July Diary Pontesbury Sat 3 Reading for Pleasure event. CANCELLED DUE TO TO COVID RESTRICTIONS. See right. Mon 5 Planning Committee meeting The Pavilion 6:30. Please contact Deputy Clerk deputy@ pontesburypc.org.uk if you would like to attend. Youth Voice for Nature Digital launch 7:30. See page 8 for details. Sat 10 Summer Reading Challege launch Pontesbury Library. Contact Library for details. July 2021 Mon 12 Parish Council meeting Habberley Village Hall Issue no. 277 7:30. Please contact Deputy Clerk deputy@ pontesburypc.org.uk if you would like to attend. Newsletter Wed 14 PCEAG Cycling Group meeting Contact clerk@ pontesburypc.org.uk for venue and time. Community Good Neighbours Fri 16 Community Good Neighbours coffee morning The The Covid pandemic has highlighted vulnerability and loneliness in our community. To bring people Plough Pub 11:00 – 12:30. See front page. back together and talking we would like to organise a very special ‘Afternoon Tea’ on Friday, 20 August Sat 31 Golf Competition Arscot Golf Course 12:00 – at Pontesbury Public Hall. Our aim is to invite 140 selected people from Pontesbury, Minsterley and 2:00. See front page for more details. surrounding villages who have been lonely or have experienced difficulties over the past few months. The event will enable people to meet up, chat and share their experience of the last year with other Closing date for FoPL Writing Competition See people who have been in the same situation, while having an enjoyable, memorable afternoon. If page 5 and 8 for details. you are lucky enough to receive an invitation please RSVP as soon as possible. Future Events Coffee Mornings Post your future events here to avoid clashes Good neighbours have been running monthly Coffee Mornings that are proving very popular at The Aug Sun 8 – Sat 21 Calligraphy exhibtion Bear Steps Plough Pub. Please join us. There is plenty of cake and coffee plus lots of people to have a chat with. If you know Gallery. See page 8 for details. someone who you think would benefit from these but cannot get to us, please let us know and we will arrange Fri 13 Community Good Neighbours coffee morning transport. Next dates are :- The Plough Pub 11:00 – 12:30. 16 July, 11:00 to 12:30; 13 August 11:00 to 12:30 Sat 28 Gardeners’ Association Annual Show See Golf Competition below. Minsterley Rangers FC in conjunction with Pontesbury Good Neighbours are holding a Golf Competition at Arscot on Saturday, 31 July from 12:00 to 2:00. If you are interested in playing in the competition please contact Sept Sat 4 Thanksgiving Service for Catherine Trimby Nathan on 07837462853 or Dan on 07531860538. Cost is £25 plus food. Prizes are for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. St George’s Church 2:00. See page 4. Money raised will go towards the Community Tea Party and Minsterley Rangers FC – Bringing young and old together. Sat 11 Table Top Sale St George’s Church. Sharon Davies Oct Fri 1 – Sun 3 Harvest with a decorated umbrella competition. St George’s Church. Pontesbury Climate Emergency Action Group If you would like to get involved with the work of this group contact [email protected] Climate Action Cycling Group The PCEAG cycle sub group continues to move positively forward. We have had several meetings now Pontesbury & with key players and the feasibility study done almost ten years ago has been retrieved and bought to life again. This was a great study, that several individuals worked hard on – their efforts have not District Gardeners’ been in vain and thanks are owed to these individuals. It illustrates how much need there was for a cycle route Association (now to be called an active travel way) between Minsterley and Shrewsbury (undoubtedly the need has increased Annual Show significantly since then) together with how much income could be generated by such a route. This is exciting as it opens opportunities for entrepreneurs. An active travel way would be enhanced by ‘pit stops’ for all users; it Having missed last year, our Annual would encourage more local leisure and would link us to the famous Eastridge cycle area as well as visitors from Show will be held on Saturday, Shrewsbury and further afield. We are aware of many local people who would benefit from this pathway: walkers, 28 August in Pontesbury Public runners, families with children in buggies or on balance bikes, wheelchair users, cyclists, residents needing a Hall. Schedules are available at the safe place to walk. Our big goal is a traffic-free tree-lined route eventually linking us to Shrewsbury. Trading Post and in some of the The other local project to make cycling to school safer is still on the agenda and is increasingly important. village shops. If you have had a Electric cars are slowly increasing but this brings a new hazard to those actively moving on our residential roads: successful summer’s growing then as more people drive clean vehicles the number of vehicles on the roads increases! This in turn makes more why not consider entering some of hazards for those in wheelchairs, on foot or on push bikes. A driver of an electric car was recently heard to say your crops or flowers. There are also how their electric car did the twenty miles a week school run….. doing the maths this works out to each school categories for artists, photographers, run being only one mile…. Such a valuable time that could be spent walking or cycling to school for fresh air, cooks and handicrafters: something exercise, chance to chat with a child and observe nature on the way. for everyone. Even if you don’t enter We are grateful for Cllr Nick Hignett’s support on these important projects, together with Cllr Duncan Fletcher. this year come along to see what is Both these individuals are helping us to push the projects along and linking us to key players. Thanks, as well, on show – or just to meet everyone go to everyone who joins our meetings and works behind the scenes. Our next meeting is Wednesday, 14 July. in a more sociable setting. Parish Clerk Rob Dixon Closing date for copy for the Sept edition is Aug 10th (please include a contact phone number) Email contributions to [email protected] or hand in at the Post Office. 16 Printed by New Era Printing, Shrewsbury Tel: 01743 295881 Advertisers – See inside for details of how to place your ad. Pontesbury Newsletter: Pontesbury Parish Council Our next meeting will be held on Monday, 12 July at here for the Community 7.30pm in Habberley Village Hall. We are still working As we all start to emerge out of lockdown (fingers with restricted numbers so please if possible email crossed) local groups, clubs and organisations will begin any questions you have to the Clerk beforehand clerk@ to meet again, set dates in the diary and, hopefully, the pontesburypc.org.uk. The agenda will be posted on www. social scene of Pontesbury Parish will reopen. pontesburyparishcouncil.org.uk in the week before the The Parish Council therefore write to request that local meeting. groups and clubs put information about any dates of The next Planning Committee meeting will be held on meetings, fund-raising events or social gatherings into Monday, 5 July at 6.30pm at the Pavilion Community this Newsletter. It is printed for you and our community. Hub and Library. Please contact Deputy Clerk deputy@ Please email any articles and diary dates to the pontesburypc.org.uk if you would like to attend. editor at [email protected] and we can, If you wish to comment on a planning application together, get the parish social diary full again. please use the Shropshire Council planning portal at Nicola Young, Deputy Parish Clerk https://pa.shropshire.gov.uk/online-applications/ Or pass your comments through Cllr A Hodges at ahodges@ pontesburypc.org.uk. All new planning applications for the area are listed on the parish council website. Debbie Marais, Parish Clerk Fly Tipping The Pontesbury Church of England – is a criminal offence School Charity Fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of liquid or solid waste (Registered Charity Number 519238) on land or in water. The waste is usually dumped to avoid This charity was set up in 1987 to administer the income disposal costs. It is a criminal offence punishable by a derived from the proceeds of the sale of the old School fine of up to £50,000 or 12 months imprisonment if House in Pontesbury. convicted in a Magistrates’ Court. Householders can be The objectives of the charity are: fined up to £400 if they pass their waste to an unlicensed a) to use its income to provide special benefits for waste carrier which is subsequently fly-tipped. Pontesbury Primary School of a kind not normally Fly-tipping is anti-social, marring our local provided by the Education Authority. neighbourhoods and heaping (literally) distress on b) to promote the education (including religious, social the landowners and the community where it occurs. and physical aspects) of people under the age of 25 who Fly-tipping is also dangerous and potentially harmful, need financial assistance. They must be either pupils while spoiling our environment, attracting arson and or former pupils of the school or resident in the parish further fly-tipping. As council tax-payers, cleaning it Metal Recycling of Pontesbury or a small adjacent part of the parish of Recycle your old scrap metal up costs us all money. Therefore, please be mindful of Longden and Annscroft.