Penyffordd Community Council Meeting notes

A very constructive meeting.

Cllr Cindy Hinds in the Chair.

The new CBM Howie Williams very business like. Has had lengthy service in the Army as well as North Wales Police. Has training with firearms. He will be a good asset to the village.

Positive talk about stopping speeding in Chester Rd as well as other parts of the village.

Cllr Colin Bithell still having a little trouble with my figure of 2000 speeders a day last year but his talk is a lot more positive. He could always ask Hugh Jones of FCC who has all the data for 2 periods last year.
Cllr Bithell is coming around bit by bit.

The surveys were done over 7 and 10 days respectively. They know the exact speed of every car to within 2 mph. They hand out average's to disguise the true figures which are not good
The credit crunch has reduced speeding.


CBM Howie Williams will be getting Arrive Alive to visit Penyffordd more often

Cllr Cindy Hinds suggested extending 20 mph zone from school to past Post Office as it is the main route to school when the go ahead is given and CBM Howie Williams would support this.

CBM Howie Williams suggested extending 30 mph back up to the houses at the top of Chester Rd so drivers get more used to doing 30 mph. This an excellent suggestions.
Also traffic will not be doing 70 mph passed the houses.

Flintshire Highways man Dave Faulkner is to visit Penyffordd next week to look at various traffic issues within the village.

Cllr Tom Jones mentioned shift traffic etc and the fact we have no lolly pop lady on our route to school. A lot of movement of OAP's and children in the Chester Rd area.

Flintshire UDP Housing requirement for Penyffordd and district

White Lion a minimum of 132 houses
Wood Lane 204 houses
Dobshill was deferred

Someone opined that the increase of the village will be to the tune of 30% or even more.

Cllr Jane Hopwood asked whether the schools would be able to deal with the influx of children.
Cllr Cindy Hinds opined that it would help to keep the schools open.

Penyffordd and Penymynydd are going to enter FCC Environmental Competition. So I will have to cut hedge and paint house.

Cllr David Williams is having a little trouble with the new village website.................
I did offer to do one free that could be up and running in 20 minutes. It would be able to have content added on a daily basis by councillors as it ss so easy to use.
I would give free technical backup.

Instead he goes for one that requires html programming or some other fancy language.
The site attracts yearly fees for the web address. The person doing it for him is doing it as a favour. Its got everything going against it.

Not good judgement David. You criticise me for doing nothing for the village then when I offer you ignore me

Cllr Linda Vidamour is going to do a Summer News Letter for the village.

If email addresses were harvested through out the Penyffordd district printing costs could be cut down as newsletters could be sent over the net. The effort to send news letters is minimal when it is set up and is free.