Novemb er 201 8 ON&V is published monthly by Overton Council (OPC) and is distributed Editor: Holly Foat by volunteers to every property in Overton, Ashe, & . [email protected] www.OvertonParishCouncil.gov.uk What’s on in Overton @OvertonHants

Overton Parish Council (OPC) notes by Laura Harley (Parish Clerk)

Development at Two Gate Lane Parish Council: November diary Representatives from Bewley Homes made an initial presentation to the Parish Council Meeting: Parish Council on 10th October regarding the proposed housing Wednesday 14 November, 7pm in development in Two Gate Lane. A public exhibition will be held at the the Community Centre (Public Community Centre on Saturday 17th November from 10am-2pm. Time 7pm - 7.30pm).

Dog fouling and responsible dog ownership campaign OPC Monthly Planning Meeting: Community safety patrol officers are employed by and Deane Tuesday 27 November, 7.30pm, in Borough Council and aim to improve the wellbeing of local residents by Community Centre. Agendas and helping to make them feel safer, with the focus of the service to reduce planning applications are displayed antisocial behaviour affecting people and places. More information about on the Parish Noticeboard. The the team can be found on the councils website; public is welcome to attend and www.basingstoke.gov.uk/cspo-team. The team has recently initiated a dog may discuss any planning matters fouling and responsible dog ownership campaign which runs from 1st before each meeting starts. October to 31st December and aims to tackle the areas most affected by dog fouling, provide patrols to deter dog fouling offences and to enforce All parish council meetings will be against the minority of people not picking up after their dogs. Further recorded. information can be found at overtonparishcouncil.gov.uk. Laverstoke & Freefolk Parish New bench for Edward Kersley Playing Field Council Meeting: Tuesday 13 If you have walked through the playing field recently you will notice that November, 7.30pm in Lady Rose there is a new bench commemorating the donation of the playing field by Hall, Laverstoke Lane.

Mervyn Kersley in memory of his father Edward. Members of the Kersley Litter Pick family together with parish councillors dedicated the bench on 8th October. Just a reminder that there will be a Thank you to Peter Baker for persevering with the project. Hopefully the litter pick taking place on Sunday circular bench will provide a lovely place to have a friendly chat. 4th November starting at 10am. Please meet at the Community Keys to the loos Centre wearing sensible clothing The parish council now has a set of keys for the public toilets in the centre and boots. If you have a litter of the village. If you require the toilets to be open in an evening or at a picker please bring it along and weekend to coincide with a village activity please contact the Clerk to make also make sure that you have arrangements. gloves.

Energy Recover Facility (ERF) in Chineham Movitime News On 22nd September, ON&V Editor Holly Foat visited the incinerator in MoviTime takes a break in Chineham on behalf of the parish council. The incinerator is operated by November but returns with two Veolia and is actually an Energy Recovery Facility meaning that the waste films in December. Swimming with (from our black bins) is burnt at very high temperatures to generate Men will be shown on 7th electricity. The ERF in Chineham deals with 100,000 tonnes of waste per December and Mamma Mia (here year and generates enough electricity to power 11,000 homes. Because we go again) on 28th December. we have three incinerators in (one in Portsmouth and one near As always the films are shown in ), Hampshire has not sent any household waste to landfill St Mary’s Hall. Doors open at since 2005! According to Veolia, the ERFs reduce the use of fossil fuels, 7.15pm for a 7.45pm start. Tickets cut emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce dependence on landfill and are £5.00 in advance from the they operate within the highest standards of environmental care, meeting Overton Gallery or £5.50 on the or exceeding emissions legislation. Any household waste that isn’t recycled door. Refreshments are available in Hampshire will be disposed of in this way. Information on recycling is on to purchase on the night. the following page.

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OPC notes continued by Laura Harley (Parish Clerk) Village Diary - Regular events Plastic Bank removed Overton & Whitchurch NCT coffee The mixed plastic bank (for trays, yoghurt carton and Tetra packs) was morning: Fortnightly. See Facebook removed from the Overton Hill Car Park on 18th October as there is reduced [email protected] demand for this type of plastic to be recycled. Only a small proportion of the plastics received were actually being recycled. The cartons were removed for St Luke’s Short Mat Bowls Club: Monday recycling and the mixed plastics went for onward reprocessing to a Plastics 7.30pm-9.30pm, Wednesday 2pm-4pm Recovery Facility at the closest one in Rainham, Essex. At the moment there and Thursday 7.30-9.30pm. )770409. are no sustainable markets in the UK for mixed plastics. The HDPE and PET (most valuable fractions) were removed from the mixed plastics stream but Village Agent Drop-in Centre: Tuesdays these made up about 5% of the overall material volume. The rest tended to 10-12 in the Palmer Room at the Community Centre. Janet & Graham go for incineration or abroad at a huge cost. Hard plastics are difficult to ) recycle and costly to recycle. They are normally made from a cocktail of 07555 908197. polymer types making them extremely low value. It is more economically Age Concern Social Group: Tuesday 2- (and environmentally) friendly to recover the potential energy stored within 4pm Harveys Field. Margaret )771710. the material through the incineration process as it has a very high calorific value. Within Hampshire, mixed plastics are incinerated with energy Steady & Strong exercise class: recovery. Tuesdays 10:30 at Harveys Field and 12:00 & 13:00 Gill Nethercott Centre, Recycling at Overton Hill Whitchurch. Contact Gary )302210. However you can still recycle the following at Overton Hill (in addition to your green bin). Story Tots at the Library: Every Tuesday at 9:45. Stories & crafts for pre-school Bring sites – Textiles children. [email protected] Textile banks can accept any textiles regardless of quality, size or age. Textiles are sorted and graded by quality. Material good enough for resale Heart for Overton: Tuesdays 11-12:30 goes to a charity shop. Poor quality second hand material is often exported Overton library. Tea and company, to third world countries for reuse. Any textiles not suitable for resale or reuse signposting to local services, all welcome are sold for rags or shredded and turned in to a flock, which is sold on to manufacturers for use in furniture lining, cushions, car interiors and car seats Wednesday Toddlers: Wednesdays 8.50- etc. Any textile items can be recycled including towels, dusters, bed sheets 11am in the St Mary's Church Rooms, and tights. Pillows and duvets cannot be recycled due to hygiene issues. tea, coffee, toast, toys, songs and Feathered bedding cannot be recycled and hollow fibre bedding has often toddler-friendly Bible story. Donation £2 already been made from recycled materials or material that cannot be Charity Coffee Morning: Thursdays 10-12 recycled easily. The material resale value is therefore, extremely low. in front hall of Methodist Church.

Bring sites – Cardboard Coffee, Colour and Chat: first Thursday of Cardboard from bring sites is not sent to a Materials Recovery facility like our the month 10.30-11.45am at White Hart. kerbside recycling is. The cardboard tends to go straight to a mill where it is )07745327049 pulped for recycling. Construction club: Overton Library, every Bring sites – Glass Thursday after school. This material follows the same route as kerbside glass. The glass is mixed in the large steel recycling banks and then partially crushed in the collection Overton Pagan Moot: First Thursday of vehicle. Historically, glass was colour-separated at source to reduce the month. [email protected] contamination and to secure a good price. Our glass is now mixed across Hampshire as it goes to a state of the art optical sorting facility in Overton Photographic Club: Welcomes Southampton that can colour separate glass fines with very high accuracy at visitors and new members. Fridays from around 8 tonnes per hour. The glass is colour separated then crushed in to a 7:30pm Overton Recreation Centre, fine powder before being sent to Ireland or the West Midlands (British Glass) Bridge Street. Non-members £2. for recycling in to glass. The majority of glass goes for re-melt but a small www.overtonphotographicclub.co.uk. fraction does go for new road bases. Well baby clinic: 3rd Friday of month: 9.30-11am in the Community Centre. Reporting faults and problems You can report street lighting faults and other highway problems online at Friday Toddlers: Fridays: 10-11.30am in www.hants.gov.uk. Under ‘Report It’, select ‘Report a Road the St Mary's Church Rooms. £1 Problem’. Highway problems can reported on )0300 555 1388. Club2O Alternate Fridays in the Church Letters to the editor Rooms. For children in years 4, 5 & 6. 7- A little thank you to the ORC 8.30pm. Games and fun. Pete )770243 I just want to send a big THANK YOU to the ORC, and in particular to Graham Devereux and Gary Savory for allowing the use of the Bridge The Community Church most Sunday Street Pavilion for the recent children's Bikeability course. 29 local children mornings. 10am at St. Luke's Hall. aged 11 and 12 took part in the course and we needed a location for them to use as a base and for training. They kindly offered the pavilion for free and Traidcraft Sales: 2nd and 4th Saturdays we couldn’t have run the course without it. Thank you ORC for your support. of the month. Sales of fairly-traded food & Jo South crafts. 9.30-12.00 at Methodist Church. Village Diary - November 2018 Police News Your local Police Officer is PCSO 16173 Emma Page [email protected] Emergency )999 Friday 2 November: Overton Police Station, Mulfords Hill, Tadley, RG26 3HZ Photographic Club Award-winning Follow @BstokeRuralCops Police Enquiry Centre & non-emergencies )101 landscape photographer Vanda Ralevska Crimestoppers charity )0800 555 111 www.hampshire.police.uk shares how to capture moments of magic from the seasons. ORC Pavilion, Bridge September 2018 Street. 7:30pm. Non-members £2. Please see the full report on overtonparishcouncil.gov.uk and What’s on in Overton. There were 11 incidents in August which have been classified as Saturday 3 November: OSA Fireworks crimes by the Home Office. Display at Overton CE Primary School. Traffic Incidents: three damage only road traffic collisions. Gates at the school will open at 5pm with Theft from Vehicle: a quantity of aviation fuel was stolen from a Cessna at fireworks at approximately 6pm. There Popham Airfield. will be a bar, BBQ and glowsticks for sale. Theft: two reported this month. Advance tickets available from Overton Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB): three reported this month. Gallery at adults £5, children £1 or on the Criminal Damage: four reported. Gates and crops have been damaged by gate at adults £6, children £2 Under 16s vehicles involved in hare coursing on Laverstoke Lane & Ash Warren Farm. must be accompanied by an adult. We Suspicious Incidents: eleven reported this month. A van was seen to remove would encourage all attending to walk as items from a skip in Kerchers Field, Nottingham Knockers were in the area of there is no parking at school or on Ashe Park and there were several reports of suspicious vehicles with a adjoining roads. If you are in possession number of persons and dogs in them in fields near Northington Farm, of a blue badge and require parking then Laverstoke Lane and Court Drove. Some bollards on the Harroway have contact [email protected]. also been moved. Assault: two reported this month. Monday 5 November: Overton & District Public Order: three reported this month. U3A 2pm in St Mary’s Hall. A Family Tribute to a Fallen Soldier, Geoff Davies. Speedwatch Here are some of the results: Tuesday 6 November: Overton WI 04/07/2018 15:00-16:30 on Overton Hill (15 x 1st time offenders, 1 x 2nd Meeting: The Hunt family at the White time offender, 1 x multiple offender) Hart, with Ian Hodgson. 09/07/2018 15:00-16:15 on Road (7 x 1st time offenders, 1 x [email protected] driver caught doing excessive speed) www.hampshirewi.org.uk )770681 25/07/2018 08:00-09:15 hours on Overton Hill (32 x 1st time offenders, 1 x 2nd time offender, 2 x drivers caught doing excessive speed) Thursday 8 November: Overton Garden 07/08/2018 16:30-18:00 in Southington (10 x 1st time offenders, 2 x 2nd time Society. Growing Sweet Peas for offenders) exhibition and pleasure with Jim McDonald. 8pm in the Community Centre. Letters to the editor Newcomers welcome. Jenny )772008 Summer Reading Challenge at Overton Library Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Summer Reading Friday 9 November: Overton Challenge during the holidays. A total of four hundred and fifty five books Photographic Club Natural history were read. Huge thanks go to our hardworking volunteers, who make the photographer and falconer, Pete challenge really special. Well done! Jo, Lynn and Helen look forward to Whieldon visits us to talk about his seeing you as you choose your fireside reading this autumn. feathered friends – possibly accompanied by owls. ORC Pavilion, Bridge Street. Can you help with the church flowers? 7:30pm. Non-members £2. This is another plea to anyone in the village who enjoys flower arranging and could spare a couple of hours per month arranging flowers for the church. Thursday 15 November: Overton We are not looking for professionals! Just someone who loves flowers and Biodiversity Society. Talk on Birds and who would enjoy a peaceful hour or so in St Mary's on either a Friday or Wildlife in North Hampshire. Andrew Saturday morning. There would only be one arrangement to do. Do contact Cleave will be giving a talk on birds and me if you would be interested or if you would like more details. My mobile other wildlife in north Hampshire at number is )07880715629 or you can email me 7.30pm in Overton Community Centre, [email protected]. Look forward to hearing from you! Elvina followed by refreshments. £2.00 (£2.50 Parker for non-members).

Overton Social Group Wednesday 21 November: Overton & Do you live in Overton or the surrounding area? Why not come along to District U3A 10am in St Mary's Hall. A talk our social group that is designed for older people looking for weekly by Tony Harris, a professional comedian, activities, companionship and a good laugh! Our friendly group runs each raconteur and actor specialising in Tuesday from 2.00pm - 4.00pm at Harvey's Field (small charge applies). historical talks with a hysterical twist. His Please contact Margaret on )771710. talk should get us in the mood for the Christmas Season. New members are Thank you! always welcome and visitors can pay £3 May I please thank all those kind residents of Overton who have put out on the door. boxes of windfall apples and sometimes pears for people to help themselves? We have so enjoyed eating them. Judy Lush Transport News by Brian Langer (Transport Representative) )770848 Letters to the editor Trains engineering work Alice in Wonderland Network Rail now issues only six weeks advance notice of engineering Don't miss Overton Dramatic Society's works rather than the previous twelve weeks so you are advised to check if pantomime! Tickets are selling fast for the changes have been made to the information below (compiled early October) show, running from Tuesday 27th for late November. November until Saturday 1st December in St Mary's Hall. Curtain up at 7.30pm Work affecting Overton and Waterloo to Exeter/Bristol train services (2pm for the Saturday matinee). Tickets Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 October: expect some delays and disruption if are £6.50 for children and concessions travelling west of Salisbury. and £7.50 for adults, available online Sunday 28 October: Major work at Waterloo, Woking and Basingstoke so www.overtondramatic.co.uk or Blueberri. eastbound, Overton trains will travel no further than Basingstoke. Bus connection from Basingstoke to Guildford towards Waterloo and vice versa. Christmas Tree installation Monday 29 October to Sunday 4 November: amended service if travelling The OBA and Dennis Rowles would very to/from Feniton and Templecombe. much appreciate volunteers to assist with Sunday 4 November: No trains through Basingstoke or Overton. Bus the Christmas tree installation on replacement service in operation between Woking and Andover. Saturday 24th November (the week Monday 5 to Sunday 11 November: Expect delays and disruption if travelling before the Christmas Market). If you can west of Salisbury especially if travelling to Templecombe or Feniton. help please contact Dennis Rowles Sunday 11 November: Buses replace trains west of Yeovil Junction. )770878 or Alexis Walmsley Sundays 18 and 25 November: Major disruption at Waterloo. Waterloo trains [email protected]. We from Overton will not run east of Basingstoke and vice versa. usually start at about 8.45am and finish mid-morning depending on the weather. Work affecting nearby SWR services NOT on Overton line We will also need help after Christmas on Late evenings only, Monday 5 to Wednesday 7 November: Buses replace Sat 5th Jan to take them down. trains between Basingstoke and Eastleigh. Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 November: Buses replace trains between Lordsfield Swimming Club News Basingstoke and both Southampton Central and Fareham. Thanks to the Parish Council for covering the printing costs and delivering our pool Winter Train Timetable update in last month’s News & Views! The Government has vetoed the introduction of SWR's revised timetable in Alison Hood (nee Bentley - club December. This went out for public consultation earlier in 2018. No major fundraising) is organising a Xmas fayre at changes are expected to the current timetable. Millennium Hall on Sunday 25 Nov, 11am-2pm to benefit the hall and Strike Action by RMT on Southwestern Railway Overton Pool. She needs helpers to run This is scheduled to take place between Tuesday 23 October and Saturday Santa’s Grotto, bake cakes and serve 27 October inclusive and again on Saturdays 3, 10, 17 and 24 November. refreshments. If you can help or would SWR are expected to operate a reduced service on those dates so check for like a stall (£10), please contact her by ) details on website or by phoning 0345 6000 650. email [email protected] or call her on )07919 418919. Club’s HCC's Transport Budget trustees are still working to conclude and The deadline for public comments on the county council's proposals to save sign a 25 year lease on the pool. We are over £1million from their transport budget was 5 August. The Passenger aiming to get this sorted by Xmas. Lauren Transport Review will be considered by the Executive Member, believed to McCann (on behalf of LSC trustees) be Cllr Humby, on 29 October. Besides Concessionary Passes this will also involve the future of bus service 74. Overton Scouts Letters to the editor Please email the leaders at 8 Bereavement Service at St Mary’s Church [email protected] if There will be a Bereavement Service on Sunday 4 November, 18.30 at St interested in joining or helping out. Mary's Church. All welcome. Alison Peters (Church Warden)

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