TIVERTON PARISH NEWS - JANUARY 2003
At the beginning of a New Year it is probably the most
appropriate time to look forward to what the Parish Council will major on in
the coming months, and we see these as follows:
For some time the village has had to make do with a not very
effective notice board, it also suffers by not being sited in a readily seen
location, so to remedy this a new notice board will shortly be erected on the
central village green next to the telephone box. Most of the village do pass this point at some point during the
week, and therefore the Parish Council’s notices and information would be
readily on view. If you have any
comments on the siting of the notice board please contact Janice Farrall.
Following the positioning of street name boards on the
principal roads off Huxley Lane, it is now appropriate for us to ask the County
Council to provide additional ones for other parts of the Parish, and as soon
as the information is to hand a request will be made for the naming of the
roads in the Tiverton Heath area.
Work on the Parish Plan / Village Design Statement will
continue, this study is of great importance as it will present the Village’s
view on how it expects the village to develop in the future.
The question of street lighting has arisen yet again. At
previous Parish Council meetings the residents have expressed the view that no
further street lights are required in Huxley Lane, but nevertheless there is an
opinion that additional lamps should be installed on safety grounds. It should be realised that there is no
street lighting on the A49 at Beeston Brook.
The matter will be debated at the next Parish Council meeting on January
28th 2003.
The A49 continues to give us great concern, the accident
rate makes it one of the most dangerous roads in the County, and our views have
been expressed directly to the Joint Highways Committee. We will continue to press for positive
action to improve matters. The A51 also
gives us concern and representations will continue to be made to improve the
safety of that road.
Power Systems / Manweb have eventually completed the
transfer to “undergrounding” and we will expect them to remove all their debris
and reinstate all disturbed areas to our satisfaction.
The Parish Council have had discussions with the Village
Hall committee regarding the possible installation of wheelchair access to the
hall. We have also had exploratory
talks with the Deeside Ramblers Hockey Club regarding the possible use of some
of their grounds and facilities.
Finally a Happy and Prosperous New Year to you all.
Derek Marshall
Chairman
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Tiverton District Garden Club
4th Feb Herbaceous
Perennials by Mrs Anne Lewis
4th March The
Eden Project by Mr R Dutton
29th March Sring
Show
For further details contact Audrey Povall on 733520
Tiverton District Bridge Club
We have enjoyed another successful season. Membership remains in the mid-sixties, any
Bridge players new to the area are very welcome to come along and join this
friendly club at the Village Hall on Monday nights and Wednesday afternoons. For further details contact Bill Povall on
733502
Liz Scott kindly held a very successful coffee morning at
her home in December. We are still looking for old toys, so if you’ve had a
sort out over Christmas please bear us in mind. Contact Liz on 733907 for details of the next coffee morning.
Freedom of Information Act 2000
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
Tiverton Parish Council has adopted the Parish Council Model Publication Scheme
which sets out the information that the Parish Council will make available on
request. It includes, Council minutes
and agendas, Code of Conduct Members Declarations and Register of Interests,
Periodic Electoral Review, Employment Practice & Procedure, Planning
Documents (responses to planning applications), Audit & Accounts. Requests
to view this information should be made to the Parish Clerk, Clare Gregory.
Parish Council Meeting
The next Parish Council meeting will be held on January 28th
January 2003 at 7.30pm in the Village Hall.
It will begin with an open session of thirty minutes at which residents
are invited to comment on any matters of interest. Key items on the agenda this time include Street lighting;
Highways issues on the A49 and A51; Parish Plan / Village Design Statement;
Budget & Precept for 2003.
The Cheshire Household Waste Management Strategy
Parish Councillors Derek Marshall and
Liz Scott recently attended the launch of the Cheshire Household Waste
Management Strategy:
We have to rethink the way we manage
Cheshire's rubbish. Instead of relying on increasingly expensive landfill for our growing
amounts of household waste, we have to adopt a new and more sustainable
strategy. This aims to meet national and European policy requirements by
reducing the amount of waste we leave for collection or take to Household Waste
Recycling Centres and by increasing our recycling of materials such as paper,
glass, plastics etc and composting of garden and kitchen waste.
All Cheshire local authorities have
worked together on the strategy, and have taken into account the very strong
public support for recycling expressed in two major consultation exercises.
They have agreed that the strategy should be based on 4 main themes:
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1. Encouraging the reduction of waste
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Giving advice
to households about ways to reduce their rubbish:- stopping
junk mail, buying refillable or reusable products, donating old clothes or
furniture to charities and so on.
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Promoting home
composting and community composting projects
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Lobbying
government and industry to reduce packaging
2.
Achieving as high as possible levels of recycling and composting
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Establishing
the most appropriate system for collecting recyclable material in each area
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Providing you
with separate recycling containers and advice on recycling
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Collecting
your separated recyclable waste such as paper, glass
and plastics from your kerbside
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Encouraging
everyone to take part in the recycling schemes
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Improving our
Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs) and other "bring-to"
recycling sites so that you can recycle a wider range of materials
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Expanding
composting sites to provide for increased amounts of your green waste
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Developing new
facilities including Material Recycling Facilities (MRFs) and Refuse Transfer
Stations to collect and distribute recyclable waste
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Discussing how
to increase the use of recycled products with industry.
3. Reviewing the need for energy from waste
treatment in 2004, and, if it is needed, determining the right scale and type
of facility
No decision will be made until we can judge how much waste
is likely to remain once recycling and composting has taken place. This will be
based on
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the success of
the minimisation, recycling and composting
initiatives
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the amount of
waste being disposed by households
If the scale of waste remaining means that we have to build new treatment facilities,
the community's views will be taken into account in the decision on their size
and type, which will be based on
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the environmental
and health impacts of available technologies
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their
efficiency
Some new landfill will be required, but on a more limited
scale, for final disposal of the reduced amount of material still left after
treatment.
4. Working together as a partnership to deliver
the strategy and considering ways in which joint working can be improved
§ Considering all the funding and organisational options open to the Partnership