On Saturday 22 July from 10am to 4pm at St Denys Community Centre, Priory Road (near the junction with Adelaide Road) there will be a “Fitness and Fun Day”. Come and enjoy many free attractions including sports and games, healthy snacks and drinks, wood sculpting workshop, belly dancing, karate display and craft stalls.

This day, organised by the Southampton North Neighbourhoods Partnership, coincides with the official opening at 11am of the Community Centre by the Hampshire Cricketer, Sean Ervine. For further details contact Dawn Jones, Coordinator for the North Neighbourhood, on 023 8083 3589.
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The excellent weather ensured a very successful party. Our thanks for such an enjoyable occasion go to all those who helped, particularly the BBQ chefs Ken and Michelle Hickling and Steve MacKenzie, Anna Hammett for face painting and Sue Mellett for organising the children’s games.

Within the Conservation Area are some garden gems which enhance the estate and are a credit to all the hard work put in by their owners. The possibility of having an “Open Gardens Day” was broached in a previous Newsletter. Now the Committee would like to take this forward as something to have next year. Not all gardens are at their best at the same time, so we will have to choose a date that is most suitable, possibly early summer. One ticket would admit to all the open gardens and the proceeds go to a local charity. We would be interested in hearing from people who would like to participate and also suggestions for a charity. So get in touch with your street rep or send an email.
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Have you recently had a job well done, such as painting and decorating or building work? Residents quite frequently ask if the Association can recommend contractors. We are only able to do this if members tell us about them. So please send an email or tell your street rep.
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Outside Steve Mackenzie’s house is a sign saying “Sale Agreed”. So we will shortly be losing our secretary. Steve has done a brilliant job as secretary for the last four years. If anyone would like to offer their services for this rewarding, but not too onerous task, we would like to hear from you. We would also like to see some “new blood” on the Committee, so get involved and make it happen!
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Once again we remind people not to put in plastic windows. This, and other alterations on the front and side elevations, require planning consent. From past experience we know that, since the introduction of the Article 4 Direction, the City Council will insist that the plastic windows be removed and replaced with ones similar to the original. Ring Jane Davies, Conservation Officer for advice on these matters on 023 8083 2555.
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The Road Improvement Group met recently to discuss and agree its priorities for the foreseeable future. The main priority will continue to be to keep the road surface in good repair but over the next few years, work will be done to improve the entrances and to surface dress the tarmac. The Group will also shortly be distributing draft plans to reinstate the verges and will be seeking views from Ethelburt Avenue residents on a number of suggestions raised at the public meeting held last November.

With the work we undertake, we refer back to the original drawings to ensure that we are complying with Herbert Collins’s design and we are helped with this by Robert Williams. In order to help us further, we would welcome scans of old photographs of Ethelburt Avenue. If you have any, then I am happy to scan them for you if you call in to see me at 2 Ethelburt Avenue.

As always, volunteers to help with the repair work are most welcome. For new residents, this is a great way to get to know your neighbours. The next planned activity is on Saturday 23rd September when it is hoped we will start work on reinstating some of the verges. If you would like to help, then please contact John Dixon on 80550064.

We shall have several items of planned expenditure over the next twelve months including purchase of top soil, turf, material for repairing the road, signage, plant hire etc. as well as the cost of surface dressing the tarmac. We have carried some monies over from last year but will need to collect the

The Southampton Federation of Residents’ Associations meeting on 24th April had the theme of “The Respect Agenda”. Roger Honey, the City Council’s Community Safety Manager, introduced the relaunch of the City’s Antisocial Behaviour Policy in the document “Southampton Respect Action Plan 2006-08″. There will be development of Neighbourhood Watch.

Chief Inspector Tim Ashman of Hampshire Police, in charge of Community Safety and Public Reassurance, gave a wide ranging talk on the origin of lack of respect and what was being done in Southampton to tackle it. Since May, there has been a single non-emergency telephone number: dial 101 as an alternative to 999 for reporting less serious or anti-social offences to the police.

John Martin, the City Cleansing Officer, said that the Local Authority had been given more powers to deal with litter. It was an offence to drop litter anywhere, even in your front garden. A clean-up notice could be issued requiring people to remove rubbish from their front gardens. People who left wheelie bins on the pavement could receive a fixed penalty ticket.
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The 31st May meeting of the Coordinating Group had the task of allocating the

The Association’s AGM will be on Monday 25 September at 7.30pm in the Hardmoor Early Years Centre, Leaside Way.
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