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Very Welcome enhancements to Lostock Skateboard Park giving better practice facilities

Following receipt of the welcome news from Central Government that Trafford Council is now able to proceed with a number of its planned Playbuilder projects we are contacting you for information purposes with a copy of the final design for Lostock Park.

For those of you who represent children and young people we would be grateful if you could display the plan in your out of school clubs, schools and youth facilities and thank the children and young people on our behalf for their involvement.

To those adults involved we thank you also for giving up some of your time during the consultation period and would like you, if you represent a group, to bring the plan to the attention of your group.

Please be advised that the hugely reduced timescale we are working to necessitates that we proceed very quickly with this scheme and therefore, though we welcome your comments ( we have already received helpful comments in this case) and where appropriate will do our best to take account of them we will be strongly influenced by the available timescale.

Please address any queries or comments you have to Liz Clay within 14 days of the date of this email.

Best wishes Liz Clay

Sure Start Early Years Team, Children & Young Peoples Service, 4th Floor, Waterside House, Sale, M33 7ZF

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Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The following consultations have been forwarded:

Warren Bruce Road (nr Imperial War Museum)

Waiting restrictions close to traffic lights and access points along the road

see map

see document

Longford Road (Gorse Hill off Chester Road)

Restrictions to combat illegal match-day parking operations.

see map

see document

Good work from Stretford Neighbourhood Police Team, responding to residents’ concerns

Police pressure closes off-licence

The Stretford Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) has taken action in response to complaints from residents about antisocial behaviour (ASB) and underage drinking.

First Choice Convenience (at Lostock Circle) has closed after officers successfully objected to a transfer of premises licence at a hearing of the Trafford Council Licensing Sub-Committee on 16 November.

The decision to reject the application was taken after the committee heard that the applicant had
— Failed to keep closed circuit television recordings
— Employed an illegal immigrant
— Allowed sales of alcohol to underage customers

The objection is the latest in a series of measures introduced by the Stretford NPT to reduce the number of incidents of ASB in the area. Over recent months, officers have increased patrols in hot spot areas and have worked with Trafford Council and housing trust organisations to secure asb orders and housing evictions for persistent offenders.

Between 1 April and 22 November 2010, there have been 1646 incidents of ASB in Stretford and Old Trafford, 612 fewer than the corresponding period in 2009. This equates to a 27 per cent reduction.

Just had a great visit with Dave Acton to Lostock College. The facilities are excellent – really impressed with the creative arts, whether music or visual. The whole mood of the place has lifted. I sense great times ahead. It has the potential to be recognised as one of Trafford’s best schools.

What a fantastic time to be starting school there. With numbers set to increase, now closure has been shelved, the scope for next year’s Y7s must be really exciting. All those tremendous facilities and no queues to get on them. Teachers who are really buzzing to take the school forward. I just think it’s brilliant.