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In Touch™™ © © with Beyton, Drinkstone, Elmswell, Haughley, Hessett, Norton, Tostock, Wetherden & Woolpit Volume 4 • Issue No. 6 • SEPTEMBER 2020 Image by Nigel Paul YOUR LOCAL PERSONAL INJURY SPECIALISTS Our experienced personal injury lawyers handle accident claims arising out of incidents at work, home, on the roads, on holiday or in a public place in the UK or abroad. We provide personal, dedicated and professional support from the moment that you contact us through to the conclusion of your case. We deal with claims on a No Win No Fee basis. This means that whether or not your case is successful, you will not be responsible for our fees. Call us on 01473 232121 or email at [email protected] Elm House, 25 Elm Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2AD @Prettys_Law @PrettysSolicitors Prettys www.prettys.co.uk 2 In Touch online: A WORD FROM THE EDITOR NEWS My social life has been turned upside down in the last few months. I used to walk GREEN LIGHT FOR 300 HOMES into town on Saturday morning, list in hand, to visit the shops and the market stalls, meet with friends for coffee and wander home in time for lunch. Now I ENABLES NEW VILLAGE SCHOOL walk into town on Saturday afternoon when it’s likely to be quieter and wave at friends from a distance. I know this isn’t what most of you might define as a Detailed plans for 300 new homes at Woolpit received the go ahead ‘social life’ (and I must admit it looks pretty sad now I see it in writing) but I’ve recently, securing affordable homes for low income house-hunters, highways been ‘off the scene’ for many years and happy to be so. Of course I like to paint improvements and a new primary school for the village. the town red (crimson rather than fire engine) on occasion but it’s been a while Applicant Hopkins Homes sought permission for development of land off since my weekends were spent in pubs and clubs, never knowing what might happen. Or who I might meet! Bury Road, The Street, which was granted by Mid Suffolk District Council’s planning committee in February 2020. I did meet my husband in a packed pub back home in Ballinasloe (yes, Guinness was involved!), so for the sake of those who do enjoy an active social life or who Proposals incorporate 60 affordable homes, 45 of which will be affordable haven’t yet met Mr or Mrs Right, I’m delighted the pubs are open again, making rental properties, allowing residents to benefit from lower rents than the an extraordinary effort to adhere to guidelines and ensure the safety of staff and local market rate. The remaining 15 homes will provide opportunities for patrons. Restaurants too; eating a meal I haven’t had to cook myself and not shared ownership, helping those struggling to get on the housing ladder to having to clear up afterwards is a thrilling (yes, thrilling) prospect right now. In buy their own home. Both the affordable and market homes will range in fact we’ve booked a table at the new Italian restaurant in town and I’ve already decided what I’m having. I start from the back, with dessert, and work upwards size, accommodating first time buyers, families and local residents wishing and shall be enjoying vanilla pannacotta with wood-roasted apricots at about to downsize. 9pm on Saturday evening. The development will benefit from large public open spaces, including land to Live performance is making a comeback too, which is wonderful news for the east of the site to accommodate the future expansion of Woolpit Cricket venues, artists and audiences. It will be interesting to see if performers and Club. Land will also be gifted to increase capacity at the village hall car park, writers have been inspired by their lockdown experience. In fact, if you haven’t allowing for further enjoyment of this popular community space. already watched Staged, a BBC comedy starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, find it now on BBC iPlayer. It’s a wonderful treat. This is in addition to the allocation of over five acres of land to Suffolk County If there is anything positive to take from our experience of Covid-19, it must Council for use as the site of a new 420-place primary school, together with a be that it has taught us to be kind and caring. We know we can pull together 90-place pre-school centre. These new provisions will be partly funded by the when needs must and now we must use our spending power to support our developer, with s106 conditions requiring a contribution of over £1million on local economy and attempt to stave off further job losses. Every penny you completion of the new homes. spend locally will help to secure the future of a local business and its employees, possibly even people you know. Another condition set out by the council, will see the applicant fund vital Enjoy your freedom safely, consider the safety of others and together we can local highways infrastructure projects, including the introduction of a new make this ‘new normal’ work in everyone’s best interests. roundabout on the interchange between the A14 and A1088. In their feedback on proposals, Suffolk Highways supported the improvement, stating it would reduce the risk of traffic accidents at this location – benefiting all Published by: Mansion House Publishing (UK) Ltd, 20 Wharfedale Road, Ipswich IP1 4JP road users. 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The new group has 17 members, one more than the Conservatives A FEEL-GOOD FACTOR STORY who will need to rely upon the Independent member and chairman’s casting vote to get through any policies that we disagree with (such as the CIFCO WITH A VERY POSITIVE OUTCOME investments). It was 22 November 2019, the Rachel Eburne is the Leader of the new group and she has asked the Stowmarket Christmas Light Conservative Leader for a more collaborative approach, working for the Switch-on was underway and benefit of residents of the district. One of our key priorities is social housing Linda Baxter, Phoenix Counselling for local need that is sustainable and environmentally friendly. If you have any Practice Lead, stopped for an comments to make, please get in touch. informal chat at a stall run by At the most recent council meeting, a motion put forward by Green Councillor Stowmarket Gipping Valley Rotary Rachel Eburne to halt all future investment in the councils’ commercial Club. With the Rotary keen to get property investment arm, CIFCO, failed by one vote.