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Issue 49 www.onesuffolk.co.uk/blythburghPC November/December 2009

You’ve had your say, now make it happen Blythburgh Parish Council is to hold a special time, the Parish Council has clear guidance on meeting in December to discuss the next steps in what villagers care about.” the Parish Plan, which was presented to the In response the council has invited members of November meeting of the council. the steering committee to meet them at an open Speaking at the open forum, Siobhan Quinn, chair meeting on December 7 to review priorities and of the plan‟s steering committee, emphasised that decide which are the direct responsibilities of the the plan was a community document and neither council and which could be delegated to working the Parish Council nor any other agency could groups, which may include parish councillors. influence its content. She said that it was not a list Whilst there have been some developments since of commitments but identified issues of interest the May 2008 survey, the residents‟ main concern or concern to village residents. remains traffic management within the village and Some issues in the action plan had already been on surrounding roads; the maintenance of addressed by the council and others were being footpaths; conservation of the existing dealt with. Many others were dependent on environment; and the lack of social activities residents coming forward to participate and that within the parish. Ms Quinn said that a number of could present difficulties. villagers who attended the evening reception in The proposals were for the long term and did not the White Hart to launch the plan had indicated demand instant action. in which areas they were prepared to help. The council put on record its appreciation of the Ms Quinn said that the aim of the plan was to identify and address issues raised by parishioners work done by the steering committee. The based on consultation through a questionnaire special parish council meeting to discuss the plan and two village events. Stressing the importance will take place at 7.30pm in the Village Hall on of the plan to the village she said: “For the first Monday December 7 and is open to the public. Post Office set to open for longer Laura Lofty, who runs the White Hart and village opening hours (7-4 weekdays, 9-4 weekends) shop with her husband Sean, told the open forum were based on staff advice. The Parish Council is that they hope to take over the post office in to write to Adnams and the Prince of Wales, who January. have both taken a personal interest in the shop, She is being trained in December and will train stressing how important the shop and post office other staff members so it may be possible to are to the village. extend opening hours to include afternoons and The council will also seek ways of encouraging Saturday mornings and improve facilities offered. villagers to use the shop more. The Parish Plan Mrs Lofty said more advertising boards on the committee is to give Mr and Mrs Lofty its survey A12 would be considered. The shop‟s winter findings on the use of the post office and shop. INSIDE Helicopter News 3 Blythburgh Characters 5 Shameless litter lout 6 John Allen 7 Council budget 8 Council meeting 9 Hedgerows 10 Active sport 11 Daisy Bank 12 Page 2 Issue 49

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Issue 49 Page 3 Helicopter row: no help from council In September a number of Blythburgh environmental impact. The council is not residents objected to the landing of a undertaking any such investigations since it has helicopter in Angel Lane, Blythburgh. no powers under the Environmental Protection The Parish Council wrote to Stephen Act 1990 to investigate noise from aircraft. Baker, chief executive of Suffolk Coastal Helicopters fall under the classification of District Council, to ask if it had looked aircraft for the purposes of this legislation. That into the safety of the situation and the said, the council has been in contact with environmental impact of the take-off and Natural England regarding potential damage to landings. The Parish Council also asked if wildlife/environment of the area. It is currently Suffolk Coastal would be prepared to looking into this matter. offer mediation. Mr Baker replied: “Mediation has been offered on many “I am indeed aware of the concerns of local occasions. Both the pilot and the owner of the residents (about the helicopter) and can fully property have agreed to participate but the appreciate both the safety and environmental complainant has not. issues they have. “In view of the above comments, it is with “The council does not have sufficient powers to regret that the council cannot offer any further bring legal action against the pilot or owner of assistance in relation to this issue. Please be 4, Angel Lane. It is also my understanding that assured that officers have done everything unfortunately the Civil Aviation Authority is within their power to try to find a resolution. unable to assist. Furthermore, the health and Indeed, the entire case file was recently safety executive has confirmed that it only deals reviewed by one of my strategic directors in with issues where there is „work activity‟ taking order to ensure that all avenues had been place and it is for the same reason that the explored” council‟s own health and safety officers are not Stephen Baker, Chief Executive, able to take action. Suffolk Coastal District Council “There appears to be some misunderstanding in relation to the council‟s investigations into

BLYTHBURGH VILLAGE HALL FUN QUIZ 7.30pm Friday January 29 2010 Free refreshments, bring your own drinks Raffle with bottles of wine for the winners Teams of up to four at £10 a table To book your place ring 01502 478521 Page 4 Issue 49

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John Craven Pritchard (1899-1992) Jack Pritchard was one of the great champions of Information, Supply and Fuel and Power. He the modern movement in architecture and visited the United States and was impressed by a design. „‟, the retirement house built for housing development designed by him and his wife Molly in Dunwich Road in the and , another refugee early 1960s, is a rare example in East Anglia of for whom he had provided a home and the application of the movement‟s ideas. sponsorship in Britain before he went on to the Jack‟s awareness of the development of States. That housing development took full continental modernism can be dated to his advantage of a sloping site to trap the sun and student days at Cambridge. In 1925 he joined exploit its winter value for space heating. Such the Venesta Plywood Company, hence his ideas inspired the Blythburgh house. nickname Plywood Pritchard. He looked for After the war Jack worked for Bratt Colbran, more imaginative uses for the material and Lebus and GKN, and became the first director commissioned furniture and shop designs. He of the Furniture Development Council. worked with the architect Wells Coates, who Described as one of the great ideologists of designed the Lawn Road flats developed by Jack 1930‟s modernism, Jack Pritchard could almost in and finished in 1934, a fine have been the model for Osbert Lancaster‟s example of a rigorously modern housing Hampstead progressive, drawn in a twentieth- development and now Grade I listed. century functional room in his book Homes, The flats were the heart of iconoclastic Sweet Homes. Hampstead and a gathering place for the avant- Jack‟s long retirement saw him travelling, garde. Marcel Breuer and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, lecturing and gathering many honours. The refugees from the German design school, the Isokon Furniture Company was revived. Mill Bauhaus, designed furniture and graphics for Farmhouse was bought with fifty acres. „Isokon‟ Jack‟s company Isokon. Breuer‟s Long Chair is a was built and the farmhouse sold again. The twentieth-century classic, and the modest Pritchards‟ Blythburgh house was designed for Isokon Donkey still houses many collections of retirement not the heady days of a working Penguin books. Jack Pritchard even career, but it allied the outcome of design commissioned an exhibition stand from Le revolutions with a fitness for purpose and Corbusier. sensitivity for its village site. During the war Jack worked for the Ministries of Alan Mackley

Blythburgh joins Sizewell liaison group Blythburgh Parish Council has joined the improvement and infrastructure the project Sizewell Liaison Group, established to provide a would require and will argue that EDF should forum for discussion between the communities contribute towards their cost. likely to be affected by a Sizewell C project and Blythburgh has identified a need for a pedestrian to promote constructive discussion and a better crossing, flashing speed signs for the A12, road understanding with the operators. improvements for the diversion of through Twenty-four parish and town councils have been traffic away from Dunwich Road and Angel Lane, invited to join the group. Suffolk Coastal District and capital investment in the play area. Council and the County Council have agreed to The group is promoting the concept of a social a meeting. EDF, the company likely to build the partnership to require the Sizewell operator to reactor, has not yet agreed to meet the group. If have a responsibility to local communities. Lord Sizewell C goes ahead, construction could start Mandelson, the Trade Secretary is being asked in 2015. The impact will go far beyond the years for Government support. of construction to include decades of operation. The group is developing a view of the local Issue 49 Page5 Blythburgh Soapbox Does our litter lout have no shame? Shameless: that‟s what our litter lout is. No One thing, among the many that really get to warning of up to a £5,000 fine has stopped that me is: broken glass left beside the glass selfish person‟s refusal to behave reasonably. recycling container. Not only are our flytippers But whoever it is, they seem to have a lot of selfish, they are clearly dead idle. children, or at least a lot of children‟s books If this piece seems harsh it is really only a pale and toys which could have gone to charity. reflection of how irritated I am by the lack of Nor did they fancy donating their pillows and consideration shown to others who live in the duvets – presumably they were too village and the disrespect these vandals have for embarrassed at their filth: well that‟s all I can the beauty of our area. assume since yet again these things were It takes little effort to take rubbish to the tip in dumped at the recycling point. Southwold: but it also wins brownie points for They‟re duvets and pillows may have been too keeping our village clean. dirty to hand on but they have clearly been Maybe the tipping has now stopped. (And working on their house. Floor covering, thanks to those villagers who, unasked have plaster, tiles, plastic buckets and more all taken it upon themselves to clear the rubbish.) dumped but, of course, not in the right place. There can‟t be much rubbish left in the Their children are clearly growing up as miscreants‟ house. Let‟s hope so. Or maybe booster seats were also dumped but what sort they have left the village. That would be a of example are their parents setting? But it result. doesn‟t look as if they care. Olive Forsythe RNLI DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Supper Quiz St Edmund‟s Hall, Southwold, 7.30pm, Friday November 20. Tickets, including lasagne and garlic bread, £8.00 each. Prizes, grand raffle, licensed bar. To enter teams of four, ring 0779 0612225 Christmas Shop to 20 December, Garden Room, Sutherland House, Victoria Street. All proceeds to the RNLI.

YOUR PARISH COUNCILLORS BLYTHBURGH ASSOCIATIONS Chair David Tytler Carpet Bowls 01502 478521 Beryl Stringer [email protected]

Vice Chair/Chair finance sub-committee Horticultural Society Ro Williams Jenny Allen 01502 478314 Chair planning sub-committee Neighbourhood Watch Rob Benson Rob Benson 01502 478047 Councillors Binny Lewis, Lucy Clapham Village Hall Alan Mackley, Cliff Waller Henrietta Maslen 01502 478551 Parish Clerk Bookings 07850 140581 Jim Boggis. 01502 478687

Issue 49 Page 7 Don Black interviews Professor John Allen of Blythburgh Last of the boffins recalls the great days John Allen‟s love of Suffolk began in 1930 when populated terrain. Another was the generally his uncle George Druitt retired as a stonemason steady air conditions over the North Sea, and quarry owner and bought a house at untroubled by mountain turbulence. That makes Southwold. John recalls that its cost then for more accurate test flying.” would now just about buy the equivalent of one This past summer has produced evidence, if any plank for a beach hut in the town. From then on were needed, that we enjoy clear skies when he spent nearly every holiday in the area. western regions lay beneath low, dark clouds. He never dreamed when seeing seaplanes for Our easternmost location also gave the area a the first time at Felixstowe in 1938 that six years strategic advantage. Harwich harbour, sharing later he would have responsibility for their its easily accessible shelter with Essex, could be development. Educated at state schools in turned into a seaplane base simply by laying a London, taking a BSc in aeronautical engineering few buoys and shore slipways. at London University, he earned top prizes in his Seaplanes left the British scene very rapidly after discipline. A student apprenticeship with the end of World War II. Professor Allen Handley Page honed his practical skills. points out that concrete runways were built A long-term Blythburgh resident, Professor near and far to meet military needs, engines Allen is the one active surviving boffin among were more powerful and wing flaps permitted scientists who kept Britain at the forefront of shorter airfields and heavier aircraft. The advanced aeronautics in war and peace. He was landplane took its place as the ultimate machine science officer with the Marine Experimental for civil and military flying. Research Establishment (MAEE) at Rhu, MAEE folded in 1953. By then John Allen had Scotland. When the unit returned to Felixstowe moved to Farnborough to supervise the ballistics in 1945 he was appointed head of its technical and aircraft integration of Britain‟s first atomic office. bomb. From 1950 until 1954, he had charge of John supervised the ballistics and aircraft ballistics in dropping dummy nuclear bombs integration of Blue Danube, Britain‟s first atomic from a height of eight miles over Orfordness by bomb, at Farnborough from 1950 until1954. Lincoln bombers based at Martlesham Heath. From 1960 he was deputy director of Avro‟s “People on the ground could hear the aircraft new weapon research division, working on but not see them and that gave rise to rumours development of the hydrogen bomb. (Britain‟s about secret weaponry. How right they were.” first atom bomb was dropped over Christmas Island in May 1957 by Group Captain Ken He has never lost his love for seaplanes and has Hubbard, a former resident of Blythburgh. designed some imaginative aircraft for Flight Though the two men became close neighbours International magazine. He is, however, realistic they never met.) when discussing the possibilities that seaplanes might return: “Flying boats, amphibians and In 1969 John was appointed chief future floatplanes still operate in specialised niches. The projects engineer with Hawker Siddeley, hydrofoil and hovercraft are variants which seem involved particularly with development of likely only to play a minor role in aviation.” Harrier and Hawk aircraft that for decades made an impact while training or giving displays with Eighty-nine next February, he has no intention of the Red Arrows formation team. retiring from research and project design that is published worldwide. Why did naval and air chiefs choose Suffolk to play a vital role in our defences throughout a John married Peggy Heath in 1948 and they had dangerous half century? He says: “One reason two sons who became engineers, and four was its mainly flat and remote, sparsely- grandchildren. Peggy died in 1987. This article is printed by kind permission of Don Black and the East Anglian Daily Times

Issue 49 Page 7 Parish budget set for 2010–201 Expenditure for the next financial year was incurred in the current year will remain agreed at the November meeting of the Parish unchanged. Council, following the recommendations of the It was also agreed that donations and finance sub-committee. subscriptions from the council should be set The council has £2,541.79 which will cover once a year. Donations to charities were agreed outstanding expenditure for the current financial at £355, representing 5 per cent of the precept; year, and £7,664.65 in the savings account. The subscriptions to organisations supporting council council agreed that savings in the next financial work, at £175. Any applications for extra year should be kept at the level of this year‟s donations or subscriptions will be considered at precept of £5,200. the budget meeting in November 2010. The budget for the next financial year allows for In order to meet the needs of the budget for the £1,500 each to be spent on a new village hall next financial year and maintain the savings level soakaway and a new bus shelter on the A12. It at one year‟s precept, the council agreed that does not include any possible expenditure on the precept should be increased by £550.00 to the play site. The budget assumes that costs £5750.00.

The Blythburgh Parish News wishes all its readers a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year

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Proposed caravan site rejected At a special meeting in October, the Parish through traffic from Wenhaston to the A12. As Council objected to a retrospective planning a single lane track caravans coming to and from application for the change of use of agricultural the site could not pass freely. Although there buildings to a caravan site on the plot at Red are occasional dusty passing places, these are House Farm Units, Hazel Lane, Blythburgh. The not established passing places and are inadequate council believed two factors would lead to a to offer safe access. There is a possibility of significant increased risk of accidents occurring traffic blockages occurring in the lane which at access points. could back up to the A12 at busy periods. The council questioned the suitability of access New buildings have been erected on the for caravans and traffic generated by activity at locations of demolished agricultural buildings. A this site. Access from and to the A12 is on a new access road is being introduced onto Hazel dangerous bend at the crossroads of lanes from Lane from the site. There is a change of Wenhaston and Dunwich, especially turning boundary to the north, where agricultural caravans, with lack of visibility along the A12. landscape within the Area of Natural Beauty is Traffic from the south cannot be seen because enclosed to be part of the caravan site. The of the hill drop to Thorington, nor will such council believes that the development of the site traffic see turning vehicles until the last minute. within the AONB is contrary to current planning In addition, Hazel Lane carries significant policies. The Heatseekers are on their way New state- of-the-art thermal imaging Installing these should reduce heat loss equipment will soon be doing the rounds in significantly, and could save large amounts on Suffolk Coastal to identify homes with poor energy and heating bills. If both cavity and loft insulation and save residents money. Starting insulation are installed residents could see Monday, November 23 and across the district in potential annual savings of up to £300 a year and the following five weeks, the Heatseekers patrol a reduction in CO2 emissions of over a tonne. will survey all homes overnight gathering a With more than 55,000 homes in Suffolk thermal image of each to see if improved Coastal, as many as 40,000 could benefit from insulation could benefit residents. the service. Suffolk Coastal already has initiatives The thermal image will reveal sufficiently in place that can help with the cost of insulating insulated areas of the home in green and heat homes so making them more energy efficient escaping areas in red. If areas of poor insulation need not be restricted because of the cost. are identified one of the Heatseekers‟ surveyors For more information contact the Heatseekers will arrange to visit residents to discuss possible team on 0845 390 9390, visit the website ways of improving efficiency. Heatseekers can www.homeheatseekers.co.uk or contact a offer both loft and cavity wall insulation at member of the SEAL team on 0800 022 88 938 competitive prices. .

An open invitation to the next meeting of the Parish Council on Monday January 11 at 7.45pm in the Village Hall Everybody is welcome and you are invited to raise your own concerns and questions at the Open Forum from 7.30pm

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Hedgerow survey volunteers lead the way Blythburgh‟s Hedgerow Survey, initiated by the survivals from the feudal medieval period before Suffolk Coastal GREENPRINT Forum, is landscape reorganisation under the eighteenth- complete. Guy Ackers, chairman of the Suffolk century Enclosure Acts. It was pleasing to find Hedgerow Survey, described the work as a very veteran oak trees, a most unusual medlar, and well documented and accurate example of how one hedgerow containing a remarkable the survey should be conducted. The survey seventeen different species. forms and working maps were very well Being on the threshold between sand and clay, completed and the entire recording process was Blythburgh has a lower density of hedgerows excellent. than its neighbours immediately to the west. The survey team was established in 2005 by Although 40 hedgerows could not be accessed, Henrietta Maslen, with Richard Maslen and Kate the survey did cover comprehensively the whole Doran among its members. After two years of parish area. The results will contribute to inactivity in 2006-7, the survey was resurrected Suffolk‟s Landscape Character Assessments and by the other original team members, Thomas provide the Planning Authority with a tool for Lond-Caulk, Ursula Mackley and Brenda Motley, environmental risk analysis in connection with who together completed the work this year. planning applications. The gaps in the survey Reports were compiled for more than 130 may show where planting, gap-filling and hedges. The team used Google Earth to help replanting could be useful, with the survey locate hedgerows, and found other computer indicating which species are most likely to software to assign accurate Ordnance Survey survive. references to them. In Guy Ackers‟ words, the excellent survey has The results show that Blythburgh is pretty close made an indelible, permanent and unequivocal to the statistical average parish for species contribution to the heritage and inheritance for richness but the parish is divided into two future generations of the landscape hedgerows distinct parts, the claylands of Hinton and the in our parish. sandlands elsewhere. The Hinton results Ursula Mackley suggest there was less hedgerow removal there in the 1960s and 70s and there may even be

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Want to get fit for the New Year? The Active Wellbeing project, supported by Suffolk County Council, Suffolk Sport and Sport England, offers a programme of sport and physical activities for adults provided in village halls. To enable the December meeting of Blythburgh Parish Council and the Village Plan steering committee to consider whether there is a demand for this in Blythburgh, please complete this survey and send it to James Boggis, Marsh End, Church Road, by December 7. Please tick all that apply. 1. Are you….? Male __ Female __ 2. Which age range do you fall into? 19 –24 __ 25 –34 __ 35 –44 __ 45 –54 __ 55 –64 __ 65+ __ 3. On average how often do you take part in structured physical activity/exercise? (lasting at least 30mins each time) At least 3 times a week __ Once a week __ Once a fortnight __ Once a month __ A few times a year __ Less often or never __ 4. What activities do you normally participate in? Aerobics __ Badminton __ Bowls __ Cycling __ Dance __ Golf __ Pilates __ Running __ Swimming __ Tennis __ Walking __ Yoga __ Other __ Please state ______5. What new activities would you like to participate in? (Tick all that apply) Aerobics __ Badminton __ Bowls __ Cycling __ Dance __ Golf __ Pilates __ Running __ Swimming __ Tennis __ Walking __ Yoga __ Other __ Please State ______6. Would you prefer to take part in exercise…? During the week __ Weekends __ No preference __ 7. Would you prefer sessions to be in the….? Morning __ Afternoon __ Evening __ 8. Are there any factors that would encourage you to participate in physical activity more often? ______

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Notes from Daisy Bank XXXVII My „Disgruntled From Daisy Bank‟ days are stands at the bottom of the garden. It‟s a over. Let the railway come, the motorbikes memorial to happier boating times and lots of have their world championships and the water laughter, when things, inevitably, went wrong continue to flood on to the marshes. Frankly, I and we ended up in the reeds or on a mud have lost the will to protest. bank. However, I do have a confession. After Two or three years ago I spotted a double moaning about the breach in the river and the hulled work boat tied up near Blythburgh possible dire implications for Daisy Bank, I now Creek and put a note in it saying “If you ever have to admit that I quite like the view from want to sell this boat, I‟m your man.” It turned our back garden. Swapping skylarks and grazing out that the boat belonged to somebody I cattle for curlews and little egrets has not been knew and who sadly died this summer. John all that bad. And yes, one of these days we Quinn from Wenhaston was a great lover of may well have to retreat upstairs and use a nature and a very competent painter so I was boat to get to the shops, but who cares. I always pleased to see him. So, his widow made suspect that when that happens, I will have contact and now John‟s boat is mine. more important things to worry about. Inevitably the outboard having laid dormant for I could always, courtesy of the landowners I a couple of years because of the inadequacies hasten to add, dredge a channel from the river of the old boat, failed to pass its MOT and now up to our back gate and call Fern Cottage a languishes in the bottom of a skip in Beccles. desirable waterside property with landing stage So again, courtesy of the landowner who allows and mooring facilities. An advert in The Sunday us to keep our boats in the creek, next Times and suddenly I‟m a millionaire and on my summer awaits and with a new outboard, it will way to a villa in Tuscany with a Porsche 911 to be a whole new chapter of Blythburgh boating. follow or perhaps a Ferrari as it‟s Italy. But Here‟s a quick boating anecdote to finish. then, of course, I‟d have to move and wouldn‟t Some time ago I was in Madras in southern be able to look over the marshes in the evening India. Having been invited by the local and watch those glorious and inspirational expatriate yacht club to sail in one of their sunsets. The curlews and the little egrets races, I teamed up with a colleague and race we would be a distant memory. And of course, did. The club, its members and the class of no more looking up at the church and feeling dinghies were all straight out of the era of that sense of privilege at living so near to such pucker sahibs and the Raj. a wonderful building. The race started and not being used to the At the bottom of our garden now, you will see boat, we began to fall behind. With my friend a small Gunter rigged dinghy with sails, mast, at the tiller and me crewing I became aware of boom and tiller, all ready to go. Sadly, its days a large tanker coming into Madras harbour. of going are no longer. The sails are from a Tacking around its stern, most of our fellow previous dinghy and never really suited this competitors had to backtrack to prevent one. It sailed as though you were dragging a colliding with the monster and as a result we kedge anchor behind you and was consequently came second. Pink gins flowed in abundance not so much fun. When the transom started that afternoon. They‟re probably still there or to bend under the strain of the outboard, it anyway, I like to think so. was time to call it a day. So as I said, now it Paul Bennett

BLYTHBURGH LATITUDE TRUST. Please make all applications to the honorary administrator, Jim Boggis, Marsh End, Church Road, (478687. He will offer advice on how to complete the application forms.