Village News Your independent village magazine - produced and Wilstone Planning Application 20/01754/MFA delivered free to every By Peter Walker home in the Tring Rural villages entirely by local SOME readers may not be aware of this current planning application for 28 homes on the edge volunteers. of Wilstone. From the many objections received by Dacorum Borough Council, it is apparent that this proposal is considered by many to be contrary to both national and local planning policies. The Parish Council and the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) have both registered Inside this issue strong objections to the proposals; these can be read on Dacorum’s website: http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/home/planning-development/planning-applications/search- Church services 3 planning-applications 20/01754/MFA Council News 10 The planning Letter 9 application will be Sudoku 11 decided by the Planning Committee at Local Contacts 22 Dacorum in October. Personally, I hope that planning permission will be refused. I am all for development if Special features it proportionate and appropriate, and Cricket News 7 would add to the From the Vicarage 13 community, but this proposal is huge and Ruth Osborne 15 opens the floodgate to Wilstone shop 16/17 additional Wilstone car park 19 development in the Obituary 21 same area. Please Your Editors 23 read the full information on the Dacorum Planning website. We note, according to the CPRE Hertfordshire objection to the development: “The site is currently in arable We depend on readers’ cultivation. There is no articles and pictures. reference in the application to the agricultural land So let’s have them! classification of the site. The Agricultural Land Classification Map for the Eastern Region (ALC008) shows that the site is classified as Grade 3. Both the NPPF and Saved Policy 108 of the Dacorum Local Plan give protection to Grades 1, 2 and 3a. Policy 108 says that development on Grade 3a land will be refused. The Council will have to satisfy itself on the classification of this site before determining the application. “ For the people in Astrope, Gubblecote, Little Tring, Long Marston, Puttenham & Wilstone Brambles by Martin Winship THE slow but steady metamorphosis of summer into autumn is The bramble is a member of the Rose family, which includes defined by the gradual changes observed on the bramble Meadowsweet, Agrimony, Great and Salad Burnets, bushes (RUBUS FRUTICOSUS) sprawling along hedgerows Raspberry and Strawberry, March Cinquefoil, Tormentil, and choking the corners of fields and the edges of woods and Silverweed and Herb Bennet. There are more than 330 copses. The white flowers, often tinted with pink, first appear species of brambles in the UK alone. The plants produce fruit in May (but continue to bloom well into November) and are and seeds asexually, in a process called APOMIXIS, so some followed by the berries, to begin with small and green, species are very restricted in location while others are becoming larger and red, and fully ripening into luscious widespread. When the runners touch the ground they root, so plump purplish black fruit (blackberries). The flowers and the once established bramble is very difficult to eradicate. various stages of the berries often appear on the bramble bush All parts of the plant have been used in the treatment of simultaneously. The flowers of most bramble species are an various diseases and sores. The buds and green leaves were important nectar source for butterflies and hoverflies, and valued for their efficacy in curing mouth ulcers and quinsy, caterpillars feed on the leaves. Keepers of pet stick insects feed and healing wounds. The root was powdered and a decoction their beasts on the leaves too. of this was used to break up stones. The berries were used as a immediately widdled on the bush in spite, and this is why the tea to treat dysentery. This cure was greatly regarded during berries become bitter and sour after 29th September (St. the American Civil War, and ceasefires were sometimes Michael’s day). A far less questionable story about brambles is negotiated so that the soldiers, Union and Confederate, could their use by forensic investigators. Dr Mark Spencer uses pick blackberries, frequently from the same bush at the same brambles to establish how long human bodies have been at a time. The runners of the bramble sometimes grow into arching crime scene, relying on the bramble’s very predictable and loops, and helping poorly people through such loops was rhythmic growth pattern. Split stems were traditionally used in considered a sure fire cure for rickets, whooping cough, lip-work basketry on chairs and bee-sheps. The most important hernias and rheumatism. use of brambles is of course the production of blackberry Legend reports that when the devil was thrown out of heaven wine, which is full bodied and fruity, and is nature’s way of by St. Michael, he landed in a blackberry bush. He preparing us for the grim winter. Village News Our Churches St Mary’s Puttenham Village News St Cross Wilstone and All Saints Long Marston Editor this month: Caroline Clist Colin Davenport, Caroline Clist, Paul Lovis, John McCall 4th Oct 2020 – Trinity 17 and Colin Moore. 10.00am –Holy Communion cw at All Saints, Long Marston email: [email protected] Post: 40 Tring Road Wilstone HP23 4PB 6th Oct 2020 Phone: Colin Moore 01442 826976 10.00am – Holy Communion cw at St Cross, Wilstone Distribution Manager John Taylor 07940 206056 11th Oct 2020 –Trinity 18 Finance Manager & Treasurer 3.30pm – BCP HC at St Mary’s, Puttenham Keith Fox 01442 825846 6.00pm – Evening Prayer at All Saints, Long Marston Advertising Manager Amanda Russell 07444 747010 email: [email protected] 13th Oct 2020 Team organiser 10.00am – Morning Prayer at St Cross, Wilstone Jean Fox 01442 825846 Village News is online at: www.wilstone.me.uk 18th Oct 2020 – Trinity 19 10.00am – Worship for All at All Saints, Long Marston 20th Oct 2020 SMALL but perfectly formed (unless I’ve not spotted a 10.00am – Holy Communion cw at St Cross, Wilstone mistake!), this month’s edition is about quality over quantity. Or, as the other way of putting it is, making the most of the articles received. It’s easy to understand that over the 25th Oct 2020 – Last Sunday after Trinity summer there has been less events on, so less to write about. 3.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Mary’s, Puttenham This month’s edition, which has often been a joyous mix of 6.00pm – Holy Communion cw at All Saints, Long Marston reflections on the summer and thoughts for the colder months ahead, has less of the summer events. And no real certainty about winter ones either, with even the perennially popular 27th Oct 2020 Wilstone Film Nights still waiting in the wings unable to 10.00am – Sunday Worship cw at St Cross, Wilstone return (as of writing!). With perfect timing though, we have the penultimate episode Due to the current situation church services are subject to of the story of Ruth Osborne this month for Halloween and change so to confirm they are on please check our website we celebrate All Soul’s Day with the final chapter next www.tringteamparish.org.uk and use the events page to book month. So until then, please think about anything that you or contact: would like to share with our readers to help Colin produce a Rev’d Jane Banister on 01442 822170 or bumper November edition. email [email protected] The next edition will be for November2020 and the deadline for items for inclusion is: Wednesday 21 October Village News is written, edited, produced and distributed entirely by local volunteers. Only the final printing is done by a commercial company. We aim to be local, interesting, informative, fun and a good read. Let us know if we are not! 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