There will be an Extraordinary meeting of the Cherington and Stourton Joint Parish Council at The Hall on Thursday March 27th at 7.30 pm.
AGENDA
To accept apologies for absence.
To record declarations of interest.
Public Forum
An opportunity for members of the public to make representations relating to the business to be transacted.
The time for each member of the public to speak is limited to 3 minutes.
Please advise the Parish Clerk by Wednesday 26th March if you wish to speak.
Matters arising
Planning application 23/00597/FUL – Land adjacent to St Johns Road, Cherington Eastings 429184 Northings 23676 – Erection of 8 no. Local Need Dwellings and associated works.
Local Walk Led by the Cotswolds Wardens from The Hall at 10.00 on Thursday March 20th
On Thursday 20th March, the Cotswold Wardens are leading a 5.5 mile walk, meeting in The Hall car park.
Open to all, the walk starts at 10am and heads to Margetts Hill and Weston Park. Allow 3.5 hours.
Please wear good footwear and bring refreshments for a snack stop en route.
A £1/vehicle donation to The Hall is welcomed.
The Cotswold Wardens walks are free, but if you wish to make a small donation at the end, the money goes to the Countryside Fund and is used for things such as putting in kissing gates.
Dogs are not allowed on the walk, unless an assistance dog.
If you wish to get in touch, please call Angie on 0781 550 3186
Community Meeting Convened by Local MP to Discuss Flooding and Sewerage Issues to be held at The Hall on Friday March 14th from 13.00 – 14.30
Our local MP, Manuela Perteghella, invites all residents of the local villages to a community meeting at The Hall on Friday March 14th from 13.00 – 14.30 to discuss the serious flooding and sewerage problems affecting our area.
Items for Discussion Include:
Sewage Flooding
System Overload
Public Health Risks
Housing Development Concerns
Representatives from Severn Trent Water, the Environment Agency and Local Flood Authority will also be in attendance.
A message from the organisers of the first professional theatre night last Saurday at The Hall:
‘A HUGE thank you to all who came to The Hall on Saturday night for our first professional theatre night. We hope that you had a great evening!
“Old Herbaceous” was an absolute treat, thanks so much to Giles Shenton Productions!
We really enjoyed bringing this to our community in and around our parishes! Thanks also to our wonderful volunteers, without whom we couldn’t stage events like this.
Put Saturday 14th June in your diaries now – our next theatre night sees GSP presenting “Into the Breach”. Written and performed by Mark Carey, this is another absolutely fantastic show!’
Old Herbaceous is the much-loved, one-man play telling the humorous love story of a single-minded yet gentle man with a passion for plants, from his potting shed. See: https://youtu.be/X9mGzbpAL-4
Described as ‘Downton Abbey with Gardening Tips’ – it’s a show not to be missed!
The local Big Frog March is expected to be taking place from Wednesday February 19th on the road by the Little Butts turning on the Burmington/Cherington Road.
Members of the Feldons Wildlife Group will be patrolling the area wearing high viz, with torches and buckets, in order to assist the migration.
Motorists are asked to drive with caution in this area at this time while their march takes place.
See message below from Sue Williams of the Feldons Wildlife Group:
‘Every year in the UK as soon as the temperature rises above 5 degrees centigrade, thousands of our native population of frogs, toads and newts start to move from their over wintering places back to the waters of their birth.
The females will be overloaded with bellies full of eggs ready to mate and spawn and the males are obviously just as anxious to reach the breeding grounds and do their duty!
Often this march involves crossing busy roads, and all over the country at this time, hundreds of volunteers soak themselves to the skin on early spring nights to save these creatures from being squashed under the tyres of cars, by waving down cars with torches, wearing high viz jackets, and collecting the frogs in buckets to give them a lift across the road.
You may think “ how can it be that hard to avoid running them over?” It is not that simple for starters, because they can gather in such numbers that swerving to avoid one puts your tyres on another and small frogs and newts can look just like leaves and twigs on the dark tarmac through a rain splattered windscreen.
Last year England’s 203 registered amphibian rescue groups saved at least 115,000 animals from the roads.
Unfortunately last year the Feldons Wildlife Group heard about our local frog crossing too late to save many of these creatures – but this year we aim to be prepared
The weather forecast is expected to change this week and so from WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19TH ONWARDS we shall be out with our torches, buckets and high viz jackets ON THE ROAD BY THE LITTLE BUTTS TURNING.
If frogs are on the road we shall hope to flag down motorists and clear a way for cars to drive on, without killing these creatures, whilst collecting them in our buckets and giving them a lift across the road to the pond.
We hope that anyone reading this will spread the news to friends and neighbours to drive with caution on this part of the road for the next few weeks. There will be signs on the side of the road to warn motoristsof the area we are patrolling.
Finally if anyone in the village would like to volunteer to assist us with these patrols we would be very grateful. Please phone Sue Williams 01608 686414 for further information.’
Notice of Temporary Road Closure of Cherington Road on February 24th for Remedial Carriageway Repairs
Cherington Road will be closed to vehicular traffic between Cherington and Burmington on Monday 24th February to enable remedial carriageway works for one day.
An alternative route will be signed and vehicular access and egress will be maintained where possible.
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