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Price £1.00 to non-residents July 2018 ISSUE 109 OVER KELLET VIEW Sports Day at Wilson’s Endowed School. Year 2 girls’ race. (Left-to-right). Back: Lily Carter, Evelyn Ward, Molly Price, Katie Winder; Front: Lucy Dickens, Freya Kennon, Georgie McLachlan. Editorial Board: Peter Clinch, Paul Budd, Jane Meaden (Advertising) BOARD OF MANAGEMENT Chairs of the Parish Council and Parochial Church Council We are grateful to the above organisations for their financial support HOW TO PREPARE A CONTRIBUTION We are happy to receive electronic, typed, and legible hand-written contributions. Electronic text contributions should ideally be in Microsoft Word format, but we can accept most other formats. Please set the page size to A4 with 1.5cm margins, and use 14pt Arial font. Photos and illustrations should be sent as separate files, NOT embedded within documents; most are reproduced in black and white and benefit from good contrast. Pictures intended for the front cover should be in portrait format. Please telephone if you need help or advice: Peter (734591), Paul (732617), Jane (732456). WHERE TO SEND IT Hard-copy contributions should be sent to The Editors, c/o Tree Tops, Moor Close Lane, Over Kellet, LA6 1DF; electronic ones to the e-mail address [email protected] DEADLINE For each issue the closing date for contributions is the fifteenth of the previous month, but earlier submissions are always welcome. ADVERTSING Please email us at [email protected] for an advertising style sheet, rates and guidance. DISCLAIMER The views expressed in this magazine are those of the contributors, not necessarily those of the Editorial and/or Management Board. Every care is taken to provide accurate information, particularly in the Village Listings, Directory and Local Services. We apologise for any errors and would be pleased to have them pointed out to us. Over Kellet View is published monthly except for January and August; it is distributed to all homes within the parish of Over Kellet and is available for purchase at the Village Store. Each issue can also be seen in a colour version on the Over Kellet village website www.overkellet.org We are grateful to Gordon Galloway, the webmaster, for his expert help. ©2018 Over Kellet View, Tree Tops, Moor Close Lane [email protected] Find us on overkelletview Printed by Bay Typesetters, Morecambe Tel: 01524 850056, 07710 405864 [email protected] 2 The July View For-sale signs have gone up at the bottom of Cockle Hill outside Old Hall Farm and also by the fields behind the farm buildings, the subject of two recent successful planning applications for a total of sixty-three houses. In May a planning application was submitted for forty-three houses on land between Winder Garth and Hoggetts Lane Farm. The village seems to be under siege and at a critical point of considerable change from developers. If the proposals agreed by Lancaster City Council over the past few years are added up (leaving aside small infill developments), permission has been given outside the established built-up area as follows: three houses on land behind Yew Tree Barn, off Kirkby Lonsdale Road; fifteen on land behind Church Bank; eight in and around the yard to Old Hall Farm; and fifty-five on the fields behind the farm. That is a grand total of eighty-one houses. If the latest application near Winder Garth is agreed then a total of 124 new houses will have been approved. The Chairman of the Parish Council has calculated that allowing for an average of three occupants for each new house, the population of the village would increase by 50% on the figure in the 2011 Census. This may be good for business at local retailers but there are other serious implications: firstly, the impact on the character of the village; second, the capacity of local infrastructure to cope (especially storm and foul water drainage); third, the amount of traffic generated for our narrow roads, some having sections without pedestrian pavements; and, lastly, increased pressure on local services such as schools and health facilities within the parish and in Carnforth. Over Kellet is not alone in facing development pressures – it is happening across the whole county, as reported on the regional TV news. Lancaster City Council is being pushed by Central Government policy. What we may question is whether this push to satisfy central targets will result in an appropriate amount of housing being approved in the most appropriate locations, or simply wherever anyone is prepared to sell land to a developer, with scant regard for the impact on the local community. Some residents will have received a letter dated 23rd May from Lancaster City Council’s Development Management Technical Team, informing them of the planning application and giving them twenty-one days to comment. It is important that the strength of opinion in the village is communicated to the City Council. Even if you have missed the deadline the Council will still take late submissions into account. 3 The July View (Continued) Another document requires your attention. The revision of the Parish Plan is underway. This is the document which will guide the Parish Council on how the village should develop during the five years from 2019 to 2023. The survey questionnaire to gather residents’ views was distributed with last month’s magazine. Please make sure you complete and return it, even if it is a week or two after the stated deadline of 30th June. The information you provide will assist the Parish Council to clarify and act on the issues which affect us all. Peter Clinch OK View will take its traditional summer break, so September will be the next issue – contributions to the Editors by 15th August, please. Now that Spring is here and it’s time to head out into the garden, why not let me lend a hand? Hedge cutting & tree trimming, grass cutting & strimming, weeding & clearing, planting & potting. Phone Steve 01524 782899 07747 522434 Always cheery & dependable, leaving your garden neat & tidy. References available. 4 Church News John Bell’s Visit John Bell of the Iona Community - Church of Scotland minister, hymn-writer, and a familiar voice from Radio 4 - recently joined us for a weekend in Over Kellet. At the invitation of the Methodist and Anglican Church Councils, he led a workshop in the Village Hall on Saturday afternoon and then spoke at St Cuthbert’s on Sunday. Any talk with the title ‘The Experience of Change’ was bound to have its provocative moments. One of them came when John challenged us to think about the traditional layout of many of our churches, with seating arranged in rows and everyone facing forwards. He suggested a possible justification for this: when churches were built ‘people who knew one another didn’t need to look at each other.’ This reminded me of something said by Larry Crabb in his book ‘Becoming a True Spiritual Community’. The author uses ‘turning our chairs’ as a metaphor for connecting with one another. “A spiritual community, a church, is full of broken people who turn their chairs toward each other because they know they cannot make it alone. These broken people journey together with their wounds and worries and washouts visible, but are able to see beyond the brokenness to something alive and good, something whole.” According to John Bell, “People are in danger of losing opportunities to have real conversations.” Do you think this is true? As a Lancastrian by birth but a relative newcomer to this beautiful corner of north Lancashire, I have been struck by the friendliness of people in Over Kellet. Friendliness seems to be a feature of this village – maybe not officially recognised by a plaque on The Green, but certainly noticed by ‘incomers’. Our Methodist Friends We are saddened by the dissolution of the local ecumenical partnership with the Methodist Council after twenty-five years, but are grateful to God for this time of worshipping and serving together and for rich opportunities to learn from both traditions. We pray for our Methodist friends and assure them that they will always be welcome to worship here and that their support in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ will continue to be truly valued. Interviews for a New Vicar Interviews are due to take place on July 3rd for a new joint vicar for St Cuthbert’s, Over Kellet, and St Paul’s, Caton. If you are someone who prays, please do pray with us for this crucial appointment. Come and Join Us! All are welcome to attend the 10.30am services listed below, the weekly prayer meeting in church from 10am to 11am on Mondays, and the weekly Bible Study in the Village Hall on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. If there is anything for which you would like us to pray, please let us know. If you would like to come along to worship, to pray or to study the Bible, please do. ‘Jesus Christ is calling, calling in the streets, “Come and walk faith’s tightrope, I will guide your feet.” Listen, Lord Jesus, let my fears be few; walk one step before me, I will follow you.’ John L Bell and Graham Maule 5 Church News (Continued) Future Events th 14 July: Coffee morning in the Village Hall 10am to12 noon. 16th September: St Cuthbert’s Harvest Festival led by Bishop Julian Henderson, Bishop of Blackburn 29th September: Stewards’ Trust Day of Encouragement, Arkholme Village Hall, Speaker: Bishop James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle. All welcome, further details to follow. Penny Burnside, Churchwarden Church Services Rev Adrian Wolton, Chaplain, Ripley St Thomas July 8 All Age Worship & Baptism Academy Rev Adrian Wolton, Chaplain, Ripley St Thomas July 15 Holy Communion Academy July 22 Morning Worship To be confirmed Rev Herrick Daniel, Retired Vicar of St Barnabas, July 29 Morning Worship Blackburn Rev Clive Duxbury, Retired Parish Minister and Aug 5 Holy Communion Chaplain, HM Prison Service Aug 12 All Age Worship To be confirmed Aug 19 Holy Communion Rev Derek Raitt, Retired Vicar of Halton Rev Clive Duxbury, Retired Parish Minister and Aug 26 Morning Worship Chaplain, HM Prison Service 6 Wilson’s Endowed School News Kwik Cricket Champions! Our team became the 2018 Small Schools' winners at the annual Lancaster and District Kwik Cricket Festival held at Westgate and Torrisholme Cricket Club on a hot June afternoon.