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PARISH COUNCIL NEWS MICHELMERSH & TIMSBURY The Parish Council held two virtual (‘Zoom’) meetings in July. We will return to face-to-face meetings as soon as the restrictions are lifted, but in the meantime, News Sheet & Diary AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2020 residents are welcome to ‘join in’ online. Agendas are published on the website and on noticeboards, and appear on Facebook, and include details of how to join the meetings. As usual, please contact the Clerk if you wish to raise any issues. PLANNING Full details of all planning applications and the Parish Council’s responses to them are recorded in the Parish Council minutes (Minutes of all Parish Council Meetings can be found on the website) and on the Test Valley Borough or Hampshire County Council websites. Planning Applications Reviewed at the Parish Council Planning Meeting on 1 July Our summer News Sheet is usually titled ‘August/September’ because we don’t 20/01078/OUTS: Mobile Home, Cranford Farm Cottages, Rudd Lane - have a scheduled Parish Council meeting in August. We may publish a Replace mobile home with dwelling September edition if there is much information to pass on – for example, if there Decision/comments: The Parish Council understands that the mobile home and are more village events to announce. Our ‘What’s On’ page is still pretty sparse, site has a Certificate of Lawful Existing Use and therefore the mobile home could and at this stage any events and dates must be provisional because of the be replaced with a dwelling, within the same curtilage, in accordance with Local continuing Covid-19 uncertainties. The News Sheet is currently only available on- Plan Policy COM12. Therefore, the Parish Council has no objection to this line, via email, on the website and Facebook. We will distribute paper copies to application, in principle. However, if permission is granted, the Parish Council the various pick-up points around the village again as soon as we judge that this requests that permitted development rights are removed from the site to provide is low-risk. some control over further construction on this site in the countryside. LOCAL CONTACTS Reviewed at the Parish Council Planning Meeting on 22 July Police VILLAGE WEBSITE 20/01460/TPOS: Stonymarsh House, Staff Road – Works to ash tree, Phone 101 or 08450 45 45 45 www.michelmershandtimsbury.org Decision: No objection (Ask for the Force Enquiry Centre) Test Valley Borough Council URGENT calls ONLY use 999 Romsey 527700 : Andover 01264 368000 OTHER VILLAGE NEWS Churches Web site: www.testvalley.gov.uk St Mary’s Michelmersh TVBC Ward Councillors The Playground St Andrew’s Timsbury Nick Adams-King 07771 727402 The children’s playground on Mannygham Way has been re-opened and checked United Benefice Office [email protected] by an ROSPA-accredited inspector. Signs have been posted reminding children 01794 878020 Gordon Bailey 01794 323557 and parents about hygiene measures and social distancing. Obviously there are Jubilee Hall a great number of ‘contact points’ on the play equipment and there is no [email protected] Warden/Bookings 368492 practicable way of cleaning it on a continuous basis and therefore hand washing Braishfield & Ampfield Ward News Sheet items before and after visits is recommended to reduce infection risk. Please try to Parish Clerk (see below) or Martin Hatley 02380 254040 observe the signs. [email protected] [email protected] Parish Council HCC County Councillor Footpaths Clerk: Katie Hardy 367289 Roy Perry 01962 847750 Some progress has been made by the Village Lengthsman and the County [email protected] Email: [email protected] Council with clearing overgrown footpaths, way-markers on Casbrook Common Chairman: Bob Davis 368118 MP Caroline Nokes: 01794 512132 have been reinstated, and repairs to stiles are in hand. As requested last month, [email protected] if you find any sections of footpath that are seriously overgrown, or any unsafe ©Published by Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish Council stiles, please contact the Clerk – try to identify the location as precisely as you can- a photograph would help. Speed Sign VILLAGE ORGANISATIONS As reported last month, the Council will have the use of a vehicle-activated speed Most of our village societies and events are still ‘on hold’ although there are indicator, initially for a trial period (shared with other local Councils) to evaluate its signs of recovery. There is cricket on the Recreation Ground and Church effect on speeding. It will be rotated between positions on Stockbridge Road and services have resumed (see below). We hope that we shall be able to fill out the New Road. The Council now has the necessary Licence from the County Council ‘What’s On’ page before too long. but is awaiting the installation of new mounting poles. It is hoped that the sign will be operational within weeks. Changes at St Andrew’s, Timsbury Drainage on New Road/Chapel Lane The PCC have been considering the various roles Several residents have drawn attention to the new accesses from New Road into of its members and at our last meeting we decided the development site in front of ’The Hedges’ on Chapel Lane. These have to have a slight reshuffle. If anyone feels that they resulted in the blocking of the ditch on the east side of New Road, which carries could help out with the positions below we would be surface water from both New Road and Chapel Lane. This has been reported to glad to welcome your input. Test Valley Planning and Highways in the expectation that the developer will be required to install culverts to maintain the purpose of the ditch and reduce the risk Secretary, Treasurer, Churchwarden, Sexton (to coordinate churchyard of local flooding in heavy rain. maintenance). If you would like to know a bit more about any of these roles please contact any of the people below: Covid-19 John Glasspool 368017 Catherine Baker 368364 Clarissa Smith 367134 Calls on the village ‘support system’ have eased and the local doctors’ surgeries have organised their own arrangements to deliver prescriptions to vulnerable/isolating residents, so that village volunteers are no longer routinely doing this. A number of people are continuing to help neighbours with shopping WHAT’S ON - MICHELMERSH AND TIMSBURY and other tasks, and of course some were doing this before the coronavirus August/September 2020 lockdown. We hope that these ‘informal’ arrangements will meet future needs. But Covid-19 is still with us and some residents may still face difficulties. So as Please support your village events. If you wish to include your event here before - if you need help, or if you have any concerns about a neighbour, please email the details to [email protected] contact either Katie Hardy or Kath Davis who will do their best to advise or put you in touch with a volunteer. Katie 367289 or [email protected] Church Services for August Kath 368118 or [email protected] Please note - this month Timsbury and Michelmersh are combining for Worship Sunday 2nd August - 8th Sunday after Trinity 11.15am Michelmersh Family Service with Baptism Keep in touch…….. Sunday 9th August - 9th Sunday after Trinity The village Facebook Groups (M&T Villages and M&T Local) are 6.00pm Michelmersh Holy Communion useful sources of local information. Sunday 16th August - 10th Sunday after Trinity 11.00am Timsbury Family Service To be included on the village email circulation list for News Sheets and items of local interest please email the Clerk at [email protected] Sunday 23rd August - 11th Sunday after Trinity 6.00pm Timsbury Evening Prayer .