News 2012
February 2012
Big Energy Upgrade....ERDF European Regional Development Fund
WNWHL(leeds City Council) Cladding New Wortley scheme alterations and scheme omissions.
More details are now emerging on the cladding scheme in New Wortley and the original works planned seem to have somewhat changed.It appears now the the facias and guttering will not be included at this point in time...although the vertical drain pipes.So it does appear that the scheme in its present format is a mismatch.Whether the scheme in its present format will address the issues and make all the houses anyway near thermally efficent is highly unlikely.
The Wimpey no Fines properties (houses) on the estate are of four types.The four bedroom houses and the small two bedroom houses have wooden front hall extensions and the heat loss from these would still need addressing for the houses to become truly thermally efficent.
The three bedroom and the large two bedrooms houses do not have these wooden hall extensions and just have a canopy over the front door(not back doors)....more details on dedicated page click weblink below.
Big Energy upgrade
January 2012
Grass Cutting.Continental Landscapes has taken over responsibility for grass cutting.
Continental Landscapes will prove a grounds maintenance service to Leeds City Council housing areas within
East North East homes Leeds, Aire Valley homes Leeds, West North West homes Leeds, Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO) and Highways.
For more information click here
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The aftermath of the last encampment after the site was vacated in September 2011.
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Morrison under pressure...Councils criticise......
Inside Housing external website |
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circa from November 2011 Possible Strike Ballot Morrison Leeds
http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/latest_news/possible_strike_ballot_at_morr.aspx
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| 28th March 2011 |
Another illegal traveller encampment on the gassy field in New Wortley.
How much will this cost LCC and the taxpayer this time?
Residents are extremely unhappy that nothing has been done to restrict access to this
open space since the legal removal of the travellers’ during the summer of 2010
….last year there were reports of human and animal waste and fly tipping on the site..
animals roaming free unaccompanied and vehicles driving on pavements and pedestrian
only areas.
Residents’ are quoting ’one rule for us and a different set for them’
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| 26th March 2011 |
Bus lane dodgers warned they could soon be caught on camera....
A survey by Leeds City Council In late January found nearly 2,000 drivers- 1,941
in total- illegally cutting into city centre bus lanes over three days in the same week.
The vast majority of these offences took place during the morning rush from 7.30-9am,
holding up buses full of commuters and other passengers.
In one case- along the Wellington Road lane adjacent to Clyde Approach- 572 drivers were
seen to break the law on the same day by using the bus lane.
This issue was highlighted by residents at a P.A.C.T meeting with the New wortley Police Team last year as a priority project... the New wortley Residents also endure rat running on Clyde Approach.Cllr Richard Lewis, Leeds City Council executive member for development, said: “The extent of the abuse of bus lanes by motorists is shocking and this behaviour is against the law.
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| 21st March 2011 |
Yorkshire Planning Aid..Funding Withdrawn
Yorkshire Planning Aid faces the axe under new legislation unless a new bid under new
legislation is successful. Locals in New Wortley say it was a lifeline to them..
Mrs Ingham, who chairs the New Wortley Action Group, added:
“Yorkshire Planning Aid stopped our community being razed.
“We are the people who live here and we need people who will be honest with us.”
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