Westminster Park Residents Association

Saturday, 21 March 2020 at Rowton Hall, 11am until 4pm – Sustainable Spring Fair

Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Waste team are currently focusing on textiles and how climate change is affected by fast fashion.  The way we make, use and throw away our clothes is unsustainable. Textile production contributes more to climate change than international aviation and shipping combined, consumes lake-sized volumes of fresh water and creates chemical and plastic pollution. Synthetic fibres can be found in the deep sea, in Arctic sea ice, in fish and shellfish.

We like to think that we do our bit to recycle old clothes whether this is at local charity shops or at the kerbside but in reality there is a lot more we can do. With this in mind, we would like to invite you to a ‘Sustainable Spring Fair’ at Rowton Hall in Chester on Saturday 21 March 2020. The event is open from 11am to 4pm for you browse around the small traders selling their sustainable products, attend workshops about mending clothes and being creative with textiles, demonstrations and find out what you can do to reduce the amount of clothes you throw away.

Wednesday, 25th March, 4pm until 8pm at Town Hall – Chester Northgate

A ‘drop-in’ event is being held in the Palatine Room when residents and businesses will be able to ask questions about the Chester Northgate programme including the forthcoming drainage tunnel works.

Please be aware that works are taking place on Hunter Street and Town Hall Square in February in connection with the Northgate development.

The east part of Hunter Street will be closed during February for approx.  4 – 6 weeks as works on utility diversions such as gas, electric, BT and new drainage works for the Northgate Development are carried out.  Princess Street will remain open to traffic and will be used as a diversion route whilst this work is undertaken, allowing access to businesses and residents in lower Hunter Street.

Traffic and pedestrians will be able to access property and businesses on Hunter Street at all times.

The footpath will remain open.

There will also be utility works such as electric and BT taking place on Town Hall Square during February. This work will be undertaken by SP Energy Networks and Openreach. Sections of the work area will be cordoned off whilst this work is being undertaken.

We apologise for any disruption this may cause. If you have any concerns, or would like to discuss further, then please contact me directly.

Received from Cheshire West and Chester Council

You are invited to attend workshops that are being held as part of the extended consultation on the Chester Air Quality Action Plan. The workshops have been rescheduled from December due to the General Election and very little notice has been given, but if you are able to attend or comment, the Council would appreciate your comments.

Drop-in events:

 Drop-in events will take place for the public and businesses to discuss any aspect of the action plan.

Events will take place at:

Chester Meeting Rooms, Chester Quaker Meeting House, Union Walk (off Frodsham Street), Chester CH1 3LF

The events are scheduled for 2pm to 7.30pm:

• Thursday 6 February – event for members of the public
• Thursday 13 February – event for local businesses

The consultation finishes on 16 February. For more information, please click on the link below:

https://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/chesterairqualityconsultation

Westminster Park Residents’ Association is a member of the Chester Residents’ Associations Group (CRAG) which has identified Chester city centre anti-social behaviour as one of its key issues. Problems around drug use, street drinking and begging seem particularly prevalent.

To help better understand how ASB is influencing how residents use the city centre, we would like you to complete this short survey.  The results will be collated and shared with Cheshire West & Chester Council (CW&C) and Cheshire Police to help them to understand the impact that ASB is having in order to direct resources more effectively.

The survey should take 6-8 minutes to complete and we recommend that you complete this on a device larger than a smartphone. A similar questionnaire is being conducted by CH1ChesterBID to Chester businesses as a joint approach with CRAG to understand this issue from an overall point of view.

Your individual input will remain anonymous unless you give your specific permission.

https://consult.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/portal/transport_strat/lcwip?pointId=

Jennifer Crew

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Great fun had was by all at the Westminster Park Christmas Lights Switch-on which took place on Thursday 5th December.

The Lord Mayor of Chester, Councillor Mark Williams, lead the countdown assisted by two members of the Belgrave Primary School choir.  Once the lights had been switched on the choir entertained the crowd of local residents with a selection of Christmas songs.

Refreshments were provided by the Westminster Park shops – mince pies from the Co-op, hot dogs from Bebbington’s butchers, pizza by Al Forno and prawns from Bebbington & Williams fishmongers.  The Westminster Park Residents’ Association supplied juice and mulled wine.

We are most grateful to our local councillors Neil Sullivan and Razia Daniels for providing funding from their Members’ Budgets to assist with the purchase of new lights for the trees opposite the shops and a beautiful Christmas tree, supplied by Francis Thomas, greengrocers.

All photographs are courtesy of Elise Mignon Weir.  Many thanks Elise.

The Lord Mayor of Chester congratulated Belgrave choir.

Belgrave Primary School choir

The crowd of local residents enjoyed the singing of Belgrave choir.

Councillors Neil Sullivan and Razia Daniels joined the Lord Mayor of Chester and Jennifer Crew of WPRA to admire the newly lit Christmas tree.

Councillors Neil Sullivan and Razia Daniels with the Lord Mayor of Chester together with Jennifer Crew of WPRA in front of the trees by Westminster Park shops car park.