WHAT’S HAPPENING?

WEST TYTHERLEY OCTOBER 2006

PARISH COUNCIL

Just a few items which should be of interest. We have been informed by Test Valley Borough Council that they are to review the Brown Line infill policy in villages in the Test Valley area and have asked the Parish Council for their input. To that end we would appreciate your thoughts and ideas on this subject. We will be displaying maps showing the current Brown Infill Line on our Parish Council notice boards.

In January 2007 our Clerk is to retire, therefore we will be looking for a replacement. An idea of salary expenses can be seen in the minutes of meetings displayed on our notice boards. If you think you may be interested, please contact me either by phone on 341139, or personally.

Next year the local elections will be held in April, so if anyone from the Parish has aspirations to stand for Parish Councillor and would like further information, please contact the Clerk.

If anyone is interested in assisting John Guy (tel. 340946) with the Parish Plan, please contact him as soon as possible, as we have been offered a presentation on this subject by the Rural Community Development Officer.

Finally, I am pleased to tell you that the basketball area on the recreation ground is now in place and we hope it will be appreciated by all that use it.

Andy Bowditch, Chairman

COMMUNITY POLICE OFFICER

As most of you will be aware we no longer have a resident Community Police Officer.  However, there are various ways to contact the Police. In an emergency of course dial 999, but for non urgent calls or enquiries Hampshire Constabulary have a central switch board telephone number 0845-045-45-45 from which you will be transferred to the appropriate department. More detailed information can be found in the business listings section of The Phone Book on page 308 for Wiltshire or 309 for Hampshire. There are Police Officers assigned to our area and the first contact for messages should be to P.C.636 D.Turpin who operates from Romsey Police Station for which there is a direct line number 02380-674301.

Peter Robinson

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

In the event of anything suspicious please advise your nearest co-ordinator as listed below, or myself if you wish.

Peter Robinson                     Co-ordinator, Stony Batter                           01794 340565

David Parrott                         North Lane                                                     01794 340621

David Lyon                             Church Lane                                                  01794 340664

Pat Cockman                        The Village                                                     01794 341893

Roy Lucas                              Beales Court & Pragnells Cottages           01794 340019

Alf Tiley                                   Dean Road                                                    01794 341151

Keith Hawkins                       Red Lane                                                       01794 340689

Nigel Macpherson                 Buckholt & The Warren                                01980 862102

Peter Noyce                           Frenchmoor                                                   01794 340235

Sue Clayton                           Norman Court                                                01980 862131

Peter Robinson, Chairman

WEST TYTHERLEY CE PRIMARY SCHOOL

No-one will have failed to notice that the school is growing daily.  The building is gradually coming together and we are actually starting to believe that 2007 will see us happily learning and working inside a lovely new school.

Of course a lot of the work being done, especially during the summer holidays has been noisy and intrusive for the village and the road outside of school gets very congested at certain times of the day as parents, staff and builders attempt to find places to park their cars!  We would like to thank everyone in the village for being so understanding and co-operative and to reassure you that the temporary inconvenience will be worth it in the end when we all have a village school to be very proud of.

We will be having an Open Morning on Thursday 2nd November for prospective parents of children due to start school in 2007.   However, we will also be organizing an official opening of the new building and an Open Day for all interested parties in the New Year.

Jane Rimmington, Admin Officer

WEST TYTHERLEY VILLAGE HALL

Summer is over so the autumnal events for the village get under way with The Harvest/Village Supper on 14th October.  A four course supper of lasagna with salad and garlic bread, fruit crumble, cheese and biscuits followed by coffee and mints all for £10.  Bring a group of friends and make up a table of 8 – fun evening and good to meet new people in the village.  Tickets are available from the village shop or via Tim on 342392.

After the success of another Forest Forge production ‘A Wild Weekend’  in September we turn to comedy in November with Hot Pursuit – a sell out at the Edinburgh Festival with the comment “if you like your comedy bright-eyed, pacy and with just a smidgin of searing political comment, look no further” and the BBC revue “a glorious romp of a murder mystery”.  The date for your diary is 10th November.

Test Valley have now passed the Building Plans for the village hall to improve fire exits and toilets to meet requirements for disabled facilities.  We will also have the hall re-decorated  and improve the lighting etc.  Once we have received  estimates for the work we will seek to gain some grants whilst also continuing with fund raising. We are hoping to have this completed during the school holidays next summer to cause as little disruption as possible. We are also investigating the cost of a hearing loop which we hope can be installed at the same time as the alterations to the hall.

Jane Larner, Chairman