The Blue verticle mark is just below The Institute
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Unofficial - A Personal View
Monday, July 16, 2007
Penyffordd Village from Hope Mountain_2
Penyffordd By - Pass can be seen on the left, Chester Rd to the right.
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Penyffordd Village from Hope Mountain
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A Photo of Castle Cement from Hope Mountain
CLICK IMAGECastle Cement taken from Hope Mountain.
The smoke in the back ground is coming from Corus in Shotton.
At the time the picture was taken there were no emissions coming from the stack.
The EU, Welsh Assembly Government, Heidleberg and Flintshire County Council want (need) Castle Cement's ability to burn waste. I think there are plans afoot to burn domestic waste. I intend to do a survey and article on industrial incinerators. I seem to remember that Castle's facility runs under less strict rules with regards to emissions.
Broughton and Bretton Community Council Website
Click here
Councilor Colin Bithell mentioned this site last Wednesday at the Penyffordd Community Council meeting but its taken a few days to find it as Google has strange rules about new sites due to "black hat techniques" by website designers. The website gets put into a "sandbox". Unless you have highly popular sites linking to you it takes a while to be indexed. One way I think may help is using a blog owned by Google such as this one.
This is the way Penyffordd Community Council should be going. Using Blogger simplifies the process very much although less sophisticated than Broughton's site.
Broughton's site requires a knowledge of html language and costs money to run and host (I think)
Blogger requires no knowledge of html and is FREE.
Councilor Colin Bithell mentioned this site last Wednesday at the Penyffordd Community Council meeting but its taken a few days to find it as Google has strange rules about new sites due to "black hat techniques" by website designers. The website gets put into a "sandbox". Unless you have highly popular sites linking to you it takes a while to be indexed. One way I think may help is using a blog owned by Google such as this one.
This is the way Penyffordd Community Council should be going. Using Blogger simplifies the process very much although less sophisticated than Broughton's site.
Broughton's site requires a knowledge of html language and costs money to run and host (I think)
Blogger requires no knowledge of html and is FREE.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Our new Beat Manager PC Chris Pullen
Is now fully on the case for Penyffordd and district. I've spoken to Chris this afternoon. North Wales Police are giving him his own blog and website (I think). Also access to The Internet which up to now has been restricted to email.
Policing has come a long way from early last century where the Police looked after the well off, keeping the working man down.
It's now a partnership between the Community and the Police. We work together to eliminate crime and antisocial behaviour. Its not about snitching on people, its about the Community being the eyes and the ears for the Beat Manager. Stamping down on elements in the village that are not wanted or required in a civilized society.
Policing has come a long way from early last century where the Police looked after the well off, keeping the working man down.
It's now a partnership between the Community and the Police. We work together to eliminate crime and antisocial behaviour. Its not about snitching on people, its about the Community being the eyes and the ears for the Beat Manager. Stamping down on elements in the village that are not wanted or required in a civilized society.
A Warning at about Speeding in Chester Road.
I've been wanting to say this for a while. :)
It's not a very good idea from now on to speed past my house.
kindest regards
It's not a very good idea from now on to speed past my house.
kindest regards
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Padeswood Road is closed
because they are doing drainage work for about 3 weeks. There is a diversion via Buckley. So Mold is either via Pontblyddyn (spelling) or Buckley.
An Email to Mark Tami MP about Traffic Calming
Dear Mark
It was good to meet you in person at your surgery in the Penyffordd Institute.
There was a Penyffordd Community Meeting last Wednesday where I was expecting a progress report about how far Flintshire Highways have got and what they are going to give us with regards to Traffic Calming for Chester Rd, Penyffordd. Nothing specific was confirmed or when.
My councilors are currently myopic with Castle Cement. As I have said elsewhere speeding cars kill you a lot quicker than the alleged pollution of Castle Cement. We have 2000 speeding cars a day past my house which is in the middle of the village. We are also on the Route to School.
Will you contact Flintshire Highways and find out what is happening and when?
Also according to Arrive Alive's website we should have their signs at the boundaries of our village to warn drivers that we are on the Arrive Alive list of places visited. These signs are a slight deterent in themselves. Click here.
Their temporary signs are of little use as they guarantee Arrive Alive presence. The proper road signs are a deterence.
Also the Arrive Alive van is so rare a sighting that I think it has become extinct.
A couple of sessions in quick sequence at Terrace Lane would be highly effective as they cannot start to accelerate until they see that the van is not there. The entrance to Mr Knight's field has limestone chippings underneath. Mr Knight is currently being detained at her Majesty's pleasure.
Will you contact Arrive Alive for myself and Chester Rd?
Also the large blue sign saying Police Speed Check Area (Click here) at the entrance to Chester Rd 30 mph zone would be very effective.
regards Colin
It was good to meet you in person at your surgery in the Penyffordd Institute.
There was a Penyffordd Community Meeting last Wednesday where I was expecting a progress report about how far Flintshire Highways have got and what they are going to give us with regards to Traffic Calming for Chester Rd, Penyffordd. Nothing specific was confirmed or when.
My councilors are currently myopic with Castle Cement. As I have said elsewhere speeding cars kill you a lot quicker than the alleged pollution of Castle Cement. We have 2000 speeding cars a day past my house which is in the middle of the village. We are also on the Route to School.
Will you contact Flintshire Highways and find out what is happening and when?
Also according to Arrive Alive's website we should have their signs at the boundaries of our village to warn drivers that we are on the Arrive Alive list of places visited. These signs are a slight deterent in themselves. Click here.
Their temporary signs are of little use as they guarantee Arrive Alive presence. The proper road signs are a deterence.
Also the Arrive Alive van is so rare a sighting that I think it has become extinct.
A couple of sessions in quick sequence at Terrace Lane would be highly effective as they cannot start to accelerate until they see that the van is not there. The entrance to Mr Knight's field has limestone chippings underneath. Mr Knight is currently being detained at her Majesty's pleasure.
Will you contact Arrive Alive for myself and Chester Rd?
Also the large blue sign saying Police Speed Check Area (Click here) at the entrance to Chester Rd 30 mph zone would be very effective.
regards Colin
Here's what you call Broadband
Whilst I hobble along on about half a meg which gets knocked off everytime someone phones us up, I see progress has been made in Sweden.
Click here.
Click here.
A 75-year-old Swedish woman currently has the fastest broadband connection in the world.
Sigbritt Löthberg, from Karlstad in central Sweden, enjoys a massive 40Gbps connection - many thousand times faster than the average connection speed delivered to homes. It's the first time such a high speed as ever been delivered to a home user anywhere in the world.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Castle Cement
Perhaps Castle Cement would gain more acceptance within the village if their top management moved into the middle of the village with their families. I'm sure we would all feel a lot safer. Well, that is those of us who feel concerned.
Weight Restriction A525 St Asaph
Whilst in St asaph today Lisa spotted this. Weight restriction on a trunk road. Just like the one Chester Rd , Penyffordd needs Charles. (Flintshire Highways)Cindy Hinds CC has sent a letter to Gerwyn Powell.
Mark Tami MP and Carl Sargeant AM Penyffordd Surgery
A short walk across the road just after 2.00pm. Don't want to be seen as too keen turning up at 1.55pm. I meet Cindy Hinds CC on the way in. Mark and Carl follow in shortly followed by Ken Skates.
I'm in first because I've turned up first. A general chat about where we are with regards to traffic calming for Chester Rd, Penyffordd. I realise that nothing is going to happen about traffic this week. I just went across to say hello.
Talk to Cindy and Dennis Parry outside. I have said to all that we should back Cindy's letter to Flintshire Highways.
I'm in first because I've turned up first. A general chat about where we are with regards to traffic calming for Chester Rd, Penyffordd. I realise that nothing is going to happen about traffic this week. I just went across to say hello.
Talk to Cindy and Dennis Parry outside. I have said to all that we should back Cindy's letter to Flintshire Highways.
A Petition to stop the Postcard to Wales Icon
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PostcardtoWales/
Objectors launched a petition on the Downing Street website, claiming the 36m (118ft) tall and 76m (249ft) wide design was "hideous".
To cost £18 million pounds.
Spare a minute or two to object if you feel it is a waste of Lottery money.
This art project is to cost an indecent amount of money (£18 m) and was very poorly advertised in giving people the chance to object. The majority of people on Deeside do not want this hideous 'art' to be built in our area- at least those that knew about it. We have several long standing icons to welcome visitors to Wales; such as the Blue River Dee Bridge which was constructed at the beginning of the last century and is very well loved. Please don't spoil our area??!! We are already having to contend with the so called improvements to the motorway system which is destroying our countryside!!
Objectors launched a petition on the Downing Street website, claiming the 36m (118ft) tall and 76m (249ft) wide design was "hideous".
To cost £18 million pounds.
Spare a minute or two to object if you feel it is a waste of Lottery money.
This art project is to cost an indecent amount of money (£18 m) and was very poorly advertised in giving people the chance to object. The majority of people on Deeside do not want this hideous 'art' to be built in our area- at least those that knew about it. We have several long standing icons to welcome visitors to Wales; such as the Blue River Dee Bridge which was constructed at the beginning of the last century and is very well loved. Please don't spoil our area??!! We are already having to contend with the so called improvements to the motorway system which is destroying our countryside!!
A further Letter to Councilor Tony Sharps
Tony Sharps CC
Northop Hall
cc Mark Tami MP, Carl Sargeant AM
Dear Tony,
I forgot to mention the Welsh Assembly's "road network improvements"
With ex Flintshire Leader Alex Aldridge saying yesterday in The Evening Leader that although he had immense sympathy for the plight of people living near the A494, the people of Flint didn't want the A494 problem off loaded on to them. If the A494 development goes ahead I have read that Northop Hall will suffer similar problems to Penyffordd when the A55 exit at Warren Hall goes ahead.
Many millions of pounds are being spent to shave minutes off journeys with the result that small villages like Penyffordd and Northop Hall are left to the mercy of ever increasing speeding traffic whose drivers do not even live in the villages.
The Welsh Assembly need to account for the effects their grandiose schemes have on local villages and factor in money to protect Welsh rural villages from unwanted speeding traffic.
The legislation is there in The Welsh Government Act 2006.
Instead of leaving Community Council's with little money to pick up the bill for a problem not of their making.
regards Colin Hughes
ps If you want to see a good example of a trunk road that used to be the main road and now has a by-pass visit Rossett. A 20 mph compulsory zone in the middle of the village with a set of bumps that wreck the car if driven over at speed.
Northop Hall
cc Mark Tami MP, Carl Sargeant AM
Dear Tony,
I forgot to mention the Welsh Assembly's "road network improvements"
With ex Flintshire Leader Alex Aldridge saying yesterday in The Evening Leader that although he had immense sympathy for the plight of people living near the A494, the people of Flint didn't want the A494 problem off loaded on to them. If the A494 development goes ahead I have read that Northop Hall will suffer similar problems to Penyffordd when the A55 exit at Warren Hall goes ahead.
Many millions of pounds are being spent to shave minutes off journeys with the result that small villages like Penyffordd and Northop Hall are left to the mercy of ever increasing speeding traffic whose drivers do not even live in the villages.
The Welsh Assembly need to account for the effects their grandiose schemes have on local villages and factor in money to protect Welsh rural villages from unwanted speeding traffic.
The legislation is there in The Welsh Government Act 2006.
Instead of leaving Community Council's with little money to pick up the bill for a problem not of their making.
regards Colin Hughes
ps If you want to see a good example of a trunk road that used to be the main road and now has a by-pass visit Rossett. A 20 mph compulsory zone in the middle of the village with a set of bumps that wreck the car if driven over at speed.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
The Mark and Carl Show
Our AM and MP will be at The Institute between 2.00 and 3.00 pm Friday 13th for some surgery.
They will not be wielding scalpels I'm assured
I will be going across the road to say hello.
They will not be wielding scalpels I'm assured
I will be going across the road to say hello.
A letter to Tony Sharps about Traffic Calming
Councilor Tony Sharps
Northop Hall
Dear Tony,
I read in this evening's Evening Leader that the bumps in Northop Hall are not high enough. Motorists complain about traffic calming methods but they won't slow down so we have to have traffic calming methods. They cannot see that they are a danger to children, pedestrians and horses.
I see you are getting fed up with meaningless correspondence with Flintshire Highways. With your pedigree and length of service as a Councilor you seem to be struggling with Highways, I can see why my crusade against speeding in Chester Rd, Penyffordd feels somewhat "against the wind"
The most effective method of traffic calming are platforms. Raised 5" for may be 2,3 or 4 yards length of road all the way across in a series, they are installed in most modern housing estates especially outside Flintshire. The angle of entry to the platform governs how fast a vehicle can go over the platform. The more steeper the angle the slower vehicles have to go. Flintshire Highways must have specifications for this traffic calming method.
Also Northop Hall lends itself perfectly for the introduction of 20 mph compulsory speed limits with its narrow village centre.
Cheshire, Merseyside and Wrexham have 20 mpg compulsory zones by the hundred.
I am not aware of anywhere in Flintshire that has compulsory 20mph zones.
Chester Rd, Penyffordd a route to school needs one.
After your exposure in The Evening Leader today there is a chance that other representatives of villages in Flintshire will communicate with you over their frustrations with Flintshire Highways. Penyffordd's representatives Colin Bithell and David Williams I am sure would welcome discussion's to persuade Flintshire County Council that their current attempts at traffic calming are moribund and that they need to up their game.
regards Colin Hughes
http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/
PostScript: I see you still have some influence as you have Dave Falkner (Acting Director for Environment and Regeneration) coming down for a site meeting.
Dave gave Penyffordd the brush off but Flint gets whatever it wants....................................
Northop Hall
Dear Tony,
I read in this evening's Evening Leader that the bumps in Northop Hall are not high enough. Motorists complain about traffic calming methods but they won't slow down so we have to have traffic calming methods. They cannot see that they are a danger to children, pedestrians and horses.
I see you are getting fed up with meaningless correspondence with Flintshire Highways. With your pedigree and length of service as a Councilor you seem to be struggling with Highways, I can see why my crusade against speeding in Chester Rd, Penyffordd feels somewhat "against the wind"
The most effective method of traffic calming are platforms. Raised 5" for may be 2,3 or 4 yards length of road all the way across in a series, they are installed in most modern housing estates especially outside Flintshire. The angle of entry to the platform governs how fast a vehicle can go over the platform. The more steeper the angle the slower vehicles have to go. Flintshire Highways must have specifications for this traffic calming method.
Also Northop Hall lends itself perfectly for the introduction of 20 mph compulsory speed limits with its narrow village centre.
Cheshire, Merseyside and Wrexham have 20 mpg compulsory zones by the hundred.
I am not aware of anywhere in Flintshire that has compulsory 20mph zones.
Chester Rd, Penyffordd a route to school needs one.
After your exposure in The Evening Leader today there is a chance that other representatives of villages in Flintshire will communicate with you over their frustrations with Flintshire Highways. Penyffordd's representatives Colin Bithell and David Williams I am sure would welcome discussion's to persuade Flintshire County Council that their current attempts at traffic calming are moribund and that they need to up their game.
regards Colin Hughes
http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/
PostScript: I see you still have some influence as you have Dave Falkner (Acting Director for Environment and Regeneration) coming down for a site meeting.
Dave gave Penyffordd the brush off but Flint gets whatever it wants....................................
Cindy Hinds writes to Flintshire Highways about a Weight Limit for Penyffordd
Cindy Hinds one of our Community Councilors has written to Gerwyn Powell of Flintshire Highways with regards to a weight restriction for the village. In the past Highways have dismissed this idea as unenforceable.
It is enforceable. Highways put the signs up and we (us villagers) report any lorries to the Police.
I am personally quite happy to stand there taking video until it stops. ( I have a few credits for work done so I can have time off :) )
I think our County Councilors and Community Council should back Cindy in what is a very good move to keep Penyffordd a rural village and not a rat run for passing traffic.
It is enforceable. Highways put the signs up and we (us villagers) report any lorries to the Police.
I am personally quite happy to stand there taking video until it stops. ( I have a few credits for work done so I can have time off :) )
I think our County Councilors and Community Council should back Cindy in what is a very good move to keep Penyffordd a rural village and not a rat run for passing traffic.
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