Penyffordd recycling

Plenty of gbh going on over the road. Angle grinding, banging, pneumatic drills, the skip full with bricks. Seems however he's had enough of the recycling crowd who scour our streets looking for scrap. I let the builder doing next door put his skip in my drive as the council charge £30 for putting it on the road. The idea being that if there was any space left in the skip I could get rid of some of mine as well as being neighbourly.

Whilst the skip was there for 2 days I had three lots of people asking if they could take a look in the skip. I recently had a dish washer to get rid of so I put it on the front path with a notice on top of it saying " please take". One of my neighbours having his kitchen done out said if someone picks mine up can they go around to his front garden, so the sign had to be amended. Both units were gone in three days, they were happy and so were we.

One of my informants tells me that when they had their new washing machine delivered they had two offers to take it away as scrap before they had chance to get it through the door.

Seems the scrap business is very keen.

Gosafe

Yesterday I went through a Gosafe camera on the A548 at Prestatyn. It's along a very wide open section of road that has no houses and is 30 mph. It's very hard to stick to 30 mph as you feel you are crawling along the road.
Which reminds me why do Penyffordd Cllrs not press for Gosafe to come to Chester Rd? We are on the list for cause for concern.

I have written them an email copied to the great and the good accusing them of epic foot dragging.

Here's a chap who made sense

Frederic Bastiat - "Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!"

Cllr Colin Bithell in the Leader ( dust levels March)

Always up for a quote on Hanson Cement
Never up for a quote against our daily rat run or speeding.

He lives in a cul de sac.
He even said he found speeding through communities at night ok.
( or words to that effect)

The Leader published my letter pointing out his hypocrisy.
He isn't standing at the next elections is he?

A new business venture

The blog has made £60. Google will be sending this after the first of May. So that's £60 for nearly 3000 blogs.........................
Still it costs nothing which cannot be said for the council website.

A walk in Llanfynydd

 

A mum to be, a Canada goose sitting on her nest.These will attack you if they have young and they feel threatened.

 

Fritillaria

Lisa's kitchen - homemade fishcakes

Chief Constable Mark Polin

I have sent an email to the CC after receiving a copy of a letter sent by a NWP divisional commander to Mark Isherwood who had made representations on my behalf and other Chester Rd users with regards speeding traffic.

I have told the CC that I am not happy with NWP management down playing speeding in Chester Rd. This is done whilst proper updated speed traffic data is not available.
This has been copied to NWPA, Mark Isherwood, Carl Sargeant, Mark Tami MP, Flintshire Council political leaders and Penyffordd Cllrs.

This is the diplomatic version.

The little flashing green light

means we have no internet.

1. Is it BT?
2. Is it the network router?
3. Is it the ADSL box?
4. Is it the Zonealarm firewall?
5. Is it the network router firewall?

Much head scratching with only a blackberry for internet help. Half a day later it turns out to be the BT ASDL box. This must be the 4th one we have had. After a 12 week mess around with an intermittent fault a spare asdl modem is now kept at all times. But where has it been stored...............?

Swapping a new box is not the end of the matter. Software says the internet is working, I can see it's not. The asdl modem needs a user name and password this has been given but still no cigar.

For some reason it finally starts working. First port of call Ebay for a new adsl modem which we win for £1.

Council Leader with attitude

in The Telegraph

Economic Recovery

Nothing happening in Penyffordd except plenty of sun and traffic it's Friday. Perhaps it's best not to pay too much attention to what's happening in the media on the recovery front.

Here's The Slog's take on why we are not going anywhere.
No need to get depressed just don't take any big bets on a recovery happening.

Penyffordd Community Council meeting

Tonight has come and gone.

Will the agenda and minutes be put on the council website?  No.......................
David complains about lack of content for the site but agenda and minutes are two items I would go to the site every month for. ( If you want to look at council minutes they are hidden in the draw near the counter in the post office, that's if someone hasn't borrowed them).

Perhaps it interfers with Cllr Tom Jones' idea that everyone should  be kept in the dark as much as possible except when he needs the votes.

Planning issues and embarrassing overspends at Flintshire County Council - Alison Halford

An insight into Shire Hall matters

Link: Alison Halford

Carl Sargeant is out canvassing in Penyffordd

I have had my say more later

Strategic voting in the Welsh Assembly Elections

Click to enlarge

keywords: Clwyd South, Clwyd West

Links

 http://oclmenai.blogspot.com/2011/03/y-drwg-efo-gwleidydda-personol.html

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/04/04/mystery-group-target-labour-vote-in-wales-91466-28453042/

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Houses for sale and rent

Discounted property for sale
Are you interested in snapping up a bargain? Below are properties for sale where the asking prices have been reduced - simply click on any property to find out more. Search for all reduced property near ch4 0ls by clicking here.

Address	Type	Beds	Price	Listed On	Reduction
West View	Detached	3	£180,000	08-05-2008	22%
Lower Mountain Road		3	£399,000	26-04-2010	5%
Little Mountain Road	Detached	4	£275,000	20-07-2010	5%
Chester Road	Detached	4	£399,950	19-01-2010	6%

Other property for sale
The list below shows what is currently on the market for sale near you. To search for more property on the market click here.

Address	Type	Beds	Price	Listed On
Hawarden Road		3	£124,950	14-03-2011
Hawarden Road	Detached	4	£300,000	18-01-2010
Well House Drive	Detached	4	£250,000	21-01-2011
Y Fedwen Arian	Detached	4	£249,999	05-11-2007
West View	Detached	3	£180,000	08-05-2008

Property for rent
The list below shows properties for rent near you - select any property for more information. To view more results in your area, click here.

Address	Type	Beds	Rent (pcm)	Listed on	Implied value*
Abbotts Lane	Detached	5	£1,395	25-01-2011	£346,200
Chester Road		3	£625	18-06-2010	£155,107
Drury Lane	Flat	2	£550	23-02-2011	£136,494

National market summary
According to newly released Land Registry data, house prices fell by 0.8 per cent in February. In addition to this, house prices have fallen by 1.7 per cent over the last 12 months. This is the largest annual fall seen since October 2009. The average property value in England and Wales is now £162,215.

The number of property transactions has decreased over the last 12 months, from an average of 65,939 sales per month in September to December 2009, to 56,257 in the same period this year.

The East had the strongest monthly growth of any of the regions in England and Wales, with a movement of 1.2 per cent. The North East saw the largest fall of -4 per cent.

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Recent house sales

5 Cromwell Close £210,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0GD 28th January 2011

69 Well House Drive £210,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0LB 15th February 2011

21 Coed Y Graig £225,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0XD 19th November 2010

23 Wats Road £80,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0HD 17th February 2011


You can search all these sales totally free of charge by going to OurProperty.co.uk.

Welsh Assembly for Wales has been dissolved

This means there will be no assembly members until elections on 05 May 2011. Will we notice the difference?

April Fool's day

No news in Penyffordd today, sorry to bore, letter to the Leader

cc Chief Constable Mark Polin, NWPA

Dear Leader,

A letter for consideration.

Next Wednesday is Penyffordd Community Council's monthly meet. It will be interesting if the predicted wanton vandalism raised on Penyffordd by the construction of A55 Warren Bank exits  by the Welsh Assembly Government and its agent Flintshire County Council will make the agenda. Main roads through Penyffordd which has a bypass are now seeing major increases in traffic volume and density and a vast increase in lorry traffic. My question to the community council is this. Are you happy that we are the biggest, fastest, most unpoliced rat run in Flintshire and if not what are you doing about it?

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd

Next week Penyffordd Community Council meeting

Will the vandalism set upon on Chester Rd and others in Penyffordd by the Welsh Assembly Government's "improvement" the Warren Bank exits A55 be discussed?
By vandalism I mean the unpoliced, increase volumes and densities of vehicles through our village including 1000's of percent rise in lorry short cuts.

keyword: Carwyn Jones AM First Minister, Carl Sargeant AM,