The Avenues Neighbourhood Network (TANN) covers the following roads in Liverpool: Arundel, Rossett, Gresford, Hawarden, Halkyn, Cumberland, Rutland, York, Cheltenham, Buckingham, Lancaster, Sydenham and Brompton Avenues, as well as Ullet Walk, Sherry Court, Walter Beilin Court, Rex Cohen Court and Lathbury Lane and the sides of Hartington Road, Ullet Road and Smithdown Road, which border this area.

This page contains a useful reference of local services including police, local government and much more. If you have any other contacts you would like included, please send details to contacts@tann.org.uk

Touch of Gold Beauty Salon
190 Smithdown Road Liverpool L15 3JT
Tel: 0151 733 5710

The Dolls House Shop
214 Smithdown Road L15 3JT
Tel: 0151 733 6806

Cameo Liverpool
204-206 Smithdown Road L15 3JT
Tel: 0151 734 0239

Local events

Now that the Palmhouse is back with a full annual programme of evening and afternoon events, check out what's going there. Otherwise, Radical Liverpool has an excellent acoustic night once a month in Parr Street Studios, featuring Liverpool singer songwriter Alun Parry on February 11th. The Greenbank are starting a number of daytime courses for the more creatively minded, so check them out too. Otherwise, try our weekly events - the Zumba classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Belly Dancing at Ullet Road Church (Unitarian) or the new Yoga classes at St. Agnes Church Hall, plus the usual quiz and music nights at our Smithdown Road pubs.

February's Greenbank Police Newsletter

January Burglary rate down 13% compared to 2011. York Avenue resident arrested. Another cannabis farm discovered. For the rest ...

I'm dreaming of a Green (Deal) Christmas

Christmas, humbug! Another cold winter in the Avenues, shivering with hot and cold flushes between over-heated radiators and the freezing draughts blowing in from leaky sash windows, dreading the silent fall of the winter gas bill after the excited flurry of Christmas cards has long been cleared from the hall floor. Is this the price we have to pay for living in the Avenues, so rich in Victorian and Edwardian style, artefacts and stories, and rightly designated as one of the city’s conservation areas? Or can something be done about the cost of staying warm and about the tonnes of carbon dioxide we collectively pump into the sky to do so? Is this where the Green Deal comes in? The Green Deal, a key part of our national commitment to reduce carbon emissions by at least 80% by 2050, is due to start in Autumn 2012 ...

Adult Care Panel

Anyone with views on the provision (or lack of provision) of adult care in Liverpool is invited to join this panel, which was launched in June 2011.

Windmill Wholefoods

Windmill Wholefoods had to close their Smithdown Road premises at the end of October. Find further details below or on their Facebook page.

Toxteth Cemetery Restoration Campaign

Addressing the TANN meeting on Monday 16th May, Picton Ward councillor Tim Beaumont urged support for his campaign to restore our local cemetery, dating from 1856. Most of the 5 listed buildings, including the beautiful cemetery chapel, and 9 listed funeral monuments, are in need of urgent restoration. Residents suggested forming a 'Friends of Toxteth Cemetery' as had been done elsewhere in the city or finding an active congregation to take over one or more of the buildings. Other residents urged that closed entrances be re-opened to get more people crossing and using the site. If you would like to be involved in the campaign contact Tim Beaumont or call him on: 0151-225-2366.

Labour win Greenbank council seat. TANN thanks defeated councillor Paul Clein for his hard work.

Is this the end of an era, or just temporary fallout from national politics? Longstanding Liberal Democrat councillor Paul Clein loses to Labour in shock poll result. Laura Robertson-Collins gained a massive 56% of the vote, against Paul Clein's 23% and Lawrence Brown from the Green Party on 12%. Turnout was 36.5%. A vote of thanks to defeated councillor Paul Clein was unanimously agreed at the 16th May TANN meeting for the hard work on our behalf over the 19 years he has served on the council.

Richie the Ranger's Walks

Until recently, Richie was a well-known member of the Ranger Service. Now retired, he has launched his own programme of walks. If you'd like to be added to his mailing list, you can contact him on richietheranger@gmail.com or call him on: 07850239411

Council Environment Cabinet Member listens to TANN

Tim Moore, council cabinet member for the environment, came to the TANN meeting on 21st March. He outlined what the council was doing around the climate change agenda - investing in skilling the new green jobs through the Community College, supporting the Plus Dane Smart Grid project off Princes Avenue, creating a partnership with MHA to look at insulating and introducing microgeneration in their social housing stock. The council was trying hard to bring the head office of the Green Investment Bank to Liverpool. Residents raised issues such as the need to increase council liaison with voluntary groups like TANN, giving Planning and Conservation a brief in developing energy saving and microgeneration measures suitable for Conservation areas, and spearheading the retrofitting of houses. Use of green space for local food production and a higher level of recycling were also urged, as were more effective measures to deal with severe weather conditions. A fuller report will be available soon.

Anyone for Croquet?

Try your hand at croquet at the newly established Liverpool Croquet Club at the Mersey Bowmen Tennis Club in Sefton Park.

Can our heritage status help with regeneration?

The latest newsletter from the Liverpool Cultural Heritage Forum states that around 45% of conservation areas in the region do not have an up-to-date character appraisal. This is an essential step in developing management plans which are vital if communities are going to use their historic character as a basis for regeneration. Does our area have one?

The Agnes Woodford Project

The Agnes Woodford Project, which is hosted by Liverpool Citizen Advocacy, will be holding its inaugural meeting at St. Bede's Centre on Wednesday 9th February at 12.30pm. It is a unique partnership between small organisations and individuals working within the Lodge Lane and Avenues area of the city. The Project regularly holds lunchtime socials and hosts Singing for the Brain sessions, which are an Alzheimers Society initiative. Future plans include developing visiting and befriending schemes in the area for isolated members of the community. The Project is named after Agnes Woodford. Agnes died in October 2010 in Sunnyside residential home on the corner of Sydenham Avenue and Ullet Road. She was 91. She had spent a lifetime of service to others in Liverpool and Sefton through befriending, visiting and advocacy. For the last two and a half years of her life, she was an active member of the local community here. There are a number of ways in which you could help the Project by: Volunteering with it/joining the committee attending the social events, donating gifts for prizes at our events, donating cash to help develop the work further If you would like to know more about the Project, please contact Joe Monaghan on 734 3047 or at joe@liverpoolca.org.uk

Liverpool Cultural Heritage Forum

Liverpool gets Green Flag award for all 17 sites submitted. Read on with ...

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