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Bricklehampton · Elmley Castle Kersoe · Netherton UPDATE & NEWS FROM YOUR PARISH COUNCIL Issue 4: Spring 2020 Issue 4 | Spring 2020 2 Bricklehampton, Elmley Castle, Kersoe & Netherton Parish Council Update & News Welcome Welcome Welcome to the fourth edition of Update & News from your Parish Council detailing activities in Bricklehampton, Elmley Castle, Kersoe and Netherton. This spring everyone’s attention If anyone self-isolating has is on the news and the global nobody living nearby to help Bricklehampton · Elmley Castle spread of the Coronavirus they can contact the Clerk Kersoe · Netherton UPDATE across the country. Though the on 07586 567777 (Clerk@ & NEWS virus is relatively mild for 80% ElmleyCastleParishCouncil.gov. FROM YOUR PARISH COUNCIL of those who contract it, we all uk) and one of your Councillors need to be conscious of the will do what they can to help greater risk for those who are with collecting shopping, posting elderly and have underlying letters, walking dogs etc. We conditions. can’t promise to find elusive luxuries like hand sanitizer or It looks like the next few weeks loo roll, but we will do our best. and months could be a difficult time for everyone, so more Issue 4: Spring 2020 than ever keep an eye out for your neighbours and the most vulnerable members of our community. 3 Issue 4 | Spring 2020 Village Appearance & Maintenance Village Appearance & Maintenance Our villages are beautiful but need constant and ongoing maintenance to keep them in the best possible condition. Children’s Play Area New Homes Bonus Grant Following on from the Community Consultation back in July we have now found a suitable contractor to undertake the works at a cost consistent with our available New Homes Bonus fund. The proposed works involve replacing the bark and deteriorating “soft-pour” surfaces with a new Cushion Village Gates Discoloured Road Signs Fall loose impact absorbent surface (LIAS) across the whole The new village gates have We have secured a commitment play area. Upgrade the existing now been installed at the two from the Highways department swings to a 1m diameter basket main entrances to Elmley that the discoloured direction nest swing and upgrading the Castle. They are the design signs in the villages will be plastic panels on the play tower that was chosen by the majority replaced. There is currently an to Sequoia timber panels with of respondents in the first understandable backlog of work new artwork. community consultation held as a result of recent flooding, in July 2019. The feedback we but it is anticipated that these We have requested the release have received has been very will be replaced within the next of the New Homes Bonus funds positive and we hope you agree few months. with the support of our District they look very smart! Councillor Tony Rowley and hope to be able to start the work The next phase is to add the later this year. new style gates and signs for Bricklehampton. 4 Bricklehampton, Elmley Castle, Kersoe & Netherton Parish Council Update & News Village Appearance & Maintenance Additional Christmas Lights Flower Planting uses of the phone box. In in 2020 It is good to see the wild Elmley Castle the phone box The feedback on the Christmas daffodils starting to appear on houses the defibrillator and Lights in the Elmley Castle the various roadside verges this would be the obvious Main Square was almost 100% that were planted earlier in the use in Bricklehampton, but positive. As a result, the Parish year. We will have to wait a little if you have any alternative Council budget adopted in longer to see if the wild flower suggestions please let us know January includes an additional seeds have taken, but we have via the community consultation £750 to expand the Christmas our fingers crossed. questionnaire later in this issue. Lights further into Main Street It was agreed, in consultation for Christmas 2020. with representatives of his Multi Use Tennis & Games surviving family, that the Area remainder of the John Eaton Unfortunately our application for legacy will be spent on planting a Wychavon Legacy Grant to flowers in the entrance to the build a Multi Use Games Area playing field. If possible, we will for the village was unsuccessful. also provide a commemorative We are awaiting feedback bench so people can sit and on why our application was enjoy them. rejected, but we are aware that there was a huge amount of Bricklehampton Phonebox interest in the Legacy Grant The purchase of the Phone scheme this year and there box in Bricklehampton from BT were not enough funds available is now complete. It requires to support all the projects. some refurbishment which will be completed in the coming months. We are looking for suggestions for suitable 5 Issue 4 | Spring 2020 Crime Prevention Crime Prevention Be vigilant, report suspicious activity, share information through your local Neighbourhood Watch, stay safe and care for our community. Fly Tipping • What was fly tipped Please remember to follow the SCRAP guidelines when There are ongoing incidents • What kind of view you had and arranging to have your own of fly tipping in and around the whether anyone else was with household waste removed. villages. In conjunction with you Highways we now have covert cameras at several locations on • Do not approach the fly tipper the local road. Unfortunately, • Do not place yourself in it is not possible to cover all danger locations so a degree of luck will be required in order catch the This should then be reported to culprits in the act. Wychavon Client Services Team on 01386 565018 or via If you see someone fly tipping www.wychavon.gov.uk/flytipping write down as many relevant details as possible: If the fly tipping is blocking the • A description of the people fly road or represents a hazard tipping to traffic then it should also be reported to the County Council • Full description of any Highways Department on 01905 vehicle involved, especially the 765765. registration 6 Bricklehampton, Elmley Castle, Kersoe & Netherton Parish Council Update & News Crime Prevention 7 Issue 4 | Spring 2020 Crime Prevention Local Police Communications Evesham Town South & As always Zero is the target The West Mercia Safer Rural West SNT Members but this is significant progress Neighbourhoods Team have (Bricklehampton) since the introduction of the agreed to attend future PC 3327 Paul Brown Neighbourhood Watch Scheme Parish Council meetings to PCSO 40350 India Sessarego and the Smart Water Initiative. provide updates on current Keep Reporting anything concerns and give residents Email Address: eveshamtsrw. suspicious and look out for one an opportunity to ask them any [email protected] another. questions. Attendance cannot Facebook / Twitter @ be guaranteed as officers Eveshamcops may have to attend to crimes reported at short notice. Reporting Crime For crimes in progress or if life Pershore Rural SNT submit a is in danger always Dial 999 Monthly report into the Parish Clerk which will cover our entire To report suspicious activity / Parish and highlight any activity concerns with as much detail as that residents should be made possible, vehicle registrations, aware of. descriptions etc. – Dial 101 An annual report is also For general concerns use the submitted that shows a relevant SNT email addresses comparison against the previous above or contact the Parish year and highlights trends and Clerk on 07586 567777 during specific actions that may be office hours or email clerk@ required. elmleycastleparishcouncil.gov. uk The Parish has a few Free Both these reports will be of Charge Smartwater Kits available on the Parish Burglary & Vehicle Crime remaining – if any of our New Council website www. Across the villages Burglary is residents would like to register elmleycastleparishcouncil.gov. down by 69% and Vehicle Crime please contact the Parish Clerk uk as soon as they are received is down by 80% compared to 07586 567777 during office and the annual report will also last year. hours. One kit per household. be published in a future edition the Parish Update & News. Your local policing safer 15 2018 2019 neighbourhood teams Pershore Rural SNT Members (Elmley Castle, Netherton & 12 Kersoe) PC 3509 Daren Riley 9 PCSO 6427 Julie Pardoe PCSO 40422 Faye Allen Carter Email Address: pershorerural. 6 [email protected] Twitter: @PershoreCops 3 0 UAY CA E 8 Bricklehampton, Elmley Castle, Kersoe & Netherton Parish Council Update & News Crime Prevention Unfortunately, 2019 did see communities can play an when working together in the a spike in reports of criminal active role. I’d encourage the community. damage with the attacks on the public to take advantage of “Good intelligence can aid local churches and an outbreak opportunities like this, as well investigations and potentially of tyre slashing. The police have as getting involved in the Rural result in disrupting criminals, confirmed that progress has Focus campaign, to ensure the such as seizing a vehicle with been made on these incidents police and I can take action to no insurance or the effective and investigations are still ultimately make communities use of police powers of stop and underway. safer.” search. Communities, Police and PCC South Worcestershire’s Rural “The public know the Work Together to Tackle Rural and Business Officer, Mick communities they live in better Issues Simpson, said: “The benefit of a than anyone, and will usually Evesham and Pershore’s rural watch scheme is the intelligence notice suspicious behaviour. businesses and farms, are being gathered and reported by the Without the reporting of urged to get involved in a watch local community. suspicious circumstances or scheme specifically designed for crimes, it is difficult for the police rural areas.