Spondon Neighbourhood Board allocated all of its remaining funding at its meeting in December 2012.
The Board allocated £1,000 to contribute to new fencing at Spondon Bowls Club. The club are working with other local sporting clubs to make their premises more secure. Spondon Board has now allocated all £16,000 funding it had available in 2012/13 to support local projects and community groups deliver the Boards priorities.
Spondon Neighbourhood Board also considered the feedback from residents who attended the Spondon forum on 28 November and came up with ideas how to improve the environment and make Spondon Cleaner and Safer. The Board has now agreed:
• how the remaining Streetpride Devolved budget for 2012/13 will be used, and:
• how it proposes to spend its Streetpride Devolved Budget funding for 2013/14.
Streetpride Devolved Budget Projects to be delivered Before April 2013
Streetpride Devolved Budget Projects to be delivered between April 2013 and March 2014:
| Work requested | Details |
| Pedestrian training for Year 2 pupils at four Spondon Primary schools Projects to encourage safety around schools and reduce car use | Respond to school priorities and issues raised at forums to make areas around schools safer |
| Speed Indicating Device (SID) installations | Respond to residents concerns in speeding 'hot spots' |
| Chapel lane/Sancroft road Dropped kerb | |
| To aid disabled, elderly, and those using push chairs | |
| Bulky waste collection service | Allocate funding to support households clear bulky waste |
| Extra Gully cleansing | To clear gullies which get blocked due to leaves, silt etc |
| Extra jitty( footway) cleansing | To clear jitties which are subject to litter and waste accumulation |
| Plant bulbs, trees, shrubs in various locations in wide highway verges and grass areas | Respond to forum feedback to improve landscape |
| Provide extra street type litter bins in areas where dog fouling and litter a problem | Reduce locations where litter and dog mess a problem |
| Recycling Education plays at Primary Schools | To engage and inform 900 school children in recycling |
| Deep Clean of various Parks | Deep clean outside edges of parks to improve appearance of open spaces |
| Provide footpath to toposcope on Dale Park | Complete the work started to create new feature on Dale park |
| Refurbish cast iron street name plates | |
| To improve visual appearance of street name plates | |
| Extra Mechanical Footway sweeping | To respond to feedback at forum meeting to keep footways clean |
| Extra Mechanical Road sweeping | To respond to feedback at forum meeting to keep highways clean |
The next Spondon Neighbourhood Forum is on Wednesday 6 March 2013 at 6.30pm at Edmund Hall, Edmund Road. You can meet the Spondon Safer Neighbourhood Team, Spondon Neighbourhood Board members and Spondon Neighbourhood Manager from 6pm. You can meet your Spondon Councillors and Derby Homes from 5.30pm before the forum meeting starts.
