Stonehouse News Issue 26
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Brought to you by st nehouseStonehouse Town Council news ISSUE 26 SUMMER 2015 Arts Festival Horticultural Show & Summer Jolly, Upcycled Art & lots more Civic Awards & Annual Report In Bloom Judging coming up soon www.stonehousetowncouncil.com welcome Summer is here as is a packed diary of Stonehouse events from the Stonehouse Arts Festival, Paint the Town Pink, Upcycled Art, Celebration Day and much more. Our schools have been busy welcoming Japanese students and doing lots of fundraising and we are getting ready for the ‘Heart of England In bloom’ judging in July. Autumn’s issue will be reporting back on all the events and we hope you can fill that issue with lots of your news. Don’t forget if you want to advertise get in touch - details on the back cover. We hope you have a fun filled summer! Heart of England In Bloom judging - 7th July Horticultural Show & Summer Jolly - 9th August The countdown is on for the town’s Heart of Efforts are now underway to tidy and The Horticultural Show (open to the public from 1pm - England In Bloom judging on 7th July. A lot of spruce up the town in preparation for subject to judging) in Stonehouse Community Centre hard work has been carried out by the volunteer & Summer Jolly (from 12 noon) will take place on the the ‘Big Day’ - if anyone would like to members of the Stonehouse In Bloom Committee Laburnum Playing Field on Sunday 9th August. and the Town Council. In addition to the floral help with the final push please contact There will be stalls, refreshments, dog agility, a licensed displays in the main High Street, annually funded Liz Lawrence on 01453 822070 or email bar, fairground games, bouncy castles and lots more by the Town Council, local businesses have dug [email protected] to entertain the whole family! deep into their pockets to extend these so that Also check out ‘Stonehouse In Bloom’ flowers can now be seen from the Woodcock Lane on Facebook. Why not take a look at the classes and have a go! junction through to the Horsetrough roundabout. Local volunteers have also been hard at work and Horticultural Show schedules are now available for the beautiful displays are in place at the Horsemarling following classes: Lane end of the town plus the Rest Garden and Roses around the main Town Green. Sweet Peas House plants & Cut Flowers 6 barrier flower baskets are helping to brighten the Fruit & Vegetables approach to the town from Junction 13 of the M5 Flower Arrangements on the A419, again thanks to the generosity of Photography some local businesses. The railway station has Home-made Wine been given a very welcome lift through the Handicrafts provision of several planters. Baking & Preserves Special classes for children up to Year 6 The full list of classes and how to enter are available from the Town Hall or ask at the Post Office. You can find the information online at This is a Stonehouse Community Partnership stonehousetowncouncil.com or call 01453 825229. event supporting The Willow Trust - Registered Charity Number 328386 To book a stall or get involved in the Summer Jolly email [email protected] Stonehouse Town Council T: 01453 822070 E: [email protected] www.stonehousetowncouncil.com follow us Neighbourhood Plan Keep Stonehouse Tidy update - consultation with community Following comments by a number of local people local groups a group of Town councillors and youth leaders have started a ‘Keep Stonehouse Tidy’ Campaign. news The aim is to make Stonehouse a litter free town by The Neighbourhood Development Plan for encouraging everyone to take their litter home or use Stonehouse is a community-led Plan for guiding litter bins and not to drop litter. One way forward is to Cup winning girls! the future development, regeneration and have regular ‘Litter picks’ the third of which was held conservation of Stonehouse. It is about the use on a blowy Saturday in April. We had a good turn out and development of land and will be part of of 18 volunteers taking part who were rewarded with the statutory development plan for the area, if tea and delicious cakes. We have noticed a decrease edge of the allotments to enable creatures to get successful at a local referendum. in litter accumulating between our litter picks so your from one area to another safely. efforts will not be in vain! After public consultation events in 2014, to develop a We held planting sessions on Friday 20th and vision for the plan, the Neighbourhood Plan Working The next pick will take place on Saturday 27th Saturday 21st March. Members from the Allotment Group are now working on policies in five key areas: June at 2pm starting at Oldends Lane Youth Committee, plot holders, councillors and residents Environment, Housing, Retail and the Town Centre, Centre. Please put the date in your diary! There from Stonehouse came and had a wonderful time Economy, and Getting Around. They are currently will also be another Litter pick in the autumn. planting 105 saplings. The youngest helper was 2 meeting with local groups to ensure policies are in line years old! We have held further days to mulch and with local opportunities and needs. water them and we look forward to watching them grow and forming a hedge. The working group is still interested in speaking to Manager/Coach Gavin Jackson and the girls under 14’s team any landowners who might be considering applying for planning permission in the Parish. This ‘call for sites’ Stonehouse Football Club held their annual prize exercise helps to match development sites to the future giving at Stroud 10 Pin Bowling Alley on Saturday needs of the community. This work does not allocate evening. Over 100 youngsters and their families sites, or commit the proposer to applying for planning had a great evening out. consent; it will help the working group to develop clear ideas and policy to best serve Stonehouse. This year the Stonehouse Rotary Cup for the team that showed commitment, fair play and success on The group is also looking at evidence needed to Town Councillors and residents of Stonehouse ready to litter pick and off the pitch was won by the girls under 14 years support policies and has commissioned some side. The President of Stonehouse Rotary Club, Gill research from Gloucestershire Rural Community Rogers made the presentation to the team’s captain Council on housing need. Stonehouse 13-year-old Harriet Freebury. Celebration Day Their Manager/Coach Gavin Jackson pictured holding Volunteers planting the hedge saplings There is a new contact for the Neighbourhood the cup in front of his team said, “I am delighted that Plan, Rachel Russell. Please email her at will be taking place on Saturday 5th September in the team won the Rotary Cup. They were formed 4 [email protected] or call 01453 822070. Stonehouse High Street between 10am - 2pm. We years ago as a 6 a side team but this last season saw Rachel is at the Town Hall every morning except have lots of activities and games around the theme them move onto a full 11 a side team”. Wednesday. of the ‘Circus’ - a great opportunity for everyone to dress up! There Please get in touch if you are from a local group, will be local traders special offers Edible hedges planted own or know of a site or have any queries about and stalls available to peruse the Neighbourhood Plan. We are on twitter Let’s make this Celebration Day Tree saplings from the Woodland trust were planted @StonehouseNP, do follow us for updates on the best yet. A fun day for all at the allotments at the top end of Stonehouse along your neighbourhood. the family! the border of the allotments and the playing field. They consist of Hazel, elder, dog rose, blackthorn and crab If you want to get apple to give us and wildlife a resource of hazel nuts, involved please email elder flowers and elder berries, rose hips, sloes and stonehousecelebrationday crab apples to make chutney and delicious drinks and @gmail.com nuts. The hedge will form a wildlife corridor across the Stonehouse Town Council T: 01453 822070 E: [email protected] www.stonehousetowncouncil.com follow us Cotswold Canals Partnership A new look for the APT in Stonehouse! exhibition and public meeting Our office will be extending its opening times to 8pm Restoring the Stroudwater navigation from The Cotswolds Canal Partnership is launching a bid every Thursday from the 2nd July 2015. We will be Saul Junction to Stonehouse - phase 1b for £15 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, for providing some delicious food so why not come along a complex but fully-costed scheme that will restore and see what the APT is all about and has to offer you! A major new project has been announced by the Stroudwater from the almost-completed six-mile the Cotswold Canals Partnership that could see stretch of restored canal between Brimscombe and Once again we will be hosting our popular ‘Three Stonehouse brought within navigable reach of Stonehouse, all the way to the junction with the Green Event’ which will be held on the 15th August, Britain’s network of canals and rivers once again. Gloucester-Sharpness Canal at Saul. on the Park Estate. There will be a variety of fun activates for all the family and will be a fantastic day The scheme was unveiled at a press event on There has been a six-week public consultation out during the summer holidays. This is an event not the tiny Westfield Bridge at Eastington on the period, where full details of the scheme have to be missed, so make sure you pencil it in your dairy! Stroudwater - a surviving structure which was been explained at a series of exhibitions.