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Fix Before The Freeze

Posted on November 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Fix Before The Freeze is a really simple campaign that everyone can get involved in. All you need to do is, on your journey home from work tonight – or while out-and-about, or  even just by looking from your house window –  check things like street lights not working, broken pavements and pot-holes then use Fix My Street to report them to the council.

Reporting a broken street light may save someone being injured by a car or even from being mugged.

Pot-holes and broken pavements will only get worse once we start getting freezing nights so take five minutes to report them now before they get any worse.

All you need to do to report any problems via www.fixmystreet.com fill in a few details and press send. If you can get a picture with your phone you can add this to the report to make it even easier for the council to find the problem you are reporting.

See on HU12 the Wrap up for Winter campaign from Yorkshire Water.

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Petition: Smells from Waste Water Treatment Works are a public nuisance!

Posted on July 31, 2011 by | 3 Comments

HEDON IS A PLACE OF AMBITIONS! We want to celebrate and build upon our history and heritage and create an even better place for people to live, work and visit!

We have an active community of groups and individuals that are striving to improve the quality and enjoyment of life for all its residents. Hedon residents have great ideas about transforming the town; its shopping and leisure experience – whilst preserving its character and opposing inappropriate development. Hedon even harbours a great ambition to bring water back to the Haven!

Hedon has the talent, the ideas and the imagination to take us into a positive future… We have lots to look forward to…

… and then there’s the smell!

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Live in Hull? You should have permission from the East Riding to flush your loo!

Posted on July 30, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Have you a personal point of view for our Debate series? Send it via our Psst! Got a Hedon or HU12 News Tip? to start your own debate, or hit ‘→ Leave a comment‘ to reply to any article:

IT WAS INTERESTING to read in the Hull Daily Mail that the Hull City Council have discovered 4,000 tonnes of waste is dumped in Hull from people living outside the city and that they are to introduce a permit system to give Hull residents exclusive use of the city’s three recycling sites.

As Hull’s head of service for open spaces and waste said “they have had a review and altered the policy”. I therefore feel it is only right for members of the East Riding Council to carry out a review taking into account the facts, that all of Hull’s waste arrives through large tunnels at a Yorkshire Water site near Saltend, which is in the East Riding, not within the Hull boundary.

Therefore it would be prudent to issue residents of Hull with permits to allow, shall we say, four flushes per day and in the event, say over the weekend, if partaking of a kebab or curry, that they could apply for emergency flushes, failure to apply or comply to the policy would result in blockage of pipes , in more ways than one. In the event of total non-compliance to the system the flow will be reversed and waste pumped back to Hull where it initially came from.

Jim Lindop

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New Waste Incinerator contract for Saltend? – “More chance of Hell freezing over…!”

Posted on January 19, 2011 by | 1 Comment

THE LEADER of Hull City Council has spoken about the decision not to press ahead with plans for a Waste Incinerator at Saltend.

In his personal blog Councillor Carl Minns declared:

“…should the Lib Dems retain the leadership of the Council in May there is more chance of Hell freezing over than us negotiating a new contract for an incinerator.”

His blog also quotes the official statement released by the joint councils and Waste Recycling Group:

“Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Waste Recycling Group Ltd (WRG) have mutually agreed a managed termination of their joint waste management contract. The current services will be provided until the end of March 2013 to enable residents to continue to improve on their excellent recycling and composting achievements. An energy-from-waste facility will not be built within this contract. The Councils will put in place new contractual arrangements for the treatment and disposal of waste.”

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People power praised as ecstatic campaigners celebrate defeat of Waste Incinerator

Posted on January 18, 2011 by | 1 Comment

"People power!" HOTI March 3rd October 2009

ANTI-INCINERATOR CAMPAIGNERS, HOTI (Hull and Holderness Opposing the Incinerator) heard today (Tuesday 18th Jan 2010) that a press release has been issued jointly by the Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council that the JWA (Joint Waste Authority) contract with Waste Recycling Group (WRG) will effectively be terminated in 2013 and that the 240,000 tonne Mass Burn Waste Incinerator, proposed for Saltend will not be built under that contract.

WRG currently provide bin collection and household waste recycling services for both councils and their contract will end in 2013 in effect scrapping the company and council plans to build a waste incinerator.

Spokesman for HOTI John Dennis, who is a Hedon Town Councillor and businessman in the town gave his comments which are reproduced in full below:

“Of course HOTI is more than pleased with this news, we are ecstatic !! Our battle with the JWA has been waging for over 5 years, since they announced their decision to construct this massive incinerator on the eastern edge of the city, within sight and smell of Hedon, Preston, Paull and Thorngumbald. Our campaign has had fantastic local support and members of HOTI know they would not have succeeded without the backing of the local ratepayers so we are delighted for the residents too.

We have been a constant thorn in the side of the JWA and WRG as we said we would be right at the outset. Their decision is in no small part due to the efforts of the HOTI campaign group which has placed objections to the proposal at every level from the initial local Planning Committees, right up to HM Treasury and even the European Union.

The original proposal was that the incinerator would be built, commissioned and fully operational by 2010, but so far due to the delays we have caused, not a single brick has been laid. HOTI has known for 2 years or more that the whole project was in dire trouble, but no-one at the JWA would admit it. The issue of their press release is tantamount to admitting it now, and no doubt the champagne corks will be popping in the homes of ratepayers of South West Holderness.

Isn’t this an excellent example of what can be achieved by ‘People Power’?”

This news was also reported by the Hull Daily Mail and by the BBC.

The BBC article suggested that the plans to build an incinerator were only “in doubt” by the ending of the contract with WRG in 2013.  It quoted a joint councils spokesperson who said: “…new arrangements would be put in place for the treatment and disposal of waste when the contract came to an end.”

While we have probably not heard the last of plans for a waste incinerator – this does seem a real cause for local celebration! Congratulations to HOTI and the thousands who have marched and otherwise actively opposed the incinerator!

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HOTI offer to help resolve Waste Incinerator issue

Posted on July 29, 2010 by | Leave a comment

ANTI-INCINERATOR community group leaders, HOTI (Hull and Holderness Opposes the Incinerator), have offered to take part in local negotiations in efforts to “arbitrate” and help resolve the “stalemate” over plans to construct a waste-burning incinerator at Saltend.

The Joint Waste Authority (JWA – acting on behalf of the East Riding and Hull City Councils) and the Waste Recycling Group (WRG) are currently locked in ongoing discussions and legal proceeedings over the contract to finance and build the waste incinerator.

But now, according to local media reports in the Holderness Gazette and the Hull Mail, HOTI Chairman Peter Turner has written to both the JWA and WRG and offered the group’s help to sort matters out.

Peter Turner’s letter apparently refers to the Waste Management Quick Guide published by the Audit Commission in 2007. This document published for the Commission’s staff and inspectors working with local councils, suggests that incineration is better than landfill but not as good a recycling or composting, and that:

“Burning mixed waste is no longer really sensible practice. For a long time, councils with incinerators have had poor recycling rates… The importance is not to embark on arrangement that will prevent another taking place. Incineration has typically been a culprit in this – the contractor requires, say, 100,000 tonnes of waste a year to operate the incinerator. This is the big difference between incinerators and other treatments.” Waste Management Quick Guide.

The Government has since ordered the repeal of this internal guidance document, but it does reveal the serious doubts that exist over incineration.

At a time when the Government is emphasising its “Big Society”, which is all about encouraging citizens to get involved in achieving change in their local area, then perhaps the JWA and WRG could do no wrong by involving HOTI in new partnership negotiations to get this issue finally resolved!

Links: HOTI News Website

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Clipper Race Returns to Hull

Posted on July 14, 2010 by | Leave a comment

FOLLOWING AN EPIC 35,000 miles, the ten yachts that are competing in the Clipper Round the World Race 2009-2010 are scheduled to return to Hull on Saturday 17th July.

The Race, which began in Hull in September last year, has already been won by the Spirit of Australia, but there is still a chance that our own Hull & Humber might finish in the top three.

The yachts are scheduled to end the official race when they cross the mouth of the Humber on Saturday morning, but lucky residents in Flamborough, Bridlington and on the East Coast  just might get a sneak preview of the yachts on Friday evening 16th July sometime between 4:00 pm and dusk.

After mustering at the Humber mouth, then on Saturday 17th July, the yachts will take part in the John Harrison Presentational ‘Race’ between King George Dock and St Andrew’s Quay which is expected to start at 9:30am. Residents in Paull will possibly see the boats pass the along the Humber to take up position for the beginning of the John Harrison Race very early on Saturday morning.

The Hull City Council website carries news of the events at Hull Marina. Official Race News and a novel route tracker is available at www.clipperroundtheworld.com.

Clipper Day Programme

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Hedon Park and Ride Planning Application

Posted on January 20, 2010 by | 2 Comments

THE PARK AND RIDE proposed by Hull City Council for the former Hedon Airfield site has now reached the Outline Planning Application stage and will be considered by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council Planning process.

A consultation event was held on the 15th July the findings (PDF file) of which concluded that an overwhelming majority agreed with the principle of a Park and Ride facility and its proposed location.

The proposed development will have 650 car parking spaces and will be accessible via a new roundabout built on Hull Road.

Find the documentation relating to the Planning Application (which includes transport, habitat and flood impact assessments on the East Riding Council’s Public Access planning website (Planning Reference 09/05083/STOUT).

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