USEFUL INFORMATION OUTSEATS County Council (DCC) Refuse Skip Dates in 2009 PARISH COUNCIL Telephone. 01629 580000 7.45am - 10.45am www.derbyshire.gov.uk Oddfellows Road Car Park Your County Councillor: Oct 24; Nov 14, 28; Dec 12 Judith Twigg: 01629 813292 Call Derbyshire 0845 605 8058 National Park (to report pot holes, streetlights) Authority (PDNPA) Telephone: 01629 816200 Derbyshire Dales District Council www.peakdistrict.org Telephone: 01629 761100 www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk Mobile Library Your District Councillors: Thursdays, 10am-1pm, 2-5.30pm David Hoskin 01433 650679 Oddfellows Road Car Park Jacque Bevan 01433 650581 NEWSLETTER - AUTUMN 2009/10 Member of Parliament Parish Council Meeting Dates Tom Levitt: Tel. 01298 71111 Issue Number 19 7.30pm on 4th Monday of month www.tomlevitt.org.uk Sampson Room, Memorial Hall The Long Causeway respected surfaces of this route. On Next meetings: 26 Oct, 23 Nov Police & Neighbourhood Watch The present route of “Long the Derbyshire side (Dennis Knoll to Derbyshire Police Call Centre Causeway”, which runs from the Stanage Pole) it is designated as an Telephone: 0345 123 3333 edge of Dennis Knoll plantation onto “unclassified Highway” and on the , where it meets the side as a “BOAT” (Byway county boundary at Stanage Pole, open to all Traffic). All vehicular YOUR PARISH COUNCILLORS was remodelled in 1771 from an users must be legal, taxed, insured older route known as “The Long and have a current MOT. Chairman : Causey”. This new road was built of This old trading route is now used for Councillor Mrs. Jane Marsden Telephone 01433 650659 gritstone hardcore and crudely recreation. Its current use by 4x4s cobbled rather than paved and took and motorbikes, with little or no Vice Chairman: a different line from the earlier road, maintenance on the Derbyshire side, Councillor Mrs. Pauline Whitney Telephone 01433 650261 which ascended the ridge via the accelerated by water damage, has

Councillor Mrs. Anne Claxton Telephone 01433 650450 Buckstone. The “Long Causey” was lead to a serious decline in its state, Councillor Bill Gordon Telephone 01433 650704 the main highway from Mytham to the point where horse use is nil, and walkers and mountain bikers Councillor Mrs. Jean Hodgkinson Telephone 01433 650746 Bridge to Sheffield; it passed by Gatehouse and joined another route, find it unpleasant to use. Most of the Councillor Graham Markham Telephone 01433 650236 which left , up archaeological surface has been Councillor Simon Taylor Telephone 01433 651810 Ridgewayside. It was a particularly destroyed and its long term future important trans-Pennine packhorse with vehicular access must be in HOW TO CONTACT THE PARISH COUNCIL route that was used as a saltway. doubt, given the cost of repair. The Today, the two Authorities of land to each side of the route has Parish Clerk: David Palmer e-mail: [email protected] Derbyshire County Council and better protection, being designated Treetops, Hill Lane, Telephone: 01433 651180 Sheffield City Council are as a Site of Special Scientific Hathersage, S32 1AY responsible for each of their Interest and Special Protection Area. A meeting was held at the Bamford Planning Joint Transport Committee (JTC) be sent to societies and businesses in Institute on 16 October 2005 under Since the last newsletter, Council The JTC are hopeful of obtaining a the Parish, to confirm their inclusion the banner of the Stanage Forum, have received notice that the Peak vehicle activated sign on the Sheffield on the website. For further details, where users and locals agreed a set District National Park Authority Road; a similar sign on the Castleton please contact the Clerk. of objectives and actions for the (PDNPA) have approved planning Road is also under discussion. management and use of the Long applications for T’Ende House, Park The JTC have received a letter from Lafarge Liaison Committee Causeway: Edge; Westwinds, Derwent Lane and Derbyshire County Council (DCC) Council have been advised that Lafarge have had an application to  A speed limit of 20 mph Pollycroft near Thorpe Farm. An Highways informing them that they use pulverised fuel ash accepted by  Traffic recording to monitor use application to make an extension to did not consider parking restrictions the PDNPA. This is a sustainable fuel  Limits on group size and frequency Cunliffe Cottage on Castleton Road on Station Approach to be necessary. was refused. PDNPA also approved, This ruling was a surprise to the JTC, that would otherwise go to waste. It  More signs, education and will mean that Lafarge will need to information about the sensitivity of subject to a number of conditions, the as all previous indications had been application from Middleton Dairy, that DCC would approve this, so JTC build a new silo and railway unloading the area for wildlife/heritage and area and an extra 91 trains of 36 consideration of other users requesting retrospective permission are considering what action to take. wagons each will travel to the site  Campaign days to spot check for for the change of use of land and buildings to a dairy delivery business Footpaths each year. illegal use and sewing business. The Council regret that DCC have not  Keeping to the designated track been able to complete the resurfacing Police & Neighbourhood Watch The Council would like to welcome  Giving way to other users Housing Needs Survey of the path between Higger Lane and  Voluntary action to help erosion Isabel Bellamy of the Derbyshire Ranmoor Lane in July, as they had PC Ian Richardson, who has joined  Make the Causeway a voluntary Rural Community Council ran a planned, because their budget had the policing team for our Parish, one way route, from Redmires to Housing Needs Survey in late 2008, become overspent. Furthermore, joining PCSO Anthony Boswell and Dennis Knoll (this has the which indicated that approximately 11 DCC Footpaths cannot provide a SC Steve Bamford. The above advantage that bikes going new affordable homes were required revised date for the resurfacing at officers can be contacted on 0345 downhill on the Stanage side make in Hathersage and Outseats. present; the Clerk continues to 123 3333 or via email on: [email protected] less noise and cause less erosion Representatives of Hathersage communicate with them about this. There have been a number of reports as they don’t have to work so Parish Council and Outseats Parish Regarding the Stepping Stones, DCC of cars parked on the pavement on hard). Council will meet soon to consider Footpaths have advised that they Jaggers Lane, obstructing prams and Since this Code was agreed, it has possible sites for development; a have been identified as a possible wheelchair users. The police advise largely been adhered to. However, meeting will then be held with a project to be undertaken jointly by that they can only take action if they the future of Long Causeway still planner from PDNPA, to walk around DCC and PDNPA, with funding from are informed of these issues remains uncertain because the two the possible development sites. the Rights of Way Improvement Plan immediately, using the above number. authorities responsible for its in 2010/11; in the meantime, Finances maintenance did not attend the engineering solutions will be Parish Council Meetings meeting and so did not necessarily Since the last newsletter, the considered with the DCC Structures Parish Council Meetings are usually agree with its conclusions (for Council’s principal expenditure was a Team. held on the fourth Monday of every example, Sheffileld City Council have contribution of £3,000 towards the month, apart from August and not provided one-way signs). To swimming pool and £725 towards the Website Committee December when no meetings are maintain the focus on this local issue, replacement of playbark on the It is planned that the village website held. Meetings start at 7.30 pm when the Parish Council have recently playing field. Other expenditure, apart should go online in early 2010 and an open forum is held for members of written to County Councillor Judith from the Clerk’s salary and expenses, that it will include a variety of the public to raise any matters of Twigg, offering her a meeting to includes renewal of subscriptions to information on tourism, concern. Meetings take place in the discuss this matter in detail, with a various associations, stationery and accommodation and activities Hathersage Memorial Hall Sampson view to moving it forward. the costs of clearing footpaths. available in both Outseats and Room. We welcome attendance by Hathersage, as well as information on our residents. the Parish Councils. Letters will soon