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Residents News & Views & News Residents telephone so If website? community Wheelton and Heapey the on page please contact Bill Geddes, Parish Clerk, on 01254 831522 or Email: or on831522 01254 Clerk, Parish Bill Geddes, contact please Are you involved with a local organisation that would benefit from a free a free from benefit would that organisation a local with involved you Are DO YOU haveany articles you would like to see in future issues? Then PAGE 2 HEAPEY AND WHEELTON NEWS SPRING ‘04 SPRING ‘04 HEAPEY AND WHEELTON NEWS PAGE 7 Where Your Money Goes - Wheelton Wheelton Parish Council Precept 2004/05

Village Hall Events PAYMENTS RECEIPTS Dates for your diaries! £ £ Clerk’s Salary 4214 Grass Cutting 82 Sat. 15th May - Barn Dance with the Morris Travellers. Time tbc (p.m). Insurance 750 VAT 117 Sat. 12th June - Dialect Society Present Village Outreach Audit Fees 120 Interest 70 Show: Deep Lancashire. Time tbc (p.m). LAPTC Subs 300 Amenities Grant 1400 Sun. 4th July – Village Fete Training 200 Total £1,669 Sat. 11th September - Family BBQ Donations 100 Sat. 18th September - Craft, Produce & Flower Show Village Hall Grant 1800 Sat. 30th October - Family Halloween Disco Rent 176 Sun. 7th November – Though the Villages Race Village Green/Play Area 998 Summary Sat. 4th December - Children's Christmas Disco Party Dog Bin 150 For tickets or further information telephone 01254 830883 or 830475. Details War Memorial exp 1000 Total Payments Required £10,783 of all events will be posted on the website: www.heapeyandwheelton.org War Memorial Trust 350 Less Receipts £1,669 Petty Cash 200 Interested in coming along to the Events meetings where events are planned Agreed Precept £9,114 Elections 150 and mulled over? Red Lion, 8pm on the last Tuesday of each month. Membership Fees 75 This represents an increase of £414 Stationery 100 over 2003/04 – 4.76% Annual Meeting 9th June Newsletter 100 At the Village Hall annual meeting we will be electing committee members, Website Fees 0 discussing development plans, presenting finances. Come along and find out Planning Fees 0 what the plans are for the Village Hall. Starts 7.30pm. Coffee & cakes provided! Total £10,783

Illegal Parking erected and leaflets distributed, Wheelton Parish Councillors The Village Hall’s private car park is which set out the ground rules about Nick Hayes - 01254 830851 Terry Dickenson (Chair)- 01254 830591 being used illegally by local residents. parking. The rules are designed to Ronnie Wheale - 01254 830967 Sandy Mohamet - 01254 831483 This is affecting the viability of the achieve a workable compromise. If Sue Monaghan - 01254 830475 Richard Scambler - 01254 830244 Hall as users struggle to park and we these actions fail to produce results, Kathleen Berry - 01254 830360 lose bookings. Following discussions a joint public meeting is planned to with the Police, various actions are explain the further possible Clerk to the Parish Council: Bill Geddes, 2 Ryefield, Heapey. PR6 8ES. 01254 proposed. New notices will be consequences of illegal parking. 831522. Email: [email protected] Events on Email Who is the Best Kept? Want to be kept informed of events going on at the Village Hall? We can add Wheelton Parish Council has entered the Best Kept Villages Competition. The your name to our circulation list and email you with details of individual events first round of judging will happen in our area anytime between 1st June and 14th as and when they are finalised. Email: [email protected] July, with final judging from the 7th to 21st August, so get those gardens, window boxes and hanging baskets planted up ready for the showdown! PAGE 6 HEAPEY AND WHEELTON NEWS SPRING ‘04 SPRING ‘04 HEAPEY AND WHEELTON NEWS PAGE 3 Speeding - A674 reduction in speed limits from 50mph last!! to 30mph with no additional signs to ere - at Wheelton Parish Council have warn drivers of the change, apart from H written to Lancashire County the statutory 30mph limit signs. They Council to request traffic calming are also concerned about drivers Heapey and Wheelton Go On-line measures on the A674. This exceeding both speed limits. The follows representations at council have also requested that the www.heapeyandwheelton.org as it will provide residents with on- the December meeting Police make more use of speed line, up-to-date information such Residents in Heapey and Wheelton can from two Higher Wheelton cameras on the approach to the as What's On, Parish Council now boast a history which spans from residents who are village and have asked LCC for meetings, minutes and plans, local 50 15th Century water wheels to the world concerned about the additional warning signs. Business Directory, local wide web with the launch of our new Organisations and clubs - community website. After a couple of everything you need to know! false starts and a lot of deliberation Support Local Post Office - Get Cash! We're hoping a popular aspect will www.heapeyandwheelton.org is now be a history of the area and we If you bank with the Alliance & Leicester, All you need is your card and PIN. on-line! Barclays or Lloyds TSB, it’s never been To find out more visit Wheelton have a photo gallery with pictures easier to get cash out Post Office, call the Post Office Volunteers in the area launched the of Heapey and Wheelton, present of your bank account Helpline on 08457 22 33 44 or log website on March 31 after securing a and past. Residents will also be when you visit the on to Community Champions Fund grant and able to post their news and views support from the two Parish Councils. to ensure it is a truly interactive Post Office. www.postoffice.co.uk The community site, which will be service which represents the whole community." among the first parish sites in the area. Do your bit for the environment borough, is produced by a Check out the various contact Bin Thinking! and get recycling. group of volunteers and is a non-profit pages: Have Your Say, Classifieds, See www.rethinkrubbish.com for making initiative. Noticeboard and the What’s On Chorley Borough Council will be starting kerbside paper, glass and extra inspiration & great ideas. Contact Heapey Parish Council chair Joan pages, or send us your favourite garden waste recycling services at the Waste Management team at CBC if Geddes said: "The launch of the website photo of Heapey or Wheelton and the beginning of April across the you have any questions on 01257 is great news for our two communities have it posted on the site. We will 515548. also be setting up a ‘Kids Zone’ so let us know what you would ContactHome Us/Links Blackburn Road Closure like to see on these pages. Free web page What’s On Many of you will be aware that a section of Blackburn Road (above Wheelton for local Want the chance to win a Garage, towards Whins Lane) was partially closed over 18 months ago by Our Villages organisations DVD Player? ‘Search to Win’ Lancashire County Council following subsidence. The future of the road is still Local Organisations with the website launch not certain and it may be changed to a single track leaving only a pedestrian competition on Business Directory cycle and bridle way, meaning the loss of valuable parking space to the village. As parking is increasingly a problem in the village we urge you to continue to The Parish Councils lobby for full re-instatement of the road by writing to Graham Harding Public Services Environment Directorate, Lancashire County Council, Guild House, PO Box 9, Cross Street, Preston PR1 8RD. Village Voice Contact Us/Links PAGE 4 HEAPEY AND WHEELTON NEWS SPRING ‘04 SPRING ‘04 HEAPEY AND WHEELTON NEWS PAGE 5 Juveniles Make a Nuisance of Themselves Where Your Money Goes -Heapey The Police have recently received 8 some hedges which will make their calls about juvenile nuisance activity more visible to other residents. Heapey Parish Council Precept 2004/05 problems around Kittiwake Road on It is expected that high visibility will the Heapey Chase estate. They are bring about easier identification of the PAYMENTS RECEIPTS very concerned as this is the highest offenders. The area has also been £ £ number of reported calls. The Council added to our Community Concern Clerk's salary 2812 Grass Cutting 400 Community Wardens have now been Targeted Patrol. This will involve Insurance 280 VAT 106 asked to visit the area. Our POPS Police Officers frequenting the area at Audit Fees 120 Interest 65 (Problem Oriented Policing) relevant times and dealing with any LAPTC Subs 200 Amenities Grant 650 co-ordinator Richard Booth is liaising anti-social behaviour they may Training 100 Total £1,221 with the developers about changes to encounter. Prizes 105 the play area to make it more of a Donations 100 deterrent to youths indulging in anti- The officer to contact is Sgt Evans on Village Hall Grant 1800 Summary social behaviour. 01257 246138 or Email: Public Seats 200 [email protected] Rent 60 Total payments required £8,207 One adjustment is the lopping of Play area Maintenance 450 Less receipts £1,221 War Memorial exp 900 Agreed Precept £6,986 Calendar Girls! War Memorial Trust 350 Petty Cash 200 This represents an increase of £386 The WI (Women’s Institute) meets the second Tuesday of Elections 150 over 2003/04 – 5.8%. each month at the meeting room at White Coppice and have a full and varied Web Site fees 240 diary of members events. Contact May Clements on 01257 230891 for details Membership fees 40 or membership particulars. The Lancashire Federation of WI’s website is Stationery 100 www.lancashirewi.org.uk Total £8,207 Travel the 122 The 122 bus nips around our villages Traveline on 0870 608 2 608, collect a New Parish Councillor for Heapey and connects some areas otherwise leaflet from the bus station or nd devoid of a regular bus service. Great alternatively log on to the Bus and At its meeting on 2 March, Heapey Parish Council resolved to co-opt a new for getting out and about or going Train Journey Planner page of member onto the Council. Her name is Mrs Diane Greenhalgh of Lodge Bank into town. The 122 services Heapey www.lancashire.gov.uk. This bus Cottage, White Coppice. Chase to Wheelton (via Chapel Lane), service is very reliable & subsidised by Fold, Riley Green and Brindle Lancashire County Council so costs of Heapey Parish Councillors (via & Withnell). For up-to- travel are very reasonable – so let’s date timetable information call use it, not lose it! David Berry - 01257 274900 Eunice Riding - 01257 262259 Janet Ross-Mills - 01257 263540 Joan Geddes (Chair) - 01254 831522 Shelagh Graham - 01257 269645 Diane Greenhalgh - 01257 277695 Sand Quarry Purchase Delayed Clerk to the Parish Council: Bill Geddes, 2 Ryefield, Heapey. PR6 8ES. Chorley Borough Council Executive Cabinet have deferred a decision on the making of a Compulsory Purchase Order in respect of the Old Sand Quarry 01254 831522. Email: [email protected] until a business plan is prepared. Further updates will be given as soon as they are available and details will be posted on www.heapeyandwheelton.org