WHAT’S ON - MICHELMERSH AND TIMSBURY MICHELMERSH & TIMSBURY NOVEMBER 2018 News Sheet & Diary November 2018 Please support your village events. If you wish to include your event here email the details to [email protected] Most village organisations welcome new members and/or visitors. There is a full list on the village website, many with links to their own webpage. Please use the contact numbers, or just turn up at a meeting; you will be made very welcome Saturday 10th Operation Christmas Child Shoebox filling etc Jubilee Hall 10:30am Donations on the day or to Sarah Medley 9 Mannyngham Way, or tel 01794 368492, if unable to attend. Saturday 10th Village Barn Dance Jubilee Hall 7:30pm Tickets £12.50 and £10 under 18s from Romsey Woodburners or Michael Wigley 07803 283710, [email protected] A time to remember…… th Sunday the 11th of November is Armistice Day and 100 years since the end of Monday 12 Horticultural Society: Jubilee Hall hostilities in the First World War. There are a number of events planned 7:30pm “Photography in and around our Gardens” Maurice Pugh throughout the country to mark this centenary. Here is a short list of local events - Visitors welcome £2 inc Refreshment others will be advertised in the local press and circulated on social media. Tuesday 13th 10:30 -11:30am Coffee and Cakes, St Andrew’s Church Romsey School - Friday 2 November All welcome 7.00pm – a talk by Dr. Emily Mayhew from Imperial College: ‘Wounded – The 4 th Long Journey Home from The Great War’. Thursday 15 Lunch Club Enjoy good company and a hot meal Jubilee Hall 1:15pm Please phone Sarah Medley 368492 if you would like to come In the village at Thursday 25th The Friends of Michelmersh Church The Barns St Mary’s Church - Sunday 11 November 10am - An informal gathering, with refreshments. A chance to remember friends 7:30pm “Leckford Estate – History and Insight” Andrew Head and family at the war memorial, with readings of First World War poems. A All Welcome £4 inc refreshments traditional silence will be held at 11am. Saturday 1st Messy Church - Messy Advent Awbridge Church St Andrew’s Church December Contact Mary Savage, 367908 [email protected] 10:45am - Family Service and Remembrance or Sue Manners 368230 or email: [email protected] St Mary’s Church 6 pm - Remembrance Service with the Michelmersh Silver Band, followed by the CHURCH SERVICES FOR OCTOBER national ringing of bells to commemorate 100 years since the Armistice. th Sun 4 10:00am Michelmersh Morning Prayer Romsey Abbey - Sunday 11 November inc Timsbury th 9.30am - A Civic Service for Remembrance Sunday (an earlier start than usual) Sun 11 10:45am Timsbury Family Service & Rememberance after which there will be a procession to Romsey War Memorial Park for 11 am 6:00pm Michelmersh Rememberance Service + MSB Sun 18th 10:00am Timsbury Holy Communion Act of Remembrance. 6:00pm Michelmersh Evening Prayer Stockbridge Down - Sunday 11 November 8:00pm Timsbury Night Prayer A beacon (one of a national chain) will be lit at 7pm. Details on th Sun 25 8:00am Michelmersh Holy Communion https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/events (find ‘Armistice Day Beacon lightings) 6:00pm Timsbury Evening Prayer Romsey Abbey - Wednesday 14th November M&T Walkers walk each Thursday at 10am, walk details on the website. 7:30pm - A concert to remember the end of the Great War. ©Published by Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish Council PARISH COUNCIL NEWS Open Space Audit – Activities for teenagers Test Valley Borough Council has carried out an audit of recreational facilities in PLANNING the borough. The results indicate that when assessed against the standard Full details of all planning applications and the Parish Council’s responses to them benchmarks (based on population) our village is lacking in leisure provision for are recorded in the Parish Council minutes (Minutes of Council Meetings can be teenagers. If you are (or soon will be) between 13 and 18, or if you have teenage found on the village website) and on the Test Valley Borough or Hampshire children, we would like your ideas about what activities or facilities you think might County Council websites. be popular. Please email the Clerk at [email protected] with your suggestions – or start a discussion on Facebook? Planning Applications Reviewed at Parish Council Meeting on 31st October (Comments summarise the key points only) VILLAGE ORGANISATIONS AND EVENTS 18/02707/FULLS: Little Meadow, Rudd Lane - Erection of four residential units We welcome details of village events and will try to include a short item in this News Sheet and associated detached garages but we cannot guarantee that they will appear because space is limited. Make sure your Decision: Objection: the proposed houses are too close to the boundaries to events are included in the diary – see back page for the contact. provide sufficient space for effective screening from houses on Rudd Lane and from other points in the surrounding countryside. The rear three houses are too large and too closely spaced on this narrow plot: fewer houses of this size, or smaller houses (perhaps a terrace or semi-detached) would be more appropriate Village Barn Dance for this site. The proposed front elevation of Plot 1, which would face Rudd Lane, is unattractive and differs from the other houses on the lane which are of more traditional style. 7:30 to 11:00pm - Saturday 10th November 18/02578/FULLS: Land south of Smallberry Hill, Haccups Lane - Erection of 4 In the Jubilee Hall residential dwellings with associated landscaping and parking With live band RUFUS RETURNS Decision: Objection: the development and access road would have an adverse visual impact on the approach to the Conservation Area, potential traffic issues on Tickets £12.50 adults, £10 under 18s (see back page diary for contacts) Haccups Lane and safety of new access, proposed layout and house design out- All profits to the local Cub Scout group. Bring your own refreshments of-character with the area where existing houses are generally of distinctive appearance with individual access and large plots. The Parish Council will raise LOCAL CONTACTS questions about whether an access road should be permitted to cross land Police Parish Council designated as countryside, and about the proposals for the continued upkeep of Phone 101 or 08450 45 45 45 Clerk: Katie Hardy 367289 the section of the site not included in the building plots. (Ask for the Force Enquiry Centre) [email protected] 18/02652/TREES: : Michelmersh Court, Church Road - Tree works: URGENT calls ONLY use 999 Chairman: Bob Davis 368118 TI Pine Scott – fell, T2 Oak – crown reduce, T3 Beech – crown reduce. Churches: WEBSITE: Decision: No objection St Mary’s Michelmersh www.michelmershandtimsbury.org St Andrew’s Timsbury Test Valley Borough Council VILLAGE NEWS Rector: Romsey 527700 : Andover 01264 368000 Web site: www.testvalley.gov.uk Virgin Media The Rev Canon Steve Pittis 01794 368335 TVBC cllr Tony Ward 01794 389649 Virgin’s contractors are making good progress with the installation of the full-fibre Jubilee Hall Email: [email protected] system. If you have any queries or concerns about the work, or about the quality Warden/Bookings 368492 HCC County Councillor Roy Perry 01962 847750 of the repairs carried out after the work, Virgin suggest that in the first instance News Sheet items Email: [email protected] you contact the on-site team. Or you can contact Virgin Media directly by emailing Parish Clerk (see next column) or [email protected] or call 0333 000 5925 Option 1. [email protected] MP Caroline Nokes: 01794 512132 [email protected] Virgin Media will host a sales event at the Jubilee Hall on Tuesday 18th December between 5-9pm to update residents on connection costs and the services available via the system. To be included on the village email circulation list for News Sheets and items of local interest email the Clerk at [email protected] .