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Current News and Activities
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What's On in Westbury Park: January 2019
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Wednesday 2nd January: W I Social with a quiz
Meet from 7.30 pm at Redland Church Halls for a quiet get together with some devilish quiz questions. All women welcome. Guest fee is £4 if you don’t want to join yet.
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Thursday 10th January: Books and the Cinema
DESERT ISLAND BOOKS – a group of interesting people nominate their choice of book on a particular theme + a ‘wild card’
Redland Library, Bristol 7pm (Doors open 6:45pm). Admission £3 ( pay at the door )
The panel:
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Saturday 12th January: BRAVE - Pop Up Cinema
4.30pm, £5 ticket at St Alban's Church
Come and celebrate Burns Night a little early this year by watching Brave.
As always plenty of Prosecco, soft drinks, popcorn and other yummy stuff will be available. Do tell your friends and neighbours and invite them along. Tickets from Roundabout, Toogoods, and Eventbrite/Facebook.
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Sunday 13th January: Christingle Service at St Alban's Church at 10.15 am
We’re raising money for the Children’s Society and continuing to share the joy of the Christmas season with candles and sweets in dark miserable January.
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Thursday 24th January: The Romantic River Rhine
6.45 pm for 7 pm at Henleaze Library. Christel Stocker-Danby is an experienced German tutor at Stoke Lodge. She will guide us down the Rhine through Germany, and explain myths, songs, traditions and local food, which may inspire you to visit,
Tickets from the Library £5. They include wine and light refreshment
Arranged by Friends of Henleaze Library
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And last but not least!
Thursday 31st January: Community Association Get-together at the Cambridge Arms
Banish those January blues with a cheerful get-together at the Cambridge. Bring your friends and get to know a few more! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Events in February
Would you like us to advertise a social or charitable event in February? Please get in touch with us by Jan 25th at latest. Thank you
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WOOD BURNING STOVES AND OPEN FIRES
A Community Association member has asked us to circulate the following note on wood burning stoves and smoke control area regulations.
"We love the warm glow of wood-burning stoves and open fires, but not the increasing levels of smoke in Westbury Park caused by people not following the rules for their use. This is a major source of air pollution, causing asthma, heart attacks and strokes.
Remember – this is a Smoke Control Area. This means:
• Open fires. You cannot burn wood but only smokeless fuels such as anthracite.
• Wood-burning stoves. Your stove must be on the Defra list of approved appliances. You must use only dry wood or pellets. (You can buy these ‘ready to burn’ or keep wood you chop yourself for two years to dry). You must keep your chimneys and flues clean.
As well as affecting everyone’s health, breaches of the rules can lead to fines of up to £1,000."
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RESIDENT PARKING
While the Community Association is aware that some parts of Westbury Park (eg. the Etloe Road / Queen Victoria Road Road area) are strongly in favour of resident parking it is not clear whether this is the case in other parts of Westbury Park possibly less affected by commuter parking.
The City Council conducted a household postal survey on parking issues in Westbury Park in January 2015 and concluded from the responses (and lack of responses) that there was only sufficient support to progress with resident parking in the Durdham Park and Manor Park areas. Since then parking pressures have worsened in parts of Westbury Park following the introduction of resident parking in Redland and parking restrictions on The Downs. As a consequence areas in Westbury Park that might have been only marginally affected by commuter parking in 2015 are now far more affected and possibly more receptive to resident parking.
A few words of caution regarding new resident parking schemes – the Council’s guidelines relating to new resident parking schemes agreed in November 2017 are not very positive in tone and challenging, both in terms of the complex process for securing a new scheme and in setting a high bar for new schemes (eg. new schemes have to cover areas of 1,000 – 4,000 households). The guidelines also seemed to rule out the possibility of extensions to existing schemes – an option that might have been appropriate in parts of Westbury Park.
Our ward councillors are lobbying the Mayor and Council’s Executive Member for Transport to make the guidelines simpler and more flexible.
Henleaze and Westbury on Trym ward councillors are currently carrying out a survey to establish the degree of support for resident parking in that part of Westbury Park within their ward.
Residents in the Blenheim Road area are planning to set up a local group to press for resident parking in their area - an area very much affected by commuter parking.
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Website updated on Friday, 11th January 2019
Current News and Activities
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What's On in Westbury Park: January 2019
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday 2nd January: W I Social with a quiz
Meet from 7.30 pm at Redland Church Halls for a quiet get together with some devilish quiz questions. All women welcome. Guest fee is £4 if you don’t want to join yet.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thursday 10th January: Books and the Cinema
DESERT ISLAND BOOKS – a group of interesting people nominate their choice of book on a particular theme + a ‘wild card’
Redland Library, Bristol 7pm (Doors open 6:45pm). Admission £3 ( pay at the door )
The panel:
- Owen Franklin ( Founder / Director, Bristol Film Festival )
- Tara Judah ( Film critic, Cinema producer Watershed, Trustee of Clevedon’s Curzon Cinema & Arts )
- Professor Sarah Street ( Professor of Film, University of Bristol )
- Cllr. Estella Tincknell ( Associate Professor in Film & Culture UWE and former Cabinet Member for Culture, Bristol City Council )
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Saturday 12th January: BRAVE - Pop Up Cinema
4.30pm, £5 ticket at St Alban's Church
Come and celebrate Burns Night a little early this year by watching Brave.
As always plenty of Prosecco, soft drinks, popcorn and other yummy stuff will be available. Do tell your friends and neighbours and invite them along. Tickets from Roundabout, Toogoods, and Eventbrite/Facebook.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sunday 13th January: Christingle Service at St Alban's Church at 10.15 am
We’re raising money for the Children’s Society and continuing to share the joy of the Christmas season with candles and sweets in dark miserable January.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thursday 24th January: The Romantic River Rhine
6.45 pm for 7 pm at Henleaze Library. Christel Stocker-Danby is an experienced German tutor at Stoke Lodge. She will guide us down the Rhine through Germany, and explain myths, songs, traditions and local food, which may inspire you to visit,
Tickets from the Library £5. They include wine and light refreshment
Arranged by Friends of Henleaze Library
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And last but not least!
Thursday 31st January: Community Association Get-together at the Cambridge Arms
Banish those January blues with a cheerful get-together at the Cambridge. Bring your friends and get to know a few more! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Events in February
Would you like us to advertise a social or charitable event in February? Please get in touch with us by Jan 25th at latest. Thank you
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
WOOD BURNING STOVES AND OPEN FIRES
A Community Association member has asked us to circulate the following note on wood burning stoves and smoke control area regulations.
"We love the warm glow of wood-burning stoves and open fires, but not the increasing levels of smoke in Westbury Park caused by people not following the rules for their use. This is a major source of air pollution, causing asthma, heart attacks and strokes.
Remember – this is a Smoke Control Area. This means:
• Open fires. You cannot burn wood but only smokeless fuels such as anthracite.
• Wood-burning stoves. Your stove must be on the Defra list of approved appliances. You must use only dry wood or pellets. (You can buy these ‘ready to burn’ or keep wood you chop yourself for two years to dry). You must keep your chimneys and flues clean.
As well as affecting everyone’s health, breaches of the rules can lead to fines of up to £1,000."
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
RESIDENT PARKING
While the Community Association is aware that some parts of Westbury Park (eg. the Etloe Road / Queen Victoria Road Road area) are strongly in favour of resident parking it is not clear whether this is the case in other parts of Westbury Park possibly less affected by commuter parking.
The City Council conducted a household postal survey on parking issues in Westbury Park in January 2015 and concluded from the responses (and lack of responses) that there was only sufficient support to progress with resident parking in the Durdham Park and Manor Park areas. Since then parking pressures have worsened in parts of Westbury Park following the introduction of resident parking in Redland and parking restrictions on The Downs. As a consequence areas in Westbury Park that might have been only marginally affected by commuter parking in 2015 are now far more affected and possibly more receptive to resident parking.
A few words of caution regarding new resident parking schemes – the Council’s guidelines relating to new resident parking schemes agreed in November 2017 are not very positive in tone and challenging, both in terms of the complex process for securing a new scheme and in setting a high bar for new schemes (eg. new schemes have to cover areas of 1,000 – 4,000 households). The guidelines also seemed to rule out the possibility of extensions to existing schemes – an option that might have been appropriate in parts of Westbury Park.
Our ward councillors are lobbying the Mayor and Council’s Executive Member for Transport to make the guidelines simpler and more flexible.
Henleaze and Westbury on Trym ward councillors are currently carrying out a survey to establish the degree of support for resident parking in that part of Westbury Park within their ward.
Residents in the Blenheim Road area are planning to set up a local group to press for resident parking in their area - an area very much affected by commuter parking.
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Website updated on Friday, 11th January 2019
