Highways priorities

The state and alignment of the footways in Victory Road and the Carriageway in Sinfin Lane remain as your Labour Councillor’s (Robin Turner and Baggy Shanker) priorities and they recommended these to the Sinfin Neighbourhood Board. The Highways and Transport Section of Derby City Council however limits each Ward’s Neighbourhood Board to one priority only. Please let us know if you have any pavement or road concerns in your area.

Neighbourhood Agenda

Labour’s policy of involvement of local people is ensuring that the Sinfin and Osmaston Neighbourhood Forums and their Board are heard and taken notice of by the Council and its partners such as the police and Derby City Primary Care Trust.
They are being obliged to focus on the priorities residents have determined at Forum meetings in the two areas. The Neighbourhood Board is attended by Councillors Robin Turner and by Councillor Baggy Shanker who chairs the Forums and the Board. The three Neighbourhood Team officials dedicated exclusively to Sinfin Ward include one who deals with antisocial behaviour. Another official deals with that subject for the Osmaston and Allenton areas.
Ten residents form the core of the Board which is supported by Derby Community Safety Partnership and it is attended by police and Derby City Primary Care Trust officials. The Board is able to define Sinfin Ward people’s priorities to the Council and other agencies, holds a budget for projects in the area and it works closely with community based organisations in Osmaston such as Action Group Osmaston and Sinfin Together Partnership.
This new agenda was created by Labour at local and national government and represents a transformation or revolution in the relationship between local people and their local and national governments. Baggy and Robin are ensuring its success and further development.
Robin and Baggy are reviewing the actions of the Liberal Democrat Council Cabinet to check that in their “wisdom” they do not undermine in any way these very important rights that were given to the people through the Sinfin and Osmaston Neighbourhood Board.

Sinfin Moor Social Club

Robin and Baggy are working with Sinfin Moor Social Club on the development of Community activities and working with local agencies to secure their substantial involvement.

Sinfin Health Profile

Health and disability deprivation in Sinfin Ward is “around three times the city average” according to the best information available.
But the proportion of people in the ward who have said they had been “in good or fairly good health” in the previous 12 months was the same as for the whole of the city!
Robin and Baggy are working with the Derby City Primary Care Trust through the Neighbourhood Board to get the Trust to let us know what they are doing about this state of health in the ward.

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