Penyffordd Community Planning Competition

Use this map or google maps to come up with a land plan that does not include the destruction of homes or jobs.

You can email copies to me at tresmegistes@gmail.com

You can do it anonymously if you make a new email account up using hotmail or gmail.

It took me 5 minutes to remove £1 million pounds of compensation from the current land plans.

The current use of land mentioned on the FCC map is wrong. It is not agricultural it's residential, commercial and agriculture

Friday Night with Taylor

Penyffordd Councillors voted for ripping the heart out of the village.

Clarification http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/millstone-pub-clarification.html

April Community Council LDP Special Minutes -

Pen041
Land rear of Millstone Park,
Pyf - Agricultural - School - No objections ---------------- 

So the Penyffordd Community Council were for the new school with a sacrifice of residents homes, allotments, a thriving pub business, people's jobs.

Will someone tell me I have this wrong? Since there were no objections one presumes all ( edit - see list below) councillors were for this vandalism.

http://penyfforddareacc.com/images/Daves_Files/Meeting_Minutes_/Special_LDP_Minutes_15th_April_2015.pdf

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Present: Cllr Mrs E Davies - Chair, Cllrs, Mr S Davies, Mr D Williams, Dr DC Weed, Ms C Hinds, Mr T Jones OBE, Mr D Walker -  In attendance: Mrs S Hughes, Clerk & RFO to the Council

Apologies were received from Cllrs: Mrs L Vidamour, Mr C Bithell & Mrs H Jones.  

Millstone Pub Area Site - New Primary School

An email to Flintshire County Council

Hi FCC,

I wish to have details of the candidate site surrounding the Millstone Pub
which I have been told has been earmarked for a new primary school.

1. Is the earmarked development for a primary school on the area including the Millstone definite?

2. Will you supply plans for the proposed Primary School?

3. Have any Penyffordd representatives been involved in the above proposal, if so who?

Many thanks

Colin Hughes ( address redacted)

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Dear Mr Hughes

Thank you for your email regarding candidate sites. Explanatory information about what candidate sites are, as well as the complete register of sites (including maps) is available on the Council's website. However, given you specific query I have attached a pdf plan of the site you refer to.

I also need to clarify what seems to be your impression that candidate sites have been proposed by the Council - they are not. The Council made a 'call for sites' last year allowing anyone with an interest in requesting land for consideration as part of the LDP process, to make a representation. These sites simply represents people's aspirations therefore, and there is no weight or certainty assigned to them at this stage by the Council. Indeed they are going through an assessment exercise at present.

It would also have been useful to have know from whom you received the information as again you have been misled into thinking that the Council has plans for a school on this site - it has not.

A candidate site was received for the land as you say surrounding the Millstone pub and as shown on the attached plan, with a request that it be considered as a site for a new school. As I say this is just the expressed aspiration of the representee and is not a Council proposal. Unfortunately due to data protection rules I cannot disclose who made the representation to you. However, I can say that I have been made aware this week the the representee has submitted this land in error, and I am currently awaiting formal notice from them of their intention to withdraw the candidate site. When they do so, the Council will not consider this site any further.

I hope that I have answered your query.

Name ( redacted )

Planning Strategy Officer
Flintshire County Council

Further Information & Contacts For further assistance on the Candidate Sites process or the LDP in general please email developmentplans@flintshire.gov.uk or contact the LDP helpline on 01352 703213

Cloudy Water

Penyffordd and Penymynydd are going to have cloudy water.

A maintenance procedure is to be carried out

Between June 12th and June 22nd.

Starting at 11.00 pm and finishing 7.00 am next morning.

Run taps for 20 mins to clear

If further problems contact www.deevalleywater.co.uk

Penyffordd Development Plan - Ripping the Heart out of the Village?

The following comment has been repeated on this blog

" nothing about the county development plan and all the proposed development sites....which are now confirmed as going in to the county plan and that does mean compulsory purchase of the Mill Stone, the Caravan park, the removal of the allotments and play area to make way for a new single site school.....the plans have now been seen by our county councillors.........where is the debate and public consultation????? "

Penyffordd Community Council meeting tonight

Of interest.

The proposed closing of Hope Recycle Centre.

Marks and Spencer spending money in the village.

Also Community Asset Transfers ( read higher council rates ).

Margaret Astbury - Funeral

Recent House Sales

Wentworth Bannel Lane £340,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0EP 13th April 2015

Laburnum Cottage Penymynydd Road £300,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0LJ 2nd April 2015

OurProperty.co.uk

Hope Medical Centre’s co-founder dies at the age of 91

Hope Medical Centre is used by Penyffordd residents.

Link http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/148855/hope-medical-centre-s-co-founder-dies-at-the-age-of-91.aspx

Penyffordd Carnival 2015

A small amount of stalls are still available at the Penyffordd and Penymynydd Carnival this year - Sat 20th June - (this info may be a little dated)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Penyffordd-and-Penymynydd-Carnival/557242904359323

Computers

Penyffordd Scouts 50th

Gladstone campsite is on the Broughton to Hawarden road on the left just past the roundabout at Manor Lane.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Gladstone+Scout+Campsite/@53.173723,-3.002518,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xd8d91f3315a2fb31

Friday Night II

Friday Night

Penyffordd Vets up and running

http://dalesidevets.co.uk/new-practice-in-penyffordd/

A55 / A483 Posthouse

Best kept clear of this weekend

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/a55-a483-posthouse-roundabout-close-9378196

Penyffordd Carnival 2015

Friday Night Late

Have I played this before?
They are class
Watched over 400 million times.


Lisa's picks

Go and play on the main road

We've had a bunch of noisy kids outside the house this afternoon riding over the speed bumps on Chester Rd on scooters.

I'd take a picture which is perfectly legal but flack will ensue.


Penyffordd councillors need to be aware that speeding is still happening on Chester Rd. I've seen a car do close to 50mph over the bumps
it was not a 4 x 4 either.

Yet another crash

Too fast? Definitely too close. The Highway Code some distant relic from the past

CRASH: A woman was taken to the Wrexham Maelor hospital after a five vehicle pile up on the A550 at Dobshill, Flintshire. It happened shortly before 6.25pm. 

Source Daily Post

Flintshire Local Development Plan Penyffordd Candidate Sites

Taken from FCC website

http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/en/PDFFiles/Planning/Candidate-Sites-Register-%E2%80%93-Map.pdf

Penyffordd Community Council Special meeting dated 15th April 2015

http://penyfforddareacc.com/images/Daves_Files/Meeting_Minutes_/Special_LDP_Minutes_15th_April_2015.pdf

Appendix A has the candidate sites for future housing and other uses

Here is the candidate map for Flintshire

http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/en/PDFFiles/Planning/Candidate-Sites-Register-%E2%80%93-Map.pdf

New Penyffordd Primary School for the Village

I have received the following comments on another post. I know not who commented nor do I need to know. The question is are these comments accurate?

Comment 1

"You might want to start asking questions about the plans for the new primary school in the village. Following the merger of the infants and juniors, a plan is in place to merge them on one site.....taking over the community garden, play area, children's park, allotments, caravan park and ....Millstone...all by compulsory purchase.

And our community councillors know about...as do our county councillors.....so the council get to sell off two existing school sites, for housing no doubt, more greedy developers, rob the village of more community amenities and don't give the proverbial for what they are doing to our village"


Comment 2

"I've heard the same...outline planning permission to be put in soon, but the headmistress at the school has the plans!

The amount of money invested in the Millstone...people prepared to invest in a local business and will see it all taken away...all the homes on the caravan park....the time and money put in by allotment holders....with councillor support......more children's play space taken away...more development likely.....less and less care shown by our civil representatives....just look at how the voted for the new incinerator....how may councillors were missing from the vote....dereliction of duty...can't be bothered to turn up......or just pretend it isn't happening so i don't get tarred with voting for it"

Red Arrows, Spitfire, Queen Mary 2 etc - The Full Hit

https://twitter.com/DeesideDotCom

Fancy That

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/jail-flintshire-fugitive-who-evaded-9314512

The Red Arrows over Penyffordd

The Red Arrows flew in formation over Penyffordd at 12.30 today.

Also between 3 and 4 pm

Makes me proud to be British.

There were other flyovers including a puff of smoke from one.

A salute to Penyffordd?

Here's a couple of videos taken.

Penyffordd Meditation

Not something I thought I would write about regards Penyffordd. In my youth I learnt Transcendental Meditation and later practiced Hatha Yoga which included two one week retreats on the Island of Bardsey.

The above group's website is here http://earthstar108.co.uk/index.html

Details of the Penyffordd meetings here ( Youth club opposite children's play area )

http://earthstar108.co.uk/Meditation%20and%20Healing%20Group.html

Penyffordd Health

My recent blood pressure check brought up 160 / 90. Those in the know will realise this is not good.

We have our own meter which was dug out of stores.

My last reading was in the 138 / 88 range

I give you the humble beetroot

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/beet-your-way-back-healthier-body-2

http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/Thebasics/Bloodpressurechart

postscript: as with all stuff there are drawbacks in this case, oxalates.....................

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=48

Further postscript: Tesco sell beetroot juice £3 a litre, it tastes not unlike Ribena
but without all the sugar or sweeteners.
This is the stuff.
http://beet-it.com/research/published.php

Clearing the shed out

What would you do if you found a hand grenade in the shed?
Would you leave it there and call the authorities?
Take it down the bobby shop?

I suppose there is chance of the bomb squad blowing your shed up in one of those controlled explosions.....

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/hand-grenade-handed-abergele-police-9307211

Holiday Nostalgia

When I was but a lad holidays consisted of the annual church day trip to Rhyl with a once in 4 year day out to Southport outside swimming pool.

Here's Rhyl a few years ago.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/nostalgia/look-nostalgic-pictures-show-iconic-9235500

The Big Breakfast

is today. Where the good people of Penyffordd help fund projects within the village.  The Big Breakfast is going on at the Institute.

Things UK Political

If you have an interest in the British / EU political future you might wish to wade through that which is below.
Slog's advantage is that he doesn't have to tow the line to anyone.

https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/analysis-the-real-reason-why-cameron-wants-to-keep-scotland-inside-the-uk-and-why-his-plans-will-backfire/

Penyffordd Comunity Council Meeting May 2015

PENYFFORDD COMMUNITY COUNCIL ORDINARY MEETING

13th MAY 2015

A G E N D A

1. Apologies
2. Declaration of Interest – Members Code of Conduct To receive any declarations of interest from Members.
3. Minutes of the meeting held on 1st April and 15th April 2015 To receive and confirm as a correct record and then authorise the Minutes.

4. Matters arising Minute 174 – The Clerk to report of the progress of street lighting.
5. Community Asset Transfers - To review the CAT’s and consider the advice received from John Gray, FLVC.
6. Playing Fields Working Group - To receive an update in respect of the Cory Trust grant application.

7. Best Kept Communities Competition -To review the application locations.
8. Police Report - PCSO Mat Gordon to provide a report.
9. Review of the Council’s Website - To discuss the progress of the website designers.
10. Planning Applications To review and consider planning applications received (none received to date).

11. Notification of Planning Decision - To note planning decisions made by Flintshire County Council (none received to date).
12. Correspondence
13. Any Other Business

It's Friday

Apologies I've played this before.

Apols to those that it has meaning.....................

Beluga News

Apparently the Beluga was taking off from Broughton the other morning when it had to slam on the anchors mid runway take off.

In front of the plane was a cyclist taking a short cut across the runway on his way to the chicken factory in Sandycroft.........................

Property for sale

Property for sale
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Hawarden Road
£132,500
4 bed Semi-D

Well House Drive
£159,000
3 bed Semi-D


Vounog Hill
£140,000
4 bed Semi-D

Rhos Road
£119,000
2 bed Semi-D

An apology to Penyffordd Community Council

The other day I was suggesting that council was rewarding shoddy work.

I talk pants.

The opposite is in fact the case.

Contractors have carried out work around the clock tower.
Councillors are not happy with work standard in part.
Part payment has been paid, further payment will have been paid
subject to a site meeting with contractor with remedial work agreed
and carried out to council satisfaction..

Many thanks to Clerk Sarah for bring this to my attention.

link http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/council-reward-contractors-for-shoddy.html

and finally

Recent Property Sales

Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0LJEdit location 4 Fammau View Drive £112,500 Penyffordd, CH4 0JQ 20th March 2015 3 The Forge £204,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0GX 2nd February 2015 Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0HPEdit location 12 Abbotts Lane £193,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0HW 18th February 2015 You can search all these sales totally free of charge by going toOurProperty.co.uk.

Friday Night a bit later

Friday Night a bit late

How the Battle was won

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/08/lynton-crosby-wedge-politics-general-election-tories

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/sebastian-payne/2015/05/there-was-one-pollster-who-predicted-a-conservative-victory-jim-messina/

Just so you know.

I hate what the Tories, Labour and the unelected EU have done to this country, economically and socially

Immigrants with no jobs who cost us 100's of millions, ditto those who do not want a job, the coming splitting up of the Union, the current state of the NHS, too many people here, people living here here who do not like us, red tape on business locally and nationally, the causing of millions to die siding with USA's petrol wars. ( Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria) That's the short list.

postscript: Allowing our banksters to bet billions with us picking up the tab when they failed.
Our annual interest payments (not the debt) are around a £100 billion a year.

You won't want to know what UK Ltd's exposure to derivatives are.

extra postscript: The goalposts need moving.

"The SNP has bagged 56 seats in the new Parliament, by getting 4.7% of the vote. UKIP got 1 (one) seat, as their return for polling 12.4% of the votes cast. The Liberal Democrats got 7 seats by winning 7.9% of the votes." The Slog

Spotted in Flintshire Chronicle Classifieds

I read the classifieds just in case there is something of interest. You have to read the lot as items can appear in the wrong columns. The following in Miscellaneous Sales.

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Naturist needs help... please can I walk naked in your garden?
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An email address is published.

It's yesterday's copy if of interest.

I could see a visit from the boys in blue if you are overlooked.

# notmycupoftea

More Chester Races

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3071930/Brollies-ready-Racegoers-defy-rain-pull-sartorial-stops-Ladies-Day-Chester-gets-underway.html

Council reward contractors for shoddy work?

142. Matters Arising Minute 123 – The Clerk contacted Groundwork to advise that all correspondence should now be dealt with herself. Groundwork confirmed that all outstanding work had been completed, to which the Clerk informed all Cllrs and requested them to view and advise if satisfied. However, a few days later Cllr Vidamour went to site and the concrete around the crazing paving was loose and broken. Cllr Vidamour feels that Groundwork should come and visit the site to view for themselves the poor quality of the work. It was resolved that the Clerk with request a morning site visit from Groundwork with Cllrs S Davies and Vidamour for week commencing 9 March 2015. The Chair suggested that due to the original work being completed last November and the majority of the work completed to the Council satisfaction that we offer Groundwork a part payment of £2000.00 with the remainder being paid on completion. Cllr Weed advised the Clerk to ensure that there would be no legal issues offering a part payment. It was resolved that the Clerk will contact Groundwork with the proposal of a £2000.00 payment immediately and the remainder on completion, however, if they are not happy to accept this then the full payment will be made on completion.

http://penyfforddareacc.com/images/Daves_Files/Meeting_Minutes_/Minutes_March_2015.pdf

Do I read Penyffordd Cllrs passed off work that subsequently turns out to be of poor quality?

Then gives company an extra £2000 plus more to fix it?

postscript: http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/an-apology-to-penyffordd-community.html

Chester Races, way to go

Look out for the tats.
It's getting warmer for the weekend.............honest.

Link http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3070669/Hold-hats-ladies-Breezy-blouses-drafty-dresses-galore-women-brave-elements-finery-Chester-races.html

Deliveries - The Appliance of Science

I am having a tablet computer delivered. I know the name of the driver, where the parcel is currently and when its going to be delivered within an hour window.

Yesterday is was in Tannochside
Over night its been taken to Birmingham
Then on to Wrexham for this morning


This is a long way from the primitive practices of some operators.

postscript: Delivered when promised. Courier was Interlink.
Tablet network connected, software loaded, a bit of a first, all in one day.
Bluetooth mouse on order.

Interesting Couple

This couple are something special. They are building a sail boat and have built a submarine.

keywords: plasma cutters, sheet steel, cnc machines, metal casting.

http://svseeker.com/index.htm

Tons of Youtube vids.

Much Problems Dobshill

A concrete mixer lorry went off the road lunchtime on an A55 slip road. Police had closed the roundabout. They also say Tinkersdale road is shut. This is still ongoing now gone 6.00 pm. A crane has been procured to remove mixer.

keywords: chaos

Penyffordd Wine Circle

A good turnout for a talk by Ray Jones of Chester on North Wales history. He covered our history between 2000 BC up to Henry VIII.

A most interesting talk with photographic stills which covered ancient bronze axes, the Roman, Saxon, Norman and English partial conquests of N Wales.

Also the Mold Golden Cape and mining in Flintshire.

The main thrust of his talks took in Wat's Dyke which runs close to Penyffordd and Offa's Dyke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat%27s_Dyke

Friday Night Early

Used to listen to this in The Stanney, Ellesmere Port

plus

Short Cuts

Chester Rd is currently a short cut for road workings at Posthouse A483 /A55 which is 4 miles away.
Saying that Chester Rd has always been a shortcut for the Penyffordd Bypass something I think should be prevented.

A commenter on the 2nd previous post states that Taylor Wimpey are looking to buy up property on the Towers estate to make an extra vehicular access for the estate they are building.

This is wrong. Most certainly outside the planning permission.

Estates are made cul de sacs on purpose, its good planning practice.

This is bad for the Towers estate. Some drivers disregard all safety issues whether its dashing to work or doing the school run.

If there are going to be holdups at Penyffordd Butchers planning permission in its current form should not have been granted.

Anybody's thoughts?

Millstone Refurbishment Pictures

link https://www.facebook.com/Millstone.Penyffordd?fref=ts

Community Recreational Green Space

Something Penyffordd has little of.

Higher Kinnerton have secured theirs.

http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/147292/higher-kinnerton-recreational-space-deal-is-signed-and-sealed.aspx

One wonders what's going on behind the scout hut ie. earth moving
I'm sure all will be revealed

Global Warming News

No Penyffordd news.

Chew on this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11561629/Top-scientists-start-to-examine-fiddled-global-warming-figures.html

Penyffordd Football Club Fund Raiser

https://twitter.com/penyfforddfc/status/591249531435675648

Election News - Everything is Rosy

lastfreeman • 20 hours ago


1. National debt 4 times higher than 15 years ago. Even at low interest rates the payment is higher (much) than the defence budget. The annual Gov deficit still £90 billion.
2. Individual debt as high as Portugal's.
3. Individual savings including pensions, destroyed by 6 years+ of 0.5% base rate.
4. Unlimited immigration overwhelming housing, schools, health & transport.
5.Transport & energy infrastructure neglected.
6.Whats left of UK industry in foreign ownership.
7. A political class obsessed with gimmicks rather than boosting UK industry.
8. The 2008 Climate change Act that will cut UK emissions by 80% & shut British industry, with the jobs going to higher polluting China.
9. A political obsession with high foreign aid & crazy high subsidies for wind turbines.
10. Hugely expensive gold plated pensions for the high ups in the public sector.
11. A housing price bubble stoked by help to buy.

Link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11552693/Why-the-British-have-no-reason-to-be-negative-about-the-UK-economy.html

How to become a Billionaire

No news day in Penyffordd. Its sunny and the morning speedy rush is well gone. It's like the tide, its here every workday.
Anyway Elon Musk's former wife has something to say.

"One reason they become the entrepreneurs they become is because they can't or don't or won't fit into the structures and routines of corporate life," she wrote. "They are dyslexic, they are autistic, they have ADD, they are square pegs in round holes, they piss people off, get into arguments, rock the boat, laugh in the face of paperwork."

link http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/21/technology/justine-musk-quora/index.html?iid=HP_LN

Justine Musk reminds me of Rachel Allen the celebrity chef.

Justine forgot one " a touch of Aspergers"

Penyffordd to have its own Vets

Work is going on opposite The Millstone on a building which is being converted into a Vets.

Link   www.dalesidevets.co.uk

A Chinese Surprise

No , not next door.
A mystery package from the postman with Chinese characters on the outside.
Its from Gary Wang of Guangzhou, Guangdong.
The package has about 30 seeds in it.
No invoice
Ordered sometime in the last month after a glass of red.
Mostly 99p wins.

After that we're guessing.
Are they tomatoes or peppers?
They're not strawberries.
A look though my Ebay purchase list.
Names of the sender and supply company can differ
Final solution, plant them in the propagator
and see what comes up.

Penyffordd Recycling Centre

We haven't got one of course.
Some would say why do we want one?

Moves are afoot to close the centre at Hope.
They want us to recycle our rubbish but they want us to travel further by car to do it, using more fuel.
The bus is out of the question of course.

I think residents should be able to swap rubbish at the tip if they choose. It's our rubbish. We should be allowed to skip dive, I'm often tempted lol.
A free mention in the local papers the outcome.

It helps to limit land fill. One person's rubbish another person's gold. It's how I make my living.

Instead recycling centres are built like prison camps with CCTV recording your every move. The council make a nice little earner on the scrap. They operate like Mafia.

For a long time now I've used Buckley Recycling Centre on the Spencer |Industrial Estate on Liverpool Rd. It can be got to via Wood Lane, Drury. It's a lot larger than Hope.

I don't recommend Saturday mornings ever.
I hate turning up with rubbish when the gates are shut and there's a queue

I think Queensferry is shut with Sandycroft being the one.
If you fancy a ride out into the country try Mold.

Aaron says closing sites will improve performance.
Aaron talks pants, he is however a very nice man.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/plan-close-hope-recycling-centre-9068801

Friday night Part II

Flintshire refuses to become North Wales' Incinerator

Well done FCC
Hope it sticks.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/deeside-incinerator-plans-rejected-flintshire-9068716

Co option of a Penyffordd Community Cllr

The council have received two applicants for the vacant position left by former Cllr Joe Bell.
The two applicants will now have been interviewed.

The position runs to the next local election in 2016.

Election News - Just fancy that !

Some of the more aware among'st you ( not me) may have spotted the Green Party election leaflet pushed through your door. The candidate Kay Roney.

Apparently The Green Party don't know their  Delyn from their Alyn and Deeside.
Last time I looked Penyffordd was in Alyn and Deeside.
Kay Roney is standing for Delyn.

To be fair Delyn also has a Penyffordd something I need to check when looking for news for the village.

Tx Gill for the heads up!

Friday Night Selection

Not recommended before bed..............

Penyffordd Pub wins award

The Millstone staff pictured in The Flintshire Chronicle have won a best new comer award 2015.
The car park at week ends shows they are very popular.

http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/pictures-winners-taste-cheshire-food-9020244

http://www.millstonepenyffordd.co.uk/

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186233-d2208034-Reviews-The_Millstone-Chester_Cheshire_England.html

Penyffordd residents complain about access to new Health Centre

Not the one in Penyffordd silly !
We haven't got one.

One of the biggest failures of Penyffordd Cllrs of various persuasions over the last 30 years is the non establishment of a permanent health centre in Penyffordd.  IMHO

I say this with 100% hindsight

The story is here

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/146684/call-to-help-residents-get-to-new-medical-centre-in-buckley.aspx


I recently had to go for a 3rd time to get a prescription arranged. (not the above centre, the one across the road)
It had gone through my mind, the messing around if I did not have the use of a car.

A complaint to Betty (BCUHB) did not go down too well with office manager......

Recent Property Sales

Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0LS Edit location 8 Ferndale Close £150,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0NH 23rd February 2015 Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0HP Edit location Coedllai Rhos Road £130,500 Penyffordd, CH4 0JR 19th December 2014

A Day at the Races

Oh dear !

Keep a look out for Lydia ( wardrobe malfunction )

Penyffordd Temperance Society would not be amused.

I have to admire the larger ladies................

In fact I have to admire them all for taking the effort.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3033363/Let-racing-revels-begin-Racegoers-strut-stuff-finest-frocks-Ladies-Day-Aintree-gets-underway.html?ito=social-facebook

postscript

The ladies going home and some who have had fighting ale.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3034286/Falls-brawls-horseplay-Hundreds-worse-wear-women-struggle-make-journey-home-Ladies-Day-Aintree-draws-close.html?ito=social-facebook

General Election with regards Penyffordd

Here below are I hope (you need to put your post code in the box)  the candidates for Alyn and Deeside

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/general-election-2015-find-seat-9018062

For me uncontrolled immigration is a big issue.
There are too many people in this country.

There are too many people using NHS resources for free who have never
contributed to it.

Doctors queues are ridiculous.

Non Doms? Couldn't give a monkeys.

A very large prison to be built that I do not want.

Too many kids going to university building up debts.
University should not be for nearly everyone
Some courses are a joke.

Too much tax on car fuel.

The main parties take too much notice of vested interests ( lobby groups)

Windmills are a token energy solution. The electricity they produce is expensive.

Which set of jokers to vote for?

Or perhaps not bother.

Vehicle Fire

Daily Post Tweet

VEHICLE FIRE: North Wales Fire service is saying a car was deliberately set alight last night at

Pen y Ffordd, in Buckley. There is 50% damage to the car which was a VW Golf. One fire engine was sent from Buckley.


I'm sure there will be more about this in the Daily Post tomorrow.

Further
Sources say it happened about 5am and was deliberate. The car is something of a tourist attraction. It must be all over social media. One young man in a car of 4 said "Glad it wasn't mine"

On the dog walk

Less than one week old

Speed News

NWP are launching a campaign against speeding bikers in N Wales. They wish to persuade them of the folly of their actions. Public relations exercise? I think so. A proportion of bikers come to N Wales to use it as a race track. Some have illegal exhausts which NWP completely ignore. I think it was last year when up near Llandegla on the A494. I couldn't understand why the bikers behind me were observing the speed limit and the Highway Code.

It became apparent later when looking at the Daily Post. About 20 bikers had been booked for speeding. This is the only language they understand NWP.
They are a nuisance and a menace. Our politicians all hide behind the settee on this one. Not one with any back bone.

Link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-32176039

More locally.
Drivers are speeding over the speed bumps at Chester Rd a major route to school. I think some are taking them at 40mph. My wife thinks not.

The profile of the static speed bump needs altering so that speeders are stopped. I don't think this will happen until a child or lollypop is run over.

If I was in charge of the village, through HGV would be banned and the only things flying through the village would be birds

Austerity Drive for Community Council

Notices on the notice board are curling up due to damp and using one drawing pin. If you have a spare box of drawing pins please help. ( just ignore Sarah, its a low news month)

The Mountain

Not much happening Penyffordd. There has been a series on ITV about Snowdon.
Links to the series are here.

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/story/2015-02-16/the-mountain/

Local Councils in Wales are being changed. Have your say

Tell WAG your views

http://gov.wales/topics/localgovernment/councils-to-change/?lang=en

Football

Football must be by many times the most popular sport enjoyed by villagers either playing or watching.

Penyffordd Seniors play at Hanson Cement pitch in Padeswood

Penyffordd Juniors play at Leeswood.

Why is this?

Friday Night on Early Monday Morning

Flintshire County Council are hard up so we are going to have to pay more

If you look at your council tax rate schedule for the coming year you will notice the Penyffordd Community Council precept has increased by over 23%.

This sounds an awful lot. Someone I know is raising unnecessary blood pressure because of it.

Haven't got the sheet in front of me but it's about £25 for us in Band C. ( 50p a week)

Flintshire County Council and I suppose all other councils in UK are looking to make major savings
due to the greed of the banksters circa 2008.
This hangover will run for years.

Over the next 12 months organisations within the village will have the chance to take over community assets. Also Xmas street decorations, street lighting, playing areas will be transferred from county to village.

Hard times ahead unless villagers are willing to pay.

Seen Locally

Shotton is now sporting a Latvian and Russian restaurant. A Polish acquaintance says the food is good.

More Traffic News - Hope

TRAFFIC: Advance warning: Gas main work and temporary traffic lights in Hope, Flintshire, on A550 Hawarden Road around Sarn Lane.
From March 10-13.


Source Daily Post Live

This is near Red Lion, Hope. This looks like trouble for those travelling to and from Wrexham.

Penyffordd, Pontblyddyn, Caegwrle, Wrexham might be the way to go.

Traffic News

North Wales Police are holding high profile attendance in Penymynydd Rd, a major route to school. There must have been complaints of speeding over the speed bumps outside the school which has an advisory 20mph limit.

On Chester Rd, drivers are driving too slow for some. Drivers have been seen overtaking 4 cars on the bumps up towards Broughton.

Again an issue on why some drivers should have licenses.

I should point out that some drivers take the fixed speed bump at about 40mph.

The Steely Dan

Video content is not to be encouraged.

To the doctors

I have an infection in the hearing dept which won't go away. The waiting list to see any doctor is 2 weeks.

Didn't ask about the list to see a particular doctor.

Decided to rough it at the open surgery 11am to 12.
One and half hour wait for a 5 minute consultation and an antibiotic prescription.

How did we get this bad?

Congratulations to Penyffordd Community Council

After 3 years, up to date minutes and agendas are now appearing on the community council website.
Can we please get rid of the fir trees councillors?

postscript: a live link to the comedy minutes mentioned in comments.
http://penyfforddareacc.com/images/Daves_Files/Meeting_Minutes_/Minutes_January_2015.pdf

"Item 123:  The Clerk also advised the Council that the Millennium Clerk will be serviced on 15th January 2015 by Smith of Derby Ltd."

Penyfforrdd Community Councillor Vacancy

Elected Councillor Joe Bell has been disqualified because he doesn't attend council meeting. Joe has been rather unwell for some time and should not have stood at the last election. ( keywords, sour grapes )

It would be fair to say a proportion of our active electorate would vote for the village clock or a sheep if asked to do so.

That's politics for you.

Details of how to apply for the vacant position are on the Council notice board outside the post office.

Next full community council elections will be in 2016.

Airbus comes to Gladstone's Library

A photographic exhibition of De Havilland, Hawker Siddeley and Airbus comes to Gladstones Library.

Link https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/news/volume/airbus-comes-to-gladstones-library

Best Fish and Chip Shops in North Wales

As voted by Daily Post Readers.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/national-chip-week-top-10-8689055?utm_content=buffere338e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Not on the list but worthy

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g1918560-d3163485-Reviews-The_Galleon-Rhos_on_Sea_Conwy_County_North_Wales_Wales.html

and The Galleon, Conway, bottom of the High Street,
near the entrance to the sea front through the arch.
(shut out of season)


Not sure if the two are related.

Speeding

A week last Sunday I went to Northampton. I haven't been down the M6 for some years. The traffic was awful around Birmingham. A sign to me that there are too may people living in this country. The traffic horrendous.

There are now overhead gantry affairs every quarter mile around Birmingham with a speeding camera sign on them.

You ignore the speed limit at these gantries at your peril. On the other side of the gantry are a row of cameras to sense your speed. I was amazed at the number of drivers who were ignoring the speed limit. I thought they must know something I did not know. ie cameras were switch off. Silly me!

It would appear the many drivers I saw breaking speed limits will have been booked. The Treasury must be raking in money by the million.
Speed Awareness Course companies must be doing very well indeed.

An article in the ST were branding them stealth cameras. I thought this a bit silly as the speed camera sign was two foot square and reflective white. They also had a list of the top speeds for various cameras. 135, 140mph, etc.

Doing 50mph through road works with no road work being done was purgatory.

Penyffordd Lad aims for Parliament

Daily Post quote "Alasdair Ibbotson, of Penyffordd, is a politics student at Stirling University and is the youngest candidate on the ballot paper in Flintshire."

Full story here.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/penyffordd-student-hoping-elected-one-8676963

Some of Alasdair's aims hold water, some don't.

I thought the small series on Parliament currently happening on BBC2 interesting.

Wrexham Prison Survey

Glyndwr University are under taking a survey on the effects of the Wrexham Prison now being built.
Would have been nice for the WAG to carry out a survey before the decision to build the prison was made.

It was always a done deal. Democracy bypassed by Cardiff.

All those local Wrexham Borough Council members and local AM's, MP's who sat on their hands knowing this was going through should be voted against come the next elections in my view.

Make your views known.
The survey is anonymous excepting GCHQ having a look of course.
The survey in my opinion fair, you can even make comments to some sections.
It's a short survey.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wrexhamprison

The Penyffordd photos of Mel Jones

30 years gone past

This is one of the photos put on the net by Mel Jones.
There are more below.

Sports - https://www.flickr.com/photos/90385000@N02/sets/72157632107228072/
Arthur Arnold is in the one above.

Below - Local buildings including pubs long gone
Plus local people inc a councillor
https://www.flickr.com/photos/90385000@N02/sets/72157632106979854/

Houses for sale

Hawarden Road £149,950 2 bed	Poplar Court £265,000 4 bed Detached
Well House Drive £229,950 4 bed	Penymynydd Road £200,000 3 bed Semi-D

http://www.mouseprice.com/info/blog/

View more results in your area.

Work on Penyffordd Medical Centre has started.

Ah! you think where is it?
It's in Hope on the main road on the left opposite the Indian Restaurant.

You may ask why does Penyffordd not have a medical centre?
An interesting question.

Looks like we missed the boat on this one.
To be fair to our elected representatives current and past, Betsi Cadwallader seem to be a law unto themselves.

There's always the Penyffordd Pharmacy..................
Or Wrexham Maelor A&E out of hours..............if you are particularly ill.

I should point out to those new in the village that our surgeries are in Broughton, Buckley and Hope.

The Global Warming Con

I get a slight annoyance when global warming is stated as fact.

Below the excellent Christopher Booker explains the data fiddling.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html

If this interests you look here too

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/temperature-adjustments-transform-arctic-climate-history/

Pro active policing in Penyffordd

A letter pops through the door from PC Hazel Goss MBE who is a Crime Prevention Officer at County Hall, Mold.
Hazel tells me there is increased crime involving the theft of motorcycles throughout Flintshire and Wrexham.

My brother's son who lives in London parked his motorbike behind my car on a few occasions last week. We were perhaps being a little lazy and should have made sure the bike was in front of the car and not behind in view from the main road.

It was wheel locked and alarmed, perhaps this isn't enough to stop theft.

Many thanks NWP for the heads up.

Telecommunications 4G

According to a twitterer on Wrexham.com 4G is available in the Penyffordd area by EE.

We only use O2 for mobile as its the only one that works in our house. Having no mobile signal in the house a particular pain.

link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G

Recent House Sales

27 Hawarden Road £320,000 Penymynydd, CH4 0JD 13th October 2014 44 Coed Y Graig £195,000 Penymynydd, CH4 0XD 5th December 2014 Old Horse & Jockey Hawarden Road £210,000 Penymynydd, CH4 0NA 4th December 2014 12 Melwood Close £128,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0NB 7th November 2014 You can search all these sales totally free of charge by going to OurProperty.co.uk.