Your village Your plan Your future Published June 2010 H Haxey Parish HaxeHaxey Parishy Parish Haxey Parish H Hrishxey ParishHaxeHaxey Parisyh PParishlan H arishHaxey Haxey Parish Plan 2010 Foreword Contents The Haxey Parish Council express grateful thanks Report Summary 4 to the Parish Plan Steering Group for all their Introduction 5 hard work in the planning and preparation of the Haxey Parish Plan 2010. About Haxey Parish 6 Consultation Process 8 The key personnel (acknowledged at the end of the report) along with lots of positive support Roads, Traffic and Transport 9 from local residents has laid the foundation for Housing and Development 13 the community aspirations set out in the report. Environment 14 The Parish Council have endorsed the findings, Local Facilities 17 recommendations and Action Plan Proposals outlined hereafter. The local community seeks the The Community 19 endorsement of this report by North Lincolnshire What happens next? 20 Council together with other agencies and interested parties as key steps towards securing Acknowledgements 20 the aims and objectives of the Plan. The Action Plan 21 The Parish Council acknowledges the need for effective management of the implementation of the Plan proposals and supports the principle of a Parish Plan Action Group comprising Councillors and local residents with key interests in specific topics. As well as co-ordinating and monitoring implementation of the early actions, the Group will have prime responsibility for reviewing achievements and updating the Plan proposals to take account of emerging policies, funding and programmes of implementing authorities. The key contact for matters arising from the Plan is the Clerk to Haxey Parish Council. Thanks to everyone for their support in the past and in the future. John Smedley, Chairman Haxey Parish Council 22 Haxey Parish Plan 2010 The Haxey Hood Haxey Parish Map Epworth 4 e p r o h t n u c S o T Low Burnham 9 Turbary Nature Reserve Haxey Carr A161 High Burnham Haxey Westwoodside 7 5 Owston 8 Ferry 3B1396 To Doncaster 10 4 2 3 a ter East Lound 1 6 R ailwa y Line Graizelound h g u o r o b s n i N a G t R o n iver I T re dle 3 T er iv R 1. Westwoodside Playing Field 6. Haxey Playing Field 2. Westwoodside Village Hall 7. Parish Allotments 3. Water Tower 8. Stephen Jones Community Hall & Chapel 4. Parish Church 9. Burnham Community Hall 5. Haxey Memorial Hall 10. Westwoodside Chapel • Haxey Parish is one of the largest parishes in • The great fire of 1744 destroyed 62 houses in the country by area Haxey in one night • Haxey Hood is thought to have originated in • Traditionally Haxey Feast Day was 5th and the 13th century 6th July each year. • The village stocks used to be located on • The highest point in the Parish is at 41m Greenhill above sea level • A free school was founded in Haxey in 1650 • The lowest ground levels in the Parish are about 2m above sea level. • Haxey Church is over 900 years old There are more than 40 miles of footpaths and The Parish is one of the few places in the • • bridleways in Haxey Parish country where strip farming still exists 3 Report summary The Parish Plan sets out the views of people be small scale and in keeping with the local living in Haxey Parish and how they would like environment. Affordable housing is also seen their local area to develop in the future. The as important to ensure that local people can Plan has been prepared and published by a afford to buy or rent a home in their Parish. Steering Group comprising members of the local community, including representatives of Under the heading of Environment, flooding the Parish Council, following 18 months of still remains a major concern and the Plan information gathering and community addresses the issues in some detail. consultation. As a result of this Parish Plan, it Improvements to the environment generally are is hoped that future changes in the Parish will considered and in particular the issues of litter, be reflected in the views and opinions of the fly tipping and dog fouling. people who live here. Whilst local facilities are generally considered In general, residents of Haxey Parish are very to be good, there are proposals to improve content with the local area and the quality of life access to Council services for residents. Also the it creates. They value the rural environment Plan addresses issues regarding communication and the sense of community in the Parish. The within the Parish and puts forward in the local facilities, and local groups and clubs are Action Plan suggestions which will ensure that also considered to be very good. However a information about the Parish, whether it be number of key themes arose from the details of local groups, facilities or businesses is consultation exercises and they are dealt with in publicised and circulated widely. detail in each of the chapters in this report. The main suggestion from young people is to Roads, traffic and public transport are seen as provide a youth club or similar facility in the very important issues. Residents’ particular Parish and the Action Plan suggests a way of concerns are the state of the roads and moving this forward. pavements and that there should be an ongoing programme of maintenance. Speeding is also a Whilst levels of crime and anti-social behaviour major issue, particularly on the main routes are very low in the Parish, better through the Parish. The lack of public transport communication between the Police and the at certain times and to certain locations was local community is proposed and the formation also identified by many residents, particularly of more Neighbourhood Watch Groups young people. The Action Plan at the end of this report needs As regards future development of the Parish, to be realised and more volunteers are needed the issues relate to the amount of new to form a Parish Plan Action Group to work development that should be allowed and the with Partners to take forward the points it type and size of new dwellings. Generally raises. It is hoped that regular monitoring and residents do not want the Parish to expand to review of the Action Plan will take place over any large extent and new development should the next 5 years. Haxey from the air 4 Haxey Parish Plan 2010 Welcome to the Haxey Parish Community Led Plan Haxey Parish Church any of you may be wondering what A small grant was awarded by the Parish Mprompted the Parish Council to decide to Council to initiate the process and this was develop a Parish Plan. The main reason was to followed by a successful application to Awards obtain the views of people in the Parish so that for All Lottery Funding. together we can address concerns and highlight how residents would like to see their local area This report is set out in a number of sections developing over the next 5 to 10 years. each with its own set of action points. These sections encompass all the information The Parish Council has regular dialogue with collected through the Parish Plan process. The North Lincolnshire Council (NLC) and other action points from each of these areas have agencies whose work affects our lives, but been compiled into an Action Plan at the end of directly consulting residents and getting a the report. majority view on issues close to the heart of the community, gives additional weight in influen- The Plan is intended to last for at least 5 years cing the wider planning process for the future. and the Action Plan is designed to be carried forward as individual projects which will be Following widespread advertising by the Parish overseen by a Parish Plan Action Group Council, a public meeting was held in September working in partnership with the Parish Council, 2008 and there were sufficient residents present NLC, other agencies and the local community. to form a Steering Group. A Chairperson, joint Secretaries and Treasurer were duly elected, a Constitution adopted and timetable for the development of the Plan was laid down. 5 About Haxey Parish hundred years ago it was a self contained Parish Location and Size with far more shops than exist today. Haxey Parish is a large geographical area comprising the villages of Haxey, Westwoodside, There was some degree of prosperity and the Low Burnham, East Lound, and Graizelound, present Memorial Hall and Community Hall together with small hamlets at High Burnham, were built in Haxey using local funding. Langholme, Haxey Carr and Pelfintax. It is Improved roads and car ownership led to new situated in the South West corner of housing developments and North Lincolnshire people commuting to work some 14 miles from in the local towns including Scunthorpe, 12 miles the coal mining industry from Doncaster in around Doncaster and the South Yorkshire and steelworks at Scunthorpe. 12 miles from Gainsborough in Much of the development Lincolnshire. was at Westwoodside and from being a collection of The 2001 census gives a small hamlets total population of 4359 Upperthorpe, Nethergate, with 1783 households. Brethergate and Park, it has now become a village that is similar in size to Haxey. The other main History hamlets are at Low The name is derived from Burnham, East Lound Haxa, the old German and Graizelound, all term for a Druidess. Haxey three of which are is the site of an ancient mentioned in the settlement, mentioned in Domesday Book. the Domesday Book, being the southern most village Historically the Parish on what used to be an island was in Lincolnshire and many of the old Parish surrounded by water marshes.