ISSUE 518 | DEC 19/JAN 20
NEEDHAM MARKET NEWSLETTER
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Needham Market Newsletter December 2019 Needham Market Town Council
Town Mayor/Chair of Council Useful Telephone Numbers Police / Ambulance / Fire Brigade 999 Steve Phillips (01449) 721710 Police - Non-Emergency 101 Doctors’ Surgery 01449 720666 Deputy Town Mayor/Deputy Chair of Council Ipswich Hospital 01473 712233 Josephine Lea (01449) 721544 NHS Direct 111 Mid Suffolk District Council 0300 1234000 Town Councillors Suffolk County Council 0345 6066067 Suffolk County Council Highways 0345 6066171 Brian Annis (01449) 720531 Local MP’s Constituency Office 01284 752311 Ray Darnell 07990 583162 Citizen’s Advice Bureau 01449 676060 Street Light Faults 0345 6066171 Ian Mason (01449) 721162 Anglian Water 0800 145 145 Mike Norris (01449) 720871 Age UK Suffolk 01473 359911 Childline (24hr) 0800 1111 Martin O’Shea 07756 250326 NSPCC (24hr) 0808 800 5000 Martin Ost (01449) 401511 Social Services 0808 800 4005 Fraud and Cyber Crime Helpline 0300 123 2040 Martin Spurling (01449) 401443 Suffolk Drugs and Alcohol Helpline 0300 123 0872 Xy Stansfield 07538 058304 National Drugs “FRANK” Helpline 0800 776600 Alcoholics Anonymous 0800 9177650 County Councillor Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 UK Domestic Violence Helpline 0808 2000 247 Kay Oakes 07724 700695 Women’s Aid - National 08457 023 468 - Ipswich 01473 745111 District Councillors Suffolk Rape Crisis 0800 0850 520 Mike Norris (01449) 720871 Relate (Family Counselling) 01473 254118 Home-Start Family Support 01379 678552 Steve Phillips (01449) 721710 The Samaritans 0845 790 9090 Cruse Bereavement Support 01473 230888 Town Clerk Assistant Town Clerk Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide 07531 087623 Kevin Hunter Kelaine Spurdens Victim Support 0300 303 3706
TOWN COUNCIL OFFICE NEWSLETTER COPY: Open to the public on Mondays and Thursdays 10am - 12 noon All articles and notices must be emailed in Microsoft Word format to [email protected] Posters should be sent as PDFs. The copy deadline for Contact Details the February 2020 edition is the 8th January. Town Council Office School Street All Advertising queries should be referred to Kelaine at the Needham Market Town Council Office on: (01449) 722246 or email as shown Suffolk above and left. IP6 8BB Telephone (01449) 722246 COUNCIL MEETINGS An answerphone is used if the office is unmanned Held at 7:25pm in the Green Room at the Needham Market Email Community Centre, School Street, IP6 8BB. [email protected] Forthcoming meetings: Weds 4th & 18th December and 15th January 2020. Website www.needhammarkettc.co.uk These meetings are open to the public. You are welcome to attend and take the opportunity to air your views.
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Mayor’s Report them for their service and dedication so that we may spend the festive period with our loved ones in peace Christmas is almost upon knowing that you are there for us. Also if you have a us and for those of you neighbour or elderly folk without local family, perhaps it with a young family more would be a good time to extend a hand of friendship so than anyone it is a time for they will feel the Christmas spirit as well. counting your blessings. It is traditionally a time for There is no newsletter in January so happy and thinking of family and those healthy Christmas and a prosperous new year. By the time you read this, Halloweenthat cannot will be with you at Cllr Steve Phillips probably havethis time, gone such already. as the emergencyThe days areservices and military Needham Market TownMayor/ getting shorterpersonnel. and May the I leavestake this are opportunity falling to thank all of Chairman of Council from the trees. Mid Suffolk District Councillors Mike Norris & Steve Phillips Report It is during this time of year that the colours around Needham6th November Market, particularly 2019. at the Lake, Needhamare spectacular. Lake Visitor Please Centre. do take a Free recycling talks for residents. few momentsDevelopment to look aroundof the plans you, for breath a visitor centre/café at Suffolk’s Recycling Centres offer free ‘Reduce, Reuse and in the freshNeedham air and Lake appreciate are progressing what well. we The final version of Recycle - not a Waste of time!’ sessions to interested have in thisthe town building of design,ours. incorporating the feedback from the parties to learn more about ways to reduce waste and public engagement event on Thursday 10th October, recycling. Neighbours, parish or community groups are Our shopswas are submitted preparing as a planningfor Christmas application on Monday invited to set up a session, offering an ideal additional and decorating4th November. their Subject windows. to planning The approval, the next or alternative way to access information about recycling steps will be to appoint a preferred contractor for the Christmas trees will soon be installed on which is also available on the ‘Suffolk Recycling’ website. construction phase, and then a preferred operator to the lamp standards, and the High Street To book a visit from their Information and Education manage and run the facility. If all goes according to plan it will take on a completely different look. Manager any interested parties can email Sharon. is hoped that the visitor centre will be operating during [email protected] It is mainlythe latter volunteers part of the thatsummer will season be next year. Closing date for Mid Suffolk District Council responsibleMore for thisfree change swimming and for I, youngsters.for one, Locality Awards. am gratefulFollowing for all a successful the effort summer that take goesup, Mid Suffolk Awards are available to properly constituted local District Council has extended its free swims offer and into making this town one of the best groups and organisations with their own bank account will also be running the initiative over the Christmas Christmas scenes around. and a treasurer, and ideally should be for specific holidays too from 20 December 2019 to 5 January 2020 projects, but can cover such costs as training for inclusive at Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre andTwo Stradbroke pictures of flowers on the High Street with St. John’s in Well done one and all! officers and volunteers within those organisations. Swimming Pool, which aims to help promotethe healthierbackground, taken by David Campbell. Steve Phillips They are not available to individuals and cannot be and active lifestyles in the district. Needham Market Town Mayor made retrospectively, i.e. for items already purchased Fly-tipper billed more than £1,500 for dumping or ordered, and the minimum award is £250.00 per waste in Stowupland. IN THIS MONTH’Sapplication. NEWSLETTER... THE NEEDHAMAn offender dumped 12 sacks of household waste in The current scheme will close for applications on Editor: November 2018 in StonebridgeChris Campbell Lane, Stowupland. Sgt [email protected] Soup 31st DecemberHistorical 2019. If any groupsRadio are interested Brian Calver from the Suffolk’s Rural Policing team in making an application please contact your local found the sacks during a routine patrol and the Lunchoffender Notes Drama Editorial Board: David Campbell District Councillors, Mike Norris or Steve Phillips for an was traced. FollowingKelaine a guilty Spurdens plea, the court finedPage the 5 Page 6 Page 10 application form (contact details below). offender £1,000, along with costs of £477.41 and a victim Distributionsurcharge Co-ordinator: of £100. The SuffolkSam Finbow Waste Partnership, which Mid Suffolk District Councillors Mike Norris consists of all the Suffolk councils including theNeedham County [email protected] Fireworks The Tel. 01449 Back 720871 and Printed By: Gipping Press and partners,[email protected] is also hoping to launch a campaignLake over Steve PhillipsDisplay [email protected] the winter aimed at reducing fly tipping in Suffolk.Page 15 Tel. 01449Page 721710. 20 RepresentingPage Needham 27 Market, Badley, Cover Photo: War Memorial, Barretts Lane (CC) Baylham, Creeting St Mary, Creeting St Peter, Darmsden.
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‘Meet up Community The Crafters meet mornings and we start at Tuesdays’ fortnightly on a Tuesday 11am. No fixed projects, Crafters and afternoon from 1.30pm to we just all bring along our ‘Meet up Tuesdays’ has Yap and Yarn 3pm and will start again own projects and get on moved from the Internet in the new year on 7th Café to Needham Market The Community Crafters with them. We will be Community Centre Lounge. and Yap and Yarn groups January 2020. We try all resuming after the new Come along and have a who used to meet at the sorts of different crafts so year on 6th January 2020. free tea and coffee whilst Internet Café have now come along and see what enjoying a good chat with moved to Drift Court, The we do, or come along and If you want to know more others. All are welcome, Drift, Needham Market. show us what you do. you can ring or text Dawn we are there from 10am to on 07513122231 12 noon. You don’t have to New members are always Yap and Yarn takes stay all that time, just pop in welcome. place on Thursday Merry Christmas whenever you want. Loneliness and isolation are widespread amongst many parts of our community, Carers and people with Dementia or disabilities are welcome, In fact we have a Dementia Champion as part of our group.
We will return in the New Year on 7th January 2020. Why not make it your new year resolution to come and join us for a cuppa. For further details contact Dawn on 07513 122231 Needham Market Library
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led by a contingent from the Army Cadet News from the Force Detachment at Wattisham, which is ROYAL BRITISH LEGION affiliated with NM RBL and included representatives December 2019 of the Town Council , Community Associations, on every weekend of Emergency Services and the year. Such events are Youth Groups . “rationed” and RBL is Children from Bosmere allocated the two weeks Community Primary prior to Remembrance School participated in Sunday; which we observe. a service held at the Supermarkets have a Millennium Memorial similar policy. on Barratts Lane on Armistice Day, Monday 11th November where REMEMBRANCE they laid a wreath, SUNDAY together with Town Mayor It is estimated that over Councillor, Steve Philips. 350 people attended the They also recited the Service in St John’s Parish poem “In Flanders Fields”, Church in Needham and created a Garden Market and observed the of Remembrance while POPPY APPEAL providing a wide range of procession along the High singing “Keep the Home medical and psychiatric The amount raised this Street on Remembrance Fires Burning”; a most support to injured year by the Poppy Appeal Sunday 10th November. emotional tribute . members of the Armed in Needham Market and Mr Stephen Miles, Forces, welfare support Children from Creeting St District, which includes the Deputy Lord for their next of kin and Mary Church of England Creeting St Mary, Creeting Lieutenant, the Queen’s dependents, plus material Voluntary Aided Primary St Peter, Baylham, Badley Representative for our support for veterans and School had listened to a and Akenham, was a area, attended the Service, resettlement training for talk on the significance magnificent £6517, not with his wife Petrina. those leaving the Armed of Remembrance given quite as much as last year’s Forces. RBL has helped The procession was by an RBL member and record of over £7000 but over 40,000 beneficiaries that had been boosted by in different ways over the the Centenary of the end past twelve months. of World War 1 in 1918. May we clarify an issue Thanks to all members which appears to have of our communities who confused some people? generously contributed There is NO restriction so much and especially to on buying, selling or the volunteer collectors wearing any form of poppy who undertook collections emblem on any day of the house to house, at the year. There IS however boot fair and other special a restriction on holding events, including the High Street Collections. This is Street collection in NM by a sensible precaution, laid Army Cadets (see photo). down by Local Authorities, Last year the Poppy to prevent the many Appeal raised over £50 good causes from holding million nationally which unrestricted “Flag Days” is being used by RBL on
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News from the Royal British Legion continued from previous page... Scorpion M.A Academy We had a marvellous turnout of Juniors dressed in spooky masks and outfits at our two Halloween parties. First one was at our Needham Market Community Centre Dojo at our Tuesday training session and this was followed by our Stowmarket Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre Dojo party at our Thursday class. Lots of fun and games and best of all much to the delight of the children nerf gun fun plus lots of sweets. The academy is actively collecting for the Stowmarket Food Bank and all donations are welcome. December has us holding Karate and Kickboxing subsequently attended in the Lounge at NM interclub tournaments, kids Christmas party and Seniors a service in the parish Community Centre, social night out. church, which featured School Street. We are readings, poems and a sociable and informal prayers by the children, group and we welcome two of whom read “In Flanders Fields”. The two visitors, whether members minutes silence at the War of RBL or not. We enjoy Memorial was impeccably a varied programme of observed. Remembrance events which includes talks, crosses were placed (not always on a military We teach Karate and Kickboxing throughout the week on the graves of the six theme) and excursions. servicemen who rest and specialise in teaching realistic self defence. in Creeting Saint Mary See our website Enrolling your child in our classes will increase their Churchyard. www.britishlegion.org.uk/ fitness, confidence, leadership skills, make friends, learn anti bullying techniques, train to blackbelt level and NM RBL BRANCH branches/needham-market become part of an amazing team. We also welcome usually meets on for details of the Branch. Seniors over the age of fourteen to join us and gain all of the last Thursday Contact Secretary Ed the above. of February, April, Butel - 01449 722 033 June, August, and One month free for all new members joining. October at 7.30 pm Further details can be obtained calling or emailing Mark Jr Trent - 07708644162 [email protected] St Elizabeth Hospice Please note that used stamps and old coins are still being collected to help the Hospice. Although the number received has now dropped dramatically, the Hospice still needs our help. As always, stamps and coins may be left at Neil’s Hairdressers, 31A High Street or the Hospice shop at No. 75 High Street. Many thanks to all the people who always save them, your support is very much appreciated. Season’s Greetings to you all. Barbara Butcher RBL Colour Party with Cadet Reece Eades
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Stowmarket Wildlife Group – Suffolk Wildlife Bosmere Court Trust Art Exhibition The Stowmarket group meetings in 2019 For some time now Bosmere Court residents have covered a very diverse attended fortnightly art classes in their lounge and range of subjects they’ve recently held an Art Exhibition here. centred on the plants Their tutor has been the multi- talented Alice Lester. and animals of Suffolk. They’ve painted, drawn, etched and generally learnt a The speakers were variety of art techniques. The people I’ve met are very informative and often excited about their art lessons and, despite thinking amusing, revealing initially that they had no talent, they have turned out much about what some amazing work. I am encouraging them to open goes on around us, which is so often unnoticed. The their exhibition to the public in the near future. attendance for the talks was good, and one attracted the biggest audience since the group was established. Look out for an invitation in The Newsletter next year The wildlife walks were also popular, and most and get a chance to pick up some incredible Christmas enjoyable. cards at great prices. The programme of events for 2020 is established, Dawn Spurling and starts after the Christmas and New Year break.
EVENTS BROCKS AND FOULMARTS, an illustrated talk with Darren Tansley. Wednesday 26 February 2020 at 7.30pm in Stowupland village hall. Darren, Essex Wildlife Trust River Catchment Coordinator, will talk to us about the changing fortunes of these animals from the 1500’s to the present day, their folklore and ecology and prey. From tiny weasel to elegant pine marten he will uncover Needham Market W.I. fascinating facts and new discoveries. First of all, on behalf of the members of the W.I., thanks to all who supported our raffle at the craft fair. Together Admission is £2.50, children free. Please pay on with our share of the profits from the sale of refreshments arrival. Hearing loop available on request. we are sending £200 to the Blossom Appeal - a fantastic HEDGEROWS, HERBS AND MEDICINES, an amount - thank you once again for your generosity. illustrated talk with Martin Sanford. In October Mark Mitchels gave a very entertaining talk Wednesday 29 April 2020 at 7.30pm in about Beatrix Potter - I learnt several things about her that Stowupland village hall. I wasn’t aware of before. A look at some common plants of Suffolk hedges and Our December meeting, which is on the first Monday, waysides, their use for foods and medicine and how December 3rd, is organised by the members so we are looking forward to a fun evening with delicious we use them sustainably. refreshments and in January we have a talk about finding Admission is £2.50, children free. Please pay on out about your family tree. arrival. Hearing loop available on request. We hope you all have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year and Father Christmas brings you all you wish for. CONTACT We meet at the Community Centre on the second Monday in the month at 7.30 pm and are always pleased to John Thompson - 01449 676471 - welcome visitors. [email protected] Margaret Bond. Tel 722788
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Gipping Women’s Club We meet on Tuesday evenings at 7.45 pm during school term time at the Needham Market Bowls Club, Crowley Park, Barretts Lane, Needham Market IP6 8BX. Large car park. We are a friendly club and always welcome new members to all our meetings and events. For the last few years, the members have decided that we will not have any meetings in January. Although it seems very early to do so writing this article, we wish all our members a very Happy Christmas and New Year. We look forward to seeing you all when we restart our activities on February 4th with a games evening. Meanwhile, back to the present, we finish this year’s program thus:- Our Autumn programme of events concludes: November 26th Ethiopia and Antique Land with Chris Parfitt December 3rd Christmas Dinner at the Limes Another year is coming to an end, but it has proved to be a December 10th Christmas Party good one for the flowers in the High Street, ours, and some For information, please call Stephanie Wiggins on lovely pots and baskets belonging to residents and shops. Our cannas have been put away for the winter to be used again next (01449) 723440 year. They have done so well there should be some available on the plant stall in the spring. A new member of our team has offered to build a website for Pop into the Chinwag us – details at a later date. Our next fundraising event will be at the Community Centre in Needham table top sale on 1st December, when we will run a tombola. This will be followed by a quiz in March. Please support us. Age UK Suffolk have been We would welcome feedback so if you would like to contact us welcoming older members the e mail is [email protected]. of the community to their Next meeting will be 30th November , 10.00 at the Community monthly social group, Centre, and the AGM will be held early in the new year. which is being held on there is no charge, although We wish everyone a peaceful Christmas and prosperous new the first Tuesday of each as a charity, donations are year. month at The Limes Hotel, always welcomed. We will always welcome new members, so if you would like to Needham Market. Meeting join us, or offer help, please contact Vera on 723424, or come to between 2pm – 4pm The Pop Up Chinwags are the meeting. part of Age UK Suffolk’s every month, guests are PR welcomed with tea and Community Links scheme, coffee, entertainment which includes offering and refreshments and on tablet courses to older Turn up Tuesdays Tuesday 3rd December, people, and a dedicated with the Police! there will be a “Christmas community volunteer Party” with festive themed scheme. Enjoy a free cup of tea or coffee every entertainment and food and Tuesday morning at Needham Market a few surprises on the way. For further information, Internet Café between 10am and 12 noon. There’s no need to book, call 01473 298683 or Just drop in when you like, friendly welcome you can just turn up on the email tracey.evans@ guaranteed and plenty of chat. day and join the fun and ageuksuffolk.org. Everyone welcome. Dawn Spurling
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Needham Open Mic Blood Doners Refreshment Sessions Team, Community Centre After 30 years plus, the refreshment team for the donor sessions at the Community Centre has decided to retire. Mrs Walter Stewart was the original organiser and when she retired, I stood in her place. Over the years we have had many volunteers and I think we can say we have all enjoyed the sessions. It was good to see the regulars and celebrate a landmark donation with a ‘cuppa’. However, all good things come to an end and as there has gradually been less for us to do because of health I am sitting writing this remembering a brilliant evening at the and safety reasons, we have decided to call it to a halt. October open mic session. We had eight acts this month I would like to say a BIG Thank You to everyone including a visit from our friends Inside out, at full strength and especially to Mrs Barbara Downey and Mrs Rita tonight. We were also graced with performances from Robertson who have been coming regularly for longer James and Marcela, who sang a couple for us and recited an than I – we’ve had lots of laughs along the way, thank interesting poem about body piercing. you both! Our December gig will be on Thursday 19th Please come along and join us there will be some fine entertainment and I shall miss the donors who do a marvellous job. that nice Martin behind the bar has threatened to supply Tony and I will also miss the’ fish n chip’ suppers on a nibbles. We aim for an 8pm start depending on how many session Friday night. performers show up. Why not come along and join us, sing, play, do some stand up or just come and watch its a great Lots of ‘misses’ but also lots of very good memories! evening for all. If you want to perform come to the bar and Pat Ward ask for me, My names Bill and I might play a seasonal song! Unity Online set to go full circle and return to its roots with iconic office move
One of Suffolk’s fastest- Unity’s digital specialists to boasts stunning cornices “We’ve got some very growing full-service thrive in. and string courses of Caen exciting plans for the new digital agencies is all set office, which we hope will The move marks a return limestone. In the past, the to complete an exciting engage and motivate staff; to Unity Online’s roots, building has been subdivided office move to an iconic giving them a futureproof with the agency’s founder, for light industrial use, but location, taking the workspace to be proud of.” Alex Pattenden leasing the Unity Online will be taking company back to where it company’s first office within full and exclusive use of the Unity Online’s new office all began in 2014. Needham Market’s Lion commercial premises. space will extend to three Unity Online is embarking Barn Industrial Estate. Alex “For some time, I have had floors, giving freedom upon the next stage of himself grew up in the Mid ambitions to return the to create plentiful staff breakout areas that foster its growth curve, with an Suffolk town and is delighted agency to where it all began collaboration and innovation, ambitious move to exclusive to secure terms on a move in Needham Market,” said as well as a games room for offices situated within that will enable Unity Online Alex. Needham Market train to house as many as 50 lunchtimes and out-of-hours. station. employees, whilst playing a “Needham’s train station is The unstaffed train station role in restoring Needham an iconic building in the local The commercial space also benefits from free car Market train station to its area and offers numerous within this Grade II parking throughout Station former glory. strategic benefits for our Yard, which is another listed building has been employees and clients. unoccupied for more than The Jacobean-style train logistical boon for the agency. seven years and significant station was built in 1849, “To be situated literally A tight deadline has been set interior renovations are sporting symmetrical storey on the train line makes for the building’s renovation, being invested to create wings either side of a commuting easier for staff with the team hopeful of productive, feature-laden single-storey booking hall. and provides direct access for moving in by the end of working environments for This red brick building also clients to come and see us. December.
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Town Council future development planning number 101. In an emergency contribution voluntary Newsletter/ decisions. The weight the situation the number to and charitable groups and Needham Market plans carry will be essential telephone remains 999. organisations make to the in safeguarding the town well-being of the town, by Neighbourhood Plan does not expand to a level granting or donating relatively There are changes to this of housing growth which its Town Council - small but always well received edition of the Newsletter infrastructure cannot support. Councillor Vacancies amounts to them. Recently, that are due to circumstances The context of the Plans There are vacant seats on the current Town Mayor Steve outside the Town Council’s and why they have been Town Council. If you have an Phillips became aware the control. I hope this hasn’t designed as they are will be interest in becoming a Town Town Library holds a ‘Baby detracted from the essential fully explained at the mid- Councillor, please feel free to Bounce’ session (Thursdays January Neighbourhood Plan role the council’s newsletter contact me to express that 9:45am to 10:30am). Steve Consultation Events – please plays which is to inform interest or to have an initial has supplemented the funds refer to page 11. residents and businesses in discussion about what being the Town Council already the town what is happening, Whilst changes to the format a Town Councillor entails. contributes annually to the and when, as well as what of the Newsletter have been Contact details for the Town library, by donating £100 that the Town Council is involved necessary, can all contributors Council Office are shown has allowed the purchase of a in. The past few weeks have please continue to send their on the inside cover of this range of toys for use following seen good progress made on copy to the Newsletter’s Newsletter. the ’Baby Bounce’ sessions, a number of fronts including dedicated email address: when parents/carers and their the Needham Market newsletter@needhammarkettc. babies can enjoy some extra Neighbourhood Plan. The co.uk. Christmas Best social time together. Town Council’s consultant is Dressed Competitions finalising policy statements Town Mayor, Councillor Steve which now reflect the County Lines Phillips will be out and about Needham Market Neighbourhood Plan is to be There is widespread, before Christmas judging Country Practice based on a housing growth discernible and growing which residential and High figure for the town of 497 – Clinical System concern in the town regarding Street business premises in new dwellings. This figure Migration the potential County Lines the town deserve special coincides with that which is problem has, to infest our recognition for their Christmas The Town Council is aware of included in the Joint Babergh/ community as it is in many the following advice given by Mid Suffolk District Council dressing. So, if you have an other places. County Lines is ambition to be judged best the Practice: Local Plan, the draft stage the insidious process whereby dressed residential property Please be advised that of which has recently been drugs are distributed from consulted on. The approach (there is a memento for the Needham Market Country urban hubs to proportionately best dressed in the High now being taken results in a smaller communities, largely Practice will be changing Street plus another for all streamlining of process that via the recruitment of young clinical systems on Wednesday other areas of the town) or should allow completion of the people to act as carriers and 27th & Thursday 28th best dressed High Street Neighbourhood Plan in the dealers (those that sell the November 2019. There will business premises, then best of near future. In fact, the Draft drugs on to others). Needham be disruption leading up to luck to you all. To supplement Neighbourhood Plan will be Market is relatively well served and during this period. From the above competitions ready for public consultation by public transport and this Monday 11th November there is also one for the best shortly. There is no January alone makes it vulnerable to until Friday 6th December dressed residential home, of edition of the Needham falling prey to the County we will only be able to which Needham Market has Market Newsletter and Lines crisis. I am aware, from deal with medically urgent several. This category is always therefore, on page 11 of this regular liaison, our local requests. During this very competitive, and the edition, the dates and times for policing team is focusing as period all routine matters homes always come up with the Draft Neighbourhood Plan much of it effort as possible to need to be directed via the consultation are advertised. prevent County Lines taking brilliant displays in creating a eConsult service on our Please put the dates/times hold in our town. Please assist festive environment for their home page. Please note that in your diary as the Council the Police, where you feel you residents. for Patient Access you will would appreciate your view on have or see any valid evidence need to come into the Practice the approach it has now taken, that may point to drug Mayor’s donation to and re-register following the particularly the coinciding dealing/abuse, by contacting Library migration. Thank you for your of a future housing growth them as soon as possible. patience while we undertake figure of 497 dwellings with The way of contacting the The Town Mayor position this vital work. the District Council’s Local Police varies depending on annually holds a discretionary Kevin Hunter, Plan. When the respective the circumstances. Non- grant/donation budget that Town Clerk plans are adopted, they must emergency contact can be allows the incumbent to be fully taken account of in made via the telephone acknowledge the immense
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