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K i n g s w o o d G r a p e v i n e Issue No. 237 OCTOBER 2019 Editors: Diane White (843783) & Gill Hemming (842734) D a t e s F o r Y o u r D i a r y Tues 22nd Oct KS&RF A.G.M Village Hall 8.00pm

NOVEMBER ISSUE DEADLINE: FRIDAY OCTOBER 25th Thurs 14th Nov Historical Society A.G.M Village Hall 7.00pm Sat 23rd “ Wotton Charities Fayre Wotton Civic Centre 10.00am – 4.00pm  KINGSWOOD VILLAGE ASSOCIATION Thanks to all those, who helped Show Day to be as good as ever. Plenty of funds were raised so if your organisation needs help do let us know. The next two events are the Xmas Wine Festival on Saturday November 30th. Tickets on sale about a month before, details in the next Grapevine. This will help fund the New Year`s Eve lunch for the senior citizens. We will be applying to Waitrose again for a donation so do hang on to those green tokens! Neighbourhood Watch: We get regular messages from the police about local crime and scams. We circulate these by email. If you would like to be included just let Rod Alexander know at [email protected]. Kingswood Sports and Recreation Fund handles gift aided donations for village projects. The latest defibrillator was one. If you would like to know more, please contact Rod Alexander at [email protected]. KS&RF has its AGM in the village hall lounge at 8.00pm Tuesday 22nd October. Application forms to join the committee can be had from the Secretary, Mark Roberts at 3 Russet Court. The closing date is October 7th. FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S AT WOTTON CHARITIES FAIR FOSM will be running a Tombola again this year at the Wotton Charities Fair Saturday 23rd November 10am to 4pm at Wotton Civic Centre. We would be very grateful for any donations of bottles, unused toiletries or unwanted gifts etc. If you would like to make a donation for the Tombola or could help on the day, please contact Chris on [email protected] or Stella on [email protected] Please come along and support us, have lunch and/or tea and cake provided by the local Scouts, and do some Christmas shopping - there are lots of other stalls for local charities too! BRIDGE LESSONS • For details, contact Ian Cooke: 01666 890261 [email protected] • Are you fed up with the TV and want to get away from your computer screen? • Come to Bridge lessons instead to learn an enjoyable and stimulating new hobby, make new friends and have fun. I confidently predict that you will be hooked. • Lessons will be on Tuesday evenings in the Civic Centre in Wotton. You do not need a partner; you can come on your own. KINGSWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY AGM & Talk Thursday 14th November 2019 7pm Village Hall We would like to invite you all to our AGM and Talk on Thursday 14th November 2019, commencing 7.00pm with the (very short!) AGM part of the meeting. As usual, wine and festive nibbles available. We are delighted to have Jim Elsworth from Sodbury and District Historical Society speaking to us "The of ". We look forward to seeing you all there - new members welcome. KINGSWOOD CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES exists to give financial assistance to Kingswood residents at a time of need, hardship or distress. The Trustees can award a donation for goods or services either directly or, where appropriate, to an organization providing those goods or services. The fund cannot be used where it is more appropriate for public funding to provide support and assistance. A typical example would be traveling expenses for outpatients’ hospital visits. For further details or to talk to someone in confidence, please contact Mr David Roe on 01453 843199. Kingswood Defib Awareness Group: David Owen [email protected] 01453 844463 At the successful Showday at the beginning of September, several people asked for more defibs in Kingswood – in addition to the one being planned for Charfield Road. Two sites in particular were mentioned. For the time being I am concentrating solely on fundraising to provide the public access defib in Charfield Road, but if anyone has ideas about how to raise funds for the one after that – do please let me know. Ideally a defibrillator should be with a patient in cardiac arrest within 5 minutes of collapse. You can see why it is so important to have more in the community. If you can Gift Aid a donation, this will be hugely beneficial – I can give you payment details. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The four existing 24/7 defibs in Kingswood are located at: i. The shop: behind the pillar box. ii. The village hall: on the outside wall, adjacent to the main entrance door. iii. The Primary School, Abbey St: on the front wall, next to the main entrance. iv. Bramley Close flats: on the end garage, facing Russet Court (near the footpath to Golden Lane). Wild about Kingswood It has been a good year for pears at the wildlife area with the two old pears trees loaded with fruit. There are also lots of small apples and a couple of the small new trees have needed support for the over laden branches. Water in both the ponds is low and we have taken the opportunity to start clearing the banks of the old dew pond and cutting back overhanging branches to continue our mission to improve the water quality by letting in more light. As the grass starts to need less strimming, we will be doing some work on the hedges including the first cut of the hedge we laid last winter. If you are interested in what we are doing, please come, have a chat on Mondays from 10.30, or join in and enjoy the fresh air and exercise. Kingswood Silver Jubilee Club We had a very interesting programme this summer including ‘A talk on Amateur Dramatics’, singers with a very good variety of songs, a magic Lantern Show, our free cream tea for members, a lady talking about her experience as a film and TV extra and our latest talk with wonderful slides by our own Wildlife photographer, Iain Green. We still have a wide variety of speakers to take us up to our Christmas Lunch, our last meeting of the year. We would be very pleased to welcome any prospective members; we meet every 2 weeks on a Wednesday afternoon at 2.00pm at the village hall. For further information contact Rita on 843348 or Tony on 842938.

Kingswood Grapevine is printed by Manor Printing in Kingswood Local Climate Action contact [email protected] to subscribe to the mailing list. Follow ccagwotton on Facebook and Instagram. A new community led Climate Action Group has been set up for Wotton and the surrounding villages, focusing on practical actions to reduce carbon emissions, aiming to make our local area carbon neutral by 2030. The Community Climate Action Group holds meetings on the 4th Thursday of the month, from 8 – 9.30pm at The Chipping Hall, Under The Edge Arts, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 7AD. Local residents are invited to come along to find out more and get involved in projects on land use, transport, single use plastic, energy and resources & recycling. Everyone is welcome and refreshments are provided. The meetings include discussion on a particular topic as well as small project groups. Future meetings are as follows: • 24th October – Sustainable Lifestyles • 28th November – Low Carbon Christmas Other events and workshops include: • Wotton Apple and Tree Action Day on 12th October • The Longest Table Harvest Supper on 18th October • Green & Sustainable Christmas gift-making workshops, 16th -17th November Kingswood Parish Council Email [email protected] www.kingswoodparishcouncil.gov.uk Kingswood Playing Field- Some of you may have been following a recent Facebook post or have seen the article in the Gazette concerning Dogs at the playing field. The parish council has recently been asked by a member of the community to install a No Dogs sign at the playing field. The parish council has declined this request as it would be misleading and not legally correct. The Power to exclude dogs from Public Open Spaces lies with District Council and not the Parish Council. Public Space Protection Orders can be viewed on Council’s website and on the Parish Council’s. Dogs are currently allowed on all playing fields within the area. Dogs can only be excluded from fenced off areas e.g. around play equipment. To put up such a sign would be divisive as it would imply that members of the community cannot bring their dogs to the playing field and could lead to conflict. The parish council is aware that the playing field is used by people with their dogs who act in a responsible way picking up after their dog and also litter. However, the parish council is aware that even 1 episode of dog fouling is unpleasant and unhygienic. The parish council has a zero tolerance to dog fouling throughout the parish. In the meeting on 9th September 2019 the parish council agreed to erect more signs alerting dog owners to the offence of not picking up after their dog. These signs will be installed over the coming weeks. Regular patrols of the playing field are carried out by Kingswood Parish Council, Stroud District Council’s Neighbourhood Warden and the Police Community Beat Officer. However, the parish council also relies on reports from you the members of the community. To date we have received very few reports of dog fouling. Please, if you see evidence of dog fouling, can you do the following; Take a picture of it and email it to [email protected] stating where and when it was found.. This will help us to build up evidence of when an offence is being committed. If you are a dog owner and use the playing field, please carry extra bags and pick up any dog fouling you find as well as reporting it. We are coming into peak season for dog fouling due to the darker mornings and evenings. Please ensure you have a torch with you so that you can see where your dog has been. Finally, the playing field is a lovely space and it is there for all members of the community, children, youths, football teams, cricket teams, those walking their dog or just people who wish to sit and admire the view. Thank you for your co-operation. Please see the Kingswood Parish Council website for more information. Speeding - Speeding through the village is increasing again. Please see the statistics from the Automated Number Plate Recognition cameras (ANPR) cameras on the website. 26 people were written to or visited in August. These were either people who were speeding regularly or those who may not be regular offenders but went through at a high speed. 3 of these were people from Kingswood! As a result of these Stats the Police Enforcement van will be prioritising Charfield Road during October. If you are caught by this van you will receive a penalty notice. The Parish Council is taking part in a trial and has a mobile Vehicle Activated Sign (VAS) in place on Road. We will compare the statistics and see if the sign positively influences traffic speed. This will be reported in next month’s Grapevine. Section 106 Consultation- The Council is running an online consultation via Survey Monkey on how best to spend the £64,723.00 as a result of the recent development at Chestnut Park. This money is to be spent at Kingswood Playing field/ village hall. A newsletter with more details will be delivered to every house in the parish. Please click on https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KPCsection106 to take part in the survey or fill in the paper survey and return to PO box 113, Wotton under Edge GL11 9BP. The Consultation will run from 1st October 2019 until the 31st October 2019 Litter and Dog fouling -Please report anyone littering or not picking up after their dog to the following; Litter or Fly Tipping https://www.stroud.gov.uk/report/report-fly-tipping-dumped-litter Dog Fouling https://www.stroud.gov.uk/report/report-dog-mess-or- fouling-problems Over-flowing bins https://www.stroud.gov.uk/report/report-an-overflowing-litter-bin Please report any problems at the playing field and the community areas to the Clerk of the Council [email protected] Stroud District Council’s Homelessness consultation ends on 10th October 2019 To review and take a decision on the Stroud District Council’s Homeless Prevention Strategy https://www.stroud.gov.uk/housing/homelessness/homelessness-prevention-strategy Communication - Please visit the KPC web site on www.kingswoodparishcouncil.gov.uk and follow and like the parish council on the Kingswood Parish Council Facebook Page. The Clerk Mary Leonard, New PO Box 113 Wotton under Edge GL11 9BP, 01453 844659, Creating a greenway to link Wotton, Charfield & Kingswood What is a greenway? The Wotton, Charfield and Kingswood Greenway Group has been working with to see how a greenway might be created, to encourage journeys on foot and by bike between the three settlements. We have been looking at possible route alignments, and we’re now working with local councils to explore options for a route design study, to establish a route that would link with local plans in and . The greenway would be a shared use path that is separate from the road. It would allow people of all ages to walk and cycle between the local settlements in safety and comfort, and it would help to reduce the number of local car journeys. There are many possible options for a future greenway route. It would need to be separate from the road, but it could run alongside the road and could make use of existing footpaths and bridleways or take a new route altogether to connect the settlements. A future route design study will help to identify the best options. On Saturday 7th December between 4 - 8 pm come along to our stall The WCK Greenway Group and Wotton Community Climate Action Group are holding a stall on the High Street, Wotton at the Christmas Under the Edge event and we would love to have your support, so come along, say hello and find out more.

The Village Diary can be viewed on the Grapevine website. For an entry please email Grapevine or telephone Gill on 842734. e-mail: [email protected] web page: www.kingswoodgrapevine.btck.co.uk