April 201 8 ON&V is published monthly by Overton Parish Council (OPC) and is distributed Editor: Holly Foat by volunteers to every property in Overton, Ashe, Laverstoke & . [email protected] www.OvertonParishCouncil.gov.uk What’s on in Overton @OvertonHants

Visit us : Overton Parish Council Contact us for problems/comments about Overton Parish Council matters (OPC) Information Office is open to the public from 9am to 12noon Valda Stevens (Chairman) [email protected] 771602 each Wednesday & Thursday in Anne Phillips (Vice Chair) [email protected] 770350 St Mary’s Hall, with Parish Ian Tilbury (Borough Councillor & Rights of Way Representative) 771429 Clerk: Laura Harley. Colin Phillimore (Borough Councillor) 771127

Colin Fowles 771090 Jane Dooley 771386 Contact Laura: 771919 or Richard Cook 07957493802 Gary Beecham 770539 [email protected] Margaret Oram 07798640915 Peter Baker 772155 or Oak Tree Lodge, Roundwood, Stuart Chessell 07973269503 Micheldever, Winchester, SO21 3BA. For Laverstoke & Freefolk Parish Council, contact Nicky: [email protected]

Overton Parish Council (OPC) notes by Laura Harley (Parish Clerk)

Annual Parish Meeting Parish Council: April diary The Annual Parish Meeting will take place at 7.30pm on Wednesday 18th Overton Parish Council Meeting: April in St Luke’s Hall. All parishioners are welcome to attend. People will Wednesday 11 April, 7pm in the be speaking about village halls and walking for health, amongst other Community Centre. (Public Time things. It is also hoped that a member of the police will talk about rural 7pm - 7.30pm). policing. Drinks and light refreshments will be served after the meeting so please come along to what is a lovely social occasion as well as an Annual Parish Meeting: informative evening. Wednesday 18 April, 7.30pm in the Community Centre Parish Councillor Vacancy Following the resignation of Graham Gould, there is now a vacancy for a OPC Monthly Planning Meeting: parish councillor. If you are interested in Overton and have some time to Tuesday 24 April, 7.30pm, in give, then please contact the Clerk. The parish council would like to Community Centre. Agendas and extend thanks to Graham for his efforts on behalf of the community. planning applications are displayed on the Parish Noticeboard. The Overton Parish Council welcomes new business public is welcome to attend and The Honesty Bakery has joined forces with Caviste to open a bakery and may discuss any planning matters coffee shop in the Winchester Street shop. before each meeting starts.

Litter Pick rescheduled for Sunday 8 April All parish council meetings will Due to the snow, the litter pick has been rescheduled for Sunday 8 April be recorded. from 10am at the Community Centre. Please make sure that you wear stout boots, sensible clothes, gloves and high-vis if you have it. If you are Laverstoke & Freefolk Parish unable to join us, then please consider going out and picking a bag of Council Meeting: Tuesday 10 April, rubbish over the weekend to keep Overton looking beautiful! 7.30pm in Lady Rose Hall, Laverstoke Lane. Overton Conservation Area Appraisal A large part of the Overton parish lies within the Conservation Area. The Movitime News document which was originally produced in 2005 is currently being There is no film in April and so the updated and several members of the parish council and other interested next film to be shown in St Mary’s community groups are working on the revisions. Once the draft is Hall will be Murder on the Orient complete, there will be a six-week consultation which will hopefully take Express on 4th May. Doors open place in May/June 2018. More news to follow when the dates for this have at 7.15pm for a 7.45pm start. been agreed… Tickets are £5.00 in advance from the Overton Gallery or £5.50 on & Deane Electoral Boundary Review the door. Refreshments are The Boundary Commission is currently consulting on a review of the ward available to purchase on the night. boundaries for Basingstoke & Deane. The proposal is to reduce the number of borough councillors from 60 to 54 and to even out the number of electors that each councillor deals with – no small task. If you are The deadline for May’s ON&V is interested in making a comment please go to 12th April 2018 . https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/11062 for all the details. OPC notes continued by Laura Harley (Parish Clerk) Village Diary - Regular events Reducing litter Overton & Whitchurch NCT coffee The parish council has agreed to form a strategic group to reduce litter in morning: Fortnightly on alternate Overton as part of the Surfers against Sewage Plastic Free Communities Mondays & Thursdays 10am-12noon. campaign. This is a very wide project which could result in a number of See Facebook [email protected] different aims and objectives including more litter picks, reducing one-use items such as cups, straws etc, increasing recycling and so on. Several Language Hour: Mondays 10-11am in parish councillors are keen to be involved and would like to ask for Overton Playgroup. For little ones and volunteers from the wider community to join the group. If you are interested, families; singing, snack and story time. £4 please contact the Clerk. St Luke’s Short Mat Bowls Club: Monday Church Clock Repair 7.30pm-9.30pm, Wednesday 2pm-4pm You have probably already noticed that the clock has disappeared from the and Thursday 7.30pm-9.30pm. Contact front of the church. Smiths of Derby have dismantled the clock works, Trevor Holmes )770409. removed the clock face from the tower and taken it to Derby with other parts of the clock mechanism (which is in a thousand and one bits) for renovation. Village Agent Drop-in Centre: Tuesdays They will bring it all back and reinstall it in 6 - 8 weeks (at the end of April). 10-12 in the Palmer Room at the Obviously, while there is no clock there will be no hour and quarter chimes, Community Centre. Janet & Graham ) but the church bells can still ring. 07555 908197. (Closed 27 March & 3 April) CarFest Early Bird Ticket Booking for Local Residents Age Concern Social Group: Tuesday 2- The local resident ticket presale will take place from Thursday 12th April at ) 12 midday through to Monday 16th April at midnight. Pre-registration will not 4pm Harveys Field. Dave 423872. be necessary this year. If you live in postcodes that start with RG25 3 and Steady & Strong exercise class: RG28 7 please follow http://carfest.seetickets.com/go/southpresale to Tuesdays 10:30 at Harveys Field and purchase your tickets. 12:00 & 13:00 Gill Nethercott Centre, ) Grants for 2018/19 Whitchurch. Contact Gary 302210.

Applications for grants from Overton Parish Council for the financial year Story Tots at the Library: Every Tuesday from 1st April 2018 are now open. If you have a project or item of equipment at 9:45. Stories & crafts for pre-school that you wish to purchase, then please complete the simple application form children. [email protected] available from the Clerk. You will need to include quotations, current bank statements and account with your application which will be considered at the Heart for Overton: Tuesdays 11-12:30 meeting on 20th June 2018. Overton library. Tea and company, signposting to local services, all welcome Letter to the editor Overton Rocks Wednesday Toddlers: Wednesdays 8.50- You may have noticed lots of colourful stones around the village. These have 11.30am in the St Mary's Church Rooms, been painted by local children (and adults!), and hidden around Overton so tea, coffee, toast, toys, songs and others can find, enjoy and rehide elsewhere. The concept has really taken off toddler-friendly Bible story. Donation £1 - it’s like a big treasure hunt! It’s all about being creative and getting out and about in the village. Everyone can join in. Find yourself a stone, decorate it, Charity Coffee Morning: Thursdays 10-12 then hide it somewhere in Overton. If you come across a painted stone, take in front hall of Methodist Church. a photo of it and upload it to our Facebook page for all to see. People are loving seeing their rock travel around the village and being found in the most Little Creations toddler group Thursday unusual places. The Facebook page is called ‘OvertonRocks’, where all the Mornings 10-11:30 at Town Meadow Hut details can be found. We will have a presence at this year’s School Fete and Scarecrow Festival. Come along and find our stall - we will have many of the Coffee, Colour and Chat: first Thursday of the month 10.30-11.45am at White Hart. rocks on display for you to see, some for sale, and some produced by local ) artists. All money raised will be donated to the Lordsfield Swimming Pool. 07745327049 (1 April)

Tickets on sale for Spamalot Construction club: Overton Library, every We invite you all to come along to our Spring Sale on Saturday 28th April Thursday after school. from 10am in St Mary’s Hall (50p entrance includes tea/coffee/squash and a Overton Pagan Moot: First Thursday of biscuit). The hall will be packed with stalls, including cakes, toys, books, the month. A way to meet like-minded jewellery, a tombola and raffle. Tickets will be on sale to the public for the people. [email protected] first time for our upcoming production, Monty Python’s Spamalot (show dates Tuesday 5th – 9th June). It is absolutely hilarious from start to finish, even for Well baby clinic: 3rd Friday of month: non-Python fans! We promise! Tickets start at £8. Thereafter, tickets will be 9.30-11am in the Community Centre. available from The Artizans, 18 High Street, Overton and online at www.overtondramatic.co.uk/ticket-sales Friday Toddlers: Fridays: 10-11.30am in the St Mary's Church Rooms. Warm and The Reinstatement Works presentation friendly. Donation £1 The River Test Reinstatement Works presentation on 9th February was most informative and the large attendance showed how much we all are Overton Photographic Club: Fridays from interested. It therefore seems a great pity that so little of the Test is 7:30pm ORC, Bridge Street. Beginner accessible to us! friendly. Non-members £2. Barry Taylor, Woodlands, Overton www.overtonphotographicclub.co.uk Police News Your local Police Officer is PCSO 16173 Emma Page Regular events continued… 8Emma.Page@.pnn.police.uk Emergency )999 Club2O Alternate Fridays in the Church Police Station, Mulfords Hill, Tadley, RG26 3HZ Rooms. For children in years 4, 5 & 6. 7- Follow @BstokeRuralCops Police Enquiry Centre & non-emergencies )101 8.30pm. Lots of games, crafts and fun. Crimestoppers charity )0800 555 111 www.hampshire.police.uk Pete )770243

February 2018 The Community Church meets most In February there was 13 incidents which have been classified as crimes by Sunday mornings. 10am for coffee, the the Home Office. meeting starting 10:30 at St. Luke's Hall.

Non-Dwelling Burglary: A shed containing PE equipment was broken into at Traidcraft Sales: 2nd and 4th Saturdays Overton Primary School. No damage was caused to the shed and nothing was of the month. Sales of fairly-traded food & taken. crafts. 9.30-12.00 at Methodist Church.

Traffic Incidents: There have been four reported this month. Three were Village Diary - April 2018 damage only road traffic collisions and the other a road traffic collision which Tuesday 3 April: Overton WI Meeting: resulted in minor injuries only on Berrydown Lane. “Baking - Bread without yeast” 7.30pm in Overton Community Centre Theft from Vehicle: There has been two reported this month when tools were www.hampshirewi.org.uk )770681 stolen from vans in Sapley Lane and London Road on the same night. [email protected]

Theft: Two large concrete horse ornaments were stolen from the front garden Wednesday 4 April: Overton Folk Club of a property in Quidhampton. meets at 8pm in the Community Centre. This month is a singer’s night. Everybody Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB): There has been six reported this month and welcome. Tom )770384 youths have been seen causing a nuisance around the train station, De La [email protected] Rue and Overton Primary School. Friday 6 April: Overton Photographic Club Criminal Damage: A vehicle was keyed whilst parked on Station Road and a 'Art and Photography’, Overton’s artists van had a window smashed whilst parked on Pond Close. and photographers unite in an informal sharing of ideas. At the ORC on Bridge Suspicious Incidents: There has been five reported this month. Of note, a male Street from 7.30pm. Non-members £2. was seen asking to buy scrap metal on Lordsfield Gardens. Police attended but the male had gone. A white transit van (N***VXF) with three males inside Saturday 7 April: Overton Market 10am- was seen hanging around on Station Road. The van had “Tree Cutting 12noon, St Mary’s Hall. Services” signage on it. The same van was seen again this time with another van (P***MYL) with the same signage on it. You should NEVER agree to have Saturday & Sunday 7/8 April: Lambing work carried out by someone that is passing. The work may sound legitimate for Lordsfield! Family lambing event at but it is usually unnecessary and/or overcharged. Please contact Police if you Northington Farm. are approached in this manner. Thursday 12 April: Overton Garden Community Speedwatch – Could you help? Society 8pm in Community Centre. SPEEDWATCH is a speed monitoring and reporting activity carried out by "Weeds - can we ever win?” With Alick local volunteers around our village roads using a Parish Council purchased Jones. Non members welcome. Jenny police approved Speed Indicating Device (SID). In March we visited )772008 Road at school closing time and of 109 vehicles observed 18 were travelling above 35mph and three above 40 in the 30mph zone. Owners of these Monday 16 April: The Overton Recreation vehicles are likely to be written to by the police. We urgently need more Centre AGM 8:15pm at Bridge Street. volunteers if Speedwatch is to continue in Overton. Speeding is always a top Everyone is welcome. Find out what's concern expressed in village surveys so increasing awareness of speed and been happening and what we have road safety has to be a good thing. Can you spare an occasional 1 ½ hours to planned for 2018. join the volunteers? If interested please contact Laura [email protected]. Wednesday 18 April: Overton & District U3A. A talk by Alison Deveson “The Bank Letter to the editor of in Wartime Hampshire". 10am ) Easter services at St Mary’s Church St Mary's Hall. Visitors £3. 771602 On Good Friday 30th March we have two services. The Overton Churches www.overtonu3a.org.uk meet at the Methodist Church at 10.30am from where we will proceed behind Sunday 29 April: Overton Biodiversity the cross to St Mary’s for a Good Friday all-age service at 11am. Then, at 2pm Society Dawn Chorus Walk. Guided walk there is a quieter, reflective service, ‘At the foot of the cross’, one hour around Overton to listen to birdsong focusing on the cross of Christ in words and hymns. followed by breakfast in the Community On Easter Sunday 1st we begin early with an 8am Holy Communion service Centre. Led by Peter Hutchins. Meet at based on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer then a 10.30am all-age Easter the Community Centre at 6am £3.50 for Communion (followed by Easter egg hunt!). We finish Easter Day with a 6.30 non-members, £3 for members. Please pm Easter Festival Evensong (with choir). phone 771121 if you are coming (for catering purposes). As an alternative there is a 10am Family Egg-stravaganza at St Mary the Virgin, Laverstoke. Transport News by Brian Langer (Transport Representative) )770848 Letters to the editor Train engineering work affecting Overton and Waterloo (Exeter/Bristol) Village Agents Friday 30 March to Tuesday 3 April: Major disruption in Bristol area with Janet and Graham are the local Age replacement buses beyond Bath. Concern Hampshire ‘Village Agent’ Sunday 15 April: disruption at Waterloo and Overton trains may not run east volunteers for Overton. Village Agents are of Basingstoke. local people who offer a few hours a week Sunday 29 April: buses replace trains between Andover and Salisbury. of their time, to signpost and help older people to access information, advice and Work affecting nearby SWR services& Industrial Action affecting SWR local services. They provide a face-to- Sundays 1 and 29 April: no trains between Woking and Guildford. face contact point for people who are less Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 April: disruption between Brockenhurst and Poole. likely to use the telephone or internet to Sunday 22 April: disruption in Portsmouth area until mid afternoon. access information. Age Concern Hampshire is pleased to be working in Industrial Action Affecting SWR Train services partnership with Hampshire County Industrial action by the RMT union has been announced for 30, 31 March Council and Hampshire Fire and Rescue and 1 & 2 April. Trips between London and Basingstoke can be made using Service. The project is fully funded and the GWR or Cross Country services between Basingstoke and Reading and supported by Hampshire County changing for Paddington. Tickets must NOT state 'via Woking' for that route. Council. For more information, call Janet on )07843 853003 or Graham on Easter weekend trains and buses )07555 908197 or email Trains will operate a Saturday service on Good Friday, Easter Saturday and [email protected] the holiday Monday with a Sunday service on Easter Day. g.uk Buses will operate a Sunday service on Good Friday, Easter Day and the holiday Monday. A Saturday service will operate on Easter Saturday. Lordsfield Swimming Club The club is a community of volunteers. If Bus Service 86 and 861 to/from Winchester you can lend a hand please get in touch A reminder that the direct services Mondays to Fridays from/to Overton will (Lauren )242117 or NOT run during the Easter school/college holidays which start on Friday 30 [email protected]). We need March and end Sunday 15 April. There are no direct weekend services but people to help test the water before the weekday services are available to all age groups. Irrespective of school swimming sessions over the summer. holidays bus journeys to/from Winchester are possible by changing from the Thanks to Hugh Bridge, Dave Yardley 76 to the 86 service or vice versa in Whitchurch. and all those involved with the Rock Pool Bombay Sapphire Bus event on 17 March. Please support our Details of the new Bombay Sapphire but timetable are available at lambing event at Northington Farm 7/8 https://distillery.bombaysapphire.com/files/PlanYourVisit/Summer%20timeta April, fun for all the family with proceeds ble%20March-April%202018.pdf to the pool. Local mum Kathryn Price is running the Brighton Marathon on 15 April Letter to the editor to help raise funds. Please sponsor her Overton Business Association news https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/7690#/Don I wanted to thank my friends and colleagues from the Overton Business ationDetails Lauren McCann (Club Chair) Association for the beautiful flowers with which I was presented at our AGM on 8th March to mark my ‘retirement’ as Chair of the Association after four Interested in Ballroom/ Latin dancing? years. They were such a surprise and very much appreciated. Also ‘retiring’ Perhaps you would like to join us in the was our Treasurer David Grist and I’d like to thank David for his continuous Theatre Hall at Testbourne Community support and contribution to the Association both as Treasurer and previously School Friday evenings 8-9.30/10? We a Committee member for many years. I am so delighted that the have tuition 8.15-9.15. It costs £10 per Association is now the strongest it’s been since I joined back in 2013 with a couple per week. Beginners are welcome, membership currently in excess of 60 businesses; but we cannot be as are those who with experience. For complacent and there is still a lot of work to do to ensure we properly more details please contact: Alun or ) support and promote local business in every way possible. If you are Pauline 892981 or Bruce or Sandra on ) interested in joining do visit our website www.overton-business.uk and 893233. complete the online form. Alexis Walmsley Thank you to the Village Agents The Community Church at Easter I'm very grateful for the information in last 1st April: Easter Sunday the Community Church has two gatherings both at months News and Views about claiming St. Luke's Hall. Easter Morning service with worship, readings, and a partial refund for registering a Lasting message of 'That's my King, Jesus'. This starts with coffee from 10am with Power of Attorney. I registered two LPA's the service about 10:30am. There is a children's group and creche during in 2014 and was unaware that a refund the meeting. The second is a Family Easter Service from 4pm-5:15pm. scheme had been launched on 1st Come along as there will be singing, talk, craft and hot cross buns. February this year. It only took 5 minutes Saturday Club will be happening on the 28th of April, the theme will be the to apply for my refund online and I'm 10 plagues from the Exodus story. Saturday Club is a Bible based club for really grateful to Janet and Graham for families with singing, dancing, games, crafts, snacks and more, it's at 10am publicising the scheme - unlike the at St. Luke's Hall, it's free and you don't need to book, just turn up. government! Helen Ibbott.

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