This issue contains reports of last
month’s parish meetings and some good news about the missing cat.
In this
issue:
- Annual Parish Meeting Report
- Parish Council Report
- Found Cat!
- Bystander Archives on the Village Website
- Planning Applications
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1. Annual Parish Meeting
Report
Ian Yates writes:
The
annual Parish Meeting was held at 7.00pm on 29th May. The purpose of this
meeting is to give residents in Birlingham an opportunity to hear annual reports
of activities and achievements for the last year from:
- The Parish Council
- Elected county and district representatives
- Other elected representatives, such as wardens and lengthsman
- Community groups
It also provides an opportunity for residents
and villagers to have their say on anything they consider important to the
people of the parish. A number of reports were presented and full details will
be made available in the minutes, which will be posted on the village
website.
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2. Parish Council
Report
Ian Yates writes:
The
Parish Council Meeting was held at 8.00pm on 29th May.
- Co-option of councillors. Parish Council members are required to
stand for re-election every four years and prior to the elections on 2nd May
2019, nominations to the Parish Council were invited. The list of candidates
who had applied was published by Wychavon District Council on Thursday 4th
April and it showed that the election would be uncontested due to an
insufficient number of candidates. As a result, those who were nominated,
Paula Aston, Terry Griffin and Ian Yates, were returned unopposed. Ian Yates
was re-elected as Chairman and Paula Aston as Vice-Chairman. In order to fill
the four vacancies, the Parish Council followed a process of co-option and
received four applications prior to the cut-off date. The following were
therefore co-opted to the Parish Council at the meeting: Steven Byrne, Michael
Porter, Julia Luff and Maxine Cook. The Chairman welcomed the new members to
the Parish Council and thanked those that had decided to stand down, Ken
Fitch, Stuart Allen and Marion New, for their hard work and dedication on
behalf of the village.
- Council’s scheme of delegation. The Parish Council re-appointed the
following and received progress reports:
- Financial Support Officer – Terry Griffin
- Footpath Warden (under the authority of WCC) – Bruce Hayward
- Parish Lengthsman – Carl Brassington
- Tree Warden – Karl Grimston
- Planning Group – Steven Byrne
- New Homes Bonus (NHB). As previously reported in Parish Council
Minutes and in Birlingham News, the Parish Council has put forward three
proposals to Wychavon District Council for the remaining £1372 of NHB. These
proposals are for the refurbishment of the Millennium Bench, the addition of a
missing inscription on the war memorial and printing of a WW2 booklet.
Progress on these proposals was discussed.
- Flooding at Berwick Lane. The problem of water leaking from the
bank at the side of Berwick Lane is still unresolved. The Parish Council
continues to chase Highways Authority and Severn Trent for a resolution.
- Birlingham Memories Project. As previously reported, the Jubilee
Committee is launching the Birlingham Memories Project. The intention is to
capture the memories of our older residents (and people who used to live in
the village), either in sound or on video, so that these memories are
available for future generations. The Jubilee Committee hope to purchase
recording equipment for capturing the memories, and playback and display
equipment for use at an exhibition. The Jubilee Committee has now been awarded
a grant of £800 from Wychavon District Council and has submitted a proposal
for a further £250 of funding from the Parish Council’s Community Fund.
- HGVs in the village. There are still cases of HGVs not following
the signed routes into the village and/or entering at night and it was agreed
that a log of these incidents along with photos of the offending vehicles,
where possible, will be kept so that concerns can be raised with the
businesses responsible.
Full minutes of the Parish Council meeting
will be posted on the village website
shortly.
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3. Found Cat!
Abbey K writes:
Daisy has been found! She was found in a
neighbour’s outbuilding. Hungry and thirsty but otherwise untroubled by her few
days’ adventure.
Many thanks to everyone who helped look for her and
spread the word, it got her
back.
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4. Bystander Archives on the Village
Website
The sixth edition of the
Birlingham Bystander, published in Winter 1984, is now available on the website.
After more than a year away, the Bystander returned, promising editions at the
end of May and November each year, to be delivered to subscribers. In fact, they
were to continue with three editions annually for several years. As an
indication of how printing costs have come down, the annual subscription back
then was £10, double what it is today. The editors were Bernard Hancock, Harry
Porter and Di Saville.
The magazine contains a piece by Walter Clode on
being in Delhi the day after Indira Gandhi was shot. There are many smaller
articles and photographs of the Summer Evening Party at Treganna House (now
Glebe House). Finally, the edition features the first of a series of fashion
articles by a young Charlotte Butler (’jumble sales and father’s wardrobe are
excellent places to look for collarless Grandpa shirts’) and instructions for
making paper carnations as Chrstmas decorations by June Butler. The back page
reports on an open meeting to discuss the building of ten houses to the south of
King William IV Close.
Issue 6 of the Bystander can be viewed at www.birlingham.org/village/bystander.
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5. Planning
Applications
The following planning
applications have been received by the Parish Council:
- The Caravan, Gravelly
Hill, Eckington Road. Site of a static caravan for residential purposes in
excess of 10 years (Case No. 19/01240. Awaiting decision by Wychavon District
Council. (Consultation period ends on 25th June.) Full details can be viewed
on the Wychavon DC website at https://plan.wychavon.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=100051.
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