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Treeton Methodist Church
Treeton Methodist Church has closed. The last Sunday Service was on September 30th. Read story in The Star.
Treeton Community News has won royal acclaim.
Local residents who produce Treeton Community News are celebrating after receiving the Duke of York’s Community Initiative Award.
The newspaper is distributed free to every home and business in Treeton.
Spokesman Robert Croxton said: “Receiving this award is a great honour. We aim to provide a useful and informative service for our readers. To be told that we are among the best groups in Yorkshire is incredible.”
Extract from Sheffield Today 20th February, 2007
NEWCOMERS to the former pit village of Treeton have been criticised for complaining about crowing cockerels creating a noise nuisance early each morning. The parish council had been told of complaints from people in some of the hundreds of smart new houses that have been built on the site of the old colliery about being disturbed by cockerels crowing.
The owner of the offending cockerels on an allotment off Well Lane was asked by the parish council for his comments about the allegations. He replied that he did his best to prevent the cockerels disturbing people nearby and closed the windows on their huts whenever possible and sited them as far away from houses as possible.
The owner said he believed he had been made a scapegoat by certain nearby residents. Coun Alan Goy said: "Treeton is a rural area and people have to put up with this sort of thing. When they buy houses in the village they must accept some of the features of country life like cocks crowing. "They should have thought about this sort of thing before they moved here."
Extract from Sheffield Today 28/09/06
Treeton is in danger of becoming a village of two halves - The haves and have-nots in a village of two halves IT USED to be one for all... but now Treeton is in danger of becoming a village of two halves.
After the catastrophic closure of the colliery in the 1980s, the Rotherham village limped along like a wounded soldier.
Now the area has been rocked by a Rotherham Council report placing it among the most deprived rural areas in Britain. Treeton is officially in the bottom fifth of the country for wealth and employment.
Grant aid cash, multi-agency help and local community spirit have helped. A new community centre, shops and play areas are hoping to revive a once proud area. New housing estates within the village, the nearby Waverley Business Park, and a planned 3,000-home estate with a school and major facilities, are all creating excitement.
But, despite the positives, many in the village are wary of change, and fear the area is becoming divided into a population of "haves and have nots".
An imposing entrance, with two large pillars marked 'Beaumont Park', leads the way into a maze of hundreds of new £200,000 homes – in stark contrast to the terraced streets of old Treeton.
Renewal is being helped along by Treeton Partnership.
Extract from Sheffield Today 23/09/06
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