The Plight Of Pleasley Hill

This coming Monday we will be hosting a circus skills workshop from 1pm at Hillmoor Street Community Centre.

The workshop will be run by the joker entertainment and will last for 3 hours.

I have been trying to get leaflets produced, but unfortunately have had no luck, and now with the bank holiday weekend, I am afraid it is too late. Please let every one know and get down there for a fun day for everyone. I know I will be having some fun, it has been a long time since I had a chance to juggle with anyone!!

I recently did an interview for the Nottinghamshire Independent Media Centre, and it has just popped up on the newswire.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2010/03/448311.html

On Monday the 12^th and 26^th of April, MVMP and MDC will be hosting a workshop just before our meetings to help residents understand the planning process better. The workshops will run from 6:30 until 7:30, after which our normal meeting will start.

A new website has sprung up recently called Community Action Network. The website goes in to much detail about the reasons community action is so important, and reflects very well the motivations I had when starting this site, and my activism within the community.

The Community Action Network is a UK wide coalition of community groups, who aim to learn from each other, educate each other, and share skills and experiences for the benefit of all.  They highlight many of the issues we as communities face form our current political and social systems such as inequality, housing issues and  poverty. And like me, also believe that the solution to many of our environmental and social problems lies within communities.

The Community Action Network will be holding a meeting this Saturday in Nottingham that I intend to attend, and I would be happy to take anyone else with me who would like to go. Take a look at their site:

http://communityactionnetwork.wordpress.com/

I would just like to remind everyone of the upcoming meeting this Monday (1st March). We will not have guests in attendance, and will mostly be having an informal discussion about the future of our group and our plans and priorities for this year.

I would also like to point out that we now have a page for upcoming meeting, so if you are not sure, you know where to find out.

There was a very interesting piece on BBC One’s Inside out last night regarding the problems in Bellamy road. You can still watch it on the BBC iplayer here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r0szm#synopsis

Worth looking at with regards to the role of the Mayor.

Just a quick reminder that the next meeting is this coming Monday (15th feb). Please remind anyone else you see.

MVMP will be there to give updates on the redevelopment, and answer any questions you may have, so please come along if you have any thing to ask or input. I expect that there will most likely be some feedback from the recent workshop MVMP hosted at the Land Mark Centre.

As residents of the area are aware, in 2000 the government declaired that all social housing must meet a decent homes standard by 2010. Now here we are in 2010 still living in cold houses riddled with damp. So it might surprise some of us that a government spokesperson has today declared the project a success!

Perhaps we should invite this spokesperson to our next meeting so that he/she can explain to us exactly how the scheme is a success.

Also despite this alleged success, there are still 305,000 houses nation wide that do not meet these standards. But it’s okay, the problem will be resolved by 2018/19. NINE YEARS AFTER they were supposed to be finished. Now I don’t know about you, but in my line of work if I said that a project was going to miss it’s deadline by nine years, I don’t think I would have a job the next day!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8471597.stm

Just a quick reminder that our next meeting is on Monday (18th). Also, I have just been informed that the developer selection workshop that was supposed to be tomorrow (14th), has been postponed due to the weather, and will now be held on the 21st of January at 5pm. Please pass on this information to anyone else you can.

Sorry for the lack of updates over the last moth or so, it has been a very busy time for me with Christmas and the birth of my new son.

Firstly, MDC have a news article on their site about one of our local residents who has recently been re-homed.

http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3342

I would also Like to remind everyone about MVMP’s developer selection workshop on the 14^th of January, and our own Meeting (that will include representatives of MVMP and MDC) on the 18^th of January.