Newsletter June 2018
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Newsletter June 2018 IFPC objects to 140 Seymour Field green belt homes gets green light Cover illustration of Ingatestone by local artist Geraldine Burles. Geraldine specialises in vintage travel inspired posters of historic villages and coastal scenes. www.geraldineburlesillustration.co.uk IngFryNewsletter_June2018__v8FINAL.indd 1 05/06/2018 12:02:25 Parish Council Staff Employees Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs Mrs Abi Wood PSLCC CiLCA Parish Clerk & RFO to the Council Policy and Resources Chair - Paul Jeater Mrs Rosemary Spouge CiLCA Vice Chair - Peter Davey Assistant Clerk Comms & IT Mrs Jose Wise Chair - Dawn Jelley Office Assistant Vice Chair - Emma Benson Chair Churchyards Chair - Toby Blunsten Mr Paul Jeater Vice Chair - Rachel Lee 80 The Furlongs | 07889 232042 Churchyard & Environment, Policy & Resources, Communications & IT, NPAC, Personnel Planning Vice Chair Chair - Kate Sutton Vice Chair - Phill Poston Mr Phill Poston 70 The Furlongs | 07711 349068 | Planning, Communications & IT, Personnel NPAC Chair - Jane Winter Members Personnel Mr David Abrey Chair - Jane Winter 22 Haslers Court | 354735 | Churchyards & Environment, Planning Vice Chair - Julie Fowkes Ms Emma Benson 23 Disney Close | 07971 147533 | Communications & IT, NPAC FRONT COVER Mr Toby Blunsten 119 Heybridge Road | 07738 998074 | Churchyards & Environ, Policy & Resources, Comms & IT, NPAC Cover illustration of Ingatestone by local artist Geraldine Burles. Mrs Linda Boyce Geraldine specialises Rookwood, High Street | 354971 | Churchyards & Environment, Policy & Resources, Personnel in vintage travel inspired posters of Mr Peter Davey historic villages and coastal scenes. c/o Suite 1, 4 The Limes | 07866 470826 | Planning, Policy & Resources, Communications & IT www.geraldineburlesillustration. Mr Lyndon Day co.uk 16 Whadden Chase | 352973 | Churchyards & Environment, Planning Prints can be purchased at: Oaktree Gallery Mrs Julie Fowkes 76 High Street Buttsbury Hall Farm, Stock Lane | 353263 | Churchyards & Environments, Personnel Ingatestone www.oaktreegallery.co.uk Mr Donald Frost We specialise in professional framing 9 The Paddocks | 07778 370558 | Policy & Resources, Communications & IT, Personnel and mounting. Ms Dawn Jelley Find us on Instagram & Facebook as Oaktree Gallery. 25 Tor Bryan | 07904 187203 | Policy & Resources, Communications & IT Miss Nancy Jennings 82 Avenue Road | 07546 383608 | Communications & IT, NPAC CREDITS Mrs Rachel Lee 60 The Furlongs | 356894 | Churchyards & Environments Newsletter designed by Sue Lees Consultancy Mrs Kate Sutton www.suelees.co.uk 10 Pine Drive | 353234 | Planning Village photographs provided Mrs Jane Winter by Roger Winter. 15 Tor Bryan | 353830 | Planning, Policy & Resources, NPAC, Personnel 02 | JUNE 2018 | INGATESTONE & FRYERNING PARISH COUNCIL NEWSLETTER IngFryNewsletter_June2018__v8FINAL.indd 2 05/06/2018 12:02:30 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Welcome to this edition of the Ingatestone generation. We have ambitious plans and and Fryerning Parish Council newsletter. once the necessary building work is We hope you like the new layout and completed we can start to implement design. It is our intention to publish them. and deliver the newsletter quarterly throughout the parish. The decision by Brentwood Borough Council to withhold grant support to This is a special edition as contained the parishes, in spite of announcements within it is a residents’ questionnaire from central government that they from the Neighbour Plan Working Group. should pass down an appropriate level of These questionnaires will provide evidence to help funding, meant that Ingatestone and Fryerning has formulate our plan for the villages for the next 20 lost over £9,000 this year. The parish council budgets years. We really hope you find time to complete and carefully to maintain our villages but this loss of return it. It is also available online at funding meant that we had little alternative but to www.ingatestone-fryerningpc.gov.uk/ raise the precept for the 2018-19 financial year. neighbourhood-plan/questionnaire. The parish council always welcomes comments A huge amount of work has gone on over the last and suggestions. Over the last year or two we have quarter, often behind the scenes, and this newsletter redesigned our website, and now have Facebook contains more detailed reports. At long last we have and twitter accounts, and of course your parish signed the agreement to lease to take over Seymour councillors are accessible by email or phone. Field and Pavilion from Brentwood Council. It has been a frustrating process and certainly at the outset Best Wishes I never expected that it would take 18 months of negotiations. The 25-year lease will ensure that Cllr Paul Jeater the field remains recreational land for the next Chair Ingatestone & Fryerning Parish Council PARISH DATES, VENUES & TIMES SOCIAL MEDIA PARISH OFFICE All meetings are held at Policy & Resources Follow us on social media Suite 1, 4 The Limes, 7.30pm in Ingatestone Committee Ingatestone, Library, High Street unless meetings on the Search for and follow Essex CM4 0BE otherwise stated. 3rd Monday of the month. @IngFryPC Open Tuesday - Thursday All agendas are published 9-5pm except over the five days in advance of the Planning Committee @IngFryPC Christmas period. Please meeting on the parish council meets every other note that sometimes due to noticeboards, Facebook and Thursday at 9.30am ingatestone_ holidays, opening times may parish council website. in Ingatestone fryerningpc differ. Library. Full Council meets Tel: 01277 353315 on the 1st Thursday Communications & of the month. IT meets quarterly Churchyards and Minutes of all meetings Environments are available on the parish Committee meets council website, Ingatestone on the 2nd Monday Library and from the parish of the month. council office. INGATESTONE & FRYERNING PARISH COUNCIL NEWSLETTER | JUNE 2018 | 03 IngFryNewsletter_June2018__v8FINAL.indd 3 05/06/2018 12:02:35 GENERAL NEWS SEYMOUR FIELD GETS GREEN LIGHT Seymour Field, pavilion and car park have been successfully acquired by the parish council for the next 25 years with the Agreement for Lease, Lease and Licence for Alterations being agreed by the parish council, the Brentwood Borough Council and the Football Foundation. The Agreement for Lease was duly signed at Full Council on the 21 May 2018 as the parish council seeks to preserve the village’s green and recreational space. Why was the parish council so keen to acquire this asset? 7. Further grants will also be sought by the parish council and Seymour Field is our only publicly owned recreation field as it applied for if the criteria meets the funds requirements is not only the home to all the village’s football teams it is also 8. An ongoing maintenance contract for the upkeep of the field widely used for casual recreation such as dog walkers, youth by the parish council will also come into effect in September groups and of course it is home to the annual Ingatestone and 2018 Fryerning Horticultural Society summer show. The village is growing and the parish council was determined to ensure that 9. In addition, following several incursions onto the field it should remain a publicly owned recreation area not only for in recent years we also need to budget to improve security current residents but also for future generations. measures to ensure that the field can be enjoyed by local residents throughout the year. What happens next? Due to the length of time that it has taken the parish council to The Horticultural Show – July 2018 secure the Field and Pavilion with Brentwood Borough Council The Horticultural Show will go ahead as planned in July 2018 (since October 2016) the sequence of the handover period will under the stewardship of Brentwood Borough Council with the be as follows: existing facilities being made available. 1. Week commencing the 21 May 2018 we sent copies of The 2018/19 Football Season the signed documents to the Football Foundation and we have Because of the time delays before the parish council was able to commenced the grant application process which will take up to sign the documentation Brentwood Borough Council will secure 3 weeks to the 15 June 2018 alternative locations for the senior football clubs home games 2. On receipt of our application for £99,000 towards the for the 2018/19 football season in order for us to be able to renovation costs of the pavilion, which will cost circa £250,000 comply with the Football Foundation’s 6 month deadline. The in total, the Football Foundation will take between 8 and 10 Junior teams, who do not use the Pavilion, and whose games are weeks to approve the grant which will take us to the 24 August played at the far end of the field will be able to continue to play 2018 on the field as they will not be near the building site. 3. On receipt of the approval we will then be able to agree the The car park however will be closed from the commencement preferred building tender renovate the pavilion in liaison with of the works sometime in September/October until the fit our appointed professional project manager. We will also be out works have been completed as it will become part of the looking to bring the field up to football association standards restricted area and access for construction traffic only. We 4. In line with the Agreement for lease the parish council, apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused during this having secured the funds from the Football Foundation, will period. then sign the Lease and take over the responsibility for Seymour Field and Pavilion 10 working days from this date which will We believe that having acquired a lease on Seymour Field & take us to the 7 September 2018 Pavilion guarantees that it remains a recreational facility and 5. To comply with the Football Foundation’s agreement we provides a wonderful opportunity to develop a quality asset will then have to commence the works within 6 months of that can be enjoyed by the people of Ingatestone & Fryerning obtaining the grant (February 2019) which will be in the football for years to come.