Annual Parish Carol Service – 16th December

The Parish Council will be holding it’s Annual Carol Service on Thursday 16th December at 8.00pm.

The service will be held in St Giles Church, Church Hill, this year, instead of the Puritan Chapel, as the layout of the Puritan Chapel is unsuitable  for use in relation to Covid.

The service at St Giles will commence at 8.00pm and will be followed by drinks and mince pies in the church hall.

Seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. All are welcome.

Free solar panels/home insulation for low income homeowners

Leeds City Council has secured £5.6m through the Local Authority Delivery Scheme to offer low-income homeowners in Leeds free solar panels or home insulation. The scheme closes in March 2022.

To apply, residents must own their home and have a combined household income of less than £30,000 or receive certain benefits. Before work can be installed, Better Homes Yorkshire will also need to confirm that the property is eligible to receive funded upgrades (EPC D-G) and is of suitable construction for solar panels and/or insulation to be installed.

The scheme is designed to upgrade some of the coldest and most expensive to heat privately owned properties. In addition to homeowners, landlords may also apply and receive subsidised green improvements if their tenants meet the above requirements. Landlords will be asked to contribute one third of the total cost up to £5000.

Remembrance Events 2022

There will be an Act of Remembrance taking place on Friday 11th November at 11.00am at the Memorial Garden. This will be a short service led by Reverend Roger Smith.
The Remembrance Sunday Parade will take place on Sunday 13th November.
The parade will commence at the Village Hall at 10.45am, moving along Old Lane, across the Cross, down Eastgate to the Memorial Garden on Breary Lane.
A short service will take place at the Memorial Garden commencing at 10.55am until 11.15am.
A service will then be held at the Methodist Church (opposite the Memorial Garden).
All are welcome to attend.

There will be temporary road closures in place in Bramhope between 10.40 and 11.30am in order for the Remembrance Sunday Parade to take place.
The road closures will be in place as follows
Old Lane to The Cross – 10.40 to 10.55
The Cross/Eastgate/Breary Lane to Breary Court – 10.40 to 11.15
(Timings are approximate).
Access to and from residential properties on the route will be available. 

Bramhope Primary School – Planning Application Consultation

Leeds City Council and Leeds Local Education Partnership (LLEP) would like to inform Bramhope residents that a planning application will soon be submitted for proposed construction works at Bramhope Primary School.

They will be holding an online consultation event with the Design Team on 17th November
at 1pm. If you wish to join the event, please register your interest by emailing them at least 24 hours before the event and they will provide you with a link to join.

They will be submitting a planning application towards the end of November 2021. Once the
application has been submitted, it will be available to view and comment on online via Leeds City Council’s Planning Portal – https://publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk/online-applications/

View the proposals online at: https://www.bramhopeprimary.co.uk/

Email the Design Team at: bramhopeprimary.uk@avisonyoung.com

Please email your questions or comments no later than 23rd November 2021

Further details can be found on the Bramhope – Consultation Flyer

Sewer Connection works affecting the A660, Otley Road in Adel

Sewer Connection works affecting the A660, Otley Road in Adel ( just south of Kingsley Drive) are due to start this Saturday 23th Oct and will require 2 way traffic lights to manage traffic around the work zone
The proposed end date for the works is currently the 7th November
Given the location and size of the required excavations, the lights will have to remain in situ for the duration of the works
Advanced warning signs have been in place to inform regular road users
Due to the volume of work to be carried out here the teams will be working 7 days a week to get the works completed as quickly as possible
The lights will be manually operated to ensure that the queues are managed as efficiently as possible but given the traffic sensitive nature of this road, delays should be expected. Especially during morning and evening peak hours

OPEN VILLAGE FORUM – CANCELLED

The Open Village Forum scheduled for 13th October has been cancelled.

Your Parish Council has made this decision with great regret.

The purpose of the meeting was to report back to residents on parish council finances and activities, and in particular explain funds from the Community Infrastructure Levey and consult on possible uses of that money.  A number of village organisations were also invited to attend to showcase their contribution to the community.

Unfortunately, Covid-19 is still widespread in the community, and the long term outlook is still uncertain.  The Paris Council felt it would be irresponsible to hold a meeting in a packed hall and that social distancing was necessary.  Best practice for indoor venues means a limitation on attendance numbers at the Village Hall that would be far below the likely demand.  Consideration was given to an all-ticket event but there were insurmountable problems relating to a fair distribution of tickets, the lack of which would invalidate the forum as a consultation exercise.

In its place the Parish Council will produce an Annual Report covering all the topics that would have been presented at the Open Village Forum, and offering the means to comment on the Parish Council’s activities and plans.  This report will be delivered to every household in Bramhope and Carlton.

The Council will contact village organisations individually to find alternative means of publicising their activities.

Bramhope Traffic Liaison Group

Parking, congestion and speeding issues are raised more and more frequently with the Parish Council.

In response to this the Bramhope Traffic Liaison Group has been set up to review local traffic and road safety issues and act as a communications channel between the community, the Parish Council and Leeds City Council.

The group is chaired by John Howard, Vice Chair of the Parish Council, and includes Ward Councillor Billy Flynn, representatives of BRACE (the group set up to address potential problems relating to the primary school expansion) and other interested parties.

Road traffic management is the responsibility of Leeds City Council Highways Department, but the Parish Council has a role in ensuring that traffic issues are brought to their attention and that solutions reflect the needs of the community as a whole.  Traffic and parking solutions to a problem at one location may just move the problem to a different place, so issues need to be looked at in their entirety rather than individually.

The Group has already developed a detailed list of known issues around the village, categorised by location and type.  The initial list has been delivered through Councillor Billy Flynn to the Traffic Officer responsible for assessing the impact of the expansion of the primary school.

The list will provide the basis for discussion at future meetings with LCC Highways to explore concerns, discuss potential solutions and their funding.  The list will be updated as further issues are raised and currently includes concerns regarding the impact of the expansion of the school, the safety of the new roundabout on the A660 and congestion on Eastgate.  Supporting evidence (photographs, video footage, accident and incident reports) will be included.

The creation of the Traffic Liaison Group does not prevent residents from raising an issue directly with their Ward Councillor.  If those issues are also notified to the Liaison Group, an overall picture can be built up.

Anyone wishing to report an issue to the group should email tlg@bramhopecarlton-pc@gov.uk