Snow update - Sunday

Sunday morning's weather update from the council is below.
The main message seems to be to check out Camden's winter web pages.
As you will see if you follow the links below, the roads that the council is concentrating on are the bus routes. I'm afraid if you're not on one of the priority footpaths (and virtually no-one in Fortune Green is) it might be some time before the Council can get round to clearing your pavement. But remember - its an urban myth that you will get sued if someone falls over on a bit of pavement you have cleared!

"Despite the heaviest snowfall in London for more than 40 years, all priority roads in Camden are up and running this morning.

We will continue to ensure priority routes are gritted today and will attempt to grit side roads where we can. You can see a list of priority gritting routes on our web site.

Street cleansing services remain suspended as staff will be removing snow and ice from priority pavement areas. You can see a list of priority footpaths on our web site.

Refuse services are running today but there are potential problems with safe access because pavements and some roads remain hazardous so disruption is likely.

The temperature today is not predicted to get above freezing and will drop to -7 tonight with a possibility of more snow showers.

We will be up updating our winter web pages throughout the day, so please refer to this for the latest news. I will only send another email update today if there is a significant change in the weather."

Snow and the council

The councillors were sent this update on Friday about the council's plans for dealing with the snow this weekend...

Dear Councillors

I am sure you will have seen the weather forecast predicting more bad weather over the weekend. The unpredicted snow earlier today has already caused problems on our roads and pavements. We have suspended our cleansing services and have directed staff to gritting and clearing pavements. Our gritting lorries were out this morning ensuring main roads were kept running and following this they have moved on to side roads. However, many side roads and pavements are hazardous as the temperatures are so low.

The weather forecast for the next few days is very uncertain but the current update for London is that we could see some snow showers running in from the west by the end of the night before more persistent snow develops and moves across during the day. Most of London is predicted to get accumulations of between 5-10cm but there is a risk of 20 cm by the end of Saturday. There is a smaller risk of snow on Sunday and into Monday.

You will see from our winter web pages that some services have been affected today and we will continue to update the web site over the weekend so please refer to this for the latest information. If there is a significant affect on our services I will email you tomorrow.

I would also like to confirm that we have plans in place to ensure that you and the web site are kept up to date if bad weather should come over the Christmas holiday period.

Spotlight on Cricklewood

The Cricklewood Improvement Group are organising a get-together of the three police Safer Neighbourhood Teams that cover Cricklewood: Fortune Green, Mapesbury and Child's Hill.
As I often lament, Cricklewood is not only split between 3 wards, but also between three boroughs.
It will be interesting to see what issues are raised at the meeting and how the teams work together.
Details below if you're able to come along...

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COMMUNITY MEETING

to discuss future plans for

Cricklewood Broadway

Tuesday 7 December 2010 at 7 pm

at CHC, 60 Ashford Road, NW2

All residents invited - this is an opportunity to have your say!

Agenda:

1.    Discussion and agreement on future direction of integrated policing across the three wards surrounding Cricklewood Broadway i.e. Mapesbury, Childs Hill and Fortune Green.

2.    Update on Cricklewood Improvement Project community plan (a local citizen led Cricklewood regeneration project) including Vision, priorities, volunteer sign up etc etc

3.    AOB:

·       Ward Working funding application – Information

·       Domain name competition – Information

·       Christmas carols – Information

·       Parish council – information

·       Jubilee People’s Millions