A Learning Curve!

We’ve learnt quite a bit this year (not all of it good), and it would be great if our growing town had more volunteers helping here and there, we’ve heard it’s such a faff though setting things up (is faff even a word, asking for a friend, yep, we checked, it is) a tick this box, tick that box….you can do this, eh no, don’t do that, there’s got to be an easier way
Respect if your already making a difference volunteering in the community in whatever way you’ve chosen to do, and we hear there’s always vacancies if you fancy it with the local council, asking too many questions though doesn’t make you popular!
Oh yes, before we forget, local councillors, please note the minutes of June (& May) Development Committee meeting re-the infamous signage are ‘not‘ a true record of the night, would an ‘online petition be classed as one as well’ (that same friend is asking)? It’s a long story, starting way back in February, but the truth has the habit of coming out!
So much negativity over a simply ‘amendment request’ the current wording causes ‘anxiety, distress’, and it’s actually ‘insulting’ as it is so obvious to those who’ve lived happily by a watercourse over many many years, how ‘sad’ it all is!
Update on the EA’s major de-silt in the brook from the authorities (RMA’s) – we’ve been trying to extract a commitment to the ‘actual when’ for the work to start by the main car park (they all like to work in quarters or seasons) well it’s a ‘hello, Syston here, remember us, that town with a blocked brook north of Leicester, we need you now’ – its like setting sail in a gale force wind – challenging, sometimes near impossible getting any further forward!
Again, by the time this is in print (things often change) we might have got a more specific answer with a little help from a supporter of what we’re trying to do (we are optimists, actually we’ll be as shocked as you), but it definitely will happen, the MAJOR de-silt is real and not a rumour it’s the ‘when’ that’s elusive, but on a positive note the EA subcontractors were spotted clearing vegetation from the banks along the central area of the brook down to the railway bridge mid August.
So it’s a thank you from residents to acknowledge the ongoing work being done by the Syston Community Flood Group, those residents can finally see the start of some positive action (like you we are disappointed it’s taking so long to resolve)!
Lastly and on a lighter note (hooray), did you enjoy the summer here in Syston, that spell where it actually didn’t rain, well not too much anyway, were you thankful though for that passing August storm, our gardens and allotments needed that, but more water flowing in the brook, eh no thanks, not ready for that yet, it’s blooming mad this waiting game, come on EA cavalry get a wriggle on!
As promised we will continue to keep you in the loop with all things brook related and if you can help the Syston Community Flood Group (SCFG) in any small way please contact on systonfloodgroup@gmail.com you may just have some useful ideas we’d not already thought of.
Thank you. 
M & K
Concerned Residents