Tarporley News 28Th Feb 2019

Issue #142| 28th February 2019 | FREE

Welcome to this 2nd special Tarporley Parish Council edition of Tarporley News - our new way of giving the village accessible and up to date information about issues affecting Tarporley and the extensive work the Parish Council is doing on behalf of the local community. Following the sad news that this newspaper’s founders - Emma Hunter and Victoria Williams - are moving on, we had feared that this would be our final special edition. However, we were delighted to learn last week that our friend and former Parish Councillor, Tina Royles, will be taking over this weekly, free paper from May 2nd. Tina will also take on these quarterly Tarporley Parish Council editions. We wish Tina well and would urge everyone in the village to support her as this precious village commodity enters a new era. Tarporley Parish Council Care Home Proposal Latest

Liberty Properties - the company that wants to build a 65-bed ‘Nursing Care Facility’ and public car park in the centre of Tarporley - is hoping to submit a full planning application within the next few months. Following last year’s public consultation, a Cheshire West and Chester Heritage Officer has also offered feedback on the scheme, which would see land to the south of St Helen’s Parish Church being developed. Following a stipulation in the Tarporley Neighbourhood Plan about the need for car parking, the proposal includes a large public car park - with 85 spaces - in addition to a 23-space separate car park for the care home. Liberty Properties predict the ‘Class C2 Nursing Care Facility’, which would also offer dementia care, would provide 64 jobs.

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Christmas Event Recreation Ground Following the massive turnout at last year’s There should be some exciting progress Christmas Lights Event on the High Street, on the Brook Road Outdoor Sports and the Parish Council has received lots of Recreation Facility within the next few helpful feedback from some of those who months. A Parish Council working group is attended. Arrangements for this year are still currently focused on agreeing a drainage under review, but the event will take place on scheme with United Utilities. Once this is Saturday 30th November, in the same central done, work can begin, starting with adding location. The attractions will be a little more drainage and levelling the site. spread out, Santa’s Grotto will remain and A Project Manager will then be recruited to the reindeer will move to the wooded area by manage the works, funded by the ring-fenced St Helen’s Church. The Parish Council also S106 money, paid by Taylor Wimpey as part wants to co-ordinate more with various of the Brook Road housing development. contributors and High Street businesses. Your Parish Council at Work… Most of the work done by Tarporley Parish Councillors happens in their own time, in between our monthly public meetings. Current and near future projects include:

● Brook Road Outdoor sports & recreation ● Working with Tarporley High School 6th facility Form to define and deliver better youth ● Additional car parking facilities facilities in the village ● To enhance / revitalise the village’s open ● Landscaping / planting on the Rode Street spaces; Burton Square, Chestnut Pavillion roundabout and other village entry points / Bell Meadow Court and the woodland ● Replacement of the children’s playground area next to St Helen’s Church ● Improving the annual Christmas event ● Revision of the Neighbourhood Plan ● A new Parish Council storage facility

Let’s Talk: Contact the Parish Council and share your views by emailing [email protected] Tarporley News / Tel: 01829 310 213 & 01829 310 214 / [email protected] / © 2019 by Tarporley News Spotlight On: Our Precious Hospital The hospital is keen to stress that it wants local people to all of its many facilities. From wound dressing to minor injuries - these services are not offered as a favour - they are what the hospital is there for and NEED TO BE USED. Here are some of the many services the hospital provides for people living in Tarporley and the surrounding villages: Out patients: In Patients: ● Wound ● Intermediate Care Assessment Clinic ● Respite and ● Day Care Rehabilitation Care ● Minor Injuries Breaks ● Rheumatology ● Terminally Ill and Clinic Palliative Patient Support ● Ultrasound Clinic ● Physiotherapy

Housing Needs… Neighbourhood Plan There’s been a good response to Cheshire The Tarporley Neighbourhood Plan will be West and Chester’s Housing Needs Survey three years old in March and the Cheshire and a meeting was held on February 20th to West and Chester Local Plan is close to review the results. Those attending included being finalised. The Parish Council believes representatives from CWaC, the Parish that Tarporley’s Neighbourhood Plan has Council, Weaver Vale Housing Trust (who been very important in influencing proposals run the Oathills Lea retirement complex) put forward by developers (such as for the and our Ward Councillor, Eveleigh Moore Care Home and Car Park) and directly led to Dutton. saving the Bowling Green, Allotments and The Parish Council is now waiting for former Royal British Legion Car Park. Weaver Vale’s thoughts on the future of The Parish Council are considering starting a Oathills Lea, but it is believed that the review of the Neighbourhood Plan to reflect strength of village feeling that has been ‘changing circumstances and the current demonstrated towards the facility has made a reality’, which may include allocating further big impact. sites for car parking. Local Elections… Do you want to make a difference in your community? We can all make a difference by voting in the local elections on Thursday 2nd May, when both Parish and Borough Council positions will be decided at the ballot box. If you are interested in going further and working as a Parish Councillor, this is also the time to get in touch with the Parish Council. Please email [email protected] for more information. Most Parish Council work takes place in working groups and other meetings aside from the Monthly Parish Council meetings. Tarporley Parish Council is not party- political - simply a group of people working together for the good of the village. Tarpdoku More Parking Spaces Needed… 7 8 2 4 Between 50 and 100 more car parking spaces are needed in the village, according to a document published by CWaC Council in January. Tarporley Parish Council - whose own 6 5 9 7 survey determined an even greater need - is working alongside Ward Councillor Eveleigh Moore Dutton and CWaC Council to find a way to create more spaces in Tarporley. 3 8 7 8 5 Tarporley Dates… 1 8 9 Thursday 28th February Thursday 28th February Saturday 2nd March 9 1 6 Tarporley U3A Tarporley, Bunbury & District Tarporley Country Market Tarporley Community Centre. Historical Society with food and craft stalls, and the 1 6 4 2 From 10am. With Guest Speaker Tiverton Village Hall, 7.30pm. Rotary Café. 9.30am - 1pm. Louise Cahill: ‘Tales of a Travel Guest Speaker: Paul Quigley Community Centre. 7 9 8 Journalist’. All Welcome. giving a talk on Norton Priory.