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?
Mark
robsvs
molkenyon
