The Chester Green Christmas Window Trail is now officially on.  Not every window is quite ready yet, but it just means there’s still some surprises to come!

The map, and a few questions to answer along the way were given out with the newsletter this month, and can be found below.  There are also some extra windows with the magic xmas tree sticker in….see if you can spot those too!  We’ve already had one person submit their answers and a little feedback – just to clarify, some questions have more than one correct/possible answer, and we’re interested as to what theme you think each window is (perhaps loosely…) based on!  Return your maps to the addresses shown and you may even get a little prize 🙂

Chester Green Christmas Window Trail Map 2016

We hope you enjoy the Xmas Window Trail, something new for our little community this year!

Well, what a great day was had by all!  Below is a video and pics of the event.  Feel free to add pics to the album if you have some and a big thanks to Lucia of St. Paul’s Road for the awesome video 🙂

Pics of the Day can be found by CLICKING HERE!

A big thanks to all the organisers (Rach, Marie, Mark, Rhian, Chris, Tony, Julie and Rita) and everyone that mucked in on the (initially very rainy) day!  A great advert for our wonderful community spirit 😀

Pray for good weather!

Remember, if you don’t ask, you don’t get. Local parent power asked the council to repair the play parks flooring, which had fallen into disrepair being raised at the edges and causing many a trip! . Well, it was repaired this week 😀

You should have received the paper copy by now, but it’s below in case you’ve already lost it 😉

This month’s newsletter is brought to you via the kind help from Alternative Tiles in Chester Green

LCRA April 16 Newsletter

Always good to see nice pics of Chester Green and the surrounding area.  These two are particularly great by Dave P on Instagram!

#terraced

A photo posted by Dave P (@teelahead) on Sep 13, 2015 at 6:53am PDT

#dawg #darleypark

A photo posted by Dave P (@teelahead) on Sep 11, 2015 at 8:13am PDT

The residents association will hold their Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 7.30 pm on Tuesday15th September at Centurian Walk Meeting Room on Old Chester Road

All are welcome (and positively encouraged to turn up!) and the agenda for the evening can be found HERE.

I received this message from a local resident.  If you’re interesting in helping with speed calming, please have a read!

Myself and some other volunteers have kindly been trained up by PC Ali Mudasar to assist with the local Community Speed Watches.

We have done a session on City Road and yes, lots of people were speeding – even with us stood there, clearly identified, in high visibility vests, pointing the speed gun at them, with a Police Officer at our side, they were still speeding…  even when they thought they’d slowed down enough!  To top it off, even the Council’s StreetPride vehicles were speeding (in fact, they continue to be some of the worst offenders.)  20mph is a LOT slower than most people realise, and a lot slower than people are going.

Unfortunately, there’s only three of us at present, covering the whole of this chunk of Derby, and I’m the only one from Chester Green.   Although I gather many volunteers had asked to be trained up, I understand we’re the only ones who’ve actually committed to do the work after training.  More volunteers who’re genuinely willing to get trained up and give a commitment (i.e. at least one SpeedWatch per month) would *really* help!

If you’re interested, please contact: PC Mudasar Ali, details on this webpage – http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/My-Local-Police/DDivision/DerbyNorthSection/Allestree-and-Darley/Allestree-and-Darley.aspx

You should all have paper copies of this by now, but here’s the electronic version in case you don’t!  It has lots of important details on Japanese Knotweed which has been found in the area, speed calming, the Big Toddle and other local news and dates 🙂

2015_08 News Letter

Here’s the link to the 1965 flood video contained in the newsletter too:

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-derby-floods-1965/

We’ve just received this from the Community Parks Officer at the Council. Please keep a look out, and report if you see them!

Hello all,
I am forwarding you the below extract to make you aware of a recent dog attack in the Chester Green/Parkers Piece area of Darley. If you feel appropriate, please forward where you see fit. I have asked the Park Rangers to be vigilant of the dogs in question and hope to liaise with the Police in an effort to speak with the owner involved.

The last incident is the one we have reported to the police as it is the most serious. It has an incident number …… and was reported on 13/06/2015 to Tracey at the local police station. We have an officer coming to see us tomorrow (16/06/15).

……. was on Chester Green with his dog on the lead and a white staffie started running towards them both. ……. could see the owner in the distance. The staffie stopped short, walked slowly towards them and stood in front of them for some time. …….. was expecting the owner, a man in casual clothing/joggers/hoodie to call his dog back, but he didn’t. He also had another brown staffie which he bent down to and indicated should run and join the first – still standing in front of …… and his dog.

As soon as both dogs were together without warning both dogs attacked. This attack was witnessed by …….., who we know from the Church and lives on Chester Green Road. Sadly, but luckily at the same time, the incidents that his dog has previously been subjected to makes him quick to respond and he was a match for these dogs, but ……., who suffers from mental health problems has been traumatised by this last incident. He says he will never be able to get the picture out of his head. The owner of the staffies was in absolutely no rush to catch up with his dogs and let his dogs continue to attack his dog. …….. called to him to call his dogs off but he did not. It was only when his dog managed to get the upper hand and ……. came over to try and help that the owner decided to slowly walk over blowing a whistle and shouted that he would ‘thrash’ his dogs.
……. yelled at the man to get his dogs under control to which the man did not respond other than to advise he would thrash his dogs and he then walked towards the church WITHOUT putting his dogs on the lead.

We have heard several stories of a man with two aggressive staffies – one brown, one white – on the green and we feel this must be the same man. We’ve been advised they have attacked a labrador and also went for an akita, before the owner of this dog ,warned them off. To be honest I’d be really surprised if this man has not been reported to the police already, we’ll find out tomorrow.

We haven’t really noticed the times the dogs have been walked but I feel really strongly that this is a situation that is waiting to get worse. The man appears to be deliberately building aggression in his poor dogs and it will not end well, especially in an area where children play.