Page 1 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 248 Aug / Sept 2020 Thank you to our VILLAGE DIRECTORY in September 2020 deliverers for this issue: Church Warden 810 284 Veronica Ayers Peter Bramley Rev’d Philip Bowden, Rector 810 810 Charles Grieve Canon Paul Townsend (RC) 01962 852 804 Angie Filippa Community Sports Hall TV School 810 555 Geoff Merritt Boo Milne Garden Club 810 794, 810 432 John & Selina Musters Mayflies Youth Club (8-16s)(Liz Howard) Gary Oliver 07870 612 127 Nigel Rugman Neighbour Care Scheme for Thank you also to everyone contributing or checking articles & news. Stockbridge/Longstock/Houghton 0845 0943 713 Please contact the Parish Clerk, on 810752, or Parish Council Clerk 810 752 e-mail [email protected] if Pilates at Leckford 810 549 you’d like to help with the newsletter in any way, Scouts Stockbridge (Mo Collins) 01256 895 534 and by Friday 18th September if you’d like to submit an article or announcement, give us some Village Hall, Badminton/Bowls 810 459 news, or place an advert. W.I. 810 603 DUSTBIN COLLECTION EMERGENCY or USEFUL CONTACTS Black Fri 14th, Fri 28th August Environment Agency bins Fri 11th, Fri 25th September Incident Hotline 0800 807 060 Brown Fri 7th, Fri 21st August Hampshire Fire & Rescue 02380 644 000 bins Sat 5th, Fri 18th September Floodline 0345 988 1188 Southern Electric 105 Green bags are collected on Tuesdays of the Southern Water 0330 303 0368 by N. Rugman Test, on River young up the Photo Bringin same week as brown bins. To subscribe please contact TVBC on 368000. Police non-urgent calls 101 The Alternative Fete Foil is collected at Chilbolton’s West Down car Neighbourcare Andover 336 020, 339 899 August / John Musters writes park & at Andover Garden Centre. September 2020 Surgery 810 524 On Saturday 5th September there will be an end-of-summer Plastic pots are no longer recycled there. Helpline for Carers (Freephone) 0800 032 3456 Glass recycling. After 30th July glass recycling gathering on the recreation ground, which we hope all bins will no longer be available at the bus bay, Hants County Council information 0300 555 1375 Longstock residents will wish to attend. Roman Road. Test Valley Borough Council 368 000 It will take the form of a bring-your-own picnic with Glass, clothing and foil recycling bins are Citizens’ Advice Bureau 0344 411 1306 background music to make a festival of the first occasion many avalable at Chilbolton Down car park, and at To call anonymously with information of us will have had to meet our neighbours again and we Andover Wyevale Garden Centre. about crime: Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 expect to have a small raffle on the day. This Newsletter is There is a collecting box for clean TRANSPORT This is because the fete committee, as hinted in the last plastic milk bottle tops in the published by Longstock Stagecoach Stockbridge to Winchester Parish Council and delivered church lychgate, and a separate one Newsletter, has reluctantly accepted that it is simply not buses number 68 0345 121 0190 free to every household in for batteries. Please don’t put either Cango buses to Romsey have been replaced with Longstock. possible to hold a fete as we know it with all the usual stalls in plastic bags. Batteries can also be and sideshows while the uncertainties of the pandemic disposed of in supermarkets & should shared taxis to your door .Register on 01962 846 786 Anyone else may subscribe not go in dustbins. at £8 a year by contacting continue. But we do need something to lift the spirits before The batteries (small, not car!) will be taken for Traveline for countrywide travel info longstockparishcouncil18 the summer is out and, even if we still have to keep our 0871200 2233 safe disposal; and clean plastic milk bottle tops @gmail.com. distance, a village picnic should fit the bill. with the HDPE symbol will be recycled to raise Dial-a-Ride (Joyrides Stockbridge). Minibus to funds for the Gift of Sight’s research into macular Andover. Register on 356 808 Details will follow in August with a notice through your degeneration. NO OTHER TYPES This runs through Longstock on Wednesdays at letter box, but we expect it to run from about 12.30 to 3.30. OF TOPS PLEASE as these are the only 9.30, returning at noon, for £3.00 return. For There will be tents for cover if needed, but of course we hope ones accepted now, and PLEASE don’t put more information, ring John Musters 810 459 batteries in with bottle tops.The consequences or Dane Oliver 810 839. for fine weather when most will wish to sit in the open. are DIRE! For the moment, please put the date in your diary – Saturday 5th September. The deadline for newsletter submissions is Friday 18th September if you’d like to submit any news or comment, or offer to help! [email protected] Page 2 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 248 Aug / Sept 2020 Issue No 248 Aug / Sept 2020 The Longstock Newsletter Page 2 Recent Expenditure Parish Council Report - July 2020 Parish Council by Mark Flewitt, Parish Clerk Meeting Dates SSE - Streetlighting Electricity Supply £34.73 Parish Council (PC) Meetings – In the current Monday 14th Sept – at 7.00 pm Sarsen Press – newsletter printing £264.93 Covid-19 situation the PC has successfully operated Monday 12th Oct – at 7.00 pm its regular meetings on a virtual basis via Zoom. This Beware! will continue until official recommendations are For the time being these PC meetings will be The usual driving licence and MOT renewal changed. All residents are very welcome to join and held as virtual meetings via Zoom. reminders are not being sent out at the moment. view the virtual PC meetings. Information will be Motor insurance policies are invalid if either of these is not current. After the age of 70, driving provided on the village noticeboards. signage, hygiene, social distancing etc. The PC is Food Bank also re-considering the plan to increase the number licences expire every third birthday, which come Covid-19 – In recent months this crisis has taken of parking spaces in light of the original planning round far too quickly! The Parish Council realises over all our lives, but we are now starting to see permission. This required the work to begin before Licences can be renewed online, and if one has that as well as people who signs that things are beginning to return to a “new December 2020, and for it to be supervised by the no medical problems, need no doctor’s certificate, cannot go out to buy food there normal”. Local shops and businesses have started to HCC Archaeology Department, but the Covid-19 but one does need to check expiry dates. may be people whose jobs have re-open, albeit with some new rules to follow. The crisis has seriously disrupted the work schedules of Parish Council has given special thanks to the stopped without pay, and so we Leckford Estate who would undertake have some stored food which can be distributed to management and staff at Leckford Estate, where the thegroundwork. Farm Shop and Nursery have continued to operate anyone needing it. Please get in touch with Sophie through the lockdown. The home delivery service Bottle Bank – The Bottle Bank has been removed Walters (07740 443460). has been very valuable for local residents, and from its “temporary” position at Roman Road. The particularly for the elderly and vulnerable among us. PC has been lobbying very strongly with HCC Longstock Park Farm Shop The PC has also expressed great gratitude for the about this. The noise and nuisance of this location Food Delivery generosity of Leckford Estate and the John Lewis have caused serious disruption for local residents, Partnership in providing accommodation for NHS and we are insistent on an alternative location to be Longstock Park Farm Shop has started and other key workers during this time. found. delivering free to local houses, with a minimum order of £20. Neighbours might like to combine an Neighbourhood Plan (NP) – The activities of the BT Telegraph Poles – The PC received a number order perhaps? Their website NP Steering Group were suspended at the beginning of complaints from residents about the 15 new of the Covid-19 lockdown, but the team has started telegraph poles that have been set up, without prior www.leckfordestate.co.uk lists the items available, to make preparations to begin their work again. The consultation, on Hazeldown running down towards or you can phone 810270. next steps will be to seek further grant funding that Rats Lodge. In accordance with the regulations for will enable a Housing Needs Survey to be arranged these matters, we have registered a formal objection Peat Spade for residents to give their views. The face-to-face to these new poles on the basis that they spoil the Peat Spade Inn has closed following the sessions to explain the NP process to residents, views across that part of the countryside. We await Government announcement. They are still open for which had to be cancelled, will be re-arranged in due a response from BT. take aways and accommodation. Please call 01264 course once the conditions for arranging such Parish Councillors: 810612 or check their website at meetings have been clarified. www.peatspadeinn.co.uk for more information. Longstock Parish Council Website – The website Chairman: Sophie Walters at www.longstockparishcouncil.co.uk includes past [email protected] 07740 443 460 and current Parish Council documentation and other Councillors: useful information.