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Dates for Newsletter your Diary April & May 2019 April & May 2019 Solar Development Hopefully all households have received a leaflet from Elgin Energy with plans for a “reduced size” Solar Development. There has been no formal Parish Council planning application as yet but it is important that if you have any views on the development that you fill out the freepost comments form and Meeting return to Pegasus Planning Group. The next meeting will take place on Monday th 13 May 2019 in the school hall at 7.30pm.

This meeting will be the

Annual Parish Meeting followed by the Annual Parish Council Meeting.

Village Defibrillators

Our two defibrillators have now arrived! We are tidying the telephone Community Governance boxes and the installation Review will be under way!

A training session on how to use the defibrillators is The draft proposals for the Community Governance Review have now included in the package been published and can been seen by following the link below:- and will be organised https://www.stroud.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/elections/commu- once the units have been nity-governance-review fitted. We will keep you posted! There are currently no changes planned for Epney and Longney. Comments on the draft proposals can be posted online up to the

6th May 2019.

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Epney & Longney Litter Pick th Energy from Waste Sunday 14 April Facility Thank you to those of you who volunteered to help with the village litter pick, we have set a date of Sunday 14th April.

We will meet in two separate groups, the Epney group will meet at The Anchor at 10am and cover the following areas: -

From the old Elver station past the Anchor to the telephone box in Epney From Epney telephone box to Manor Farm

Love it or Hate it……. The Longney group will meet at the school at 10am and cover the the facility is almost complete following areas: - and about to enter the commissioning phase. Control From Manor Farm to Madams End Engineers will check that all From Manor Farm to Kates Cutting Patch communication systems are From Kates Cutting patch to Yew Tree Farm correctly linked up to the From Yew Tree Farm to Tasty Tumpers control room and working properly. At the same time, the commissioning team will also check the functionality of If you have not already offered to help and would be willing to join us each of the facility’s systems. please can you drop an email to This includes checking that the [email protected] computers are capturing the correct information, verifying Let’s get our villages clean and tidy! the mechanical components are functioning correctly, and that all information is correctly Village Shredder & Rotavator delivered to the main As we get back in the garden for a spring tidy please don’t forget we computer. have a community shedder and rotavator available for a small donation. The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste facility is part of Please contact Roger Godwin to arrange collection. Gloucestershire’s Joint [email protected] Municipal Waste Management Strategy, which aims to reduce, recycle, and recover waste materials across the county, and move away from reliance on end-of-life landfill.

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Cross Keys Roundabout A419 Road Works Chipmans Platt to Road Improvements Horsetrough Roundabout The Cross Keys Roundabout is on the A38, 800m north of junction 12 of the M5 motorway. It links directly to for vehicles approaching from the motorway and from the A38. The junction is strategically important for Gloucestershire and these improvements will mean more vehicles can use it. Roadworks have started Gloucestershire County Council has been awarded £2.7 million funding on the A419 from from central government for the much needed improvements to the Chipmans Platt Cross Keys roundabout at the junction of the A38 and B4008 on the roundabout, this is the outskirts of Gloucester. roundabout with the Shell The government investment, which was announced in October 2017 by garage on near Eastington the Department for Transport, will be provided through the National and they will continue Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF). Some of the work it will support along the A419 to the includes widening the approach lanes of the roundabout and enhancing Horsetrough roundabout conditions for buses and cyclists. in Stonehouse. The NPIF award will go a long way towards funding the scheme that, in total, is expected to cost £3.851m. The remaining money will be made These works are due to be up of section 106 funding, developer contributions and the county’s completed by January highways budget. 2020. Work is due to start in April 2019 with a finish date in the Autumn of 2019.

https://www.gloucester- shire.gov.uk/roads-park- ing-and-rights-of-way/ma- jor-projects-list/a419- highway-improvements/

https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/highways/major-projects- list/cross-keys-roundabout-improvements/

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Longney School

Summer Fete th 29 June 2019 - Save the Date

Ahoy Me Hearties, save the date for some Swashbucklin, Plank Walking, Yo Ho Ho’ing at the Longney School Fete!

Put the date in your diary to avoid a

Cat o’ Nine Tails and save your Pieces o’ Eight for tea and cake!

No Lily Livered Land Lubbers or you may end up in Davy Jones Locker!

Shiver Me Timbers! 5

Easter Colouring Competiton

Print out this page and do some fab colouring to be in with a chance of winning a scrummy Easter Egg! There will be three age groups upto 5, upto 10 and 10 and over. Drop off your finished colouring to Louise at, 1 Crib Cottages, Longney Or Nikki at, Churchend Barn, Longney Or if you have very clever mummies and daddies feel free to scan the finished masterpiece and send to:- cllr.l.everett @longneyandepney parish.co.uk

Entires must be in by 21st April, Easter Sunday and pop your contact details on the back in case you win!

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Church Services Longney C of E Primary Longney & Elmore Academy School News April & May 2019 QLC Cross Country th Sunday 7 April Longney School cross country team, Year 2 - 6, took part in the QLC th Sunday 5 May event at Beech Green Primary School on Monday 4th February. It was a Parish Eucharist at lovely sunny afternoon, and everyone ran very well. There were some very strong performances from Year 3 and Year 4 pupils. Everyone Elmore 9.30am enjoyed the afternoon.

Sunday 14th April Follow the link below and check out some pictures of some future th athletes! Sunday 12 May Parish Eucharist at http://www.longney.gloucs.sch.uk/website/qlc_cross_coun- Longney 9.30am try/393295

Evensong at World Book Day Elmore 4.00pm There was some fantastic dressing up for World Book Day on the 11th March. Pupils came to school dressed as a character from their Sunday 21st April favourite story book. Mr Clive Dale also visited the school again and Sunday 19th May read his latest story 'Clive, the Magic Camel, Visits the Seaside'.

Parish Eucharist at http://www.longney.gloucs.sch.uk/website/world_book_day/399804 Elmore 9.30am Science and Engineering Sunday 28th April Challenge Sunday 26th May The children enjoyed a great morning of creativity and problem solving Storyteller Family as the young engineers set about tackling a challenge set for them at Eucharist Longney at the Science and Engineering Challenge morning at The King's School, 9.30am Gloucester. Working as a team, they set about building a tall structure that could support a fair amount of weight. Thanks were given to King's for hosting this event once again. Evensong at Elmore 4.00pm Check out the link below to see some of the great engineers at work!

http://www.longney.gloucs.sch.uk/website/science_and_engineer-

ing_challenge/399807