The Saltaire Festival
The Saltaire Festival has begun and the weather is shining benignly upon the Village.
See the Festival website for details of what is happening each day over the coming week
Click here to view real-time comments and photographs from Festival goers on Twitter, or here for those comments using the #saltairefestival tag
A Symphony for Yorkshire
Roundabout & Roads
It’s time to have YOUR say on the proposals for Saltaire Roundabout.
Having formed many years ago to oppose plans to build a road through Roberts Park Saltaire Village Society (SVS) is keen to ensure we have sustainable traffic management appropriate to a World Heritage Site. We want to see:
o Implementation of the proposed 20 mph zone
o Finding ways to limit rat-running
o Research into management of parking by residents, rail commuters and visitors
o Greater investment in and emphasis on the benefits of public transport
Hopefully, you will have seen information about the public consultation concerning the Saltaire Roundabout either online, in the newspaper, or by visiting the venues displaying information. Please note Victoria Hall still has the plans on display in their main entrance until the 16th March. Victoria Hall will also be the location for a special Neighbourhood Forum at 7.30pm on this date.
Your views can be still be heard if you send in a form by Friday 9th April 2010 – make sure you make your voice heard! There is no perfect solution to the traffic pressures around Saltaire, but this proposal is worth your careful consideration.
If you wish to pinpoint something that specifically concerns you, please fill in a feedback form. Copies may be available in Victoria Hall or please contact: Fiona.limb@bradford.gov.uk or call 01274 431184. Paper feedback forms should be sent to Fiona Limb, Senior Transport Planner, 5th Floor North, Jacobs Well, Bradford, BD1 5RW by Friday 9th April.
For further general information contact:
Jane Buddle: secretarysvs@googlemail.com
Rob Martin, (Chair) on 01274 593585
Street Sign Project – final phase
Thank you to Street Sign sponsors
Our Street Sign Project should be completed in time for the SVS public meeting on 19th October 2010. The last black-and-white signs in the village, on Jane Street, Upper Ada Street, Whitlam Street and Saltaire Road, will soon be replaced by blue-and-white!
All sponsors are warmly invited to the public meeting, which will include recognition of the community support shown for this project, especially during the past 12 months. Publicity given by the Saltaire Sentinel and the saltairevillage.info website has been very helpful.
Having managed this final year of the project as a relative newcomer to the village, I would be glad to hear from anyone who remembers the early stages, from 1999 to 2003. A large number of signs were replaced during that period, with the active involvement of Clive Woods. After Clive suffered a stroke, the project was dormant for several years until Eddie Lawler moved it forward again in 2009.
Wheelies, eyesore?
As you walk along Caroline Street, or any of streets which run west /east in Saltaire and turn your head to look up the road or passage as you pass you will see rows of cars or wheelie bins. Cars/ wheelie bins, cars /wheelie bins. The photograph above was taken on a Monday, the refuse collection is on Thursday.
The idea is that the bin should be kept in the backyard and put to one end of the passage for it to be emptied and then brought back. Obviously many people do not do this. Do you think they should? How could we encourage people to keep the passge ways clear of bins? Or is it just me? I have heard many people complain about the cars which are parked on the pavements on both sides of the road. Dealing with car parking is a very difficult problem, wheelie bins should be easier I think. What can we do?
SALTAIRE – LEARNING VILLAGE
In 2009 CHE Associates; Abigail Hackett, Kathy Cremin and Jael Edwards
were asked to research the educational potential of Saltaire World Heritage Site.
The aims of this consultancy were to:
- Work with the partners to deliver a practical learning action plan
- Identify what facilities, learning resources and expertise are needed to meet the needs of education visitors
- Advise on how recommended improvements could be achieved
Rob Martin, Chair of SVS was involved in this research, participating in meetings and discussions with a very wide range of people representing organizations which have an interest in Saltaire and its potential as an educational resource.
“It became clear to me that this project could bring together the many and various people and organizations that work and have an interest in Saltaire” said Rob. “River, canal, mill, village, social history, the development of technology, regeneration, art, all concentrated in an area with the added status of World Heritage site.
“Joined up” planning and activity is a target to be strived for. SALTAIRE LEARNING VILLAGE connects rural and urban, home and work and leisure. Heritage, contemporary community relationships and ideas for living and working together in the future.
The UNESCO connection is an important one. UNESCO World Heritage Centre has developed guidance for teachers, and identified key themes:
- Educational approaches to World Heritage
- The World Heritage Convention
- World Heritage and Identity
- World Heritage and Tourism
- World Heritage and the Environment
- World Heritage and a Culture of Peace.
The learning action plan and following educational strategy would reflect these themes, and measures of success in local partnerships would include pride, ownership, participation, access, understanding, knowledge and skills
1. Summary of recommendations
Individual partners are already catering for the needs and interests of teachers and learners successfully in many cases. This report focuses on what the capacity to collaboratively develop the learning market is and where the gaps are. At the moment all of the promotion and awareness raising about Saltaire WHS in the village itself appears to be done by village residents and small businesses. Developing strategic support and investment from organisations such as Shipley College, Bradford Council or local businesses is a first step to a successful integrated learning action plan.
Taking this work forward, and implementing the recommendations of this report and the learning action plan is likely to require a regular learning development group for all partners. The learning experience offered to teachers and learners at Saltaire would be improved through increased collaboration, partnership working and building a strong working relationship across all partners, and this task forms the foundation of all other programmes of activity.
In order to support and facilitate the development of this partnership, a coordinator who is independent fro the partner organisations, and can work across them all equally is essential. There is no current capacity or the specific expertise needed for this within the current partner organisations (many of whom give their time voluntarily) to provide this coordination, and without it, the learning action plan will be difficult to take forward. Therefore
1) finding a suitable individual to lead, support and coordinate the learning development group, and
2) the forming and developing of the learning development group as a strong and effective body
are the first steps that precede all the other recommendations in this report and the learning action plan, and are essential for the likely success of the rest.
full Report
Action Plan
Welcome to our new website
This is the new online home for the Saltaire Village Society.
Currently under construction.
SVS is now working with Jane Dale in the Shipley area office to put together an action plan to go to The Shipley Area Committee for approval . In 2009 we published our Vision Statement and our list of priorities. These documents will be the basis for the action plan.
Mark
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