Boscombe multi-agency public drop in at:

Boscombe multi-agency public drop in at:

Boscombe Crescent

Tuesday 15th of May 2007
4pm – 6pm

Neighbourhood Wardens (Bournemouth Borough Council), PCSO’s (Dorset Police), and Neighbourhood Management will be present to listen to your concerns, help you to report issues and provide advice.

Dorset Fire Service will also be present offering FREE home safety checks, FREE smoke detectors and installation and FREE replacement multi sockets.

Contact:

Hannah Beech (Neighbourhood Warden):
01202 394431

Christine Rowley (Neighbourhood Management):
01202 458970



WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU

Planning appeal - San Remo Towers

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT, 1990
APPELLANT: San Remo Towers Ltd
APPEAL SITE: San Remo Towers, Sea Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Bh5 1JT
REF: APP/G1250/A/07/2042868/NWF
if you have any opinions on the proposed development which you wish the Inspector to take into account in determining the appeal, you can either submit three sets of them in writing to: The Planning Inspectorate, Room 3/19a, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6PN quoting reference number APP/G1250/A/07/2042868/NWF or submit your comments through the online appeals service www.planningportal.gov.uk/pcs. You must ensure that any representations you wish to make regarding this appeal are received by them no later than 31 May 2007.

Planning Applications for Boscombe West Registered Between 03/05/07 and 09/05/07

09/05/2007 7-2007-1268-K
559 Christchurch Road Formation of replacement door to rear Nationwide Property Services BW SBG 03/06/2007
elevation of building society and installation of air conditioning units

Details of these planning applications will be posted soon on www.ukplanning.com; go to http://tinyurl.com/2m2x8q and click 'search applications' on the left, and search using the planning code (eg 7-2006-5195-F)

Bournemouth Bus Patronage

year 2006-7 showed a very impressive, over 16% increase in bus patronage. The 2005-6 figure was 11,051,826, 2006-7 is 13,351,645.

Boscombe Gardens Water Park

My children love the new park in Boscombe Chine Gardens. It uses water which they can pump from the natural spring, then they can channel it around the park or block it then let it all go at once.

New website for food co-op

The food co-op has just launched a website. We knocked it up over the weekend and its a bit basic. spellings and other corrections or comments can be made to me when I'm in the mood for hearing them. otherwise it might be best to just wait and see if they go away.

Bournemouth people use busses more!

Im a big fan of walking, cycling and public transport, so I am pretty amazed to hear that the year 2006-7 showed a very impressive, over 16% increase in bus patronage. The 2005-6 figure was 11,051,826, 2006-7 is 13,351,645.
I havent got a picture of me using a bus, but I have this one of me on the train to london with my Mum, I prefer the train as you can talk, have coffee and you don't need to concentrate!

Teleproblems

I have had very little broadband use over the past few weeks due to NTL not fixing the line. So I was really excited to find out that a phoneline/broadband was on its way for the shop. This time BT..... so , they came out to install the line, but when they got to install it they sais that there was no lines to the building..... Then we found a socket.... so they came back.... and at last, the Boscombe Wholefood Co-operative has a phoneline. Its 01202 391228!

Who's worse - NTL or BT?

Boscombe's new library

This morning saw the opening of the new Boscombe library & I went along with Isaac, to see what it has to offer. The building is modern, with lots of cederwood facias which look very modern, the library is on the ground floor, with part of the floor space below ground level, and some on a mezzanine level creating two floors in part of the library. It was lovely to see Melanie, the customer contact officer, who we have got to know well as she has been working from the Neighbourhood Management offices for the past months.

The library has been built together with housing in tthe form of one and two bedroom flats which are modern and all have balconies. many of the flats overlook a flat roof, and this has been planted as a 'living roof' , see my little vid...........

postcard

How you can get involved during National Breastfeeding Week and the official launch of the Breastfeeding Manifesto.

This year National Breastfeeding Week falls between 13-19th May and is a great opportunity for you and your friends to get involved in the Breastfeeding Manifesto Campaign and help raise awareness of the Manifesto’s key principles, and objectives.

The Breastfeeding Manifesto is about changing the UK for the long-term. We look forward to a society where:

• Women feel enabled to initiate and continue breastfeeding for as long as they wish.
• Parents are supported to make informed choices about feeding their babies.
• Everyone is aware of the significant benefits of breastfeeding.

Our focus throughout National Breastfeeding Week will be on Government and Parliament – trying to get as many MPs as possible to back the Manifesto and then implement the seven steps we are proposing to raise our unacceptably low levels of breastfeeding. The key to this action is our postcard campaign

Participating in the postcard campaign is easy! All you need to do is print out the postcard from the website, address it, stamp it and mail it! Simple!

Just visit: www.breastfeedingmanifesto.org.uk/doc/Lobby_postcard_digital.pdf or double click it here
to download your copy of the postcard.

Local Election

I am so pleased and proud to have been voted in as a councillor for the Boscombe West Ward. I love Boscombe and enjoy living here. I look forward to meeting a lot more residents, and the challenges I am sure the role will bring. I didn't do it on my own, I had massive amounts of help from Ben and Rob, who did loads of deliveries, and the Bournemouth team who also put in a lot of work.

Launch of Binit! campaign

When I had my first baby I went along to the ante-natal classes and met other women, we talked about feeding babies, everyone wanted to breastfeed,- if they could- bar one, and everything seemed ok. We had a session with a really nice nurse from SMA, she showed us how to make up feeds, and we got to hold the bottles and to talk about teats and sterilisers- just in case breastfeeding didn't work. we had a talk from the health visitor about breastfeeding, that wasn't as memorable. We had lots of information about feeding babies at the clinic. there was a balance between breastfeeding and formula feeding materials, they were all produced by formula companies.

Afew weeks later it was time for weaning. The health visitor gave me a pile of leaflets, plus I had received lots of information from the hospital. Almost every peice of information that I received about feeding my baby was produced by a formula milk company. There was other stuff, the mugs we had coffee in at the under ones group, the wheels used to work out how old the baby was, the pens, the post-it notes, diary covers.......

I was suprised then that of the fifteen new motherrs there was only one other who was still breastfeeding, but having learnt more about the laws on marketing formula milk and the World Health Organisation and UNICEF's attempts to stop it, I now realise that these companies use these methods for a reason. It is effective.

So, to mark the 9 years since my first letter of complaint, and the fact that we still have no policy to protect pregnant women and new mothers from commercial pressure through the healthcare system, I have started an amnesty of marketing materials.
The website is
http://www.binit.org.uk
go see.....