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Barkham

Issue 118 Winter 2016

Newsletter

from the Barkham Village Residents Association

http://www.barkham.org.uk

Saturday 17 December
7pm
The Junipers

Family Ski*les Evening Saturday 4 March
– see all Social Events details on page 2

Have you completed the Neighbourhood Plan ques?onnaire? If not, please do so – see page 6-7

We s%ll need a new Social Secretary
See pages 2,3 and 18 for details
Please help!

In this issue…

Social Quiz Editorial
22345
Neighbourhood Plan Q&A Church Submitted Sites list Submitted Sites map

Alan’s Patch

689
10

12

Barkham Ladies

Arborfield Gardening Association 16

Crowthorne Symphony Orchestra 17 BVRA vacancies
14
Parish Council Borough Councillor
18

to keep the social side of things On March 4th the committee going and are trying to organise have arranged a family skittles events but we do need someone evening – tickets £10.00 and £5 to replace me and act as the fo- forprimaryschoolchildren. Start cal point for these activities – the time will be 7 for 7.30 at Barkham
As this is the last edition of the year, I want to thank everyone who has contributed articles in 2016.

BVRA 2016/17 GENERAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Chairman: Stewart Richardson (acting) [email protected]
Secretary: Christine Leigh
977 4333 [email protected]
Treasurer: Ian Overton
973 4806

Wecontinuetocovertheactivities of Barkham Parish Council and I’dliketotakethechancetothank them for once again supporting the newsletter with an annual grant. Without it we would have to reduce the size of the newsletterandincreasemembershipfees, both of which we want to avoid.

  • “Social Secretary”.
  • Village Hall and supper will be

included. As usual there will be

a bar and raffle. Please email

[email protected] for tick-

etsorcallGillPowellon9783373.
We have managed to organise the Carols in the Park and this will be on SATURDAY 17th DE- CEMBER at 7 PM starting at the

[email protected]
Social: vacant

Editorial
SOCIAL MATTERS

usual place of the junction of The Hopefully the Easter Egg Hunt Woodlands with The Junipers. will go ahead for the children Music will be provided once in 2017 on Easter Sunday and again by the “Breakaway Brass” this will be in the Spring 2017 who have been supporting this edition of the newsletter and on event for us now for many years, the website. The committee are

in different incarnations of the trying to arrange a barn dance in

band! Please bring torches, and theautumnandalsoanotherquiz coins for the bucket collection. evening in November. There are We do not charge for the event provisional dates for these in the itself but the band give up their Diary (see page 19).

[email protected]
Membership: Jim Butler
978 3572 [email protected]
Newsletter: Stewart Richardson
979 1914 [email protected]
Web Site: Dave Clements
989 2198 [email protected]
Development Watch: vacant [email protected]

Welcome to the winter edition of the Barkham Newsletter!
Wheredoestimego?–itdoesnot seem all that long ago that we were toasting in 2016 and within a few weeks it will be 2017.
I also want to thank the advertisers who give us an important

sourceofrevenuetooffsetagainst

our costs. I hope they get some return from their investment!
There is a particular focus in this issue about the threat of even more development in Barkham, in excess of that already announced on such major sites as

the garrison (now “Arborfield

Green”, even though much of it is in Barkham). We want all residents to be aware of the potential scale of these developments and the related issues and to stimulate discussion and participation where appropriate.
This year we have had the lead up to, and the result of the referendum, (Brexit - is this now a Scrabbleword?)andlookforward totheoutcome(ornotdepending onyourview).TheUSAhavehad theirelectionandwewillseewhat happensthere. Thepropertieson the old Garrison, along with the newschoolarebeingbuiltsothere are many changes for us all. I am

definitelymovingin2017andam

still looking for a replacement here! Thecommitteearestillkeen
As always I’d like to thank Bob Bishopforhiscontinuingworkas the “publisher”, Steve Young as the “wholesaler” who packages up the copies and to all the 30+ distributors without whom the newsletters would never reach the streets of Barkham. time and we feel that if we can help them buy music etc. then

they will also benefit. As usual

we will have mulled wine (along with non-alcoholic squash) and mince pies. We will supply the carolsheetsbutpleasemakesure that you return them at the end.
May I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year? Thank you for all the support that you have given me over the last few years and please continue to support the BVRA social functions.

Advertising and

John Kaiser (Wokingham Borough Councillor) discusses this in his article on page 5. We have previously sent out the map and list of the Submitted Sites to our Development Watch mailing list but are reproducing them in this issue for all residents (see pages 9 and10, together with details of how to make your views known.
Also, in my “Acting Chairman” role I want to thank the members of the General Committee (this page) and the Social Committee for their continuing work on behalf of the residents’ association. In particular we must recognise

the efforts of Judith Collins, who

is moving out of Barkham and so stepping down from her Social Secretary role at the end of the year after 7 years in the role. She will be sorely missed! We still haven’t found a replacement, so our ability to organise the social events next year is under threat – PLEASE HELP!

Newsletter Contributions

Judith Collins
Newsletter articles / contribu-

tionsfortheSpringeditionshould be in by 17 February 2017. It helps if these can be submitted in electronic form by email to [email protected]. They may also be sent to the Editor, Stewart Richardson, at 342BarkhamRoad, Wokingham, RG41 4DE.

The Quiz

For those of you who think this quiz is too low brow, the theme this time is “Art”. However, there may be the odd popular culture question thrown in!

1. Which artist, primarily known for his ceramic vases, has an alter ego named “Claire”? 2. Who was the long standing and controversial art critic of the (London) Evening Standard who died in 2015? Clue:
He had a “distinctive” accent and appeared a couple of times on “Have I Got News For You”.

On pages 6-7 Laurence Heath (BarkhamParishCouncilDeputy Chair) answers some questions

relating to the Arborfield and

Barkham Neighbourhood Plan. We strongly encourage you to complete the survey questionnaire, either online at www.

arbarsurvey.com or by filling in

the hard copy enclosed with this issue of the newsletter. Thank you to those residents who have already done this, but the more responses we have, the more weight the plan will carry.

3. Which band had a hit with “Art for Art’s Sake” in 1975?

4. Which came first chronologically – Art Deco or Art Nouveau?

For trade adverts, contact Ian Overton by email to

[email protected], or

call 973 4806. We offer three landscape sizes, 64mm x 54mm at £22, 124mm x 105mm at £52 and 190x130mm at £100, for 4 quarterly insertions.

5. Who painted the anti-war “Guernica” and in which city could you view it?

6. Who had a number 1 hit with a song from the film of Watership Down?

7. Which major art gallery is situated on Millbank in London?

Finally, may I send the BVRA’s best wishes to all residents for Christmas and the New Year!

8. The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden is in which Cornwall town? 9. Who painted “The Fighting Temeraire” and for 1000 brownie points what is the full name of the painting?

Stewart Richardson Editor

10. Which Australian art critic, who died in 2012, wrote and presented the BBC series (and book) which is probably

the definitive analysis of modern art – “The Shock of the New”.

Distributionofthenextissuewill take place in Mid March.

Answers on page 19

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to host some social events with comments and responses really the aid of Crest Nicholson. The do matter and will help to shape

first event planned will be carol the final document.

singing around a Christmas tree, of which I am one and Parish in the last issue of the Barkham councillors. This is a joint plan Newsletter, so it is important we covering both Arborfield and try to control development in the Barkham and once it has been borough and best way to do this through the various stages and this though the local plan and consultations will be adopted as all the associated documents of one of the planning documents which our neighbourhood plan which makes up the local plan is one. Remember this current andwillhaveanimpactonwhere, updateofthelocalplanwilltakes the quantity and the quality of us through to 2035, so make sure development in our part of the have your say. this always gets everyone into the festive spirit. When more information is available it will be posted on the web site.
Two public exhibitions were recentlyhelddetailingtheprogress made on the Neighbourhood Plan. These were attended by 70+ residents all of whom found
The developer Crest Nicholson, the information interesting and on behalf of the Defence Infra- thought provoking. structureOrganisation(DIO),has

News from Your Parish Council

borough. announcedthesaleoflandparcels H, I & J at the new £600m Arbor-

field Green Garden Village to

Redrow Homes Southern Counties.The15-acresiteisallocatedin

theArborfield Green masterplan

forupto220homesandislocated south of the new Nine Mile Ride Extension. The site forms part of the southern gateway to the new garden village. Redrow is expected to bring forward initial proposals in accordance with the site’s Design Codes and outline planning permission over the next few months.

Theotherbignewsisthefirstnew

The neighbourhood plan team is secondaryschool(BohuntSchool currently circulating a question- Wokingham) to be built in the naire to all residents in the bor- Wokingham Borough for more ough over the age of 18 to try and than50yearsopeneditsdoorson

History Book

Dear residents

Keep up to date with all the lo- cal news and information at our website.

We are delighted to inform you that the Parish Council still has a stock of “Barkham A History”. The history book has now been reprinted with a new Foreword which details the REME move of the Garrison to RAF Lyneham. If youarenewtotheareaanddonot own a copy of the history book they can now be purchased from the Clerk for £8.50 each, or they areonsaleatHenryStreetGarden

Centre and Barkham Post Office.

Further to my comments on the local plan update being con-

ductedbyofficersatWokingham

Borough council the call for sites hasnowclosedandalistandmap ofthesepotentialsitesisfeatured in this edition of the newsletter (see pages 9 and 10). The list is extensive and many of them will not come forward as part of the borough’s future recommendations due to the lack of suitability andsustainability,butremember these sites will not go away and the landowners and developers

will no doubt fight to get their

sites on the approved list. In addition they can submit planning applications for these sites at any stage and even in the event they are refused by the council some will no doubt end up at appeal andthedecisionwillbetakenout oflocalhandsandwillbedecided by a government inspector.

th

understand what is important to September 7 in Barkham on the you the residents so it can be re- old garrison site. More than 100 flectedinthefinaldocument,this students have joined the school. is on the back of open days held Initially they will use the existbothin ArborfieldandBarkham. ing legacy buildings, next to the new £32.5million school build-
A new housing assessment has been carried out by the Borough Council jointly with neighbouringdistrictcouncils. Theresultof this is the Wokingham Borough Council’s target for new homes hasbeenincreasedfrom650to856 homes per year up to 2035. This means that the Council will be lookingforsitestoaccommodate another 10,000 houses over and above those in the pipeline. The Borough Council issued a “Call forSites”invitingdevelopersand landowners to suggest where newhousesorotherdevelopment should be located. Information can be accessed through the Borough Council website. Areas within Barkham have been suggested for development, at this stage it simply means that someone has put them forward. See more detailed report from JohnKaiser, BoroughCouncillor. ing being constructed, thanks to
I would urge you all to return the

Wokingham Borough Council, questionnaires you should have

on the former Arborfield Gar-

received,ifnotyoucangotowww. rison site.

arbarsurvey.com and fill out the

questionnaire online, it only 20 questions with a few additional The frame for the new building questionsaboutyourself.Youcan is complete and work is now foalso get some background infor- cussing on the internal features mation on the neighbourhood includingthelearningspacesand plan process by going to www. ITinfrastructuredesignedtomeet arbarplan.com Icannotstresshow the needs of modern teaching.

importantthatyouhaveyoursay Staff and students will move into

as the greater the level of local this new building in September involvement the more weight it next year (2017).
Judith Neuhofer

Speed Limits

Clerk, Barkham Parish Council
Residents will now be aware of the reduction is speed limits along Barkham Road. This is a residential road and the Parish Council welcome this decision from the Borough Council. We hope in time to extend this out to the adjoining roads in order to have some continuity within the Parish.

Arborfield Green Commu-

nityChristmasLightsEvent

Thursday 8th December at 6pm will carry when it comes to be
The Cricket Pitch, Arborfield

Green inspected in public to ensure it

is fit for purpose before it can be

adopted.
The state-of-the-art school, being run by Bohunt Educational Trust, will eventually cater for up to 1,200 pupils. Within the
Wewouldloveforlocalresidents to join us for carols, complimentary mince pies and mulled wine around the Christmas Tree.
Suitability and sustainability is opentoindividualinterpretation

and in an effort to clarify what

is sustainable and suitable in

BarkhamandArborfieldwemust

make sure we as a community giveclearguidanceastohowthis relates to our villages.
Making sure we all have a say in buildingthereisasuiteofcustomdevelopment in and around the ised STEM (science, technology, borough is vital to ensure local engineering and maths) rooms, roads and services do not get a drama theatre, and large light overwhelmed at the same time and open plan areas which will wemaintaintheenvironmentand house the school’s impressive rural and individual aspects of ICT, art and learning resource ourlocalcommunityandvillages centres. All this coupled with the sports facilities in the adja-

Neighbourhood Plan

Arborfield Garrison SDLdevel-

Questionnaires were recently delivered to all households in Barkham, we hope many of you havealreadycompletedthemand

retuned them to the Post Office,

if you haven’t yet done so please return them as soon as possible, or complete the survey online

at www.arbarsurvey.com. Your

opment update

SpecialguestsArborfieldMilitary

Wives Choir and Bohunt School Choir.

The first phase of development

is taking shape along Biggs Lane

andthefirstnewresidentsareex-

pected to move in before the end of the year. The Parish Council willbeprovidingaWelcomePack toallournewresidentsandhope
Onewaytodothisistomakesure we all have an input to the neighbourhood plan, currently being created by a team of residents,
Please email rebecca.eytle@ preim.co.uk if you can attend, so that we can cater accordingly. cent sports centre, 3G AstroTurf
Wearealreadyseeingdevelopers

and tennis and netball courts start to challenge the numbers

make the new

cont...

which I indicated in my article

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cont ...school a fantastic facility

derstood what was happening. At least we’re ahead of the game this time. We   have a clear choice – we can sit on our hands and let events take their course, or we can do the

work and attempt to exert influence

on the outcomes. Clearly I believe the latter course is the right one to take.   If we just sit idly by, we can hardly complain when the area is being overwhelmed by development. tiona l d evelopmen t i s l imite d t o w hat 8.

If we do a Neighbourhood

The Bull at Barkham has received ACV protection

the parish requires and can absorb.  Plan, does that mean that have

for the borough’s young people.

toacceptsomenewdevelopment

This could mean that in future,

proposals?

The new school is being built as part of the major development coming to Barkham in the years ahead and will cater for pupils from the new homes as well as fromexistingcommunitiesinthe south of the borough. The site is attheheartofthenewgardenvil-

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    »Bridge Ends Salisbury link explored Notes and queries Education Panel Pearson Hall cycle rack in use It is easy to forget the Salisbury con- nection. Some house names hint at it: Sarum Cottage, Deanery Garden and Bishopsclose. Yet every visitor entering St Andrew’s via the north porch is reminded in the left-hand label stop of the entrance arch: the arms of the Diocese. • Autumn 48 Issue 2016 Hugh Pearson, the parish’s long-serving Newsletter of the Sonning & Sonning Eye Society vicar 1842-1882, was the son of a Dean of Salisbury, who for a brief while rented The Grove. At the time of Pearson’s appoint- Sonning Village Show 17 September 2016 »Eye on Sonning ment, Sonning was still within the diocese, Ali’s Pond LNR Award The Society will be at the Village Show 19th-century restorations swept away passing to the Diocese of Oxford in 1846. Alastair Driver a view from the Bridge on Saturday 17 September. This is many mature Gothic and later additions, Why Salisbury? Because the Saxon Sonning’s very own nature reserve, Hilborne, the suspense for Sonning’s Mike Hart, Chairman an opportunity to meet new residents preferring to return Salisbury to what was bishopric of Sonning transferred to that Ali’s Pond LNR, has recently been rec- representatives was finally lifted when In past issues, this column has asked what and to explain the work we do and the regarded as an example of the best style diocese and it was in Sonning that the ognised as a national flagship example Ali’s Pond was announced as the win- makes Sonning special.
  • Minutes of a Meeting of the Planning Committee Held on Wednesday 9 December 2009 from 7.00Pm to 8.1Opm

    Minutes of a Meeting of the Planning Committee Held on Wednesday 9 December 2009 from 7.00Pm to 8.1Opm

    MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE HELD ON WEDNESDAY 9 DECEMBER 2009 FROM 7.00PM TO 8.1OPM Present:- Steve Chapman (Chairman), Stephen Conway, Lee Gordon-Walker, Norman Gould, Tim Holton, Jenny Lissaman, Claire Sfrefton, Julian McGhee-Sumner. Also present:- Peter Bourne, Team Leader, Highways Development Control Mark Cupif, Head of Development Management Tricia Harcoutt, Senior Democratic Services Officer Colin Lawley, Legal Services Manager MEMBERS UPDATE There are a number of references to the Members' Updafe within these minutes. The Members' Update was circulated fo all present prior fo the meeting. It is available to view on the Council's websife www,wokingham.gov.uk The Chairman welcomed a new Member to the Committee, Claire Stretton who had joined in place of John Kersley who had resigned from the Committee. Confirmation was given that she had received the appropriate training to allow her to take part in decision making. John Kersley was thanked for his work on the Committee 69. MINUTES The Minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 14 October 2009 were confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman, subject to the addition in Minute 64 of a statement that Tim Holton arrived at 7.10pm; and the deletion in Minute 65 of the following phrase in the fifth paragraph - 'speaking on behalf of Michael Firmager who had listed the proposal, ' The meeting planned for 11 November was cancelled 70. APOLOGIES Apologies for absence were submitted from Jenny Lissaman and Angus Ross. 71. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST Claire Stretton declared a personal and prejudicial interest in ltem 83, application F/2009/1977 at Bowsey Hill House, Bowsey Hill, Wargrave, for the retention of a wall and steps, on the grounds that before she became a member of the Planning Committee she had been involved as Ward Member in discussions on this application.
  • Henley Arts Trail

    Henley Arts Trail

    Round and About Magazine About and Round Studio Phoenix The N G Art on the Street the on Art Museum Rowing & River M F RG10 Magazine RG10 Boatique L E Century Framing Century Fair Art Contemporary Reading K D Buratta’s Cafe Ceramic Kiln The J C The Robin’s Nest Gallery Nest Robin’s The House Free Greyhound The I B The Pig Barn Pig The Sew and Sew Lady H A SPONSORS R U O on Friday 24 April, 18.00–20.00 – all welcome all – 18.00–20.00 April, 24 Friday on & friends & Gallery Station Fire Old The 1: Venue Wendy Penrose Jewellery Penrose Wendy Ingleby Catherine at is Trail the for G NIN E OP GRAND THE Artists at Shiplake at Artists Coltman’s Farm Coltman’s Park in Kings Road or Greys Road public car parks. car public Road Greys or Road Kings in Park away behind the Town Hall – look out for the red doorway and sign. sign. and doorway red the for out look – Hall Town the behind away Lady Sew and Sew and Sew Lady West Forest Potters Forest West Central Henley, just north of Falaise Square and hidden hidden and Square Falaise of north just Henley, Central Directions: browse in one of Henley’s historic buildings. buildings. historic Henley’s of one in browse The Garden Studio Garden The Buratta’s at the Royal Oak Royal the at Buratta’s all of whom are artists working in or around Henley – come and and come – Henley around or in working artists are whom of all A richly varied and interesting display of work by Guild members, members, Guild by work of display interesting and varied richly A John Loader & Claire Howlett Claire & Loader
  • BERKSHIRE. [KELLY's

    BERKSHIRE. [KELLY's

    WARliRAVE. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY's in one place, and the same amount to a servant woman KILN GREEN is a small village in this parish, a in the following year on the same principle, and so on miles east; here is Scarlets, the residence of Rev. Harry every alternate year for ever, and tos. a year to the Morland Wells B.A. ; Bear Place, of Henry Frederick vicar or curate who shall preach a sermon on every Nicholl esq. M.A., J.P.; Linden Hill, of Major Henry Michaelmas day, setting forth the reciprocal duties of Charles Bulkeley D.S.O., J.P.; Cast!emans, of Mrs. master and mistress and their servants. There are Lawrence; and Bear Hill, of Miss Choate. other minor charities, value about £40, for distribution, Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Kiln Green.-::'.Hss Ellen but many of these have been consolidated, and are Trendall, sub-postmistress. Letters through Twyford under the control of the vicar and the churchwardens. arrive at 7· ro a.m. & 12.5 & 7· Io p.m.; dispatched at " Bare or Beare Innings" is a piece of land of about 8 a.m. & 1.25, 2.55 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, arrive at 20 acres, purchased in 1641 for a sum of £zoo, left for 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 9 a.m investment by Mrs. Margaret Poole; the profits arising therefrom, now amounting to £r7 yearly, are expended UPPER CULHAM is also in this parish, 2' miles in cloth, which is distributed among the poor of north. Culham Court, the property of Viscount Ramble­ Maidenhead and Cookham.
  • Summary SHLAA Post

    Summary SHLAA Post

    Wokingham Borough Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement at 31 March 2017 Published 6th June 2017 Wokingham BC Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement March 2017 Executive Summary Introduction This Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement provides a summary of the land supply position as at 31 March 2017, and provides the projected housing delivery for the five year period 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2022. A number of improvements have been applied in this assessment over the approach taken in previous years to improve the robustness of the projected delivery. Monitoring Requirement The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) requires authorities to identify and update annually a supply of deliverable sites sufficient to provide five year worth of housing against their housing requirements with an additional buffer of either 5% or 20% (moved forward from later in the plan period) depending on historic delivery rates to ensure choice and competition in the market.1 The Council accepts that the housing requirement set out in the latest adopted plan, the Wokingham Core Strategy (adopted 2010) is out of date. The latest, robust full assessment of housing needs is the Berkshire (including South Bucks) Strategic Housing Market Assessment (published in 2016) (hereafter referred to as the SHMA). This study was jointly commissioned by the six Berkshire local authorities and the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership and has been agreed by each party under the Duty to Cooperate. The SHMA identified Wokingham Borough to be part of a Housing Market Area with Reading Borough Council, Bracknell Forest Council and West Berkshire Council.