Hampden Park Neighbourhood Panel
14th August 2010
The next Hampden Park Panel Meeting will take place at Eastbourne Railway Club Station Approach Hampden Park on 24th August 2010 at 10am
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Having identified so many areas of mutual interest and concern it has been decided by the Hampden Park East and West Panels that they amalgamate and have joint meetings in future. Meetings are held approximately 6 weekly at the Railway Club on Station Approach. If you would like to attend or bring a matter to the attention of your panel please email hamchairman@eastbournenp.org or telephone 07802 884088 to speak to the Chairman.
Your Neighbourhood Panel is your Forum for Action
Hampden Park formed one of Eastbourne’s first Neighbourhood Panels. These panel meetings are held to enable the community to bring forward issues they have regarding the area they live in to the attention of our MP, Councillors, the Police, Network Rail, Eastbourne Borough Council Officers, etc. The panel meetings enable local groups, residents and traders to get their views before the people who make the decisions. A list of regular members of the panel and notes of previous meetings can be accessed by navigating the links above on this page.
The panel meetings have identified four main areas of concern as youth facilities in the area; anti social behaviour; parking and traffic flow and dog fouling. There is an additional item that has been listed as an urgent action point. This is the record of vandalism from the footbridge across the railway from Brodrick Road. Various items are known to have been thrown onto the railway line and at the trains and concerns have been expressed that this will result in derailment and fatalities.
Action Already
During our first year as a panel we have been able to welcome as visitors our new police commander Chief Insp. Jayne Dando; our MP Nigel Waterson; the Crime Reduction Partnership; Neighbourhood Watch; Network Rail; Railway Transport Police; local Justices of the Peace; children from the ETC School Council; local Headmasters and the local Vicar. All contribute to our discussions and many now attend the meetings regularly. We are currently looking into the provision of a youth drop-in centre; enhanced facilities in the area for the young and old alike; education of dog owners using the area and safety awareness regarding not just respect for the level crossing warning signals but the use of the railway as a short cut to the village. We need to ensure people understand they can be killed on the track and by trying to negotiate round the level crossing gates once the warning has been given.
East Sussex County Council Highways have attended a recent panel meeting and conducted a survey of parking and traffic movement which they will present to the panel and hopefully implement this year. Negotiations are also taking place with Network Rail to endeavour to establish some commuter parking near the station.
How you can be involved
Help us make the community aware of the new Neighbourhood Panel. If you, or a member of your family, belong to a local club or group please pass the word around about this new initiative to address crime and problems in the community. If there are issues to be addressed please encourage people to take them to the panel rather than discuss them amongst themselves.
Yours truly,
Sandy Boyce-Sharpe
Chairman