White Colne
Parish Council
White Colne
Dear Residents,
Welcome to the latest edition of the White Colne News and what once again has been a busy period in the village.
We have enjoyed some great village activities including our heritage day organised by the history group and our village picnic and family fun day.
Behind the scenes your councillors have been working on such issues as trying to prevent the removal of our village phone box, street lighting in Bures Road, planning applications, the problem of dog fouling and the ongoing matter of the transfer of the ownership of the village hall from Essex County Council.
The website is up and running well now so please visit it on http://www.whitecolne.com to see the latest news and what is happening.
Kevin Nolan, Chairman
Save our phone box
Braintree District Council is supporting our request to save the phone box and is applying to English Heritage for listed building status for the phone box.
As part of the listing process it is necessary to prove that the box has been in position for thirty years or more. Does anyone have any readily available evidence to prove that this is the case?
Please contact me if you can help or come along to the PC meeting on July 21st. Thank you.
David Williams, Clerk
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
Theft of metal:
The price of all forms of metal is rapidly rising and has resulted in a recent increase in metal thefts ie theft of lead from roofs, theft from building sites, removal of cables from below ground and overhead, and theft of catalytic converters from cars.
Please be particularly vigilant to this type of crime and should you have concerns
about any suspicious activity, please contact the Police either on 999 (urgent) or
0300 333 4444 (new non-
Theft of domestic heating oil from storage tanks:
Difficult to prevent -
Distraction Burglaries: 50% of all reported distraction burglary crimes are 'Water Board' or water related. Check ID of all 'Water' callers at door.
Hotline for Anglia Water to check ID is 0800 145 145.
Sue Norris 223104
Open Gardens?
A resident has suggested that White Colne should hold an Open Gardens event. We did do this successfully two years running about a decade ago. It is quite a lot of work for those who decide to open their garden plus someone needs to organise it. Our small band of regular volunteers is very busy with other commitments – is there anyone out there who would be interested in leading this project?
Would the village support it?
Are there any free dates left in the Open Garden calendar?
Would enough people open their gardens?
Thoughts?
Jane Taylor
Parish News July 2008
Green Waste Collection
The vehicle will wait from1210 to 1240pm at the Village Hall on Saturdays as follows:
9th August,13th September 11th October
50 Club Winners
March: L Nolan £25, H Thurlow £10, K Williams £10, P Smead £10, P Adams £5.
April: T Webber £25, A Abrams £10, S Newman £10, G Mann £10, P Keen £5.
May: D Moore £25, D King £10, P Betts £10, J Harrison £10, J Armstrong £5.
White Colne Village History Group
Thanks to all of the villagers who helped to prepare for and participated in the Right Royal Tea Party on June 14th. Scarecrow making under the expert and patient guidance of Georgie Roy proved very popular with young and old, and our garden is now a rook free zone. The free cream teas and local ice cream went down well. A few visitors tried their hand at Petanque and quite a few joined in the treasure hunt. The Church looked wonderful adorned with flowers and there was interest in the techniques to help to read memorial inscriptions. The very difficult tabletop quiz was won with score of 4 out of 10 .
This event marked the completion of the main objectives of our grant funded project. The leaflet with the guided trails has been delivered to all households in the Parish. Further copies are available free from the leaflet dispenser at the hall.
The interpretation board at the hall and another on the Green aim to highlight some of the more interesting aspects of White Colne’s natural, built and social history. Also visit our website www.whitecolnehistory.co.uk.
As we have funds remaining we have gained approval to provide a further board interpreting the newly created Heritage Orchard on the Meadows. We would like to hear from you if you have any information or pictures showing the relevance of fruit growing in White Colne in the past, for inclusion on the new interpretation board.
Another leaflet is also proposed giving information on walks from White Colne to places which offer services or facilities; for example post offices, farm shops and maybe pubs (well actually mainly pubs!). The extension to the project is due to be completed by January 2009 and if anyone has any ideas on suitable walks or would like to get involved please contact us.
The group has been fortunate to have been lent the Deeds relating to the cottage now known as ‘10 percent Corner’. From these documents we have been able to record the previous owners and tenants of the former pair of cottages and Bake Office. This sort of information is invaluable to forming a picture of the built and social history of the village and I would urge anyone who has such documents to contact us so we can copy and transcribe them. This information is also very useful for people interested in family history research and we will be putting the transcribed information on our website as appropriate.
Sarah Adlem
Making Potholes History
A New Hi-
From 10th July residents in Harlow and Braintree districts are being encouraged to take part in a pilot project to improve their streets using the latest highway repair technology.
A new hi-
This pilot scheme, known as Responsive Accelerated Management Scheme or RAMI for short has been made possible by developments in technology such as “hotboxes”, which keep tarmac pliable and useable for longer on thermally insulated vehicles, the latest intelligent GPS devices with built in 3G technology and digital imaging.
So if you know of a pothole outside or near your house try out the hotline – let us know if it works!
Next event?
Although Parish Council work continues, the hardworking small band of volunteers
behind most of our events is taking a well-
However, please carry on enjoying the Meadows for your family games and picnics, or for just a gentle quiet stroll. If you are planning a family gathering please remember that you can hire tables and chairs from the hall for a small fee – the pop up gazebo is also available for hire. If your family party takes you up to the Meadows we can also arrange for you to hire the pavilion. The petanque court, football area and table tennis are always available free of charge – just turn up and enjoy a game.
A reminder again to dog walkers to clean up after their dogs – we know its only a few people who spoil it for everyone else. We are adopting a policy of zero tolerance for offenders and those of us with cameras on our mobile phones will be taking photographs to use as evidence.
Enjoy the summer, with plenty of sunshine -
Jane Taylor
PLANNING NEWS FROM THE MAY PARISH COUNCIL MEETING
PLANNING APPLICATIONS
(a) 08/00477/FUL Fox and Pheasant Cottage, 120-
(b) 08/00679/ful Part OS 7271 land to south of Colchester Road – temporary approval to site a mobile home on agricultural land to house an agricultural worker –
No objections subject to 1. neighbours’ views, 2.the temporary timescale is defined, 3. the building has an agricultural licence attached to it, 4. there is a condition to control lighting as it is in open countryside.
(C) 08/00727/ful 41 Colchester Road – demolition of house and garage and erection
of five detached houses with associated parking and amenity areas. Formation of private
drive and new vehicular access onto Colchester Road -
We still object to this proposal in its entirety for the following reasons which
were set out in our original comments:-
The houses on the site will overlook nearby properties with the resultant loss of
light and loss of privacy; five houses will cramp the site; there are not enough
parking spaces; there will be traffic problems with traffic coming in and out of
the site on the busy Colchester Road; there is already a problem with water drainage
in the area and these houses will make the problem worse; these properties would
cause further strain on the antiquated sewerage system; mature trees are to be cut
down which will affect other trees and the environment; the existing property is
of historical importance and should not be demolished and the parish council supports
the listing of this property; Plots 3, 4 and 5 are to be at the northern boundary
of the site and front the pedestrian access lane to Chalkney House and will encourage
vehicles to use this lane. An ecological survey is recommended for this site to consider
the effect of the cutting down of trees, together with the drainage and sewerage.
In addition we would make the further comments:-
(D) Tree Works Yew Tree Farm, Colne Park Road – No objections
(E) Tree works Cedar Lodge, 44 Colneford Hill – The tree warden’s report supporting this application was read out – No objections
(F) License Application Riverside Lodge, Colchester Road – We would hope that the previous licensing conditions of approval will apply to this latest application.
Full minutes of council meetings
Now that the web site is live, the full minutes of all council meetings will no longer
be published in this newsletter. They can be found by visiting the Public Documents
section of this web site -
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This lovely old scene shows York House 1900-
The photo was given to Sarah Adlem (who now lives in York House.) at our Heritage Day. If you have any old village photos you would like to share with us please get in touch.
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