St Blaise Town Council Newsletter Issue 3 Autumn 2011
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fortunate as we are one of three pilot areas and so we are seeing this first. St Blaise Town Council Flooding All residents affected by the floods in November 2010 are Newsletter entitled to funding for flood elevation works. Defra are providing the majority of the funds but some properties in Station Road and Fore Street will be funded by the Issue 3 Autumn 2011 environment Agency. Introduction St Blazey Community Flood Plan The Chairman of St Blazey Community Flood Group has The summer is always a quiet time for the Town Council due informed us that the community flood plan is near completion to it being holiday season but the Clerk and Councillors have and he has also produced a training document for the still been working on behalf of the Town. Since the last wardens. Cornwall Flood Recovery Group have produced a newsletter we have a new Councillor, Alexia Muskett Geake. newsletter that has been distributed to 400 homes affected by Councillor Muskett-Geake’s contact details and the contact the November floods. details of all our Councillors and the Clerk are on our web-site and town notice boards. Our web-site address is St Blazey Community Watch www.stblaisetowncouncil.co.uk and the office phone number St Blazey Community Watch meet at 7.00pm on the third is 01726 816595. Thursday in February, May, August and November each year at Alexander Hall. It is your chance to speak with the Police, The Clerk has been busy updating her list of community Councillors and other community representative and hear groups and has provided this later in this Newsletter. There is about current crime prevention measures taking place in the also details of organisations that we think may be of interest to Town. you included. If you are an organisation and would like to be listed in a future newsletter or have an article listed please Vulnerable Residents contact the clerk. Our warden, Kevin Atkinson has been visiting vulnerable people around the town as part of his varied role. If you are Broadband aware of a vulnerable person that would benefit from a regular Superfast Cornwall has now held two open evenings at visit, please let the Clerk know. Alexander Hall, it is a joint venture between the European Convergence funders, Cornwall Council, BT & Cornwall St Blazey War Dead Development Agency. They will be bringing high speed Councillor Miller has written “ A brief biography of the war broadband across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We are dead of St Blazey” which can be purchased from various outlets around the town at a price of £3.00 with all profits going to Help the Heroes. If you wish to purchase or just view register now. The Council is required to produce a new and a copy, please contact the Clerk. accurate list of voters each year which then stays in force for the following twelve months. It is vital that people complete Par Community Association and return the form as soon as possible so their names can be Par Community Association are holding their Inaugural included on the register and tax payers’ money can be spent meeting at Alexander Hall on Monday 24th October at 7.00pm. most efficiently. People are required by law to provide the Ben Woods from Ecobos will be giving a presentation of the information which is asked for in the forms. plans for Par Harbour. Everybody Welcome. ST BLAZEY COMMUNITY GROUPS & OTHER USEFUL Memories Timeline CONTACTS A collection of memories of growing up in Par, Tywardreath and St Blazey is being compiled and Par Community ST BLAZEY BROWNIES/RAINBOWS Association would appreciate any stories/accounts either Val Chapman Rainbows 5 – 7 year olds written/emailed or recorded. 50 Station Road Brownies 7 – 10 year olds Does anyone remember Island House in Tywardreath or the St Blazey Meetings held at Alexander Old National School, the steam railway from Par to Fowey Hall transporting clay, the Picture House in St Blazey (was it the PL24 2LZ ‘Palace’?) or the St Blazey School on Rose Hill and the shops 01726 813058 by the church? How many pubs have closed down? and how [email protected] many Chapels? What about more recent memories? www.girlguidingcornwall.co.uk You can contact Liz Davies or Heidi Morgan via the [email protected] email or leave your contribution in ST BLAZEY POLICE the Par Community post box at The Boslowen Bed &Breakfast St Blazey Police Station opposite the library or ring Sonia on 01726 813720. Station Road St Blazey Wheal Catherine Craft Circle PL24 2LZ Wheal Catherine Craft Circle meet at Gott Hall on Wednesday 01726 815141 or 812262 mornings 9:30 - 12 noon, why not come along and see what Sergeant David Vickery; 4402 they do, you might even want to join us!!! They have their [email protected] "Open Day" on 15th October at Gott Hall from 10:00 until 4pm. PCSO James Ward; 30449 [email protected] Cornwall residents urged to register now to vote in 2012 PCSO Rebecca Harris; 30562 Cornwall Council is encouraging local people to register now [email protected] to make sure they can vote in 2012. Police Commissioner PC Rob Toms; 3524 [email protected] Elections are expected to take place in 2012 and local by- elections could also occur at short notice, so it is important to ST BLAZEY & FOWEY SCOUT GROUPS ST BLAZEY CHURCH Sally Tregaskes Retta Matthew Reverend Canon Malcolm Bowers Group Scout Leader Beavers 6-8 yrs Church Warden Church House 1 Mountfield Terrace Cubs 8-10 yrs 95 Station Road 2 Nursery Close Par Scouts 10-14 yrs St Blazey Tywardreath PL24 2BS Explorers 14-18yrs Cornwall PL24 2QW 01726 812710 PL24 2LZ 01726 817665 [email protected] 01726 814458 [email protected] [email protected] ST BLAZEY ARMY CADETS 26 Homefield Park Colour Sergeant Warne PAR CHURCHS TOGETHER LEEK SEED CHAPEL Bodmin Station Road Anne Weaver Rev Danny Wheadon Cornwall St Blazey 2 Doubletrees Rose House PL31 1DJ Cornwall St Blazey 45 Trenovissick Road 07929 106462 PL24 2LZ Cornwall St Blazey Gate 01208 73183 PL24 2LE Cornwall 07916 781010 01726 813665 PL24 2DY [email protected] 01726 812773 ST BLAZEY FC Mountlea Resident Association Station Road Mr Rod Scorah St Austell Road St Blazey 25 Polkerris Parc St Blazey PL24 2ND Mountlea Country Park Cornwall 01726 814110 Par [email protected] 01726 825127 Hall Bookings : Ruth Lobb 813969 [email protected] FOURWAYS YOUTH CLUB SLIMMING WORLD ( 0-19 years) C/O Elaine ST MARY THE VIRGIN CHURCH ST BLAZEY COMMUNITY Carol Fitzpatrick 01726 823347 BISCOVEY CENTRE Station Road Meet at Alexander Hall on The Reverend Ian Tucker Alexander Hall St Blazey Wednesdays 42 Vicarage Road Middleway PL24 2ND 9.30am 11.30am 5.00pm or Tywardreath St Blazey 01726 817132 or 814212 7.00pm Cornwall PL24 2JH PL24 2PH 01726 816595 [email protected] www.slimmingworld.com/slimatroche- or-stblazey 01726 812775 [email protected] www.parparish.co.uk LIST OF SITTING COUNCILLORS GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY IMERYS MALE VOICE Councillor George Allen 6 Bay View, The Mount, St Blazey SOCIAL ASSOCIATION CHOIR PL24 2BY 815707 Mr Parrock Arthur Gouge 1 Middleway 69 Manor View Councillor June Anderson 37 Rose Hill, St Blazey, Cornwall St Blazey St Blazey PL24 2LQ 813995 PL24 2JH PL24 2EL Councillor Michael Gill Rexholme, Biscovey Road, Par, 01726 817668 01726 814564 Cornwall PL24 2HW 813273 [email protected] Councillor Richard Heyward ‘Little Acorns’ New Road, St Blazey, Par PL24 2SB 813060 ST BLAZEY FRIDAY TEA DANCE WHEAL CATHERINE Mr & Mrs Lockett CRAFT CIRCLE Councillor Dave Hooper Hillpark, Kilhallon, PAR PL24 2RL 17a Trenovissick Road Mo Brown 815692 St Blazey Gate Pentire Cornwall 6 Gribbon Way Councillor George Miller 3 Kilhallon Woodlands, PAR PL24 2RJ 815179 01726 814643 Mountlea Country Park Par Councillor Alexia Muskett –Geake Trewillowen,113 Landreath Place, Cornwall St Blazey, PL24 2LA 813670 PL24 2JW Councillor Amos Putt 55 Polgrean Place, St Blazey 01726 816262 PL24 2LH 815444 [email protected] Councillor Douglas Scrafton Reynards Rest, The Mount, Par, Cornwall, PL24 2BZ 815770 PAR & ST BLAZEY FLOOD GROUP Friends of Par Beach Councillor Adrian Seel 145 Landreath Place, St Blazey, PAR Charles Richards Mike Freemantle PL24 2LA 815829 St Blazey Service Station 14 Polmear Village Bridge Street Par The Clerk can be contacted at Alexander Hall, Middleway, St Blazey PL24 2AT St Blazey, PL24 2JH. Telephone 01726 816595. E-mail Cornwall 01726 816454 [email protected] PL24 2NS [email protected] Tel 01726 814855 [email protected] .