-social behaviour helpline if they see individuals begging'

The Council's 'respect for Nottingham' website states: The aim of the Respect for Nottingham strategy is to clean up the City’s streets, take an uncompromising stand against begging, street prostitution and drug dealing and demonstrate that Nottingham is not a soft touch for those bent on criminality and damaging the quality of life in the city. Interesting how they consider begging as 'criminal' and damaging the quality of life for others...

Links: Council's press release | Police escalates offensive crackdown culture poster drive | Respect for Nottingham

Bar events and Centre diary for March, A4 PDFs to download

Saturday afternoon saw the first stage, of layout and 'sketch-in', of an illustation on the walls of the ASBO Centre at 35 Burns Street, Nottingham.

Attended a session on Recycling, Art and Banner making at the Sumac centre on sunday.
It was shown that with a little creativity, it is possible to put alsorts of material, that most would normally discarded, applied to other use. Here are some we made earlier.