Motherwell West

Dates for your diary

2011-03-31T05:04:00.000-07:00

Further to my previous post regarding the Sainsbury's planning application I can advise that Sainsbury’s will be holding two public exhibitions, on Friday the 15th of April from 12 midday to 4.30pm, and Saturday the 16th of April from 10am to 3pm, in The Moorings Hotel, Motherwell. This event will provide you with an opportunity to meet their project team, see the proposed plans, and let them know your views.

Sainsbury's for Motherwell?

2011-03-15T14:29:00.000-07:00

A planning application has been lodged today for the vacant site at the bottom of Hamilton Road, but not for houses this time, instead Sainsbury's are seeking permission for what would be their first store in North Lanarkshire.

The proposed development is located on the former bus depot site on Hamilton Road, Motherwell, and is for a new food store with approximately 60,000 sq ft of sales space, and in the region of 500 parking spaces.

The applicants plan to hold public exhibitions in Motherwell on Friday 15^th and Saturday 16^th April. This will be a key opportunity for the community of Motherwell to come and ask questions on the proposed development and to find out what Sainsbury's brand might mean for residents of Motherwell and the surrounding areas.

Details are a little scant just now, as the application hasn't turned up on the eplanning section of the website yet, but I will be talking to NLC planners tomorrow. Anyone wishing to inspect the plans should be able to do so on the Council website in the next few days, alternatively you can call one of the planning officers on 01698 274274 and either discuss the application with them or make arrangements to view the plans.

I'll update this as soon as I get further information, in the meantime please don't hesitate to get in touch if you want to raise any issues regarding this with me.

International Women's Day Events in Motherwell

2011-02-21T03:43:00.000-08:00

NLC Community Learning and Development have organised the following activities:

Monday 7th March Forgewood C.C. 10 am – 2pm

Body Balance 10.00 am --- 11.00am

Relaxation & 10.00 am --- 12 noon
Personal Presentation

Zumba 1.00pm --- 2.00pm

LUNCH 12 noon --- 1.00pm

Smoking Cessation 10.00am --- 2.00pm

Wednesday 9th March Craigneuk Lifelong Learning Centre 10.00am – 2.00pm

Bodycheck Bus 10.00am --- 2.00pm

Body Balance 10.00am --- 11.00am

Zumba 11.00am --- 12 noon

Relaxation &
Personal Presentation 10.00am --- 12 noon

Massage / Treatments 12 noon --- 2.00 pm

LUNCH 12 noon --- 1.00pm

Smoking Cessation 10.00am --- 2.00pm

Thursday 10th March Isa Money C.C. 10.00am –2.30pm

Bodycheck Bus 10.00am --- 2.00pm

Massage / Treatments 12.30pm --- 2.30pm

Friday 11th March John Mc Cormack C.C. 10.00am – 2.00pm

Bodycheck Bus 10.00am --- 2.00pm

Body Balance 10.00am ---- 11.00am

Zumba 11.00am ---- 12 noon

Massage/ Treatments 10.00 am --- 12 noon

Relaxation &
Personal Presentation 12 noon ---- 2.00pm

LUNCH 12 noon --- 1.00pm

Smoking Cessation 10.00am – 2.00pm

Faulty street lights in North Motherwell

2011-02-08T05:43:00.000-08:00

It seems that a control pillar has been demolished in an Road Traffic Accident a few days ago causing disruption to lights over a fairly wide area.

The streets affected are part of Watling Street, part of Fort Street, Chesters Crescent, and Antonine Avenue. NLC staff are working with Scottish Power to get the problem rectified ASAP

Refuse Collection, latest news

2010-12-17T02:47:00.000-08:00

Waste Management Services would like to thank residents for their patience whist we try to recover the work lost due to the extreme weather conditions that forced the service to be suspended. An update on our continuing efforts to ensure that all residents are back to normal by Christmas Eve is detailed below:

Recycling Centres

1. All North Lanarkshire Recycling Centres (less Reema Road in Bellshill which is closed for refurbishment) will be open and operational during normal opening times (8am – 8pm).

2. Grit for residential use will continue to be available for distribution to the public at Recycling Centres. Residents will be provided quantities in the region of up to 20kg in suitable containers to be provided by the public.

South Area – (Bellshill, Motherwell, Wishaw, Shotts and surrounding villages) - Blue “Recycling” Wheeled Bin Service

1. Routine blue bin service will commence on Monday the 20th of December. Please present your bin on your normal collection day to an accessible point by the kerbside. Only blue bins containing recycling material will be collected.

2. Side waste will be collected provided it is suitable recycling material.

3. No Grey “residual” waste bins or side waste containing “residual” waste will be collected. These have been serviced in the South Area and are due their next scheduled collection on your normal collection day the week commencing Monday the 27th of December.

Special Uplifts – All Areas

1. A reduced appointment service will resume from Monday the 20th of Dec with no appointments undertaken on Monday the 27thand Tuesday the 28th of December and Monday the 3rd and Tuesday the 4th of January.

2. Appointments missed due to the weather will continue to be cleared if not already collected.

Christmas and New Year Period – All Areas

1. Routine collections will take place over the Christmas and New Year holidays, please present the correct bin on your scheduled collection day.”

Christmas Gift Period Extended

2010-12-16T05:04:00.000-08:00

If you are 60 or over and live in North Lanarkshire you will receive a special Christmas gift of £15.00
Because of the bad weather, you can now call into one of our cash collection offices until Wednesday 22 December. Offices will be open to collect your £15.00 gift between 9.30am and 4.00pm on:
Monday 13 December to Wednesday 22 December.
Our cash collection offices are located at:
10 Bank Street, Airdrie
26 Motherwell Road, Bellshill
126-130 Main Street, Coatbridge
2/4 Forth Walk, Cumbernauld
Parkfoot Street, Kilsyth
Blackwoods Crescent, Moodiesburn
69/71 Merry Street, Motherwell
162 Station Road, Shotts
135 Burnhead Street, Viewpark
236 Main Street, Wishaw
To collect your Christmas gift you must remember to bring along two forms of id, showing both your address and age.
Please check the list of items that will be accepted as identification when collecting your Christmas gift:
Bank statement
Bus pass
Birth certificate
Council tax bill
Driving licence
DWP letter re-pension
Heating allowance notice
Household bill
Passport
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Winter Update

2010-12-10T09:24:00.000-08:00

Recycling Centres

1. All North Lanarkshire Recycling Centres (less Reema Road in Bellshill which is closed for refurbishment) will be open and operational during normal opening times (8am – 8pm).

2. Grit for residential use will continue to be available for distribution to the public at Recycling Centres. Residents will be provided quantities in the region of up to 20kg in suitable containers to be provided by the public.

South Area – (Bellshill, Motherwell, Wishaw, Shotts and surrounding villages) Grey / Green “Residual” Wheeled Bin Schedule

1. Routine grey / green bin service will commence on Monday the 13^th of December. Only grey / green “residual” waste bins will be collected.

2. Side waste will be collected provided it is suitably bagged.

3. No blue “recycling” bins will be collected. These are due for scheduled collection on your normal collection day the week commencing Monday the 20^th of December, at this time we will collect suitably bagged excess recycling material at this time.

Special Uplifts – All Areas

1. Appointments are available from Monday the 20^th of Dec.

2. Appointments missed due to the weather will be collected during the week Monday the 13^th to Friday the 17^th of December.

General – All Areas

1. Normal trade / multi occupancy services will resume from Monday the 13^th of December however there will be a limited service provided to trade properties and multi occupancy properties over the weekend Saturday the 11^th and Sunday the 12^th of December to clear the backlog”.

Winter Latest

2010-12-03T11:13:00.000-08:00

Schools:

All schools were closed to pupils on Friday December 3. It is intended that all schools will be open on Monday December 6, dependent on weather.

Roads:

Tonight, we are treating all primary routes until they are clear and then we will move on to the secondary routes.

Tomorrow morning, the council's vehicles will again concentrate their efforts on keeping primary routes clear before treating secondary routes. However, we have drafted additional resources: private contractors, land services and farmers, who will be working on other parts of the road network from 08.00hrs until 17.00hrs.

Primary and secondary routes information by council ward can be found here.

Social Work:

Services are being maintained. Staff have access to 10 4x4 vehicles and some are travelling on foot into the worst-affected areas. If any resident requires to speak to someone urgently about a social work services they should contact Social Work Emergency Services on 0800 121 4114

Bin services:

Weather permitting, all frontline refuse collection operations will be attempted from Monday December 6.

Winter News

2010-12-01T08:58:00.000-08:00

For the latest information on services affected by the weather check out the NLC Winter twitter feed on:

https://twitter.com/nlcwinter

Refuse Collection

2010-12-01T08:48:00.000-08:00

Due to the adverse weather refuse collections have been temporarily suspended, the alternative arrangements for residents are as follows:

A) If your service has not been provided, please return your wheeled bin to it's usual storage point and re-present on the next scheduled collection date for that type of bin, i.e. recyclate bin, residual refuse bin.

B) On the next scheduled collection date for the same type of bin, additional crews will be operating to remove excess material at that time, provided it is suitably presented for collection, thus preventing street littering or foraging.

C) Only appropriate material presented for recycling collections, can be uplifted by those crews, as the loads would become contaminated otherwise.

D) Every effort shall be made to keep the Household Waste Recycling Centres operating throughout this period. These sites are available for any refuse or recycling material you may wish to dispose of in the meantime.

E) Supplies of refuse sacks are also available at three of Waste Management Services' Depots detailed below. These however shall be limited to 2 per household.

F) FOR THE SOUTH AREA ONLY, i.e. those routes on residual waste collection this week, residents can utilise their BROWN BIN for general residual waste storage, and can present this as a ONE OFF, in addition to their RESIDUAL BIN, for collection at the next residual cycle. It would be helpful however if the use of this option could be limited where possible, as we would hope to keep the additional bins down to a minimum in the recovery phase that week.

Finally, please find detailed below, the locations of all Recycling Centres and Waste Management Services' Depots for your reference.

Recycling Centres

1 Netherdale Recycling Centre Netherhall Road Netherton Industrial Estate, Wishaw ML2 0JG

2 Wardpark Recyling Centre Wardpark Court South Wardpark Ind Est, Cumbernauld G67 3HF

3 Stobcross Recycling Centre Stobcross Street, Coatbridge Coatbridge ML5 1BE

4 Auchinlea Recycling Centre Carlisle Road Cleland ML1 5LR

5 Dalmacoulter Recycling Centre Stirling Road Airdrie ML6 7SP

Waste Management Depots

Albert Street, Motherwell, ML1 1PR
Wardpark Court, Cumbernauld, G67 3HF
Souterhouse Road, Coatbridge ML5 4AA

A gentle reminder!

2009-06-22T03:46:00.000-07:00

On Friday I had the opportunity to visit the new Viridor recycling centre in Bargeddie, the set up there is absolutley fantastic, as are the new jobs they have brought to the area.

One thing was clear from the visit, however. Far too many householders, me included sometimes, are leaving their bottle tops on the plastic bottles that go in the recycling bins, this is causing no end of bother, so please remember to take the tops off in future!

2009 Garden Awards

2009-06-10T03:03:00.000-07:00

The Council is looking for entries in categories including:

Best Kept Garden Award

Biodiversity Garden Award

Modern Living Garden Award

and

Recycling Award

for more information and entry forms email c&levents@northlan.gov.uk or call 01698 402104

entries must be returned by 19th June with the award being announced on 1st October.

You can enter your own project or nominate a friend or neighbour to have their hard work acknowledged.

Expenses

2009-06-05T03:54:00.000-07:00

If anyone is interested my expenses for 2008/09 can be found here:

http://www.northlan.gov.uk/your+council/council/councillors/salary+and+expenses.html

Summer Reading Challenge

2009-04-27T06:11:00.000-07:00

This year’s North Lanarkshire reading challenge, Read Around the World, began on Monday 20th April and will run until mid-September. Children and young people are invited to collect “Bookmiles”, complete reading passports and collect rewards as they go. Everyone who completes a passport will be awarded a certificate and medal which will be presented during the Words festival in October.

There will also be monthly prize draws and various activities to encourage our travellers in their local branches.

For more information, or to complete a boarding pass to register, visit your local library.

New developments.

2009-01-30T08:19:00.000-08:00

Remind me not to try and start a blog before Christmas again!

I spent part of today at Braidhurst High School, one of the three high schools that children in Motherwell west are zoned to attend. I always enjoy visiting our schools, the kids are often the toughest questioners I have to face, and they're highly resistant to flannel too!

Today I had been asked to help launch the new school web-site

http://www.braidhurst.n-lanark.sch.uk/

Most of it designed and coded by the students themselves. Coding is a skill I wish I had, I remember plootering about on my old ZX Spectrum over 25 years ago using BASIC, but I never took the opportunity to develop it further. It's great to see what a group of motivated, well-supported youngster can achieve though.

If you go to Braidhurst, or care about this "Great Wee School" add it to your favourites and keep an eye out for news and developments.

Mobile Phone Mast Update

2008-11-05T04:51:00.000-08:00

A formal planning application has now been lodged for a new phone mast in Bellshill Road on behalf of Vodafone. The case reference is S/08/01506/FUL.

The case officer for this application is Kevin Divin (tel 01698 274107) and any objections should be forwarded to the Executive Director of Planning and Environment, The Dalziel Building, 7 Scott Street, Motherwell, ML1 1PF

Free Home Safety Checks

2008-10-29T03:59:00.000-07:00

A free confidential home and garden safety check is available to all North Lanarkshire residents, this includes checks on electrical points, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors and plugs. Parents and carers of young children can also have a free child safety equipment check.

Staff from the unit will also hasppily provide speakers and displays for community organisations.

For more information call 01698 274247 or email homesafety@northlann.gov.uk

Energy Advice

2008-10-21T02:08:00.000-07:00

From the NLC web-site:

"In the last year NLC's Energy Unit have carried out various projects to help improve the quality of living for all residents in North Lanarkshire.

Our Energy Assessors are carrying out energy surveys in various areas of North Lanarkshire giving energy advice. The Energy team have helped many owner occupiers to access grants for free central heating, cavity wall & loft insulation and draught proofing.

In the present economic climate and with high energy prices combined with rises in basic food prices I expect this work to become even more valuable.

Please contact: 01236 616358 or energy@northlan.gov.uk for further information and advice."

Please pass this on to anyone who you think might need it.

Change of use to Hot Food Takeaway, 35 Bellshill Road

2008-10-17T05:12:00.000-07:00

An application S/08/01400/FUL, has been received looking to turn the carpet showroom at this site into a takeaway shop. Residents will already be aware of how busy this area is and the fact that that there are two hot food stores here already.

I look forward to any comments/observations you might have, you can also raise issues with the planning officer, Colin Campbell, directly. You can call him on 01698 274118.

Words 2008: North Lanarkshire Festival of Books and Writing

2008-10-09T08:47:00.000-07:00

The Council is re-running this tremendous event, it is now well underway, having begun on 30th September and will finish on 11th October. More information can be found here http://www.northlan.gov.uk/leisure+and+tourism/libraries/local+libraries/words+2008.html

I was able to attend a fantastic talk with Mark Millar, the comics creator on Saturday and I'm really looking forward to an evening with Science Fiction author Ken MacLeod tonight.

I'm gutted about missing the event with Joan Lingard in Wishaw this Saturday, I adored her Kevin and Sadie stories as a kid. I'd happily recommend this or any of the other events.

Check them out.

Black Gold

2008-10-08T11:48:00.000-07:00

The Motherwell Fairtrade Steering Group are arranging a screening of the fabulous film Black Gold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Gold_(film) on October 23rd in Motherwell College at 6.30 PM. There will also be a Fairtrade "virtual" fashion show, tea, coffee and a raffle.

Space is limited, so anyone wanting to attend should contact Eileen Imlah at the college on 01698 232264 to confirm a place.

Free Swims Back Again

2008-10-07T04:56:00.000-07:00

Everyone under the age of 16 in Motherwell West can get free entry to all North Lanarkshire Leisure pools, 10am to 4pm from Monday, 13^th October until Friday, 17^th October.

The usual rules will apply.

Proposed Installation of a Mobile Phone Mast on Bellshill Road, Motherwell, ML1 3TJ

2008-10-06T14:19:00.000-07:00

I have been written to by consultants based in Glasgow regarding proposals to install a mobile phone mast on Bellshill Road, close to the junction with Kylemore Crescent.

There has been no formal planning application submitted yet, but I would welcome any comments that people might like to add.