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Price £1.00 to non-residents November 2019 ISSUE 122 OVER KELLET VIEW In memory of Councillor Roger Mace who represented Over Kellet for 20 years from 1999 to 2019. Photo: Lancaster City Council. Editorial Board: Peter Clinch, Paul Budd, Julie Walker (Advertising) BOARD OF MANAGEMENT Chairs of the Parish Council and Parochial Church Council We are grateful to the above organisations for their financial support HOW TO PREPARE A CONTRIBUTION We are happy to receive electronic, typed and legible hand-written contributions. For a copy of the OK View Notes for Contributors please e-mail [email protected] Electronic text contributions should ideally be in Microsoft Word format, but we can accept most other formats. Please set the page size to A4 and use 14pt Arial font. Photos and illustrations should be sent as separate files, NOT embedded within documents; most are reproduced in black and white and benefit from good contrast. Pictures intended for the front cover should be in portrait format. Please telephone for help or advice: Peter (734591), Paul (732617), Julie (07824 357563). WHERE TO SEND IT Hard-copy contributions should be sent to The Editors c/o Tree Tops, Moor Close Lane, Over Kellet, LA6 1DF; electronic ones to the e-mail address: [email protected] DEADLINE For each issue the closing date for contributions is the fifteenth of the previous month, but earlier submissions are always welcome. ADVERTISING Please e-mail us at [email protected] for an advertising style sheet, rates and guidance. We are unable to offer a design service and will only accept material electronically. DISCLAIMER The views expressed in this magazine are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of either the Editorial and/or Management Board. Every care is taken to provide accurate information, particularly in the Village Listings, Directory and Local Services. We apologise for any errors and would be pleased to have them pointed out to us. Over Kellet View is published monthly except for January and August; it is distributed to all homes within the parish of Over Kellet and is available for purchase at the Village Store. Each issue can also be seen in a colour version on the Over Kellet village website www.overkellet.org We are grateful to Gordon Galloway, the webmaster, for his expert help. ©2019 Over Kellet View, Tree Tops, Moor Close Lane [email protected] Find us on overkelletview Printed by Bay Typesetters, Morecambe Tel: 01524 850056, 07710 405864 [email protected] 2 The November View Roger Mace Roger Mace, who had represented Kellet Ward on Lancaster City Council up to May this year, died after an illness endured with fortitude for a year or so. In our work with him we found him to be approachable and diligent and, despite the many calls on his time (including the year he was City Mayor), he attended as many Parish Council meetings as he could, giving valuable advice to our local councillors. It was a measure of the respect that Roger commanded that there was a full congregation at his funeral service held at The Priory, Lancaster. An appreciation by Nick Ward, who worked closely with Roger over a number of years, appears on page 16. Break-ins We noted the break-ins in the Capernwray and Priest Hutton areas in last month’s editorial. PCSO Paul Shepherd has provided the following additional advice: if you are going away put a few lights on a timer device – it makes it look like people are home; leave emergency contact details with a neighbour, if you have one that you can trust, maybe allowing neighbours to park their vehicles on your drive – it makes it look like people are home; lock all windows and doors, set the house alarm, install CCTV (preferably linked to your WiFi) and possibly install a small safe for your valuables. A small floor safe can be installed cheaply and this can be placed under a rug or carpet between the floor joists. More housing development! As is noted in our report of the Parish Council meeting (see pages 10-13), PWA Planning agents for Walling UK Properties applied to Lancaster City Council at the end of September for planning permission in principle for the erection of up to nine houses on part of the field between Church Bank and Kirkhouse Farm (Application 19/01206/PIP) – see photo. Since it is an application in principle only minimal details have been provided. The site is identified as about half a hectare (about one and a quarter acres) in size, forming an oblong with a long boundary parallel with the footpath to the allotments and for a further distance beyond, with a short side fronting Nether Kellet Road. The application relates to about a third of the field. The Planning and Heritage Statement submitted with the application states that Over Kellet has no designated village/urban boundary (page 10). On the ground the view is quite different – see the photo! The footpath, hedge and trees make a clear boundary between farmland and housing. If the application is approved there can be no sustainable objection to further applications to develop the rest of the field and even for a developer to argue that the fields on the opposite side of the road, stretching from St Cuthbert’s Church down to Lamond Cottage and Oak Lea, will be ripe for development - even though they are part of a Geological Heritage site - so rounding off the extension of the village. At a time when we need to be growing more of our food in this country to reduce imports and the damage caused to the environment by lorry, ship and air traffic bringing food to us, it seems some owners of farmland around the village are focussed on creating housing development at the expense of agriculture. We need to strike a balance! 3 The November View (continued) Site of the proposed housing development between Church Bank and Kirkhouse Farm. Photo: Peter Clinch Work has recently started at two other sites in the village. Scaffolding has gone up around Old Hall Farm to start its renovation (the roof slates are to be replaced) and preparations made for the construction of housing in the yard behind. Site works have commenced at West Penwith, at the corner of Kirkby Lonsdale Road and Moor Close Lane, in preparation for the demolition of the imposing house and its replacement with a bungalow (with a lower floor at the back and on the north side). The village feels a little under siege from construction and development. Peter Clinch The Residents of Over Kellet Show Their Generosity Chris and Daryl of Wilson Lodge (The Old Schoolhouse) are delighted to announce that an amazing sum of £290.47 was raised at the Coffee Morning on 27th September for Macmillan Cancer Support. We would like to thank everybody who attended, donated and made beautiful cakes and scones as well as helping in many other ways. It was a fantastic time with people joining in the fun of the raffle and games - the atmosphere was just lovely. Thank you. Chris and Daryl 4 Letter from the Vicar Last year in November we celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice, marking the end of the Great War. One hundred years ago, in November 1919, saw the first commemoration of Armistice Day, marked by King George V hosting a banquet on 10th November at Buckingham Palace. The horrors of the Great War were still fresh in the mind, and the influenza epidemic was sweeping the world, but even though the memories of battle and bloodshed were so raw, the King and other world leaders recognised the need to remember; the imperative not to forget. At Remembrance Day every year we see mixed emotions in evidence. We want to acknowledge the sacrifice of those men and women killed in the line of duty, in wars both recent and more distant. But we also want to work towards a society and a world where such wars are a thing of the past. We want to learn from what has gone on before to prevent it from happening again. Remembering is such an important feature of life. Remembering where we’ve come from, remembering where we’re going. Remembering birthdays, remembering to stay in touch with loved ones. Remembering to take our pills, remembering to put the bins out. And remembering is at the heart of the Christian faith. The Bible instructs believers to remember what God has done for them, particularly when life is tough. The Israelites wandering in the desert were instructed to remember how God had delivered them from slavery. Paul tells his listeners to remember how they have been reconciled to God because of Jesus. Jesus tells his disciples to remember him and his sacrifice every time they celebrate the Lord’s Supper together. But it isn’t only people who do the remembering. We’re told that God remembers his covenant which he made with his people Israel to protect them and care for them. He remembers to be merciful in the face of their rebellion against him; and, most importantly, we’re told that God doesn’t always remember. In Jeremiah 31, God promises that when his people truly trust in him that “I will forgive your wickedness and remember your sins no more.” Struggling to remember is an almost daily event for some of us. We find it frustrating when we forget things. We tell our children, our grandchildren and each other how important remembering is at this time of year.