Penistone Community Led Parish Plan 2013
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Penistone Community Led Parish Plan 2013 Penistone Town Council St John’s Community Centre Church Street Penistone S36 6AR Tel : 01226 370 088 E-mail : [email protected] community. The feedback from the Penistone questionnaire on whether the people of Penistone should develop our own Index Community Led Plan confirmed that Community 93% respondents approved. This is an overwhelmingly positive response. A – InTRoduCTIon Page 1 Led Parish The Community Led Plan encompasses B - HISToRIC PEnISTonE Page 2 many aspects as can be seen in the Index opposite. Throughout this report C - CommunITy LEd PLAn Page 6 Plan 2013 each section follows the same pattern; a narrative analysis of the responses to • Penistone the Place; comprising: InTRoduCTIon that section’s questions followed by a a. Penistone’s Value Page 6 number of suggested action points. b. Housing Page 7 The action points also indicate whether c. Green Space Page 9 This is the first Community Led Plan the action is to have a short, medium or d. Footpaths & Bridleways Page 10 that has sought the full engagement of long term timescale. Text highlighted e. Education & The Library Page 13 the community and, following lengthy in blue italics indicates a direct quote f. Crime and Safety Page 17 public consultation, launched in 2013. taken from the survey. • Local Economy; comprising: Throughout 2011 & 2012 Penistone a. Shopping Page 22 Town Council’s Development and b. The Market Page 25 Regeneration Committee consulted c. Business Needs Page 26 with the public of the civil parish of d. Tourism Page 27 Penistone which includes Springvale, Cubley, Hoylandswaine, Thurlstone, • Travel and Transport; comprising: and Millhouse Green to understand a. Trains Page 30 their priorities for the development of b. Buses Page 32 the parish. Note : In England, a civil c. Road Safety Page 32 parish is a territorial designation d. HGV Access Page 33 which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and e. Cycling Page 34 The Community Led Plan will be subject f. Parking Page 34 counties. It is an administrative parish, in contrast to an ecclesiastical parish. to a review after five years. It is important that this plan is not simply • Social and Leisure; comprising: Supported by Rural Action Yorkshire allowed to be printed and lie idle. It is a. Sports & Leisure Activities Page 36 the consultation exercise produced a Penistone Town Councils intention b. Growing Food Page 39 significant number of comments and that, whilst some of the outcomes c. Children’s Play Areas Page 40 suggestions through various well expressed within this document are d. Local Services – Healthcare attended meetings at St John’s aspirational and may not be achievable Services & Social Integration Page 43 Community Centre and also at the within that five year timeframe, all the action points raised are capable of • Energy; comprising: Penistone Agricultural show. some progression. a. Energy Efficiency Page 47 This exercise enabled the compilation b. Renewable Energy Page 48 of a questionnaire distributed to homes The summary section at the end of this in the parish. A significant 24% return of document sets out what Penistone d - SummARy & questionnaires confirms that there is Town Council believes should be the ACKnoWLEdGEmEnTS Page 49 measurable agreement on the future next step in this Community Led Plan’s development of Penistone and the progression. Penistone Community Led Parish Plan 2013 1 agriculture related, in particular sheep farming, and the production of woollen cloth. The water powered mills alongside the River Don were part of both these activities. In 1863 the Penistone steelworks opened which eventually expanded into a large area on both sides of the railway south of the town. After the steelworks closed in 1930 only part of the site was occupied for industrial use and this has contracted in recent years. Despite the efforts of various bodies over many years the large industrial site failed to attract new occupants and most of the site has now been redeveloped for housing. Agriculture still plays an important part in the life of the area and manufacturing continues but on a much smaller scale. The demise of the railway to Manchester has resulted in the creation of the Trans Pennine Trail which has led to the development of tourism due to Penistone’s proximity to the Peak District National Park Penistone had a market for a long time before its royal charter was granted in 1699, although its historic livestock market was closed recently to make way for town centre re-development. A new landmark building has been built in Penistone for the HISToRIC PEnISTonE townships named Hoyland in the area. In the Market Place. This is an oak ‘Cruck Barn’ and was built by 1086 Doomsday Survey one of the names that Carpenter Oak of Totnes, Devon. Penistone is referred to is Pengeston, which is Penistone Grammar School was founded in 1392. A new school now used for the name of a road on a new Penistone is a small market town and civil parish was built and opened in 2011. Although known as Penistone housing development and for the local Masonic in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in Grammar School, the new school is Penistone Grammar School Lodge. South Yorkshire, England, with a population of Advanced Learning Centre (ALC). Other local schools include St 10,101 at the 2001 census. Penistone is 8 miles Several pre-19th Century buildings still survive, John’s Primary School, Springvale Primary School, Thurlstone west of the town of Barnsley and 17 miles north the oldest being the Grade I listed mediaeval Primary School, Millhouse Green Primary School and of Sheffield, in the East Peak of the Pennines. parish church, Saint John the Baptist Church, Hoylandswaine Primary School. and the White Heart (formerly White Hart) pub The origin of the name The Penistone Mayors Parade and Gala in June features Penistone is generally in the town dates from 1377. events on a Saturday with two music events on The Recreation accepted to be the Ground (an area of open Green Space in the centre of town also “settlement on the hill” – Penistone town centre known by some as “The Showground” which has been fiercely an etymology fully justified stands at an elevation of protected by local residents): a concert of light music in the by its situation. Prior to 750 feet (230 m) above afternoon and an evening Rock concert. On the Sunday, a major sea level; the highest 1066 Penistone was Parade and Gala takes place. The Parade goes through the market town in England. owned by Ailric, a Saxon middle of Penistone and the Gala also takes place on The The highest point in the lord, and one remnant of Recreation Ground. This event is organised by Penistone Round surrounding area is the town destroyed in the Table, Penistone Scouts & Penistone Town Council. Harrying of the North in Hartcliffe Tower at 364 1070 is preserved in the metres above sea level, Penistone Agricultural Show encourages visitors from across with stunning views over form of a fragment of a Saxon cross set the north of England. It is the biggest one-day show in Yorkshire the moors towards in a pillar inside the present day church. Ailric and is held on the second Saturday in September. As well as Woodhead and as far as the East Riding of was one of the few Saxon lords to retain his ordinary agricultural categories for sheep, cows, goats, and Yorkshire towards the east on a clear day. possessions after 1066 and he was succeeded by chickens entries are received in horticulture, handicraft, show his son Swein who probably gave his name to Prior to the coming of the railway in 1845 the jumping, pigeons, dogs, photography and many more Hoylandswaine to distinguish it from the other Town’s major economic activities were categories. 2 Penistone Community Led Parish Plan 2013 Penistone Community Led Parish Plan 2013 The first Penistone Folk Festival occurred in June The housing in the heart of the small towns and villages in the 2011 in the new Market Barn. It was one of the Penistone area has developed over several centuries and first public ventures to happen in the new reflects the area’s agricultural and industrial past. building. Other events of this type are being Predominantly the housing is in the form of small stone actively encouraged with a recent development cottages, built to accommodate weavers, farm, steelworks and of the Christmas Market and Lights Switch-on railway employees, of which there are many examples in the with Santa ably assisted by Penistone Round conservation areas of Penistone and Thurlstone. Twentieth Table. century developments of private and social housing continued Penistone Farmers’ Market, also held in the this trend of small houses using materials typical of each era. For example, there are 1930’s brick and tile housing, 1960’s Market Barn, is a monthly farmers’ market on The town’s rural nature is evident standard architecture and the 1980’s to 1990’s mixed style the second Saturday of every month. Local with farming well established in the local developments. More recently the very large housing farmers and producers of foods and crafts bring community. Dry stone walls and small villages developments have concentrated on large family and executive local produce direct to the public. The market is surrounded by fields and livestock are homes which have attracted people from outside the area who open to all traders selling their own produce, synonymous with the area. Famous for its work in the nearby towns and cities. based within a short radius of Penistone.