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At Positive Health we offer: • Osteopathy Could • Daytime and Evening Pilates Classes • Women’s Health Physiotherapist your business • Reflexology/Aromatherapy/Massage • Lashes/Waxing/Facials benefit from advertising • Counselling here? • Sports Massage Please contact us for more information. Only £155 per year. Telephone - 01732 887371 First Floor, Unit 1 , Bourne Enterprise Centre Enquiries to Borough Green, Kent, TN15 8DG Richard Hughes www.positivehealthcentre.co.uk 01732 886260 ii HRH Prince Philip: 10th June 1921 – 9th April 2021 A loyal husband, he led a life of service, courage and unstinting dedication – a champion of the young iiii • APPROVED CONTRACTOR iiiv VILLAGE NEWS Published by St Mary’s Platt Church for the community and delivered free to all houses in St Mary’s Platt, Wrotham Heath, Comp, Crouch, Basted Mill and the Old Sawmill. Church Address: Long Mill Lane, Platt, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 8NE See also the church website: achurchnearyou.com/church/16926 Vicar – The Revd Dr Lorraine Turner The Vicarage, 24 Maidstone Rd, Borough Green, TN15 8BD Email: [email protected] 01732 882447 Reader, Pastoral Assistant and Anna Chaplain Jane Sankey, Orchard House, 71 Sevenoaks Rd, Borough Green, TN15 8AR email: [email protected] 01732 883212 Reader Jan Martin, Flat 13, Roman Court, Borough Green, TN15 8NY email: [email protected] 01732 884417 Churchwardens Lucilla Mackay, 65 Crouch Lane, Borough Green, TN15 8LU email: [email protected] 01732 882045 David Mills, 3 Mays Cottages, Platt Common, St Mary’s Platt, TN15 8JX email: [email protected] 01732 885253 PCC Hon. Treasurer Alan Senior, Wismer, Long Mill Lane, St Mary’s Platt, TN15 8NA email: [email protected] 01732 886245 PCC Hon. Secretary Jan Martin, Flat 13, Roman Court, Borough Green, TN15 8NY Email: [email protected] 01732 884417 Village News magazine Editor Jane Sankey, Orchard House, 71 Sevenoaks Rd, Boro’ Green, TN15 8AR email: [email protected] 01732 883212 Deputy Editor Lucilla Mackay,65 Crouch Lane, Borough Green, TN15 8LU email: [email protected] 01732 882045 Advertising for Village News Richard Hughes, 38 Greenlands, St Mary’s Platt, TN15 8LL email: [email protected] 01732 886260 Clerk to Platt Parish Council Jackie Davies, Bluebell Place, Grange Rd, St Mary’s Platt, TN15 8LD email: [email protected] 01732 886822 Parish Council website www.hugofox.com/community/platt-parish-council-12617 ADVERTISEMENT RATES FOR VILLAGE NEWS FROM JANUARY 2020 Enquiries to Richard Hughes (see contact details on p1). Please make all cheques out to St Mary’s Platt PCC. If out of local area, please send sae for copy of Village News if required If possible, please send adverts in Word, Publisher or Power Point. Rates given are per month / per calendar year (10 issues) Colour Black & White Premium position on inside cover ½ Annual £305 N/a page Premium position on inside cover ¼ Annual £155 N/a page ½ Page (12 x 8.5cm) from £33 / £264 £24 / £192 ¼ Page (6 x 8.5cm) from £17 / £136 £12 / £96 NOTICE BOARD (small ads) Up to 20 words £6.00 / £48 Please Note: external advertising in this magazine does not imply an endorsement or promotion of the advertisement, nor its content, products or services. Errors & omissions, whilst regrettable, may occur. Copy and Collating dates for Village News The next issue is for June Copy to the editor by Wednesday 12th May Collating: Friday 28th May This edition will be issued online even if a hard copy is available. Articles to be under 600 words except by arrangement with the editor. For the July/August issue Copy date: Wednesday 9th, Collating Friday 25th June Cover photograph: Aerial View of the new Platt School building under construction. Photo taken by Scott Wishart Cover designed by Don Braithwaite. The colour pages are printed by Langford Printers, Chaucer Business Park, Kemsing 2 CONTENTS From the Vicar 5 From the Editor 8 Platt Church’s Annual Meetings 13 Borough Green Bowls Club 15 Café Platt Reopens 16 Borough Green Library 17 Bedding Plant Sale 18 Ightham and District Gardeners Club 18 From Your County Councillor 20 BG Medical Practice – Update 23 Health Walk Returns 24 Running out of Lockdown 25 Platt Memorial Hall Garden 27 From Your MP 32 CHURCH REGISTERS Funeral 15th April Elizabeth Heighton (88), formerly of Ascot Close, Borough Green Services conducted by Revd Lorraine Turner We offer our condolences to family and friends FLAG DAYS The St George’s flag will be flown from the church tower on Ascension Day, Thursday, 13th May, and again for Pentecost (Whit Sunday), 23rd May Chris Jeffrey and David Palmer Abbreviations and locations: MH = Memorial Hall, CR = Memorial Hall Committee Room. The Hall is accessed off the A25 via Platinum Way, TN15 8FH or via the steps (just by the pedestrian lights). GR = Garden Room (adjoining the church) Stonehouse Field – signposted from Long Mill Lane. 3 WROTHAM J. LAWRENSON COMPUTER CARE TREE & FENCING SPECIALIST Computer help (Est. 1973) at your Home or Office • PRUNING, FELLING, SURGERY PCs and Apple Macs • HEDGE TRIMMING • SHRUBS & BUSHES PRUNED We are a local company providing • STUMP & GARDEN CLEARANCE an affordable service to local ALL TYPES OF FENCING families, professionals, businesses INCLUDING CLOSEBOARDED, PALISADE, POST & RAIL and schools. GATES SUPPLIED & ERECTED For more details please contact us Fully Insured, Council Approved 01732 780176 or 07795 552440 Free Estimates & Advice [email protected] [email protected] www.wrothamcomputercare.com 01732 884541 Chocolate and Sweet Bouquets and Treats! D. P. S. Selling beautifully made chocolate and sweet bouquets Definitive Plumbing and treats! Services A perfect gift for so many occasions! A Local Quality Service All Domestic Repair, Easter Congratulations Birthdays Thank You Maintenance and Installation Mother's Day Get Well Soon Works Father's Day Teacher Gifts Valentine’s Day New Home Free Survey/Estimates Contact : Mark Jeffery www.facebook.com/sweetserendipitytreat/ Tel: 01732 882538 www.instagram.com/sweet_serendipitytreats/ Mob: 07813 353493 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: 07538 577135 4 LETTER FROM THE VICAR Hello, I am delighted we have progressed along the Covid recovery roadmap and are now able to socialise outside in groups of six. Going home after the church service without talking to each other has felt very unnatural and it’s lovely this has come to an end. In other signs of recovery, our choir is ready to start rehearsing together shortly and there was some outside hymn singing for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, something we hope to do again at Pentecost (23rd May). Looking at the Public Health England Covid map I see our area is coloured white which means it is considered that Covid is suppressed in this area. I hope, through maintaining current safety measures, we can embrace the freedoms offered and stay on track for our next stage of recovery, with increased indoor social activity from May 17th. This would, of course, open the door to a return to ‘Covid Safe Café Platt’ which is eagerly awaited by so many. Preparations for starting our Health Walks once more are also under way. This month sees two significant events for our church. Firstly, a visit from Bishop James, as he approaches retirement. He will be able to preside at our Confirmation Service on 9th May. Secondly, our annual general meeting is on 23rd May. This is a meeting in two parts. In the first part any adult who lives in the parish or is on the church electoral roll can vote for a churchwarden. In the second part, those who are on the church electoral roll can vote for Parochial Church Council members. However, for wider interest, everyone is welcome to take a look at our Annual Report to see how 2020 went. This will be available online or as a paper copy; our meeting will be a mix of ‘in person’ and ‘by Zoom’ attendance. Standing for the PCC is something I would encourage for anyone who is at a stage in their faith where they receive communion. It is good for people new to church life as they bring fresh perspectives; it is good for people who have worshipped for many years as they bring a long-term appreciation of our work. The minimum age for PCC members is 16. If you are interested in standing for the PCC do have a word with me, our churchwardens or an existing PCC member. There is a little nomination paperwork to submit ahead of the meeting but we would be happy to help with this. God Bless, Lorraine, Revd Dr Lorraine Turner, Vicar, 882477 5 CHURCH NOTES Public worship on Sundays at 10.30 will be held in the church as well as continuing our Zoom service for those who feel it is best to remain at home. To Zoom, please use: https://zoom.us/j/2749958875 the password is ‘worship’. Thank you for following our Covid-19 safety guidelines with such seriousness. If you are wanting to come to the service, please book if possible to help our planning. It is important to remember that we have not yet reached a point in the government's road map where we can socialise indoors before or after worship. So please go straight to your seats when you arrive and wait for guidance at the end of the service so we can keep the exit clear. We are now able to socialize outdoors in groups of two households or 6 people, if you take advantage of this please stay as part of a particular group of 6 without moving around other groups. Also consider carefully your own level of risk and those around you and remember to maintain a separation of at least 1m from other households.