The Chignals November 2019 information/welcome Information and contact details about the services, community groups and facilities for the residents of pack Chignal St James and Chignal Smealey Chignal Parish Notice Boards The Parish Council has provided three Notice Boards where you can see Information and contact details about the services, a map showing local footpaths and bridleways, details of up-coming community groups and facilities for the residents of events and activities such as Coffee Mornings and Quizzes, public Chignal St James and Chignal Smealey information notices and Parish Council Agendas. The Notice Boards are located at The Village Green, outside the Village Hall in Chignal St James and by St Nicholas Church in Chignal Smealey. Village Green, Chignal St James Village Hall, Chignal St James An automatic defibrillator is now located in the Village Hall car park, this is designed for emergency use by members of the public, the unit gives clear audio instructions. The access code is on the internal Village Hall Notice Board or it can be obtained from the Ambulance Service St Nicholas Church, Chignal Smealey dialling 999 and quoting the location Third Edition: Published November 2019 or postcode:- CM14TS with the support of Chignal Parish Council 01 Contents WELCOME TO IFC Chignal Parish Notice Boards THE CHIGNALS 03 Welcome 04 Parish Council 06 County Council/City Council Welcome to our local community. This booklet is designed to 06 Playing Field give you a simple guide to our Parish activities. We invite you 07 Village Hall to join village life and trust that these activities will tempt you 08 Chignal News to come and get involved in some of what is on offer, as well 08 Chignal Website as giving you some useful information. 09 Jubilee Community Orchard 10 Community Agents Essex 10 Chignals and Mashbury W.I. Although our villages are spread over a 5+ mile radius there 11 Chignal Coffee Morning is much going on and all the Clubs and Associations would 11 The Chignals with Mashbury Friends Group be delighted to welcome you to join in. 12 The Chignals and Mashbury Community Group 12 Jigsaw Lending Library It is emphasised that no advertising revenue has changed 14 Carpet Bowls Club hands and that the information given below is by no means 14 Table Tennis Club 15 Cricket Club exhaustive. An attempt has been made to gather a range 15 Croquet Club and variety of useful and relevant information but any 16 Gardening Club suggestions/additions would be welcomed. Look out for 17 Wine Discovery Group ‘Chignal News’, the bi-monthly newsletter and check out 18 St Nicholas Church the website www.essexinfo.net/thechignals for further 19 Chignal Chapel information. 20 Pig & Whistle 21 Three Elms 22 Local Services/Useful information We also welcome any ideas for new activities in the villages, Bus/Library/Royal Mail/Refuse Collection so if you have any thoughts about running or suggesting 23 Shops/Milk/Oil/Broadband/Mobile Phones activities please come along to a Parish Council meeting or 23 Doctors’ Surgeries talk to anyone in the village about starting up something new. 24 Emergency numbers 25 Contacts & Notes B/C Emergency Meeting Points 02 03 Parish Councillors:- 2019 G Championing community Chignal Parish Ms Lynn Ballard – Chairman interests and supporting local 01245 440880 groups and village events. [email protected] Responsibilities: Tree Warden; Council Chairman, Employment Committee; Secretary, Orchard Committee G Liaising with local private businesses whose operations may Mr David Elwick The Parish Council meets every two months in the Village Hall, 01245 441138 impact on the Parish, such as (7.30pm on the second Monday) and considers planning [email protected] gravel extraction, waste disposal, Responsibilities: Planning and Little applications and any other matters referred to it by local Hollows & Copperfield Place Liaison residents, Chelmsford City Council, Essex County Council telecommunications, power supply and agriculture. Mr Malcolm Feltwell and by Central Government. Council meetings are open to 01245 441070 [email protected] the public and there is an opportunity for members of the public Responsibilties: Brittons Hall landfill Engaging in the Chelmsford to raise concerns and ask questions. The Annual Parish G site Liaison: Highways Issues; Chairman, Orchard Committee Meeting is held each March when the floor is given to local Local Plan and supporting commu - clubs and groups to report on their activities. All meetings are nity led plans, such as the Chignal Mr Jon Lewis Villages Design Statement and The 07773 433448 advertised on the Parish Council notice boards and the Chignal [email protected] website. Residents can bring to the attention of the Parish Chignals Parish Plan. Responsibilties: Newly appointed Council anything that concerns them, by speaking to a Parish Ms Linda Nelson – Vice Chairman G Securing external funding to 01245 442625 Councillor or contacting the Clerk, Will Adshead-Grant. [email protected] If matters raised are not the responsibility of the Council, the support a wide range of community Responsibilities: Editor, Chignal projects, such as the establishment News & website; Footpaths & Clerk can bring them to the attention of the proper authority. Bridleways issues; Chairman Budget of the community orchard and Committee providing small grants to local Mr Martyn Towns The Parish Council has a wide alerts on community safety issues. organisations, for example, part 01245 440189 [email protected] range of powers related to local funding tree work in St Nicholas Responsibilities: Village Hall Liaison; Playing Field; Notice Boards matters: G Monitoring the performance of Churchyard. local public services, such as local G Managing community amenities bus services, public rights of way, Parish Council Meeting Dates and services, such as the playing roads, drainage, signposts, Full Council Meeting: Every other 2nd Parish Clerk Monday of the Month at 19.30. Mr Will Ashead-Grant, 45 Cherry Garden field, community orchard, notice community policing, domestic Road, Great Waltham, Chelmsford, January May September CM3 1DH boards, phone box, village website refuse collection, litter picking, March July November [email protected] 01245 360811 and newsletter and providing email mobile library, etc. www.essexinfo.net/thechignals/parish- council/parish-council-members 04 05 The City/County Relationship Essex County Council, the local government body covering Essex, is responsible for matters such as highways, public transport, waste and recycling centres, education, libraries, health and social care, rights of way and country parks. Chelmsford City Council provides day to day services, The Parish The Chignals & Mashbury Village Hall including housing, local Playing Field planning, refuse collection, The Chignals & Mashbury Village modifications, has been demol - street cleaning, leisure The Playing Field (owned by the Hall is owned by an independent ished and the new hall opened in services, organising elections Parish Council), adjacent to the Charitable Trust and run by a March 2017 for regular use by and maintaining the electoral Village Hall in Chignal St James, management committee made up many clubs, societies and local roll. Each type of council in Essex, including Parish is available for hire. of volunteer residents. The hall has residents. The hall is available to Councils, is independent of been rebuilt having been awarded all for hire. each other, although the Contact Martyn Towns a significant sum from a successful different tiers of local Tel: 01245 440189 Community Fund application. The For Hall bookings contact government work together Email : [email protected] former hall, an ex-Army hut erected Cherry Scott in partnerships to deliver services. in 1952 and with many subsequent Tel: 01245 441241 Essex County Councillor Cllr John Aldridge 01245 421524 [email protected] Chelmsford City Councillor Cllr Nicolette Chambers 01245 456719 nicolette.chambers @chelmsford.gov.uk Front elevation of the new village hall 06 07 The Chignal News The Chignal Website The Chignal News is the bi-monthly The Chignal Website provides local newsletter for the Chignal villages information, community news and and Mashbury. It is published just photographs. It can be accessed before the Parish Council meeting at www.essexinfo.net/thechignals. and contains the previous month’s It also contains an archive of previ - Parish Council minutes and a ous issues of Chignal News and all report from the County Council. Parish Council Documents will be The Chignals & Mashbury Jubilee In addition, it provides information published on the website. Community Orchard about the activities of local clubs and groups which include the The local clubs, groups, The Community Orchard in Chignal The orchard was funded through Carpet Bowls Club, the Gardening St Nicholas Church, the United St James, near to the Village Hall, the Lafarge-Tarmac Landfill Club, the Jubilee Orchard, the Reformed Church, the Jubilee opposite the Playing Field, was Communities Fund with support Wine Discovery Group and the Orchard and the Village Hall all created in the spring of 2013 for from Edible Essex and the Women’s Institute. There is have pages on the main site. the enjoyment of local people in Woodland Trust. It is managed by community news, helpful advice the Chignals and Mashbury and Chignal Parish Council with a team and information about village for visitors to our villages. It’s a of volunteers who maintain the activities based at the Orchard, the delightful place to sit, relax or have orchard and organise a wide range Village Hall, St Nicholas Church Articles of interest for both the a picnic at any time. There are over of exciting community events and the United Reformed Church. newsletter and website are 70 fruit trees, mostly old varieties throughout the year. It is free of charge and is delivered welcome. of apples, pears and plums origi - to all the households in the nating from Essex and Hertford - To join the growing band of Chignals and Mashbury.