Communicating with and working for you all year round. Village Green application closing of Devizes Road as a through route. The ‘Church Field’ (the field by This will obviously benefit many Hilperton Update Hilperton Cemetery) application residents but would also cause Summer/Autumn 2019 has crossed another hurdle. annoyance to many too. At a meeting of the Western Area The parish council has agreed to Planning Committee it was agreed publish, and distribute, a survey Printed and delivered at NO COST to the tax payer to refer the application to a non- to residents of Devizes Road. statutory public inquiry. This will The wording/questions will be be held probably in early 2020; provided by WC highways things don’t rush themselves in department. local government! Depending on the result of this Cllr. Ernie Clark. A number of people have very limited survey, the matter expressed an interest in looking at may, or may not, be taken further. Your Independent the other fields on the Hilperton side of Elizabeth Way. If you are Should the decision be to proceed Wiltshire councillor. interested please contact me. The with closure, Wiltshire Council Experience Competence Energy Action Results more people that are involved, the would then issue a Traffic Regula- less work per person! tion Order. At this point everyone letter the matter will, hopefully, be would be able to comment both Dear Resident, ‘Rat running’ through the pro and anti the idea to Wiltshire resolved with lessons learned. village Council. The portfolio holder would then look at all comments Hilperton Gap Keeping in touch with received and decide whether or As I write this we still have the you Another issue that is regularly not to go ahead with it. backlash of the unauthorised raised is the number of vehicles I intend to continue with my still coming through the village The whole process could take encampment on the Gap. rather than using Elizabeth Way. A Hilperton Update newsletters. between two and three years. As it is private property it was the possible solution would be the However, I also send out a responsibility of the land owner monthly e-newsletter that has (HGT llp) to apply to the courts for How to contact me much more ‘topical’ news. It also possession of the land; they will allows me to contact residents also have to pay for the land to be Web site www.ernieclark.org.uk regarding important local issues. cleared of all the rubbish etc. that If you wish to be added to the has been left behind. E-mail [email protected] mailing list (your details will not be This is a far from ideal situation but passed to anyone else) By post 3 Stonelea, Hilperton, Wiltshire BA14 7QQ the powers of both Wiltshire Council please register via By phone 01225 769940 or (mobile) 0794 120 1995 and the police are limited. www.ernieclark.org.uk By the time you receive this news- Printed by Townsend Design & Print, 31 Balmoral Close, Chippenham SN14 0UT. Ernie. FSC certified supplier. Paper produced from sustainable forestry. Funded and promoted by Ernie Clark, 3 Stonelea, Hilperton BA14 7QQ. Copyright Ernie Clark 2019. Speeding in Hilperton Scott recently stood down as the It is planned to install two further Elizabeth Way Leader of Wiltshire Council. She units, one at Marsh Road stores, has been replaced by Phillip the other at Hilperton Primary When the road was opened a few From the number of e-mails I Whitehead. years ago, the expected 40mph receive on the topic, this continues School. speed limit was actually set at to be a major concern to many It will be interesting to see the Once these are installed there will 50mph. In addition the ‘low noise’ residents. route he chooses to take in the be an announcement on both the road surface was dropped from the run-up to the next WC election in parish council and my web sites. scheme. As I have said before, it would be May 2021. nice to think that the police will Other local councillors and I tried take action, but I regret that, with to get these decisions reversed but One thing which Scott did do was Parish boundary review the cut back in the number of to make the decision making pro- the Wiltshire Council highways police officers, that is simply not cess rather more open than it had Following the review a few years engineers thought that they knew going to happen on a regular been in the past. Let’s hope that ago, it now seems almost certain basis. best. The residents closest to the this continues under the new that the changes to Hilperton’s road now know that WC made a Leader. However, the Community Speed boundary (it no longer goes south bad mistake. of the A361) will be reflected in the Watch team is still operating in the I honestly cannot see WC admit- Defibrillators new Wiltshire Council division parish and they would be very ting their mistake and re-surfacing boundaries to be announced in happy to greet new volunteers the road, but it is an issue which especially from the Hilperton Hilperton Parish Council decided time for the May 2021 election. will be pursued. Marsh area. earlier this year to invest in provid- Those houses that now find them- ing defibrillators for the village. The time requirement is not selves paying council tax to onerous - the commitment is only To date there are three which are Trowbridge Town Council, will be New parking spaces in about one hour a month. The fitted and operational. All are moved out of Hilperton Division Church Street police provide a short training accessible 24/7. and into Trowbridge Paxcroft session and all volunteers are Division. Various parking arrangements insured whilst carrying out CSW One is at the village hall, Whaddon No doubt, when the election were changed a few months ago, duties. Lane. It is situated at the main comes along, the Lib Dem the new parking adjacent to the entrance lobby to the hall. village pump causing many candidate (whoever it might be) Please contact me for more infor- comments! mation if you are interested. The second is at the ‘Tin Church’, will keep very quiet about how his/ Horse Road. It is situated at the her political group voted in the I have asked WC to erect tempo- Change of leadership at main entrance to the church. Community Governance Review! rary warning signs but they are refusing to do so. County Hall The third is at the Lion & Fiddle, Trowbridge Road. 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