July 2020 www.trullparishcouncil.org.uk Trull Parish Council Newsletter

Playground is set one week in advance. Any grounds that the revised SUDs Further to Government Guidance item received with less notice will plan still fails to properly address and the further easing of be held over to the following the need for surface water restrictions, our playground will be month. The agenda will be available drainage and is incomplete. The re-opening on Saturday 4th July. on the Trull Parish Council website District Council also feels the Please go and enjoy and remember and the noticeboards prior to the design does not meet the to follow basic precautions on social meeting. requirements for a ‘Garden Town’ distancing and handwashing/hand with over-use of red bricks, lack of sanitising. SLOW DOWN sensitivity for local building styles Many members of the public have and the lack of provision for King George V Playing Field been in touch with us regarding the climate change measures. The There remains to be issues around constant speeding on Honiton developer has argued he has gone conduct and large groups hanging Road. as far as he can without detracting out in the KGV field. The local PCSO team has contacted any more from the viability of the The local PCSO team have been enforcement on the Parish Council’s scheme and last week issued a contacted and are increasing their behalf. A site assessment has been revised Design Planning patroles, however, if you witness conducted and as a result Avon and Statement. In addition, the anything or fall victim, then please are installing a Roadside developer has submitted an contact the on 999 if you are Speed Data Capture box in order to application to build a further 75 in immediate danger or if it is a non establish the volume and speed of houses adjacent to the first 70 emergency then contact 101 and traffic over 7 to 14 day period. PCSO with a planning decision expected report it under anti-social Lyndsay Smith will then provide us in September. Finally, the behaviour. with a report covering the data developers submitted an application to build a collected. Please be Vigilant With the easing of lockdown booster/pumping station near Horts Bridge on land that is prone Sadly, along with the ‘LOCKDOWN’ measures, Avon & Somerset police to flooding. There were a large has come a speight of burglaries are awaiting the green light for the number of objections and some around . On the 12th June, Speedwatch team to resume. aspects fell outside reserved an elderly man in Trull was robbed matters so the application was of a large quantity of cash. The Geoff Hewett Pavilion withdrawn for further discussion. police ask that if you see anything The GHP is available to hire to hire suspicious, then please report it and for sports, exercise classes or Playing Field Management ensure that all dwellings are secure. private functions. Please contact our Clerk if you’re looking to make a Committee (PFMC) July Parish Council Meeting booking in the coming months. The PFMC meet four times a year, and are looking to co-opt a new The next meeting is due to take place on Monday 20th July at Trull/ committee member, so if you 7.15pm. would like to join them or would Development like to have a chat about If you have an item that you wish to There have been a number of be discussed by Trull Parish Council potentially joining, then please objections and new plans and contact our Parish Clerk. The next please contact the Clerk with details drawings have been submitted this of the issue and where possible scheduled meeting will take place month, but the Local Flood on Wednesday 8th July at 7pm. your expected outcome. The authority has objected on the agenda for Parish Council meetings The meeting details will be included on the agenda which will Allotments road/report-a-problemwith-a- be published on the website and in The plots are very much in demand, public-right-of-way/ the noticeboards as normal. but if you would like to get your name on the waiting list, then Your Parish Clerk Stonebaked Pizzas please contact our clerk. Sammie Millard-Jones Barefoot Stonebaked Pizza Co. are 10 Stubby Lane, Taunton. TA2 8GA now coming to Trull every Tuesday Tel: 07465405533 SWP Recycling [email protected] between 4.45-8.30pm. Head down All ‘business as usual’ items are now Your Councillors to the Memorial hall car park to being accepted across Somerset Laurence Forgham - Chair pick up a takeaway! Waste Partnership’s recycling (Village Field) centres. ‘Shop-style’ social Rivendell, Amberd Lane. TA3 7AA Live Beat Surgery distancing is in place and sites are at Tel: 07809701827 PCSO Katherine Williams and Linda times busy. SWP is encouraging [email protected] Brooks are holding a Facebook Live people to only come if they really Jo Wooldridge Vice-Chair Beat Surgery on Wednesday 8 July need to and make sure they use (Allotments) at 11am. Please message your their weekly recycling 21 Church Road, Trull. TA3 7JZ questions to either of the PCSOs on collections. Tel: 01823 253057 their Facebook pages to aid an [email protected] informative discussion. Learning to drive Anthony Kent (Flooding) Theory tests will re-start in The Coach House, Dipford, Trull, TA3 7NR SWT Ward Councillors from July 4th and Driving tests will Tel: 01823 423196 Cllr Sarah Wakefield and Cllr Martin re-commence on Wednesday 22nd [email protected] Hill are the ward councillors July. Ann Hudson (Alms Houses) representing Trull, and Amberd Farm, Amberd Lane, Staplehay. on Somerset West and Mandatory MOT Testing TA3 7AA Taunton council. Cllr Wakefield can Mandatory MOT testing will be Tel: 01823 252627 be contacted at reintroduced from 1 August 2020 as [email protected] cllr.s.wakefield@somersetwestandt COVID-19 restrictions are slowly Nick Hancock (Highways) aunton.gov.uk Cllr Hill can be lifted. Due to the coronavirus Heatherdene, Comeytrowe Road. contacted at outbreak, drivers were granted a 6- Tel: 01823 337100 cllr.m.hill2@somersetwestandtaunt month exemption from MOT testing [email protected] on.gov.uk Cllr Alan Wedderkopp in March to help slow the spread of remains the elected ward member the virus. However, as restrictions Tessa Dean (Planning) 1Wild Oak Mews. TA3 7JR for Trull and Comeytrowe on are eased when safe to do so, all Tel: 01823 619760/07966 580165 . He can be drivers whose car, motorcycle or [email protected] contacted at van is due for an MOT test from 1 [email protected] August will be required to get a test Brian Pretty (Footpaths & Open Spaces) certificate to continue driving their 9 Southwell Close, TA3 7EU Bricks & Mortar vehicle. Tel: 01823 272384 [email protected] 42/20/0032 - Notification to fell Verge maintenance three birch trees and to carry out Anne Clark (Playing Field) Roadside verges and footpaths are management works to one yew tree 7 Southwell Close. TA3 7EU the responsibility of SCC who within Trull Conservation Area at Tel: 07599519726 should be informed of problems at [email protected] Holmesdale, Wild Oak Lane, Trull. http://www.somerset.gov.uk/roads RESOLVED: SUPPORT -parking-and- David Lindfield (Planning) 2 Kibbear Cottages. TA3 7LN transport/problemson-the- The Parish Council can make Tel: 07555 204 250 road/report-an-overgrownverge-or- comments on applications in the [email protected] hedge-on-the-road/ Or area to be considered by SWT. To http://www.somerset.gov.uk/roads Steve Keen (Trull Primary School) discuss an application contact Tessa -parking-and- Holmesdale, Wild Oak Lane. TA3 7JT Dean or David Lindfield. Tel: 07734943592 transport/problemson-the- [email protected]