You’ll have received your printed copies by now, but below is the March newsletter from the residents association.

Newsletter March 2017

In more recent news, here’s the latest update from the Cathedral School, bringing the prospect of a local secondary school for Chester Green a little closer!
http://www.derbycathedralschool.org.uk/excellent-progress-continues-to-be-made/

Also, do note the Annual General Meeting for St. Paul’s Pre-School on 27th March, 7.30pm, in St. Paul’s Church Hall.  They’re always looking for new people to join the committee – why not come along and help support this excellent local pre-school (recently rated ‘good’ by Ofsted).

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/