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Dates for
your Diary August & September 2019
Parish Council Meeting
The next meeting will take place on Monday 9th September 2019 in the school hall at 7.30pm.
Parish Councillor Vacancy
After several years living in Epney and service with the Parish Council, Andy Russell has decided it is time to move on to pastures new. That means there is a vacancy on the Parish Council and the Council would welcome applications for co-option to join. An official notice will be posted shortly. Applications should be emailed to:-
A big thank you to Andy for his service!
Longney & Epney
Parish Newsletter August & September 2019
Longney School are holding an Auction of Promises to raise money towards finishing the “Spiritual Garden”. Tickets are £5.00 and this will get you a yummy Pork Roll or Vegetarian option and the chance to grab yourself a fabulous lot in the auction! There is still time to offer something for the auction so if you feel you can donate a unique gift that would be very much appreciated. Please contact Nikki Leach with your offer [email protected] Tickets are available from Nikki or Jason Leach, via the email address above too and on the door. It will be a great evening so don’t miss out!
AUCTION of MOST
Longney School
MARVELLOUSPROMISES
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High Green Solar Installation
Elgin Energy have been successful in gaining planning permission for the second application of the Solar Farm. This decision was made during a Development Control Committee meeting on the 23rd July at the council offices.
The Parish Council made representation at the meeting but the final outcome of the vote from Stroud Councilors was to permit the application.
Elgin have also made an appeal against the decision regarding the first application, we await to hear if this will be continued in light of the second application being permitted.
Defibrillator Training
There was a great turn out for the village defibrillator training on the 10th June at the school. A big thank you to Louise Cooper from South Western Ambulance Service, she is certainly passionate about defibrillators and the benefits of having them in rural locations! A really useful piece of information that came from the training was to have the grid reference location of your property to hand if you ever need the emergency services as they can then locate you accurately. This is especially important in our rural area as there are lots of houses down unmarked lanes. Also crucial if you are the only person with a patient and can’t get to the main road to direct the ambulance etc. You can get your grid reference by following the link below and popping in your postcode.
https://gridreferencefinder.com/ Other useful tips were to put all your house lights on if it’s night time and car hazard lights to attract the attention of the emergency services. There is a presentation available that can be emailed which covers all the training that was given on the evening. Please drop an email to:
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Harvest Festival Competitons
It’s Back!! The Longney & Epney
Great Harvest Festival
Sunday 22nd September!
Build a Scarecrow Get your thinking caps back on! The “Build a Scarecrow” Competition is back! There were some fabulous entries last year… so can we top it this year? Build your entries ready for week commencing the 16th September, when he/she is ready email Suzi Wingrove a picture and location of your entry, judging will be on Saturday 21st September 2019 and the winner announced at the festival. [email protected]
Produce Stall There will be a produce stall on the day and we would welcome any donations of local fruit and veg, jams, chutneys, home made food or drink, flowers, plants or anything else you lovely people have to donate grown or made in the villages. Also items of fruit, vegetable and cakes entered into the competitions would be welcome after judging.
Bottle Tombola Donations of any bottles will be gratefully received and can be dropped off with Suzi Wingrove at Castle End Farm, or send Suzi an email [email protected] and she will collect.
Please note there will be a 50p donation per entry, per class for the competitions.
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Longney Longest Day Bike Ride
Mike and Hanne Foyle would like to say a massive “Thank You” to all who attended the bike ride this year!
The costumes were amazing as always!
During the evening they raised a whopping £790 for Myeloma UK.
Perrywood House Open Gardens
Mike & Gill Farmer raised over £2500 with their open gardens in June for the NGS charities! They donate over £3m a year to notable charities including Macmillan, MS Society, Carers Trust and many
more! Well done both!
Bonfires The subject of bonfires was raised at the last Parish Council meeting. Please be considerate when lighting a bonfire especially if it’s a nice sunny day with no wind. You will upset your neighbours if the smoke is blowing into their homes and gardens.
Garden bonfires, the rules!
There are no laws against having a bonfire, but there are laws for the nuisance they can cause.
Burning domestic waste.
You cannot get rid of household waste if it will cause pollution or harm people’s health. This includes burning it.
You could be fined if you light a fire and allow the smoke to drift across the road and become a danger to traffic.
Complain about a neighbour’s bonfire.
Your council can issue an ‘abatement notice’ if a neighbour’s bonfire is causing a nuisance. A bonfire must happen frequently to be considered a nuisance.
Your neighbour can be fined up to £5,000 if they don’t follow the rules of the notice.
Changes Regarding Waste & Recycling
Rounds
Changes to recycling rounds: you’ll need to put everything out by 6am.
Make sure your waste and recycling is put out by 6am Stroud District Council’s Community Services team is reminding residents.
A new collection round is being introduced to cater for the growth in properties across the district. While this won’t affect the day that collec-tions are made on, it does mean that some existing collection times may change, with some now being collected earlier in the morning.
Putting your waste and recycling out by 6am will ensure there is no disruption to your service.
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Garden Machinery
Please don’t forget we have a community shedder and rotavator available for a small donation.
Please contact Roger Godwin to arrange
collection.
Frampton Country Fair
8th September 2019
Advance warning of some road closures on the day of the Fair, please keep an eye on our Facebook page and we will put a reminder on closer to the day.
Planning Planning and the need for it was discussed at the last parish Council meeting. The following is taken from the Stroud District Planning Site and gives an idea of what you need to do if you think you need permission for building work or a business. We would also encourage you to come and have a chat with the Parish Council should you be planning to submit an application.
When is planning permission required? If you want to build an extension to your property or do other work to your home, or if you want to expand your business or change the use of your premises, you may need to apply for planning permission.
Some minor alterations and extensions such as conservatories, particularly to houses, can often be carried out without the need for planning permission. This is known as permitted development.
Development permitted under General Consent, including permitted development can also be liable for Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).
There is a schedule of CIL Liable development and specific forms that need to be submitted if your General Consent or permitted development is CIL Liable.
Planning Portal - How to find out if you need planning permission.
You can use the interactive house and guides on the Planning Portal website to see if you are likely to require planning permission.
Constraints on your property.
Search online for basic constraints (conservation area, area of outstanding natural beauty, article 4s or flood zone) on the dwelling. Please note this does not include listed buildings, these can be searched at Historic England.
Have permitted development rights been removed from your property?
Permitted development rights can be removed from a site either with an Article 4 direction or by condition in your planning history. To find out whether your permitted development rights have been removed or limited by condition you can use our search function system to search the planning history.
Article 4s can be on properties or land, these can be seen on an interac-tive map. For properties details of the Article 4 can be seen on the con-servation area appraisal.
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Church Services
Longney & Elmore
August & September 2019
Sunday 4th August
Sunday 1st September
Parish Eucharist at
Elmore 9.30am
Sunday 11th August Sunday 8th September
Parish Eucharist at Longney 9.30am
Evensong at
Elmore 4.00pm
Sunday 18th August
Sunday 15th September
Parish Eucharist at
Elmore 9.30am
Sunday 25th August Sunday 22nd September
Storyteller Family Eucharist Longney at 9.30am
Evensong at
Elmore 4.00pm
Sunday 29th September
No Service
Longney C of E Primary
Academy School News
Worship with Bishop Robert The Bishop of Tewkesbury came to visit the school on Tuesday 9th July. After he had met everyone, he led a Collective Worship where he helped the children learn about the Eucharist. Follow the link below to see pictures of the Bishops visit. http://www.longney.gloucs.sch.uk/website/worship_with_bishop_rob-ert/416311
Second Gold School Games
Mark Award Longney school is delighted to announce they have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2018/19 academic year. This is the sec-ond Gold Mark!
The scheme is a Government led award launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and they are delighted to have been recognised for this success.
The school is extremely proud of the pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including the young volunteers, leaders and officials who make the competitions possible.
As part of the application, they were asked to fulfill criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and were pleased that the hard work of everyone at the school has been rewarded this year.
New School Term The new school term starts on the 2nd September. Wishing good luck to Year 6 pupils who left in July to start their new adventure at secondary school! A warm welcome to all the new pupils starting in September!