Earls Court Residents Association
Published by the EARLS COURT RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION
18th year of Publication
NOV 2010
Earls Court wins
Earls Court has again won the Best
Large Estate in Waterford ! We last
won it two years ago.
Inside
The competition, organised by the
City Council and sponsored by WLR,
looked at the ways in which we build
neighbourliness in the estate:
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The winter that
was.
Neigbrhood Watch.
Tree-thinning.
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Maxol back.
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Satellite Dishes.
Cycling at roundabouts.
Match and Man
The leaves of brown
The estate never looked as sombre. The
lack of wind in October has meant that the
leaves fell straight down and stayed with
us.
Well done Stephen Daniels of
Mayfield Green
got Man of the
Match.
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The Residents Association has been
forced to dump branches and leaves that
we cut and gathered on Tidy-up Days behind the front walls. Due to cutbacks the
Council won’t take the waste away.
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Flower-beds are kept clean and
wed by residents
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The trees are pruned and thinned
this year by residents (photo P.2)
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Litter is kept to a minimum by residents picking it up as they walk
home and , and by residents who
keep the butt of their hedges free
of cans, bottles and bags
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Neighbourhood Watch was set
up this year and shows that residents care about each other
This is our fourth time to win and it
puts Earls Court at the top of the roll
Somebody unknown person has got in on
the act and dumped big branches behind
the right the front wall. This is an eyesore
and must not be repeated.
An old story
Can we again appeal to people who live
on the corner of a street with no footpaths
to reduce the size of their corner hedge to
1 metre off the ground? This is to avoid the
danger of a child running off the main-road
footpath onto the street not being seen till
its too late by a car exiting from your street.
The corner hedge on Auburn Drive is a
good example of a hedge that does not
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Residents pay €35 a year to keep
the greens cut
Given the unwillingness of the leaves to get
up and walk away there will be a tidy-up
on Saturday next, 13th November starting as usual at 10.30am. Please come to
the front of the estate and help Earls Court 
put on its Christmas face.
Secret dumper?
Congratulations to
De La Salle and
commiserations to
Ballygunner in the
Waterford senior
Hurling championship Final.
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Daylight robbery
We have had a couple of
daylight burglaries recently. In both
cases entrance was made by the
small fanlights in the downstairs toilet
or utility room windows. Keep the door
to this area locked to limit the amount
of goodies available to the robber.
Neighbourhood
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Giving the sycamores a bit of a
trimming—
Liam Frampton in
Mayfield Green
Tree-thinning
It is hoped to get the City Council to cut down
dead trees and thin out trees that are a hazard
to safety, vision-when-driving or security. They
have promised to do this during the winter hibernation period.
If you have suggestions or requirements for
trees to be removed from public greens contact
Michael on 087 1273894 or 051-879311
A woeful winter
Last winter, from late December to February,
we went through weeks of weather that one
would like to forget but that were unforgettable.
For years we may have thanked the Lord that
we live on a height well above the Suir and its
floods, Viewmount, Collins Avenue, Powerscourt, Ballinakill Park and Ballinakill Downs
but living up high has one drawback—when the
ice comes hard it can turn travel into a nightmare. Many residents fell and hurt themselves.
thanks
We belatedly say Thanks to the residents from
houses near the front of Earls Court and further
up who responded to the call to spread salt on
the main road over a number of weeks at Christmas and in January.
We were lucky enough to get two consignments
of 24 bags of salt from the Council, and we
shared these with most of the estates mentioned
above. One night we had just finished around
11.30pm when the Council salt-spreader swung
into the estate and did it all again.
Well, we didn’t have a slippery road for ages afterwards.
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Neighbourhood Watch was set up in
Earls Court almost a year ago. In that
time it has helped in the fight against
Earls Court’s share of break-ins and other minor
anti-social activities.
The Residents Association has paid for the manufacture and erection of Neighbourhood Watch
signs. Deirdre, our Area Co-ordinator of Neighbourhood Watch has told the Newsletter:
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That stickers for a front door or window will be
given out to everyone who wants them in due
course. Not all the stickers have arrived yet.
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That a new area co-ordinator will be needed by
January because she is retiring (after a job well
done!)
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That the following streets still need a person to
volunteer as a street-co-ordinator:
Alderbury Grove, Alderbury Close, Creston
Close, The Orchard, Auburn Close, Medford
Green. Tel: 086 8790458 to volunteer.
The former Centra, and
now Day-Today shop
in Powerscourt is once
more back under the
management of an Earls Court family , Phil and
Declan Purcell from Brentwood Crescent. It is
open from 7.15-8pm Monday to Friday, 8am-8pm
on Saturday, and 8.30-6.30pm on Sunday.
DayToday serves daily newspapers, phone credit,
bin tags, hot and cold deli, tea, coffee and many
other conveniences. It also offers Bill Payment
Facilities through the Postpoint terminal. The
Purcells speaking to Earls Court residents
through the Newsletter say:
“We are a local friendly family living in the community for the last 18 years and hope with your
support to give people what they want. We will
be flexible in changing to meet people’s needs.
We will be providing a valuable service to our local community and we look forward to serving you
in the near future.”
Both Ourcells have served on the Residents Association Committee . We hope Earls Court residents will now support them.
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Behaviour that threatens
If there is behaviour outside your house that
threatens you, try not to get involved yourself
but phone the guards.
The Gardaí do not mind coming out to a call of
this type. Gardaí phone numbers:
305 300
or
381 333
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The Community Police desk is open during normal office hours.
Their number is
305 377
The Community Gardaí for the Dunmore Road
area are Sarah O’Connell and Eamonn Kearns
Stephen Daniels of 10 Mayfield Green with the
Man of the Match trophy that he won for his performance as wing-back in the Waterford Senior
Hurling County championship on October 24th
when De La Salle defeated Ballygunner, 3-13 to
1-11.
De La Salle now move on to play Sarsfields of
Cork on Nov 14th in the semi-final of the Munster
Club Championship at 2pm at Páirc Uí Chaoimh,
Maxol makes a comeback
The derelict Maxol garage opposite Collins Avenue is to reopen. Maxol re-bought the site and now
has Planning Permission to open a petrol station,
shop, off-licence and small café area in a Mace
retail building. Some Ballinakill Avenue residents
objected that the off-licence with lead to anti-social
behavior.
Spot the big house
opment Plan, and that local similar businesses will
be hit, also contrary to the Development Plan.
McAvinue further argued that the new building (it
has a zinc roof and a flat roof—see drawing) will
clash with its surroundings, and that the disability
facilities will be substandard.
City Planners may have forgotten that the previous
two Planning Permissions on this site were conA Brass Cock accountancy firm, McAvinue, argued tested and both times the proposed flat roof had to
that there is 50% more retail space in the proposal be given a ridged, tiled roof appearance to harmothan was allowed under the Waterford City Devel- nise with the houses at Collins Ave., Earls Court
etc. There may be an appeal to an Bord Pleanála!
Web address:
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Pride of Place
Waterford City Council has produced a leaflet for
the guidance of adult cyclists. It is an excellent
leaflet, originally written by UK National Standard
cycling instructors for cyclists in Galway.
One of the surprising recommendations is that
where there is not a cycle lane the cyclist should
take up his/her primary position—in the middle of
the left hand car-lane. “Adopt it when you can
keep up with traffic, or when you need to emphasise your presence or deter risky overtaking.
You are not allowed to impede others unnecessarily but you are not obliged to let someone pass
if you think there is any risk to yourself”.
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Satellite Dishes
The problem of satellite dishes is still with us.
Those companies who erect satellite dishes are
well aware that it is against planning by-laws to
erect a dish on a front wall or on a chimney.
We ask all satellite owners to
call back the company who installed the dish and get them to
move it to the side.
Please remember that satellite
dishes are outlawed on front walls because they
are an eyesore to your neighbours.
Please support the ongoing annual collection of €35 for the upkeep of the estate.
This Newsletter
was sponsored by AXA .
AXA offers car, home
and business insurance:
Tel:
O51-872084
website address: www.earlscourtwaterford.com