The Staverton Waterside annual litterpick and community clear-up is taking place on Sunday May 27th at 10.30am. This year it’s a joint operation between Wiltshire Council and the local church. If you have any particular areas you’d like to see cleaned up, or if you’d like to join in, please send an email to trevor.carbin@wiltshire.gov.uk or call 01225 762032.Residents of Staverton are being invited to a Street Party on June 4th at Foxglove Drive in Hilperton. The event is being organised by the ‘One Love Community Group’ , which covers the Hilperton and Staverton sides of the canal.
One Love have received funding for the party from both Hilperton Parish Council and the Bradford Area Board.
“We the undersigned petition the council to use its powers to defend the rights of walkers and drivers on the footpaths and the highways in the vicinity of Holt Manor, and to require the removal of obstructions to the highway, and of misleading signage.”If you agree sign here (Wiltshire Council e-petition – select Holt Manor)
The petition has already cleared the 100 signatures mark – latest count (May 16th) is 140.
The ‘post and rail’ fence along the raised part of Thestfield Drive is continually getting damaged and having to be repaired. Staverton Parish Council have asked if it could be replaced by planting, which would be less easily damaged and would discourage people from taking short cuts down the slopes on either side of the road.
Wiltshire Council have suggested planting a beech hedge. The parish would have to pay for the removal of the wooden fence and planting of the hedge at a quoted cost of £1,400. Wiltshire Council would then maintain the hedge.
If you live in Holt and have any problems or concerns you’d like to discuss please come to my surgery on the first Thursday of the month from 6 to 7pm in the village hall surgery room. Next one July 5th. (No surgery in June).
In Staverton you can catch me at the mobile library visit to The Slipway – that’s 3.25 to 3.40 on alternate Fridays – next one May 25th.
Cottles Barton has some nice new bus stops and bus shelters, but currently has no buses. The service that will go round there is the existing service 68 town minibus which runs from Staverton to Trowbridge approximately once per hour.
Introduction of the new bus service has been delayed because one of the operators of service 68 has pulled out. WC is currently in the process of securing a replacement operator to continue the service from 2nd July. The replacement service will commence on 2nd July operating via Cottles Barton along with the other trips currently operated on bus 68 by Libra Travel.
Southern Electricity will be digging up Melksham Road in Holt from May 23rd to June 7th. There will be two-way traffic lights. They’ll also be in Staverton from 22nd to 24th May, this time using stop/go boards to control the traffic.
Following the speed limit review on A and B roads in the County Wiltshire Council is now going ahead with a £500,000 programme of implementing the changes, most of which involve reductions in legal limits.
In our area the advertisements and legal processes begin with publication of the notices in the Wiltshire Times next week (Friday 18th). The consultation closes on June 11th. If all goes well, implementation will be in September.
W/12/00509/FUL 19/3/12 – Cumberwell Park Golf Club – Extension to existing clubhouse with associated landscaping and groundworks – permitted.
W/12/00393/FUL 5/3/12 – Ellbridge Farm - Erection of livestock and farm storage shed and relocation of existing loose boxes – permitted.
Recent planning applications and decisions in Monkton Farleigh
W/12/00776/FUL 26/4/12 – 17 Dry Arch Bath Road Farleigh Wick - Rear extension to provide new Kitchen Dining room.
W/11/03227/FUL 8/12/11 – 30 Pinckney Green - Demolition of single storey extension and construction of two storey pitched roof extension – permitted.
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