Parish Newsletter Summer 2021 What’s Inside... Exciting Development • Blackwell Parish Council planned for Blackwell • Blackwell Residents The planned development in Blackwell through the Action Group Bolsover Homes programme is to address the • Newton Carnival difficulties of future high maintenance costs, insulation of the properties to current standards and • Greater Creative upgrading of fire protection to properties of non- • Dog Poop Bins traditional construction. • HELP Group Within the existing site it is planned to construct a • Westhouses new Independent living scheme, bungalows, houses and in collaboration with Blackwell Parish Council, Residents Action a new community centre fit for the next generation Group and beyond. • Newton & Blackwell Article continued on page 4... Football Club • HS2 Update • Wildflowers in Westhouses. • Newton Community Association • Blackwell Youth Club • Newton OAP Club • The Bad Boy of Blackwell... • How to access the Planning Portal • And much more... Blackwell Parish Council is now on Facebook! Find us @Blackwellpc Your Blackwell Parish Councillors Parish Clerk Newton Ward Mrs Jayne Simpson Chairman Parish Office Dexter Bullock Blackwell Community Briar House Centre , 55 Main Street Woburn Close Newton Blackwell 01773 810181 07881 562354 Also District Councillor Blackwell Ward Clive Moesby 38 Thurgaton Way Vice Chairman Newton Ian Newham Glen Vine 01773 872067 Pendean Close Also District Councillor Blackwell 01773 813552 Debbie Marshall-Curtis 72 Charnwood Crescent Newton Paula Wilkinson 50 Alfreton Road 07966 416831 Westhouses DE55 5AH John Thorley 07916 339436 1A Alfreton Road Newton 07539 660648 Tony Gascoyne 23 Wilson Ave Blackwell Ross Marshall 07968 971015 Newton 07597 186381 2 Blackwell Parish Council working for the community Your Blackwell Parish Councillors Westhouses Ward Hilcote Ward Hayley Pell Brian Stocks 1 Bolden Terrace 1 Fairfield Avenue Westhouses Hilcote 07775 661450 01773 860671 Peter Knott Stephen Knox MBE 2 Bolden Terrace 113 New Lane Westhouses Hilcote 07974 433084 07968 486665 PARISH OFFICES During the pandemic, staff have been working from home where possible. If restrictions have been lifted, staff will be back in the office. Please find below the opening times for both offices. If there are still restrictions in place, you can check out the website for information - www.blackwellpc.org.uk - or staff can be contacted via e-mail (opening hours denote working hours)... Council Office Council Office at Blackwell Community Centre at Hilcote Community Centre Jayne Simpson, Parish Clerk & RFO Kate Poynter, Admin Assistant Opening hours: Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10am-3pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9am-2pm T: 01773 810181 T: 01773 580002 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Please contact for concerns about the Please contact to book a community Parish centre. Please note that inclusion of any articles or advertisements in this newsletter does not in anyway signify endorsement of any product or service by Blackwell Parish Council. The material and information in this newsletter is designed to provide general information. Every effort is made to ensure this information is accurate but the parish council does not take any liability for any errors or omissions. Blackwell Community Centre — Woburn Close, Blackwell DE55 5HH 3 Hilcote Community Centre — 544 New Street, Hilcote DE55 5HU Blackwell Development (continued from front page) The scheme will be phased to allow the Residents should have been contacted relocation of existing residents and to by the Housing Management Team but minimise disruption to those already if you have any further questions or living and working in properties on the concerns please contact 01246 242424 site and further evidences the council’s commitment to deliver high quality Below is the front elevation of the homes for our district. proposed new community centre. New Derbyshire County Councillor — James Barron Welcome to our new Derbyshire County Councillor, James Barron. He has already attended several of the Parish Council meetings to give updates on items and projects that specifically affect Blackwell Parish. If you would like to contact Councillor Barron, or would like to find out more about his role at the county council. you can find his details on the Derbyshire County Council website - www.derbyshire.gov.uk. Thank you to Councillor Clive Moesby for his many years of service to the parish as Derbyshire County Councillor. Clive still represents Blackwell Parish on the Parish Council and on Bolsover District Council. Clive’s contact details can be found on page 2. 4 For county-wide information, visit: www.derbyshire.gov.uk Blackwell Parish Council By the time this newsletter hits your Covid-19 guidelines. The Parish Council doormat, there is the hope that the would like to thank them for their hard country is in a place where the final work in these difficult times. stage of lockdown has been eased and Parish Council Meetings everyone can start to get back to a more The first face to social way of life. In the meantime, face meeting during lockdown, Blackwell Parish since March Council has been as busy as ever… 2020 was the Parish Ranger Annual Parish It is with sadness Meeting and that the Parish Annual Parish Council says Council Meeting which took place in May goodbye to the at Blackwell Community Centre. The Parish Ranger, main hall was set up to allow for social Steve distancing, and everyone followed the Chamberlain. guidelines. As well as the maximum Steve has done a fantastic job number of members of public that were maintaining parish facilities and parks able to attend (apologies to anyone who and keeping the parish tidy. Steve is now had to be turned away due to space self-employed and makes hand-made restrictions), the new County Councillor, bespoke wooden items. James Barron, and two representatives The Parish Council would like to thank from the police were also present. Steve for all his hard work over the past Information about upcoming Parish three years and wish him the very best Council meetings and Minutes from for the future. previous meetings can be found on the Parish Council website. The good news is that the council have already recruited a new Parish Ranger Annual Parish Council Audit and would like to welcome Martin The Parish Rhodes to the team. Martin started work Council is pleased at the beginning of July and you may to announce that it have already seen him about the parish. has passed the New Caretaker at Newton annual internal audit with flying colours. Thank you to the Clerk, Jayne, for all of Community Centre her hard work. If you would like to know Blackwell Parish Council would also like more, you can find the audit documents to welcome Simon Newbold to the on the Parish Council website. team. Simon is the new caretaker for Newton Community Centre. Along with Westhouses Playground Bev (who is the caretaker for Blackwell Westhouses Playground has recently and Hilcote Community Centres), they undergone a full inspection and a piece have been working hard to keep the of much loved play equipment was community centres clean in line with removed for safety issues. At the June Blackwell Parish Council, working for the Community 5 Blackwell Parish Council (cont’d) Parish Council Summer Activities Meeting, an Exciting news for the exciting summer holidays - the replacement council has confirmed was approved the booking of the for purchase and it has Balanceability been placed Course and on order. It is scheduled Extreme for installation on 7th September 2021, Wheels. so, look out for the new Play Tower Balanceability combines unique coming to a park near you soon! ergononic balance bikes with a programme of activity that builds Hanging Baskets confidence, spatial awareness and The beautiful hanging dynamic balance skills enabling young baskets started to go children to cycle without ever needing up at the beginning of stabilisers. These sessions will take June. Following a place for children aged 3 to 7 years old number of requests to every Friday from 23rd July until 27th spread the cheer even August at Blackwell Community Centre. further, the Parish The sessions are FREE. You will need to Council have paid for book — details on the council Facebook additional lamppost baskets this year. page and website, or see page 27. Have you spotted the new ones? Thank you to Joe and his team at Woolley Moor Nursery. @blackwellpc Blackwell Parish Council is delighted to announce that it has joined Facebook. The Parish Council page can be found by searching for @blackwellpc or by Extreme Wheels will take place on following the link at the bottom of our Thursdays, 1pm-3pm at Scanderlands Skate Park on Gloves Lane, over the website homepage: blackwellpc.org.uk summer holidays. Just give us a like to receive the latest news on the parish and information Please note that these sessions are subject to any government Covid about meetings and events. guidelines. For more information and updates on dates and times, keep checking our website - blackwellpc.org.uk - and our Facebook page - @Blackwellpc or visit www.bolsover.gov.uk/extreme-wheels 6 Blackwell Parish Council, working for the Community Blackwell Parish Council (cont’d) Red Phone Box Defibrillator guidelines. As the restrictions Project Update have been The order has been placed for gradually lifted, the Red K6 phone boxes for groups who fit Newton and Westhouses and within the they will hopefully be installed in guidance have been returning to use the September. centres again, with the necessary risk The Planning Department and assessments in place to make sure that BT have been contacted and it all users are as safe as possible. Thank has been formally expressed you to everyone who has been following that the council would like to adopt the the guidelines and working with the phone box opposite the convenience Parish Council during this time.