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CRONDALL CHRONICLES THE MAGAZINE of the CRONDALL SOCIETY SPRING 2013 Farnham Antique Carpets The Old Parsonage, Church Street, Crondall One of the biggest selections of handmade rugs in the South of England, all available in our wonderful Crondall barn showroom 01252 851215 www.farnhamantiquecarpets.com Crondall Chronicles www.crondallsociety.co.uk SPRING 2013 Edition LXXXI THE MAGAZINE OF THE CRONDALL SOCIETY Formed in 1972 Your society and its aims • To stimulate public interest in the village • To promote a high standard of planning and architecture in the village • To secure the preservation, protection, development and improvements of features of historic interest in the village • To keep a watching brief and a careful eye upon the general amenity of, and in the village, having particular regard to the threats posed by traffic, both vehicular and aircraft In summary “The Society aims to support a pleasant environment within which people may live together and expect a reasonable quality of life” Some simple questions arising from the above that occur to the editor: Do We? Are we? Can we Will we be able to? And do you attend the events that support the above? Perhaps by the annual general meeting on 15 May you will have had time for some constructive thoughts, comments and above all involvement your society.I am sure the Committee will be looking forward to your views and input. The cover picture is of Crondall Parish Church by Sally Grace ([email protected]) 1 Each year two editions of the Crondall Wednesday May 18th A Village Picnic, has Chronicles are published, spring and autumn. been arranged by Crondall Events. It will be Ian Jackson ([email protected] held in Hook Meadow with fireworks to tel.850359) is now the editor who is mainly follow. responsible for producing the magazine and pursuing others for articles, ideas and copy. Saturday 22nd June – The Village Fete, is The creative writing and articles are by you all being arranged by Crondall Events. and this issue has in my view been very fortunate with some new and interesting contributors. Thank you all very much indeed. PARISH COUNCIL May it continue. www.crondall-pc.gov.uk By Colin Hebbron, Peter Williams ([email protected] Chairman tel. 850812) looks after the advertising and is always keen to receive enquiries. “The main excitement during Please refer to the article written by our the last 6 months Chairman on the retirement of John Maclean revolves round a as editor and in John’s words “doing a runner” change of personnel. from the village. You may have heard The membership secretary is Dick Wilkinson that Councillors ([email protected] tel. 850272) Wilkinson and Behagg formally resigned at the end of October; Council has expressed its gratitude for the efforts of both Councillors CONTENTS over quite a period of time, on behalf of you, the parishioners. They will be missed. Losing What’s on 2 Councillors so soon after an election meant Reports 3 that we had to advertise the vacancies and, From Crondall to Auckland 9 since ten parishioners requested one, a fresh LoveFilm 11 Election was called. Crondall Rouleurs 13 War memorial part 6 16 In the event, there were only two candidates Shop till you drop 23 for two positions, so they were elected News from the Surgery 24 unopposed – thereby saving you and the Quiz night at the Horns 25 Council up to two thousand pounds from our I was there first 25 budget. The two new Councillors, Emma Society accounts 26 Groslin and Norman Lambert joined us at our John and Diana Maclean 28 February meeting and we look forward to them Chairman’s report 28 sharing the load of discussion, decision and Organisation of the Society 30 taking action on your behalf. At about the same time, Penelope Twine WHAT’S ON? resigned as Clerk, although she did offer to “hold the fort”, pending handover to a new Clerk. In her case, it really was to enable her to Crondall Society Annual General Meeting is spend more time with her young family. to be held on Wednesday 15 May, Again, Council was most grateful for her commencing at 7.30pm in the Church Rooms, efforts, in particular over a difficult time when, followed by Nick Plotnek on his fantastic following the enforced “split” with Ewshot, motorbike trip in the 2012 The Mongol Rally. your Council had managed for a number of months without a Clerk. 2 During all this the Council (themselves) for special activity we also Dispensation which would enable them to held a recruit- agree this Precept. This we managed to ment exercise. achieve (unlike one Parish within Hart which This time, we had set theirs before this DPI issue had had more high surfaced!) and, as last year, we managed to quality hold to the same level as last year, amounting candidates than to some £49,000 for the year; the sum is in the last two allocated from your Council Tax payments. such exercises What this will mean in practice is that, with and ended up prices continuing to increase, the value of with three very services to you will be more constrained than Rebecca Knifton strong can- for some years. Also, any capital for major didates and some difficulty in coming to a projects, such as improving facilities for young decision. However, we did make a choice and people, will be difficult to replace and, within Council endorsed the appointment of Rebecca our five year planning period, may reduce to Knifton. nothing. Rebecca is also a Clerk to a Parish Council in On a slightly brighter note, due to Councillor West Sussex and an Associate Member of the pressure on Hampshire County Council, many Chartered Institute of Legal Executives. Prior (if not all) of the potholes in our local roads are to working in Local Government she worked being filled. The last part of Heath Lane is in law, specializing in contract, tort, completed and by the time you read this, the employment, and land law. Well Road should have been done. Quite when Pankridge Street will be done is shrouded in Rebecca worked for many years for the mystery, but we shall continue to press the Communications Workers Union which lead case.” her into proposing new employment legislation and meeting with MP’s at Parliament. Note from the editor: what about the huge holes in Croft Lane by Pilgrims Cottage and She is an avid historian and enjoys travelling also in Dippenhall Street between the village and sport and in her spare time she is an and Farnham, which is almost 3 miles of Officer in a National Medieval Re-enactment potential hazard? Society, Historia Normannis, which is affiliated to English Heritage. HART DISTRICT REPORT In 2007 she made it through the first four preliminary interview stages of B.B.C’s ‘The By Councillor Chris Simmons Apprentice’ and in 1995 she played one of the “The two major items primary characters in the musical ‘A Chorus that have dominated Line’ in London’s West End. We welcome the first quarter of this Rebecca and wish her every success with us in year have been the Crondall. annual budget and the Local Plan that “Amidst all this excitement, Council had to governs our planning plan and approve its Precept bid for the next and development financial year.. never an easy task and made going forward. The more complex this year by the new Localism budget has of course been ‘put to bed’, whilst Act. Because of changes to the rules applied to agreement of the annual plan pushes forward. 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(Ironically this is also my - It may not feel like it at the moment, but we third year as a councillor!!!) have a favourable climate, with an average of 32.9 hours of sunshine per week, compared At Hart’s Full Council meeting in February the to the national average of 30 hours. We have 1 budget for the year 2013/14 was unanimously an average rainfall of nearly 29 ⁄2 inches approved. Council Leader, Ken Crookes versus the national average of a little over 34 1 presented the budget which he described as ⁄2 inches. “Another excellent budget for the residents of - Our employment rate is significantly higher Hart.” than the national average, while gross weekly earnings are higher than the UK average. Once again we are making no cuts to Council - Crime rates are among the lowest in the services and no cuts to our grants to the country. voluntary sector. We are freezing Council Tax - A high proportion (95.3%) of our residents and once again we are putting some money are in good or fairly good health compared to aside as a safety net for any future financial the national average of 91%.