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(OPC) Notes by Laura Harley (Parish Clerk) September 2017 September 2017 ON&V is published monthly by Overton Parish Council (OPC) and is distributed Editor: Holly Foat by volunteers to every property in Overton, Ashe, Laverstoke & Freefolk. [email protected] www.OvertonParishCouncil.gov.uk What’s on in Overton @OvertonHants Visit us : Overton Parish Council Contact us for problems/comments about Overton Parish Council matters (OPC) Information Office is open to the public from 9am to 12noon Valda Stevens (Chairman) [email protected] 771602 each Wednesday & Thursday in Anne Phillips (Vice Chair) [email protected] 770350 St Mary’s Hall, with Parish Ian Tilbury (Borough Councillor & Rights of Way Representative) 771429 Clerk: Laura Harley. Colin Phillimore (Borough Councillor) 771127 Colin Fowles 771090 Jane Dooley 771386 Contact Laura: 771919 or Richard Cook 07957493802 Gary Beecham 770539 [email protected] Margaret Oram 07798640915 Graham Gould 770223 or Oak Tree Lodge, Roundwood, Stuart Chessell 07973269503 Peter Baker 772155 Micheldever, Winchester, SO21 For Laverstoke & Freefolk Parish Council, contact Nicky: [email protected] 3BA. Overton Parish Council (OPC) notes by Laura Harley (Parish Clerk) Telephone boxes Parish Council: September diary The parish council has the opportunity to obtain two redundant red Overton Parish Council Meeting: telephone boxes in the village – one in Kingsclere Road near the junction Wednesday 13 September, 7pm in of Hilltop Meadow and the other in Charledown Road. They cost £1 each the Community Centre. (Public to buy, but there will be refurbishment and maintenance costs going Time 7pm – 7.30pm). forward and so we would like to know whether you think they should be kept. Are any community groups interested in taking on the ongoing OPC Monthly Planning Meeting: maintenance? Do you have any good ideas for their use (or should we just Tuesday 26 September, 7.30pm, keep them because they are an iconic feature in the village scene)? Other in Community Centre. Agendas villages have used their old phone boxes for book/CD exchanges; to and planning applications are house defibrillators and cash point machines; as mini art galleries and for displayed on the Parish tourist information. Remember that one of the telephone boxes in the Noticeboard. The public is village centre has already been refurbished and is available as an welcome to attend and may advertising space (please contact Physical Balance on )770022 for more discuss any planning matters details). Please forward your comments to the parish clerk. before each meeting starts. Please don't drone on... All parish council meetings will We have received reports of a white drone, which has been spotted flying be recorded. above Overton on several occasions. It appears to be flying low and makes an irritating sound; in addition, it seems to be mounted with a Laverstoke & Freefolk Parish camera. This is intruding on people’s privacy, especially when it is Council Meeting: Tuesday 12 hovering over private gardens. If you have a drone, please have some September, 7.30pm in the consideration when using it, especially in the vicinity of people's houses. Community Centre, Laverstoke Lane. News from the Friends of QEII Daniel Park community orchard Movitime News Do you have a glut of apples every Autumn and don’t know what to do The next film to be shown in St with them all? We can help! On the morning of Saturday 9th September, Mary’s Hall is A United Kingdom, the Friends of QEII Daniel Park in Whitchurch will be hosting a communal on Friday 29th September. Doors apple pressing at the new community orchard beside the primary school. open at 7.15pm for a 7.45pm Everybody from Whitchurch and the surrounding villages is invited to bring start. Tickets are £5 in advance their ripe, undamaged apples from 9am on the day. Richard Paget from from the Overton Gallery or £5.50 My Apple Juice (myapplejuice.co.uk) will press, pasteurise and bottle the on the door. Refreshments are juice, which you can then buy. Any profit made will be ploughed back into available to purchase on the night. the upkeep of the park. Further information will be available prior to the event or contact [email protected] or Reporting street lighting faults )07979 908004 and other highway problems You can report street lighting faults Cardboard Bank on Overton Hill and other highway problems online Please could people using the cardboard banks on Overton Hill flatten the at www.hants.gov.uk. Under boxes and insert them into the banks (rather than leaving them by the ‘Report It’, select ‘Report a Road side). Problem’. All highway problems The deadline for October’s ON&V is 14th September . can reported on )0300 555 1388. OPC notes continued by Laura Harley (Parish Clerk) Village Diary - September 2017 River Restoration Works at Southington - Autumn 2017 Saturday 2 September: Overton Market Two sections of the River Test have been restored in recent years and 10am-12noon, St Mary’s Hall. further work is due to take place on the River Test at Southington during the Autumn. This is part of an ongoing programme (The Test & Itchen River Sunday 3 September: The 29th running Restoration Strategy) by individual land owners, Natural England and the of the Overton 5 Road Race organised by Environment Agency, targeted at stopping and reversing the decline in the Overton Harriers at 2pm. The route is on River Test SSSI. The area at Southington upstream of the old silk mill hatch quieter, rural roads, starting on Straight has been highlighted as one of the areas in need of restoration within the Lane, by Berrydown Sports Ground, then strategy and will extend from the old hatch to Bridge Street (although work Quidhampton, Hannington Road, Nutley will predominantly be targeted at the lower end of the stretch). The problems Bottom to Ashe Warren Farm triangle and highlighted within the restoration strategy are a major impoundment resulting back along Hannington Road to in an over wide, over deep channel, restriction of fish passage and a heavily Flashetts, Kingsclere Road and Overton silted river channel. This is leading to low flows and a lack of flow diversity, Recreation Centre. Stop/Go signs will be generally leading to very poor chalk stream habitat. To address these provided along a short distance of the problems, the hatch at the site of the old mill will be removed; two limestone Kingsclere Road. The race will be 2-3pm crescents will be placed in the river upstream of the old hatch to step water and roads will be opened as soon as levels up slightly, so that the flow is maintained to the stream running through conveniently possible. There will be the golf course; the hatch from the river to the stream will be lowered and children's races at the ORC field at repaired, and banks will be narrowed to maintain water velocities in low flow 12:45pm . Please contact Helen years and regraded to give gently sloping banks to allow water levels to rise McMahon for more info, to enter the race in high water years. There will also be localised coppicing of bankside trees or marshal. [email protected] to allow access for machinery and provide materials, if suitable for narrowing of the river channel. This will include the trees on the north bank, as viewed Tuesday 5 September: Overton WI downstream from Bridge Street, to give a clear view of the river from the Meeting: “Garden Weeds – will we ever ) bridge. The work should result in a pristine section of chalk stream habitat win?” Alick Jones. 770681 with a clean gravel bed, good in stream weed growth, faster, more diverse www.hampshirewi.org.uk 8 flows and lush marginal vegetation on the banks. The results will be much [email protected] the same as the section downstream of the hatch, which was subject to a Wednesday 6 September: Overton Folk restoration project in 2016. There will obviously be a greatly reduced flood Club 8pm in the Community Centre. Our risk in the area upstream of the old impounding structure. new season gets underway with a Overton Parish Council welcomes a new business singer’s night. Everybody welcome. Tom )770384 or Cherished Farm Shop is open 7 days a week, 9am to 5pm selling organic 8 coffee, tea, cakes, toasted sandwiches and soft drinks. They also sell raw pet [email protected] food and have a secure playing field for dogs, in Laverstoke Park Farm. ) Saturday 9 September: Ride & Stride 01276 537312 www.cherishedfarm.co.uk bike/walk. Fun for all the family whilst Letters to the editor exploring Hampshire & IoW churches/ Community Speedwatch - and beyond? chapels and helping raise funds, in part, I am filled with rage and despair when I see the way some drivers hurtle for Lordsfield Swimming Club at Overton heedlessly along Overton’s roads, while cocooned at the wheel of a ton of Pool. Grab your sponsor form, choose shiny steel, rubber and glass. What if a small child were to run out into the your own route, have fun and fundraise! road, which is nearly always cluttered by parked cars these days? These What's not to like?! More info and drivers act as if they don’t have any idea of what might happen - that, without sponsor forms are available online at warning, they could be standing grey-faced at the side of the road, http://hihct.org.uk/rideStride_taking.php or ) desperately seeking reassurance from paramedics that their victim is going contact Julia Hodgson 07983 362 979. to be all right - and getting silence in return. I’d go even further than trying to Tuesday 12 September: Overton increase awareness via positive village initiatives, like Overton Community Community Association AGM 7.30pm in Speedwatch.
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