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East Coker Neighbourhood Plan Presentation by Paul Weston of Locality

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MADE

Neighbourhood Planning Presentation

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Department of Communities and Local Government

An Introduction to Neighbourhood Planning

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Attached below are bimonthly editions of Notes on Neighbourhood Planning by the Department of Communities and Local Government.  Editions will be added to this post as and when they become available.  They contain useful information regarding Neighbourhood Plans and the processes involved in completing one.

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Tree Planting

Councillor Binny Bennett has been busy supporting the WI in their kind purchase and planting of a Mulberry tree in the Paddock. Binny has also been grateful for the donation of saplings to be planted around the lower boundary of the Recreation Ground.

Binny reports that Chalara ash dieback disease is affecting woodland in Britain. The disease is not harmful to people or animals but it can kill ash trees.

How to spot symptoms of ash dieback – the main symptoms are dead branches

  • blackening of leaves which often hang on the tree
  • discoloured stems often in a diamond-shape where a leaf was attached.

If you see these symptoms, please

  • double check them at the website: www.forestry.gov.uk/chalara
  • report them to the helpline: 08459 335577

To help stop the disease spreading

  • before visiting other places, clean mud and leaves from footwear, pushchairs, bikes, cars, dogs and horses
  • do not remove leaves, plants or wood from this area. 

Somerset County Council Electoral Review – from County Councillor Cathy Bakewell

In June 2012, the Local Government Boundary Commission published their review of the electoral arrangements for the Somerset County Council. They reduced the number of Councillors from 59 to 55. The average number of electorates in each division will rise from 7,615 in 2011 to 8,137 by 2017. No account was taken of any proposed developments in any area unless a planning application had actually been submitted. In the Coker division, pleas for the inclusion of the Wraxhill part of East Coker civil parish and the Sampsons Wood part of the West Coker civil parish to be included in the county division were ignored. The Commissioners visited the area and felt both areas “clearly form part of the urban Yeovil”. This view had been strongly expressed by Yeovil Town Council during this review and the previous review. This may have implications when the Town Council electoral boundaries are next reviewed. There is no prospect of this in the immediate future, but it is something to watch. The new Coker County division now includes the villages of Montacute and Norton-sub-Hamdon. This brings the number of electors up from 7739 in 2011 to 7807 in 2017 which is a -4% variance from the average. 

Green Routine 2013

Green Routine 2013 is a year-long campaign to help people in your area minimise waste, save money and have fun developing positive habits with long-term benefits.

Dozens of groups including Transition Towns, Women’s Institutes to garden clubs and active living centres, have already got involved in ways that will both benefit the people they help and encourage greater community participation.  Will you join other parishes taking part?

Backed by Somerset Waste Partnership, Green Routine 2013 is a flexible campaign, supported by free tools to make it really easy to add your parish’s local voice. Working together we can help more people reduce waste and save money.

Green Routine 2013 is simple to explain and easy to join. With small steps we can all take to make better use of the things we have, from food to furniture, gardens to gadgets, and share tips to make things last longer or giving them a new home.

Check this link for the 12 monthly themes with many activities to help us all – young or old, able or disabled, well off or not – cut waste by avoidance, reuse and repair.

Your parish can easily make Green Routine its own. You choose which themes, activities and campaign tools are right for your group, and then have a fun campaign to engage your members or the wider community.

And FREE training can help you pass on important advice and information, such as:

Love Food Hate Waste can help families waste less and save up to £50 a month. (Join a session at Williton, Taunton or Yeovil in January; further sessions are planned in Sedgemoor and Mendip area. Register online or phone Beth Prince on 01823 625716).  

Compost champions – everything you wanted to know about how to get great compost. (Contact Rupert.farthing@carymoor.org.uk or phone 01963 350143)

You can be a Green Routine partner for a single month’s theme, several or the whole year, and you can help your members and others tackle one or more projects or simply spread the vital messages of the campaign.

It is easy for groups and individuals to get involved and share experiences, lessons learnt and top tips to help others on their Green Routine journey.

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