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Rhossili Community Council Newsletter December 2019 RHOSSILI COMMUNITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2019 Your Council: Steve Campbell-Kelly (Chair), Ian Button (Vice-chair), Steve Walmsley, Jeff Higgins, Tom Higgs, Nicola Rees, Sally Thomas. Email: [email protected] Web: www.rhossilicc.org.uk The Vile field names now owned by the National Trust, 2019 Another year passed and a warm welcome to all with Alternatively, contact details of Councillors can be this 2019 Christmas Newsletter, which hopefully you found on the RCC website. will receive before the community seasonal events Somehow here I am again compiling the 2019 commence! Newsletter, despite saying last year that this will be 2019 Rhossili Community Council the last Newsletter I shall edit, hoping that A N Other will take on the task of compilator and editor for this Below is a list of serving Community Councillors year onwards; however I failed in tracking down A N elected in 2017. Should you wish to contact any of Other! them please contact the Clerk, Jo Scott, at: [email protected] I had hoped by bringing forward the deadline for Newsletter submissions by a month would make my Chair: Steven Campbell-Kelly job easier this year, but all it did was give me extra Deputy Chair: Ian Button time to chase! A big thank you to all of you who have contributed to this Newsletter but a special thank you Treasurer: Stephen Walmsley to those who responded promptly: it really does make Committee Members: Jeff Higgins a difference. Tom Higgs The 2018 Newsletter was very well received, running to 36 pages, printed on quality paper with a stiff outer Nicola Rees cover which made the colour pictures reproduce very Sally Thomas While every reasonable step has been taken to ensure the veracity of the articles, Rhossili Community Council does not take responsibility for any omissions or errors. December 2019 1 well. This issue is expected to be a similar size when it For further information on current and past goes to print. applications, including comments made by Rhossili Community Council, visit: Inconvenience, Polution and Inadequate Road https://property.swansea.gov.uk/online-applications/ Infrastructure and search for ‘Rhossili’ and this should return all planning applications for the community. Clubs and Groups There are many other groups that meet throughout the year which are not mentioned within the Newsletter, which may be of interest, such as, The Book Club, Keep Fit, Whist, Yoga, plus many more. If you want to join or find out more information or start a new group yourself, why not contact Jo Higgins (RVH) on 01792 391509 for more information and contact details. I would like to thank all contributors who have taken the time to make this another bumper issue this year. I see this as some sort of informal record of the how Highways and Footpaths the village functions and integrates with one another; to a degree a social history. Please continue to support and add to it each year, personal endevours, social events, group events, achievements and much more. It is your record so throughout the year if you have something that will interest, please send it through, no matter what time of the year, before you First Responder Vehicle forget about it. Contributions for the next Newsletter will be most welcome; where possible, please send by end of October 2020. Once again this year there is a section to send seasonal good wishes at the end of this newsletter. I and the Council Members would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year and Planning Applications give a moment to remember absent friends. There have been a number of planning applications Rhossili Community Council meets monthly on the submitted from our community but only a couple are second Tuesday at 7.15pm in Rhossili Village Hall or of a significant scale. I do urge residents to regularly the ante-room behind. Everyone is welcome to view the latest applications online as the Planning attend, and to raise matters of interest in the Department seem to be keen to allow new radical community, if it is significant please send through to design and materials incorporated into new the Clerk in the first instance. Contact details of all development and extensions to traditionally designed the councillors can be found on the RCC website: and historic properties. Should anyone have concerns www.rhossilicc.org.uk. Please also feel free to or wish to pass comment on a proposal, please be contact any Councillor if you think there are issues sure to make your voice heard not just with the (either beneficial or challenging) that you feel the Community Council but also with Swansea Council council should be aware of and/or consider, or you too. can contact the Clerk, Jo Scott, direct. While every reasonable step has been taken to ensure the veracity of the articles, Rhossili Community Council does not take responsibility for any omissions or errors. December 2019 2 If you are new to emailing and are not on the village exact timing and phasing are not known but works circular, please notify the Clerk (at will include: [email protected]) of your email address, or if you 1) New roof for Hall and Ante-Room do not have one, please read the notice board from time to time for notices. With the advent of Social 2) Changes to storage Media, the Clerk, Jo Scott, is compiling a record of the 3) Changes to toilet facilities various means of contact: this includes, phone number, email, Twitter, Facebook, MailChimp. The 4) New boiler for the Hall Councils preferred method of contact is phone, email 5) Changes to the stage to make the Hall more and MailChimp and in all instances, because of the useable General Data Protection Regulations, we need your permission to use your contact details for letting you We will be consulting the community on what know about urgent issues concerning local crime, improvements they would like to see to the building village events or council news, for example. Your and putting together a schedule of works for contact details will not be used by Rhossili Community discussion at the 2020 May Annual General Meeting Council for any other purpose other than matters (AGM). If you have any thoughts on how you want to concerning our commuity. see the Hall develop, please make every effort to attend the meeting so all ideas can be captured. Steven Campbell-Kelly Chair for Rhossili Community Council I would also like to thank our support staff the Hall and Newsletter Editor Manager (Jo Higgins), the ‘meeters & greeters’ and cleaning team for their dedication to looking after the [email protected] www.rhossilicc.org.uk Hall and Bunkhouse. Their continued efforts make sure that our facilities are welcoming, and the bunkhouse is an enjoyable place to stay. The quality of their support is reflected in the Bunkhouse being awarded 4 stars for a fourth consecutive time by Visit Wales who are always very complimentary about the facilities we provide. RHOSSILI VILLAGE HALL AND As always, we are looking for new ideas on how the BUNKHOUSE - 2019 Village Hall can be used by our community. If you www.rhossili.org.uk www.rhossilibunkhouse.com have any suggestions about the facilities we offer, we would like to hear from you. Please feel free to This year, the Trustees have been able to carry out approach the trustees with any suggestions and they further improvements to the Hall and Bunkhouse. will be considered and acted on wherever possible. Improvements included: new patio furniture; portable sound system for the Hall; new hard wearing flooring The current Trustees are: John Furneaux, Jo & Jeff for the bunkhouse lounge/meeting room and a new Higgins (Chair), Vicki James (Secretary), Derek O’Brien, fridge for the kitchen. Marion Potts, Mark Provis, Linda Shaw, Sarah & Steve Walmsley (Treasurer). We would like to extend our The Village Hall was supported this year by donations thanks to you all for your support throughout 2019 from Rhossili Bunkhouse which totalled £6,426 (as and would also like to wish you all a Happy Christmas opposed to £16,369 in 2018). This was disappointing and a prosperous New Year and look forward to but is not seen as a trend as the year’s takings for seeing you at the Hall in the coming new year. 2020 appear to be more in line with the 2018 total rather than that of 2019. However, this has meant Jeff Higgins & Steve Walmsley Directors of RBH Ltd & Trustees of RVH that the amount available for improvements to the Village Hall has remained at about £50,000. We are still committed to making major improvements to Hall and its surrounding facilities, but it looks like these will have to be phased. The While every reasonable step has been taken to ensure the veracity of the articles, Rhossili Community Council does not take responsibility for any omissions or errors. December 2019 3 their lovely Welsh costumes. The Social Committee VILLAGE HALL SOCIAL EVENTS had all mucked in to produce Cawl and Welshcakes Social Committee and enjoyed their ‘Masterclass’ with Marian in command. This year we have benefitted from Joan’s This Year’s Village Hall Events wonderful notice boards and the one for this event was no exception. It has been another busy year at the Village Hall with the Village Hall Social Committee enjoying their regular meetings to arrange events for the community. New members are always welcome. We usually meet at the Hall at 7.30 on the second Tuesday of the month.
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