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UPDATE THE NORTHAW & CUFFLEY PARISH COUNCIL MAGAZINE JULY 2018 ISSUE 64 Hello Summer! INSIDE THIS ISSUE NORTHAW ANNUAL CLERK’S COMMUNITY COMMUNITY UPDATE IN ORCHARD PARTY PICTURES see page 17 see page 19 see page 20 UPDATE JULY 2018 ISSUE 64 Chairman’s Update Welcome to our Summer Update, we hope you are enjoying the summer and have had an Travis Perkins opportunity to get out into our local countryside using the new footpaths map delivered to you with the Village Day programme. Supplies more than 100,000 product lines including general building Materials, timber, plumbing & heating, kitchens, bathrooms, New Councillors Landscaping materials & tool hire. We are enjoying being back up to a full complement of Councillors and looking forward to making Next day delivery service full use of the knowledge and skills Councillor Saunders and Councillor Sharkey bring to the team. Branch Manager Assistant Manager Councillor Sharkey will sit on our Planning application Committee and Councillor Saunders will Ryan Shrives Craig Knight take her place on the Policy and Resource Committee. Why not take advantage of the Northaw & Cuffley Parish Council Buses Cash Card which offers discount on all our product lines. At the Annual Parish meeting several residents expressed their concerns at the new 242 Bus Simply bring in a copy of this advert. timetable which was leaving a long period in the morning with no service between Cuffley and Potters Bar. We promised to meet with our County Councillor Stephen Boulton after the meeting to see if there was anything that could be done to reverse this change. We met with Councillor Cuffley Branch Boulton and Metroline (the company that run the service), to discuss the changes and their impact Sopers Road, Cuffley, Herts EN6 4SE on local people. Metroline explained that since deregulation of bus services many years ago, Tel: 01707 873536 E-mail: [email protected] www.travisperkins.co.uk companies were expected to run the service so that the costs were covered by passenger fares. Opening Times On this service, to be commercial, Metroline needed two buses to cover the route rather than in Monday to Friday 7.30am – 5.00pm Saturday 8.00am – 12 noon the past four buses. Having looked at usage of the route it was very low on the trip from Cuffley through to Potters Bar except during school starting and finishing times. The problem is compounded by our local usage of the bus being mainly by Concession pass users for which the UPDATE ISSUE 64 CONTENTS company are paid about half the full fare. The County Council have in the past subsidised some bus routes particularly those with hospital routes. We reminded Councillor Boulton that this was an Editor: Jason Grocock, Clerk to the Council important method of transport to get to Potters Bar Community Hospital for some of our residents. Page The County Council however are no longer prioritising bus subsidies. Metroline explained to bring Chairman’s Update . 3 back the extra trips to and from Potters Bar they would need to add another bus to the service. Northaw Great Wood – A Unique Place to Visit! . 6 Just with running costs and without the cost of the bus itself this would be around £30,000, this FOST – Friends of St Thomas’s . 8 mainly being the cost of the driver. On average, a bus trip needs to have at least 10 passengers an hour paying full price to be commercial. At the present time the usage on this service is too low Playground News . 9 for them to be able to do this. Councillor Boulton said he would look at possibilities for other New Residents Information Packs . 10 funding and come back to us. In the mean time we need to look at the other possible transport Northaw & Cuffley Residents Association – Be Tick Aware . 11 links. We will come back to you when we hear back from Councillor Boulton. NCPC Planned Meetings 2018-19 . 12 Urgent Help Needed for Home Wood . 13 Playground 1st Cuffley Guide Company . 14 The new playground should be starting on the 9th July with a projected finish date two weeks later. What’s On at Northaw Village Hall . 16 It should therefore be fully open for the school holidays. Thank you to all the parents that have Northaw Community Orchard . 17 been part of the project and to the children who have been telling us what they want in their new Date for your Diary – Annual Community Party . 19 playground. Look out for further details in the full article in this edition. Clerk’s Update in Pictures . 20-23 Did You Know? – Plastic Pollution . 25 Neighbourhood Plan and Local Plan Footpaths for a Fitter Future . 27 There is little to report on the Local Plan at the time of going to press as it is still at the review Northaw & Cuffley Parish Local Organisations & Socieites . 30 stage but we continue to monitor. 2 3 UPDATE JULY 2018 ISSUE 64 Thinking of others Our Neighbourhood Plan is ready to be reviewed and updated before we take it to a referendum of Thinking of others all residents. We aim to have a workshop in the early Autumn and will be inviting representatives Many of the residents we speak to moved into Northaw and Cuffley for the more rural, quieter and Many of the residents we speak to moved into Northaw and Cuffley for the more rural, quieter and of the community to attend and add their views and comments. safer environment but with all the road and rail links to make commuting possible. Indeed, we do stillsafer have environment fields surrounding but with all us the and road less and crime rail than links many to make places commuting however possible. we still have Indeed, many we do complaintsstill have fields about surrounding behaviour usthat and is upsettingless crime to than others. many Much places of the however Community we still Police have Officer’smany timecomplaints that we about fund behaviouris used in dealingthat is upsetting with thoughtless to others. and Much sometimes of the Community criminal behaviour Police Officer’s that Village Day causestime that distress we fund to is others. used inThe dealing main withareas thoughtless are and sometimes criminal behaviour that Thank you to all the participants helping make Northaw and Cuffley Villages Day a successful causes distress to others. The main areas are inconsiderate parking, particularly around Cuffley School where elderly residents at certain Community event. Local groups, charities and organisations, local businesses and entertainers, timesinconsiderate of day cannot parking, get particularly out of their around drives andCuffley outside School Judges where Restaurant elderly residents in Northaw at certain volunteers and parish council staff all came together to ensure this would be an enjoyable day. aggressivetimes of day driving cannot with get verbalout of abusetheir drives on our and main outside street Judges Restaurant in Northaw Photos and a full report will be available in the Autumn Edition. Vandalismaggressive particularlydriving with in verbal our playing abuse fieldson our main street FlytippingVandalism particularly in our playing fields UseFlytipping of off road bikes on our playing fields and woods. Planning applications Use of off road bikes on our playing fields and woods. Our planning committee continues to meet fortnightly to discuss and where appropriate comment Please can we encourage all our residents to report any incidences to our PCSO and where you on planning applications in our two villages. Although the applications are decided by the Borough arePlease not canputting we yourselfencourage in danger all our residentschallenge to the report behaviour. any incidences to our PCSO and where you Council we are having some successes in influencing decisions. These meetings are open to the are not putting yourself in danger challenge the behaviour. public and residents are able to attend and put forward their reasons for thinking we should It is the actions of our residents that make the community work or not so all positive action comment or not on a specific application. Dates for meetings are on the website or contact the improvesIt is the actions things of for our everyone. residents that make the community work or not so all positive action Parish Council Office improves things for everyone. Sally Pollitt – Chairman Sally Pollitt - Chairman Grants Sally Pollitt - Chairman This year we had seven applications for Grants for Not for Profit Organisations. Six of these were invited to present their application at the Grants panel meeting as they fulfilled the criteria for Roadside Verges – Where have all the flowers gone? applying for a grant. All six were considered to be of value to the community in keeping younger and older people continuing to be physically active, independent and socially interacting, so shared the Grant total of £26,000. The applications were St Andrews Church for a project to improve access to toilet facilities for people with a disability A verge with only grass! Northaw Scouts for a project to improve their scout hut storage for large equipment such as tents for camping When you are driving through country lanes, have you noticed that you don’t see as many wild flowers on Cuffley Scouts for large mess tents for camping the roadside verges as you used to see in years gone by? “Road Verges need better management in order Cuffley Hall for work to the Hall floor to enable sports players and dancers to move on to save the increasingly scarce wild flowers from disappearing.” This is what “Plantlife” say, and they have the floors smoothly and safely just launched their latest campaign to restore wild flowers to British roadside habitats.