Irby, Thurstaston & Pensby Amenity Society
Registered Charity # 1150756
Irby, Thurstaston & Pensby Amenity Society
Registered Charity # 1150756
ITPAS Annual general Meeting
24th Feburary 2024
At the start of 2024, ITPAS set out the following objectives to return ITPAS to the forefront of the community’s awareness:
Increasing members contact with updates and newsletters,
Increased events and activities i.e. village tidy sessions and ITPAS talks,
Increased liaison with the Council re the Local Plan and local issues
Protecting our green belt.
We have achieved some of these objectives but need more help during 2025.
However, we have achieved the following successes during the year:
Irby Village Planters
Irby village Flower beds
Irby Village tidy-up sessions
Establishment and lead of the WGSA (Wirral Green Space Alliance)
IRBY Tree lights
Council communications
It’s been hard work recovering the ITPAS reputation, but we are slowly achieving this.
The new website has proven very successful together with our
updates on the Irby Facebook page.
We have also improved our IT systems, processes
and procedures to become more efficient and effective.
Our Planning Officer continues to scrutinise all building applications, the Local Plan and any green belt activity. One of the most important activities has been the establishment of the WGSA (Wirral Green Space Alliance) formed to fight the developer’s attempts to derail the Local Plan and build on our precious green belt. We have won some battles,
but with the government’s proposals to build unneeded housing and the unadopted Local Plan, we need to be vigilant as the fight continues!
However, we still need more help to continue our activities as listed below.
If you, or anyone you know, would like to help either by volunteering or joining the committee then please contact us via
the website www.itpas.org or by email to membership@itpas.org
Finally, please allow me to thank you for your continued support for ITPAS.
We could not survive without you.
I look forward to meeting you at the AGM on 24th February 2025 18:00-20:00,
details HERE
Paul Trevor Ainslie
ITPAS Chair
Irby News and Activities update
ITPAS continues to look for ways to improve and enhance our communities. Our activities and actions are for the benefit of all the residents and this is only achieved by mebers continued support, subscriptions and donations.
As we you have seen, the 1st phase of the Irby Village planters was completed in June / July 2024 with a total cost for materials at £3500.
ITPAS continue to maintain the planters but if you would like to help please get in touch.
ITPAS maintain all the flower beds and shrubs in
Irby Village, replacing the current flowers as needed during the October / November season.
Anyone wanting to help with this is very welcome,
so please contact us
Irby Library to Re-Open
GREAT NEWS - LIBRARY TO RE-OPEN
After many years of ITPAS pushing for the Library to re-open, it will finally happen.
The Library is to re-open with the lease transferred
from the council to a private company.
ITPAS will continue to maintain the shrubs, flowers and surrounding areas as well as
other activities to be confirmed.
We do not have the full details yet, but we are to hold discussions with the new leaseholders over the coming days in order to ascertain the
full extent of the change.
Once we have the full details we will advise.
We continue to hold events and activities and invite you to attend as many as possible. If we do not have your support and attendance we will be forced to stop the activities.
Currently we hold multiple Irby Village Tidy-Up sessions and ITPAS talks providing really interesting and information presentations concerning our villages and Wirral areas.
Irby Bins, Benches, Signs
During our regular councillor meetings, we discuss the improvements and replacements needed in order to keep the villages looking their best.
Therefore you will have seen x3 new bins to replace the old and damaged ones. We are still pushing for the replacement of the remaining x5 bins. However these are in the 52 day queue. We continue to push.
We also need to replace / refurbish x5 wooden benches in Irby Village together with some rusty signposts. These again have been put in the "ToDo" queue and we await a response. However it may be that members can help with this next year.
The council are doing there best re the potholes but its hard for the contractors to keep up with the repairs. We will continue to monitor progress.
We are also discussing the council 20mph speed limit and parking opposite Roslin Road and on the top of Porto Hey road.
We need to maintain our membership numbers in order to continue with our work. We are all volunteers but we need funds to pay for our activities. If we fail to support our areas and amenities we all will see the demise of the wonderful areas we live in.
Please ask your friends and family to support us by joining ITPAS HERE.
Also if you can DONATE to our activities
Many thanks and see you soon.
News Archive
Dec 2023 - Local Plan Examination - Next Steps
Nov 2023 - Destruction of Wirral Green Spaces -but the WAR continues.
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