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As I write this Italy has been shut friendly. Vicky is pushing hard for the Copyright ©2020 by BPCCRA down in an attempt to contain the Council to spend money raised by All rights reserved. This magazine or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or Coronavirus pandemic and the the Community Infrastructure Levy in used in any manner whatsoever without the infection rate in the UK is increasing. our area. The research has disclosed express written permission of the editor. By the time you get this magazine a huge disparity between the large who knows what the situation amount raised here and the relatively their concerns known and, just as will be but I do hope that you and small amount spent here. We importantly, get to know one another. yours are all right. It is during times desperately need improvements and such as we have experienced that are pushing for the Council to release Sadly we have lost two long term good neighbours are so important. some of the funds it holds. Watch this members of the Association and I am Councillor May Haines has written space. pleased to include a recognition of an article for the magazine which the contributions of Stan Alfert and outlines some of the initiatives that Although our funds are healthy, we Gordon Alder in this edition. are being taken to increase our always want to increase membership. awareness of people who may be Only about half the properties are On behalf of the Executive Committee lonely and live close by. represented and the mail shot you can I thank all our members for are your neighbours are receiving is supporting the Association and a From the Associations point view, an attempt to increase our profile and special thanks to our Wardens who the significant campaign is the one also increase membership. Please work hard to ensure we get this that has been led by Vicky Moss and do pass on the message that the magazine out and your views are aimed at improving the area in terms Association is an effective organisation represented at out monthly meetings of being more cyclist and pedestrian in enabling residents to make (to which all members are warmly invited)
I do hope you enjoy the magazine and have a great Summer. We shall be hoping for more rain as we look to restore (or more accurately, resurrect) our lawn.
Best wishes John Gunton 3 Executive The aims and objects of the Association a) To protect the interests of the to its notice all matters which Committee residents and, on request,to adversely affect the residents President investigate on their behalf or amenities of the district; John Sprackling any issues which could be 01202 751553 detrimental to private d) To submit recommendations/ president.bpccra@ properties or public areas, representations to the Council gmail.com facilities or services; concerning any proposals, plans and developments which Chairman b) To make recommendations may affect residents; Adrian Wardlow for conserving, enhancing and chairperson.bpccra@ improving the amenities for, e) To provide a forum for gmail.com and environment of, residents members to discuss issues, and, where appropriate, exchange information and implement them; experience and to draw Vice Chair & Advertising Roger Allen attention to developments 07718 635949 c) To maintain good relationships which may affect the quality of [email protected] with the local Council and bring life in the area.
Membership Vacant Personal Views from membership.bpccra@ gmail.com the Chairman’s Chair Editor John Gunton “Well, here we are again - looking that allegedly ‘healthy walk’ a 01202 701626 forward to those longer, balmier hazardous game of dodge. Traffic [email protected] days. Barbecues and drinks in the queues have vanished — only to be garden, picnics on the beach, replaced by supermarket pedestrian Planning Officer outdoor games, traffic queues, sand ones, days are balmy - and less Dugald Eadie in your sandwiches, wasps in your polluted too. planning.bpccra@ wine, chavs in the Chines. Don’t we gmail.com just love it!” Seriously though, I believe that we still live in one of the best parts Honorary Secretary SCREEEEEECH! STOP! WAKE UP! of the country, and the best in Carol Parkin Why? Because, unless you’ve been the county. We are well placed 01202 706591 in a deep freeze for the last three for access to trains and boats and carolparkin.bpccra@ months, you’ll know that ‘Chinese planes (eat your heart out Burt gmail.com flu’ (the pc brigade says that we Bacharach — anybody remember mustn’t call it that — but that’s him?) though they’re not very Treasurer where it came from after all — write available at the time of writing. We Jackie Heap and tell us what YOU think) has have Southampton, London and treasurer.bpccra@ brought all that to a standstill. But Bristol within a reasonable distance, gmail.com wait, we can still get wasps in our i.e. not too close, giving access to wine, our own BBQs and drinks the best shows and entertainments Committee Member and games in our own gardens. A for us to look forward to when Vicky Moss government-prescribed walk reveals we’re all released. Our beaches vickymoss.bpccra@ gmail.com that chavs are still in the Chines — and climate continue to draw in unfortunately, now accompanied by those who prefer a ‘staycation,’ the inevitable Lycra-loons making although they’re not too welcome 4 here right now! The attractiveness with their family, and their suppliers support of Conservation Area plans, of our area draws many high profile losing income and their families conveniently ignoring the fact that figures here, both as permanent and suffering too — imagine it as the it is no higher than three storeys second home residents. collapse of a huge inverted pyramid. and the materials are of colour So, it’s time to help each other out! and design that don’t screamingly Like it or not, the Bournemouth Air oppose the sylvan backdrop of the Show too, attracts a lot of spenders, BCP Council has declared a surrounding trees. which we need to kick-start our our ‘climate emergency’ which is being local economy again, even if it’s bad inextricably bonded into their Another ‘biggy’ for us, was that for our climate — discuss. It’s for developing policies. The cynic in me after the Friends Of Canford all these very reasons that the local views it as something ‘they-must-be- Cliffs Library (FoCCL) had secured cost of living is high. However, that seen-to-be-doing’ rather than being planning permission from the BCP increased local spend is reflected in a deeply held belief by those in Council to extend their meeting higher quality homes and services charge. Whether you sign up to it or room, it was discovered that Poole locally, compared with some of the not, it is also going to make a huge Council had surreptitiously slipped more run down areas. But don’t difference as to how go about our a clause, early in 2016 and after get complacent, we can’t sit back daily lives. I personally feel that not public consultation, into one of their easily in our own smug little bubble, enough has been researched about Supplementary Planning Documents though. the ‘cradle-to-grave’ environmental (SPD) which states that they have costs, from obtaining raw materials the option to demolish the present At the time of writing, the world to end of life disposal. Does it make Library and use the Library site economy is buckling under sense to scrap perfectly working for ‘flatted development’. Your enormous pressure from the items, which then become a Association supports the extension, effects of the coronavirus outbreak. waste problem, and then produce and had agreed in principle to The chattering classes have been something else which has another donate a substantial figure to FoCCL. referring to ‘when life gets back to finite life and environmental cost? Unfortunately, as part of our due normal’. Well, sorry to disappoint I’m sure we all know someone who’s diligence, we have had to retract the you all, but there will be a new thrown away the plastic straws that offer until the BCP Council deletes ‘normal’ that will be unlike anything they had in the kitchen cupboard the offending clause(s). A Freedom that has gone before. We are ‘because they’re bad’ and replaced of Information (FOI) request has reputed to be entering a massive them with ‘good’ metal or paper failed to identify the culprit(s) economic depression, just a century ones. That plastic has already cost responsible and whether they were after the last one. Take heart, we the environment — throwing it away acting legally. We will let you know may hope for another Roaring unused has absolutely zero benefit how things are going, amongst Twenties — albeit not from the and accelerates the life cycle! other things, via the immensely sound of international air travel, popular newsletters emailed out by I fear. As with our autumn/winter edition, the Association’s ever industrious it is apparent that some issues will Vice-Chair, Roger Allen. Many businesses’ employees now always be there to test us. work from home where possible. A further FOI submitted by our ever Others are ‘furloughed’ on reduced Planning applications dominated diligent member, Roy Pointer, has income, while others, sadly, have no most of our monthly meetings as similarly failed in trying to elicit a jobs at all. We need to pull together developers, emboldened by the figure from our illustrious Council to support our local businesses successful appeal by McCarthy & as to the number of dwellings that remain. This will occasionally Stone for the Lindsay Road completed, but unoccupied within mean pay more than we are used development, ramp up their efforts our ward. It would appear that to, but for the well being of local to assault, penetrate and reduce our neither they nor the government people and their families. After Conservation Areas, with proposals Valuation Office know these figures. all if a business goes, the fallout is of unsuitable mass and dubious Thus, they are unable to have tremendous, from the employee / design. The McCarthy & Stone any idea as to whether proposed employer losing income together development is oft referred to in developments are suitable for
5 our ward, so how do they justify government investment for new and on the second Wednesday of each approval? Read Dugald Eadie’s improved bus routes, walking month, have been suspended since Planning Report elsewhere in the and cycling corridors in the BCP March until further notice. magazine. Dugald walks miles Area, are a real concern if left around our ward checking on unchecked… Keep your eyes peeled for updates proposals and developments, and via our emailed newsletters, then delivers his findings each Our aim is to form a constructive which are also published on our month with wry wit. relationship with the Council over website — if you still don’t receive the course of the next year and one, contact our Vice-Chair at Again, Roy coordinated, refined and make a positive contribution to [email protected] to get added submitted our splendid contribution the emerging BCP Local Plan which to the list. to the BCP Local Plan. Those three sets the long term vision for the BCP words belie the huge effort involved conurbation. The Draft BCP Local You will probably have noticed that in its creation. We now have to wait Plan is due to be published in Sept/ we now include a ‘what3words’ to see what fruit it bears. Oct 2021. Get in touch with Vicky address location. This is an excellent if you’d like to join the team to co- smartphone app available on Another one of our Committee ordinate and consolidate local views Android & iOS. It divides the world working tirelessly on your behalf to form A Vision for Our Area, or just into three metre squares. So is Vicky Moss. She has generated to get your voice heard. We need imagine that you have tumbled a separate article within these representation from all sectors of somewhere out of sight, away pages. Her current main focus is all the local community. Contact: from a road, the app will give a about road safety in the ward. She [email protected] three-word, three-metre accuracy is representing you at numerous location that you can give to the Council meetings, invariably taking Speeding is still up there, but our rescue services. It’s very useful them to task for lack of investment cohort of Community Speed Watch for finding each other at in the road safety infrastructure volunteers were doing great things, geographically large festivals and within our area. She has submitted prior to lockdown, in bringing down shows to meet up with friends. a CIL bid (ably assisted by our Editor, the average speeds on our patch. John Gunton) requesting funds of High visibility, proper training, new I can’t close this little billet doux £1.7m for an independent viability equipment, and the active support without expressing thanks to our survey report and infrastructure of our local councillors and bobbies supporting team of Committee investments. Read her article(s). are all having a positive cumulative Members who continue to effect. We don’t doubt, that when support and cajole and keep me The current BCP Council’s Transport, unlocked again, they will be back straight (well, most of the time) Planning and Environmental Policies again with renewed vigour. while putting huge efforts into could inadvertently denigrate the looking after all of our interests, in Canford Cliffs Ward to become a As already mentioned, business spite of having their own busy lives cash cow for the wider BCP area, closures still abound, and Canford to look after. with unfavourable consequences Cliffs main street is no different. It not only for quality of life of our is still losing banks and businesses. Finally, thanks to all of you — residents, but for the unique At the time of writing, the local readers, members, advertisers character of the area, tourism, rumour mill tells us that Tesco have and councillors who support us in the wider population, and the now pulled out of developing a store many ways —without whom we environment. there, but that ‘some other shop couldn’t exist as an Association, nor chain’ is investigating the viability. bring you this magazine. Some of CIL receipts in BH13 amounting to you go beyond the call of duty and £6.85m and only £54,100 invested Our regular monthly meetings, barely get a mention in dispatches, here since 2013; contentious which were usually held at The although your aid and insight is planning applications for blocks Branksome St Aldhelms Centre, usually invaluable. of flats; the omission of BH13 to 401 Poole Road, BH12 1AD, benefit from £100m of central (https://w3w.co/recent.epic.weds) Happy-ish summer everyone!
6 Treasurer’s Report
Our financial position continues to Branksome Park, Canford Cliffs & District Residents’ Association be in good order and I am pleased Income and Expenditure Account for the Year Ended 31 December 2019 to report a surplus for 2019 of £2,044, an increase on the previous 2019 2018 year. Income from members £ £ £ £ subscriptions has risen by a small Income sum and advertising revenue from Subscriptions received during the year 6,435 6,306 the magazine continues to make Deposit interest 46 46 contribution to the Association’s 6,481 6,352 funds. Our bank balance has increased to £35,430. Expenditure Magazine and circular expenses 4,345 3,874 During the year our main area of Less advertising revenue 4,810 4,550 expenditure was the maintenance (Surplus) deficit (465) (676) of the website, £1,217. The website Committee and secretarial expenses 660 1,006 is an asset to the Association and during 2020 we will be looking at Committee and Association meetings 475 66 ways to further improve it. We Annual general meeting 458 384 continue to support local initiatives CPRE - - which this year include the Legal and insurance 197 1,046 maintenance of the Pinecliff Sunken Website 1,217 750 Gardens, The Commnity Speed Gardens 605 877 Watch and the Canford Cliffs Village Sundries 540 271 Christmas Lights. 4,152 4,400
A large proportion of members Donations and subscriptions subscriptions are collected by our Canford Cliffs Christmas lights 750 750 wardens. I would ask all members’ 4,437 4,474 who currently pay their subscription Excess of income over expenditure 2,044 1,878 by cheque or cash to consider completing the standing order Balance sheet at 31 December 2019 mandate form which appears in the magazine. By returning the Accumulated fund completed form to me you can help At 1 January 2019 33,511 31,633 reduce the administrative burden Excess of income over expenditure 2,044 1,878 which falls largely on our hard- At 31 December 2018 35,555 33,511 working wardens. Represented by: Finally, I would like to place on record Debtor-advertising revenue 125 150 my thanks to Peter Schofield of Schofield’s Chartered Accountants Cash at bank: who has once again prepared the final version of the annual accounts Barclays saver account 22,963 22,918 without charge. Peter has kindly Barclays current account 4,746 3,364 provided this service for over 10 years Santander business account 7,721 35,430 7,079 33,361 and I am most grateful to him for his 35,555 33,511 continued support. Approved by A. Wardlow (Chairman) & J. Heap (Hon Treasurer) Jacqueline Heap, Hon Treasurer Date: 2020
7 Planning Report Since my last report in September 2019 there have been a fair number of decisions, appeals and new applications. In several cases, there are a series of applications relating to the same site, and it can often be difficult to understand the overall status. One particular planning consultant, Pure Town Planning, has been very active in contesting refused applications.
Most of the applications applications for improvements 8A Lindsay Road. which we object to involve or replacements of existing APP/19/00676/F either “site-splitting” or high individual houses, and these GRANT 13 September 19 density blocks of flats. As I are usually welcomed by our APP/19/01289/F have explained before, the Residents’ Association. So far, REFUSE 13 February 19 site-splitting is particularly the evidence is that the new The first application was inappropriate within our BCP Council is being sensible, granted, having been reduced various Conservation Areas, as but there is still a steady to a block of 10 flats from the the objective is to maintain the pressure to increase the density original 11. However, another sylvan and secluded appearance of our area. proposal was registered for a of our housing. In my view, the block of 12 flats, which was same principle should apply in Every effort is made to exploit then refused. areas outside the Conservation “precedent” to justify new Areas. proposals. It is unfortunate that this has been allowed on the The main problem with the SIGNIFICANT DECISIONS edge of the Branksome Park blocks of flats is that they are 4 Burton Road. Conservation area, but there is now following a pattern of APP/19/00763/F no doubt that the “precedent” having basement parking, and REFUSE 6 September 2019 of the McCarthy & Stone making the building as big as APP/19/01289/F development just down the possible within the plot. The REFUSE 11 December 2019 road has had an influence contrast with the older blocks The first application was to of flats is very obvious, as they demolish the existing single 43 Western Road. have smaller blocks, separate house and replace with 5 APP/19/00252/F garages and parking, and often houses, with very little space REFUSE 25 October 19 substantial garden space. It is for parking, and built quite This proposal for 3 separate noticeable that our members close to the boundaries. houses was amended to just who live in flats are just as After the refusal, a second one new house in the back likely to object to these application was made (15 Oct garden, but was still refused. proposals. 19) to make changes to the existing house and build 3 new An appeal has now been lodged The increased density has houses in the garden. (17 January 20), and there has a negative impact on local also been a bizarre “CLOPUD” traffic and parking, and it is This was also refused, quite application to build a swimming apparent that it may also have promptly. This plot is in the pool/leisure facility in the same an environmental impact, Branksome Park Conservation back garden. increasing the risk of flooding Area, and is not appropriate. and reducing the tree cover. Residents of Dover Road were It is difficult to understand particularly concerned, as what is happening here, but As I have noted before, there the plot is above their back the planning consultants are are still plenty of planning gardens. certainly very active.
8 18, 18a,20,20a,20b Balcombe 39 Western Avenue. flats (refused in January 2019) Road. APP/18/01616/P APP/19/01166/F has gone to appeal, and is due GRANT 25 October 19 REFUSE 8 November 19 to be decided by the Inspector This application was very This application was registered fairly soon. controversial, and a huge on 16 Sep 19, the proposal ISSUES STILL OUTSTANDING proportion of the residents of being to split the site, and build Balcombe Road objected to it. a detached house in the garden 6 Burton Road. It was not the principle of a new immediately opposite All Saints APP18/01273/P block of flats which was the Church. This was refused quite 15 October 2018 issue, but rather the density. In quickly by the Case Officer, but This is an outline application the street as a whole there are has now gone to appeal (7 Feb to demolish the existing many blocks of 8 to 12 flats, 20). As usual, the planning bungalow and erect a block but this one is for 30 flats. consultant is referring to other of 12 flats. This site is on the There is also concern about the site-splitting cases such as 12A edge of the Conservation Area, traffic impact and the drainage Western Avenue, and suggests and next to a listed building. issues,as there have previously that the extra housing is of The proposed building would been flooding problems at the benefit to the community. have a particularly damaging dip in the road. Unfortunately, Once more, this is in the impact on properties in Dover the change to BPC Council Conservation Area, and the Road, and the parking and seemed to have an affect, as location is not very suitable. traffic issues are a major our local Councillor was not concern. able to “call in” the application. 19 Wilderton Road. This is one of the most APP/18/01671/P 7 & 9 Lindsay Road. disappointing outcomes that I DISMISSED ON APPEAL 18 APP/19/00957/F have experienced since I joined November 19 6 August 2019 the Residents’ Association as This application for a block Demolish the two existing Planning Officer. of 6 flats was refused in June bungalows and replace with 2019, as reported in the last a collection of 10 individual 20 Leicester Road. magazine. It then went to houses. Once more, this APP/19/01118/F appeal on 24 Sep 19, and was should be impossible in the REFUSE 5 November 19 dismissed. The Inspector Conservation Area, but of Following the dismissal noted the importance of course the McCarthy & Stone 9 on appeal of the original the Conservation Area, and development next door is being application, a slightly revised also agreed that it was not used as a precedent. version was submitted on 2 an appropriate site for flats, Sep 19, which was refused, but given the nature of the other Flaghead Cliffs (SE of Cliff has now gone once more to properties in the area. The Drive). APP/19/01265/P appeal (13 Feb 20). This was planning consultant had tried 10 October 2019 a site-splitting proposal which to use the McCarthy & Stone This is a revised proposal for was clearly not permitted in development in Lindsay Road 15 new Beach Huts, after a the Conservation Area. In the as a “precedent”, but this previous one for more was first appeal, the Inspector was argument was not accepted. refused. It is controversial quite firm in recognising that because it is not clear how site-splitting should not be 2 Wilderton Road. it would affect the safety of permitted, and also noted that APP/19/00744/F the cliffs, and they would be the proposed dwelling would REFUSE 21 February 2020 privately owned, meaning not give a very pleasant living The BPC Planning Committee that the Council might not experience. It is difficult to see has refused the new application be able to control the use of why the outcome should be for 21 flats, as recommended the huts. any different in this second by the Case Officer. However, attempt. the original application for 25 9 2 & 2A Burton Road/ bungalow is only 15 years old, The White House, 34 Buccleuch 22 Balcombe Road. and the proposed 2 houses Road. APP/20/00052/F APP/19/01224/P are too close together and too 5 February 2020 31 October 2019 close to neighbours. There will This large detached house is As soon as the 30 flats were not be enough space to grow next to the new flats being built granted permission at 18 to suitable tree cover. at 56 The Avenue. The proposal 20B Balcombe Road, this new is to build a block of 10 flats proposal appeared for a block Carisbrooke, 172 Canford Cliffs with basement parking. Given of 37 flats. This should not be Road. APP/19/01569/F the project next door, it is not possible, as the site is in the 6 January 2020 surprising that this is happening, Branksome Park Conservation As expected, McCarthy & Stone but the home owners in Area. have submitted this proposal Buccleuch Road are not at all for a large block of retirement happy! Unfortunately, this is 2 Chesterfield Close. apartments (assisted living/ not in a Conservation Area, APP/19/01531/F extra care). Unfortunately, the and the pre-application advice 17 December 2019 block seems to be larger and seemed to be quite positive. This is another example of site- higher than was shown in their splitting in the Conservation earlier consultations, and this Area, and BPCCRA has objected has led to a large number of on principle. The existing objections.
Obituaries
Stan Alfert The Association was sad to Stan was a great help to me during Gordon was always interested in hear of Stan’s sudden death at my time as Chairman from 2003 to local affairs. As well as the work home on Saturday, 29 February 2016 and I could always rely on him he did for the Association he was 2020. I suspect that Stan was for sound advice. also a member of the local Rotary, the Association’s longest serving taking part in various fund raising current member. Stan will be greatly missed by all. activities including collecting with John Sprackling the Christmas Santa train. Stan, who was an actuary by BPCCRA President profession, moved to Poole in 1976 He was a credit to the Rotarians and was responsible for Gresham Gordon Alder motto ‘Service before Self’. Life’s move to Bournemouth at Gordon passed away in February that time. When Stan retired from after a short illness. He was an He had an amazing attention to Gresham Life, he joined Teachers active member of the Association detail and if ever I wanted planning Assurance in a senior role. both in assisting me to deal with applications to be reviewed Gordon issues that arose in Links Road and was my go-to man. Not long after his move to Poole, helping set up the local speed- Stan joined the Broadway Park watch group. He never let me down. Gordon Housing Association and played a was also an integral part of the leading role until he retired Gordon was an Essex Boy, born in organising committee for the street Woodford, and worked for many parties we have held in Links Road. Stan was a regular attender at the years for the Central Electricity Association’s monthly meetings and Generating Board before moving to Can I take this opportunity to was responsible for maintaining the Salterns Quay in 2000. extend the Association’s deepest Association’s Membership records sympathy to his wife Dorothy and for many years as well as acting as In 2005 Gordon and Dorothy moved his children Julian and Fiona. Warden for Buccleuch Road. to Links Road. John Gunton 10
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting Minutes of the 60th Annual General Meeting of the Branksome Park, Canford Cliffs Residents’ Association, held at 10.30am on Saturday, 11th May 2019 in Canford Cliffs Village Hall.
PRESENT JS had also received apologies from BR was very pleased to advise that, John Sprackling President David Morley, Chairman of the following the departure from the Bob Reid Chairman Sandbanks Community Group, who area of Terry Stewart, JS has agreed Roger Allen Vice-Chairman often attends the monthly meetings to be President and continues to Paul Fearnley Hon Treasurer of this Association and has given attend the monthly meetings. Mike Parkin Membership his support on concerns such as Secretary parking, traffic and the Haven hotel. BR was also pleased that Councillors Haines and Iyengar were recently Dugald Eadie Planning Officer JS then handed over to Bob Reid re-elected and would like to offer Carol Parkin Secretary/ (BR), outgoing Chairman. congratulations as they have been Minutes very helpful to us and give useful Secretary MINUTES OF THE 2018 AGM feedback on Council issues and he John Gunton Magazine Editor BR advised that these have not was pleased to see Councillor May Roger Allen Magazine been signed but are printed in Haines in attendance today. Both Advertising/ the Association’s latest magazine Councillors helped us over the issue Website and on the website and any items of Canford Cliffs being flooded Guests: from the Matters Arising have with parking meters and were very Sir Robert Syms MP been dealt with on the website. He helpful with raising objections on Councillor May Haines asked if there were any comments. the proposal to move the north As there were none the Minutes side of Lindsay Road out of Canford Approximately 90 Members/ were approved and Seconded Cliffs Ward into Talbot & Branksome Wardens of the Association and confirmed by a show of Woods Ward. A lot of people hands. The Chairman advised that raised objections and, without WELCOME also in attendance today was a the Councillors’ help, we would Our President (JS) welcomed those representative from the Daily Echo not have been able to resist the present on this the Association’s who may take photographs but they move. The Association also raises 60th year of representing the would only show the backs of the objections not directly related to interests of residents in the local audience’s heads and therefore us, such as the closure of toilets in area and he would particularly like nothing to worry about. Poole and, whereas the Branksome to thank the wardens who who Chine toilets were not affected, are responsible for delivering our CHAIRMAN’S REPORT we did secure help from Councillor magazine on a half-yearly basis to BR firstly asked those who had not Iyengar re the proposed closure of around 2,500 households within signed in to do so before leaving, the toilets at the ferry. The other Branksome Park & Canford Cliffs. this requirement not only for issue is ongoing with the Beach recording attendance figures but Road car park, more of that later, JS also wished to welcome also for fire regulations.BR said and the demolishing of three Councillor May Haines and Sir that as he had already reported bungalows in Lindsay Road for Robert Syms MP who has kindly in the magazine he wished to be a McCarthy & Stone retirement agreed to be our Guest brief. He advised that he is standing complex. Speaker today. down this year after three years as Chairman, having taken over The merger of Bournemouth, APOLOGIES from JS who was a very hard act to Christchurch and Poole Councils Apologies were received from: follow. He had very much enjoyed will make a difference to the way (unavailable) his time as Chairman. things are done and there is no 12 overall majority. It is therefore so interesting with some good later. There has been concern too early to know how this will articles and a face-lift, which has regarding speeding in the Canford affect the Canford Cliffs Ward. ensured advertisers are keen Cliffs area and a speed watch Some planning issues, such as an to appear in the magazine. The camera has been purchased by the ex-nursing home in Pinewood Road magazine is now making a small Association. being used without a licence as a profit (previously run at a loss and House in Multiple Occupation took cost to the Association). An email Finally, BR wished to thank his over a year to be closed down and, account comprising emails of 470 wife who attends every meeting actually, build a sensible block of residents has also been set up providing tea and refreshments flats on the site. The proposed which enables them to be emailed before each meeting and for the demolition of three bungalows in all in one go. AGMs, Christmas mulled wine and Lindsay Road to provide another summer break. McCarthy & Stone retirement Risk assessment issues have also home raised concerns. There were been addressed, as we did not have BR then handed over to Paul many objections and, although the a safeguarding policy and this has Fearnley to present the Treasurer’s Local Planning Authority refused been addressed. report. this application this went to the Planning Inspectorate but, the As we no longer have a Data TREASURER’S REPORT Inspector who was not from this Protection Officer,BR contacted PF advised that there is a copy of area, dismissed the appeal and the the Data Protection officer only to the Accounts on the back of the application went through. discover the Association was not Agenda and also in the magazine. registered under the new rules – The Association is in very good We are very delighted that Dugald this has now been done. Following shape, making a profit of £1,878 Eadie has agreed to take over the changes to recent legislation, the this year which will allow us to role of Planning Officer for us, Association rules were not valid increase our fighting fund which is although he does not come from and BR has now ensured they are very important to maintain. It a background of planning. He updated and valid. Last year, the has enabled us to support the attends all our monthly meetings, new Constitution rules had to be wonderful Pinecliff Sunken Gardens passes on any objections, attends re-drawn to ensure they comply. All which if you haven’t seen them the council planning meetings now up-to-date and the Rules of the he recommends going to see and and submits reports on planning Association are on the website. the website which is now more applications, those current and professional. We also spent money those that have just come on. BR advised there are new members seeking legal advice in connection The average attendance at our on the committee and we have with the Beach Road Car Park. We monthly meetings is 20 but, when been successful in finding someone spent money on the website and on something of concern arises, then it to take over as Chairman. the new look magazine, which used is standing room only. A proposal to to be a loss leader, and it is now run demolish five houses to build a very We have also recruited someone to at no cost to the Association. large block of flats caused a lot of help with the Treasurer’s job which concern and 42 people turned up. Paul Fearnley has carried out over a PF said that he has now been Another issue was raised regarding long period of time on his own. Treasurer for ten years and as he van drivers (not known to residents) did not wish to be selfish he he parking outside residents’ houses Thanks also to Joan Bailey, who is delighted that Jackie Heap has on unadopted roads. It is not a huge used to take the minutes many agreed to take over the role on a problem but does keep cropping years ago and who has stepped in gradual basis with help over the up. to cover the absence today of the next few months from PF. Jackie Association’s secretary, Carol Parkin. is a recently retired professional Over the last three years Accountant. She will also take over the committee has formed a BR also wished to thank the the data base which PF has been professional website www. members of the Committee who involved with. pinesandchines.co.uk, with the have been very supportive over the magazine under the same name, last three years and who work as a Finally PF said he had enjoyed his Pines & Chines. Thanks go to very good team. There has been a role as Treasurer over the past Roger Allen and John Gunton in difficult issue over the Beach Road ten years and wished Jackie every succeeding to make the magazine Car park project, more of which success in her new appointment to
13 the Association. Lastly,PF wished much as a team and he thanked showing on screen the arguments to thank everyone who had helped them for their faith in him. For “For” and “Against” the proposed him over the past ten years. those staying on, the appointments development. “For” - Pressure to were agreed and proposed by Julie build more homes to provide extra APPOINTMENT OF SCHOFIELDS Reid and seconded by Kay Morrison. housing, with Government putting BR advised Schofields have There were no objections. Jackie pressure on Local Authorities; produced and audited the final Heap has already been introduced smarten up the site which is now accounts into a professional format, but there are two new members neglected and unused most of all without charge, and he proposed on the team – Helen Schuster- the year; the poor use, i.e. the that Schofields be re-appointed Bruce and Vicky Moss, who have car park holds only 150 spaces; as Auditors to the Association. been helping the committee in stopping unauthorised use of Proposed by Keith Sanders and various ways and who will form Travellers; Local Authorities now seconded by John Morrison to a sub-committee doing research. having to disclose use of Council accept the Accounts, followed by Helen has been looking into the assets; proposal provides entrance a show of hands. There were no Neighbourhood Forum – a long to the flats only and not the objections. term project and another project on remainder of the car park. “Against” unclaimed land. AW asked for - BR felt this was equivalent to ELECTION OF OFFICERS confirmation of their appointment selling off the “family silver” – once BR handed over to JS who advised and this was proposed by Dugald gone you would not get that money BR is involved with many other Eadie and seconded by Christine back again; BR had last summer societies, including Probus, Poole Norman. counted 250 cars in the car park Maritime Trust and Broadstone Arts as opposed to 150 stated by the Society and he thanked BR for his APPOINTMENT OF HON. Council; the proposed development past three years as Chairman. SOLICITOR – ANDREW CARSWELL would consist of high end flats AW now wished to introduce which would not be affordable to JS advised the Association has Andrew Carswell (in attendance local people. BR put three reasons been very fortunate in that Adrian at the meeting) who has given the against the proposed development Wardlow (AW) has agreed to take Association much needed help over to the meeting: the car park should over as Chairman. Adrian has been legal matters and thanked him for be improved with better signage as attending the monthly meetings his past support and hoped the a lot of people are unaware of its for some time now and is well Association would continue to whereabouts; allow development known to the Committee. He was rely on Andrew in the future. to be shown on map and allow previously a Facilities Contracts development to be used for Manager, European Supply Manager BEACH ROAD CAR PARK community use. and Operations Director throughout On screen, BR showed the England before finally settling in audience a map of the proposed Q . You haven’t mentioned what Poole 1986. Adrian has a wife Ann development by the Council of the happens to the money from the and two daughters, one a teacher Beach Road Car Park. The original proceeds of the sale - will this go and one an astrophysicist and a very proposal goes back to 2001 when to the local Council and will it active 18 month year old grandson. the Council started proceedings to help to reduce our rates? JS asked for acceptance of this develop the car park. Delays were A. BR advised that rates will appointment as Chairman which caused by huge objections to the probably increase until we catch was proposed by John Morrison release of the covenants until 2003 up with Christchurch whose and seconded by Jackie Heap. A and then in 2017 the Association rates are much higher than show of hands also confirmedAW ’s took a vote at the AGM to gauge those in Poole. There will be appointment. people’s feelings ahead of a lands a community fee levied on the tribunal and there were about 60 developer which would be so JS handed over to AW who people who objected but as much per square metre to be welcomed all present. AW proposed we as an Association had not given used for affordable housing and to deal with the appointment of the full reasons for and against a community based scheme. several new committee members the proposal this objection was Q. But that’s not the price of listed on the Agenda en bloc He also declared invalid. the land will this go to the Local wished to thank existing committee Council? members for agreeing to continue BR proposed therefore to take a A. Councillor May Haines advised in their roles. They all work very further vote at this meeting after that as most people will be
14 aware there is a large good, living standards are up, Airways would have to fly for regeneration project ongoing in and unemployment is under four a while without a licence, there Poole and there is a website percent; the economy is growing at would be some disruption to trade (Poole Progress) and she just under two percent, a balance and ships may be turned around believes it is intended that the of deficit 1% and falling, national until we make better arrangements. proceeds of the sale will be debt down and we have one of There would be some disruption used towards funding the the fastest growing economies in to trade but the Treasury would be re-generation of the bus station/ Europe and, despite grumbles, able to underwrite some losses to Lighthouse/ Dolphin Centre a good NHS service, clean enable us to deal with it. Where we area. However we do not environment and almost all honest went wrong was not insisting on a actually know what that section politicians. trade agreement at the outset. Do I of the car park to be sold will be think there would be problems used for until the Application So you might ask if we are doing with a No Deal – it would be goes in. It might not necessarily so well why we lost some 1,300 challenging but it could be done. be “high end” and under the council seats at the Local Election, The problems will occur on the new Council we are not sure as we set out to leave the EU at the issue of Data Protection and what the ownership will be. end of March. The difficulty was we transfer of information. There is lot Q. Reverting to the Beach Road car did not have a majority and a lot of of information available on various par, what is being done about people were voting against the deal websites regarding pensions, the people parking “nose to but the reality is that the difficulties benefits and the Irish question. tail” down the left hand side trying to get the deal through the The PM is trying to negotiate her of Western Road and on the House of Commons should not be way through these problems. The grass verges which if they were under-estimated and 600 pieces of mistake was in calling a General made to use the car park would legislation had to be got through Election in 2017 resulting in the resolve this problem. and the withdrawal agreement got deal not going through in March. A. DE apologised for interrupting hung up. He felt there were two but he felt the car park should problems; firstly we should have However, it is hoped to resolve be free to use most of the year talked about trade at the outset of Brexit over next few weeks but which would free up the the “divorce”. There was nothing British politicians have been too problem of on street parking at in the Constitution that says we soft. We should have had a trade certain times of the year but cannot talk about trade and we agreement at the outset which, if also controlled to ensure it allowed the EU not to do that and Dominic Raab was still Secretary of cannot be used by camper vans. despite this the EU insisted on State for Brexit we may have had a putting the backstop into the deal. The PM has a difficult job. BR asked for a quick show of hands Agreement which was all about Parliament does have its problems as to whether the existing car park trade and nothing to do with the which may persist for another two should be retained and improved. Withdrawal Agreement. So that was to three years and there are slight The majority vote agreed. BR going to cause some problems with problems with a Speaker who is no advised that we had invited the Customs Union. There were longer neutral. So we do not have a representatives in the Council some in the Tory party who were Mrs. Thatcher and a “handbag” to involved in this proposal to come happy to leave without a deal. RS clobber other people to push this along and support our objections believes a well managed plan to deal through. to the development but they leave the EU would work and after declined. all the EU are interested in trading Nevertheless RS felt Theresa with the UK with trade agreements was doing a difficult job in the BR then introduced Sir Robert of mutual interest but we got circumstances but there comes a Syms, MP who would give a talk hung up in trying to get the deal time when wear and tear on Brexit on the background of the workings through. means a fresh face may be needed of our parliament. for the future of our children, many A ‘No Deal’ would prove difficult of whom are unable to get on GUEST SPEAKER – but manageable and we have been the property ladder and end up SIR ROBERT SYMS, MP preparing for that over the last two renting and short term renting Sir Robert said that we live in years, the ports are more or less resulting in lack of incentive. We interesting times but the outlook organised, the NHS has stockpiled therefore have to address that and for the British economy is looking vaccines and medicines, British ensure there are enough homes
15 and incentives for young people. a temporary customs interests we can break the RS feels despite the recent arrangement it could take 6-8 agreement, simple as that. problems the Conservative Party years to carry through so my Q. The EU has been doing trade will recover. RS briefly referred to belief is to go out with a full deals over the last 40 years or the recent merging of Councils in agreement. The EU has had more – what is that makes us the West Country which have also responsibility for trade policies think we can do better? caused slight problems. Mr Farage for 40 years and has not signed A. Britain does have connections has a number of good points but up to any trade agreements with beyond Europe with the RS was not sure they were part of say China or America, nor Japan Commonwealth. What Britain is the solution to the problem. and it is felt we could do a better after is trying to safeguard job. There will be short term our agreements with the EU and RS then invited questions from the problems I agree. try and balance that. If we leave audience. Q. Do you think a lot of your without a deal then the trade colleagues are more interested deals continue. With a deal we Q. Why is PM still in the job? in saving their jobs rather than can trade all over the world A. Because she won the vote supporting their Party? which the EU has chosen not by a majority which is the way A. Most MPs are honourable and to do. The problem of EU trade democracy works. Some Prime have strong feelings that they agreements is the length of time Ministers get in at the right time are right and one in point was they take – they first go to whereas others get in at the Ken Clarke but people who were Brussels, then to Paris for six wrong time – politics is all about elected on the premise of months and then to Madrid, to timing. Some of RS’s colleagues leaving the EU and then Lisbon on it goes on year after pushed for a change before proceeded in a different wayRS year after year. Trying to get 27 Christmas but as no majority this finds difficult to take. Most MPs countries to agree is very did not happen whereas if they accept legislation and do their difficult. Also it applies to a had pushed in January or best to get that through. variety of goods and there is February it would have Q. Given that we do not have a always someone trying to stop happened. The Prime Minister “handbag” lady, do you something along the way. You also feels obligated to try and believe there is someone who may find getting out of the EU finish the job she started. I hope can unite the Party? could take six to seven years that we may resolve this and A. I am sure we could find before we get trade agreements. find a way forward within the someone who could unite the next few months but the reality Party. From his perspective the BR thanked Sir Robert very much is the PM is doing her best in problems may have been indeed for coming along today. difficult circumstances. averted if MPs had been able to (Applause) Q. Why No Deal and why not vote which they were denied follow Canada or Iceland when Theresa stood. Personally DATE OF NEXT Association examples? I would support Dominic Raab MEETING A. In the case of Canada their because as Defence Minister he Our new Chairman looks forward to agreements have been in place did a very good job. seeing you all at the next meeting over generations but the reality Q. What about temporary trade of the Association onWednesday, is it is best that we get agreements – who decided on 12th June 2019 at 19:30 to be a deal to go through. these at the end of the day? held in the Committee Room (Rear Q. What is the point of leaving A. Trouble is the backstop. If in of Branksome St. Aldhelms Parish the EU if we cannot make the backstop we continue to Centre (accessed from Lindsay our own foreign trade trade with the EU and we would Road). agreements? not pay a penny to them and A. Well there are a range of issues, what would happen then is the BR then closed the 60th AGM of the first is that the staying in the net cost of £14 million will be the Association at midday and EU costs a considerable amount paid the EU lays down the law invited everyone to partake of the of money and we are the second we in Britain have a mindset that refreshments. largest contributor. There is also we must abide by it whereas the a lot of bureaucracy and Trade French, if they decide its not in deals are not always what they their interests they will go their are cracked up to be. If we had own way If it is not in our
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Since the Autumn 2019 edition of Pines and Chines there have been a number of important issues that have come to light, which will affect our area and your lives in the years ahead and unfortunately, not for the better, if left unchecked.
The BCP Council has had its first the roads. Our aging population is being excluded from virtually all birthday and in early March this less mobile and those who can get significant infrastructure investment year, it won a £79m bid from Central out for a walk, risk their lives crossing in the entire area and in particular, Government for more buses and roads. On top of this, the shocking the major Central Government improvements to walking and news that rates of pedestrians and ‘Transforming Cities Fund’ worth cycling routes. Unfortunately, BH13 cyclists killed or seriously injured £79m. has been completely left out of per 100,000 of the population on the plans. We’ve discovered that Bournemouth Christchurch Poole The £79m Transforming Cities Fund under Poole Council, BH13 was roads are amongst the highest in the for the BCP Council, means 29 or used as something of a Cash Cow. entire UK. so of the 33 wards in the BCP Area Our roads are now well established are set to benefit by getting on and dangerous rat runs alleviating Past and present Council Policies average £3m each for ‘sustainable the chronic traffic congestion on and levels of infrastructure transport’. The BCP Area is now the main thoroughfares between investment are inextricably linked officially the 4th worst congested Poole and Bournemouth. Houses are to our safety, health and wellbeing conurbation in the UK and it is a coming down and the flats are going today. It is deeply concerning we major problem. Meanwhile, our up adding to the number of cars on have been excluded, and are still area quietly continues to take the
18 strain off the wider road network calming measures – we got 264 population is desperately needed to with Branksome Park taking over signatures in total. ensure behaviour changes. 20,000 vehicles a day.….. The chronic lack of pedestrian crossing areas We called on the BCP Council to In The Times on 26th February combined with the problem of change their Road Safety Policy to 2020 it was reported a study by speeding, continues to endanger be more proactive and preventative psychologists on 500 motorists has the lives of older people going to the in their road safety policies rather proven that “the higher status of the shops, children getting the bus to than waiting for a death before a cars led to drivers less likely to stop school, walkers and joggers through pedestrian crossing is installed. The at zebra crossings”. Apparently “ The Chine, as they attempt to cross BPCCRA asserted the bid for £1.7m Owners of more expensive cars are the roads. (approx. 25% of the £6.85m raised more narcistic making them more in CIL) to address the chronic deficits dangerous to pedestrians”… as a In addition, £6.85m has been in infrastructure and make the area BMW driver myself, I would like to raised in BH13, in Community feel safer, but we have not yet heard contest those findings as gospel, Infrastructure Levy (CIL) receipts the result from The BCP Council. but…. statistically pedestrians and since 2013. …. The Conservative cyclists in BH13 and BH14 really Poole Council only invested Studies since 2015 show the are vulnerable and more driver £54,100 here in that period…on the shocking fatality rates & serious awareness education needs to be somewhat dubiously located zebra injury rates in the BCP area and carried out. crossing outside the Mazda garage in Dorset, are amongst the worst in the Canford Cliffs Village. entire UK for pedestrians and cyclists Introducing 20mph limits around the and the problem is getting worse Community Hubs and where there CIL is a tax paid by developers which each year. are vulnerable people pedestrian is meant to be used to enhance crossing the roads and getting out infrastructure or address the deficits The area is approximately 21% of cars are essential. A programme in the local area and going forward above the national average (7th of traffic calming measures such we need to see more CIL invested highest/worse in UK) for Pedestrians as chicanes and speed cameras in here to compensate for the impact Killed Seriously injury (KSI) rates this area could bring back the ‘Park’ of increasing development. per 100,000 of population…..and environment it was set out to be 60% above national average (2nd when it was first developed by Henry Yes, we can all get upset with the highest/worse in UK) for Cyclists Bury in the 1880s. Rainbow alliance of Lib Dems, KSI per 100,000 of population. … Independents, Labour, Greens, Hopefully the £79m investment Revenues from speed cameras Poole People Party & ALL party in infrastructure improvements are invested into driver awareness who are running the Council, for will reverse this worrying trend, education programmes and can “deliberately” missing Tory Wards but education across the entire help people adjust their behaviour. out of major investment and using the area as a Cash Cow, but we should remember, The Conservative Poole Council has done the same before them.
On 26th February 2020, the BPCCRA attended the Transportation Advisory Group Council meeting to present the Highways Safety Petition, push our CIL bid and raise all the issues above. Many thanks to everyone who signed our Petition to improve pedestrian and cycle routes to encourage walking and cycling and install safe pedestrian crossing points and a programme of traffic
19 Pedestrians need to segregated for safety, so cyclists commuting can get to work and the vulnerable are protected on the promenade and in The Chine. How this could be achieved in practice is up for discussion but there are a number of ideas going around.
If there are any positive outcomes from this pandemic for this area, it will surely be that throughout April, Branksome Chine Woods has had hundreds more walkers, joggers and cyclists (not including those cycling in the Chine) enjoying the area like never before (hopefully none of them will get hit by a thoughtless driver or cyclist whilst they are walking to the beach). The air is less polluted, there is less traffic and we can hear the wildlife that lives around us.
What’s your vision for the Branksome Park and Canford Cliffs Area?
I’m sure that will prove taxing for receipts from here, will, perhaps, Perhaps with the help of Councillor many people whilst they adapt, rightly continue to be spent on May Haines and Councillor Mohan but speeding tickets are ultimately more deprived areas within the BCP. Iyengar, the BPCCRA can hopefully a fair tax on the individuals who However, it is utterly unacceptable continue to build a constructive don’t think of others and put lives in that it is being done at the expense relationship with the Council. This danger by their thoughtless driving. of risking lives in the area the money communication will be crucial in was raised as well as undermining making a positive contribution to The bottom line is we have a huge the Conservation Area and The the emerging BCP Local Plan. The problem across the entire BCP area Environment at the same time. Draft BCP Local Plan is due to be and it will take a concerted effort published in Sept/October 2021. from the BCP Community as well as Visions are important. My Vision for Dorset Police and The BCP Council the area is to promote the unique The BPCCRA is always looking for to reduce the death and seriously recreational opportunities the area new members and there could be injured statistics. offers walkers through the Chine and a window of opportunity over the cyclists along the roads and down to next year or so, to really make a To conclude, the area is being the seafront. positive difference to the area, the forgotten in terms of infrastructure lives of residents and those passing investment and the pressure BH13 The Chine needs to be properly through the area as commuters and is under to serve as a Cash Cow for drained to address the flooding recreational users. the wider BCP Area, will be even which is being made worse by stronger in the aftermath of the developing on gardens of the large If you’d like to get involved, please Coronavirus. The recent flux of more plots. Making sections of the Chine get in contact. extreme planning permissions being accessible to wheelchair users, submitted, will be most tempting would mean everyone could enjoy Vicky Moss for the Council to approve. CIL the beautiful woods. Cyclists and [email protected]
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164 Canford Cliffs Road, Poole, Dorset BH13 7ES | Tel: 01202 700 778 WWW.COMPTONACRES.CO.UK A Good Life helping end loneliness in later life Canford Cliffs is seen as great place win funding from the National to live, where people enjoy a good Lottery Community Fund, to deliver quality of life. It may surprise many a programme called ‘A Good Life’ that this area was identified in a – aiming to help end loneliness in recent study as having one of the later life initially in Canford Cliffs highest levels of loneliness amongst and Alderney. older people living in Poole. Everyone approaches ageing with While, there are several active different attitudes, feelings and community groups such as your health. We like to think that you’re Residents’ Association that provide never old until you stop finding valuable links for their members joy in life, so perhaps finding and to news and activities in their local experiencing joy is what makes us from you if you’d like to share area, there is always more that can feel alive. We’ll be working with your views and/or become more be done. local communities, businesses and involved. Please contact Peter voluntary organisations already Bungay – Programme Coordinator To this end, the Borough of Poole doing great work to combat on 01202 466130 or email him on with the full support Councillors loneliness, plus recruiting a new [email protected]” Haines and Iyengar, submitted a bid group of volunteers, or ‘Community to the National Lottery to secure Connectors’ as we’re calling them, Please do get in touch. Any input funding to provide the resource to bring some joy and fun to the will be most welcome. Remember, to carry out further works. I am lives of older people who might if you notice changes in your very pleased to say that we were like to connect more but don’t neighbours, such as a less tidy successful and won £187,000 know where to start, or don’t think garden or becoming withdrawn for to take this important work to there’s anything they would enjoy. no apparent reason, knock on their the next stage. The local charity, It’s important for us to work with door and ask. They could be the Community Action Network, who the local community and be lonely neighbour next door. head up this initiative have the steered by their knowledge and following to say: insight, so we’d really like to hear Councillor May Haines
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Loneliness can be experienced throughout life, but it can be harder in later life. Local charity - Community Action Network (CAN) are trying to do something about that. They told us “We worked with local partners including Faithworks Wessex, Prama Life, Public Health Dorset, BCP Council, and Bournemouth University to 22
Box moth caterpillars coming to a bush near you very soon
Last year I noticed that a box tree in a pot outside my front door was looking very sick. My immediate reaction was that it was box blight – the well known fungal infection that turns leaves brown and leads to bald patches and has been know to decimate box trees in many gardens. I disposed of the plant and my others all seemed fine – they are crucial punctuation marks in my garden design. I wish I’d been a bit more observant, as over one weekend towards the end of the summer, I noticed some cobwebs on a couple of plants and a green caterpillar. By Sunday night six of my box plants had been massacred, with inches of leaves completely removed and bare stems exposed.
Closer inspection and research led to the discovery that these bright green caterpillars were none other than box moth caterpillars, which have just reached Dorset on their travels from London and the South East. Tell-tale sign such as denudation of the leaves, the presence of green caterpillars and their black sticky droppings and the presence of cobwebs in the plant now seemed like red flags that I couldn’t believe I’d missed.
Luckily a friend recommended spraying with Xen Tari Raupenfrei (available on a well-known online retailer). You dissolve a sachet in water and spray the plant. It is a biological insecticide which contains a micro- organism which destroys the caterpillar’s gut when it eats leaves which have been sprayed. A few diligent sprayings will stop the dreaded munching and your plants will recover. We must all be vigilant this spring when temperatures rise above 15 degrees as the caterpillars will hatch and the damage will start again. Look out for cobwebs and green caterpillars and take immediate action to protect your precious box plants and help reduce the prevalence in our area.
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25 Membership Application BRANKSOME PARK & CANFORD CLIFFS RESIDENTS’ Association
The Aims and Objectives of the Association
The aim of the Association is to protect the interests of the residents and to investigate on their behalf any aspects which could be detrimental to private properties or public services. The Association endeavours at all times to maintain good relationships with Poole Borough Council and brings to their notice all matters which adversely affect the amenities of the whole of the District. It makes appropriate recommendations for improvements. It also submits recommendations to the Council concerning any plans and developments which relate to the District.
The Association is a member of the National Organisation of Residents’ Associations and the Council for the Protection of Rural England.
Members receive two magazines – our Summer and Winter editions. These cover much of our ongoing work. Plus we hold regular monthly member meetings to which you will receive notice through our email newsletter. Regular news items and much more feature on our website www.pinesandchines.co.uk
It is easy to join us, just follow these steps:
1. Make your payment by Bank Transfer (BACS) to the BPCCRA account: 2. Barclays: Sort Code: 20-11-39: Account Number: 00201804 3. It is very important to provide your name and Postcode for the payment reference. 4. Email your name, address, telephone number and membership type, (Household at £5:00 per annum or
Apartment Block membership at £3:00 per flat) to our Treasurer Jackie Heap at [email protected] Your details will never be shared with any third parties. The BPCCRA is signed up to and strictly abides by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as per the Data Protection Act 2018.
On receipt of your initial payment you will be added to our membership list and a membership number will be emailed to you. We will then ask you to set up an annual STO quoting your name and membership number to cover renewals.
Alternatively you can complete the application form and the STO mandate and return them by post together with a cheque for £5.00 per household or £3.00 per flat for Apartment Block membership made payable to BPCCRA.
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Please return this application together with your standing order mandate and subscription to: Jackie Heap, The Parish Office, The Branksome St Aldhelm Centre, 401 Poole Road, Poole, BH12 1AD
We would appreciate it if all new members would be kind enough to provide a phone number and email address if possible with, of course, their address. Contact will only be made by members of the committee and all information provided on the Application Form is restricted to use within the Residents Association and is not shared with anyone or any organisation outside of the Association. It will be assumed by the Association that we have your approval to use these means of communication to contact you on Association matters, unless you specifically opt out. Standing Order Mandate
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Date Traditional Shakespeare on Brownsea Island Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet returns to Brownsea Island this summer.
From 29th July to 14th August. England and, in 2019, Woman’s Brownsea Open Air Theatre (BOAT) Weekly featured BOAT as one of will present the story of two young the Top 5 Open Air Theatres in people, setting their faces against the UK. the hatred and division of their elders. It all began in 1964 when The Bournemouth Little Theatre Club Picture a peaceful Sunday hit upon the idea of marking the morning in Verona, Italy with two 400th anniversary of William leading families, the Montagues Shakespeare’s birth with an open- and Capulets poised for yet air production on Brownsea Island, another fight. Caught up in this recently opened to the public by evenings sold out very quickly and long-running feud are Romeo the National Trust. a fourth evening proved necessary Montague and Juliet Capulet. Will to cope with the demand. they overcome the prejudices of A team made visits to the island, their parents and fall in love across which was hugely overgrown, Not a single year has been the divide? waist high in many places and missed since 1964 and now chose the area in front of the farm eight performances take place One of the biggest theatrical as the site for the performance: each year. BOAT is a registered projects in the south, BOAT’s the cowshed being the only source charity, raising funds primarily annual Shakespeare production of electricity. To this day the for the National Trust and the is set on The National Trust’s cowshed plays a vital role, being a Dorset Wildlife Trust. BOAT is Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour. store in the winter, a workshop in professionally run, but all those These beautiful surroundings the spring, as the set is built, and involved with BOAT, whether make for a wonderful show, and as dressing rooms during the run. onstage, backstage or front-of- a fantastic evening of traditional house are unpaid volunteers. Shakespeare. As they had an island setting for their performances, the There is more to the BOAT BOAT receives excellent national play chosen in 1964 had to be experience than just the and regional coverage, and has The Tempest. Three evenings in performance. The short ferry been featured in The Guardian as August were planned. Open air journey from Poole Harbour really one of the UK’s Top 10 Open Air Shakespeare was a novelty then sets up the evening, and sailing Theatre Venues, Debrett’s 2009 and attracted TV interest from back to shore at night under the list of the top five things to do in both BBC and ITV. The three stars is memorable. Patrons often go to the island using their ticket from 5:00pm and explore the island or picnic. The ticket is fully inclusive, so patrons don’t need to pay anything else to enjoy this unique experience.
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In my attic bedroom, musing in a snug bed as to whether I had the energy to get up, I heard the patter of tiny raindrops on the Velux windows. This caused inspiration to strike. The safest topic, when one English person meets another is ‘the weather’. Even when, or particularly when, the weather ceases to be ‘safe’. As I write, there is ‘good planting weather’, that fern it is: tree it ain’t. But, this wet is still a fragment of February left, cliché of gardeners that annoys the winter, it’s showing signs of a trunk, and already it is the second wettest rest of the population. I have put so I am living in hopes. February since records began. So, in an oak sapling, to replace large ‘February fill dyke’ has lived up to ash struggling at the end of their A couple of times a month, I its proverbial reputation. useful life. ‘Ash before the oak, sure walk with the Purbeck Plodders, to have a soak’. Another wise old and we have managed so far to Trouble is, that January was equally weather saw: you’re really getting be lucky enough to catch a dry, soggy. I am reminded of the old value for money. and sometimes even sunny day Flanders and Swann bogus folk for our walks. Muddy of course, song, bemoaning the adverse Lovely weather for bog gardens, of and skirting the more substantial weather of each and every month, course. No such thing on a sandy puddles on the footpaths, with particularly: hillside, unless artificially created. Braisher boots, I manage to keep A punctured butyl liner to slow out the damp. I have good quality ‘April brings the sweet spring the drainage. It works all winter. wellingtons shaped to the foot, showers In the summer (and especially which are suitable for river valley On and on for hours and hours’ the six week drought of 2018) it walks, with a risk of flooding. actually needs watering, for the However, Cashmoor was high For those affected by floods, I moisture loving plants to survive. ground: so I thought I was safe. can have nothing but sympathy. The one behind a tall lonesome Setting out from the pub, a lane Gardening on sand has its pine benefits from the fact I park with high hedges was flooded at a drawbacks of course, but in coping my two wheeled barrow there. Five depth more than adequate to go with rainfall this exceptional, sand foot long, and with sloping sides, over the tops of my boots. Soaked has its virtues. The other oddity it’s a rain reservoir, and tipped up, feet for the rest of the walk, but of the weather this year has been sloshes a fair amount onto the bog only seven miles in the morning, so how mild it has been. Plenty of garden. There, arum lilies, purple I escaped incipient trench foot. water, plus temperatures several loosestrife and astilbe thrive. Over degrees above the level that grass the other side, the bog garden has My deadline for these stops growing, means that I have only guttering built into a stone meteorological maunderings is the cut my lawn four times already surround, sloping inwards. Much end of the month. I’m hoping, it this year. On clay, this would have more dependant on artificial being leap year, I haven’t missed been impossible: on sand, a few additions in dry weather. For this the deadline. However, if you’re not hours of sunshine, a day at most reason, we appeared to have reading this, you’ll know why... and it is feasible to do. Equally, it ‘bonsaid’ a tree fern. Large fronded David Reeves, Lindsay Road
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Pines and Chines - Mar 2020.indd 4-5 27/02/2020 13:41:43 A short history of Branksome Park The Park: from smugglers haven to exclusive real estate.
Branksome Park in the early “.... it is impossible to convey to the towering above, renders it a spot eighteen hundreds was a desolate reader who is not acquainted with not easily forgotten by those who place, “a tract of dark heathland, the spot a full idea of the beauties have once visited it” wild, barren and open” which bona and the grandeur of the estate, fide travellers hurried across en and it is a source of satisfaction to Of the chine itself, the writer route to Poole or Christchurch, the auctioneers to know that they continues in similar glowing terms but less legitimate users found the cannot be justly accused of giving “... it is ascended by a gentle heath’s remoteness quite an asset. too florid or flourishing account gradient, and the upper lakes of the property. The power of gradually open to the view, and it The sinuous coastline was ideal for description, however poetical or is at this point more than any other avoiding the attention of the Excise eloquent the language may be, that one can realise the exquisite men; and a well used smugglers utterly fails to do justice to the beauty of the estate, and pause to track ran inland from the sea merits of this enchanting spot, gaze with admiration on the scene through Branksome Chine, which the present sale of which marks thus depicted,. the whole being in those early days was known as a new epoch in the history of of such a character that it cannot Bourne Bottom. Bournemouth...” fail to have a soothing influence on the jaded mind requiring rest Smuggling was a highly profitable “Standing at the entrance to the from the busy turmoil of life, or an business, and the exploits of these chine at the verge of the sea shore, exhilarating effect on the shattered enterprising and often vicious the view that is here obtained is one nerve from whatever cause it may criminals run like a dark thread of peculiar grandeur and beauty arise. The gentle rippling of the through the history of Poole since which cannot fail to strike the water from the lakes, resplendent its emergence as a port. observer with wonder approaching in Summer with the masses of almost to incredulity at the unique flowering Rhododendrons, and The lakes which then existed in the and picturesque scene which is diffusing the fragrance of the white park were described as “unfragrant presented to him. To the south Lilies with which the lakes abound; pools”, and anyone visiting the area horizon stretches the sparkling the murmuring of the zephyr-like was advised to take a compass to waters of the English Channel, the breezes wafted up the chine from avoid getting lost once they left the view of which is at this point relieved across the channel; the voice of beach. by the Isle of Wight standing the Nightingale and Cuckoo in out in bold relief in the distance early Spring,. and the melodies of But, contrast that unsavoury scene as if by nature intended to lend the numerous feathered songsters with the fullsome description enchantment to the view; while on which at all times may be heard composed by the authors of the the inland side, a scene of sylvan here; are features on the estate catalogue produced by the estate beauty is presented to the eye. The which render it the most perfect agents who sold the Tower and part placid valley or chine intersected elysium it is possible to find”. of the estate for the Bury family in with its continuous lakes, and belted 1892. on either side by the flowering This is indeed a contrast in the Rhododendrons, with forest trees extreme, but even if one makes allowances for the naivity of the prose, the chine must have been a Smuggling was a highly profitable business, and the truly beautiful place, even more so exploits of these enterprising and often vicious criminals than it is today. The photographs and drawings of the walks and run like a dark thread through the history of Poole since views of the chine contained in its emergence as a port. the catalogue serve to emphasize the innate beauty of the place... 36 Long Close A Private Residence For Gracious Retirement
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37 we know the fate of the lakes, rigid formality of the traditional local smuggling activity, but this but whatever happened to the eighteenth century house to a more would not have been incompatible Nightingales and Cuckoos? comfortable asymmetry which with respectability in the early became prevalent in the nineteenth nineteenth century, as Kipling’s Although there is no record as to century. poem illustrate... even local when they obtained the land, or clergy were sometimes involved! Be to what use it was put, Branksome Branksome Tower certainly that as it may, Packe was one Estate, which consisted mainly of reflected the asymmetrical aspects of the local landowners who, in heathland and woodland, totalling of Burn’s designs. However, in spite 1854 was appointed a member of just over 745 acres, was first owned of its architectural interest and its the first local authority to administer by an offshoot of the Bruce family illustrious connections, it failed the new town of Bournemouth. from Scotland, and it is to them that to escape the cold winds of social the park owes its pine trees and change which swept through the At home Packe set about its name...for Branksome was the park after the second world war, ensuring his own privacy and setting for Sir Walter Scott’s poem after its sale by Bury’s heirs, it was security by building a wall round his Lady of the Last Minstrel. converted to a prestigious hotel, but estate. The main entrance from the it was finally demolished in 1973 to east, along what is now The Avenue, The Estate extended from County Gates to Pottery Junction, through Canford Cliffs Road to the Martello It was rumoured that Packe helped to finance much of Tower, via the cliffs to Branksome the local smuggling activity, but this would not have been Dene Chine and back to County Gates, skirting Branksome Dene and incompatible with respectability in the early nineteenth in 1851 it was bought by Charles century, as Kipling’s poem illustrate... even local clergy Packe, the wealthy Leicestershire MP. were sometimes involved! Packe had employed Scotland’s leading architect of the day, William make room for blocks of flats. The was guarded by iron gates, attended Burn to reconstruct ‘Prestwold’, his sole tenuous reminder of the family by liveried elegant country seat, and he was is the mausoleum at the head of so pleased with the conversion that Branksome Dene Chine, which was porters. The Lodge has disappeared, in 1854 he commissioned him to only recently saved from final decay but local conservationists have build the stone mansion (at a cost by a grant of money from surviving reconstructed what was left of the of £5,000) beside the sea, which members of the family (who no gate and rebuilt it as an arch near he called Branksome Tower (from longer live in the area) to restore it. the tennis courts in Leicester Road. Scott’s poem). In addition to the At one time there were real fears Contemporary reports claimed that house, Packe also built four lodges that it would crumble and disappear the gravel surface of the avenue, and a ‘Home Farm’ on the Estate. beneath a tangle of undergrowth, which was then the drive to the but there was a bizarre application house, was brought from Chessil The family continued to live in to erect a dwelling on the site, beach and was specially graded to Leicestershire during the summer which was fortunately rejected by ensure that it caused no discomfort months, but spent the winters the Council. to the horses hooves. at Branksome until 1858, when Packe also employed another they made it their principal home famous architect of the day, Packe also planned to develop the and abandoned Prestwood Hall Christopher Creeke, to landscape western part of the estate, but altogether as a consequence of a the estate. His features included died before any real progress could disagreement with his brother over a bathing house on the seafront, be made. Locally held beliefs that the management and development and a rustic bridge, from which a the Martello tower which stood of the Prestwold Estate. young Winston Churchill was to fall on Flaghead was a folly built at Burn is probably best remembered in 1893. the same time as the estate wall by architectural afficionados as a are contradicted by older sources, planner, and he played a central It was rumoured that Packe which claim that it was a genuine role in the transition of the helped to finance much of the article built during the reign
38 of Henry VIII as a defence against smaller houses and bungalows, During the period of economic a threatened French invasion. two preparatory schools flourished depression in the 1880’s Bury The name is said to have derived there, one Church of England and created employment locally from Italian towers built near the the other Roman Catholic. by completing the brick wall sea when piracy was common surrounding the estate which had in the Mediterranean. Warning Sadly few of the mansions remain, been originated by Packe. Traces of the approach of a pirate ship having been demolished to make of the wall can still be seen at the would be given by striking a bell way for blocks of modern flats Penn Hill end of Canford Cliffs Road, with a hammer (martello), hence which have blighted the prestigious where North Lodge stood, and along the towers were called Torri da “Avenue” area. In other parts, the part of Poole Road. At the western Martello. large, well tended gardens have seaward extremity of the estate was been split up into building plots the Canford Cliffs Hotel which was Four years after Packe’s death the for bungalows and modern houses destroyed by fire resulting from a estate was bought by Henry Bury, bombing raid during world war two, a Manchester banker who seemed but there was insufficient water to have a great vision and a flair Fortunately,- the park pressure to allow the fire service to for town planning. He retained the has now been declared quell the blaze, so it was allowed to beautiful Branksome Chine gardens burn itself out. The present Nightjar as an open space, and built the a conservation area, public house was built on the site of church. and although so few of the hotel stables. the original buildings The Landau taking the Bury family The Branksome Tower, together to Sunday worship at St.Peter’s in survive, it is the park with forty-one plots in the area Bournemouth was a familiar sight, itself that is so special, bounded by Buccleuch, The Avenue but the Fates decreed that he was and Tower Road was sold in 1892 never to use his own little church in as the authorities have and it was developed, at first with the middle of his estate. recognised, and a range roads of modest width, and with of safeguards have been relatively small plots. The whole of Bury laid out the present road the remaining land was eventually system and Osborne Road was introduced to preserve sold in 1905 to a consortium which later changed to Bury Road in his and protect the luxurious became known as the Branksome memory. He also introduced the Park Company. They imposed rule that every house to be built on foliage and pine filled covenants to preserve the spacious the estate must have at least one landscape that makes residential character and quality acre of land in order to preserve of the area and its woodland, and the rural character and to ensure Branksome Park unique. one restriction which remained in the exclusivity of the park. Modern force until fairly recently was that Branksome Park is therefore largely which do not require servants, all houses should have at least one his creation. and the plot sizes, currently about acre of ground. a third of an acre, are constantly When Bury died the area north and under threat from greedy The shares in the Company were west of Western Road had already developers. passed on by sale or inheritance been laid out, and the wealthy until they were all acquired by one residents he hoped to attract were Fortunately,- the park has now person, but until the late 1959’s beginning to move in and build their been declared a conservation area, the Company, under close scrutiny mansions, among the first of which and although so few of the original from the Branksome Park Residents was Hailebury, on the site of what is buildings survive, it is the park itself Association, exercised considerable now Oratory Gardens, built in 1878 that is so special, as the authorities influence over development in by Basil Champneys, son of the have recognised, and a range of the park. Dean of Lichfield and a distinguished safeguards have been introduced to architect who concentrated mostly preserve and protect the luxurious When the estate was finally sold, the upon educational buildings. Before foliage and pine filled landscape Bury family made over to the Poole the site was redeveloped with that makes Branksome Park unique. Corporation all the amenities of
40 the park, including the stream from North Lodge to the sea, the Bury Henry Bury selected the site for his chapel very carefully; Woods, and almost the entire stretch it was to be the focal point of his grand scheme, in the of the cliff and foreshore, which represents most of the southern heart of the park, alongside one of a chain of lakes seaward boundary of the parish. through which a stream flowed to the sea.
The Corporation more than lived up to its obligations, and towards a secondary carriage drive to of September, 1875, but he died the end of the 1920’s, during the Branksome Tower. This ran from before the building was complete. great economic depression, a force the North Lodge at Penn Hill, and of unemployed labour was brought it is still more or less in its original The plan was on a modest scale and in from Wales to landscape the state where it runs past the bowling the cost of the project, including the area. The whole of the stream was green and tennis courts (hence the vicarage and stables, was between channelled with stone banks, and site of the rebuilt gates). It then three and four thousand pounds. a firm base, which resulted in the followed the course of Lakeside The furnishings of the church were marshy area drying out and the Road, whose derivation is now simple and made of pitch pine, the disappearance of the lakes. obvious, up to the main carriage walls decorated in what may be drive from County Gates. described as ‘pre-Raphaelite’ Many paths were constructed, style. The adjoining vicarage was with features such as grottos, and The derivation of many of the very small and inconvenient, flights of stone steps down to the local road names commemorate and two of the early incumbents wooded banks of the lower reaches the titled and famous people who preferred to rent out the vicarage of the chine. The promenade stayed, either as tenants or guests and live in more comfortable and two cafes were built, and at Branksome Tower when it quarters elsewhere. The house gardens and zigzag paths cut into became a hotel; these included the had three reception rooms, a the cliffs. The work was mainly Duke of Westminster (Westminster, house-keeper’s room and scullery, a complete by 1930 and the new Chester, Eaton, Belgrave), and the butlers pantry, five bedrooms and a amenities were officially opened by Duke of Buccleuch (Buccleuch, dressing room, but no bathroom. Miss Margaret Bondfield MP, the Ettrick, Dalkeith). Mornish stems Minister of Labour and first woman from an agent of that name, and The flyleaf of the first church cabinet minister. A bronze plaque Balcombe after a property owned register of banns of marriage commemorating the event is set by a family who moved in from contains a handwritten inscription into the wall immediately opposite Surrey. “ This Church was Consecrated the ‘Solarium Cafe’ at the entrance under the dedication of the Church to the chine gardens. Most of the land within the parish of All Saints, Branksome Park, which was not in the park was on Thursday 20th September by THE CHURCH owned by Lord Wimborne of George, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Henry Bury selected the site for his Canford Manor. The Canford estate and by an Order of the Queen chapel very carefully; it was to be stretched down to the sea at various in Council held at Osborne on... the focal point of his grand scheme, points, including Canford Cliffs, the Church was constituted a in the heart of the park, alongside immediately adjoining the park. Consolidated Chapehy with a district one of a chain of lakes through He also had a seaside villa called arrigued taken out of the new which a stream flowed to the sea. Branksome Dene on the eastern parishes of St Andrew Kinson and St Contemporary writings suggest that border of the parish. This was later Peter Parkstone and declared for the the lakes were created from the clay sold to the Edwardian financier solemnisation of marriages” signed pits, but although the bricks for the Sir Edward Cassell, and it passed Edward A Bury, Vicar February 26th church were made on site, there to his grand-daughter, Lady Louis 1878. was reference to the lakes well Mountbatten (hence Cassell Avenue before the mid eighteen hundreds. and Mountbatten Road). So, Henry Bury was conforming to accepted Victorian practice The approach to the church The foundation of the church by building his own church and was from a ‘ride’ not far from was laid by Henry Bury on 22nd installing a member of his family as
41 vicar, although, regrettably, he did on weekdays and for church The nave roof is of exposed rafters not live to see the realisation of his services on Sundays, and this was and diagonal boarding, divided dream. replaced by a new school to which into bays by hammer braced collar was attached a chapel dedicated trusses. The chancel roof is similar, The railway came to Branksome to St Aldelm, the Wessex saint. but shaped to suit the apsidal in 1874 and added impetus to The Rev. C.G.Doyne from Corfe end, the hammer beams being the local pottery industry, owned Castle, who became the vicar of supported on short shafts which by Sharp, Jones & Co. which was All Saints in 1882, conceived the begin at the springing level of the situated in Bourne valley to the plan to build a church on the site windows. North of the parish. By 1875 the as a daughter church of All Saints, artisan population of the area which it remained until 1930, when There is a timber dado around the had swollen to such an extent it became the parish church of St nave walls, matching the height of as to prompt the Reverend Aldems Branksome. the pews, and above it is painted Morden-Bennet, vicar of St Peter’s secondary dado decorated with Bournemuth to make missionary CHURCH ARCHITECTURE stencilled floral and gilt crown journies beyond the boundaries The original draft plans prepared by motifs. The chancel walls have of his own parish to hold open air Burton & Stevens of Bournemouth similar stencilled motifs, with more services at the potteries. included north and south transepts, elaborate painted floral and coffer but these were dispensed with in designs to the reveals and rear According to the Poole & the final drawings, as was the tower arches of the apse windows. Bournemouth Herald of July 12th on the south west corner, which 1894 the bricks and pipes stacked was intended as a possible future After the second world war the for despatch outside the pottery extension. church interior was entirely served as makeshift pews for the redecorated. The decaying congregation. The church was built by Henry ‘per-Raphaelite’ decoration was Ingleton Saunders, and comprised restored, and in the nave and It would appear that the artisan only a nave and chancel, the chancel, the original design was inhabitants of this northern section latter having a polygonal apsed simplified. The sanctuary was of the parish were not inclined to east end, but during construction repainted with a degree of freehand attend their new parish church of it was decided (seemingly as an work, the original motif of trailing All Saint’s, probably less on account afterthought) to add a small vestry grapevines and flowers being of the distance involved than from a on the north end of the chancel. repeated and improved. reluctance to enter what must have The walls are of local brick, made been a very select neighbourhood. of local clay and fired on site, and The simple furnishings were covered with Purbeck stone with gradually replaced and now only the A “wooden room” was eventually Beer stone dressings. They are pine pews remain as a reminder of built for them, to serve as a school divided into bays by gable topped the rather austere interior fittings. buttresses and with a continuous The old red flooring tiles in the moulded plinth and a string course nave and chancel were taken up A “wooden room” was at window sill level. The windows and replaced by Poole Pottery tiles, eventually built for them, themselves are all of two lights with but the pretty Victorian tiles in the to serve as a school on tracery, alternately trefoiled and sanctuary were not disturbed. quarterfoiled, and there is a circular weekdays and for church window with a quarterfoiled centre The stables were converted into a services on Sundays, and eight radial lights in the west church hall, and this was recently gable, which is crowned by a gable revised to accommodate the many and this was replaced by bell-cote atop plain tiled roofs. functions associated with a much a new school to which Internally the chancel arch is of loved parish church. was attached a chapel three moulded orders, the outer chamfer moulding being continued In 1978 a member of the Unwin dedicated to St Aldelm, the down the jambs, whilst the inner family, famous in his day as a Wessex saint. orders are supported on each side seedsman, and particularly for his by a cluster of three attached shafts. interest in carnations, bequeathed
42 a sum of money to the church, which allowed the then vicar, John Kerruish, to relieve the bare walls of the nave with a series of sixteen figures representing the seven stations of the cross.
The pulpit is octagonal, in stone, with panelled sides, marble angle shafts, and a foliage carved cornice. This thirteenth century font is the oldest item in the otherwise Victorian building, and it was brought to the church, again through the efforts of John Kerruish, from the redundant church of St Edmund in Salisbury. It replaced the original font which mirrored the design of the pulpit.
In 1882 the original vestry was taken down and replaced by the present larger one, the upper part of which formed a chamber for an organ. When the church was consecrated there was no organ and the congregation had to rely on a harmonium played by the organist of St Peters Parkstone. At the same time the original, temporary, wooden chancel screen was replaced by the present one, in stone and wrought iron.
The vestry, which has a hipped roof, is of two storey form with square headed windows in the lower part, and lancet type windows to the upper chamber. The reredos, a stone carving of the last supper, was added soon afterward.
The porch was added at the west end in 1928 in memory of F.G.Bury.
In 1950 the lower part of the east wall of the vestry was removed for the construction of a flat roofed eastward extension, the east wall being in the form of a bay window with the sides splayed to accord with the angularity of the apse. The internal aspect is of a small but lofty nave, dominated by a large chancel arch, and because it has no aisles, the first time visitor is able to appreciate at once the innate warmth and intimacy of the church.
Vicars of the Church. 1877 Edward Alexander Bury 1880 Charles Mouncell Wetherall MA 1882 Charles Goddard Doyne MA 1909 Henry Charles Percival 1915 Douglas Macleane MA 1922 Ernest Bury AKC 1942 Eric Bernard Rae MA 1955 John R J Kerruish MA 1986 Michael S Lowe MA AKC
Reproduced from the Spring 1995 Branksome Park, Canford Cliffs & District Residents Association Newsletter, by kind permission of the author, Len Jenkins.
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47 What’s going on in the Churchyard at All Saints?
‘The churchyard is well used and maintained and the orderly Victorian graveyard has several interesting memorials, surrounded predominately by close cut grass. By broadening the number of nectar producing wildflowers growing in the churchyard butterflies and moths will be encouraged’. This was the verdict of Dorset Wildlife Trust when we entered their Living Churchyard Project a few years ago.
The following summer, the churchyard was a sea of yellow – Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Mouse-Ear Hawkweed, and splashes of white petalled Oxeye Daisy …Last year Poppies, Cornflowers, Camomile By broadening the number of nectar producing and other Cornfield Annuals, wildflowers growing in the churchyard butterflies and followed over winter and spring by Cyclamen, Snowdrops, Primroses moths will be encouraged’. This was the verdict of Dorset and Cowslips, many planted by Wildlife Trust when we entered their Living Churchyard the Rainbows and Cubs and a few Project a few years ago. elderly volunteers. Throughout last summer we enjoyed the annual wildflower blooms in the borders already see what a difference has solutions to stabilize it to along the tarmac path. Watch been made. A volunteer working support a wide path for disabled out for other wildflowers in the party session in October resulted access. Gabbions, as at previously unkempt graves and the in a great deal of clearance in Branksome Dene Car Park have poppies in the war graves! the area on the right, behind the been suggested. Church and adjacent to the Chine. • obtain estimates for the design We were able to fund this after The old tyre has been painted and construction of the new successfully bidding for £7,399.00 and planted up the making a garden. from SUEZ Communities temporary feature to complement • apply for Faculties and funding Trust (formerly SITA Trust). A the planting under the fir tree and for the above. considerable part of the funding on the old compost heap. has been spent with BCP Council If you can help in any way to eradicate the invasive species The next steps are: by joining a working party or of Rhododendron ponticum. Joint • engage a builder to turn over contributing to funding for the working with the Local Authority the area with a mini digger. This professional work then please Environmental Officer in charge of will enable us to hold a working let me know. Why not help us the adjacent Branksome Chine will party to pick out more Bamboo by volunteering on a regular ensure that many of the public will roots and sow wildflower seeds basis – currently this is a Thursday enjoy the results of this work. for the summer. afternoon, but we can change it • commission a survey to see if to suit! The contract will end this year. the old compost area is unstable The task will continue but we can and if so, to recommend Val Lamb 48 Tel: 01202 554 696 Mob: 07980 339 807 Email: [email protected] www.thesaintofpaint.com Bluebells in the Chine In 2000 my wife died suddenly of a heart attack while we were on holiday in Spain. Joan had always liked bluebells and I thought it would be nice to plant a field of them in Canford Cliffs Chine which our flat overlooks. I got in contact with Ray Smith, who was our Councillor at that time, and he organised the purchasing and collecting of 3,000 bulbs. These were planted by contractors but unfortunately were put in too close together and the effect was not quite what I had imagined.
That is when Esther Downes and bulb individually and it even memory of my wife and a very her team from Goodgym stepped turned into a kind of social event special thanks to Esther and her in. Esther coordinates the team’s with food and refreshments and team. The teams aim is to improve activities and on the agreed date lots of laughs. and enhance the environment and arrived with 25 volunteers and they have certainly done that! another 3,000 bluebells. A really I do hope everyone can enjoy great time was had planting each the field of Bluebells planted in Freddie Couzens
Goodgym We are a community of runners that combine getting fit with doing good. We stop off on our runs to do physical tasks for community organisations and to support isolated older people with social visits and one-off tasks they can’t do on their own. It’s a great way to get fit, meet new people and do some good. As long as you’re up for getting sweaty, everyone’s welcome. We are all over the country - In Poole we started last summer and have completed so many great tasks around the local area. It really is amazing! We do a run report each week on what we have been doing so here is a link of the one when we planted all the bluebells for Frank.! www.goodgym.org/reports/if-you-go-down-to- the-woods-today-you-are-sure-of-a-goodgym- surprise Esther Downes
50 Wardens - Branksome Park Balcombe Road (Houses only) Mr S Mellor, Flat 8, Albany House, 3 Balcombe Road BH13 6DX Beach Road Vacant Belgrave Road Mrs. H. Schuster-Bruce, 4 Belgrave Road BH13 6DB Bracken Hill Mr G. Anderson, 6 Buccleuch Road BH13 6LE Branksome Towers Ms. Luci Greenwood, 11 Branksome Towers BH13 6JT Buccleuch Road Mr G. Anderson, 6 Buccleuch Road BH13 6LE Burton Road (Houses only) Mr S Mellor, Flat 8, Albany House, 3 Balcombe Road BH13 6DX Bury Road Mrs I. Pearce, 17 Bury Road BH13 7DE Canford Cliffs Avenue Mrs Linda Preece, 4 Canford Cliffs Avenue, BH14 9QN Canford Cliffs Road(Odd Nos. 3-67) Mr V. Dunn, 112 Canford Cliffs Road, BH13 7AE Canford Cliffs Road(Odd Nos. 69-99) Vacant Cassel Ave Mrs C.N. Norman, 13 Pinewood Road BH13 6JP Chester Rd Mrs. H. Schuster-Bruce, 4 Belgrave Road BH13 6DB Chesterfield Close Mr K. G. Jackson, 18 Martello Road BHI3 7DH Dalkeith Road Mrs S. Holt, 14 Ettrick Road BH13 6LG Dover Road/Close Mr J. Mills, Bay Tree House, 4 Dover Close BH13 6EA Eaton Road Mrs. H. Schuster-Bruce, 4 Belgrave Road BH13 6DB Ettrick Road Mrs S. Holt, 14 Ettrick Road BH13 6LG Forest Road (Houses only) Vacant Haydon Road Mr A. Fisher, 28 Westminster Road, BH13 6JJ Lakeside Road (Houses only) Mrs J M Henry, 19 Lakeside Road BH13 6LS Leicester Rd Mr M. Reichl, 18 Leicester Road BH13 6BZ Lindsay Road (Houses only) Mr J. Sprackling, 23 Lindsay Road BH13 6AN Martello Road Mr K. G. Jackson, 18 Martello Road BHI3 7DH Martello Road South (Houses only) Mr K. G. Jackson, 18 Martello Road BHI3 7DH Mornish Road Mrs C. Harrington, 5 Mornish Road BHI3 7BY Motcombe Road Vacant Oratory Gardens Mr K. G. Jackson, 18 Martello Road BHI3 7DH Ormonde Road Mrs H. Schuster-Bruce, 4 Belgrave Road BH13 6DB Pine Drive Mr J. Mills Bay Tree House, 4 Dover Close BH13 6EA Pinewood Road Mrs C.N. Norman, 13 Pinewood Road BH13 6JP Sandbourne Road Mrs C.N. Norman, 13 Pinewood Road BH13 6JP St Aldhelms Road Mr J. Sprackling, 23 Lindsay Road BH13 6AN St Aldhelms Close Mr J. Sprackling, 23 Lindsay Road BH13 6AN Tower Road (Houses only) Mr R. Goodale, 16 Tower Road, BH13 6HZ Tower Road West Mrs S. Holt, 14 Ettrick Road BH13 6LG The Avenue (Houses only) Ms M. Mullin, 27 The Avenue BH13 6LH Ventry Close Mr J. Sprackling, 23 Lindsay Road BH13 6AN Western Avenue Mrs S. Coleman, 23 Western Ave, BH13 7AN Western Road - (Canford Cliffs end to No. 23) Vacant Western Road - (Alumhurst Road end to No. 27) Vacant Westminster Road Mr A. Fisher, 28 Westminster Road, BH13 6JJ Westminster Road East Mr A. Fisher, 28 Westminster Road, BH13 6JJ Wilderton Road Mr R Pointer, 1 Pinetree Drive, 6 Wilderton Road BH13 6EE Wilderton Road West Mr R Pointer, 1 Pinetree Drive, 6 Wilderton Road BH13 6EE Withingham Road Vacant Wardens - Canford Cliffs & District Alton Road East Vacant Banks Road Mr K. Sanders, Flat 4, 25 Chaddesley Glen BH13 7PB Beaumont Road, Mrs C. Parkin, 10 Moorfields Road, BH13 7HA Bessborough Road Mrs C. Parkin, 10 Moorfields Road, BH13 7HA Blake Dene Road Mrs O M. Hill, 65 Blake Dean Road BH14 8HF Bodley Road Mrs C. Parkin, 10 Moorfields Road, BH13 7HA
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Brudenell Ave Mr & Mrs P. Nolan, 6A Brudenell Ave BH13 7NW Brudenell Road Mrs S. Cole, The Red House, 1A Brudenell Road BH13 7NN Canford Cliffs Ave Mrs L. Preece, 4 Canford Cliffs Ave. BH14 9QN Canford Cliffs Road (Even Nos) Mr P J. Gamble, 5, 166 Canford Cliffs Road, BH13 7ES Canford Cres Mr Kees Scholts, Flat 1, Corvesgate,23 Nairn Road Chaddesley Glen Mr K. Sanders, Flat 4, 25 Chaddesley Glen BH13 7PB Chaddesley Wood Road Mr K. Sanders, Flat 4, 25 Chaddesley Glen BH13 7PB Chaucer Road Mrs H Clifton, 16 De Mauley Road BH13 7HE Cliff Drive Mr I Paterson, 39 Cliff Drive BH13 7JE Clifton Road Mrs D. Greenwood, 4 Links View Avenue BH14 9QT Compton Avenue Mrs A. Cox, 94 Compton Ave BH14 8PZ Compton Drive Mrs A. Cox, 94 Compton Ave BH14 9 PZ Compton Gardens Mrs A. Cox, 94 Compton Ave BH14 9 PZ Crichel Mount Road Vacant De Mauley Road Mrs H. Clifton, 16 De Mauley Road BH13 7HE Elgin Road Mrs O M. Hill, 65 Blake Dean Road BH14 8HF Elmstead Road Mrs H. Clifton, 16 De Mauley Road BH13 7HE Flaghead Road Mr R. Smith, 27 St Clair Road. BH13 7JP Haig Avenue Mrs S E Arnold, 26 Links Road BH14 9QR Haven Road Mrs C. Parkin, 10 Moorfields Road, BH13 7HA lmbrecourt Mr K Scholts, Flat 1, Corvesgate, 23 Nairn Road Inverness Road Mr K Scholts, Flat 1, Corvesgate, 23 Nairn Road Lawrence Drive Mrs S E Arnold, 26 Links Road BH14 90.R Links Road Mr J.N. Gunton, 36 Links Road BH14 90S Links View Avenue Mrs D. Greenwood, 4 Links View Avenue BH14 90T Macandrew Road Mrs C. Parkin, 10 Moorfields Road, BH13 7HA Martello Park Mr R. Young, Flat 6, 8 Martello Park, BHI3 7BA Meriden Close Vacant Maxwell Road Mr N Blackmore, 9 Maxwell Road BH13 7JB Moorfields Road Mrs C. Parkin, 10 Moorfields Road, BH13 7HA Nairn Road Mr K Scholts, Flat 1, Corvesgate, 23 Nairn Road BH13 7NF Newton Road Mrs M. Hodsdon, 5 Newton Road BH13 7EX Overlinks Drive Vacant Ravine Road Vacant Spencer Road Mr D. Jones, 14 Spencer Road BH13 7EU St Clair Road Mr R. Smith, 27 St Clair Road BH13 7JP Widdicombe Ave Mr R Laws 11 Widdicombe Ave BH14 9QW Councillors Canford Cliffs Ward (which includes Branksome Park). May Haines c/o Civic Centre, Poole BH15 2RU Email: [email protected] Mohan Iyengar c/o Civic Centre, Poole BH15 2RU Tel: 07887 684 174 Email: [email protected] Penn Hill Ward. Councillor Bryan Dion c/o Civic Centre, Poole BH15 2RU Email: [email protected] Councillor Tony O’Neill c/o Civic Centre, Poole BH15 2RU Tel.07774 698 327 Email: Tony.O’[email protected] MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT Sir Robert Syms Local surgery contact 38 Sandbanks Road, Poole Tel: 01202 718078 Email: [email protected] House of Commons, London, SW1 0AA
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