COMMUNITY GROUPS
Eastern Green as a community has
many groups which meet for sport, social activities and fellowship. We have
listed some of the groups below. If you are a member of a community group and
would like a mention on this page - please e-mail the webmaster webmaster@standrews-eg.org.uk
with brief details and we will add you on our next update.
Eastern
Green History Group
Geoff
Barwick’s talk entitled ‘Could your Ancestors Spell?’ gave us something to
think about, particularly not to trust census returns and other documents from
long ago. The April meeting will be
on 7th April at
2pm
in St
Andrew’s Church meeting room.
Notice
of Evening Meeting
A
number of people have requested that the group hold one of its monthly meetings
in the evening, as they are not able to attend those held in the afternoon.
Consequently, it has been agreed that the meeting on
Monday
3rd March 2008
will
be at
7.30pm
.
Brian Stote will talk to us about ‘Twenty Years in the Life of a
Victorian
School
.’
There will be a chance to view photographs and talk about memories of
Eastern Green. Anyone interested in
attending should ring Maurice
on 7669 5225 asap.
ALLESLEY
& EASTERN GREEN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION
COVENTRY
CORE STRATEGY.
Further
to the open meeting held at the Eastern Green Village Hall last November, which
resulted in a brilliant turnout, we are pleased to inform you that 840 of
you signed a letter that evening, raising concerns and objections to
the possible development of land to the north of
Upper Eastern
Green Lane
. These were handed directly to Councillor O'Neill on the
29th of November. In addition to that a good number of you kindly took
away letters for others to sign who in turn posted them on. It is
understood this resulted in an excess of 1000 letters being signed by you,
concerned residents of Allesley and Eastern Green.
What came
out of that drop in meeting was a clear message that given the current stress
put on the existing infrastructure in our area it just did not make sense
to compound the problem with further development. Not because we just don't want
it, it is because the area just can not cope for so many reasons.
As a
result of the tremendous support received by everyone we felt it was appropriate
to take our case directly to the Councils planning officers with a
comprehensive argument and alternative suggestions.
The
recent weeks have seen the steering committee of the Association gathering a
considerable amount of information from traffic flows to "classes" of
roads etc, so a grateful thanks to all of those involved. Would you believe
Parkhill Drive
at it's peak is
carrying a ridiculous figure of 1431 vehicles an hour !!!!. This road was never
designed for this volume and of course the Banner Brook development has yet
to be completed so the traffic can only increase.
On the
5th of February a meeting was held in the planning office with Senior
officers of Coventry City Council. It must be said that we were given a warm
welcome and for two hours constructive dialogue took place. Naturally
specific answers to our questions could not be given at this point
in time, however we were assured that our points and suggestions were received
well and in a positive light and there will be an official response to our
presentation, details of which will be passed to you via the Link Magazine. What
is interesting is that we all acknowledge the existence of the "
Meriden Gap" (including Councillor Taylor, comments courtesy of Coventry
Times
October 11th
2007
) however there is no official boundary. This resulted in us
requesting if this could now be defined.
We
all know that without putting one's case forward in a concise and
constructive manner at an early stage developments can proceed through a
lack of resistance. It is with this in mind that we ask you to make your
feelings known NOW to you local Councillor. Let's be honest, we need
their help and they will certainly need ours, come May, in the next round
of elections so please contact them.
Eastern Green Golden Years Club
Founded in 1962 - meetings are
held fortnightly for our residents, within a local Christian caring and social
framework. Our activities include special events and outings.
See the Link
Magazine page for details of our latest events.
Eastern Green W I - Contact Beryl
Allen
Our W.I. meets on the first
Wednesday of each month in the Village Hall at 7.30pm
It is open to ladies of all
ages in and around the area and we try hard to offer a varied programme of
speakers, demonstrations and interests.
We also have outings, craft classes, coffee mornings, and any other
topic or activities which our members request. More info from Beryl Allen on 024
7646 6574.
For the latest information -
see The Link Magazine page
Rock
Solid see Bottom of Junior Church page.
Kenthurst Pre-School Playgroup
Eastern Green Pre-School
Playgroup see The Link Magazine page for our latest
information.
21st
Eastern Green Scout Group - See The
Link Magazine page for latest information
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