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Chelmer Road parking issues

At last night’s Full Council Meeting, Cllr John Tyler (Upminster and Cranham Residents’ Association), highlighted the delay in tackling parking problems in Chelmer Road, Cranham, during Members Questions. Following complaints from residents, in early 2019 Havering Council were asked to conduct a survey of residents, to seek

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Hall Lane Pitch and Putt – Update re sale

Rumours have recently been circulating locally, concerning the sale of the former mini golf site in Hall Lane. In response to this, Cranham councillors made an enquiry to the council and have received the following reply – ‘Thank you for this e-mail. The contract of sale is still

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Safer Streets funding unlikely for Havering

Last week, the government announced a doubling of Safer Streets funding, to provide additional public CCTV and lighting to various locations across the country. Following the announcement, Upminster and Cranham Residents’ Association councillors asked council officials whether Havering had bid for any of the original funding and

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Using your computer as a volunteer

We have recently been told about a way of volunteering that may appeal to people with time on their hands, who are based at home and with access to a computer. A large number of organisations throughout the world undertake work to assist academic research by entering

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Age-positive image library

The Centre for Ageing Better is a charitable foundation who lobby for improvements in employment, housing, health and communities, so that people are able to enjoy their later years. To promote positive and realistic images of older people, they have added around 400 free to use images

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Beware of scam texts

The number of different ways that fraudsters try to con people out of money or personal information, increases all of the time. Whilst we could not hope to list all of them, one that has been in circulation lately involves the potential victim receiving an SMS message

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Hall Lane Pitch and Putt TPO confirmed

Following Havering Council’s decision to allow development of the Pitch and Putt course in Hall Lane, despite active objections by Councillors and residents, Cranham Councillors requested a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) be considered for trees meeting the published criteria. 32 trees were identified and we are pleased

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