DIG HADFIELD - Meet At The New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield - Tonight at 7.30pm - (Tuesday 25th November)

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick line to let you know that the next meeting (only the second) of Dig Hadfield will be held at the New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield at 7.30pm on Tuesday 25th November. Anyone who lives in the area that is interested in the subject of allotments and who wants to help the group campaign for more of them is welcome to come along.

If you are unaware of what this new group are about, here is a potted history of Dig Hadfield to date. The newly formed group originated from a blogpost on this very blog entitled Not A Lotta Allotments which attracted a lot of comment and interest.

Consequently it was raised as an Agenda item at the September meeting, which resulted in everyone who had expressed an interest being contacted for an inaugural meeting which happened in October. At the meeting the name Dig Hadfield was decided upon and the newly formed group decided to become an autonomous organisation with the aim of procuring allotments specifically in Hadfield, since all who attended lived in the village, whilst Tintwistle itself actually has an oversupply of allotments.

At the meeting, it was decided to promote the group via a poster campaign and a press release. Ralph Bennett agreed to do the poster, that is reproduced below and which was distributed around local shops with a view to broadening the campaign and building the meeting.

Since then, Dig Hadfield have created their own blog, which can be found by clicking here. Thus, our own e-mail address shown on the poster is no longer required as the group now have their own e-mail contact address which is dighadfield@gmail.com which can always be found in the top right hand corner of their blog.

That, in a nutshell is the history, brief as it is of Dig Hadfield. So if you're interested in what they have been set up to achieve then please feel free to come along to their next meeting, which once again is at: The New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield, on Tuesday 25th November at 7.30pm.

The editor of the Dig Hadfield blog informs me that Cllr. Graham Oakley who is a member of Glossop and District Allotment Association will be in attendance.

CLICK ON IMAGE TO SEE FULL SIZE IMAGE OF POSTER

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DIG HADFIELD - A New Grass Roots Organisation Has Germinated Which Plots To Sow The Seeds Of Change

Following a post on this blog by AR which you can read here there has been a steady trickle of e-mails to the site from local residents expressing interest in the subject. Consequently, the issue of lack of allotments in the area and in Hadfield specifically was discussed at the October meeting of TAHRA.

A decision followed to contact everyone who had expressed an interest, to discuss the subject, with a view setting up a local group that would campaign for allotment allocation in Hadfield. An inaugural meeting was held at the New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield on Tuesday 28th October.

It was attended by around a dozen people, half of whom wanted an allotment and three of whom had already applied or given up trying. The meeting decided that they did indeed wish to set up an autonomous group that would press the council to discharge its duty to provide much needed
allotment land.

The first action of the group was to produce posters that have now been distributed to shops throughout Hadfield, asking anyone who wants a plot or who already has their name down for one, to contact them either through this site at tinhadra@aol.com or by phoning 866240. The idea is to try and establish just how many people there are wanting plots and to inform them about future meetings and/or activities that the group initiates.

The next planned meeting of Dig Hadfield is scheduled for Tuesday 25th November at the New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield at 7.30pm although this is subject to confirmation nearer the time.
By way of an update, I can confirm that Dig Hadfield are now truly autonomous, as their very own blog has now been set up only today and can be found by clicking here. For reference, you can now contact them directly at dighadfield@gmail.com although we will still be happy to forward mail to them. We also have a permanent link to the site that you can find on the blue panel to the right hand side of this blog.

Co-incidentally and unbeknown to Dig Hadfield at the time of their inaugural meeting, another group led by Mark Alix has been created, entitled Glossop Action For Allotments (GAFA) who share the same aims. They will be presenting a petition to the Council in the morning (Friday 7th November), outside the Chinley offices of High Peak Borough Council, at 10am .
We wish the group maximum success tomorrow and Mark has said he intends to attend the next Dig Hadfield meeting, so the movement to move earth seems to have well and truly taken root.

Residents Meeting - The New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield, 8.00pm - All Welcome

Monday 3rd November will be the first Monday in the month so it's time for our monthly jaunt down at the New Lamp. This month Cllr Webster (his choice of photo, from the HPBC website, not mine!)

wishes to address the meeting and is afforded the right to reply to Ralph Bennett's letter to the press on the subject of 'H.P.B.C. Investments in Icelandic banks'.

I'm sure we all look forward to hearing some words of wisdom from Glossop's answer to Ian Paisley but if we were to follow H.P.B.C.'s own protocol we might have to limit him to just 3 minutes timed out to the second! Would we do that?

A busy and exciting Agenda this month with campaigns on several fronts. This week sees the launch of Dig Hadfield, aided and abetted by TAHRA, but soon to be an autonomous group, whose aim will be to push for allotment allocations in ...well Hadfield, obviously.

Also we continue the campaign to persuade the council to opt-in to the Sustainable Communities Act, which we feel may be beneficial in terms of giving grass roots organisations more of a voice and have an invitation from Tom Levitt M.P. to attend a meeting on the subject later this month. Hurrah.

So without any further ado here is the full Agenda. Quite a full one so get along early and we can make a punctual start.

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TINTWISTLE AND HADFIELD RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION
Meeting at the New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield, Monday 3rd November at 8.00pm.

AGENDA ITEMS
PART ONE

1. Apologies for absence.

2 (a) Correspondence – H.P.B.C. Investment in Icelandic banks.
Cllr. Chris Webster (Old Glossop ward) has asked to come along to address the subject on a personal basis. He is of course cordially invited and afforded the right to reply to Ralph Bennett’s letter on the subject, recently published in the local press, which Ralph will read in person.

PART TWO

(b) Invitation from Tom Levitt M.P. to attend “Communities In Control” – a discussion on the Govt. White Paper.
(c) Invitation from Dai Larner (Strategic Director – Planning and regeneration) to set up a meeting to address issues regarding the councils planning service and anything else we would like to cover. Progress! See also Item (4) below.
(d) A response to Ralph Bennett from Tintwistle Parish Council.

3. Matters Arising/Outstanding Business
(a) Postal dispute.
(b) Litter under Tintwistle Bridge.

4. Meeting with Dai Larner – Finally Mr Larner has agreed to meet us over the various planning issues we have raised over the past couple of years. The recent discovery of a cannabis plant on Rossington Park seems to have confirmed our fears about lax planning procedures. Hopefully this is an opportunity to set matters right. We need to suggest dates, times and delegates for proposed meeting.

4. Dig Hadfield – with our help a new group has been founded whose point of focus will be to campaign for allotments in Hadfield. News and update.

5. Sustainable Communities Act. Potentially useful tool for grass roots involvement in community issues. We are campaigning for the council to opt-in or we cannot use it. Progress report and correspondence to date.

6. Safer Neighbourhood Meeting – report back from Pat Bennett.

7. Fundraising re: Bradbury House Xmas stall.
8. Announcements.
9. Any other business.
END
We always aim to close business by 9.30pm but as always feel free to stay for a chat and a drink afterwards.

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Residents Meeting - Monday 1st September, The New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield 8.00pm

Next Monday is the 1st September. It also happens to be the first Monday in the month which means our monthly meeting will take place at the New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield on Monday 1st September at 8.00pm. Here follows the Agenda but anyone wishing to add an item can e-mail it for inclusion and we will do our best to accomodate. All welcome.

AGENDA - RESIDENTS MEETING - MONDAY 1ST SEPT 2008 - THE NEW LAMP

1. Apologies.
2. Matters arising from last meeting.
3. Correspondence.
4. Update on Sorting Office Dispute.
5. Update on Lambgates situation.
6. Sustainable Communities Act - what it is and how we can use it.
7. Allotments.
8. Chapel Lane Park threat?
9. A.O.B.

RESIDENTS MONTHLY MEETING - Agenda for Monday 4/8/08 -

A reminder that Tintwistle and Hadfield Residents Association meet the first Monday in the month (excepting Bank Holidays) so we will be having our regular meeting tomorrow (Monday 4th August) at the New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield at 8.00pm prompt. Here is the Agenda along with any relevant links:

1. Apologies.

2. Matters arising from previous meeting
- update on 4000 postcards campaign and Sorting Office dispute: http://tintwistleandhadfieldresassoc.blogspot.com/2008/07/update-on-hadfield-dlo-dispute.html

- update on Brookside Bungalow planning application (20 flats proposed off Lambgates): http://planning.highpeak.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=103676

3. Correspondence

4. River pollution Tinsle Bridge and Dinting Road.

5. Keep High Peak Green - awareness raising of this new borough wide group: http://keephighpeakgreen.wordpress.com/

6. Safer Neighbourhood meeting 23/07/08 - report back. http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/local/125.html

7. Blog items, participation, contributions etc. http://www.tintwistleandhadfieldresassoc.blogspot.com/

8. Announcements.

9. Any other business.

All welcome. We try to ensure business is complete by 9.30pm but feel free to stay and have a drink and a chat afterwards.


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Residents Meeting - MONDAY JULY 7TH, 8.00PM the NEW LAMP, BANKBOTTOM

Next Monday is the 7th July and it is the first Monday in the month which means Tintwistle and Hadfield Residents Association (TAHRA) will meet at the New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield at our usual time of 8.00pm prompt.

This month we have not one but two guest speakers, which is good news for all those of you who don't want to hear me all night long.

Top of the Agenda of course are the proposed closures of Tintwistle Post Office and Hadfield Delivery Office. I am therefore pleased to confirm that Dave Kennedy the Branch Secretary of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) will address the meeting in person.

He will explain the issues, provide an update and answer all your questions. I have also had a phone call from a local Councillor confirming their attendance. It's clearly a topic of grave concern and promises to be a lively meeting, so get there early if you don't want to end up in the gallery.

Regarding the proposed Tintwistle closure, we have already produced a postcard (see above) which will be distributed around the village and the Brosscroft area next week. Residents will just need to sign and return it, although written letters are always preferable. Our response to the Delivery Office closure is something that I hope will come out of the meeting.

Our second guest speaker is Jo Osborn who has been in the local press recently over her battle with HPBC. She is attempting to prevent them from building flats on a greenfield site on Lambgates. She will outline the issues involved and her reasons for opposing the plans. The proposed development comes before planning on Monday 21st July. Comments can be made up until that date by clicking here.

Our final Agenda item will be to give another mention to the Local Development Framework. It may not sound very catchy or interesting and it's something I've been banging on about all year. However Friday 25th July is the final day for responding to the consultation document 'Shaping the Future of High Peak', which you can do here or here.

Basically it is your chance to tell the council what you do and don't want to see happen over the next 20 years. Bang in your form, get yourself on the list of consultees and you will have a greater say in what goes on in your area in the months and years to come. I have provided a fuller explanation in a previous blog which you can find here

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1. Dave Kennedy - Branch Secretary CWU - Tintwistle P.O/Hadfield L.D.O. closure threat.

2. Jo Osborn - Proposed Lambgates development.

3. Plea to respond to Local Development Framework http://consultation.limehouse.co.uk/highpeak/drafts/46/index.html

4. AOB
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TINTWISTLE POST OFFICE JOINS HIT LIST

Postal users in our communities have suffered a double whammy.

In addition to the 90 day closure notice that has been put on Hadfield Sorting Office, with the implication that this has for the future of Hadfield Post Office itself, we are now told Tintwistle Post Office is under imminent threat of closure.

It is one of five postal offices within High Peak that face the axe as part of a national cull under the ominously named Network Change Programme. The other four are Birch Vale, Chapel Town End, Dove Holes and Peak Forest.

A full analysis and comment will follow in an imminent blog but for now it will suffice to say that it will form the main topic of discussion at our next Residents meeting, which will be at the New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield on Monday July 7th at 8.00pm.

In the meantime you can click onto the Post Office website, here where you can comment online until 21/07/08 and here's the story and picture from the front of this week's glossop advertiser

NEXT RESIDENTS MEETING

Hi Everyone

Just a quick blog to make viewers aware that our next meeting is tomorrow evening at the usual time and venue (The New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield at 8.00pm) As a general rule we meet the first Monday in each month, except when there's a Bank Holiday. All welcome.

If you live in Hadfield, you may be aware by now that the Post Office sorting depot is threatened with closure. Postmen themselves delivered the devastating news to virtually every household in Hadfield, putting in a shift to deliver thousands of leaflets after their own shifts finished last Tuesday and Wednesday. A copy of the leaflet and further details will be available in a following blog.

Whilst not the only lively local topic, it is one that we obviously need to discuss, with a view to helping reverse what appears to be an imminent threat. Officially the list of proposed closures will be unveiled on June 10th but the fact that union reps have acted so swiftly in getting out warning leaflets suggests very strongly that Hadfield is on that list.

Welcome Everyone

Hi Everyone

My name is Steve Bagshaw, I currently chair the monthly meetings of the Tintwistle and Hadfield Residents Association (TAHRA), which are held at the New Lamp, Bankbottom, Hadfield on the first Monday of each month. This blog has been set up to give local residents more of a voice. We felt the need to create our own media after council chiefs and elected councillors simply ignored the protests of the local population and ploughed ahead with unwanted industrial developments recently.

It will enable more interaction for residents between meetings and will also allow you to comment and blog about events as they happen. If blogging is new to you, don't worry, it is to me too but it will get easier the more you use it.

To begin with, if you would like to be alerted each time there is a new post, then all you need to do is fill in your e-mail address in the space provided on this page (in the right hand column) then click the "subscribe" button and that's it.

If you want to contact me then you can e-mail me at tinhadra@aol.com

Secondly, if you would like to contribute yourself, again let me know by e-mail and I will then send you an invite. As soon as you reply to the invite you will be able to either make a comment on an existing blog or to create a new post of your own.

Let's start. Here's a picture question. What do these two local scenes have in common then? The clue to the subject matter is dogs:

Aah, yes. Popular and reasonable places to take your dog for a walk.

A tenuous but kinder to the eye introduction than some photos I might have shown on the subject of that hardy perennial - dog fouling. At a recent open meeting it was regarded, along with road issues, as an area of immediate concern.

Good news. After contacting our beloved HPBC I am assured that they will send out an Enforcement Officer within the week to clean up any grot spots. All you have to do is report a precise location of the offending articles and they will come and do a clean-up. You can either ring HPBC at the general number 0845 1297777 and state your spot or e-mail me at tinhadra@aol.com and I will put together a (s)hit? list for them to deliver on.

OK not a pleasant subject to kick off with but it had to be done. The sooner the better if you ask me. I'm hoping that they will do a bit of publicity around the area too which they have promised to get in touch about. Will keep you posted.