The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 241 June/July 2019 Thank you to our VILLAGE DIRECTORY in June 2019 deliverers for this issue: Church Warden 810 284 Peter Bramley Father Mark Hogan (RC) 01962 852 804 Andy and Sharon Crabtree Charles Grieve Community Sports Hall TV School 810 555 Becky Griffiths Garden Club 810 794, 810 432 Geoff Merritt Mayflies Youth Club (Liz Howard) 07870 612 127 Boo Milne John & Selina Musters Neighbour Care Scheme for Beth Oliver Stockbridge/Longstock/Houghton 0845 0943 713 Gary Oliver Nigel Rugman Parish Council Clerk 810 752 Thank you also to everyone contributing or Pilates/Yoga 810 549 checking articles & news. Scouts Stockbridge (Mo Collins) 01256 895 534 Please contact the Parish Clerk, on 810752, or Village Hall, Badminton/Bowls 810 459 e-mail [email protected] if W.I. 810 603 you’d like to help with the newsletter in any way, and by Friday 19th July if you’d like to submit EMERGENCY or USEFUL CONTACTS an article or announcement, give us some news, or place an advert. Environment Agency Incident Hotline 0800 807 060 DUSTBIN COLLECTION Hampshire Fire & Rescue 02380 644 000 Black Fri 7th, Fri 21st June Floodline 08459 881 188 bins Fri 5th, Fri 19th July Southern Electric 08457 331 331 by R. Cole Longstock Lane, Church Photo Brown Sat 1st, Fri 14th, Fri 28th June Southern Water 08452 780 845 bins Fri 12th and Fri 26th July June / July 2019 Chairman’s address Police non-urgent calls 101 or 0845 0454 545 Issue 241 Neighbourcare Andover 336 020, 339 899 Sophie Walters writes: Green bags are collected on Tuesdays of the same week as brown bins. To subscribe please Surgery 810524 The years seem to come around quicker and contact TVBC on 368000. Community Care Team quicker! The Parish Council recently held the Foil is collected at Chilbolton’s West Down car (District Nurses) 01962 893 560 Annual Parish Assembly - details are reported in park & at Andover Garden Centre. Helpline for Carers (Freephone) 08000 323 456 this newsletter. It was nice to see so many villagers Plastic pots are no longer recycled there. Hants County Council information 0845 603 5638 This Newsletter is come to hear what we have been up to these past Test Valley Borough Council 368000 published by Longstock 12 months. There is a collecting box for clean plastic milk Parish Council and delivered bottle tops in the church lychgate, and a Citizens’ Advice Bureau 365534 free to every household in There has been a change to Longstock councillors separate one for batteries. Please don’t put To call anonymously with information Longstock. since I last wrote, as Cllr John Milne did not seek either in plastic bags. Batteries can also be about crime: Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 disposed of in supermarkets & should not go in Anyone else may subscribe re-election after 32 years’ service. John’s dustbins. TRANSPORT at £8 a year. contribution to Longstock has been hugely The batteries (small, not car!) will Stagecoach Stockbridge to Winchester appreciated, very many thanks. The other six be taken for safe disposal; and buses number 68 0845 121 0190 councillors remain in post, and we offer a warm clean plastic milk bottle tops with Wheelers Stockbridge to Winchester buses the HDPE symbol will be recycled to welcome to new Cllr John Eastwood who has number 16, & no 15 to Andover 02380 471 800 raise funds for the Gift of Sight’s joined this merry band. research into macular degeneration. Cango buses to Romsey have been replaced with NO OTHER TYPES shared taxis.Register on 01962 846 786 It’s also time to say good bye to John Musters who OF TOPS PLEASE as these are the only Traveline for countrywide travel as clerk and finance officer has kept the ship off the ones accepted now, and PLEASE don’t put info 08712 002 233 rocks and moving ahead for 15 years. We are all batteries in with bottle tops.The consequences Dial-a-Ride (Joyrides Stockbridge) very appreciative of the work John has done and he are DIRE! Minibus to Andover Register on 356 808 has certainly made my job easier. Very many While the White Hart has building work This runs through Longstock on Wednesdays at thanks. We are grateful to Mark Flewitt for 9.30, returning at noon, for £3.75 return. stepping up to take over as clerk. the glass recycling bins have been moved to Register on 356808 or for more information, ring the bus bay at Roman Road. John Musters. 810459 or Dane Oliver Glass and clothing recycling bins are 810839. avalable at Chilbolton Down car park, and at The deadline for newsletter submissions is Friday 19th July Andover Wyevale Garden Centre. if you’d like to submit any news or comment, or offer to help! [email protected] Page 2 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 241 June/July 2019 Issue No 241 June/July 2019 The Longstock Newsletter Page 3 Parish Council Report the local taxation level has been frozen at £141.41 level they would install enforcement cameras. This for an average Band D property. TVBC will run a was disappointing, but we should all spread the word by Mark Flewitt, Parish Clerk Parish Council balanced budget via a combination of savings and and “lean on” local employers to tell their drivers Meeting Dates Annual Parish Assembly (APA). The APA was Monday 10th June at extra income, which will “enable us to grow our and deliverers to ease up. held in the Village Hall on Monday 15th April. 7.30pm potential, continue to invest in Test Valley, and Our streetlights are in need of replacement, and huge Reports were presented from representatives of the Monday 1st July at prepare us well for the major changes ahead”. thanks are due to Cllr Selina Musters for her hard Local Police, Hampshire County Council, Test 7.30pm There have been significant improvements at the work in dealing with this far from straightforward Valley Borough Council, and the Parish Council. Romsey Rapids, and the brand new Andover Leisure task. LPC has agreed Phase 1, with “heritage” lights Centre is now open, at no capital cost to rate-payers. in the main part of the village plus the Carbery Police. PCSO Williams’ report reviewed how our Work continues by Andover Vision and Romsey crossroads, and the remaining nine lights to be area is policed, with the Test Valley neighbourhood You are very welcome to come and hear what Future to rejuvenate our town centres. replaced in due course with a modern design. Thanks team based in Stockbridge and Romsey, supported by goes on at a parish council meeting in the village to our County and Borough Councillors for their Response teams out of Hedge End and Andover for hall or to contact the Clerk with any issue. TVBC delivered 217 affordable homes against a grants towards the lights’ replacement. target of 200, and Councillors Busk and Boulton 999 calls and more urgent matters reported via 101. The Lengthsman has done good work through the Parish Councillors: have been able to award small grants to deserving With the current resources, the Police focus their projects in their Ward, including the recent £700 parish, and we are big fans of this scheme. Many attention on “the right places and on High Risk and Chairman: Sophie Walters towards the Longstock Street Lighting. thanks to Cllr Charles Grieve, who is now the High Harm people and places”, and rely completely [email protected] 07740 443 460 contact point for the lengthsman, and has kept on the public reporting what is happening. Although Peter Boulton and Daniel Busk have both stood abreast of all footpath matters. We now have Councillors: down from their Borough Councillor roles as at the there may be an impression that “crime is so bad David Burnfield, [email protected] 810 529 fingerposts in all the right places. these days”, crime figures do not support that John Eastwood [email protected] May elections, and Longstock will now form part of On Planning, the LPC has considered 9 new perception. In the 90 days before the APA there was 07880 644 977 the much larger Mid Test Ward, with 3 Borough planning and 2 tree applications. After some “head- no reported crime in Longstock. Ivan Gibson, [email protected] 810 002 Councillors representing over 7,500 electors. The scratching” at some recent TVBC decisions, we Charles Grieve, [email protected] 810 580 new councillors are Ian Jeffrey, Alison Johnston and Although the police recognise that the 101 service Becky Griffiths, [email protected] welcomed Paul Jackson to the July LPC meeting to 07803 923 884 Tony Ward. try to understand better their processes. We try very may be “clunky”, the public is asked to be patient Selina Musters, [email protected] 810 459 and it is worth the effort to make the call. Longstock Parish Council (LPC). Cllr Sophie hard to preserve the character of this very pretty Alternatively, there is an on-line reporting system, Clerk Mark Flewitt Walters, Chair of the LPC, presented her report on village, but are sometimes overridden by TVBC who which works very well, and the Police emphasise [email protected] 810 752 take advice from “Experts”, who don’t have to live Colin McIntyre, [email protected] the past 12 months. There have been no changes to “please tell us what is happening”. We are also the seven members of LPC in this past year, but Cllr with the consequences of their decisions. encouraged to follow the Police on HantsAlert and District Councillors: John Milne is not seeking re-election after 32 years’ Affordable Housing – no progress on this as per the Twitter.