April 2012 Status Report

2011 AGMs of the Old Wivenhoe Quay Estate Management Company (OWEM) and the Wivenhoe Old Quay Residents’ Association (WOQRA)

The AGMs were held on the 6th March in the Wivenhoe Congregational Church. At the meeting we distributed 2011 annual reports of OWEM and WOQRA. The meeting was attended by about 20 households–minutes are available for both the OWEM and WOQRA meetings.

Update from Persimmon

Persimmon are currently waiting on Essex County Council (ECC) to agree to adopt the roads even though Anglian Water have yet to adopt the surface water sewers. Persimmon estimate that ECC will respond by the end of April, at which point Persimmon plan to ‘commence the highway remedial works’, i.e. finally surface the roads.

Rowhedge Wharf Development

Thanks to Cllr Mike Lilley (via Cyril Liddy) for providing us with the following update: there appears to be no progress with the Rowhedge development, it seems the developers may be waiting for the new planning laws to come into effect.

3rd April 2012

Wivenhoe Community Day of Action

Colchester Borough Council is organising a “Community Day of Action” (CDOA) along the same lines as the one in Harbour Ward earlier this year. We’ve been told that the event will take place on Thursday 24th November 2011 and will be “another high impact, multi agency event to include an extensive clean up campaign, joint enforcement operations and community/youth engagement.”

The event will be preceded by a two-day public consultation taking place on the 26th and 27th October. The format of the consultation will be “ door knocking (usually in pairs) in an allocated street/location to complete a short survey with those residents that are at home to establish the issues (if any) that may be affecting their quality of life, and leaflet drop to those households where no-one is available/at home advising them that the CDOA will be taking place.”

If any residents would like to help out with the door knocking or find out more information about the event, contact Sonia Carr at Colchester Borough Council.

Water Feature status Summer 2011

In October 2010, the Dry Dock water feature was emptied with the intent of spending a couple of days maintenance and adding an extra ultrasonic unit to control algae.

Following the discovery of several problems, including the mis-siting of a drain, the water feature wasn’t refilled until May 2011. Since then the colour of the water has varied between deep green and brown. This has been partly due to a couple of power outages from which the pump room didn’t restart. However, we remain concerned that the algae control is still ineffective. We hope that the water will now clear and that the new control mechanisms prove to be more effective.

Bowes Road Development

Wivenhoe Town Council has called a public meeting at 2pm on Saturday 24th September to discuss the proposal from Jenny Moody Properties to offer a 2 acre plot of land to Wivenhoe in exchange for an agreement to go ahead with a residential development on the land just off Bowes Road near Millfields school. More details are enclosed in the attached press release.

Queen’s Diamond Jubilee anyone?

We received the this letter from the Wivenhoe Mayor inviting us to submit suggestions for events to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June 2011.

Please get in touch with the the Wivenhoe Town Council if you have any proposals.

New non-emergency Police Phone number

From 1st July 2011, Essex Police switched to a new, national, police non-emergency telephone number of 101.

There’s more information in this Essex Police Announcement we received from Essex Police.

March 2011 Status Report

2010 AGMs of the Old Wivenhoe Quay Estate Management Company (OWEM) and the Wivenhoe Old Quay Residents’ Association (WOQRA)

The AGMs were held on the 15th March in the Wivenhoe Congregational Church. At the meeting we distributed 2010 annual reports of OWEM and WOQRA. The meeting was attended by about 14 households–minutes are available for both the OWEM and WOQRA meetings.

Road Surfacing

At the AGM we handed out documents provided to us by TDS that describe the plans for traffic calming measures. Many residents will have noticed the yellow markings on the site roads that correspond to the plans. Although the documents are labelled Phase1B and Phase2 these names are historical and have no impact on the order in which the road surfacing will be carried out (we have been informed that final road surfacing is anticipated to begin in late Spring 2011). We have contacted TDS to let them know residents’ views on the traffic calming measures and plan to meet with them to discuss them further.

WOQRA Committee

We are pleased to welcome Keith Baker and Simon Page to the WOQRA Committee. Keith and Simon volunteered following the AGM and have been co-opted onto the committee as non-officers.

Parking

There were comments at the AGM regarding the way in which the Police are aware of the parking problems on the site. We encourage residents to report ALL parking problems to Essex County Police, in particular Sgt Lou Middleton. His contact details are:

• Telephone: 0300 333 4444 ext 436121
• Email: lou.middleton@essex.pnn.police.uk

Alternatively, contact PC Mick Bond on his mobile. His contact details are:

• Telephone: 0300 333 4444 ext 438130
• Mobile: 07966 197245
• Email: mick.bond@essex.pnn.police.uk

Following the AGM, we were contacted by Councillor Ford who reported that PC Mick Bond had agreed to reconsider the severity of the parking problems on the site and to raise it as an issue at the Neighbourhood Action Panel in April 2011.