BRYMPTON NEWSLINK- Autumn 2017
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Autumn 2017 Brympton BRYMPTONNewslink NEWSLINK- Autumn 2017 Serving and informing the Community PARISH COUNCIL ISSUES www.brymptonparishcouncil.gov.uk Thoughts from the Chairman PARISH COUNCIL NEWS Welcome to the latest edition of Newslink. As we Parish Councillors approach the Winter months I hope residents have had Bob’s back! Having had a change of heart Bob Brookes is back with us as a parish councillor. the opportunity to have enjoyed the longer, warmer We welcome his return. days that are called Summer! Unfortunately Eddie Galjaard has since resigned but at the time of writing we are looking to co-opt Stephen As this is my first opportunity to pass on my thoughts I Attrill so we should be back up to full strength (11 thought that a brief introduction would be appropriate, Councillors) by the time you read this. so here goes – Back in May, at the Annual meeting of Brympton PC we elected a new Chairman, Barbara Appleby, and Vice I originate from Hampshire and was drafted by the Chairman, Graham Pritchard. Other Councillors were Royal Navy to Yeovilton in 1978 and have remained in elected to stand as parish reps within various other the Yeovil area ever since. I have resided in the East organisations. and West of Yeovil and for the last 15 years in Westlands Leisure Centre Brympton Parish. I have seen many changes to Yeovil District Councillor Ric Pallister, Leader of South and surrounding area, the first big change that I recall Somerset District Council, attended the Parish Council was the Quedam Shopping Centre and the move of meeting in July and gave a brief history of the Yeovil Town Football to its current location - I did watch Westlands leisure complex and an update on the current position. BPC originally chose not to allocate Yeovil play at the Huish Ground on its famous sloping funding to the improvement works that were needed pitch and recall that play had to stop briefly due to a cat but may possibly reconsider the situation coming onto the pitch. Future Projects We still have a couple of projects in the Brympton Parish has increased rapidly over the years, ‘pending’ tray, mainly because they involve first with the development of Abbey Manor Park, then input from other organisations and/or the Alvington and now Augusta Park/Lufton Key Site. The right time of year. Lufton site will bring the much needed additional We would, however, welcome any ideas or requests for primary school and provide community facilities to the future consideration and, providing they are within the parish. The parish council are supporting the remit of the parish council we will happily consider development of the Kingfisher Community Association them. If they are outside of our remit we may be able to persuade others to implement them. Suggestions and hope that this will grow into a successful please. community group which will complement the Abbey Manor Community Association. Building Bridges! The footbridge from Tintagel Road to the King Arthur It is important that residents let the parish council know Drive area is shortly to be repaired by SSDC. The work what their concerns, ideas and thoughts are and we will involve provision of a ramp at the Tintagel Road end to make it disabled friendly. Whilst the works are welcome all residents to attend parish council meetings. in progress access will of course be restricted. What matters to you, matters to us! What a Waste At a cost of approximately £200 BPC has The majority of Brympton’s councillors reside in the arranged for the installation of a new litter bin parish and therefore we are all experiencing the same at the bus layby in Monks Dale as the previous issues and concerns. We endeavour to be a proactive one has ‘disappeared’. council and look forward to meeting our residents at Correction meetings and events in the future. In the last edition of Newslink I mentioned our Ranger, Darren. Please note that he is jointly funded by SSDC Barbara Appleby, Chairman of BPC and BPC. Dog Poo! – We’ve been asked to remind dog owners that (with certain exceptions) Public Footpaths they are required by law to pick up after their dogs when they have messed. It’s a In his capacity as the County Council’s Parish Path health risk and it’s downright anti-social. Liaison Officer Bob Brookes has produced an annual To be fair, most dog owners do act Report on public footpaths in the parish. This can be responsibly but there are a few that don’t. seen on the BPC website. Brympton Parish Council - Newslink Serving and informing the Community Edition 56 1 Autumn 2017 Brympton Newslink Autumn 2017 MORE PARISH COUNCIL STUFF PLANNING Oak Tree Park - ‘Youth Days’ The parish council is waiting with bated breath for the outcome of the planning appeal submitted by In August another successful youth YTFC in respect of their application to create a recreation event took place at field near Lufton. This application was refused by SSDC Oak Tree Park. At on various grounds. this ‘Youth Days’ In the meantime, the future proposals for the Brimsmore event there were Key Site development north of Thorne Lane were the loads of activities as subject of a public consultation exercise at Johnson Park well as the back in June. This site is not actually in Brympton parish skateboarding and but will obviously have an impact. Did you go and have a it was very well look? If not you can find it on the SSDC website. supported. The other major planning application in the pipeline is The event was organised jointly by the Somerset Rural the one submitted for a supermarket (possibly Youth Project team and SSDC with financial assistance Sainsbury’s) on the land opposite the SSDC offices. This from BPC. greenfield site was, with some reservations and We may be looking to change the format next year, any conditions expressed by the Planning Inspector, allocated ideas? in the Local Plan for use as a ‘high quality business park’ but the applicants argue that this type of allocation is not financially ‘viable’ . Lufton Villa Brympton Parish Council, along with some neighbouring Dr James Gerrard and his Councils, has objected to this application on various archaeological students were back at grounds. SSDC, as Planning Authority, will be making the the Lufton Villa site at the end of July decision. Details can be seen on the SSDC website at and we hope that members of the southsomerset.gov.uk/planningdetails/?id=1702805HYB public took the opportunity to visit RID the excavation works. Dr Gerrard gave an interesting talk on the latest findings which are summarised below. Further details can be seen Boundary Review on the BPC website. The Government’s Boundary Commission has advised Part of the excavation work was intended that a review of Ward boundaries within South Somerset to supplement investigation works carried District Council’s area is taking place to adjust the out several years ago by a Mr Hayward number of electors that each District Councillor but in the course of the latest work they represents. At the moment, in the 39 Wards, there is actually identified a previously some variance and the ongoing housing developments unexcavated room and additional elements also need to be taken into account. The intention is to of the fish mosaic in the ‘bath house’. keep the total number of District Councillors at 60, as existing, but just ‘shuffle’ them around a bit. One of the trenches found a late Roman rubbish layer A 10 week public consultation commenced on 22nd containing fresh pieces of Roman pottery and some August and details can be seen at www.lgbce.org.uk. significant animal bone assemblages which have been As far as Brympton is concerned, the 5658 existing taken for scientific analysis. The team also found a electors in the ‘Brympton’ Ward are currently fragment of a brooch and 15 Roman coins. represented by two District Councillors (Peter Seib and Post-excavation work from last season and this season Sarah Lindsay). The Lufton development will increase continues and they have so far analysed the coins, the these elector numbers significantly over the coming pottery, the animal bone, the human bone (from a years. Also, BPC believes that the southern bit of Abbey disturbed infant burial), the terrestrial molluscs, the Manor (basically south of Stourton Way) should be marine molluscs, the charcoal and burnt seeds, soil incorporated into the Brympton Ward as this is really micro-morphology, geological materials and survey data. part of the ‘Abbey Community’. There are some 400 Digitisation of the plans and stratigraphic analysis is houses here that are currently split between the ‘Yeovil continuing. West’ and ‘Yeovil South Wards’. What do you think? Overall this season has helped to locate where the latest Suggested area for inclusion in excavations are in relation to Hayward’s plan of the villa. SSDC’s They have also been able to show the state of Brympton Ward preservation of the mosaics in the bath house and their depth. In addition the recent excavations have generated new Ave. Western information about the Roman activity on the site. Dr Gerrard and his team are currently working on the technical report (post-excavation assessment) required by Historic England and we have been promised a copy ASDA of this. Brympton Parish Council - Newslink Serving and informing the Community Edition 56 2 Autumn 2017 Brympton Newslink Autumn 2017 Kingfisher Community Association HIGHWAYS Residents from the Lufton/Houndstone area Stourton Way Traffic Calming Scheme – Our have established a new Community County Councilor , Josh Williams, advises that he organisation (‘Kingfisher’ – named after the has spoken to the Highways design team and they say that new school) to look after the interests of the design work for the traffic calming is almost complete.