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Saltaire Village Society: News - Christmas 2006
Donation Bradford Campaign for Real Ale
Victoria Hall Objections to the use of concrete flags
Festival feedback
Tourist Information Centre closure
Caroline Street Square
Saltaire Village traffic
SVS Constitution
Music in Roberts Park
Bradford Campaign for Real Ale have kindly donated £1000 to the Village Society to spend on something useful in Victoria Hall. Discussions are under way with the Hall management.
Victoria Hall Objections to the use of concrete flags to the front of the Hall were answered by Ian Durham (Estates Manager of Shipley College) by saying that they were concrete before and there wasn’t enough money to replace them with stone.
The official re-opening of the refurbished Hall (by great-great grandson Dan Salt) is/was Thursday 21.12
A feedback meeting in early November shows that Festival is alive and well, and made a loss this year which could be borne by a surplus from previous year. Helen Kemp is still very much “up for” organisation commitments in 2007, so is Carole Moss. But Chair Keith Brewster is leaving the area, and Treasurer David Taylor wishes to reduce his commitment. Both deserve enormous thanks. New committee members have already been recruited. SVS remains the parent-body of the Festival.
Anne and Roger Heald, whose contribution to the Village has been a great one are retiring and have put their Tourist Information Centre along with the whole building, on the market. They decided to retire when they heard that a Heritage Centre is now being planned for the Village by the Council. It is rumoured that £100,000 has been set aside by Council for this, possibly with the Mill Building belonging to the College as the destination. The College confirms that the Council had opened negotiation, but matters are only at a very early stage
The greenery in Caroline St. Square has had a hair-cut thanks to John Baker of College Horticulture and his students. There is now one plant which is rather out-of-hand and requires scaffolding to deal with. John promises to deal with this in the spring and possibly replace the plant with something more appropriate.
There was a big meeting in Vic Hall with a handful of SVS members there ( over 100 attended, mostly from outside Saltaire). There are lots of imaginative suggestions, but no date whatsoever was mentioned. (Nor was global warming). We should be concerned to find that the word “regeneration” is used as a holy cow, as was “motorway access” by the Council’s man Steve Barton. We need to make it clear that you don’t “regenerate” non-industrial bits of our country, and we need to put the word “conservation” back into this discussion.
It is also obvious that Council and Ministry are using a row about who is responsible for what on the A650 to actually do nothing at all for as long as possible. Whatever the grand plans for Saltaire traffic, the rat-runners through the Village MUST be slowed down before some villager is killed or seriously injured on Titus St or Caroline St. We have a responsibility here as SVS for more than conservation reasons, to make a 20-mph-zone for Saltaire a major SVS campaign in 2007.
A revised SVS constitution will be presented to the AGM in May. The current one excludes non-residents, but as a World Heritage Site we have lots of supporters elsewhere. The revised version will be very much inclusive!
“Saltaire Bandstand” will return in 2007. The pilot concerts of 2006 (six of them, one rained off) will, in 2007, become a weekly concert on Sunday afternoons from May Bank to August Bank holiday featuring a wide range of music and performers.
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