Monthly Archives: May 2010

Consultation on River Hull flood proposals


PUBLIC CONSULTATION on proposals to manage flood risk from the River Hull and other main watercourses in the area is taking place. Views are also being sought on the draft Catchment Flood Management Plan (CFMP) for the River Hull and Coastal Streams.

The Environment Agency’s draft River Hull Flood Risk Management Strategy outlines how investment of £109 million is needed over the next 20 years to manage flood risk to some 100,000 homes and businesses in East Yorkshire.

The draft Strategy looks at current and future flood risk for the River Hull and streams which feed into it and takes account of climate change.

Information on the draft River Hull Flood Risk Management Strategy can be found on the Environment Agency’s website at www.environment-agency.gov.uk/riverhullstrategy.

Information on the draft CFMPs can be found on the Environment Agency’s website at www.environment-agency.gov.uk/cfmp then follow the link to Yorkshire & North East.

There will be a number of public events during the consultation process, which runs for 12 weeks from 21 May until 13 August.

Dates and venues will be announced shortly for combined events for the draft River Hull Strategy and the CFMP.

Two further drop-in events will take place outside the River Hull Strategy geographical area, and will focus on the CFMP, at:

  • Ottringham Village Institute, Station Road, Ottringham, on Thursday, 27 May;
  • Shiptonthorpe Village Hall, Shiptonthorpe, on Thursday, 3 June.

Both events take place between 2pm and 7pm.

MP welcomes news of “re-think” on waste incinerator plans

GRAHAM STUART MP, in the first formal press release issued by his office since being re-elected on May 6th has welcomed news that local councils are to have a “re-think” on plans to build a giant waste burning plant at Saltend. He was responding to the news yesterday that councillors from both Hull and the East Riding are to be briefed on the possible down sizing of the incinerator plans next week.

The MP, who helped found the HOTI pressure group (Hull and Holderness Opposing the Incinerator) and has  campaigned with councillors and members of the public to stop the incinerator being built at Saltend, said:

With luck this could spell the end of the project and the start of something new. All we can do for now is give this news a cautious welcome and hope common sense prevails. The original incinerator was to be huge, old fashioned and inefficient. Most of the energy it was to produce would simply have been vented up the chimney. Local people did not want it and we have argued consistently for a greener, cleaner, more sustainable approach to dealing with our waste. I hope there is to be a rethink and that the Councils will ask the contractor to come forward with different plans which are acceptable to people in the area and which improve rather than degrade the environment.”

He added that he would be contacting councillors in the East Riding to be kept briefed on possible changes to the incinerator plan. It is understood spiralling costs and a fall of in the amount of waste being collected from homes which cannot be re-cycled meant the current plan needed to be re-visited.

Meanwhile, Councillor Peter Turner, Chairman of HOTI said:

We don’t regard this as a triumph. We have won the battle but not the war.”

Good luck on Silver Surfers’ Day 2010

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SILVER SURFERS’ DAY is the biggest, national campaign to promote use of digital technologies by older people. It is run by Digital Unite and was started in 2002. Silver Surfers’ Day is in its ninth glorious year and takes place today Friday 21 May.

GOOD LUCK to all those attending the Silver Surfers’ Day local event at South Holderness Education Centre today!

If you attended, then let the Hedon Blog know how you got on :-)

New Mayor throws the pennies!

THE PENNY THROWING ceremony 2010 took place this evening (20th May) immediately after Councillor Mrs Brenda Goldspink was apointed new town Mayor.

40 local children took part in the ‘civic scramble’ for the pennies (and larger coins!) ceremonially despatched by the Mayor and her party!

This really is a perculiar and unique tradition for the town – and lots of fun for the kids taking part.

Hit and run incident in Hedon

HEDON ‘HIT AND RUN’ INCIDENT:

TWO CHILDREN, a boy and a girl in a pram pushed by their father, were struck by a white van in a ‘hit and run’ incident in Hedon on Monday, May 10 at about 3.20pm.

Google Map of Baxtergate and Fletchergate

The incident happened as the family approached the junction of Baxter Gate and Fletcher Gate. The pram was knocked over landing upside down with the two children inside. The van drove away in the direction of the Queen’s Head Pub car park without stopping.

Police are still trying to track down the driver of a white Transit type van and are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incident, or the driver of the white van, to come forward.

Fortunately the reported injuries were minor:  The little boy had a bleeding nose and grazing to his face and shoulder, while the girl had cuts to her face and an ankle injury. Their father suffered grazing to his shin.

Anyone with information is being asked to contact Humberside Police on 0845 6060222.

Sources:

Hull Daily Mail

BBC News

Hedon: Waste Incinerator MAY be scrapped….

THE HULL DAILY MAIL reports today that plans for a massive waste-burning incinerator between Hull and Hedon could be shelved in favour of a much smaller facility idea.

According to the Mail there is an opportunity for a radical re-think over the whole waste-burning facility.

If this is the case then it is hoped that the leaders of both councils use this opportunity wisely and study cleaner, greener and safer options for the disposal of waste at this site.

See article on the Hull Mail website.

Link: See HOTI News Website – Hull and Holderness Opposing The Incinerator

Alison Hall Restaurant Opening Date

ST AGUSTINE’S GATE, HEDON was unusually congested today as dozens of passers-by  huddled around the entrance of Alison Hall to read the notice announcing the opening of the new Restaurant and Bar.

The eagerly awaited opening of the new fine-dining venue takes place on Monday 24th May 2010.

A Daytime Menu is available which includes light-bites from £3.95 to main meals from £6.95.

The Evening Menu includes dishes such as pork tender loin or locally sourced steaks for meat-lovers and wild mushroom stroganoff or grilled halloumi for vegetarians. Special seafood dishes are also available. Prices range from £3.95 for home-made soup to £27.95 for a 16oz steak.

A website for the restaurant will soon be available. Those wanting to book should call 01482 – 896669 between 12 noon and 6:00pm.

Open: Mon – Sat 12noon – 11:30pm

Food served: Mon – Thurs 12noon – 9:00pm

Fri – Sun 12noon – 4:00pm and 5:00 – 10:00pm

See Review.

Police and Community Forum Meeting in Burstwick. What about online meetings?

THE LATEST POLICE and Partners Community Forum meeting is being held this evening Wednesday 19th May 2010 at Burstwick Primary School from 7:00pm.

Unfortunately the last Forum held in Hedon in February was poorly attended as the Blog observed in its report from the meeting.

The official minutes from the last meeting are available from the newly designed Website of Humberside Police Authority at this page (scroll down to C Division and click on Mid and South West Holderness).

Low attendance? What if…?

Perhaps if the Police and Partners Community Forum meetings are not attracting sufficient public interest, then in addition to the meetings, the Police Authority should look at other ways for people to join what they term their Big Conversation?

It would seem that in a predominantly rural area where people and communities are physically separated by great distance and poorer public transport on an evening, then the internet could be another way that communities can be brought together to take part in virtual meetings?

If you knew that members of the Local Police Team and Police Authority were going to be available for a live online discussion and question and answer session at a particular time, would you register and log-on?

Let the Blog know what you think about this idea.

Links: Humberside Police Website