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Moulton Scene Autumn 2013 MOULTON SCENE VOLUME 10 : NO. 10 “NEW LOOK” What Not To Miss p.63 4pp MOULTON PARISH CHURCHPULL-OUT SUPPLEMENT INSIDE BROCHURES LEAFLETS POSTCARDS FOLDED LEAFLETS FOLDERS BUSINESS CARDS STATIONERY POSTERS 1A Spinney View Round Spinney Northampton NN3 8RF T: 01604 670 007 E: [email protected] Autumn 2013 • MOULTON SCENE | 1 Contents 2 Editorial Moulton Scene 3 Chairman of the Parish Council – Barry Care MBE Information 7 From Your MP Chris Heaton-Harris VOLUME 10 | No. 10 9 Report from Parish Footpath Warden Roger Tyler 11 From Your District Councillor Cllr Daniel Cribbin The next edition of The Moulton Scene will be published on or about 12 Moulton Village Festival 1st January 2014, and will cover 15 Moulton Village Festival Competition Winners the period 1st January to 30th April 2014. 16 Party in the Park 17 Moulton Surgery Advertisements, editorial and diary 19 Moulton Sports Complex dates by 14th November 2013 (please note deadline) to Moulton Parish 21 Moulton Primary School Council, Moulton Village Hall, Pound Lane, Moulton, NN3 7SD. 21 Moulton College T: 01604 492318 23 Moulton Library E: [email protected] 25 Local Business News: The Poplars Hotel; Park View Cattery; Horts Estate Agents; Spotlight Dance School ADVERTISING COSTS (incl. of VAT): 27 Helping Hands: Give Blood; DDC Care & Repair; DDC Falls Half page B&W (128 x 90mm) £60.00 Prevention Roadshow’s; Moulton & Overstone Educational Half page Colour £90.00 Trust; Monday Club, Moulton Village Car Scheme; Moulton Memory Cafe; Daventry & District Friends of Iganga; Friday Friendship Group Quarter page B&W (60 x 90mm) £35.00 Quarter page Colour £52.50 33 Village Clubs and Societies: Sing & Sign; Moulton Allotment Association; Moulton Players; Moulton Youth Theatre; Moulton Movies; Moulton Afternoon WI; Moulton Evening Full page (128 x 183mm) WI; Moulton & District Gardeners’ Society; Moulton History Colour only £175.00 Society; Moulton Craft Club, The Friend-leys; Hardy Plant Society Payment is required with your 47 Focus on Sport and Youth: Moulton FC & Moulton Magpies advertisement: Youth, White Tiger Taekwon-do, Northampton Road Clerk to the Parish Council, Runners Moulton Village Hall, Pound Lane, Moulton, Northampton, NN3 7SD 55 Church News: Moulton Parish Church; Carey Baptist Church T: 01604 492318 57 Obituaries E: [email protected] W: www.moultonparishcouncil.org.uk 63 ‘What Not to Miss!’ until December 2013 71 Opening times; Chronicle & Echo ‘Down Your Way’ Design and Print by: 73 Halls to Hire On Demand Print – T: 01604 670007 E: [email protected] 75 Useful Phone Numbers 76 ‘Welcome to Moulton’ Pack Copyright Moulton Parish Council 2013. No part of this publication may be 76 Moulton Village Trail Guide reproduced without permission of the Parish Council. The content is not 79 Index of Advertisers necessarily the view of the Parish Council. 2 | MOULTON SCENE • Autumn 2013 Welcome to the Autumn 2013 issue of the Moulton Scene. I hope you have all had a good summer and enjoyed having fun in the sun, it is hard to believe that Autumn is fast approaching already! As always, a big thank you to all those involved with Moulton Scene and to Richard at ‘On Demand’ for putting it all together for us. We currently receive a great response in both editorial contributions and advertisements, but we always welcome newcomers – so if you want to be featured in the next magazine please get in touch. Alternatively, please give us your feedback or any suggestions as a reader; your involvement is always appreciated. MOULTON MINIBUS SERVICE TRANSPORT FOR 1-16 PASSENGERS. WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE Q 8 & 16 Seater Mini Buses Q Wheelchair Accessible Minibuses Need A Bus, Call Us! Q Drivers CRB checked Q Council Approved Q All Airport Transfers Q School Contracts 01604 642 858 Q Any Occasion Q Any Distance www.moultonminibusservice.co.uk Autumn 2013 • MOULTON SCENE | 3 from the Parish Council Chairman Once again I have to report more planning We are told if the 2000 houses go pressure from developers. We are certainly ahead between us and Overstone, the experiencing a procession of applications A43 will be improved to dual carriageway. for housing developments in Moulton, and This will be a boulevard style road straddling all this in addition to the expected 2000 the new housing with a succession of homes set out in the Joint Planning Unit’s traffic lights at each new junction through plan for this edge of Northampton between the development. It sounds fine until you us and Overstone. What is most worrying remember the present tailbacks of the is the apparent lack of proper concern A43 going back several miles towards over sustainability and infrastructure. Kettering caused by the inability of Round For those not sure what that means: it is all Spinney roundabout to cope already. The about whether the present roads, schools, likelihood of Moulton continuing to be medical provisions, library, leisure facilities, used as a “rat run” for traffic is a very shops, etc, can cope; and whether probable outcome, and with increased improvements will be provided if it is traffic flows. It is proving impossible to clear these will be necessary to ensure convince the Highways Department of we can cope. the County Council that it should recognise our particular traffic problems, It seems common sense to ordinary people and help our opposition to further that Moulton can’t manage any additional development by submitting appropriate traffic; also that our schools are full, our reports to planning applications. However, doctors surgery is oversubscribed, our developments provide a stream of income library needs enlarging, and our village to support their highways budgets but they will struggle to assimilate the newcomers fail to do so. With the issue of the 2000 from the additional housing. We are not houses set out in the JPU’s plan, the alone. The area called Buckton Fields next Highways Department appear to be in favour to Boughton has a very large development of this scheme with little concern for proposed. At the recent hearings held to traffic implications likely to arise. Could “inspect” the JPU’s proposals, we made the their view be influenced because the Parish Council’s view quite clear, that until developers are giving the County Council a proper bypass is provided round the lots of money towards the dual carriageway northern/western edges of Northampton construction on the A43? We do seem no further housing should go ahead to be in an age where the means justify because of the traffic problems that will be the ends. added on to the existing problems of congestion. Overstone and Boughton have Whilst I am on the subject of money, you made similar statements. may have heard politicians talk about 4 | MOULTON SCENE • Autumn 2013 Contact Parish Clerk Pound Lane, Moulton Northampton NN3 7SD Tel: 01604 492318 Mon-Fri 9-5 p.m. VillageHall The village of Moulton, located to the rural north of the town of Northampton has a thriving community of about 3600 people. Moulton Village Hall is managed by the Parish Council for the benefit of local people. The Village Hall is ideally suited for: Meetings, Parties, Wedding Receptions, Club Nights, Social Events. Accommodation comprises the Main Hall, Kitchen, Committee Room, Bar and Lounge area which can be hired separately or as a whole. The Village Hall has a capacity of 200 people, depending on the type of function, with a maximum of 100 people seated. The Hall is fully equipped with tables, upholstered chairs, a portable Public Address System, stage spotlights and a fitted projector screen which can be made available for appropriate bookings. Consumption of alcoholic beverages in the Village Hall is permitted subject to the necessary licence being obtained. Enquiries and bookings for the bar and lounge of the Sports Complex should be made on 01604 641604. For further advice please contact the Clerk. The Kitchen has stainless steel fitted equipment and a catering size stove and oven. It is fully equipped with crockery. 5 People with disabilities should find all facilities easily accessible both in the Village Hall and in the Sports Complex. 5 There is a large car park adjacent to the Village Hall shared with the School and the Sports Complex. Availability is dependent on usage. Autumn 2013 • MOULTON SCENE | 5 something called the “new home bonus” aspirations for Moulton in future years and CIL’s – that is Community Infrastructure but getting financial support from the Levy – both paid as a sort of tax on each new funds supposed to be available for it are house built. The Parish Council thought this looking bleak. would be used in the areas of new housing and give us financial support for the village I think the time has arrived for villagers to provide extra facilities in our community to write to their MP, to their County to enable adequate services needed for the Councillor, and District Councillors to voice increased population of newcomers. Oh their concerns about what is going on. how naïve we were – we have discovered If we don’t all start to protest a little bit that this money will be going directly into more we will only have ourselves to the coffers of Daventry District Council blame when our quality of life begins and the County Council – and as far as we to be eroded. Perhaps a little people can ascertain will just be used to balance power from the voters might work some their budgets to make up for cuts from magic on our elected politicians. If everyone central government. We have a clear did it I am positive things would change policy document setting out our aims and for the better.
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