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texting time q Once the number is in the phone What happens to my text compose your message message? q To help us deal with your Your text or multimedia message will request effectively please follow go directly to Winchester City the examples detailed below: Council Customer Services Centre To report a non urgent repair at who will then deal with the request. your property text: What if I don't have a mobile q Repairs – your surname – house phone? Picture the scene, it's 9 pm and number – postcode You can ring on 01962 840 222, you have something you need to write, e-mail, fax on To report fly tipping text: report to Winchester City Council. 01962 841 365 or come in to the q Fly tipping – your surname – It's not an emergency but you Customer Service Centre. location of tipping would like to know that it's been For more information or To report an abandoned reported and will be dealt with - any queries about Customer vehicle text: what do you do? Services please contact Customer q Abandoned vehicle – your Until recently you would have had Services by telephoning surname – vehicle registration – to wait until the next day to contact 01962 840 222, e-mailing location of vehicle the Customer Service Team, but not firstname.lastname@example.com To request a member of the any more. As part of our focus on or by sending an SMS text Customer Service team to call you improving customer service we have message to 07797 877 004. back text: introduced an SMS text service so that customers can report repairs, q Call back – your surname – fly tipping, abandoned vehicles or house number - postcode request a callback. Note we will call you back on the The benefits speak for themselves, phone that you sent the SMS text as you can save time and money by from unless you specify an texting your request to us any time alternative number. of the day or night. You'll receive How much will my SMS text It's OK to AS CM0813-22964 June 2006 Designed by Winchester City Council's Design, Print & WP Unit an auto reply message confirming message cost me to send? K! On a low incom that we've received your message. The cost of sending a text or e? Working on a The Customer Service team will pick multimedia message is dependant low wage? Struggling to m up the messages during the next on the mobile phone tariff you eet your living costs? working day and contact you by use. (Refer to your mobile network For advice on Housing and Co Benefits ring uncil Tax 6pm on the same day that we read service provider for details of 01962 848 53 your message. charges.) Winchester City Council 9 Tele pho ne call s may be reco rded or visit our we bsite How do I text? Council does not make any ww w. wi nc he ste r.g ov.u k q Save our text number 07797 877 additional charge. It doesn't cost any might be able to thing and you get some help. 004 to your mobile phone - see www.winchester.g your mobile phone instructions on ov.uk how to do this. page 16 on the house house housing news for Winchester City Council tenants and leaseholders inside Working Towards this edition: Decent Homes The Government's target to bring all council homes up to the Decent Homes standard is progressing well in the district. Whilst many councils will not be able to achieve the target, q Texting Times the City Council has very clear plans and is confident of bringing all your homes in line with the Standard well in advance of the December 2010 deadline. q Hot Property Whilst the housing stock in Winchester is generally in very good condition, in April 2005 Pullout there were 908 houses that technically fell short of the Standard. Since then, we have improved approximately 160 homes that were previously classed as 'non decent'. q Recycling Now, less than 15% of our homes fail the Standard. Round up Much of this work involved improving loft insulation and we have been able to gain extra Government grant to help fund this, which is great news in light of q TACT Quiz current budget pressures. Key Staff In the coming year we will be bringing a further 290 properties up to the Standard, again with significant extra Government grant to help with q Flower Power insulation work. Competition Whilst the Council is committed to achieving the Standard, maintaining funding levels is increasingly difficult as the Government continues to take q New Portfolio 40% of all the rent we collect for housing in other parts of the country. Holder for We will achieve the Decent Homes targets, although our ability to maintain current services in the long term remains uncertain. Housing and Communities Cllr Tony Coates ...and look out for the latest edition of ConTACT edition 4 june 2006 dear tenants language Every year the June edition of on the house carries essential information on the maintenance contracts line that are being carried out in the coming year and I The City Council has access to Glynis Cole know that you will be avidly searching to find out if Language Line, which provides your home is in line for improvement or redecoration. We have combined all these items into a Hot Property Pullout and in fact this an instant interpretation edition is crammed with information from the Property Services team, service 24 hours a day, with a along with a Who's Who about them, which tells you who does what. team of qualified interpreters You will find that some of your Area Housing Managers are on the move used to communicating in over and we have two new, and very experienced, faces on the team. There is 100 languages. Language Line a new way of contacting our Customer Service Centre – by text – in case can set up a conference call so you need to get in touch with us out of hours. that the Council, an interpreter Of course summer is the time when our thoughts turn to the garden and and a non-English speaker can our annual gardening competition is open to all tenants and leaseholders all be on the line at the – so why not nominate your garden, or even your neighbour's? This year same time for a three-way we have added another category to include the Best Balcony as we telephone conversation. spotted some sensational balconies while judging in 2005. Looking green Language Line can also and lovely are the open spaces around Godson, Lawn and Windsor Houses following a huge re-landscaping scheme and you will find news provide text translation and on their makeover inside. text to speech services. There is more news from our hard working Neighbourhood Warden If you, a relative or a team, which just goes on growing. And our evergreen TACT Chairs neighbour would like to talk Alan Rickman and David Cruden have been talking turkey with to the City Council through Clive Broomfield about empty properties and I think their question the Language Line service, and answer session gives us all an insight into how voids are handled – please contact your Area and some of the problems we face. Housing Manager. So please make the most of on the house and let us know of any subjects you think we ought to be writing about. Don't forget if you would like to join TACT or a local Tenants Association, please give Seema or myself a call on Freephone 0800 716 987. Best wishes, TEXTPHONE This facility is available for tenants PS and thank you to everyone who sent that are deaf or hard of hearing. me cards and kind wishes when I was off Please telephone 01962 878 982. work earlier in the year. Winchester City Council, get it taped City Offices, Colebrook Street, Winchester, SO23 9LJ. telephone 01962 840 222 If you would like any of the information in fax 01962 841 365 email email@example.com on the house translated into another language, or made website www.winchester.gov.uk available in large print or audio format, please call Telephone calls may be recorded. Glynis Cole on Freephone 0800 716 987. Printed on environmentally friendly paper. page 2 on the house TACT quiz key staff continued stages, (i) before the existing tenant £1,300, some properties are left in provided into consideration. leaves where access is gained, (ii) such an appalling state that they Allocations are always made based whilst the property is empty – essential require works well in excess of this on the applicants housing need and works to make it habitable, safety amount. Three properties that have in line with the Scheme of Allocation. checks and cleaning, and (iii) once the arisen during the last six months in Such matters as aspirations for new tenant has moved in. However it Hambledon, Bishops Waltham and schooling, public transport, proximity must be stressed that works carried out Wickham have cost £14,698, £17,202 to relatives and friends, etc., are all once the new tenant has taken up and £16,543 respectively. Much of taken into account wherever possible. occupation will be carried out in this work should be rechargeable to It is not always practical or possible accordance with existing responsive tenants but in reality the money is to satisfy all of these elements and if and planned maintenance timescales. seldom recoverable. The photographs this is the case the property will Housing Associations take tenants on these pages should give you some sometimes be rejected. Often these to view properties, so that idea of the sort of thing we are up decisions are based on a particular potential problems can be sorted against. event in a tenant's life over which out at the time of viewing, saving they have no control or the property issues arriving later on. Is this the does not meet the applicant's path we should be going along in expectations. the future? Should tenants be encouraged to This is another recommendation arising widen their area of choice and from the 2003 Best Value Review. should we consider the numbers of However it was rejected on Health & offers made, or is this controlled Safety grounds. It was thought that by the Government? officers would be put at risk when Sometimes, tenants are very exact in taking an unknown potential tenant to their areas of choice. Some types of view an empty property. We are in the It is important to TACT that voids properties in popular areas only process of making video footage of the get turned around as soon as become available on a very limited property available for viewing at the possible as the Housing Revenue basis and this will be pointed out. It City Offices. Account suffers if not, and then becomes a matter of need versus Government cuts make every £1 choice for the tenant. It is our job to Is completing a void turn-around vital to the HRA. open up all options and to empower an expensive exercise? Because the money involved is from the It is equally important to officers the individual to make informed HRA, is all the rent money that voids are turned around as choices. There is no limit on the accounted for? quickly as possible. number of offers made but there is a Tenants are given choices of limit on types of property offered. For Turning around void properties is a property over a period of time, but instance a three-bedroom house will very costly business. We currently have turn many down. Do we gather not be offered to a single person, nor around 450 voids annually at a cost of information as to why and are the would a second floor flat be offered to £600,000 in terms of maintenance/ reasons given genuine? a wheelchair user unless it is serviced repair works. A further £300,000 is lost by a lift and this is considered suitable. annually in rental income. Much of the Yes, we naturally gather information In line with Government guidelines cost of maintenance works could be and try to use it to further our we will be introducing a Choice avoided if tenants left their properties understanding of people's preferences Based Lettings System by 2010. in an acceptable condition. Although so that future offers can, where the average cost of a void is around possible, take the information on the house page 15 TACT quiz key staff TACT Chairmen, Alan Rickman and q Look after your property and leave standards are applied to all, David Cruden recently held an informal it as you would expect to find it. so exceptions should be very rare. question and answer session with the It is the tenant's responsibility to Housing Associations have a much Head of Property & Contracts Services, keep internal decorations up better turn round time on Voids than Clive Broomfield and Housing Needs together and to report repairs as we do currently. What can we learn Manager, Diane Cooper. Here are some they arise. This policy is outlined in from them? of the key points from their discussion: your tenancy agreement and in the In terms of maintenance work, the How long does it take to turn round Tenant's Handbook, but sadly is turnaround time is determined by two a void (empty) property to be ready often ignored. factors, (i) how much work is necessary for allocation? q Once you have given notice or to bring the property up to the locally The average maintenance period, had your transfer approved, please agreed Minimum Voids Standard and including the client pre- and post make every effort to co-operate (ii) when this work is carried out (the inspection times, is 3-4 weeks. with the Voids Officer and your Minimum Void Period – MVP). In terms Area Property Surveyor. Make of the former, some Housing Are you trying to improve on this? appointments with them promptly Associations already carry out less Yes. Now that the extent of the work and ensure that you keep them. work than we have agreed with you to be carried out in each void has If pre-termination/transfer works in our Minimum Voids Standard. been agreed with the tenant groups are identified by the Voids Officer In terms of the latter, some Housing (Minimum Voids Standard), we are please carry them out as quickly as Associations already carry out much of now looking to implement the possible, making sure the work is the works with either the existing or Minimum Void Period - as identified of a good standard. new tenant in occupation. in the 2004 Best Value Review. q Clear all rubbish and unwanted How can tenants help? furniture/carpets from the property. Tenants can help the Council and their Don't just assume that the incoming fellow tenants/rent payers in the tenant will want them. If in doubt following ways: check with the Voids Officers. q Only move house when absolutely Remember you will be liable for a necessary – and not just because recharge if the Council has to do you fancy a change. For example, this on your behalf. one particular tenant has moved q Take responsibility for your property Some of the problems that we face with five times during the last five and your actions. This way you empty properties years into like properties. Of 450 will minimise the financial impact voids each year, over 50% of on the Housing Revenue Account Tenants in Housing Associations are these are transfers. If fewer (HRA) and on each other as rent prepared to move into a property that transfers went ahead there would paying tenants. requires further work, provided that be more properties available q As tenant groups – TACT, Property they have the promise that the work on the waiting list for homeless & Contracts Forum and Rents & will be completed shortly afterwards. people and genuinely more Business Forum – you can help us Should we follow this system? needy cases such as those with ill as officers to uphold the policies We are already moving towards this. health or disabilities, or where that have been jointly agreed. With the introduction of the MVP the there is overcrowding. It is essential that fair and equal work will be completed in three distinct continued on page 15 ... page 14 on the house flower power Calling all green-fingered tenants and leaseholders. Please complete the form and return to Glynis Cole, This summer we will again be running our Gardening Tenant Participation Manager, at the address below. Competition and you don't have to be Alan Titchmarsh to Entries should be returned no later than Friday 14th take part. If you are proud of your plot then let us know, July 2006. Happy Gardening and Good Luck! or if you are impressed with your neighbour's jungle, then why not nominate them instead - just send in the Competition judge Sandy Worth with last year's Best Front Garden Winner, form below. This year there will be four classes as Bernie Sheppard of Alresford. we have added a new category, Best Balcony, as we were so impressed with all the wonderful balconies we saw on our travels last summer. Sandy Worth of the Watermeadow Nursery in Cheriton has agreed to be our judge and she will be looking for colourful and well- maintained gardens. Entry is free to all City Council tenants and leaseholders with prizes of £30 gift vouchers awarded to the winners of the Best Front Garden and Sheltered Scheme, with two runners-up each receiving £20 gift vouchers. The Best Hanging Basket winner will receive a £25 gift voucher and the Best Balcony winner will receive a £25 voucher. Ê I/We would like to enter/nominate* for Daytime Tel. No. (please delete as appropriate) THE BEST FRONT GARDEN u * If you are nominating another gardener please THE BEST HANGING BASKET u enter their details here: THE BEST SHELTERED HOUSING SCHEME u (Please also make sure that you have their permission) THE BEST BALCONY u Name (please tick the relevant box) Your Name Address Address Please return to: Glynis Cole, Tenant Participation Manager, Winchester City Council, FREEPOST, NAT 15377, Winchester SO23 9ZW. No stamp required. on the house page 3 housing surgeries can't afford Do you have any Housing Benefit or Housing Management issues to buy? you would like to discuss? If so, then why not come along to one If you would like to buy a home of your own of our Housing Surgeries? A Benefits Officer and an Area Housing but you can't quite afford it, Swaythling Manager will also be in attendance. Here are the dates, times and Housing Society has just been awarded the locations of Housing Surgeries in the south of the district for the funding to help council and housing association rest of the year: tenants in most areas of Hampshire to buy a Venue: Normandy Court, Wickham home on the open market with the Homebuy Area Housing Manager: Jane Hobbs - telephone 01962 848 198 Scheme. The Open Market Homebuy scheme Day: 1st Wednesday of the month Time: 10am to 1pm enables you to choose a home to buy, just q Wednesday 5th July 2006 like any other home buyer (usually through an estate agent) as long as you can afford q Wednesday 2nd August 2006 75% of the purchase price yourself. q Wednesday 6th September 2006 Swaythling will provide the remaining 25% q Wednesday 4th October 2006 of the purchase price in the form of a loan. q Wednesday 1st November 2006 There is nothing to pay on this Homebuy loan q Wednesday 6th December 2006 and no rent payable, the condition being that Venue: White Wings House, Denmead the loan must be repaid when you sell your Area Housing Manager: Kate Mooge - telephone 01962 848 400 home and at 25% of the value at that time. Day: 1st Thursday of the month Time: 2pm to 5pm Swaythling will not expect you to pay the loan back unless you sell or move away from q Thursday 6th July 2006 your new home, although you could opt to q Thursday 3rd August 2006 pay it at any time q Thursday 6th September 2006 in the future if you q Thursday 2nd November 2006 wish. Effectively q Thursday 7th December 2006 you will be buying These surgeries provide a face-to-face service for those who are your own home unable, or who do not wish, to travel to Winchester. However, if you for three quarters are unable to attend these local surgeries because of ill health, please of the real cost. call your Area Housing Manager to arrange an appointment in your Priority for the own home. scheme will be For further information on these local surgeries, or to make given to Housing an appointment, please call your Area Housing Manager on Association or council tenants. 01962 840 222. To qualify for the Homebuy scheme, you usually need to be in full time work and have at least £2,500 savings to cover the Wordsearch Winner cost of legal fees and other expenses. You can see all the details on Congratulations to Mrs Sheila Hayward of central Winchester who www.homesinhants.co.uk where you won our Creepy Crawly Wordsearch in the last edition. Sheila chose can apply on line. Or, you can phone £20 worth of High Street vouchers. 02380 628 000 for an information pack. page 4 on the house who's who in property services Who's Who in this issue of on the house features the Property Services Team which provides a sterling service maintaining the Council's extensive portfolio of both Housing and Corporate property. The Management Team – is led by Clive Broomfield and co-ordinates all policy and operational issues in relation to building and maintenance projects for both corporate and housing stock. They have responsibility for budgeting, programming, The Planned Maintenance Team (left to right) Melvin Laney, Jeff Vale, Perri Seymour, Emma review processes Smith, Allen Smith and Keith Miles. and taking all projects through contract surveyors draw up detailed from inception to specifications and documents final account. outlining the scope of Department Management the work. The Clerk of Works Team (left to right) oversee all these projects and may Rod Shepherd, Clive Broomfield, Gaynor Bromley be seen out and about in the district and Andrew Kingston. carrying out their inspections to ensure that works are carried out to both the City Council's and tenants' exacting standards. Also included in this team are the specialists who deal with disabled adaptations, the installation of handrails, stairlifts and level access showers, etc. The Corporate Team (left to right) The Property Surveyors (left to right) Customer Liaison and Les Titheridge, Marriam Baxendale, Kevin Blake, Neil Trenfield, Derek Parker, Les MacLachlan and Administration – this team deals Clive Broomfield and Rod Shepherd. Graham Howard. with the day-to-day administration The Corporate Team – maintains The Property Surveyors – this team of the section, offering support to properties like Abbey House and the acts on a responsive basis to your all other sections and to tenants. Guildhall, shops and offices, requests for repairs, arranging work They are also the point of contact recreation centres and also and offering advice as necessary. The between tenant and contractor monuments like the Buttercross. Voids Surveyor is also part of this during major refurbishment works. Many of the properties team, making sure our empty are historically important and listed properties are made safe and ready building consents from English for re-letting. Heritage may be required before The Planned Maintenance and any work is carried out. Specialist Clerk of Works Team – handles cyclic workforces such as stonemasons and and planned maintenance work. This iron founders are often employed on can include such projects as external these sorts of projects. repair and painting, re-roofing and kitchen refurbishment for which the Customer Liaison & Administration (left to right) Mike Wallbridge, Barbara Howells and Gary Job. on the house page 13 what tenants want Since we first brought you news of this new improvement schedule and they must agree to carry out each task to a set scheme, Property Services has been in consultation with the standard, for a set price. The contractor's performance will be City Council's Legal team for their comments and, after monitored, and the prices will be reviewed regularly to ensure detailed discussion it was concluded that this scheme should they remain fair and competitive. not be run directly by the Council. The price list will be made available to tenants who are then As there is a great deal of enthusiasm and demand for this free to approach any contractor on the list. The contractor will project, we felt that another solution had to be found to enable deal with you direct, and you will pay them. the scheme to proceed, whilst ensuring that a reliable and Any scheduled works carried out at your property, by one of the trustworthy service was still available. preferred contractors to our specification, will thereafter be Therefore, instead of the Council providing the service directly, maintained free of charge by the Council for the term of the we will negotiate with an approved list of contractors who tenancy. A full list of improvements will be discussed at will deal directly with you. Many popularly requested items Property and Contracts Forum when the final approval for will be included and these items will be set out in a schedule the scheme will be sought. Once approval has been given the prepared by Property Services staff. Selected contractors will various items will be specified and scheduled ready for pricing. be invited to agree a rate for each job specified in the We will bring you further updates in on the house. rubbish costs money! The subject of rubbish in occupied or void (empty) properties is always a thorny issue. If the Council is involved in removing rubbish from your property - be it whilst you are in occupation or after you have left and the property is empty - you will find yourself liable for a recharge. It is a very costly exercise for the You will also be charged an q Furniture, appliances and other Council to undertake, usually administration fee of 10% of the unwanted household items. involving either the contractor hiring total charges to cover staff time. You q The contents of lofts and brick a skip or making use of a caged see how the bill soon mounts up! built sheds. vehicle to cart the rubbish away. We do therefore recommend that q Timber sheds and greenhouses. Costs for either of these services are you take responsibility for removing roughly similar. In both instances q Garden rubbish and building your own rubbish at all times. If you however an additional charge for rubble. are moving home this must include: 'Landfill Tax' is levied on the contractor because he is dumping on a commercial basis. This cost will naturally be passed on to the Council. It would therefore be much cheaper for you to take your own rubbish to the local recycling centre as you would not be liable for this tax. So in calculating your recharge costs the Council must consider the cost of carting away, plus the Landfill Tax. page 12 on the house Hot Property Pullout NEW FACES, NEW PLACES on the move employment in private practice and the Rent Service, Jane moved into "I am committed to maintaining and improving housing services Area Housing Manager Kate the housing field seven years ago and standards," says Su. "I enjoy Mooge has worked for the City working for a Housing Association working with tenants to shape and Council for 17 years, 16 of those in based in East Hampshire. She lives develop neighbourhoods and Housing. During that time she has in Southsea and enjoys cycling and communities which we can be covered several areas including playing squash in her spare time. proud of and want to live in." Highcliffe and Winnall and most recently Weeke and Kings Worthy. new role for fiona However, since the retirement of Fiona Churcher joined Winchester Peter Roberts, Kate has been asked City Council in August 2000 as an to take over the southern parishes Area Housing Manager, having area with effect from this April. "I previously worked in a similar role Jane Hobbs am really looking forward to taking at Southampton City Council since on a new set of challenges within 1995. the Denmead and Bishops Over the last six years, Fiona has Waltham "I am looking forward to working managed several areas in the district, parishes," with local residents," says Jane most recently the Highcliffe area and says Kate. "and maintaining and building Mildmay Court in Winchester as well upon the services provided by the as parts of the southern parishes. City Council." Fiona has now taken up a new Kate Mooge new su position as Principal Area Housing Manager, still within Housing Su Morgan has joined Winchester Landlord Services. She is responsible "I would like to say thank you to City Council as an Area Housing for providing day-to-day supervision all those residents who have Manager and covers the areas of and support to the Estate Management helped and supported me over the Weeke, The Worthys, Hursley and team, as well as managing the team's years and also a special thank you Otterbourne, previously managed performance to a high standard. to all the Tenant Association by Kate Mooge. members who I have enjoyed Su has wide housing experience working with." and previously worked for Manchester City Council and a jane joins up Basingstoke-based Housing Fiona Churcher Jane Hobbs has recently joined Association. the City Council as an Area Housing Manager covering the Highcliffe area of Winchester and " I will also be developing the the southern parishes. Jane is a housing management service to Chartered Surveyor and a respond to the changing needs Corporate Member of the and demands of our customers," Su Morgan Chartered Institute of says Fiona, "including reviewing Housing. Following previous current estate management policy and procedures." on the house page 5 warden team set to GROW The City Council's Neighbourhood or on behalf of residents who may Warden Scheme is expanding wish to remain anonymous. again with the recruitment of an PROJECTS additional two Neighbourhood As well as dealing with incidents on Wardens. This means that the a daily basis, the Wardens have Scheme will expand to cover been regularly attending community Winnall as well as Highcliffe and meetings, and multi-agency meetings Stanmore and we hope that they with key partners such as the Police. will be in place as we go to press. The Neighbourhood Wardens have Since March 2005 the team has also been involved in the implementation tackled a total of 434 incidents: of various community related projects The vulnerable vehicle scheme is 84 related to untaxed, abandoned or in Highcliffe and Stanmore such as the aimed at reducing the number of vulnerable vehicles, 152 involved two new teen shelters for Highcliffe. vehicles that are broken into, therefore litter, fly tipping, graffiti, abandoned reducing vehicle crime. Unfortunately Nigel Devin arranged free football trolleys, etc., 34 concerned lighting some drivers are still leaving property coaching for young people in and pavements, 73 incidences of in their cars in plain view of an Highcliffe last Summer and Mark anti-social behaviour and another opportunistic thief. During the course Bernhardt organised free basketball 89 were crime-related. of daily patrols in Highcliffe and skills lessons in Stanmore, while Peter Stanmore the Wardens keep an eye ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR Elsey is currently in the process of out for these 'vulnerable' vehicles. As well as responding to resident organising and delivering cycle safety training for pupils at All Saints School. This information is then passed onto complaints and passing on valuable the Police who trace the registered information to the Police, the Wardens The Wardens have already supported keeper and write to them informing have been heavily involved in the the implementation of Crime Reduction them where and when their vehicle City's multi-agency anti-social Week (CREW) in Stanmore last year was seen and why it was considered behaviour panel and have already and will be delivering another CREW to be at risk. provided key evidence for the Council in Highcliffe during the summer. Neighbourhood Warden Lesley and Police to support the application Thanks to the Wardens, residents in Batchelor has been working with of an anti-social behaviour injunction, Highcliffe are now notified of dates members of the Highcliffe Community and Acceptable Behaviour Contract. for the eight weekly street sweeps Tenants Association to organise an The Wardens have also supported and given maps indicating which side anti-dog fouling poster competition the Police by providing them with of the road the sweeper will be on a for young people in Highcliffe. Young statements, either as key witnesses particular day. pupils at All Saints School were asked A monthly drop in service is now to design an anti-dog fouling poster up and running in Stanmore at Valley to encourage dog walkers in Court the first Wednesday of every Highcliffe to pick up after their dogs. month from 1 - 2pm and is attended The winning poster will eventually be by both the Police and Housing staff. made into signs to be displayed This allows residents the opportunity throughout key locations to come and speak with the Wardens, in Highcliffe. Police or council about any concerns, For more information on the or simply to ask for advice on any Neighbourhood Wardens or to community or housing-related matters. contact them direct you can call them on Freephone 0800 389 6274. page 6 on the house NEW kitchens and bathrooms This year's programme focuses on homes built between We intend to provide modern facilities with as much 1950 and 1963 that have not previously had any kitchen storage space and work surface as possible, bearing in or bathroom refurbishment work. They are at: mind the size of the room and the appliances that need q Canon Street q Pine Road to be included. q Churchill Close q Pound Cottages Gaynor Bromley or Barbara Howells will contact you to q Downs Road q Red Leaves arrange an appointment to discuss the proposed work. q Ebden Road q Roberts Close After consultation, if works are to be carried out, q Garbett Road q Robertson Road q Somers Close a plan will be drawn up with a copy for you. Work will q Groves Close q St Leonards Road then start within approximately three months of the q Keble Close q Malt Lane q Vale Road consultation. q Meadow View q Walpole Road For further information, contact Gaynor Bromley, q Newton Road q Warwick Way Senior Customer Liaison Officer, on 01962 848 141. redecoration New Portfolio SCHEME As with the external repairs and painting programme, Holder the internal redecoration scheme for our older tenants Cllr Tony Coates is the is programmed around a five-year cycle. The Cllr Coates new Portfolio Holder for properties listed below represent one fifth of the housing stock and are the homes that we will be Housing and Communities. approaching this year in order to decorate one room He has been a City Councillor during the winter months free since May 2003 and a Parish Councillor for the q Abbey Passage q Jacklyns Lane q Shore Crescent q Ashburton Close q Jesty Road q St Martins Close past 15 years, serving on the Executive q Ashburton Road q Kiln Lane q Staple Gardens Committee of the Hampshire Association of q Basingstoke Road q Lawn House q Sycamore Road q Bereweeke Avenue q Lovells Walk q Taplings Road Parish Councils. He has undertaken Rural q Chapel Fields q Lower Brook Street q The Brook Housing Surveys and worked with the Strategic q Chapel Lane q Malt Lane q Upper Brook Street Housing team on the provision of Exception Site q Cocketts Mead q Meryon Road q Valley Court q Colson Close q Middle Brook q Wavell Way housing in villages. q Devenish Road Street q Wayneflete Place q Mitford Road He served in the Royal Navy for over 28 years and had q Drayton Street q Westman Road q Elm Road q Moss Road q Westwood View experience of living in Service Rented Accommodation q Fleming Road q Nicholson Place q Willow Road both in the UK and Abroad. q Folly Field q Oak Road q Windsor House q Forder Court q Pemerton Road q Windsor Road For the past three years he has been the Shadow q Godson House q Penfords Paddock q Wolfe Close Portfolio Holder for Housing and chaired the Housing q Pine Road q Grange Road q WoodLark Scrutiny Committee for one year. He has attended q Green Close q Princes Buildings Cottages q Robertson Road q Woolford Close many TACT meetings and hopes to continue to do that q Greyfriars q Hobbs Close q Rowlings Road q Wykeham Place in the future. "I am committed to the provision of both q Hoe Road q Shepherds Road affordable rented and owner occupied housing for local people," says Tony. For further information, contact Gaynor Bromley, Senior Customer Liaison Officer, on 01962 848 141. on the house Hot Property Pullout page 11 external repairs The External Repairs and Painting programme operates on a five-year cycle. This means that around one fifth of the houses owned by the Council have work carried out on them each year. This year's addresses are shown below: q Addison Close q Chaundler Road q Earle House q Mitford Road q Stratton Close q Ashburton Road q Colbourne Court q Gordon Avenue q Normandy Court q Tebourba Way q Attwoods Drove q Coney Green q Hussey Close Garages q Old Barn Crescent q The Bungalow, Gordon Av q Austen Close q Coram Close q Jesty Road q Paulet Place q Tower Street q Battery Hill, Stanmore q Craddock House q Larrymore Cottages q Princes Buildings q Trussell Crescent q Big Tree Cottages q Cromwell Road q Lisle Court q Princes Place q Upper Brook Street q Bourne Close q Dennett House q Lower Brook Street q Railway Cottages q Wayneflete Place q Braxton House q Dolphin Hill q Lovells Walk q Simmonds Court q Witherbed Lane q Brittany House q Drayton Street q Meryon Road q Spring Lane q Woolford Close q Canford Close q Drummond Close q Middle Brook Street q St Andrews Green q Wykeham Place q Charles Close q Dyson Drive q Mildmay Street q St Mary's Close During the winter months the Council's Clerk of Works has inspected and assessed the repairs needed to the properties on this year's programme. Some of these will already have had repair works carried out ahead of stopcocksurvey the painting contract. Others will have the repair works carried out just In the last edition of on the house we before the painting starts, probably by the same contractor. asked you to take part in a stopcock Painting will include all external elements previously painted by the City Council, survey to find the position of stopcocks such as gutters, fascias, and soffits, down pipes, windows, doors and frames. within your home. We're delighted to say that the survey was a success with Where applicable communal staircases, common rooms and corridors in over 30% of you returning your cards blocks of flats and in sheltered accommodation will be included, together to date. with any work to outbuildings belonging to each property. However this is not a definitive list and elements will vary from property to property. Only a very small percentage admitted to not knowing where their stopcock Please note that any element suspected of containing asbestos material will is situated and around 10% reported not be painted at this time. Winchester City Council has reviewed its asbestos that their stopcock was inaccessible policy with an independent consultant and has been advised that where such or required maintenance work. These elements are present, but they are free of any damage or defect, then these tenants can expect a visit from the may be left in position and their condition monitored on a regular basis. Council's Clerk of Works during the However, if any elements are found to beyond economic repair, then the next 3–4 months. He will ascertain the Council will aim to replace these at a later date under a separate rolling position of stopcocks and arrange for programme of works to be undertaken by a specialist firm. This work will not maintenance work where necessary. be carried out by the decorating contractor. Please be patient with us, as this is You will be given the name of the contractor beforehand and notified when non-urgent work and it will take some the work on your home will begin. The contractor will offer you a wide choice time to get round to seeing everybody. of paint colours for your front, back and shed doors but where your front and A small tip from our technical staff! back doors are stained, no choice will be offered. External decoration to all Don't have your stopcock fully open. homes should be complete by October, weather permitting. Always make sure you turn the tap For further information, contact Gaynor Bromley, Senior Customer back a couple of turns so that you have Liaison Officer, on 01962 848 141. some room to manoeuvre should it ever become seized up. page 10 on the house Hot Property Pullout thumbs up for recycling The pilot scheme to trial the alternate weekly collection of Wickham, Whiteley, Upham, Durley, Curdridge, West Meon, refuse and recyclables in the Winchester district has met Warnford, Exton, Corhampton, Meonstoke, Hambledon, Soberton, with a resounding thumbs up. Droxford, Swanmore, Widley, Boarhunt and Denmead. For more information call Recycling for Winchester on The results of the City Council's evaluation survey found Freephone 0800 008 60 50. that nearly every household who replied to the survey ¡ Cut out and keep declared their support for recycling with 9 out of 10 saying that they found it easy to follow and that their family had what can't I put in my quickly adapted to the new scheme. Ninety per cent of households who replied had used the new Green Waste recycling bin? ITEM EXAMPLES REASON service and 89% declared themselves in favour of the new system of alternate weekly collection. PLASTIC Yoghurt pots, At present there are PACKAGING margarine no recycling outlets Not only are local residents happy, but councillors tubs, plastic food for these materials trays, flower pots, within the UK. were also delighted with the volume of recycled carrier bags. materials that have been collected, which at 38% will DRINKS Tetra-pak cartons These items are more than meet the Government's recycling targets CARTONS for orange juice, difficult to recycle, for Winchester. milk etc. as they are a mixture of plastic and paper to make What happens next? them watertight. "The success of the trial has exceeded our wildest POLYSTYRENE Take-away food At present there expectations," said Bob Merrett, Director of Communities. CELLOPHANE containers, are no recycling electrical goods outlets for these "This has largely been due to the role played by packaging etc. materials within householders and the City Council's Environment Team in the UK. going that extra mile to make sure that the changeover went smoothly." YELLOW Yellow Pages The yellow dye and DIRECTORIES ink are difficult Now the City has plans to roll out alternate weekly to remove at the paper mill. collection across the rest of the district during 2006/2007. All householders in the district will be provided with larger recycling bins and a sack in which to put their garden SHREDDED Bank statements, The recycling facility waste. Extensive information will be sent out before the PAPER receipts, other relies on automatic personal sorting equipment, scheme begins and if requested, home visits made to help information. which cannot recognise very small people manage the new arrangements. or shredded items. Phase One - Autumn 2006 PLASTIC Supermarket It makes it more CARRIER BAGS shopping bags, difficult to sort Colden Common (parts), Compton & Shawford, Harestock, contents at the plastic bags used Kings Worthy, New Alresford, Otterbourne, Twyford. Also, all of processing facility. to hold fresh Winchester City including Badger Farm, Fulflood, Highcliffe, foodstuffs, bin liners and plastic sacks. Hyde, Oliver's Battery, Stanmore, Teg Down, Weeke, Winnall and St Cross. GLASS All types of glass These can be sorted at including bottles. different facilities. Phase Two - Early 2007 Please dispose of at bottle banks. Northington, Itchen Valley, Chilcomb, Itchen Stoke, Ovington, Old Alresford, Bighton, Bishop's Sutton, Bramdean, Cheriton, Kilmeston, Beauworth, Tichborne, Owslebury, Bishop's Waltham, on the house page 7 street lawn streetcomplete The open space around Godson, Lawn and Windsor Houses in Winchester city centre has been re-landscaped and the £100,000 improvement scheme has brought praise and delight from local residents. Preparation for the project began in December 2004 when Avenues were engaged to provide drawings and costs, then last summer roadshows were Local residents are delighted with the new landscaping are a held in the Guildhall for local residents to around their homes. see the proposals for themselves. have been strategically placed, with new turfed areas and planting to enhance the relaxed feel of the area. To keep the scheme looking good over the next twelve months, the project contractor will carry out maintenance of the new grass and planted areas. Over 100,000 sunken and dam replaced while boulder and aged bricks have been surfaces have been create cobble features and gravel d. Work started on site in December 2005 and was completed in April 2006, although the scheme took a little longer than planned as additional works were placed, with new included to level the highway at the entrance to the Eight bench seats have been strategically relaxed feel of the area. turfed areas and planting to enhance the Lawn Street garages. Over 100,000 sunken and damaged bricks have been removed and replaced with a new sub-base and Rent arrears down coloured block pavings. To enhance the appearance of the area boulder and cobble features, edgings around In the last year, the City Council has trees and gravel surfaces have been created. kept rent arrears below 1% of the Drainage has been improved, broken paving slabs total rent collected. This continues to have been replaced, and fifteen new manhole covers be one of the lowest figures in the and 80 bollards have been installed. Eight bench seats country. page 8 on the house HOT NEWS Gas heating upgrades will take place in certain homes in the following roads dependent on the age of the current WARNING NOTICE appliance: AN APPEAL Attwoods Drove Elizabeth Close As your Landlord the Council is required by law to Ashburton Road Firmstone Road Baigent Close Fivefields Close undertake an annual inspection of any gas fired or solid Bere Road Fleming Road fuel heating appliances in your home. It is vital that this Buddens Road Fox Lane work is carried out each year to prevent poisonous gases Chapel Fields Fraser Road being produced by faulty heating equipment. Chapel Road Gordon Avenue Churchfields Granville Place FAILURE TO CARRY OUT THIS WORK COULD Churchill Close Hoe Road Couch Green Hyde Lodge RESULT IN SERIOUS ILLNESS OR DEATH BY Crawley Cottages Kings Close CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING. Cricket Close Makins Court Cromwell Road Pemerton Road Therefore every year we contact some 4,300 tenants who Eastacre Winnall Manor Road have this type of heating equipment to make an appointment Edinburgh Road to carry out the work. In spite of our best endeavours, we continue year on year to have a rising number of properties These properties comprise the initial where, after repeated attempts, we have been unable to make programme for this financial year with arrangements for access. others to be added as identified and This is a most serious issue which the Council is now taking the as budgets allow. strongest steps to resolve, and is seeking redress through the Electrical testing and inspections to some Courts to gain the access we require to these properties. This 1000 properties will be carried out this will take the form of an application to the County Court for an year. We cannot list every street here as Injunction granting the Council access to the property. Costs not every property in your road will be for this action may be recoverable from tenants through the due for testing but you will be notified Courts. Tenants who do not comply with the Injunction may be before work is carried out. found guilty of contempt of Court and could face imprisonment. Once again we ask for your co-operation Therefore it is essential that if you fall into this category in ensuring that Gas Central Heating, Solid that you contact us immediately on 01962 848 335 to Fuel and Smoke Detector servicing works make arrangements for access and avoid what may are carried out for your own safety. You ultimately prove to be an unnecessarily embarrassing and are paying for these tests so please take costly situation for you. full advantage of them. For further information on any of this YOUR LIFE, OR THE LIVES OF YOUR FAMILY work, please contact Les Titheridge on COULD DEPEND ON IT! 01962 848 150. on the house Hot Property Pullout page 9
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This Day in History - April 23rd, 1985 - Coca-Cola Company Launches New Coke
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"The Butcher's Wife" wants to be a whimsical, heartwarming fantasy, and it almost succeeds, but it is betrayed by its own need to put a Hollywood spin on a plot that doesn't need one. It begins by asking us to make a romantic leap of faith, and after we've made it, the movie says, uh, hold on, think again, she fell for the wrong guy and it's time to make another leap. The plot mechanics of the second leap drag the movie back to Earth again.
The movie commences with a real glow, though. On a lonely tower on the headland of some forgotten island off the coast of the southern United States, a beautiful young woman stands, the wind in her hair, and looks out to sea and toward her future. Her name is Marina, and she has been aware of a psychic gift since her earliest years. Among the things she "knows" is that her future husband will one day appear to her, and indeed, in no time at all a small boat is approaching the shore, with a lone fisherman in it.
A voice inside of her announces that this is the man who is to be her husband, and so she wades into the water, climbs onto the boat, embraces the startled man and informs him of this fact. He is inclined to agree with her, and within two days they are wed. The man's name is Leo Lemke, he is a butcher in Greenwich Village, and Marina journeys north with him and takes up her place behind the butcher's counter. She is happy to be the butcher's wife.
Up until this point, and for a few scenes afterward, "The Butcher's Wife" proceeds with a serene certainty. The movie has faith in its whimsy, and so do we. Demi Moore is warm and cuddly as Marina, a simple, soft-spoken woman with a Southern accent and a direct way of speech that seems to cut through confusions and difficulties.
George Dzundza is a stalwart butcher, friendly and sensible and loving. He has been a bachelor until into his 40s, and if he had not taken that fishing trip down south, he would be a bachelor still.
But now a bride has dropped out of the heavens for him, and the very stars themselves seem to bless his marriage.
Then the movie loses faith in the momentum of its original inspiration, and falls back upon the devices of screenwriting formulas. The butcher, you see, is stout and balding and almost as homely as Gene Hackman. So, obviously, in the Hollywood mind, he has not evolved high enough on the ladder of personal attractiveness to deserve Demi Moore. A mistake must have been made. The plot develops a compulsion to reassign her to a more handsome man, and that's where the movie goes wrong.
There is a psychiatrist who works across the street, in this Greenwich Village street which was built on a sound stage and contains mostly characters in the story. He is played by Jeff Daniels, is insecure about how much good he is doing his patients, but is basically a nice guy. He begins to hear repercussions about this psychic woman who has moved in behind the butcher's counter.
She starts giving advice to his patients, and they start heeding the advice. This is not good for business.
Among the patients who are being improved by psychic insights is Stella Kefauver (Mary Steenburgen), a shrinking violent who has always harbored a dream to sing in a nightclub. Dare to realize your dream! the butcher's wife advises. And one day she does, in one of the movie's best scenes, singing a torch song with such grace and feeling that we are inspired to look at Mary Steenburgen all over again. But then the psychiatrist and the butcher's wife meet to discuss these matters, and of course it is clear that sooner or later they will end up in each other's arms.
All of this should be painful for the butcher, who had my complete sympathy. The screenplay labors, and produces an explanation that eventually accounts for the reassignment of the various romantic partners. But I was disappointed that "The Butcher's Wife" lost faith in its original romantic inspiration. Is it not possible for a portly butcher to have a ripe young wife? Is it not possible for a clean-cut psychiatrist to fall in love with a slightly faded rose? This movie takes us back to the days of the high school prom, in which couples seemed to choose each other on the basis of a pecking order of personal attractiveness, so that the king and queen of the prom were the two best-looking people in class, and over in the corner were all the nerds and wallflowers.
The fatal mistake of "The Butcher's Wife" is to allow itself to become sidetracked by the process of partner reassignment. There is an unspoken cruelty to the way Marina ditches Leo, and the movie fudges it. There is also a lot of unnecessary dialogue explaining things that need never have happened in the first place. If Marina had stayed by Leo's side, there behind the meat counter, and had contented herself with helping others make the same leap of faith she made, this movie might have been a little classic, instead of a big manipulative machine.
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In a food processor coarsely grind peanuts, pulsing motor. In a metal bowl beat eggs and sugar until combined. Set bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and beat egg mixture until thick and pale and registers 140°F on an instant read thermometer. Continue beating mixture over simmering water 3 minutes (for egg safety) and remove bowl from heat. Beat in vanilla and salt.
In a bowl coarsely mash bananas and fold into egg mixture with peanuts. In another bowl beat cream until it just holds stiff peaks and fold into banana mixture gently but thoroughly. Pour mixture into loaf pan. (There should be about 1 cup extra mixture, which may be poured into a smaller pan.) Freeze semifreddo, covered with plastic wrap, at least 8 hours and up to 5 days. Unmold semifreddo onto a platter, discarding plastic wrap, and cut into slices.


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is one of my absolute most favourite novels, and certainly the book I've read the most. I recommend reading the sequels, although
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God Emperor of Dune
is hated but I thought it was terrific.
I have the second and third books, and just as soon as I finish 'World War Z' I intend to read them.
The David Lynch movie is solid dumb fun, even though it doesn't really do the story justice or explore the concept of a messiah being deconstructed. Which is y'know, probably the biggest theme of the entire novel.
I enjoyed the movie for what it was. I didn't even mention the "Lynchian" additions in the movie, but I didn't quite mind them too much. Except for the way they turned the "Weirding Way" into a laser gun. That seemed like a desperate attempt to bring in the Star Wars crowd.
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truTV Orders Second Season of IMPRACTICAL JOKERS
truTV has ordered a second season of the hit series IMPRACTICAL JOKERS, the network's hilarious hidden-camera series featuring four lifelong friends who take dares to an outrageous level. In keeping with the offbeat nature of the series, Impractical Jokers stars Brian "Q" Quinn, James "Murr" Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano made the announcement through a special video message to fans posted on their Facebook fan page at http://facebook.com/ImpracticalJokers.
truTV has ordered 15 episodes for the second season of Impractical Jokers, with plans to launch the new season in December 2012.
Ever since they were little kids growing up together, Q, Murr, Joe and Sal have challenged one another to do the most ridiculous public dares imaginable. Now, to find out who's best under pressure, they're competing in unbelievably awkward and outrageous hidden-camera hijinks. Then, at the end of each episode, the loser must attempt the most mortifying challenge ever.
Impractical Jokers premiered to critical acclaim last December and quickly became one of truTV's biggest hits, especially among young adults. Since its premiere, the show has averaged 2 million viewers in its first season, including more than 1.3 million adults 18-49 and 773,000 men 18-49. Impractical Jokers is also one of truTV's youngest-skewing series, scoring a median age of only 32. In addition, the show's Facebook page has drawn more than 235,000 fans, a remarkable achievement for a series that's only six months old.
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Cassano's turning dough into cold cash
It was nearly five years ago when Cassano's Inc. almost got rid of what has become the company's fastest growing business venture.
At that time, the Kettering-based pizza company considered getting out of the dough making business. The idea was to cut costs by outsourcing the production of pizza dough for its restaurants, and to refocus the company's efforts on its core retail business that's spread throughout the Miami Valley.
"We looked at other companies that could manufacturer our dough for us and spent many years on that," said Randy Leasher, Cassano's president and chief operating officer. "We really couldn't find a manufacturer that could make our product the way we wanted it. So we said, `Wait a minute, we're looking at this in the wrong way, maybe we should continue to manufacturer our own product and take advantage of our knowledge in this area and manufacturer spec product for other companies.' "
That's exactly what Cassano's did.
In 1994, the company worked with a product broker to wholesale its fresh-frozen dough to distributors and other pizza companies. Now four years later, it's shipping dough to customers in eight different states and will watch its dough manufacturing revenue rise to $3 million by the end of 1998. The company's total annual revenue was not disclosed. The company, founded in 1953, employs 500; 40 of which fill a one-shift operation in its manufacturing plant.
"I think the good news about the whole thing is each year we double what we did the year before, and that is going to happen again this year," Leasher said as he sat next to blueprints of the company's plans for updating its manufacturing facility.
By next fall, the company hopes to install several pieces of new equipment that will make dough manufacturing more efficient and make room for additional clients. The upgrade cost was not disclosed. However, company chairman and CEO Vic Cassano said most of it will be financed through partnerships with suppliers.
For example, now the manufacturing plant can hold up to 40,000 pounds of flour at a time. Through a partnership with its flour supplier, Con Agra, Cassano's will build two 60,000-pound silos that will automatically feed flour into the plant's mixers. Likewise, the company will convert its blast freezer -- which makes temperatures hard to control and takes hours to freeze dough -- to a cryogenic freezer where the dough freezes in minutes.
The upgrades to the 3,000-square-foot manufacturing plant will prepare Cassano's for the surge in business it expects as more and more restaurant owners see the benefit in using fresh-frozen pizza dough.
"You get this owner that has this pizza shop and is getting up at eight o'clock in the morning to make some dough eight hours on a Friday before he even sells one pizza," Leasher said
"More and more operations are going to fresh-frozen dough because the labor help is not out there to make the dough in the restaurant," Cassano said.
Cassano's now distributers dough in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky and Virginia. The company is currently vying for a contract with a large pizza chain in California.
Also, Cassano said a second manufacturing site is being considered and is likely if demand grows.
And while Cassano's continues to upgrade 25 percent of its 30 retail stores annually in the Miami Valley -- the company will place most of its future focus on manufacturing.
"We can take this (frozen-fresh dough) anywhere in the country," Cassano said. "It is very hard to take the retail business anywhere in the country."


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