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Broomhaugh & Riding Parish Council Caring about where you live NEWSLETTER Issue 2 July 2016 Parish Council Chairman’s Notes Information This is our second being played there once near stiles and gates. Your local parish councillors are: Newsletter and we hope again. Further plans are in Working with the County, you find it interesting and hand to improve the Northumbrian Water and Eileen Carew informative. The PC has facilities significantly for the Environment Agency Andy Dunhill (Chair) had a busy year and both cricket and football, we will put in place a David McKenzie brought some of its plans subject to grant Flood Management Plan to Jill Mills to fruition. The ramp assistance, so watch this try to minimise the effects Malcolm Reid adjacent to the single space of future flood risks. We Brian Singer Tennis Court has been are looking for volunteers completed and seems to The Gateway entrance at to help with this so please Contact details for be the route taken by the east end of the village get in touch if you would Catherine Harrison, most people. This has is now in place and we are like to be involved. Parish Clerk allowed us to create an working on how to 01434 682348 (office-hours attractive Edible Garden landscape the area to There are many other only please) or email on the adjacent land which emphasise that drivers are interesting things we are [email protected] we hope you will both entering a village so involved with and there contribute to and enjoy. should limit their speed. are three vacancies on the Dates for forthcoming Parish Council so if you would like Council Meetings held in Church Work is progressing well Our Footpaths Group has to help us contribute to Cottage, Church Lane on regenerating the surveyed all of the paths in village life please give me 7.45 pm Football pitch which we the Parish and reported its a call on 682018 for a (public questions from 7.15 pm) hope will be playable in findings to the County. chat. the autumn. There seems Some ageing way marks to be a good level of have been replaced and Have a good summer, th 12 September 2016 interest in establishing a foliage cut back on some Andy Dunhill th 14 November 2016 youth team so we look of the paths especially th 12 December 2016 forward to seeing games 13th February 2017 th 13 March 2017 th 8 May 2017 approaching driver that Northumberland County th 12 June 2017 (tbc) the road is narrowing and Council also has its own is enforced by additional initiative to reduce traffic Annual Parish Meeting road markings. The area speeds at school times. April 2017 – date to be around the Riding Mill Throughout the County, confirmed sign will be landscaped vehicles near schools will with large plants again to be limited to 20 mph for create the impression ninety minutes both at Contact Details for County PLEASE SLOW that you are entering a the beginning and end of Councillor Anne Dale, residential area and need the school day. This will 01434 673326 or email DOWN! to slow down. apply to the A695 and [email protected] The Parish Council and there is a further proposal Councillor Dale receive to make a permanent speed limit of 20 mph repeated reports of traffic speeding in to the village. So, from Whiteside Bank past working with the County the school, something Have you read Riding Mill’s own Council we have been looking which most residents website? at ways of slowing it down. already instinctively Check out www.ridingmill.org A ‘gateway’ entrance has follow. been installed on the eastern approach of the A695. This creates the perception to the Bright Savings Street lighting across the County is having a revamp. Current street lighting is being replaced with new units that use light emitting diodes (LEDs) which have the advantage of using much less energy and lasting far longer. The County Council is spending £25m on the project and work in Riding Mill is expected to West Tynedale League, three community commence in Autumn 2017. teams play there midweek and Corbridge GRAND PLANS You may not have noticed but dramatic and Benwell Hill use it for junior cricket and The PC is able to have an changes have been taking place at the sports women’s cricket. input into how the field and hopefully even more dramatic programme is implemented changes will happen over the next few So the field is now used more and more by in Riding Mill. For instance, months. women and youngsters. This means that the we could ask for lighting present pavilion is unfit for purpose. It has columns to be painted a Alongside the cricket pitch was a wilderness. no electricity, no showers or indoor toilets. particular colour or even This was formerly a football pitch unused We therefore plan to raise funds to build a request new lighting since 1987. It was decided to restore it to its new pavilion that would be suitable. The columns to supplement former glory and the Parish Council paid for it Parish Council has funded a feasibility study areas where the current to be cleared, levelled and reseeded. All this which is being carried out by local architect street lighting is not has now been done and thousands of stones Neil Turner of Howarth Litchfield sufficient (note: new lights have been removed. Throughout the spring Partnership. Once this is completed fund will not be installed where youngsters have been playing football on the raising will start in earnest. there is no existing street tennis courts and it is hoped that with lighting). In addition, the sufficient interest there will be teams for the The field should now be seen as a real new LED lights will be fitted eight to ten year olds and even the ten to community asset. It will also be used for with technology that twelve year olds. Very shortly the pitch any event such as sports days, boot sales or enables them to be dimmed should be ready for coaching and training fund raising functions, not just for the sports or even turned off at certain sessions. club but for the community. times. Would people like to see the lights switched off Until recently the cricket field has only been Clive Page at midnight on residential used for Sunday afternoon matches. This has Chairman, Riding Mill Cricket Club streets? Please email the changed. Riding Mill now has a side in the Clerk with your views. Forgotten Memories Wilson today. The Chair Memorials Trust is was occupied by the anticipated soon which Workers repairing the roof Reverend Canon Richmond hopefully might fund up to of Church Cottage (late Chairman of the 75% of the cost. Work to discovered a hidden Managers), and an restore the panel will take treasure lost in the attic; a address was given by the 3-4 months after which the Memorial Panel recording Reverend P. F. Slater. A panel will be rehung in a those who had served in large gathering of people suitable place and a the First World War. The was present" rededication ceremony panel originally hung in held. the entrance to the Old The panel has lain School and on viewing old forgotten for many a year Can you help? The War record books retained by and requires extensive Memorials Trust would love Broomhaugh First School restoration to bring it back to see a photograph of the we have established that it to its former glory. The panel hanging in its original was unveiled on Saturday Parish Council and the th location in the Old School. 11 September 1920. The Village Hall Trust are in If anyone has such a extract from the records the process of securing photograph we would be reads as follows: funding for this work and grateful if you would have so far obtained £500 contact the Clerk. "The Memorial to the Ex- from the Community Chest Scholars who served in the Fund. The outcome of an War was unveiled by Miss application to the War Riding Mill Preschool The Preschool is run by a has places for parent-led committee and September 2016. some fund raising is So many people tell us The Preschool offers places required to allow the that they don’t know school to keep operating for children 2-4 years old. where the Spinney is We are registered with to the highest standards. or just thought it was Ofsted and are able to offer someone’s garden. private and funded places for Successful fundraisers organised by the Preschool up to 24 children. We pride ourselves on high adult to include the annual child ratios and a curriculum Pumpkin Party which is a which is tailored to meet the highlight of the year for many of the children. individual needs of your child. All parents are welcome to Cooking lessons, pottery and join the committee and no This area opposite the tennis are just a few of the previous experience is Church now has a sign special activities we provide. required. Anyone to help you find it and interested in enrolling their child in the Preschool in we hope that you stop The Preschool has a highly by occasionally and trained and very experienced September should contact enjoy its beauty and team. We now have Suzanne Barker at the tranquillity. extensive outdoor areas to preschool before 20 July 2016. The contact access including the Preschool garden and the number is 07754 395572 Spinney where children spend hours of fun in the Helen Hunter, Preschool Chair forest.