Week starting on 20th October

Hello,

I have left this blog on its own for too long so I have decided to post once a week my tribulations in the Ouseburn, it will help to keep tracks on what happened the previous week.
We had a good meeting last week to discuss the current state of affairs in the Ouseburn after the September floods. The minutes are getting finalised and should be sent to all the members this week. In the meantime, I will start this week to look into the Community Ward Grants as Steve Barrett suggested it could be a good place apply for some funding. The first two projects we have in mind is creating a retention pond near Gosforth Golf Course and some rural water storage in the Upper Ouseburn. For the first project I will try to work with Bob Wilkin and for the second with Steve. I will keep you posted with my progress in the next weeks.
There were a series of emails yesterday between Paul Q, the EA and NWL (Les Hall) regarding Newcastle Great Park Cell I SuDs and the conditions for its possible adoption by Newcastle City Council, all very interesting.
Our position is to push forward with the proposed diversion scheme at the upstream end of Cell I and then work on the SuDs when it will be adopted by the Council.
Paul and I are meeting with Malcolm Newsom tomorrow afternoon to talk about Tyne Rivers Trust projects and a possible collaboration with our little group.
See you here next week.
Sebastien