Mrs S Raggett Parish Clerk, 34 Balland Park Ashburton TQ13 7BT 01364 654607 [email protected]
Welcome to Rattery
We’d like to take this opportunity to welcome you as a new Parishioner. We’re a fairly small community (although our Parish covers quite a wide area), but we still manage to have a variety of activities. We hope the attached information leaflet will be helpful in enabling you to feel at home in your new surroundings as quickly as possible. If you have any further questions, ask a neighbour if applicable, or contact the Parish Clerk (details above), or myself.
We trust that you will find this is a very friendly village and we look forward to you joining in our village life.
Best wishes,
Richard Haigh Parish Council Chairman ([email protected])
Rattery Parish Council Local Information
Communication Rattery Website The best place to find information on events, activities, local groups etc. is on our website: www.ratteryvillage.co.uk
Rattery Group e-mail/Twitter If you want to be kept up-to-date with the latest Rattery news, you can join the Rattery group e-mail. Contact Richard Haigh ([email protected]) to be added. You can also get info. via Twitter - @RatteryVillage.
Community Activities The Village Hall (built by local people) is available for private hire. It offers a range of facilities including stage, bar & fully equipped kitchen, seating for 150 and parking for 85 cars. You can book online, via the village website, or tel. Kay Gautry 01364 72475. New committee members are always welcome.
Full details of the various activities which take place in the Hall are on the village website. These include: • A Grand Plant Sale - held on the 1st Saturday in May • The Village Badminton Club - meets at 8pm on Monday at the Village Hall during the winter and every other Monday in the summer. Just turn up. • Annual Garden Show & Sports on the 1st Saturday in August where young and old can celebrate their first fruits and other skills and where everyone can have a run in the races. Schedules available from the Village Hall and pub. New Committee members welcome – call 01364 64368. • Ladies Night is held in the Church House Inn Pub on the 2nd Tuesday of the Month.
Education Rattery is part of the catchment area for Dartington Primary School & Nursery – 01803 862357. King Edward VI Community College – (KEVICCs) 01803 869200. Free School Transport is provided to both schools.
Health GP Surgeries: - South Brent 01364 72394. - Buckfastleigh 01364 642534. - Totnes – Leatside 01803 862671 or The Plains – Catherine House Surgery 01803 862073.
Hospitals (with A&E department): Derriford Hospital (Derriford Road, Plymouth, PL6 8DH) Tel: 0845 155 8155 or 01752 202082 Torbay Hospital (Lowes Bridge, Torquay, TQ2 7AA) Tel: 0300 456 8000 or 01803 614567
Minor Injuries Unit: Totnes Hospital (Coronation Road, opposite the fire station). 01803 862622; 8am -8pm, 7 days a week, including bank holidays (X-rays: Monday-Fri.9am- 1pm).
Current waiting times for Torbay and Totnes Hospitals can be found on: www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk/services/urgent-and-emergency-care/ed- miu-waiting-times/#totnes-community-hospital
Parish defibrillator: is housed in the gateway to St Mary's churchyard where it is accessible 24 hours a day. Using the defibrillator is very easy and full instructions are on the device itself.
Housing Liberty Housing Association (formerly Devon & Cornwall Housing) 01392 252566 have a small development of new houses in the village. South Devon Rural Housing Association 01803 863550 have a number of bungalows for elderly & disabled people & some housing for young people to rent in the Village. For info. on renting: www.devonhomechoice.com. For info. on buying: www.helptobuysw.org.uk.
Local Produce Market, Post Office and Coffee Morning Tuesdays 10.00 - 11.15 a.m. in the village hall - outreach Post Office with full facilities and a local producers’ market selling a range of foodstuffs (e.g. eggs, preserves, cakes, flans, fish, bread vegetables, pork products, plants, cards and more). A chance to meet other parishioners over a cup of tea or coffee and cake.
Library DCC mobile library visits village hall carpark on Tuesday 10-11.15am once every 4 weeks; Books and jigsaw puzzles are available to borrow from the Village Library in the village hall
Parking If you or your visitors park on the road anywhere in the parish, please ensure there is enough width left for emergency vehicles/tractors etc. to pass at all times. Additional parking is available in the ‘Village Green’ Car Park outside the Church for residents & their visitors, or if this is full, in the Village Hall car park when not in use for an organised event.
Parish Council The Parish Council meets monthly (except for August) plus an Annual Parish meeting (April) at the Village Hall. Notice of meetings, which are all open to the public, are put on the Parish Council Noticeboard on the Village Green. If you wish to have any matters put on the Agenda, either contact the Clerk (Sharon Raggett 01364 654607), or come along to the meeting and have your say in Parishioners and Public Question time at the start of each meeting. The Parish Council also has the following active advisory sub-groups: Business and Telecomms; Highways and Drainage; Environment: Young People; Building and Land Development. You don’t have to be a Council member to be part of these groups and new members are always welcome. If you have expertise/enthusiasm you’d like to share in any of these groups, contact the Clerk. If you’d like to know more about becoming a Parish Councillor come along to meetings to find out more - elections are held every 4 years. Pre- election training courses can be arranged if sufficient numbers of people are interested.
Parish Paths There are several Public and Permissive Footpaths and unmetalled roads (which resemble Green Lanes) within the Parish. Please follow the Country Code and keep dogs under control when livestock is present. Dog owners are asked in the interests of hygiene to clear up after their pets & put it in the bin provided outside the public footpath opposite the village green (church/pub) carpark. Our volunteer Parish Paths Co-ordinator is always glad of volunteers to help with the upkeep of the paths: contact him via the Clerk 01364 644109.
Playing Field Children can enjoy the slide, see-saw, swings & climbing frame in the playing field. This can be reached via Garden Park. The Parish Council are responsible for the maintenance of the equipment and grass.
Policing/Crime Prevention Rattery is covered by Totnes Police Station, Ashburton Road, Totnes TQ9 5JY Non- emergency Telephone: 101 Crime Stoppers: 0800 555 111
Pub Will and Sarah at The Church House Inn offer a warm welcome, with an excellent cellar, good food and quiz and music nights. 01364 642220. www.thechurchhouseinn.co.uk
Recycling & Waste collection Refuse Collection: is usually on a Friday. South Hams – calendar B – with grey bins (landfill) alternating with brown bins and recycling sacks. Spare recycling sacks are available in the village hall. Recycling: A glass recycling bank is in the Rattery Village Hall Carpark. White goods (old fridges etc.) can be collected by the District Council but a charge is made. The nearest recycling centre is at Babbage Road, Totnes Industrial Estate. A Tetrapak recycling bank is in the Heathfield car park in Totnes.
Senior Citizens Senior Citizens Luncheon Club: is held the first Thursday of the month at the Village Hall.
Age UK has a free advice line for the elderly or their relatives, on 0800 055 6112. Lines are open 8am-7pm, 365 days a year.
Soup Group A great way to meet other villagers - once a month, some-one in the village will volunteer to host a soup evening for other parishioners. Details are given on posters throughout the village, on Rattery group e-mail, or contact Terry Underhill 01364 72314 [email protected].
Street Cleaning South Hams District Council keeps the roads & lanes clean and litter free. Dog owners are asked in the interests of hygiene to clear up after their pets & put it in the bin provided outside the public footpath opposite the village green (church/pub) carpark.
Sustainability Local business: You can help the local economy by sourcing goods and services locally - see the Local Businesses & Services listing on the Rattery village website. Parishioners are welcome to advertise their goods and services on the notice board on the left-hand side of the entrance to the village green car park.
Local Farmers Markets: Buckfastleigh on Thursdays a.m.; Totnes last Saturday of the month a.m; Ivybridge 3rd Saturday of the Month a.m.
Transport - Stagecoach Gold route Torquay-Totnes-Dartington-South Brent-Plymouth. See Stagecoach’s website for timetable details. - Stagecoach’s South West Falcon service operates a regular Plymouth-Exeter- Taunton-Bristol service stopping at Marley Head. - People with limited mobility can get help with transport for medical appointments, shopping etc. via Totnes Caring (01803 865684 [email protected]) or South Brent and District Caring (01364 700282 [email protected]). - Trains – run from Totnes (5 miles) Ivybridge (8 miles). Timetables for all trains from Totnes Station are available online and from 0845 484950.
Twinning We are twinned with Brains-sur-les March in northern France and there are regular exchanges between our villages. Contact Janine Walker (secretary) for more information. Telephone 01364 649272 or e-mail [email protected].
Worship St. Mary’s Church, Rattery is one of seven churches which make up the Dart and Avon Mission Community. Team Rector is Reverend Professor Gina Radford. Further information can be found on the village website.
If you have any queries regarding the church please contact the secretary - Kay Gautry 01364 72475.
Young People Wild Garden Children’s Group: meets weekly on a Wednesday from 10-12pm. The group is focused on early years, walking to 7/8, but is open to all children (accompanied by an adult). Contact: [email protected]
Rattery Village Youth Club: meets in the village hall every other Monday from 6pm - all welcome. For further information, contact Frankie Eriksson: [email protected]
Other Information • RSPCA Ambulance Service 0990 555999 24hrs • Animals in Distress (unwanted animal centre) 01803 812121 • South Devon Hedgehog Hospital : 07716 768618 • Unwanted Mail: Mail Preference Service – Freepost 22, London W1E 7EZ • Unwanted Phone Calls: Telephone Preference Service 0845 070 0707
Parish Councillors
Chair – Richard Haigh 01364 72239 [email protected] (Building/Land Development) Vice Chair – Lister Bass [email protected] (Highways & Drainage) Clerk – Sharon Raggett 01364 654607 [email protected]
Peter Smerdon (also District 01364 642207 [email protected] Councillor)
Linda Jopson [email protected]
Kim Howard 01364 642511 [email protected] (Environment) Robert Hatt 01364 642737 [email protected] (Bus.& Telecom) Vacant
(Young People) The Parish Council has a lead councillor on each of the following advisory groups: Business & Telecom, Highways and Drainage, Environment, Young People, Building and Land Development. If you have a particular interest or expertise in any of these areas and would like to join a group, the lead councillors would be delighted to hear from you.
County Councillor: Mr Richard Hosking; [email protected]
Useful Contacts
South Hams District 01803 861234 www.southhams.gov.uk Council
South Hams DC Out of 01803 867034 Hours
Devon County Council 0845 155 1015 https//new.devon.gov.uk
DCC Highways 01392 383329 www.highways.gov.uk
999 (Emergencies) Devon & Cornwall 101 (Non- www.devon- Police emergencies) cornwall.police.uk 08452 777444 (Enquiries)
999 (Emergencies) Devon Fire & Rescue www.dsfire.gov.uk 01392 872200 (Enquiries)
999 South Western (Emergencies) www.swast.nhs.uk Ambulance 01392 261500
(Enquiries)
www.environment- Environment Agency 03708 506506 agency.gov.uk/ (Floodline) (0345 988 1188) homeandleisure/floods
Radio Devon 01752 260323 www.bbc.co.uk/radiodevon
Heart FM South West 01752 275600 www.heart.co.uk/southwest
From a landline: British Telecom (for 0800 800 151 www.bt.com phone faults) From a mobile: 0330 123 4151
Gas Leaks 0800 111999 https//swgas/safety
https://www.westernpower.c Power Cuts 0800 6783105 o.uk
South West Water 0344 346 2020 www.southwestwater.co.uk (emergencies)
Local Information
Derriford Hospital, Derriford Rd. 0845 155 8155 or 01752 202082 Plymouth
Torbay Hospital, Lowes Bridge, 0300 456 8000 or 01803 614567 Torquay
Minor Injuries Unit, Coronation 01803 862622 Road, Totnes
Doctors: South Brent Buckfastleigh 01364 72394 01364 642534 01803 Totnes (Leatside) 862671 01803 862073 Totnes (Catherine House)
Schools: Dartington Primary 01803 862357 01803 869200 KEVICCS
St Mary Church 01364 649070
Village Hall (bookings) 01364 72475
Church House Inn 01364 642220
June 2019