UNDER THE EDGE INCORPORATING THE PARISH MAGAZINE GREAT LONGSTONE, LITTLE LONGSTONE, ROWLAND, HASSOP, MONSAL HEAD, WARDLOW No. 173 June 2013 60P ISSN 1466-8211 Sites for Multi Use Sports Area As you will be aware the Parish Council are looking into the village facility of a Multi Use Sports Area, to enable more sports to be played beyond the limitations of the current tennis, football and cricket. The Parish Council are approaching landowners in the immediate vicinity of the village with regards to the possibility of any fields becoming available for such a use. SarahPlease Stokescontact Clerk me if toyou Great feel Longstoneyou may have Parish a field. Council, Any conversationsLongstone Byre, or Little correspondence Longstone, Bakewell,on this subject Derbyshire, will be DE45kept in 1NN. the Tel:strictest 01629 confidence 640851 Email:and will [email protected] not be permitted to go into the public domain without any written consent. Photo: The Farmers Guardian Article. Farming Notes June 2013 The Farmers Guardian is a nationally circulated farming newspaper, read especially by livestock farmers. Recently I had a telephone call from them asking if they could publish a piece about our farm in their Farm Focus section. I said that I didn’t think that our farm was anything special but they thought that their readers would be interested as we had a mixture of income streams: milk production and retailing, sale of pedigree dairy cattle, a pedigree Charolais herd, a bull beef unit go ahead with the article and a reporter and photographer came to take details and lots of photographs of the stock, the milkand the bottles Higher and Lever of Dan, Stewardship Tom and myself. Scheme with farm visits – all projects thought to be of interest. I agreed that they could When the newspaper article, with two full pages and eight colour photos, was published, we were very pleased with it. We’ve had a lot of positive feed back so I guess it won’t do our business any harm. The only mistake, after editing, was that they reported Tom as married to my wife, Cath! On the whole, it was a great record and good to keep as a history of the farm. Roger Cox Church Fete Queen Any girl between 9 and 13 years of age on August 31st 2013, who lives in the Church Parish of Longstone or attends Longstone School may enter for the draw to be either the Queen or one of her attendants. Those who have been Queen in a previous year may not be Queen a second time but may be an attendant. Attendants may enter again. The draw will take place on Thursday 13th June at 6.45pm in church. Those chosen will be contacted. Dresses are provided for the Queen and her attendants. The Fete takes place on July 13th beginning at Little Longstone at 1.00pm. The Queen and her attendants will be transported to the fete by car, kindly provided by Mr. Mike Hirst. Completed forms must be returned to the Vicarage by Thursday 13th June or brought to Church for the draw at 6.45pm. Please phone 01629 640257 if you have any questions. Letter to Great Longstone Parish Council, no Response Received We were surprised to read in Under The Edge, May 2013, parish notes ‘Equipment for older children’ about the ‘hoo-hah’ caused by the play area. It stated that the clerk visited the closest residents on 3 occasions, and on the minutes of this meeting it states that simply NOT true. The clerk visited 2 weof 4 were residents shown closest the final to plans.the play This area is only once, (presumably the other two households were out at the time) and showed us some preliminary plans of a one storey snake like structure which in with surroundings. We were not informed of any more changes and the display boards were put up, only a few weeks looksbefore nothing the new like equipment the final construction.was ordered and The it clerk was assuredhard to judgeus that the we size would of the hardly equipment. notice and We the were structure fully expecting would blend the altered plans to be discussed with us. None of us mind that we live next to a play area (it has been there a long time) what we do object to is the solid overbearing nature of the structures compared to what we had before. We were told by a councillor at the time that ‘you don’t buy a house for a view’, the trouble is we all bought houses with a view that has now Susan Kreit, Gavin Kreit, Lois Cocker, Ann Mactaggart & Tracey Mactaggart been significantly damaged. Village Hall News The Art Show this year will be held on the weekend of 27th and 28th July. The village hall management committee organise this event to help raise money to run the hall. We are very grateful for the use of the school hall. The Village Hall committee rely on an army of volunteers to help with setting up, stewarding, making cakes, serving teas and dismantling. Please contact us if you can help this year - we'd also love to hear from new volunteers too! We have a lot of local artists signed up already and if you would like a board or know someone who does than contact us to be put on the waiting list. Our recent quiz night, was a great success with all ten tables sold out in advance. Re: Great Longstone Thank you to all who helped out or donated prizes. A big thank you to Thornbridge Cricket Club and the MUSA Look out for more village hall events this year including a new Live and Local It will probably be minuted in the next showsBrewery - details for donating to follow. a selection of their fine beers. Parish Council meeting that Great Longstone Cricket Club has voted The village hall needs quite a bit of money to keep it in good repair and much against supporting the MUSA; this is of the money raised goes towards everyday running costs as well as some new true, albeit with a narrow margin. additions. Recently, we have replaced the old curtains with blinds and added a The Cricket Club are not opposed to a new notice board for user groups to display their events. We are enormously MUSA within the village, but they are grateful to the Rowsons from the Horticultural Society who are going to be doing opposed to the current location. If a the plants for our hanging baskets and planters. more suitable location could be found Currently we have six regular user groups who have representives on the then we are sure that the Club would management committee: support the venture. The Bridge Club who meet on a Monday night. We would like to take the opportunity The Local History Group who meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month to thank Wendy Long and Sarah Play and Praise, a mother and toddler group who meet in term time on Tuesday Barrett for attending our meeting mornings to provide us with the details of the project. We do appreciate that a lot of A Whist Drive who meet every Friday evening and the third Sunday of every hard work and effort has gone in to month.The Women's Institute who meet on the first Wednesday of every month the MUSA thus far. The Snooker Club who have 19 members and always looking for more. If there are any land owners who have There was Jigsaw Group who met regularly to swap jigsaws but due to low land on the outskirts of the village that numbers they have decided to close but if you are interested please get in touch. they feel would be suitable for locating We are lucky to have such a great community building and over the years many a MUSA then I am sure the Parish villagers have been involved in it’s development and upkeep and the current Council or the Longstone Action Group management committee are committed to continuing that tradition. would be pleased to hear from you. If you would like to hire the hall please contact Jane 640943 or go to the village Yours sincerely, website for more information about what’s going on at:- Lucy Beverley http://www.greatlongstone.net/ Honorary Secretary Thank you. Julia 640543 2 Letter to the Parish Council “The following letter was submitted to GLPC prior to their last meeting on 8th May, but was dismissed as irrelevant. The survey was of 136 homes, obtaining 165 signatures, and representing 321 residents, with over 80% of responses against building a MUGA on the recreation ground. The attitude of the GLPC towards the opinions of parishioners, including those who will be most affected is extremely worrying, disappointing and frustrating” Gavin Kreit, Deepfield, Sunny Bank To :GLPC 30th April 2013. Please find enclosed a summary of a recent survey of local residents in Great Longstone, regarding the proposed MUGA location in the centre of the village. The question asked was a simple one ‘Do you agree with the proposed location or not’. The purpose was to visit as many homes as possible in the heart of GL, concentrating on those closest to the proposed site and working out. All homes were visited (some several times) in the target area, with a good coverage achieved. Due to people being out, away, holiday homes and so on it was not possible to obtain responses from every home. Whether counting homes, total residents within those homes, or signatures, the results are much the same, over 80% against.