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Winter 2015 MoultonScene Boxing Day – Stocks Hill at 11am • Annual Morris Dancing and Moulton Mummers Play • An hour of fun for all the family 2016Village Festival p.13 Party in the Park p.11 2016 Date set for Party in the Park NOW OPEN Park View, Moulton, Northampton. NN3 7TN New clinic now open on your doorstep offering a range of specialist treatments Physiotherapy Sports Massage 1:1 Pilates Podiatry Acupuncture Other treatments /Chiropody /Dry needling available shortly To book an appointment, call us on: 01604 493 066 BackandBodyClinic.co.uk 2 | moulton scene • winter 2015 Editorial Moulton Scene Information elcome to the Winter 2015 edition of WMoulton Scene. Thank you to all those who help produce ‘The Scene’, it is much Volume 11 | No. 5 appreciated. If you would like to get involved we would love to hear from you; perhaps you have some photos of the village that you would like to see appear within the magazine? If you have anything to contribute, please do get in touch by emailing The next edition of The Moulton Scene [email protected] as we would love to hear from you. will be published on or about 1st May 2016, and will cover the period 1st May On behalf of Moulton Parish Council, we wish all readers a Merry Christmas to 30th August 2016. and a Happy New Year!! Advertisements, editorials and diary Useful Telephone Numbers dates by 11th March 2016 to Moulton Parish Council, Moulton Village Hall, GENERAL Pound Lane, Moulton, NN3 7SD. Moulton College 01604 491131 Moulton Library 0300 126 1000 T: 01604 492318 Moulton Surgery 01604 644126 E: [email protected] Moulton & Overstone Car Scheme (Julia Malings and Jenny Aarons) 07582 351145 Post Office 01604 643106 CHURCHES ADVERTISING COSTS (incl. of VAT): Moulton Parish Church – Pete Collins 01604 495393 email: [email protected] Half page Colour (183 x 130mm) £175.00 Carey Baptist Church – Rev. 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Council. winter 2015 • moulton scene | 3 CONTENTS 3 EDITORIAL Helping Hands Council Matters 27 GIVE BLOOD, DDC CARE & REPAIR, MOULTON & OVERSTONE 5 CHAIRMAN OF THE PARISH EDUCATIONAL TRUST, COUNCIL – Barry Care MBE MONDAY CLUB, MOULTON & 6 FROM YOUR MP – OVERSTONE CAR SCHEME, Chris Heaton-Harris AGE UK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, DDH LUNCH CLUB, VILLAGE Police News NETWORKS PROJECT, TALKING POINT 9 DAVENTRY RURAL COMMUNITY TEAM NEWS Village Clubs and 9 POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER FOR Societies NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 31 MOULTON ALLOTMENT ASSOCIATION, MOULTON Village Information, PLAYERS, MOULTON SHORT Events & Local News MAT BOWLS CLUB, MOULTON EVENING WI, MOULTON 3 USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS & DISTRICT GARDENERS’ 3 ‘WELCOME TO MOULTON’ PACK SOCIETY, MOULTON HISTORY 9 MOULTON VILLAGE TRAIL GUIDE SOCIETY, THE FRIEND-LEYS, MOULTON MORRIS MEN, 11 PARTY IN THE PARK 2015 MOULTON CHURCH BELL 13 MOULTON VILLAGE FESTIVAL RINGERS, MOULTON KEEP 2016 FIT, HARDY PLANT SOCIETY 13 2016 MAY QUEEN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GROUP 15 MOULTON VILLAGE FESTIVAL 2016 – ART EXHIBITION Gardening Tips 15 ARTWONDERFUL 35 WINTER IN THE GARDEN FROM 15 MOULTON POST OFFICE THE GARDEN CENTRE TEAM AT MOULTON COLLEGE 15 BOB EADY EXHIBITION 15 BRAMPTON GRANGE SPRING Focus on Sport WEDDING FAYRE & OPEN DAY and Youth 17 CHRISTMAS 2015 WASTE & 37 MOULTON FC & MOULTON RECYCLING COLLECTIONS MAGPIES YOUTH, WHITE TIGER 19 NEW DOG FOULING TAEKWON-DO ENFORCEMENT POWERS 19 PRIMARY SCHOOL ADMISSIONS Business Section 36 CHRONICLE & ECHO 41 HORTS ESTATE AGENTS, ‘DOWN YOUR WAY’ THE BACK & BODY CLINIC, 45 WHAT NOT TO MISS UNTIL STABLE YARD CHIC MAY 2016 Rural News 47 OPENING TIMES 42 PARISH FOOTPATH WARDEN – 47 HALLS TO HIRE FOOT.... NOTES Schools/Doctors/ Library News Church News 43 CAREY BAPTIST CHURCH 21 MOULTON SURGERY 21 MOULTON PRIMARY SCHOOL Obituaries 23 FRIENDS OF MOULTON PRIMARY 43 OBITUARIES SCHOOL – FOMPS 23 MOULTON SCHOOL & SCIENCE Index of COLLEGE Advertisers 25 MOULTON COLLEGE 44 A-Z LISTING OF LOCAL TRADES 25 MOULTON LIBRARY PEOPLE 4 | moulton scene • winter 2015 From the Parish Council Chairman Barry Care MBE easonal greetings to all of you! efficient management and so our the new, purpose built facility with A time of year we should be community can enjoy these facilities dedicated parking. We have received celebrating a happy time of year to the full. We are planting over 400 advice from Senior Finance Officers at and an opportunity to show extra trees in Crowfields Common and Daventry District Council and from the Sgoodwill to others all around us. I hope also making improvements to Busby’s Northamptonshire County Association you all enjoy a very merry Christmas and Meadow and an extension to the of Local Councils as to how to finance a Happy New Year. Please take trouble southern side of the stream is to be the build. Lease agreements are in to ensure your families, especially the opened up in the Spring. the process of being agreed, and children, have a happy time. If you are discussions begun over the many looking for entertainment on Boxing services at the new community centre. Day morning, don’t forget the Annual New Community Centre A Public Works Loan Board has been Mummers Play and Morris Dancing Great progress is being made on applied for and will cover the cost of the on Stocks Hill at 11am. An hour of fun the new community centre project. build. To cover the loan repayments, for all the family. Since my report in the last Moulton residents will see a rise in the council Scene, project managers have been tax portion paid to Moulton Parish appointed – a local company called Neighbourhood Development Plan Council next year. (This year saw a Peter Haddon and Partners. Slight (NDP) 4.3% decrease on council tax.) As the amendments have been made to the You will know our Parish Council has S106 monies begin to be handed over original planning application and this been preparing our Neighbourhood to the parish council, these monies will is currently the subject of a ‘variation Development Plan. This has reached its then be used to repay the loan. In real of conditions’ application to improve final stages and we hope it should be terms this will mean an additional £6 on the original specifications. As you completing its programme of inspection per month if you pay the full council tax can imagine a considerable amount and adoption in the Spring. The final and your property is classed as a Band of work is now underway to bring this consultation has now taken place and ‘D’ property. For smaller properties the examination stage of the NDP project to fruition. this monthly increase will be less and process will take place in January. for larger properties it will be slightly To summarise the funding position: Thanks are due to the hard work of our higher. The calculation will be based As previously indicated, the build cost Executive Officer and Assistant Clerk in on how many properties are in the has been estimated at £2.3m. Part of its preparation. The Neighbourhood Plan village, how many elderly residents we will set out a vision of how we all hope this cost is offset by £400,000 from have and how many households we our village can develop over the next Northamptonshire County Libraries have claiming council tax discounts. few decades and can be used to guide towards the capital build. We are in The number of completed properties us in local decision making to achieve negotiations with NCC Library Service continues to increase and residents will those aims. Considerations of planning to provide a long term lease for the start to see a decrease in their council matters, traffic, infrastructure, etc, are library in return for this contribution, tax payments over the next few years all features in the Plan but perhaps thus safeguarding the future of the as the council receives capital sums to more importantly for our wellbeing and library service in Moulton. Through repay the loan and the council tax will daily life will be the section that sets negotiations with housing developers, be distributed over more properties.