ALBRIGHTON & DISTRICT CIVIC SOCIETY (ADCS)
Purple4Polio
In mid-March many residents were admiring and querying the appearance of a heart shaped design of purple crocuses on the village green opposite the estate agent.
The crocuses were donated to the Civic Society by the local Rotary Club and were planted in October 2017 with the help of Civic Society volunteers including Les Sugden, Gaynor & Patrick Richards, John Foster and Chris & Mike Pitchford.
For over 30 years, Rotary and its members have been committed to fighting to eradicate polio across the world.
When a child receives their life saving polio drops on mass polio immunisation days in many countries their little finger is painted with a purple dye so it is clear they have received their life saving vaccine. The Purple4Polio initiative here in Great Britain and Ireland was designed to unite Rotary club activities engaging with local communities to help raise the vital funding needed to wipe polio off the face of the earth.
Rotary’s pledge for a polio free world was made in 1985 when there were 125 polio endemic countries and hundreds of new cases every single day. In 2017 there were only 22 cases in the entire world but as long as there is one single case anywhere children everywhere are at risk.
Thanks to Rotary, and the support of their partners WHO, Unicef, CDC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, there are now just three countries still classed as endemic: Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan. To finish the job over 2 billion doses of oral polio vaccine have to be administered each and every year in over 60 countries until the world is finally certified polio free.
Jessup Development East of Shaw As reported in the April magazine, the Application was referred back to Jessup and the Planning Officers regarding five points - the ability of the existing drainage/sewage system to cope, demand for station parking and the accessibility to the railway station, effect on the Medical Practice, explore a north/south connection to allow for vehicular access from Kingswood Road, the conditions of residency/letting at the Extra Care Home.
Malcolm Pate and Rod Smith met Planners Ian Kilby and Richard Fortune and officers from Shropshire Council Highways and Drainage Departments on 26th March to go through again the concerns of residents. They advised that the next meeting of the Planning Committee to decide on the Application is expected to be on 9th May at Shire Hall and we ask as many residents as possible to attend to show the strength of local feeling. As the Committee had visited the site at 11am we had taken video of the unsafe traffic conditions which occur between about 8.30am and 9.15am as parents bring children to school and patients, many elderly, arrive for medical appointments in Shaw Lane. They refused to allow us to show the video but will allow us to provide still photographs which have to be submitted to the Planners in advance of the meeting for them to circulate to the Committee members.
On 29th March Jessup submitted five Supplementary Planning Statements addressing the five points as above (see Applcnt 17/03774/FUL on the Shrop Council Planning Portal). A team of volunteers has been formed to review the five Statements and to prepare a response document which will include photos of the traffic and flooding. A 6th point will be included to refer to the excessive 3 storey height and size and scale of the 74 Extra Care Apartment Building. We will hold a meeting with the Medical Practice to discuss their concerns - they are expecting to prepare a written response to the Jessup Statement. Residents have drawn up a petition to support the doctor’s concern that the 74 Extra Care Apartments will seriously overload the surgery to the detriment of current patients. Volunteers are now going door to door to collect signatures to the petition which will be brought to the attention of the Planning Committee.
Club, Society and Voluntary Group Event, 14th April, Red House
By the time you read this the event will have taken place. Some 48 clubs have confirmed their attendance to provide information about their activities and encourage residents to join.
For more information please see www AlbrightonAndDistrictCivicSociety.co.uk or contact:
Peter Woodman – Chairman (T: 372225) 31/32 High St or Rod Smith - Secretary (T: 372765)