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Moulton EUW`WV OLUMEO LUME 1010 : NO . 8 BROCHURES LEAFLETS POSTCARDS FOLDED LEAFLETS FOLDERS BUSINESS CARDS STATIONERY POSTERS 1A Spinney View Round Spinney Northampton NN3 8RF T: 01604 670 007 E: [email protected] Spring 2013 • MOULTON SCENE | 1 Front page main photo provided by Roger Tyler. If anyone has taken any photographs of village views and would like them to feature in the Scene, please email them Moulton Scene to us. Information Contents VOLUME 10 | No. 8 The next edition of The Moulton 02 Editorial Scene will be published on or about 03 Chairman of the Parish Council – Barry Care MBE 1st May 2013, and will cover the 05 From Your MP Chris Heaton-Harris period 1st May to 31st August 2013. 0 7 Report from Parish Footpath Warden Roger Tyler 0 9 2013 May Queen Advertisements, editorial and diary 09 Moulton Village Festival dates by 15th March 2012 (please note deadline) to Moulton Parish Council, 1 1 Moulton Surgery Moulton Village Hall, Pound Lane, 1 3 Moulton Sports Complex Moulton, NN3 7SD. 1 5 Moulton Primary School T: 01604 492318 1 5 Moulton College E: [email protected] 1 7 Moulton Library 2 1 Friends of Moulton Library ADVERTISING COSTS (incl. of VAT): 2 1 Horts Estate Agents Half page B&W (128 x 90mm) £60.00 2 3 JND Property Maintenance Half page Colour £90.00 2 5 Helping Hands: Give Blood and Anthony Nolan Organisation; DDC Care & Repair; NCC Street Doctor; Quarter page B&W (60 x 90mm) £35.00 Moulton & Overstone Educational Trust; Monday Club; Quarter page Colour £52.50 Moulton Village Car Scheme 2 9 New to Moulton: Fun with Music; The Café @ jgallery Full page (128 x 183mm) 3 1 Village Clubs and Societies: Sing & Sign; Moulton Allotment Colour only £175.00 Association; Moulton Church Bellringers; Moulton Memory Cafe; Moulton Morris Men; Moulton Players; Moulton Youth Theatre; Moulton Movies; Moulton Afternoon WI; Moulton Payment is required with your Evening WI; Moulton & District Gardeners’ Society; Moulton advertisement: History Society; Moulton Keep Fit; Girl Guides; Network Clerk to the Parish Council, Arts; The Friend-leys; Hardy Plants Society Moulton Village Hall, Pound Lane, 4 7 Focus on Sport and Youth: Moulton FC & Moulton Moulton, Northampton, NN3 7SD Magpies Youth; White Tiger Taekwon-do; Brampton Heath T: 01604 492318 Golf Centre E: [email protected] 5 3 Church News: Moulton Parish Church; Carey Baptist Church W: www.moultonparishcouncil.org.uk 5 5 Obituaries 5 7 Useful Phone Numbers Design and Print by: 5 9 Opening times; ‘Welcome to Moulton’ Pack On Demand Print – T: 01604 670007 E: [email protected] 6 1 Index of Advertisers 63 ‘What Not to Miss!’ until May 2013 Copyright Moulton Parish Council 2012. 7 4 Chronicle & Echo ‘Down Your Way’ No part of this publication may be 7 5 Moulton Village Trail Guide reproduced without permission of the Parish Council. The content is not 7 6 Halls to Hire necessarily the view of the Parish Council. 7 7 Moulton Development Plan Update 2 | MOULTON SCENE • Spring 2013 Welcome to the Winter/Spring 2012-13 issue of the Moulton Scene. As always, a big thank you to all those involved with Moulton Scene, whether you are a contributor or an advertiser, your support is much needed and always appreciated. Our thanks are also sent to Richard at ‘On Demand’ for putting it all together for us! If you have any comments regarding the ‘Scene’ please do not hesitate to get in touch. Feedback/suggestions are always welcome and if you attend a local group that isn’t listed in here, that might like to contribute next time, please get in touch. Wishing you a Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year!! MOULTON MINIBUS SERVICE & SURROUNDING AREAS 6, 7, 8 & 16 Seat Mini Buses Available CALL NOW FOR A COMPETITIVE QUOTE • AIRPORT RUNS • LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE • PARTIES / FUNCTIONS / SPECIAL OCCASIONS • HEN / STAG NIGHTS • 24 HOUR SERVICE – All Vehicles Licensed and Driver’s CRB checked. TELEPHONE NORTHAMPTON MOBILE 01604 642 858 07786 902 515 Spring 2013 • MOULTON SCENE | 3 NZWU\PM8IZQ[P +W]VKQT+PIQZUIV Seasonal greetings to all of you! A time of over matters such as traffic, and pressures year when perhaps we are all inclined to from housing development. over-indulge ourselves a little, but when The Neighbourhood Plan will set out a really we should be remembering others and vision of how we all hope our village can perhaps be setting aside our own pre- develop over the next few decades and can occupations to show goodwill to all around be used to guide us in local decision making us. Many of you may be aware I am a retired to achieve those aims. Considerations of head teacher and I can recall one school planning matters, traffic, infrastructure, etc, assembly just after the annual Christmas etc, will all feature in the Plan but perhaps holiday when children were asked about more importantly for our wellbeing and their recent Christmas presents and which daily life will be the section that sets out one was most important or had been the our hopes for improving community best. After a succession of children giving services: with issues of support for the excited eulogies about Star Wars toys, young, the elderly, leisure facilities, the electronic games, and so on; one little lad work of voluntary groups, and so on. We stepped up to the front to tell us about the welcome the involvement of all the various present he had bought for his Mum and how village groups as well as individuals, so pleased he was that she loved it so much. please pass on your thoughts and That small boy’s unselfish thoughts about ‘his suggestions about this particular area of the best present’ and his Mum’s joy on Christmas NDP. Please be aware we are still gathering day brought a special magic into our lives at information and collecting views at each that morning assembly. stage of the preparation process, and there You will know from the recent will be more consultation days as part of Questionnaire, our Parish Council is this, so there is still time to pass on your preparing a Neighbourhood Development comments and views. Plan. Thanks are due to everyone who took Do remember, however, the little lad at that time to fill one in and also to those who Christmas assembly I mentioned at the start came to view the results at the Open Day in of this piece, and as you do so, direct your September. It was pleasing to note that thoughts to the needs of others and the many of the long cherished policies of your benefits to the wider community as you give Parish Council were reflected in villagers’ consideration to our village and its future. responses, as well as those replies also sharing many of the council’s main concerns BARRY CARE MBE 4 | MOULTON SCENE • Spring 2013 Contact Parish Clerk Pound Lane, Moulton Northampton NN3 7SD Tel: 01604 492318 Mon-Fri 9-5 p.m. VillageHall The village of Moulton, located to the rural north of the town of Northampton has a thriving community of about 3600 people. Moulton Village Hall is managed by the Parish Council for the benefit of local people. The Village Hall is ideally suited for: Meetings, Parties, Wedding Receptions, Club Nights, Social Events. Accommodation comprises the Main Hall, Kitchen, Committee Room, Bar and Lounge area which can be hired separately or as a whole. The Village Hall has a capacity of 200 people, depending on the type of function, with a maximum of 100 people seated. The Hall is fully equipped with tables, upholstered chairs, a portable Public Address System, stage spotlights and a fitted projector screen which can be made available for appropriate bookings. Consumption of alcoholic beverages in the Village Hall is permitted subject to the necessary licence being obtained. Enquiries and bookings for the bar and lounge of the Sports Complex should be made on 01604 641622. For further advice please contact the Clerk. The Kitchen has stainless steel fitted equipment and a catering size stove and oven. It is fully equipped with crockery. • People with disabilities should find all facilities easily accessible both in the Village Hall and in the Sports Complex. • There is a large car park adjacent to the Village Hall shared with the School and the Sports Complex. Availability is dependent on usage. Spring 2013 • MOULTON SCENE | 5 NZWUaW]Z58°+PZQ[0MI\WV̉0IZZQ[ As a former Member of the European of the work is done within each ambulance Parliament I used to try to represent a whole station. At the same time, the service is region, the East Midlands, to the best of my struggling to meet its targets. ability. That said, it was an impossible task to get around such a diverse and vast area. As Now I am no fan of targets set from the centre I looked around at the last Labour Government’s and if you ask anyone who works in the attempts to regionalise everything, I became Ambulance Service you’ll know that they are very aware that the temptation was that all completely arbitrary anyway. There doesn’t services get sucked into the area of “highest seem to be much science between whether demand” – the “Golden triangle” between you have to attend a call within eight or Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. This meant fourteen minutes – but this is currently what those living in Lincolnshire and the Service is measured on and if you live in Northamptonshire received less, even though my constituency then, to be quite frank, you’re in tax terms they contributed more.