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Telephone Moreton Times Moreton tiMes Issue 45 • July 2010 An independent paper delivered FREE OF CHARGE to every home & business in Moreton in Marsh, Blockley, Bourton on the Hill and Todenham. Copies also go to Batsford, Draycott and Dorn, Great Wolford and Little Wolford, Little Compton and Long Compton. Copies of Moreton Times also go into Chipping Campden & Chipping Norton Extra copies are generally available at the Moreton Area Centre in Moreton High Street, and at Moreton Library. Moreton tiMes From the Editor Inside this edition Summer in the Cotswolds FEATURES 6,7 Understanding Planning – Enabling Development, with articles There are views, wonderful views – and Cotswold views. from Julia Bennett at Tyack Architects and Ben Jones from We all have our favourites. Yorke Contruction Ltd If there could be only one thing to explain the Cotswolds, I think it would 12, 13 Churchill Veteran & Classic Car Show – photos recording a be the views – there is a different view around every corner, and it looks different coming back! great day out REGULARS However, next month we will be very short of views - we will be featuring our Second Photographic Competition and every photo will 9 Rotary – News from the local clubs have been taken in one of the communities where we deliver (or drop 15 NCCR, grants and local charities bundles of) Stow Times, Moreton Times or Bourton Times, and within 16 Robb Eden considers the possible outcomes of the Budget the 30 mph signs. No views! We have begun to collect photos to show 17 Community Informations; Police Update; the Environmental Warden you and we are hoping that there will be lots of entries again this year. I promise that it wont be difficult - but it will help if you look around you and note all the little details that are unique/ special about our towns and 18 Local Authorities, meetings & information villages – a roofline, a chimney, a gateway, an unusual window or a 19 Barnwood Construction Ltd – New Hospital Development feature in a wall – and remember where the are! 20 Church Services 23 – 27 LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY for July Meanwhile after a hectic month of international sport, you could be almost 26 Village Halls & Events fully occupied every weekend in July without travelling very far at all, with a wonderful choice of fetes and fairs to visit, with concerts, plays, and 27 Rural Cinemas & Events beautiful gardens. 30, 31 Correspondence - Planning and Housing Development update Whatever you choose to do we hope you will have a wonderful July, full & comment of all the summer-y things that bring a smile to your face. 32 BOOK REVIEWS - from Cotswold Bookstore Local Walks in May Best wishes, 33-35 Local Schools – news & reports Jenni Turner 41 Moreton Rangers – updates from Martin Jones, Sec, The 6-A-Side World Cup 43 Stow Cricket Club - Ash Andrews, Capt reports on a great run Copy Date for the August edition is 16th July. of wins! (The 16th is our copy date for every month this year) 44 Sports Clubs News and Reports 45 News & Reports from some of the Local Clubs, etc.. Our Front Cover Photo ‘Morris Dancers’ was taken and submitted by Liz 46 Local Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities Frazer © NCDCC.2010 47 Local Business Directory Telephone Moreton Times on Thank you to all our contributors and writers, to Diana Murphy who researches and edits local information, to Janet Marley who is managing 07789 175 002 our deliveries and finds time to do a little sub-editing too, and to all our (The phone will take your messages too – leave your deliverers and sources of information. We always appreciate their time name & contact number and we will return your and commitment. call.) Our design team this month was Eagle Design Ltd. email MORETON TIMES on www.eagledesign.net [email protected] www.moretontimes.co.uk Extra copies of Moreton Times are generally available at Moreton Library and at Moreton Area Centre in Moreton High Street. Copies P O Box 6, Sheep Street, are also carried on The Villager Bus. Stow on the Wold, GL54 1WD LOB LOLLY? EGG AND CRYSTALISED FRUIT PIE? SAUSED PORK? Following the success of last year’s Cotswold Festival the Committee have continued to plan for the next event. Lots of enquiries have been received from visitors, stall holders, and tourist agencies. The Festival entails a great amount of planning and time so it has been agreed that the next one will be on September 17th 2011. However, an exciting and interesting evening has been organised for September 25th this year when a Barks & Purrs proudly presents quality CIVIL WAR FEAST will be held in St Edwards Hall. clothing and accessories for Dogs and Cats. The food will be provided by The Historical Management Associates so all the dishes will be PASSIONATE ABOUT SPOILING YOUR DOGS AND CATS? authentic and even the variety of fruit and vegetables You will enjoy a visit to our beautifully designed shop. If there is anything particular you need we will find it for you; it will be those grown in the 17th Century. will be our pleasure to meet you and to be of assistance. 3 Fountain Court, Digbeth Street TICKETS will be available from Go-Stow at £30 per Stow on the Wold head. There are a limited number so make sure you GL54 1BN buy yours soon. There will be over 30 dishes served and the evening promises to be really enjoyable. We 01451 830010 very much hope that everyone attending will come in [email protected] historic dress to add to the atmosphere and fun. www.barksandpurrs.co.uk Go-Stow, Talbot Court, Stow. 01451 870 150 4 STOW HEALTH & BEAUTY CLINIC M ANGAN &W EBB 1 Wells Barn, Sheep Street Stow-on the-Wold, G15 1AA 30% SALE IN BOTH SHOPS Call in or Tel: 01451 832 275 Open Tues -Sat 10-5.30 ON OUT-OF-SEASON STOCK Evening & early morning appointments available on request Look out for more offers every month @ SALE ENDS 17/07/10 www.stowhealthandbeauty.co.uk PERMANENT MAKEUP by Experienced Permanent MakeUp Artist SPECIAL OFFER ~ 15% OFF NEW TREATMENTS JULY & AUGUST BOOK IN NOW HAVE YOUR MAKEUP DONE IN TIME FOR SUMMER! Hairstroke EyeBrows • Eyeliner / lash enhancement • Lip line / natural lip blush For more information & to book a free UGGS • B ARBOUR • J OULES • FARLOWS • M ARELLA consultation contact: 01451 832275 • J OSEPH • R ALPH L AUREN • S. 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The planning system aims to protect these heritage assets on our behalf through conservation policies and designations - such as Conservation Areas and Listed Building status – to help determine which development proposals may – and often more poignantly, which may not – be granted planning consent. Many historic buildings survive because they continue to have a viable use and value, so that owners invest in their necessary maintenance and repair. Redundant agricultural buildings however have often lost their economic function within modern farming, and can quickly fall into severe disrepair. Recognising exceptional situations such as this, English Heritage developed a policy statement in 2000 called ‘Enabling Development and the Conservation of Heritage Assets’ to be used alongside existing conservation planning policy. It is certainly not a licence for developers to bypass all the rules – it involves an intricate and prescribed process to show that the ‘sum of the benefits clearly outweighs the disbenefits’, and that strictly no harm will come to the heritage assets as a trade-off. In the last few decades, conversion to residential use has Hunter Page Planning employed this policy at Donnington, ‘rescued’ many such agricultural buildings in our area because where the two new dwellings, carefully designed by Tyack the cost of renovation is balanced out eventually by the Architects to replace a Dutch barn and a ruined cart shed, have resultant increase in property value. now been constructed by Yorke Construction of Cheltenham. These have successfully enabled the barns and farmhouse to be Sometimes though, the numbers just do not stack up - the cost restored. of repair and conversion of barns and other farm buildings far exceeds the end value – and this is called a “conservation Being appointed Main Contractor on such a sensitive sight is not deficit”. What can be done to save significant heritage buildings without its challenges. Yorke Construction Ltd have extensive when there is no magic fund to subsidise them being brought experience in the restoration of historical buildings in the back into viable use? Cotswolds and were delighted to be appointed to build both new properties on the site: The Byre and Mitchell’s Barn. Both This was the challenge facing local firm West Oxfordshire new dwellings are now completed and inhabited. Ben Jones of Developments Ltd when they acquired Manor Farm in Yorke Construction - “Any development such as this, in an Area Donnington in 2006.
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