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Kidmore End Parish Council Cane End Chalkhouse Green Gallowstree Common Kidmore End Tokers Green Newsletter Autumn 2010 September 2010 No. 104 Kennett Morris Men at The Reformation More from The Reformation … page 3 Inside this issue: Chairman's Report2 The Parish Church .................................. 6 KE Cricket Club .......................................9 Editors Notes ...........................................4 KE Pre-school ......................................... 7 Local Weather Report ...........................12 The Reformation News ...........................3 CAB Sonning Common........................... 7 Gardening ..............................................13 New Pavilion............................................3 FISH......................................................... 8 Diary, Useful Info...................................14 PAGE 2 SEPTEMBER 2010 NO. 104 Report from The Chairman of the Parish Council Dear Resident, As I write these few notes, it Council decided to appoint an main, considered to be an would appear after the wonderful Affordable Housing Sub- overstated problem, although it and perhaps prolonged summer Committee, to advise the Council was observed at our July meeting we have had, that perhaps just as on issues relating to affordable that the pitches had needed to be always at this time of the year, housing. Sue Biggs, Brian Knapp cleared of faeces on three recent autumn yet again rears its head. and John Swift are members of occasions, before matches could I would imagine that much energy that sub-committee. Neither sub- take place. The residents was conserved this year with committee has any executive suggested that there were other regard to lawn mowing, both in powers – all decisions are actions which could be taken to terms of fossil fuel use and our reserved for the Council, and are mitigate the perceived problem, own energies. Thankfully we did taken at its meetings. and these are being examined. not have to endure any enforced Also at its June meeting, the The Council has confirmed that it water shortages either. I very Council decided to press ahead has no plans presently to make much look forward to reading with the Housing Need Survey. an order excluding dogs from the Mr Brown’s local weather report, All of you will have received my Recreation Ground. The Council to know exactly what letter and the questionnaire in is also pleased that residents temperatures, rainfall we did have July. Your Council expects to have reacted so positively to this summer. receive the results of the Survey tackling the anti-social behaviour This summer seems to have at its September meeting. of a small minority. been quieter than most for your The works to replace the Pavilion Finally, the Council has been Council. We have not, now for at the Gallowstree Common advised of proposed work to some years, met in August, and Recreation Ground are due to construct a new water pipeline our next meeting has been put start on 27 September. The from Kidmore Lane, Kidmore back a week, to 29 September. Clerk tells me that the End, near its junction with Although the Council elected me Government has given the Emmons Lane, to Tokers Green as Chairman, and appointed Council authority to borrow up to Lane, Tokers Green, just to the Roddy Young as Vice-Chairman, £200,000 to help finance the north of that village. The work is at its meeting project. being undertaken because of … no plans presently to make in May, it A number of excessive bursts in the existing deferred other an order excluding dogs from residents wrote to pipeline on the route. The work the Recreation Ground... appointments the Council, and will entail the removal of sections to its June attended the June of field hedge, between 4m and meeting. The meeting, because of an article in 15m in length, at four locations Council then decided to alter its the “Henley Standard” that the adjacent to highways. In each sub-committee structure. It Council was proposing to ban case the section of hedge would decided to do away with the dogs from the Recreation be replanted with locally Traffic Calming Sub-Committee, Ground, in response to the occurring species. Your Council and has appointed a Transport reported incidence of dogs fouling expressed no views on the Sub-Committee instead, to advise the Recreation Ground, and proposed works to hedges, the Council on highways and those walking the dogs not recognising that the water pipe traffic management issues. Sue removing the faeces. The needed to be replaced. Biggs and John Swift were correspondents considered that appointed as members of that an exclusion of dogs would be an Sub-Committee. In addition, the over-reaction to what they, in the Giles Martin (Chairman, Kidmore End Parish Council) KIDMORE END PARISH COUNCIL PAGE 3 The Reformation - News and Events After three years at The Reformation, we have decided it's time for a change and to move on. We will be leaving The Ref on Thursday 14th October and would like to take this opportunity to thank the community for the welcome and support we received during our time at The Ref. We have met some wonderful (and weird!) people and made a lot of friends. At the time of going to press, Brakspears don't know who will be moving in but we hope that everyone will make the new landlords feel welcome and continue to support The Reformation so it remains the community pub that it is. As sponsors of Kidmore End Football Club, we're proud to tell readers that both teams were promoted last season. For the second year running, the First Team have been promoted to the Senior Division of the Sunday League and the Reserves were promoted to Division 3. The Reformation and KEFC organised various events over the last year including the Boxing Day Charity Football Match and the KEFC End of Season Party. We wish the managers, Michael Tegg and Robert Jenkins, and their players the best of luck for this season. We had the pleasure of welcoming the Kennett Morris Men at the end of July, the first visit in a long time. And hopefully not the last! DATE FOR YOUR DIARY The Reformation Michaelmas Show - Thursday 30th September A fun evening of presenting and judging local produce. Six categories include Alcoholic Beverages, Handiwork and Fruit & Vegetables. Funds raised will be donated to the Air Ambulance. All entries are to be raffled at the end of the evening. Please pop into The Ref for more information. Lesley & Allan Quelch (972 3126) New Pavilion at Gallowstree Common The project to replace the ageing pavilion at Gallowstree Common is about to proceed. After some 5 years of planning, discussions, and fundraising the Parish Council has awarded the contract for the existing pavilion to be demolished and a new modern building erected on the site. Work on the site is scheduled to start on September 27th 2010, and is expected to last for thirty one weeks, (weather permitting). This is a very exciting time for the parish and we hope that next spring many residents of the parish will come and look at the new Pavilion. We also hope that many more people from the parish will feel the urge to join the Kidmore End Football Club or the Kidmore End Cricket Club and enjoy the wonderful surroundings at the recreation ground, while also keeping fit. Fundraising for the new Pavilion will continue. We need more funds to complete the internal fixtures and fittings to a high standard and ensure that we are able to deliver a facility that we and many future generations to will be proud of. If anybody would like to make a contribution to the new pavilion please contact The Chairman of the Playing Fields Committee. PLEASE NOTE: During the construction period of the Pavilion there will be very limited parking at the recreation ground, and we ask that residents are patient during this time. If residents have any issues or concerns please contact: Roddy Young 07850782546 or email [email protected] Roddy Young - Chairman Paying Fields Committee PAGE 4 SEPTEMBER 2010 NO. 104 Editor’s Notes As the chairman reports, this has be a good day out walking both walked to been a very quiet summer. ways. Henley I might Sometimes it has almost seemed I could promenade elsewhere, of have been pretty that the parish was deserted. course. I could go to the muddy of foot I wonder where everyone went? fashionable riverside walks at and scratched by all the brambles There is such a wide choice of Caversham, with its new bridge along the footpaths, but the venues today, including right over the Thames and then perhaps spectacle would be well worth the across the world. get a tram into Reading. But if I effort. Or I could perhaps have scrounged a lift in a carriage from Walking about the parish footpaths were to have gone there I would the vicar. made be remember that this was not have expected to find tarmac not always so, and the footpaths paths both sides of the river or a And how do I remember all this so themselves reflect the need to take wide and cleared river, either. well? It is because I can see what many kinds of direct lines between Muddy towing paths were still the it was like in hand-tinted pictures. villages when every extra step rule. And that is what you can see in mattered. Neither was it always Of course, if I had been very black and white on these pages, the case that people could take energetic I could have made a long too. If you would like to see the much of a holiday, in part because walk in early July to see the well-to- coloured versions, go to the they were not given the time off, in do parading themselves at Henley web site at www.keepnews.org.