Taurus Crafts visitor centre Now for the serious bit! Why choose us? We choose to invest in the Forest. We buy direct from local people. You will find the work of local As the sun warms the soil, the Forest and our artists and local craft workers in our gift shop. You gardens come to green life, thoughts turn to getting Tidenham news can buy local produce in the food shop. The cafe The Parish NewsPaPer from your Parish CouNCil SPRING 2013 out and about. Remember the Forest’s very own menu is based around local suppliers. The meat, we jewel and come see Taurus Crafts. buy, is direct from the farm. Lots of the vegetables, come direct from our market garden. The coffee patients who are registered with Welsh registered Every day; 15 artisan businesses, gift shop, art on the from a local business. The cakes from local bakers. Access to NHS Healthcare in wall, sculpture in the garden, space to wander, a GP practices along the border who used to be able So we buy local but we also support opportunity. England for English Patients to access NHS in England. place to dwell. Stone mason, chocolatier, leather We like to support people making their first start in Registered with a Welsh GP worker, Jewellery, textiles, fashion. business. We like to provide work experience and Welsh Registered border GPs have to comply with apprenticeships to kids who have struggled in these new rules whether they like it or not. Every second Saturday of the month, a dozen or so DID YOU KNOW that ……..? of the best local food and drink producers offer a school. We like to support people with learning disabilities to develop; to serve you, to make and The Department of Health gives the Welsh The exceptions are: ophthalmology, oral surgery, chance to meet to maker and taste before you buy. sell, to volunteer in the community and into work. Government (via the Aneurin Bevan Health Board) orthopaedics, continuity of care within last 12 Every holiday, lots of creative activities for children the money to buy the secondary healthcare (ie months and Individual Patient Funding Requests We are a different sort of buy one get one free. Buy hospital and consultants) of ENGLISH resident which the GP can apply for, providing they meet on offer. These family friendly activities offer a a cup of coffee and you make your very own patients who live on the borders and have a WELSH certain criteria and the Aneurin Bevan Health Board chance to enjoy some quality time with your kids investment in the Forest community. Hope to see registered GP. approves it. and go home with your own crafty creation. We you soon. encourage families to join in together as this www.tauruscrafts.co.uk. Or find us on Facebook On 1 April 2012 a NEW SET OF RULES came Patient CHOICE OF CARE HAS BEEN into effect (known as a Cross Border Healthcare provides a good environment for creativity and and Twitter. TAKEN AWAY & MANY PEOPLE STILL Services Funding Protocol). The Aneurin Bevan DON’T KNOW. enjoyment. Health Board interpreted the new rules so that Reader Offer from 1 September 2012, this money could ONLY There was NO PUBLIC CONSULTATION If you bring the original of this article to USEFUL NUMBERS be spent in WALES. & MINIMAL INFORMATION. Most patients Taurus Crafts you can buy one tea or coffee found out when they needed a referral and a copy ALL EMERGENCIES: 999 and get one free. Valid until 31st May 2013. of the protocol was available if they asked to see it. Police (All non-urgent calls) Education Helpline: 01452 425300 101 These English resident patients with a Welsh Environment Helpline: registered GP have no democratic vote or control Crimestoppers: 0800 555111 01452 425500 Tidenham Parish Council about the healthcare services that they are being Bogus Callers Helpline: Libraries Helpline: 01452 305420 The Council wishes to appoint a person to the Committee which manages 0800 100 0777 the Sedbury & Beachley Village Hall obliged to accept. Adult Helpdesk: 01452 426868 No experience is needed but an interest in helping your area is essential! Doctors Surgery - Beachley Road Meetings take place, in the evenings, usually every five weeks A group of concerned patients who found about 01291 626041 Children & Families Helpdesk Applications to: Mrs Jan Cordon Clerk to the Parish Council this by chance about a month ago have formed an Doctors Surgery - Coleford Road 01452 426565 Marie Cottage NMontpellier Road NBream, Glos GL15 6LZ 01291 637910 action group called Action4ourcare. We are non- Forest of Dean District Council 01594 562554 NHS Direct: 0845 4647 Main Switchboard: 01594 810000 or email: [email protected] party political and working to inform the whole community affected about what is going on and Sedbury Pharmacy: 01291 622532 Bulky Items Collection: Please call the Clerk to discuss this important role in the community and to 01594 812444 learn more about the position – no formal application forms are needed trying to get the new rules changed. We feel this is Sedbury Post Office: 01291 629300 wrong because: Sedbury & Beachley Village Hall Abandoned Vehicles: 01594 812264 01291 623311 Council Tax Helpline: 01594 812532 List of Councillors WE HAVE NO CHOICE AND NO VOICE. Tidenham War Memorial Hall 01291 624663 Dog Warden: 01594 812447 Cllr Lance Allan Cllr Carole Dawson If you would like more information or can help us Noise & Pollution: 01594 812442 Tel: 01291 628867 Vice Chairman Chase School Room: 01291 689775 This means that any English resident patient eg with delivery of leaflets, signatures for a petition Cllr Roy Birch Tel: 01291 680032 Pastor Chris Rees registered with a Welsh GP has to be referred to a etc, or just want to be kept informed, please email Stroat Evangelical Church: Tel: 01291 624326 Cllr Steve Ford hospital located in Wales if they need to see a [email protected] 01594 529209 UTILITIES Tel: 07908 634570 Western Power Distribution Cllr Gareth Birt Chepstow Citizens Advice Bureau consultant or need planned hospital treatment If you want to write to your MP, his details are: EMERGENCY: 0800 052 0400 Tel: 01291 624114 01291 623437 Cllr Andy Hossack (with some exceptions – see below). Mark Harper MP, 35 High Street, Cinderford, GENERAL: 0845 6013341 Tel: 01291 630615 SAMARITANS: 08457 909090 Cllr Gerald Blunt Gloucestershire GL14 2SL (01594 823482) GAS Tranco Tel: 01291 689424 The Royal Gwent and Neville Hall, Chepstow or Gloucestershire County Council Cllr Gabriella EMERGENCY: 0800 11999 Monmouth hospitals in Wales are now the local [email protected]. He is helping Main Switchboard: 01452 425000 Cllr Sheila Bollen Kirkpatrick individual constituents who had written to him with Water - Dwr Cymru Streetlights (freephone) Tel: 01291 620812 Tel: 01291 629394 hospitals. These patients cannot routinely go to EMERGENCY: 0800 0520130 hospitals in Gloucester, Bristol, Lydney or The their concerns and cases and taking this to the 08000 514514 Cllr Bernard Bowshall Secretary of State for Health. Trading Standards Helpline SEWERS & DRAINS EMERGENCY Tel: 01291 624152 Dilke except for emergency care. 01452 426200 0800 085 3968 These new rules also apply to Welsh resident (Mrs Plummer, St Briavels Common) Contact The Clerk, Mrs. Jan Cordon on 01594 562554, Email: [email protected] or visit our website: www.tidenhamparishcouncil.co.uk Printed by Hanley Court Printers, Tidenham Tel: 01291 623010 Tutshill and Sedbury, including brown-field sites, Parish Council would agree are suitable Tidenham Parish Council which are capable of accommodating development. for new dwellings: It is recognised that it may be necessary to make Finances 1. Site 147 Junction A48/B4228 – Parish Council minor modifications to the limits of the defined agree with the SHLAA and 78 dwellings settlement boundaries. Together these potential For the last three years your Parish Council has sites can provide sufficient new housing 2. Site 148 – Tidenham Vicarage – agree with the kept its part of the Council Tax (known as the developments to meet the housing needs of the SHLAA and 9 dwellings Precept) at £90,100 and has used reserves and parish. 3. Site 150 – Broadrock, Woodcroft – agree with economies to achieve this. However this year the Furthermore, in order to preserve the character of SHLAA and 30 dwellings Parish Council has increased the budgeted the area whilst integrating new development expenditure to £94,880 but has requested a 4. Site 269 – Beachley Road, Tutshill – agree with Tidenham Parish Council does not believe that the SHLAA and 8 dwellings Precept of £92,000 – a small increase of £1,900 Parish can accommodate within any minor with the balance of expenditure coming again boundary modifications more than 50 additional 5. Site 424 – Woodcroft east of Walnut Tree – from reserves. dwellings in total, and no more than 20 on any one agree with SHLAA and 16 dwellings 2012/2013 year with more to come in the site. 6. Site 426 – Stoulgrove Lane – agree with SHLAA 2013/2014 year. It is hoped that from next year Being furthest from the Gloucester/Cheltenham and 43 dwellings no major works will be needed with just normal focus of development than any other location in the Sites taken from the SHLAA which the Parish on-going maintenance being required. county Tidenham Parish Council believes that Council would not wish to see proceed: Your Parish Councillors fully appreciate that any Tidenham parish is not an appropriate location to 1. Site 213 – Wyedean School – this potential site increase to parishioners will not be welcome but accommodate significant numbers of new homes for is excessive in scale; such a major development hope that the above goes someway to explain the Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean. would adversely affect the village, change the reasons behind the increase. character and increase the coalescence of Sedbury Whilst this policy above remains true the Forest of and Tutshill. Insufficient local drainage, insufficient Parish Council Development Policy Dean District Council requested during its annual health structure and overload the schools. Flood assessment of possible sites suggestions from risk potential. The local highways are already In response to rumours of intended large scale interested parties to be incorporated into the ‘Local insufficient and with the approved new building building developments within the Parish, the Parish Plan’ and used to guide future development till both in Chepstow and Lydney, the A48 within the Council would like to assure the whole community 2026. This does not determine whether a site parish will become a bottleneck. With 222 houses of its commitment to ensuring a balanced and should be allocated for housing development in the considered an estimate of 380 car movements can consistent response from itself to any application. future. Currently we are told the Forest of Dean Why has it been necessary to increase the be anticipated daily. An increase in the population Housing developments within the Parish especially has an adequate supply of land for housing, so any spending level? Firstly over the past three years of some 750 persons would overwhelm the local large scale ones are contentious issues, with the sites that come forward may be considered on a all increases in costs have been absorbed but sadly infrastructure and also leisure provision in the need for homes being balanced with affordability, long-term basis and retained within the Council's this cannot continue for a fourth year; costs such Parish sustainability, local services and location. The Parish database. 2. Site 382 – B4228/east of Elm Road – comments as grass cutting, litter clearance and the emptying is located in Gloucestershire and therefore gets its of dog bins have increased on an annual basis as as above. 165 houses in one area is overloading all infrastructure and amenities from the District Therefore the Parish Council has identified a infrastructure and services. Drainage less likely to has the cost of all other items such as insurance Council and County Council so it is from this premiums, repairs etc. generally in line with number of potential development sites and a be an issue but all other points above are relevant county they should be considered in future strategy. number of inappropriate sites and prepared its own inflation. The second reason is that the Parish 3. Site 421 – Pennsylvania Farm, west of Sedbury Council has taken over maintenance of Shirley’s Overall the Parish Council does not wish to see Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment Park and Buttington Hill – comments as above. Grove from the Tidenham War Memorial Hall these large scale developments within the Parish as (SHLAA) for submission to the District Council so Excessively prominent in landscape Committee and has plans to spend some £2,500 these will adversely affect the scale of each they might be identified on their site maps. , these community within the Parish. However the Council being as follows: Sites not on the SHLAA where Parish on general maintenance of grass cutting, tree and would consider building to be appropriate: hedge works. appreciates the need for housing of all types and prefers to spread the new dwellings widely within 1. Field west of Sedbury Lane and east of the Tidenham Parish Council – Allocations Those parishioners either using Shirley’s Grove the Parish. With this in mind in May 2009 the Parish British Legion building – a natural rounding of the Development Plan Response or just walking past will see that in early in 2013 Council agreed the following policy in preparation of Settlement Boundary and has direct access to the Parish Council has completed the tree the Forest Of Local Development Core Strategy. Overall the Parish Council does not wish to see highways, access to water courses and thus access thinning and the hedge has been cut with this This being – large scale developments within the Parish as these to drainage. Possible 90 dwellings money coming from reserves. will adversely affect the scale of each community Development within the parish will be controlled by 2. The Old Laundry site at junction of Beachley The three closed churchyards of Tidenham, St within the Parish. However the Council appreciates Road and Ormerod Road. Brown field site which the relevant chapters of the Local Development the need for housing of all types and prefers to Luke’s at Tutshill and Beachley are also a very Framework plan currently in course of preparation could possibly accommodate 12 dwellings spread the new dwellings widely within the Parish costly item to maintain but this is a legal by Forest Of Dean District Council. Tidenham 3. Beachley between Buttington Farm and Loop requirement. The walls of Tidenham and St Parish Council believes that there are several Sites taken from the existing SHLAA, and Road – natural extension of Settlement Boundary Luke’s have been repaired over the last four years locations in the parish of Tidenham, within the numbered as per the SHLAA, which the accommodating 12 -15 dwellings and Beachley has had wall repairs in the settlement boundaries of Woodcroft, Beachley,