Safer Neighbourhoods Meeting, 4-Jan at 7.30pm

St Dunstan's & Stepney Green SNT will be holding a public meeting on Tuesday, 4th January 2011 at 7.30pm at The Roland Philipps Scout Centre, 65 Copley Street, Stepney, London, E1 3DF. All residents are invited to attend.
www.met.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods

Street by Street, Winter edition

What's in Street by Street this winter?

• Top tips to help you save money this festive season.
• A guide to festive activities happening in your area over December.
• A section dedicated to our new resident involvement strategy. 
• Information on the Olympic Park plus information on registering for tickets.

Click here for the online version of Street by Street.

Carols in Candle Street, Sun 19-Dec at 5pm

Come and sing some Christmas songs with your neighbours — all welcome!

Sunday, 19th Dec from 5 – 6pm at the memorial in the communal garden. Carol sheets, mulled wine, children’s drinks and mince pies provided but bring things to share if you can.

Hope to see you there. Call Suzanne on 07740 619 932 for further information.

Garden Event, thank you!

The gardening event on 20-Nov went well.  Many thanks to the residents who helped Fountain Environmental Services. Let's hope the plants survive the winter freeze.

Kitchen replacement bulbs

Only replace your kitchen bulbs with Sylvania 'Cool Fit' bulbs (GX5.3 Aluminium) that have a maximum wattage of 50W. These are low-voltage bulbs that will not burn out quickly or overheat the kitchen lamps (and cause burn-out). Purchase these from Ryness for around £4.

Put your rubbish in the wheelie bins!

A handful of residents are putting the rest of us at risk for disease and infestation. It's not enough to put your rubbish bags inside the gate: you must put bags inside the wheelie bins provided. Being next to the canal means we are already a target for rats. Plus, the credit crunch means councils have less to spend on pest control. We need you to be vigilant about picking up rubbish!

General Meeting coming in November

All residents are encouraged to attend the General Meeting on Tuesday, 2nd November from 7.30-9.00pm. We'll be meeting in the back conference room in LIFRA Hall (7 Halley Street, E14 7SS). Agenda items include:

• Grounds Maintenance
• Parking Gates
• Repairs
• CES Street Parking
• Shaique's Updates

Street by Street - Autumn Edition

East Thames have just published the Autumn Edition of 'Street by Street' which you can read online.

It focuses on repairs and maintenance service, plus looks at the issue of Local Offers. Another area is East Thames performance, where you can express just how satisfied you are with East Thames. Finally, our Big Lunch event is given a feature too.

Redevelopment Plans, Part 2

For those who missed the September open-house, you have a second opportunity to see the Ocean Estate regeneration plans.

• WHEN: Monday 4 October, 3pm – 7pm
• WHERE: Ocean Tenants and Leaseholders Association (OTLA), Community Hall, Ernest St, E1 4SE

Come along to this information session to see the plans in more detail and speak to the team delivering this project. This will include architects, builders, East Thames and Tower Hamlets Council.

Grand Union Place features on YouTube

Resident's Association Fundraiser

We're organising a Saturday morning event where you can meet your neighbours whilst supporting the Resident's Association. We would appreciate your donation of cakes/biscuits or any unwanted small items for us to sell and raise funds for the Resident's Association. We're also having a tombola. Please bring your cup of tea or coffee and join us at the canal-side memorial under the gazebo from 11am-1pm on Saturday, 2 October. We hope to see you there.

Redevelopment Plans

Starting in March 2011, some of the areas surrounding Grand Union Place will begin redevelopment. Would you like to find out more about the plans for your neighbourhood? You're welcome to visit LIFRA Hall on Saturday, 18-Sep from 1-4pm to find out more and see the plans for yourself.

A big success, thank you!

What an amazing day for our Big Lunch event! Well over a hundred people came out to meet their neighbours and bask in the glorious sunshine. Thank you to all the residents who participated and volunteered. We hope to see you again soon.

Street briefing at the Memorial (canal-side)

The Policing Pledge - We will have a public meeting once a month

What: Street briefing
When: 09/07/2010 - 19:00 - 20:00
Where: Grand Union Place @ The Memorial

At our public meetings we are asking you to tell us about the issues of crime and anti-social behaviour in your neighbourhood that matter to you.

We will tell you what we are doing with our partners to make your neighbourhood safer and how you can help to decide our local priorities.

We will also give you information about crime and people brought to justice.

These meetings may include street briefings, drop-in surgeries or mobile police station visits.

Notes from General meeting (29-Jun)

• We're looking for volunteers to help water the flowers by the memorial garden. Please get in touch if you can help.
• Please use the free bulk rubbish collection service offered on the Tower Hamlets website.
• Repairs to the main parking gates will take place from 12-30 July. Please remind children not to 'ride' on the gates or they'll break again.

The Big Lunch

Sunday 18th July 2010
By the Canal side Memorial from 12.00pm to 3.00pm

The Big Lunch is a bring-your-own-food, open-air picnic by the residents, for the residents, to show how local people can be a neighbourhood.

Come and get together to meet, greet, share, play and laugh for no reason other than we all need to. To conquer our natural shyness, to open our curtains, windows, doors, and minds and looking out for one another the way we used to.

It’s for you, him, her, them, us, everyone we know and don’t know but should: Our Neighbours! If you wish to help on the day or in any other way call 07795 509 429

*Please note that Residents attending this event MUST be responsible for their children’s welfare. GUPRA shall have no liability for any loss, injury or damage*

Neighbourhood Watch meeting

GUP Neighbourhood Watch Meeting

Wednesday 21st July 2010

Time: 19:00 - 20:00

LIFRA Hall, 7 Halley Street, E14 7SS

We will be discussing at this meeting the following topics:

• Fencing the Ben Johnson Road canal exit
• The security situation at the Bike Sheds
• Latest updates on the gates
• A member of Tower Hamlets Housing Regeneration Team would like to speak to us about the new community centre (replacing LIFRA Hall) and changes to the Estate in general

General Meeting for all residents

 

Tuesday, 29th June

7.30pm – 9.00pm
LIFRA Hall
7 Halley Street, E14 7SS


Please join us to find out more on:

• Updates from last meeting
• Outcome of feedback forms
• The Big Lunch (event in July)
• Reports from East Homes
• Plus, plenty of time for questions and answers

We look forward to seeing you there!

Neighbourhood Watch, Meeting Highlights (4-May)

Residents had the opportunity to express their safety concerns at the meeting, which included the following highlights:

1. The Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) will increase patrolling of Mercer Court to deter youths loitering in the parking garage.
2. PC May recommended in his crime prevention report to fence off the Ben Jonson exit by the canal, to reduce one of the escape routes for perpetrators of anti-social behaviour.
3. Shaique Choudhury (East Thames Neighbourhood Manager) suggested hiring a security guard firm on a trial basis for the summer months.
4. If residents are disturbed by children playing in the courtyards, please contact your Neighbourhood Manager to complain about noise nuisance.
5. Residents should not let strangers into the building, not even people distributing leaflets or menus.

Please help us to re-plant around the memorial

Residents are invited on Saturday, 15-May to replant the garden area immediately around the memorial.  It would be wonderful if you could help anytime between 10.30am - 1.00pm to improve the landscaping.  We would like to remove the dead lavender plants and put in new plants where needed.  Please feel free to join our efforts.

Please join us in planting wildflowers

Please join us this Saturday, 1-May (from 11am - 1pm) to create a canal-side wildflower garden where the loch adjoins onto Grand Union Place. Residents are kindly requested to bring whatever gardening tools they have to dig-up the soil and plant wildflower seeds.  Feel free to simply keep us company or watch...it's about the community being together and taking care of our neighbourhood.  We hope to see you there!

The Olive Restaurant

One of our residents has discovered a new restaurant gem nearby to Grand Union Place, overlooking the canal and Mile End Park. It's called Olive Restaurant and it's at 44 Palmer's Road. You can find more information at: http://www.qype.co.uk/place/1069045-Olive-Restaurant-London

Neighbourhood Watch, Meeting Highlights (2-Mar)

If you have any comments or suggestions on how to deter the expected anti-social behaviour in warmer months, please feel free to submit it to the Safer Neighbourhoods Team (SNT).

The next Neighbourhood Watch meeting will be held on Wednesday, 28 April at 7.30pm at LIFRA Hall.

1. PC Mick May, who conducted the walk around Grand Union Place, will be delivering his report on how we could potentially improve security on our estate as soon as it is ready.
2. Watch out for people tailgating you; make sure the doors are closed behind you at all times. Do not allow people into the building if you don't know them.
3. There will be an increased police presence, thanks in part to the 78% majority vote for targeting policing operations achieved at the You Decide event in early February.
4. SNT will include more morning patrols. SNT conducted some early morning patrols and stopped some kids loitering in Candle Street junction with Harford Street.
5. The SNT will let us know about Danger Awareness courses available to us from the Home Office. These will recommence sometime in April.

Safer Neighbourhoods Team

Help the Safer Neighbourhoods Team by reporting any problems, no matter how small, so that they can take action. If more residents report these abuses, then we'll receive more "top priority" policing. Don't suffer in silence. Call 020 8721 2808. You can leave a message and this will be forwarded to patrolling officers (except when they are not on duty patrol).

For non-emergencies, or to report a crime which has already taken place, call 0300 123 1212 (Non-Urgent Police). In an emergency always dial 999.

Bike Marking Event

The Stepney Safer Neighbourhood Team will be holding a Bike Marking event:

Saturday, 20 March 

between 10am and 12 midday 

at The Memorial, Grand Union Place

If you would like your bike marked and registered with Immobilise please come along with your bike. Immobilise helps UK Police forces to identify the owner of lost & stolen goods thousands of times every day. For more details please go to http://www.immobilise.com/

Sky Dish - Tramway and Horseley Courts

The East Thames maintenance team are aware of the defective Sky dishes and are looking into it.  The expected turn-around will be at least a month.  Residents are advised not to call Sky, as they will be charged for an unnecessary call-out.

Request from Neighbourhood Watch

Residents are requested not to put bicycles on their balconies. This is an open invitation to thieves. Please do not encourage robbery in our neighbourhood by tempting criminals.

Temporary Office Closure at 91 Harford Street

East Homes will no longer use 91 Harford Street as the local neighbourhood office as of 25-Feb-2010. A temporary office will open at 60 Ben Jonson Road E1 3NN (opposite the Post Office). Residents requiring visitor permits can contact East Homes head office on 0208 522 3275 and speak to a Neighbourhood Assistant or call CES directly 0844 800 4944. If residents would like home visits they should contact 0208 522 3275 and arrange to see the Neighbourhood Manager, Mr Choudhury. A new office will open on 31-Mar-2010.