This issue contains reports of last month’s parish meetings and some good news about the missing cat.

In this issue:
  1. Annual Parish Meeting Report
  2. Parish Council Report
  3. Found Cat!
  4. Bystander Archives on the Village Website
  5. 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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