WT H E ESTWELL EYE 182 April 2018 The Wheel New Lunch Menu 12noon-3pm New Dinner Menu 6pm-9pm Sunday Roast 12noon-4.30pm Top: St. Mary’s in the snow, taken by Curry night - Wednesday - 4th April Michael Briest. Bottom right: Elsa March and a snow drift! Left: The thaw. Pie Evening Thursday - 12th April Pub quiz - 20th April 7pm Quiz £2 per person, cash prize and fizz. Free juke box after quiz Steak night + New band - 27th April (?) see p3 Contact: 01233 712223 [email protected] April 2018 SUNDAY MON TUES WED THUR FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Easter Sunday Curry Night Rc,F,T 10am Iona Eucharist 7pm Fitness 7.30pm Players The Wheel 8am Holy Communion 9.15am Pilates 10.30 Coffee Wheel 11am Family Eucharist 10.30 Dog Training 8 2nd Sunday of Easter 9 10 11 12 R,F,W 13 14 1.30pm WI painting 9.15am Pilates 11am Iona Eucharist 11am Fitsteps - 7.30pm Players 10.30 Dog training St. Mary Westwell Dance as U Go 7pm Fitness 2.15pm Players 7.30pm WI Meeting Pie Night - Wheel 15 3rd Sunday of Easter 16 17 18 19 20 21 Rc,F,T 7pm Quiz 11am Family Service Book Club - p13 St. Mary Westwell 7pm Fitness 11am Fitsteps - 9.15am Pilates The Wheel 7.30pm Players 2.15pm Players Dance as U Go 10.30 Dog Training 22 4th Sunday of Lent 23 24 25 26 27 2 8 11am Eucharist 1.30pm WI painting 11am Fitsteps - R,F,W 7pm Players St. Mary Westwell Dance as U Go 9.15am Pilates 7pm Players Steak night? 7.30pm Players 10.30 Dog Training 2.15pm Players 7pm Players The Wheel 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 5th Sunday of Lent 7pm Fitness 8am Holy Communion - Pluckley Rc,F,T 10.30am G7 Communion - Charing . gmail.com elleye@ Thorneloe 5, Faversham Road, Lenham, The The date of the steak night westw Email: 20th of the month Carolyn - 2 - Gaoler's Retreat, … . - [email protected] - Drum Lane, Ashford, TN23 1LQ Ashford, - [email protected] - Drum Lane, 14, Sandyhurst Lane TN25 4NS 14, Sandyhurst Lane , Tel: 01622 859376, Tel: Sue Wood Sue COPY DEADLINE - Prices include free design, illustration and layout. 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And meeting, please volunteer to help – your village needs you. needs village your – help to volunteer please meeting, Also Also on page 10 there is a notice about the Fete, together with a date for the first James James wants to make these a regular monthly thing! disappointment. avoid to now book so well selling pie pie and steak – see back page for dates. Please support these evenings if you can, as The Spring Players’ Production is this month – see page 10 for details. Tickets are This month sees new menus at the Wheel and also three special meal evenings, curry, evenings, three meal also and Wheel special the at menus new sees Thismonth out. look a keep so production, Players’ withclashingthe avoid to change might Association AGM from the March Eye, a complete failure on my part! my on failure complete a Eye, March fromthe AGM Association First, First, I must apologies for omitting the date of the Sandyhurst Lane Residents Useful Contacts AZ CARING SERVICES Local Plan Update Telephone Numbers Planning Inspectors start hearings on the Local Plan this month. Age UK 642094 Anyone can attend on any day. Speakers are generally limited to one per parish on each issue Ashford Volunteer Bureau 633219 being discussed. Sue Wood as the Parish Clerk is booking the speaker slots we might need. Bees (swarming) Look out on Westwell Events for meetings to discuss key points we should make at the Andy Bithell 740650 / 07933892413 hearings and who should be the speaker. Hearings start on 11th April at the Civic Centre. Borough Councillor: They will continue on certain days – not continuously! – until 13th June. For your diary the hearing dates which may be of particular interest are: 1st May 2pm: issue Larry Krause 01233 643497 For all aspects of care and support work, CAB 626185 10, when some of the general planning issues of all the A20 sites will be discussed under the Daily and Live In “separation of settlements” policy SP7. 2nd May 9.30am Issue 7: provision of gypsy and Carers Support Group 664393 please contact Arthur and his team on Childline Freephone 0800 1111 traveller accommodation. Contact Sue Wood if you have any questions . 07552 766428 The hearing calendar and list of issues are on the Ashford website, but these two documents Cinema 0871 2208000 email: [email protected]. Citizens’ Advice Bureau 626185 will also be on the Westwell parish council and community websites. Cruse Bereavement Counselling 878225 Excellent local references The Inspectors’ task is to consider all the evidence they have and determine whether the Plan Doctors (Charing) 01233 714490 that has been submitted by Ashford Borough Council is satisfactory on a number of planning (Hayesbank) 624642 Oil Boiler Service criteria. If they conclude that it is they will be able to recommend that the Plan is approved. It is unlikely that there will be any very significant changes overall because Ashford needs Dog Warden 01233 330340 established 1987 Hospital (William Harvey) 633331 to have an up to date approved Local plan. However the discussion on Traveller sites and KCC Community Warden for Hothfield, Family friendly business policies under issue 7 may lead the Inspectors to recommend that these are only provisional Charing and Challock, Dave Beckley Professional, efficient service while Ashford completes the work on a separate gypsy and traveller plan. This plan has just 0797798199 started and the first stage is in consultation now. CROP 01622 851200 The inspectors already have the huge amount of evidence that was submitted in August 2016 Library (Ashford) 03000413131 and August 2017.This includes all the very comprehensive comments made by everyone in (Charing) 713177 Westwell parish. MS Therapy Centre 01227 470876 Next update in the May Eye ! NHS Direct 0845 4647 For servicing, breakdowns and NSPCC 0800 800500 commissioning contact; P&V Quenby ltd Playing field parking Parish Hall Booking 01233 712016 The wet weather in the last few weeks has made it necessary to close the parking on the ����� ������ www.oilboilerskent.co.uk [email protected] playing field despite the protective matting. The rain has washed soil out from parts of Parish Council (clerk, Sue Wood) 623902 the matting and onto the top of other parts of the matting making it too slippery to use as Pilgrims’ Hospice (Admin) 504100 a parking area. As the area affected is relatively small and shallow we hope that we can (Patient enquiries) 504112 remove the surface soil with garden tools and re-expose the matting and reopen the parking PCC Secretary (Heather Lister) 712981 A working party will have started on this on March 24th . If needed there will be another PCSO [email protected] working in April notified through Westwell Events . 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