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Page 1 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 249 Oct / Nov 2020 Thank you to our VILLAGE DIRECTORY in October 2020 deliverers for this issue: Church Warden 810 284 Veronica Ayers Peter Bramley Rev’d Philip Bowden, Rector 810 810 Charles Grieve Canon Paul Townsend (RC) 01962 852 804 Angie Filippa Community Sports Hall TV School 810 555 Geoff Merritt Boo Milne Garden Club 810 794, 810 432 John & Selina Musters Mayflies Youth Club (8-16s)(Liz Howard) Dane and Beth Oliver 07870 612 127 Gary Oliver Neighbour Care Scheme for Nigel Rugman Thank you also to everyone contributing or Stockbridge/Longstock/Houghton 0845 0943 713 checking articles & news. Parish Council Clerk 810 752 Please contact the Parish Clerk, on 810752, or Pilates at Leckford 810 549 e-mail [email protected] if Scouts Stockbridge (Mo Collins) 01256 895 534 you’d like to help with the newsletter in any way, and by Friday 13th November if you’d like to Village Hall, Badminton/Bowls 810 459 submit an article or announcement, give us some W.I. 810 603 news, or place an advert. EMERGENCY or USEFUL CONTACTS DUSTBIN COLLECTION Environment Agency Black Fri 9th, Fri 23rd October Incident Hotline 0800 807 060 bins Fri 6th, Fri 20th November Hampshire Fire & Rescue 02380 644 000 Brown Fri 2nd, Fri 16th, 30th October Floodline 0345 988 1188 bins Fri 13th, Fri 27th November Southern Electric 105 Southern Water 0330 303 0368 Photo: N. Rugman Green bags are collected on Tuesdays of the same week as brown bins. To subscribe please Police non-urgent calls 101 Chairman’s address contact TVBC on 368000. Neighbourcare Andover 336 020, 339 899 October / Sophie Walters, Chair to the Parish Council writes Foil is collected at Chilbolton’s West Down car Surgery 810 524 November 2020 park & at Andover Garden Centre. So, the schools and universities are back, people are being Helpline for Carers (Freephone) 0800 032 3456 Plastic pots are no longer recycled there. encouraged to go back to the office and restaurants and cafes Hants County Council information 0300 555 1375 Glass recycling. The PC is investigating suitable are all open. A good start to getting back to ‘normality’. With Test Valley Borough Council 368 000 sites for a bin in the village. restrictions on movement now being re-introduced across the Glass, clothing and foil recycling bins are Citizens’ Advice Bureau 0344 411 1306 country, who really knows what normality will be from here avalable at Chilbolton Down car park, and at To call anonymously with information on in? Andover Wyevale Garden Centre. about crime: Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 Longstock did its own version of 2020 normality and had a This Newsletter is There is a collecting box for clean TRANSPORT village picnic on the recreation ground on 5th September. All plastic milk bottle tops in the published by Longstock Stagecoach Stockbridge to Winchester Parish Council and delivered church lychgate, and a separate one abiding by the rules and keeping socially distanced, so much buses number 68 0345 121 0190 free to every household in for batteries. Please don’t put either fun was had, people re-connected, laughter and background Longstock. in plastic bags. Batteries can also be Cango buses to Romsey have been replaced with music resonated around the park. The weather was fabulous, shared taxis to your door .Register on disposed of in supermarkets & should Anyone else may subscribe and a great time was had by all who came. A lot of people not go in dustbins. 01962 846 786 at £8 a year by contacting worked extremely hard to make it the success it was. A huge The batteries (small, not car!) will be taken for Traveline for countrywide travel info longstockparishcouncil18 safe disposal; and clean plastic milk bottle tops 0871200 [email protected]. thanks to you all. with the HDPE symbol will be recycled to raise Dial-a-Ride (Joyrides Stockbridge). Minibus to The lovely September weather may be lulling us into a false funds for the Gift of Sight’s research into macular Andover. Register on 356 808 sense of security as I’m sure the cold is approaching fast. degeneration. NO OTHER TYPES This runs through Longstock on Wednesdays at Please don’t all hibernate during the winter, let’s try and chat OF TOPS PLEASE as these are the only 9.30, returning at noon, for £3.00 return. For ones accepted now, and PLEASE don’t put more information, ring John Musters 810 459 over fences, meet for a coffee at the Longstock Park Farm batteries in with bottle tops.The consequences or Dane Oliver 810 839. Shop and keep an eye on our elderly neighbours. Longstock is are DIRE! the envy of the surrounding villages for its friendliness, communication and inclusivity. Let’s keep it that way. The deadline for newsletter submissions is Friday 13th November if you’d like to submit any news or comment, or offer to help! [email protected] Page 2 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 249 Oct / Nov 2020 Issue No 249 Oct / Nov 2020 The Longstock Newsletter Page 2 Parish Council Report - September 2020 Parish Council BT Telegraph Poles – Following a number of are pleased to confirm that although we have been a little quiet, we are still here, enthusiastically working by Mark Flewitt, Parish Clerk Meeting Dates complaints from residents about the 15 new telegraph poles on Hazel Down the PC has been in away on Longstock’s Neighbourhood Plan! Monday 12th Oct – at 7.00 pm contact with BT. We have made it clear that we do In our last update, we reluctantly advised that Covid-19 – In recent months this crisis has taken Monday 9th Nov- at 7.00 pm over all our lives, but we are now starting to see not in any way object to the provision of high-speed both of our face-to-face community engagement signs that things are beginning to return to a “new These meetings will be held as virtual broadband to the affected properties, but that in view events were cancelled due to coronavirus. Naively, meetings via Zoom. All residents are welcome of the previously unspoilt views, and the immediate we hoped to reschedule these events for later in the normal”. Local shops and businesses have started to to view and contribute re-open, albeit with some new rules to follow. The proximity to the Historic England Scheduled year but sadly, social distancing restrictions have Parish Council has given special thanks to the Monument Field System on Hazel Down, we feel meant that we’re still not in a position to meet with management and staff at Leckford Estate, where the risks for pedestrians, and particularly for the many that the cabling should be placed underground. BT you in person. Please be assured that we are Food Bank Farm Shop and Nursery have continued to operate have agreed to review this alternative, and we await exploring other innovative ideas to keep you young families who walk along the Bunny with The Parish Council realises through the lockdown. The home delivery service small children and pushchairs. The current speed their response. informed of our progress and practical ways to gain has been very valuable for local residents, and limit from the A3057 at the bridge over the Test Remembrance Sunday – The PC currently intends your valuable feedback. In the interim, please don’t that as well as people who particularly for the elderly and vulnerable among us. Way to the bench beside the stream at the Willows to hold the traditional service at the War Memorial forget that the minutes of all our Steering Group cannot go out to buy food there The PC has also expressed great gratitude for the is 60 mph. This is not appropriate for the width of on Sunday 8th November, but will keep this under meetings can be found on Longstock Parish may be people whose jobs have generosity of Leckford Estate and the John Lewis this road at many points across the valley, and it is review in the light of ongoing developments with Council’s webpages (under the Neighbourhood stopped without pay, and so we Planning tab) and that our Facebook page Partnership in providing accommodation for NHS felt that we should not wait until a serious incident Covid-19 guidelines. have some stored food which can be distributed to and other key workers during this time. has happened before taking action. The PC will Recent Expenditure ‘Longstock NHP’ is now live, so if you have internet access, then please do look us up and ‘like’ our page anyone needing it. Please get in touch with Sophie Parish Council (PC) Meetings – in the current investigate the process to get a reduced speed limit SSE - Street-lighting Electricity Supply £34.73 Walters (07740 443460). on the Bunny. to follow us. Covid-19 situation the PC has been able to run its Sarsen Press – newsletter printing £260.16 regular meetings on a virtual basis via Zoom. This Recreation Ground – The Rec is now open for Whilst the coronavirus continues to hamper some Longstock Park Farm Shop will continue until official recommendations are residents again, but everyone is asked to observe IG – grass-cutting and cemetery maintenance elements of our work, we identified that there are changed. All residents are very welcome to join and social distancing and the latest government £500.00 areas of the plan which can be completed remotely Food Delivery view the virtual PC meetings. Information will be guidelines. The planning permission to increase the Plan-ET – Neighbourhood Plan Consultancy or require desktop research.