GOLDSBOROUGH POST OFFICE Unfortunately, the price of a litre of oil is The Post Office at Yew Tree Cottage, very volatile. Are you sure you are Station Road opens on Monday, Tuesday purchasing your oil at the LOWEST Goldsborough and Flaxby and Thursday from 9.00am to 1.00pm. possible price? If you are not already a The usual Post Office services are member of the G&F Oil Purchasing Co- Parish Newsletter available including parcels, stamps, home operative your heating costs are higher shopping returns and, more importantly, than they need to be. Join the banking which, with recent bank closures Goldsborough & Flaxby Oil Purchasing Co- Spring 2020 Edition in , is extremely useful. operative and reduce your heating costs. The Co-operative is open to all oil users GOLDSBOROUGH NEIGHBOURHOOD and all correspondence is confidential. To WATCH start enjoying the financial benefits simply We have now set up a new email [email protected] Neighbourhood Watch Scheme in Goldsborough. The GNW re-launch has GOLDSBOROUGH & FLAXBY been set up to inform residents in the WALKING GROUP village of current crime notices issued by We are currently planning our walking the police that are relevant to us. In turn, schedule for the next few months. If you residents will be encouraged to contact enjoy walking in the beautiful CORONAVIRUS UPDATE INSIDE the co-ordinator/s should an issue arise in countryside, please join us. We are a the village that is deemed to be of concern friendly group and you can be assured of a to the rest of the village. We would like to very friendly welcome. For further invite you to be part of this scheme. A information simply email [email protected] letter and accompanying form are being sent out to all Goldsborough residents. WOMEN'S INSTITUTE FRONT COVER PHOTGRAPH Please respond by 30th April. Meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of Many thanks to those who submitted Spring time photographs

GOLDSBOROUGH CRICKET CLUB the month in Goldsborough Cricket Club at for this Newsletter. We would very much appreciate some At the time of writing this article we are 7.30pm. Information posters are displayed sunny Summer photographs for the next edition please! only a month away from the official start each month in the Goldsborough village date of the cricket season. Unfortunately, bus shelter and the Flaxby notice board. SUMMER 2020 NEWSLETTER our pre-season fund raising events have New members are most welcome, as are If you have any information or notices that you would had to be cancelled because of the visitors for £4 per meeting. Please contact like to be included in the Summer 2020 edition of the coronavirus outbreak and we sincerely the Secretary on 01423 866086 for Newsletter (to be distributed in July 2020) please contact further information on current meetings. Mike Munden at [email protected] hope that cricket will commence mid-April and we can continue with our successes GOLDSBOROUGH & FLAXBY GOLFING of 2019. On a positive note we have SOCIETY reformed our junior section and will be Our full programme of golf and social playing in the u/18 age category. events for the year is ready to go but is Our overseas player hopefully will be affected by present circumstances. joining us from Australia in April and in Hopefully it will be possible to play golf August we will be taking part in the Golden competitions through the period of enforced Oldies Cricket Festival with three teams shutdown and self-isolation, and will from overseas enjoying our hospitality. depend on how different golf clubs respond If all goes to plan, we can look forward to to the situation as it develops. Our fist an exciting season. We will wait and see social event, a cheese and wine evening in how things develop. The club is always April, has been postponed and hopefully looking to recruit new players-anyone will run later in the year, and favourites, the interested please contact the Club bowls evening, barbecue and pie and peas Chairman, Damon Ive on 07823 334899 supper will run as planned in the Summer.

GOLDSBOROUGH & FLAXBY OIL Subscriptions are unchanged again for this PURCHASING CO-OPERATIVE year - if you would like to join please contact the Secretary, Howard Dunnill, on Most residents of Goldsborough, Flaxby and local village communities depend on 868643 or email [email protected] for details. oil as the main fuel for heating. CORONAVIRUS SPECIAL UPDATE Church Street (Paxton farm end) and GOLDSBOROUGH HALL AND THE BAY boundary of Goldsborough Parish) on 19 right-hand side up to Princess Mead: HORSE INN January 2020. Those concerns related to Support Groups are now operational in Joanne & John Paxton Goldsborough Hall and the Bay Horse Inn the sizes and sufficient numbers of the on- both Flaxby and Goldsborough – if you 01423 863288 / 07906 623076 are temporarily closed following site car spaces sufficient visibility splays, are in need of any assistance, please [email protected] government advice. We are working with the access point into the Aldi site, the contact members of your respective our suppliers to see what groceries and effect locally of increased traffic (cars and support group as follows: Additional support: fresh produce they can deliver to the HGV's) to/from the store and just how eco- Julie & Paul Kerwin 078965 49336 FLAXBY - contact by phone or email one village. We will be offering a takeaway friendly the store might be. No decision [email protected] service from the pub on certain nights. has been made yet by HBC. of the Neighbourhood Watch Co- Please note the correct email address for the Ordinators as follows: Kerwins above, as this has been amended from Please look at our websites for Chippindales, Flaxby (next to the leaflet previously circulated. Caroline Greenhalgh 01423 860569 information www.goldsboroughhall.com Morrisons) - single storey extension [email protected] Goldsborough Group Co-ordinators and www.bayhorseinn.co.uk. and water treatment plant Please contact Jan McCann &/or Lisa HBC approved this application on 19 GOLDSBOROUGH & FLAXBY Trevor Cook 01423 869538 Blackshaw-Howell (contact details above) February 2020. [email protected] for any other enquires / joint links of GROUPED PARISH COUNCIL (GFPC) Due to the Coronavirus, the meeting New dwelling adjacent to Flaxby Mike Granville-Edge 01423 862372 support / co-ordination. planned for 6 April has been cancelled, Grange, Flaxby - details dealing with [email protected] To keep updated with current information and it is unlikely that the meetings planned reserved matters submitted showing and instructions, check www.nhs.uk or for 4 May, 1 June and 6 July will go external features and materials: GOLDSBOROUGH – please phone or just search coronavirus uk news. ahead. These had all been planned to GFPC raised concerns about this email your respective contact as follows: take place at the new location of The Bay application in February 2020 ie. ridge ST MARY’S CHURCH UPDATE Horse Inn, Goldsborough, starting at height, no overhead telephone lines and Goldsborough village pillars into East As the country prepares itself for the 7.30pm. Details relating to GFPC can be re-instatement of road drains. HBC is yet View Court area and Church Street to continuing onslaught of the Coronavirus Station Road turning: found on the PC website to make a decision. pandemic, the Church of has Liz Vincent 07985255285 www.goldsboroughflaxbypc.co.uk instructed all its places of worship to District Local Plan [email protected] cease public services with immediate To keep fully updated with Parish The outcome of the Planning Inspectorate Midgeley Lane (left hand side): effect. Although definitive information has Council and village matters, please (PI) review was finalised on 30 January Sarah & Matthew Davies not yet been given, the understanding is register on the GFPC mailing list by 2020. Locally, the PI appears to have 01423 862904 / 07791 270885 that weddings and funerals will continue, emailing [email protected]. mostly supported the HBC draft Plan. [email protected] but with only immediate family present. Accordingly, the report has no effect on However, Sunday services have stopped. PLANNING MATTERS the HBC preference for a new settlement Midgeley Lane (right hand side and At St Mary's it is hoped to keep the church There have been the following planning to be near to Green Hammerton / Cattal / houses near duck pond): open during the day for people to come matters (excluding tree works and Kirk Hammerton instead of at Flaxby. Helene & Chris 07779 624836 and spend a little time in the quiet praying enforcements issues) since the However, this does not prevent some form [email protected] to God, for each other, for our families, for Autumn/Winter 2019 Newsletter: of development taking place on the old our nation and for the world. At the back Princess Mead: Flaxby Golf Course. of the church, there are leaflets and Manse Farm Housing. This site was Jan & Art McCann pamphlets for people to take away to aid originally approved for 300 homes. It GOLDSBOROUGH ALLOTMENTS 01423 868894 / 07806 710173 them in their private devotions at home. St directly adjoins the boundary to There is one plot available to rent at [email protected] Goldsborough Parish (near the Toyota £12.50 per year (subject to review in John's church in Knaresborough will Station Road: likewise be open during the day with the garage) and GFPC has raised objections December of each year) at the allotments Alex & James Bishop 07811 189372 added input of a 5-minute midday prayer to the increased numbers of housing that are on Station Road. The plot is 7m x [email protected] slot each and every day. within the following two applications by 10m and has some rhubarb and If you or anybody you know would benefit Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd: established fruit bushes within a netted Woodland Close: framework. If interested please phone or from a reassuring telephone call or a 1) November 2019 - 13 extra homes (HBC Anne Hodgy 07810 042738 text Derrik Summers on 07999 609 249 or listening ear, or would like some aids to approved these on 13 December) [email protected] email [email protected]. prayer dropping through a letterbox, 2) February 2020 - a further 11 homes (ie Goldsborough Court x2 & up Church please get in touch on 01423 202092. If FLAXBY VILLAGE ASSOCIATION taking the total for the site to 324). This is Street to Woodland Close entrance (left nobody answers, then please leave a SOCIAL EVENTS message and I will contact you on my yet to be considered by HBC. hand side / same side as the Church): The Cheese & Wine evening planned for 2 Lisa & David Blackshaw-Howell return. May the Lord be with you and all Aldi Store - Manse Farm Housing Site May has been postponed until later in the 01423 861181 / 07968 097052 those whom you love at this difficult GFPC raised concerns about this year. Details of forthcoming social events [email protected] time .... keep safe and keep well. proposed development (close to the will be circulated in due course. Rev Garry Hinchliffe