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MercuryMottram St. Andrew Issue 163 Dec / Jan 2016 1 22 Produced jointly by the Village Hall Committee and the Parish Council I’ m dreaming of a everything together as an informative community magazine, covering off all local events and White happening within our village. I try to cover all event and report their Christmas achievements to the best of my Well it is that time of year again and ability. Sometimes I get some of the yes the first mince pie of the season information wrong an cut peoples has graced my lips. Christmas has to articles short due to space be one of my favourite times of year restrictions .As an editor I try to and I do get rather giddy. The tree is make the most constructive up, Phil Specter‘s “A Christmas Gift choices and cover content which I For You” playing on the old Dansette think you all will want to know. record player and the log fire a Please see my apologies to all crackling. Arrh life is good at Goose concerned in the WI article on page Green, what more could a girl want 19. Please feel free to voice your or wish for. opinions and let me know what you Christmas is a time to unwind, relax want to read. I will be only to willing & spend time with my most precious to accept any direction from our family & friends after what has been community. You can also keep up a hectic year, a time to reflect and to date with up & coming event via appreciate just how lucky we are and our village website so please take a to spare a thought for those less look & check it out fortunate in the world around us. My www.mottramstandrew.com family & I would like to wish you all good health & happiness for 2016. The last issue has prompted a few unhappy villagers and I wish to make a public apology to whom it may concern. It is not my intent to upset or cause any ill feeling amongst my readers. As the editor it is, as you can imagine a difficult task to put x Claire Tis the season to be jolly 3 hairman’s Report Parish Council C By Bill Pilkington where school children wait in Newton in the mornings for the school bus. These will be discussed at the next Highways meeting in December and we CHESHIRE EAST LOCAL PLAN shall be pressing for action The Inspector has resumed his especially regarding the provision examination of the Local Plan and of a safe waiting area for the the revised timetable is as below. school children. Mid December. The Inspector will BROADBAND. issue his further interim views. Various members of the Parish February 2016. Cheshire East will Council and members of the publish the proposed changes for “broadband working group” public consultation. attended the event organised by Connecting Cheshire at Alderley Mid 2016. The Inspector will Park to ascertain what progress is resume his hearings. being made in providing the Late summer 2016. Main village with an improved modifications to be published for broadband speed. Currently as public consultation. you will all know it is pretty abysmal. It became clear from Late 2016. Inspector will issue his this meeting that funding is still final report. available from the initial planned Late 2016 / Early 2017. Cheshire roll out of broadband in Cheshire East will adopt the plan. and we have requested that our Whilst all of the above is going on village be allocated some of this more and more papers are being money to provide us with an delivered to Parish Councils for improved connection. consideration and early Several of us also attended an responses are required all of event in Gawsworth where which are very time consuming. “Vispa” demonstrated their HIGHWAYS wireless broadband system that can provide up to 60Mbps now at Our proposals are for a monthly cost of £29.95 per improvements to the sighting property. The company is based in exiting Mill Lane and Woodford Wythenshawe near to Lane and also improvements to Manchester Airport and they 4 Parish Council believe that they can stream a REMEMBRANCE SERVICE. broadband signal from there to us I was pleased to see so many of in Mottram St Andrew. One of you at this year’s Remembrance their representatives will be Service held in the chapel in visiting the village shortly to carry Priest Lane, led by the Reverend out some tests to verify this. It Ben Clowes, when we may be necessary to have a remembered the 23 men from repeater mast located on a high our small village community who spot in the village to cover all gave their lives on behalf of their areas. It is the intention to post country during the First and leaflets to all properties in the Second World Wars. village or place copies in this issue of the Mercury. If anyone is Merry Christmas to all our interested they can register an community from all the members interest with Vispa without of the Parish Council. Wishing you committing to purchase a good health & a prosperous broadband from them. The more 2016. people who register will help in getting them to carry out an assessment in the village. At a later date when BT get round to providing a fibre connection to the village then people can switch back to BT if they want to. FINANCE. You will all be pleased to note that the Parish Councillors at their last meeting decided that the village precept will remain unchanged at £7,000. They also agreed that the allotment rents will remain the same for next year. EMERGENCY PLAN. Domestic and Commercial Landscaping and Design This will need to be updated at For all your gardening requirements next year’s Annual General Parish meeting. Mob: 07979 751804 5 Parish Council computer. All our houses of lerk’s Report whatever size will be valued less C By Ron Taylor when they are going to be sold or mortgaged if they are located in an area that does not have basic The main topic occupying the time services including superfast of the Council and its Councillors, broadband. Therefore all of us at present, is the provision of should be interested in a service Superfast Broadband to the being available which will give the community to ensure that we are Village a very efficient connection not left behind any further as the whether we intend to use it or not. rest of the Country is served. I The service we have now is quite suspect that a significant part of frankly mundane and is not this magazine will be dedicated to considered a service at all. enlisting support for the Council's Therefore we should all be and the support groups efforts to registering an interest in the expedite the availability of this wireless connection being service which has now been proposed by VISPA. recognised as a utility that every The Village website can however household should enjoy. Council be visited intermittently at has promoted the Village to a www.mottramstandrew.com and wireless broadband supplier who for any resident who has not seen can provide an efficient superfast it yet, take a look, I think you connection relatively quickly and might like it. The Council is to further encourage their resolve receptive to any suggestions as to to offer the service to Mottram St. content to be included or for ways Andrew the Council needs your the web site can be used to support to register an interest enhance our community and with the Company VISPA. How to involve our residents more in local do this is set out in other articles events and matters of concern. this month and is very easy to do This is the last report from me this and carries no obligation at all. year and may I take the chance to The absence of superfast wish anyone who reads this broadband in the area affects us before the festivities commence, all whether we are regular users a very Happy Christmas and a of the internet in all its numerous prosperous and contented New forms or in fact don't even have a Year. 6 7 Community - News ethodist Church The Circuit to which Mottram M By Ian Wright Church belongs celebrated a ‘Circuit Prayer Day’ over the weekend of 10th/11th October during which the distances We begin this article with a big between each of the eight thank you to cover a multitude of churches were walked; on the things to be thankful about. Our Saturday from Plumley to first thanks go to Jill Hillary whose Mottram via Knutsford, organizational skills enabled the Longridge, Mobberley and chapel to benefit from a donation Alderley Edge, then on Sunday of £1,862, following the from Mottram to Over Peover via terrifically well supported Snelson as a way of ‘Evening with Adam Partridge’ demonstrating the connectivity of back at the end of September. our various congregations and This in turn enabled the fitting of encouraging mutual respect and new carpets and vinyl floor cooperation. Several intrepid covering throughout the chapel souls managed the whole with less demand on the finite distance with others joining in as resources of our current bank their age and fitness level account. allowed. Unfortunately the new carpeting A few weeks later on Sunday 8th didn’t arrive in time for the November the church was full for wedding of Robert Gee and our annual Remembrance Andrea Gail Hopkins which took Service as we met to remember place on the 26th September but those from our own community the chapel still looked spic and who served and lost their lives in span with its own very welcoming both World Wars.