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CLAPHAM & DISTRICT NEWSLETTER Number 74, December, 2011 PARISH COUNCIL NEWS Welcome to the regular Parish Council column where changes made. All planning applications and listed we plan to report on our activities and keep you up building consents received by the Parish Council are to date with Parish Council matters. listed on the Agenda for the next Council meeting You might have noticed that one or two street and any comments or recommendations that we signs are looking a little steadier on their legs and make are minuted. Residents of the civil parish are other small repairs are quietly taking place and this always welcome at meetings to make any comments is down to the appointment of Richard Grayston as that they would like recorded about planning matters. part time Parish Caretaker. He is going to tackle small Parishioner participation is normally taken at the jobs across the civil parish. You can help by being beginning of each meeting, our eyes and letting the Clerk know of any repairs in We arranged a public meeting on 7th November public areas that you see needing attention. to hear from people if they would like to mark the At long last after a delayed start demolition work Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and to hear any is in evidence at the Mercedes garage. The Parish suggestions for the event. Sadly the turnout was Council lobbied Craven District Council for many very low – just seven people – but a few ideas were months to issue an enforcement notice to get the site generated including a Children’s Sports Day, and tidied up and we were finally successful in getting an ecumenical church service and a Thanksgiving the section 215 notice issued in May 2011. We have Picnic on Sunday, 3rd June. We also had a few ideas been assured by an enforcement officer at Craven for more permanent commemoration. We are going District Council that the work to level the site will to hold another public meeting on 23rd January and be completed within a few weeks. hope that many more people will attend. We’ll be Residents who live in the Clapham Station area looking for other ideas and volunteers to take things will be aware that United Utilities plan to return to forward. the site in the New Year to complete the construction Many of you will be aware that in August Peter of the underground pumping chamber to pump waste Leng retired as our Parish Clerk and Nicola Saward to the waste water treatment works on the A65. The has now taken over as non-stipendiary Parish original designs for the pump and its housing required Clerk. complex redesign work. The Parish Council has The Parish Council meets monthly at Clapham worked closely with United Utilities to ensure that Village Hall at 7.30pm on the fourth Tuesday of the site area was cleared, secured and is monitored each month (apart from December which is the third regularly during the interruption to the project. Tuesday). Do come along to a meeting and meet In October we received the planning application your Councillors and see the lowest tier of local and drawings for the construction of a new classroom government in action! The Agenda is published and related facilities at Clapham Primary School. We the week prior to each meeting and posted on the considered the plans very carefully with regard to Clapham, Keasden and Newby notice boards. Matters their suitability for the proposed extension and also that you would like to draw to the Parish Council’s for their sympathy with the vernacular architecture attention can be raised with any of the Councillors within the Clapham Conservation Area and have whose contact details are on each of the notice boards, written back to Planning Services at North Yorkshire or email the Clerk at clapham.pc.clerk@btinternet. County Council fully supporting the application but com or telephone on 015242 51703. asking that some design matters within the proposed Next meeting: Tuesday 20 December development be reconsidered and appropriate Nicola Saward, Non-stipendiary Parish Clerk Clapham School Christmas Fair – Saturday, 3rd December, 10am to 12 noon L. PRESTON & SONS Mark Watson Proprietor: iaN PreSTON Home & Garden Maintenance Digging, fencing, hedge trimming, mowing, New & Used Car Sales paving, planting, power washing, rockeries, M.O.T. 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Wenningdale Full range of DIY products including: Home Repairs l Timber Here are some of the property maintenance l Locks and Key Cutting and improvement jobs we have completed: l Paint and Paint Mixing l Exterior painting l Curtain Tracks and Poles l Interior decorating l Housewares l Wallpapering Number one for DIY in Settle l Sash windows servicing l General household repairs in ASHFIELD CAR PARK Local, professional and competitive. StatION ROAD, SETTLE BD24 9AA Telephone 01729 823002 Mobile: 07854-596391 2 St. James’ Church Coffee Morning St. James’ Church Christmas Coffee Morning held on the blustery morning of November 26th provided an opportunity for villagers, friends and visitors to avail themselves of the excellent products made by the many talented people of Clapham. High quality craft items, delicious cakes, jams, chutney, Clapham honey and photographs and cards to delight the eye were all on sale. A raffle and tombola had some wonderful surprises. The bacon butties, homemade cakes and drinks on sale in the supper room gave the chance of a get together with neighbours which is an important part of any event in Clapham. Many thanks to those who helped in any way and to those who supported the event. £697 was raised to help maintain our parish church, A future event – book the date now – Saturday, 23rd June, all day “Clapham revealed” Further details later – not to be missed! 3 Calendar 2012 Clapham Whist The Whist Group meet at Clapham Village Hall on Friday Nights to play whist, any new members are very welcome. Future Dates: December 9th, 16th and 28th January 6th, 13th and 20th All at 7.30 pm. Proceeds go to local charities. We have recently donated £150 to the Air Ambulance and £150 to the Clapham Cave Rescue. Proceeds from the sale of this calendar will go towards the funding of Clapham and District Newsletter All images kindly donated by David Crutchley Robert Pryce Certified Electrician based in Bentham To place an order for a calendar, please contact Lesley Crutchley either by e mail or phone. Money (£5) with Domestic, Commercial, orders if possible and orders to give name, contact Test & Inspect Not VAT registered number and number of copies required. www.rpryceelectrical.co.uk Gildersbank, Clapham LA2 8EG robert@ rpryceelectrical.co.uk Tel. 015242 51433 or 07941 246470 07816 304220 Down to Earth RHS Qualified Gardeners Full maintenance and cost-effective improvements. Christmas Trees All varieties, British grown non-drip trees. On sale at Bull Beck picnic site, Caton from 10am to dusk. Please contact Joyce on 015242 22584 or mobile 078521 29852 John Murfin JAMES Plumbing & Heating MARSHALL l Boilers Joiner & Carpenter l heating systems & installations l l Established 1988 Gas Safe registered LPG l Bathrooms designed, supplied KEASDEN • CLAPHAM and installed l tiling Telephone 015242 51687 01729 825833 l 07870 164249 or Mobile 07813 117814 4 CHURCH NEWS Church Notices Christmas Services The Vicar writes . Sunday, 11th December Luke 1, v 66 ‘What then will this child be’ 7.00 pm Carols and Lessons at Newby These words were spoken immediately after the birth Sunday, 18th December of John the Baptist – what then will he become? I’m 11.00 am Christingle at Clapham sure all parents have similar feelings for the future of 6.45 pm Carols and Lessons at Keasden their own children – ‘what then will this child be’. Christmas Eve Have you ever noticed what we do when we hold 5.00 pm Crib Service a small child? We all do it! Christmas Day Our eyes. We look straight into the child’s face, and 11.00 am Family Communion silently speak the wonder, awe, love that can’t be 10.00 am Holy Communion at Keasden put into words. Our lips. We use our lips a lot when holding a baby. Sunday, New Years Day We purse them, make sounds that aren’t words, and 10.30 am at Austwick. we kiss the child from a distance. CAROL SERVICES Our arms. If ever arms expressed holding something Saturday, 3rd December precious, they do it when cradling a tiny baby. We Carols and Mulled Wine at Lawkland Hall gently sway from side to side, turn in half circles, 6.30 – 8.30 pm.