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AUGUST 2014 www.barfordnews.co.uk Price 30p where sold VILLAGE SPORTS AFTERNOON BAR-B-QUE & BAR BANK HOLIDAY SUNDAY 24TH AUGUST Full Details on Page 7 BBQ 6PM onwards In the Village Hall Gardens Quality farm produced burgers & sausages Selection of home-made salads Crumble and Ice Cream Barford St. Michael and St. John – Church Fete Starting at 2pm, Monday 25th August At The Manor House Games and competitions for all ages Bottle Stall Plants Raffle Books Toys Cakes & Produce Summer Punch Bric a Brac Delicious Teas by the moat Companion and Novelty Dog Show 1 Parish Council Notes 14/00836/F Buttermilk Cottage, Barford St The meeting of Barford St John and St Michael Michael. Replace existing flat roof with lean-to Parish Council took place at 7.30pm on 2nd July roof. No objections. Granted 20th June 2014. 2014 at Barford Village Hall and was attended by 14/00769 Retrospective Application: Coombe Cllr Hobbs, Cllr Eden, Cllr Turner, Cllr Styles, Cllr Cottage, 1 Rock Close, Barford St Michael. Bullard, Cllr Best, Cllr Campbell, District Cllr Wooden Children’s playhouse. Granted 20th June Williams and Mrs. R. Watts (Parish Clerk and 2014. Responsible Financial Officer). Notice of Intent TCA: Declarations of Interest: Cllr Eden has worked B14/00173/t. T1 & 2 Irish Yew – fell. No with Trevor Stewart and therefore declared an objections. interest in Trevor Stewart Timber Play Equipment. County Councillor’s Report: No report was Parish Matters: Thomas Fox Landscaping has submitted. carried out weed killing in the village, as requested, Barbara Chilman from Oxfordshire County Council except for part of Robins Close where there is a Education Department will be attending the water leak. Adderbury Parish Council Meeting on 24th June. Sound System for Village Hall: The Village Hall Visitors are welcome. Management Committee has ordered an audio District Councillor’s Report: Cherwell District system for the Village Hall and the Parish Clerk already shares services with South Northants has arranged payment of the invoice from District Council. It is now considering sharing Blinkhorns. The Village Hall Management services with Stratford-upon-Avon District Committee has sent the Parish Clerk a cheque to Council. Three member wards and a review of cover the cost less VAT. ward boundaries are underway. This may lead to Wooden Play Equipment on West Close: Cllrs additional elections being held in 2016 based on the Eden and Styles have visited play areas in Steeple new arrangement. It is expected that Barford St Aston, Middle Barton, Somerton and Ardley to see John & St Michael will be in a ward with South what equipment Trevor Stewart Timber Play Newington, Milton, Adderbury, Deddington, Duns Equipment has supplied on sites there. It was Tew, North Aston and Steeple Aston. Councillors agreed that before going any further the deeds to expressed concern that the new arrangement may the land and the original change of use planning result in people losing touch with their District application need to be checked. Councillors. Planning Matters: District Councillor Williams, after training, will sit Planning Applications: After some discussion it on Cherwell District Council’s sub-Committee. He was agreed that any plans for the Barfords should will also sit on the Overview & Scrutiny be sent to the Parish in hard copy format. CDs Committee, Licencing and Appeals Committee. would be accepted for large applications relating to Reports from Meetings: neighbouring villages (e.g. the Mintondale Cllr Styles attended the Adderbury Parish Council applications in Bloxham). District Councillor meeting on 24th June. Barbara Chilman, from Williams will report this decision to Cherwell Oxfordshire County Council’s Education District Council officers. Department addressed the meeting. Ms Chilman is Details of applications can be found on the responsible for planning the placement of school Cherwell District website children across the County. She said that the http://cherweb.cherwell- County works on the ratio of 100 new houses dc.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/apsea resulting in an additional 25 primary school rchform.aspx children. She confirmed that there is no potential This site does not include ‘Notice of Intent’ for tree for Bloxham Primary School to expand and once works in a Conservation Area (TCA). approved housing developments have been Planning Applications Received: completed, children from the Barfords are unlikely Retrospective Application. Traherne House, The to be given places there unless they already have a Rock, Barford St. Michael. Replacement of two sibling at the school. existing windows. No Objections. Cllr Styles reported that Cherwell District Planning Applications Approved by Cherwell Council’s Conservation and Design Team have put District Council: together a guide to help local communities register 14/007769/F Granted 19th June 2014. Local Heritage Assets in the District with the 14/00752/F Pymore, Lower Street, Barford St Council. The term ‘Local Heritage Asset’ is used Michael. Removal of Existing pre-fabricated to describe a building, structure, project, place that concrete garage. New single story extension at rear is identified as having special significance for local of bungalow. No objections. Granted 19th June heritage. Formerly known as the ‘Local List'. 2014. Typically a Local Heritage Asset will be a building, 2 though other structures including landscape features and monuments can also be nominated. We Do Not Hold A Local Heritage Assets vary from the Grade 1, 2* Village Market and 2 listings undertaken by English Heritage, in August which acknowledges heritage of national Next Market in the Village Hall significance. Cllr Styles suggested that the Bridge Saturday 20th September in Barford St. Michael might be a ‘non building’ to Hope to see you there! consider. Cllrs Hobbs and Styles attended Cherwell District Council’s Parish Liaison Meeting at Bodicote th New Editor for BN House on 18 June. Two topics under discussion N MARCH 1998 I was recruited to the news were Cherwell District Council’s Local Plan, which team as joint deputy editor, working with has been deferred until December 2014, and a I Bernard Lane and Bill Spence. This involved change in qualification rules for exception site typing articles, which were mainly received hand properties. written, and preparing the advert pages, in those Any Other Business: days ‘cut & paste’ involved scissors and Pritt stick. Cllr Turner had reported a pothole in Barford St. Bill moved to Norfolk some months later, and in John to Oxfordshire County Council Highways January 2000 I took over from Bernard as sole and it has been repaired. editor. A ‘home made sign’ at the bottom of The Rock is Some 14½ years later, it is time for me to bow in disrepair. Cllr Styles will remove it. out. Tony Ecclestone, of Church Street, will be in Cllr Best said that the noticeboard in Barford St the hot seat from next month, with Caroline Bird John has totally collapsed. Councillors agreed continuing as Treasurer. Tony already has editorial unanimously that the clerk can order a new one. experience through his work at CDC and, with your A new webpage has been designed where people support, I am sure that Barford News will continue can confidentially report dog fouling offences to to go from strength to strength. help CDC’s enforcement officers target hotspot I would like to thank all those who have helped areas and fine owners who fail to clean up after to get each monthly issue to our readers. First to their dog. Offenders who fail to clear up after their Ronnie Knight, who has been with the ‘news’ since dog can receive an on-the-spot fine of £50, which it was relaunched as a monthly paper back in can increase to £1,000 if the case proceeds to January 1995. Ronnie started out as technical magistrates’ court. To report an offence, visit advisor for Bernard, and it was he who designed www.cherwell.gov.uk/dogfouling our distinctive banner heading as well as producing Fix My Street – residents can report defects in the 130 Nature Notes. Next, to Caroline who has done highway to Oxfordshire County Council on an excellent job in keeping our finances in order, http://fixmystreet.oxfordshire.gov.uk Once also the many contributors who have written verified, OCC’s contractor pledges to fix potholes articles with news of clubs, events, schools etc. within 28 days, 24 hours in an emergency and 4 without whom we would have no ‘news’! Finally hours for a severe category. to the deliverers, Archie & Poppy Brown, Becky The next Parish Council Meeting will be held on rd Dyson, Chris Cox, Kathryn Wheeler, Jan Elvidge, Wednesday 3 September 2014 at 7.30pm in the Maisie Bird, Rupert Moulton, Helen Honour, Joyce Village Hall. Pearce and Cathy Peacock and to all their There being no other business the meeting closed at predecessors 9.20pm. Much has changed over the years, no more Pritt stick and very little typing as most articles now arrive via email. I have learned a lot during my Thank you time as editor and have greatly enjoyed almost every moment. I feel sure that I am leaving ‘my To the Townsend resident baby’ in good hands and ask you to support Tony Who donated a very generous as well as you have me over these many years. I look forward to sitting back and waiting for £50.00 September BN to arrive on my doorstep! For Barford News funds Regards Mariann 3 Katharine House News Church Fete Care for a Cuppa! This year the church fete will be on Following the success of our first Bank Holiday Monday August ever Care for a Cuppa campaign in 25th at 2 pm to be held in the March which raised over £10,000, gardens of the Manor House.