DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY NO. 117 SPRING 2015 ISSN 0965-8912 It’s your neighbourhood Get involved in the Neighbourhood Plan - see centre pages 1 Doreways News Dore Old School – fifty years on Who’s up for Village in Bloom? Here is an advance date for your diaries, especially if you are a past pupil of Dore Old There’s been a suggestion that Dore might School or know someone who was, and has moved away from Dore. like to enter the famous ‘Britain in Bloom’ There will be a special reunion event in Dore Old School on Saturday July 4 for anyone competition, organised annually by the who is a past pupil of the Old School, their family and friends. There will be more details Royal Horticultural Society. available in the Summer edition of Dore to Door. The 2014 contest attracted entries To get you in the mood here is a photograph, provided by Chris Dinsdale, of Mrs Aldred’s from 71 communities around the country. 1959 -1960 class. Chris himself is third from the left on the back row. There are several Entries for not just 2015 but also the 2016 familiar faces; see if you can spot Robert Colley, Jeremy Dench, Paul Jay, Jane Lowe, competition have already closed, and so Nicholas Maxwell, Rosemary Speakman, Tim Brown, John Brookes, Sally Whiteley, John the earliest that we could hope to get in is Collins, Kenneth Ineson, Michael Johnson, Perry Hunt, Julie Lawton, Elizabeth Lill, John 2017. Howell, Bernard Howell, Malcolm Gordon, Paul Jackson, Jonathan Sketchley, Marylyn This would require a lot of gardeners Taylor and Christine Peddler, and others. and an extended commitment. Two and a half years might seem a long time, but in gardening terms it’s nothing. For the moment we’re just trying to find out how many of you enthusiastic gardeners would be interested in helping. Please contact me or any Doreways Group member. Dorne Coggins Village Spring Clean 2015 As we exit the Winter you may well be Spring cleaning at home. Doreways would like to invite you to help the village by giving a couple of hours of your cleaning time over to the community, and joining our annual village clean-up. If you can help, please come along to the Old School car park at 11am on Sunday April 19. Full instructions, picking sticks, high-visibility vests and bags are provided. There are refreshments available. Whether you’re eighteen or eighty we’d The Doreways group would love to hear from you, especially if you have photos and love to see you. We’re never going to stop stories we can use at the reunion. New historical material has come to light which was not the litter louts, so let’s all get together and available at the time ‘Dore Old School in Records and Recollections’ by John Dunstan was do a little to spruce Dore up for the Summer. published, and this will be ‘unveiled’ at the reunion too. Please note: Due to the need to work Please contact either: Dorne Coggins at: [email protected] or Maureen Cope close to busy roads, and the quite frankly at: [email protected] disgusting nature of some of the things that Cover photograph of Old Hay Brook after the we find, this event is not suitable for very Boxing Day snow by John Eastwood. young children. Dore Village Society Registered Charity No. 1017051 The society aims to foster the protection and enhancement of the local environment and amenities within Dore, to encourage a spirit of community and to record its historic development. Current membership rates are £6 per annum. Telephone numbers of Committee Members are below; for email, please write to firstname.surname@ dorevillage.co.uk, e.g. [email protected] Address for correspondence: The Old Barn, Nab Farm,44 Savage Lane, Dore, S17 3GW Committee Members: Archives Dorne Coggins 327 1054 Chairman Membership Keith Shaw 236 3598 Kath Lawrence 236 2758 Deputy Chairman Notice Boards David Bearpark 236 9100 Keith Shaw 236 3598 Secretary FEW Liaison Angela Rees 236 3487 Lorna Baker 236 9025 Treasurer Dore to Door & Website Councillors’ Surgeries Mark Stanley 236 1193 John Eastwood 07850 221048 Second Saturday of each month Planning Community Activities David Crosby 262 1127 Roger Viner 235 6625 10am - noon at the Old School, Philip Howes 236 9156 Vicarage Lane Environment Dawn Biram 235 6907 David Heslop 236 5043 2 DVS Chairman DVS AGM 2015 Buses, boundaries and bad dogs DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING gullies and road drains (particularly Notice is hereby given that the 50th eliminating the River Savage), street lighting, Annual General Meeting of the Dore Village grass verge damage caused by motorists Society will be held at Dore Methodist parking on verges, and liaison with Dore Church, High Street, Dore at 7.30pm on residents prior to, and during, the work. The 3rd June 2015. This is an advance notice repairs were due to start in July this year and the full agenda will be published in the but commencement has been put back to Summer edition of Dore to Door, as well September, with completion still scheduled as in the DVS noticeboards and on the for September 2016. A map, together with website. However, formal notice is now dates, is on the DVS noticeboards and our given of recommended changes to the website at www.dorevillage.co.uk. If you Society’s constitution which will be put to have any items you would like Amey to take the AGM and recommended for adoption. into account please let me know. There will In my August column I asked you to get The first proposed change is to replace the be more on this in the May issue. in touch and let me know what you would current section 4 of the constitution, which Car parking continues to generate a lot of like the Dore Village Society to do for you, deals with membership subscriptions, and discussion. There is undeniably a parking and the response was quite varied as one replace it with the following: problem in the village and we thought we might expect. Here’s a selection. 4. SUBSCRIPTIONS were making progress when we submitted a Many people are annoyed by the The membership subscription shall be: report with recommendations to the Council unreliability of the no.70 bus service (a Full members per annum. £6.00 early in 2012 following our surveys and public perennial problem) and we have made Corporate members per annum. £35.00 consultations. Despite frequent requests for many representations to the bus companies Junior members per annum. Free (aged a response the Council has remained silent and the transport authority over the years, 18 or under) on this issue and so we have raised it again both directly and via our local councillors, or such other sum as the AGM shall in the context of the Amey work and there who work very hard on this issue. As a result determine from time to time, following are signs that we might have a positive of action by a local resident the pressure a recommendation from the Executive response from them in time for a report in on the bus operators is being significantly Committee, and it shall be payable on or the May issue of Dore to Door. increased and you can read about this on before 1st January each year. The workings of the Dore Village Society page 7. These changes are related to the and its committee can sometimes appear Overhanging hedges which force people designation of the DVS as a Neighbourhood opaque and to address this and keep DVS to walk in the road or have branches at face Forum (see centre pages) and our desire members better informed about our work or eye level was also fairly prominent. This to encourage younger membership of the we will shortly be publishing the agendas isn’t just an inconvenience; it’s also a safety Society. for our meetings and a summary of the issue, particularly for people with push The second proposed change is to delete consequent actions and decisions. We will chairs, mobility scooters, and the elderly the current final paragraph of section 3 of publish these on the noticeboards and our and infirm. The best way of dealing with this the constitution. This states: website and, hopefully, this will give you is to get in touch with Dennis Wyatt at the “The subscription of a member joining a good idea of the range of things we are Council (phone 273 6677 or email dennis. in the three months preceding January in involved with and give you the opportunity [email protected]). The Council has any year, shall be regarded as covering to comment or make requests for items for a duty to follow up on complaints and has membership for the Society’s year us to consider. the power to enforce action if householders commencing on January 1st following the The work we undertake is defined by don’t remedy the problem. date of joining the Society”. the DVS constitution and as another step Dog mess! This seems to be on the It is felt that this is confusing and that in making our work more transparent and increase again. Dog owners have a legal it could be seen as conflicting with the understandable the constitution is now on duty to clean up every time their dog messes wording in section 4 (both current and the website and available by post for anyone in a public place (registered blind people proposed), as shown above, which states who doesn’t have Internet access.