Issue 59 The magazine for the District of Daventry Inside this issue: What’s on this winter • Christmas recycling tips Ten years of Care and Repair • Protecting our District’s heritage Council Information Contacting Daventry What your district council does for you District Council Daventry District Council provides a range of commonly-used services, including: • Abandoned vehicles • Housing benefits • Building control • Licences • Car parks • Local land charges Call • CCTV • Markets 01327 871100 (minicom 01327 312844) • Community safety • Open spaces Web • Conservation • One Stop Shop and outreach centres www.daventrydc.gov.uk • Council tax benefits and Email collection • Planning applications [email protected] • Daventry Country Park • Pollution reduction Write • Elections • Public toilets Daventry District Council • Environmental health • Recycling Lodge Road, Daventry NN11 4FP • Fly-tipping • Sports and recreation Visit our offices: One Stop Shop, Lodge Road, • Food safety • Stray dogs Daventry • Graffiti removal • Street cleaning Monday to Thursday 8.30am-5pm, Fridays 8.30am-4.30pm • Health promotion • The Abbey Brixworth Information Service • Household waste collection • Travel concession schemes Brixworth Community Centre, • Housing advice Spratton Road Mondays & Thursdays 9.30am-5pm, Fridays 9am-5pm, Daventry Calling is available on request in large Saturdays 9.30am-1pm print, on audiotape or in Braille. Tel: 01604 882355 [email protected] Daventry Calling is also available online at www.daventrydc.gov.uk Long Buckby Information Service Long Buckby Library, Station Road Fridays 10am-1pm & 2pm-5pm, Disclaimer: Saturdays 10am-12.30pm We care about accuracy and aim to correct any mistake in subsequent issues of Daventry Calling if you let us know where we’ve gone wrong. Tel: 01327 844650 Every effort is made to ensure articles are accurate and up to date. No [email protected] responsibility can be accepted for inaccuracies or omissions however caused. Woodford Information Service Contributed material does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Daventry Woodford Halse Library, School Street District Council. Thursdays 2pm-6pm This magazine is printed on 9lives 55 which is certified as an FSC mixed Tel: 01327 264246 sources product, and is produced with 55% recycled fibre from both pre [email protected] and post-consumer sources, together with 45% virgin ECF fibre from sustainable forest. Moulton Information Service Moulton Library, Pound Lane Mondays 1pm-5pm Tel: 01604 496954 [email protected] 2 Issue 59 Winter 2008 Welcome Contents Leading Page News: All the latest stories from the way Daventry District Council 4-7 Service Spotlight: Keeping up our standards Decade of Care and Repair 8-9 Development: Often it is the examples of not volunteer, even if it’s only for a Regeneration of Royal Oak mindless anti-social behaviour by a couple of hours a week? and new Scout eco base 10 small minority that can hit the For more details on the Phoenix local headlines, as opposed to the Service Spotlight: Club, contact Katie Jones on many positive activities of young Protecting District’s Heritage 11 01327 703864 or 07971 821454. people in areas such as music, To find out more about BYF, please Waste and Recycling: sport and voluntary work seen in call Jane Ames on 01604 889150. Will you have a greener both Daventry town and our Christmas? 12-13 district’s villages. Daventry District Council is involved in promoting so many Online Information: The Indigo Youth Café at the activities for both children and Improved web service 14-15 Phoenix Youth Centre in Daventry adults across the district and we offers activities and events for 13 Environment: should all be proud of the small to 19 year-olds living in the district Save energy this winter 16 army of volunteers who put so and has somewhat become a Healthy Living: much time and effort in to make victim of its own success! It Project Wii 17 the lives of others better – why operates three nights a week plus not become one of them! Feature: Saturday afternoons. So many Have you unearthed an young people now want to attend This year two of our Daventry archaeological treasure? 18 café drop-in sessions that District Sports Awards winners also Voluntary Assistant Youth Workers won their categories at the A to Z: are now desperately needed to Northamptonshire Sports Awards. Farthingstone, Fawsley, Flore, help supervise these sessions and Along with our free swimming Guilsborough and Great participate in activities with the initiative for under 16s at Daventry Oxendon 19 young café users, such as crafts, Leisure Centre over the school Events: sports and doing a turn as a DJ! holidays and other great success What’s on in your area 20-21 stories such as Daventry Town and Our largest village in the district is Woodford United football clubs Recipe: home to the Brixworth Youth and the Daventry Music Centre, Tasty winter risotto 22 Foundation (BYF) that is open to there is plenty to look forward to 11 to 14 year-olds on Monday and Reader Survey: in the years ahead. Win a radio 23 Thursday evenings. They offer a whole range of activities including Cllr Chris Millar Activity: sports, music, socialising and they Leader - Daventry District Council Brixworth cricket club 24 are looking into the possibility of setting up a theatre group. Both of these youth facilities are seeking extra help, so, if you Designed and would like to help make a positive produced by difference to your local area, why Tel: 01536 527297 Issue 59 Winter 2008 3 News News Use of personal data to help combat fraud People in Daventry District are being made aware of changes to the way their personal data is shared. Daventry District Council is Audit Commission uses and companies and sole traders paid required by law to protect public compares this data to assist in by the Council for works or money and has to share certain preventing and detecting fraud. services. Information about information which people give to This is known as a ‘data matching payments to creditors (invoices and the Council about themselves. exercise’ and it affects people payments) is also included in the This data is shared with other across the country. It is an effective Council’s annual accounts which bodies who are responsible for way of tracking potential are available for public inspection. auditing or administering public fraudsters. The Audit Commission is given the funds, in order to prevent and The Audit Commission requires power to use data in this way detect fraud. This data is carefully data this year from the Council’s under Part 2A of the Audit guarded and only shared under payroll and pensions system, Commission Act 1998. It does not secure circumstances, with certain market traders, housing benefit require people’s consent under the authorised bodies. claimants, the Council’s insurers, Data Protection Act 1998 but the Each year the Council has to taxi drivers and personal licence Council is obliged to tell people provide certain data to the Audit holders for the supply of alcohol, how their personal information will Commission which is an applicants of bus passes under the be used. For more details visit independent watchdog that Concessionary Fares Scheme and www.daventrydc.gov.uk/ regulates and scrutinises the way travel tokens, and details of the datamatching or telephone that local authorities operate. The Council’s creditors including all 01327 302385. Christmas and New Year opening hours Council Offices – Lodge Road Saturday, January 3. Normal December 27. It will re-open as The Council offices will be closed opening hours will resume from normal on Friday, January 2 at on Christmas Day, Boxing Day Monday, January 5. 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm. and New Year’s Day. On Brixworth Information Service Woodford Halse Information Christmas Eve and New Year’s This office will be closed on Service Eve the Council’s offices will be Saturday, December 20, Christmas The Woodford Halse Information open to the public from 8.30am Day, Boxing Day, Saturday, Service will be closed on to 12.30pm. Normal opening December 27 and New Year’s Day. Christmas Day and New Year’s hours apply on all other days. It will be open as normal on Day, reopening as normal on The Abbey Monday, December 29, Friday, Thursday, January 8 at 2pm. January 2 and Saturday, January 3. The Abbey will be closed on Moulton Information Service Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Long Buckby Information Moulton Information Service will Saturday, December 27 and New Service open as usual on Monday, Year’s Day. The Long Buckby Information December 22 and Monday, It will close at 6pm on all other Service will be closed on Friday, December 29, from 1pm to 5pm. days from Christmas Eve to December 26 and Saturday, 4 Issue 59 Winter 2008 News Anniversary celebrations a success Scores of families from across Daventry district turned out to mark Daventry Country Park’s 30th anniversary. In the last edition of Daventry Calling we reported on plans to celebrate the momentous occasion with a day of activities at the park. Despite windy weather and the occasional rain drizzle, people young and old joined in the event, organised by Daventry District Council and the Friends of Daventry Country Park. It included a tree-planting ceremony, play sessions for youngsters, Morris dancers, lantern-making workshops and a photographic exhibition. For more information, call 01327 871100. Planting an oak tree are (from left) DDC Vice-chairman Cllr Daniel Cribbin, Cllr Colin Morgan from Daventry Town Council, Dennis Cooper from Friends of Daventry Country Park and DDC Chairman Cllr Tony Scott. Fresh campaign to bring empty homes into use Daventry District Council wants to encourage owners of empty homes to bring them back into use with the launch of its Homematch scheme.