The Villager December 17 – February 18
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The Villager December 17 – February 18 Christmas Fairs What is your reports and Favourite Photographs! p.11 Place in the Parish? Photographic Parish in Bloom competition news! p.4 Prize winners! P.21 Christmas New Cornwall Macmillan Church Council Boundaries p6 Coffee Morning Services reports p18 Trewidland Sausage and Neighbourhood Cider Festival Plan-presentations and Barn to local groups Dance report P 18 p15 Dobwalls and Trewidland Parish Council Dobwalls and Trewidland Parish Council December 2017 Councillor CONTACT DETAILS RESPONSIBILITIES For the Dobwalls Ward John Dunn Chair of Parish Council [email protected] Chair Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group 01579 320733 Davina Finch Police Liaison [email protected] NP Health Topic Group 01579 326661 Tracey Kitto Liskeard and Looe [email protected] Community Network Liaison 07854 278789 NP Community Group Helen Blee NP Housing Topic [email protected] Group John Collis NP Housing Topic [email protected] Group 07852 335750 Marie Morford NP Traffic and Parking [email protected] topic Group 01579 320349 Ailsa Tween [email protected] 01579 321170 Position vacant 2 For the Trewidland ward including Doublebois Hugh Francis Villager magazine [email protected] editorial group NP Housing group 01503 240204 Mhairi Mackie Vice Chair, [email protected] Co-ordinator NP Steering group. 01503 240565 Villager editorial group Position vacant Parish Council Meetings, Meetings normally start at 7.00pm and will be held on: December 13th 6.30 at Dobwalls Church Hall January 17th 7.00 at Trewidland Village Hall st February 21 7.00 at Dobwalls Church Hall Attending and participating in Parish Council Meetings Members of the public are welcome to attend any council meeting and can raise an issue or speak to the council about an agenda item under public participation which is usually towards the beginning of the meeting. The Agenda for each PC meeting are posted on the Parish Council website and on notice boards in both Dobwalls and Trewidland, in advance of each meeting Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group meetings Thursday 14th December 6.30 at Dobwalls Church hall Wednesday 23rd January 6.30 at Trewidland Village Hall Wednesday 14th February 6.30 at Dobwalls Church Hall Cornwall Councillors contact details: Liskeard West and Dobwalls division: Jane Pascoe – 07484 315327 [email protected] Trewidland - Menheniot division: Phil Seeva - 07746 815302 [email protected] 3 Reporting problems and raising issues If you have an issue that you feel the Parish Council should know about, please contact your local parish Councillor. General problems should be reported to the Parish Clerk, Linda Coles by email to: [email protected] or by post to: Mrs. Linda Coles, The Firs, Lower Metherell, Callington, Cornwall PL17 8BJ or by telephone: 01579 350962 Pick Your Parish Places Photographic Competition You may well have already looked at our Parish Council Website and wondered where all the images on the home page were taken from. It is thanks to the website designers that we have so many sunny images of our Parish! However it has stimulated us to think about which images local people would have chosen to represent the best qualities of both the Dobwalls and Trewidland areas of the parish. So as part of the consultation process of the Neighbourhood Plan we would like to find out two things - What is your favourite Place or View in the parish? What is your least favourite Place/ View? The Parish Council is planning a Photographic Competition, open to all residents, to help us find out! Entries will be on exhibition as part of the Neighbourhood Plan Road-show events which will be held over the Summer of 2018 and prizes will be awarded! Entry forms in the March 2018Villager Disclaimer: The Villager magazine is published by Dobwalls and Trewidland Parish Council to provide information for parishioners. Views and opinions presented in the magazine are solely those of the Author/s and do not necessarily represent those of the Parish Council. 4 5 Changes to Cornwall Council Divisional Boundaries Deadline for Consultation comments 18th February 2018! The Local government Boundaries Commission for England made a report to Cornwall parish and town councllors on the 14th October at County Hall Truro. Their recent decision to reduce the number of councillors for Cornwall from 123 to 87, gives each Cornwall councilor responsibility for over 5,000 local people. The next step is to agree boundaries for the 87 new divisions to be created, which will come into force for the 2021 Elections. Key criteria are: to ensure that the boundaries are equitable – that is that each councillor, as far as possible, is responsible for the same number of members of the electorate. (The numbers being used are those predicted for 2023) – see the map below for the proposed divsions in the Liskeard and Looe Community Network Area. to try not to split Parishes into wards unless these wards already exist (e.g. D&T is split into Liskeard West and Dobwalls and Trewidland in our current situation ) to work initially within the Existing Community network Areas. To Consult with local parish and town councils, and residents on the boundaries being proposed. Detailed information on the proposed new boundaries in our area can be explored at https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and- democracy/elections/electoral-review-of-cornwall-council-2016- 18/division-maps/liskeard-and-loo-community-network-area/ 6 7 8 Harvest Festivals Celebration On the week beginning 25th September, Dobwalls Community Primary School enjoyed visiting the Methodist Chapel to learn about the Harvest Festival. Different year groups took part in a wide range of activities to learn about the reasons for harvest and why it is such an important time of year for the local community. In the photos, Class 4 can be seen taking part in mini activities that looked at different types of harvest, including the harvest of the ocean, the harvest of the flocks, the harvest of crops and harvest of the earth. The children were given the opportunity to taste and try different bread, hand-spin wool on a spinning wheel, build origami boats and even make their own mini clay pottery! The teachers and pupils at Dobwalls school would like to thank everyone at the Methodist Chapel for providing such a variety of fun and engaging activities for the children to take part in. Mr Hodgins (Class 4 teacher) Good News for Trewidland Broadband! Mike Lloyd has been in contact with Julian Cowans of Superfast Broadband Cornwall, and had the following response last week: "Dear Mike, I met with Openreach yesterday. The aim is that the Trewidland area will be surveyed / planned by end of Dec and upgraded by the end of April.” So, by the end of April 2018 Superfast Broadband should, at last, be available to all residents in Trewidland! 9 Jason Shaw DECORATING and ROOFLINE Decorating Painting / Decorating / Tiling Internal / External Roofline PVCu Fascias / Soffits / Guttering Cast Iron / Lindab / Concrete Gutters Indemnified / Qualified 10 yr Insurance backed warranties 01579 321095 10 Dobwalls Christmas Gifts Fayre Dobwalls Memorial Hall Fundraiser for the village this year was on Saturday/Sunday 28th/29th October. £670was raised for Hall and TumbleTeds. Information on Neighbourhood Plan progress was on display at both events and many localpeople added comments. Trewidland Christmas Craft Fair Saturday 4th November saw Trewidland villagers getting into the Christmas spirit in the Village Hall. 11 12 13 14 What kinds of issues might be significant for your family’s enjoyment of the Parish in 2030? The NP topic groups have been analyzing published data on Housing, Landscape, Open space and footpaths, Heath and Community services, Employment and business. The NP Roads, Transport, and Parking Topic group are investigating the current impact of Parking at both the Primary Schools in the parish. What might this mean in practice? Trewidland School Dobwalls School Do we want this to still be happening in 10 years time? Should we be campaigning for new extra parking? Should the parish council be prepared to buy land for parking? In Dobwalls – should we use money raised by the Parish council to improve the memorial hall car park? Or should we be providing safer walking routes to School? 15 Members of the Neighbourhood Plan Steering group have joined many local groups over the September – November period to explain current progress of the neighbourhood Plan project. NP stalls at the Christmas events in Dobwalls and Trewidland allowed more people to find out what is going on. What happens Next? 1. Making contact with key stakeholder groups including: local Businesses, Landowners Developers to make sure we have a clear idea of potential development opportunities which may still be at early planning stages. 2. Detailed Questionnaire setting out key issues and alternative solutions which will go to all households in the spring of 2018. 3. Meetings with local community interest groups over the spring and summer of 2018 to raise additional issues and refine Aims and objectives 4. Roadshow/ Exhibition in 2018 at Dobwalls Trewidland and Doublebois to allow everyone to come along and discuss the Vision for the Plan, possible policies and locations for future development in more detail. 5. Housing needs survey to be carried out in the Spring of 2018 Want to get involved? Contact Co-ordinator Mhairi Mackie, email [email protected] or Parish Clerk, Mrs Linda Coles, The Firs, Lower Metherell, Callington, Cornwall PL17 8BJ, Tel 01579 350962, email [email protected] 16 17 Trewidland Sausage and Cider Festival In early September we had a terrific and well attended Quiz evening. Everyone enjoyed the Cornish pasties in the interval but the array of homemade puddings stole the show! At the end of the month we held a Macmillan Coffee Morning and were delighted that we raised a grand total of £108.17.