Wickham Skeith Newsletter October 2021
~ DATES FOR YOUR DIARY ~
All meetings & events in Village Hall unless stated otherwise
October 2021 Friday 1st Saturday 2nd Wednesday 6th Saturday 9th Tuesday 12th Wednesday 13th Wednesday 20th Wednesday 20th Thursday 21st Wednesday 27th Sunday 31st
Macmillan Cancer Coffee Morning 10-12 noon Book/jigsaw sale and coffee morning 10am 1, Broadway Tea & Chat 2-4pm All Welcome Crafternoon 2-4pm Hilltop Women’s Group 7.45pm Lunch Club 12 for 12.30 Advance Bookings Please Tea & Chat 2-4pm All Welcome Slide show – Wickham Skeith 100 years ago 7.45 pm Mobile Library van - 2 stops @ 9.45 and 10.05 am Tea & Chat 2-4pm All Welcome Halloween Treasure Hunt 3-5pm All Welcome
November 2021 Wednesday 3rd Monday 8th Wednesday 17th Thursday 18th Saturday 20th Saturday 20th
Tea & Chat 2-4pm All Welcome Parish Council 8pm All Welcome History Group talk – Wickham Skeith in the 1950s Mobile Library van - 2 stops @ 9.45 and 10.05 am Stir-up Saturday starts at 10am Village Quiz
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It's been great to have the Hall back in use again. The Lunch Club and Hilltops events were just the reminders that people needed of how important the Village Hall is as a social gathering and meeting place. Thanks are due this month to Nigel for the detailed, excellent, walking treasure hunt around the village-surely something we can repeat at other times of the year? The winners were Graham and Rosemary who have moved into Paul and Cathy Wright's house opposite Kitchen Close. Well-done to them beating around a dozen other groups who entered. A date for your diary, if it isn't already there, is the return of the Village Quiz on Saturday 20th November. There will be the usual rounds of intriguing and challenging questions set by Bamber Merriam for teams of SIX members. The cost of £7.50 per person will provide a cold collation-ploughman's style-on a central platter at each table to reduce the amount of movement around the hall. The bar will be open of course and we hope for a good turnout of keen quizzers. Get your team organised and entered as soon as you can please. We have two dates earmarked in December-the Family Christmas Party on Saturday 18th December and the Plum Pudding Walk on Wednesday 28th December. The latter should be on a replacement Bank Holiday so hopefully many folk will not have returned to work. And finallyStay Safe
Tea and Chat Tea and Chat returns from 2pm to 4pm every Wednesday of the month, unless there is a Lunch Club!
£1 gets you unlimited tea or coffee, biscuits, possibly even cake, endless chat. It's amazing what you can find out!
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Starting on Wednesday 6th October do pop into the village hall, meet neighbours, new and old, and share a cup of tea. All welcome including well behaved dogs.
~VILLAGE HALL COMMITTEE NEWS ~
Support Your Village Hall – Relaunch of 59 Club The 59 Club is a fun way to support your Village Hall. As the 49 Club it has been single-handedly run by Jeanne Mason who has raised thousands of pounds over 15 years. This money has been used for new chairs, insurance costs etc. She has now handed over the baton to me & we are relaunching it as the 59 Club. The costs of running the Village Hall are increasing so your support is essential. How does it work? 1. Members pay £1 per week in advance, preferably by quarterly or annually standing order. 2. Members are allocated a number & if that number is drawn as the bonus ball in the National Lottery Saturday draw, they win £30 (increased from £25 from Sat 2 Oct). 3. If you are already a paying member there’s nothing you need to do. 3. There are vacant numbers available. Contact me if you would like to join this worthwhile cause. 4. There are also some numbers allocated in the past which are no longer being paid for. If those former members would like to rejoin, please let me know by 31 Oct otherwise the number will be re-allocated. Although I will be organising the club on a day-to-day basis, I will be assisted by 2 members of the Village Hall Committee (Will Elphick & Harriet Bowes). For more information contact: Pete Davidson
01449 766622/07951 020998
pjdavidson42@gmail.com
Recent winning numbers: 41, 34, 39, 12
All bookings of the Village Hall and its equipment should go to: Gill Colchester Telephone 01379 788040 or Mobile 07850 641233 Email. gillyano@live.co.uk Hourly rate: £8.00 The rate is per hour or part thereof. Minimum booking period 2 hrs. Day rate (24-hour period): £85.00. 25% reduction in rate for Wickham Skeith residents and Wickham Skeith village groups and organisations. Official bodies (e.g., elections): £200.00 per day. A 30 minute "warming up" period will be allowed in cold weather conditions.
~NEWS FROM THE CLUBS~ ‘Crafternoon’ Saturday 9th October– Wickham Skeith Village Hall 2.00 – 4.00p.m. Come along, show & tell! Whatever your art or craft bring along your current project. Share skills, ideas, tips and techniques. Inspire and be inspired in the company of other creative people. If you have an ‘arty’ or ‘crafty’ friend then bring them too. Surplus art/craft items & books to sell? Bring them for the bring and buy table. Entry: £2.00 per person (inc. tea/coffee/biscuits). Adequate space to be sociable and yet maintain social distancing.
Lunch Club I am so pleased to report that, after so many months of sadly having to cancel Lunch Club, we were finally able to hold our grand reopening in September. It was great to see so many familiar faces and also to welcome some new members too. In all, 31 of us met and many thanks must go to Lynne Baines who cooked us a fantastic roast dinner with all the trimmings and to Margaret Jones-Evans who cooked a delicious plum crumble. Of course, we rely on a large team of volunteers and last month’s team included Will Elphick, Mel Rowe, Peter and Mary Paine, and Dave Challinor. Thanks also to Wickham Hall for the donation of Victoria plums and Kevin Knights for the wonderful collection of vegetables grown on his allotment. We also celebrated Liz and Peter Davidson’s Golden Wedding (a delayed event due to Covid) and enjoyed seeing photos of the slightly younger couple on their wedding day! Thanks Peter and Liz for kindly funding our dinner on the day. We now look forward to our next Lunch club on 13th October 2021 for which there will be the usual price of £3.50. Please arrive at 12.00 for a meal at 12.30pm In order for us to cater for the correct numbers can I please ask that anyone wishing to attend should book a place by the 8 th October by phone, text or email, contact details below: Jenny Elphick - Tel 01449 766885, Mobile 07745416091 or email jenny.elphick@sim.org
~NEWS FROM THE CLUBS & OTHER EVENTS ~
Macmillan Coffee Morning Friday 1st October from 10-12 noon Wickham Skeith Village hall We know it is a week late, but any money raised will be just as welcome! Please bring along any donations of cake, produce, money etc., on the morning, or hand it in beforehand to Margaret Knights or Sue Merriam . Our little village always raises a super amount for this wonderful charity. Shall we do it again? Looking forward to seeing you.
Hilltop Women’s Group Everyone agreed that our 50th celebration was a success! It was so good to actually hold the event, and to meet up with friends old and new. The minutes from the very first meeting were read by Liz Govan, and it seems that any doubts that were expressed 50 years ago about the club being successful, have been squashed! Still going strong, holding a monthly meeting for members and friends, usually in the village hall, but we've had some great visits and days away too. Thanks to all who came and to the hard work behind the scenes from all the committee. So...here we go again... On Tuesday October 12th, we open the doors for a meeting starting at 7.45, with guest speaker Freddie Vaudrey. Part of the Frogs Farm team. Come and find out how it was all started. Members will be £1.00 and guests will be £3.00. Tea and biscuits and Raffle ...... of course!!! Any queries – Margaret Knights rosecottageflowers@hotmail.co.uk 01449 767708 Sue Merriam 01449 766222 Looking forward to seeing you .
~HISTORY NOTES~ History Group is Back! We are pleased to announce that History Group will be restarting in the Village Hall on Wed 20 Oct at 19.45. Membership is free – entry fee £2 (children under 16 free) to include refreshments. Some of those who have moved into the village in the last few years have expressed an interest in the history of Wickham Skeith. We hope to welcome some new members to join our band of regulars. To that end we will be having presentations on various aspects of the history of the village for our 1 st four meetings before starting to book outside speakers from March 2022. The provisional programme is: Wed 20 Oct A Wander Round Wickham Skeith 100 years Ago. Using a slide show of images from old postcards, we will take an imaginary walk around the village in the early 1900s. See below for more info. Wed 17 Nov Nigel Merriam will give an illustrated talk on Wickham Skeith in the 1950s. Wed 19 Jan Alistair Govan will show some of the videos from his extensive collection showing life & events in Wickham Skeith. Wed 16 Feb Pete Davidson will talk about Barnardo’s Children in Wickham Skeith 1890–1950 . As our October meeting will draw on our extensive collection of images from postcards I thought I’d say a little on the history of postcards & why they were so popular in the early 1900s. Although picture postcards were produced before the end of the 19 th century, they really took off in 1902 with the introduction of the so-called “divided back” card. These had a picture on the front while the back had a line down the middle to enable the address to be written on the right & a short message on the left. The postage cost was ½d compared with 1d for letters (there were 240d to the £). As there were several daily deliveries (parts of London had over 6 deliveries a day!) postcards were the equivalent of emails & text messages today. With good reason, the period between 1902 and 1914 is known as the Golden Age of the postcard. Even a small village like ours had well over 50 different postcards published. Many were of the Green, especially including the photogenic windmill, but others were of individual buildings such as the Grange, Summerseat, the Post Office, the White House etc. Perhaps the most attractive are those including children. The facing page shows one of these as a taster for what you will be able to see on 20 Oct. Pete Davidson pjdavidson42@gmail.com
Children by the Grimmer 1925/6
~OTHER EVENTS~
Halloween Treasure Hunt 31st October 2021 from 3pm to-5pm Starting from the village hall and going around the village. Use the clues to find the letters and complete the word for a treat. £5 per family/couple Prize for best costume – under 8 and under 16. May be useful to bring a torch or lantern To allow children to ‘Trick or Treat’ around the village could we ask, if you are happy for them to come to your house, please place a pumpkin outside visible from the road.
Thornham Film Night Friday 15th October 7.30pm showing SUPERNOVA, a modern-day love story starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci. Early booking advised at films@thornhams.org, prebooked tickets only - £5 on the door.
Thornham Autumn Fair Sunday 24th October 2021 | Thornham Magna Village Hall 11am–4pm | Free entry + VIP Guest. In aid of the refurbishment of our lovely village hall. Homemade Treats & Crafts + Posh Tombola + Grand Autumn Raffle Fabulous Fudge + Dried Flowers + Handmade Jewellery Homemade Nibbles
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Nature Notes Since the query in the last newsletter hedgehogs have been reported in three locations in the village. One rather gruesome report told of a stationary hedgehog seen on the front lawn. On investigation, thinking it was a sickly animal, it was found to be just the skin where the animal had been cleanly scooped out. Badgers & foxes are known to do this. With autumn, any hedgehogs that have survived predation (whether by cars or foxes) will be seeking hibernation places. Please check bonfire piles before setting alight.
Hedgehog photo from CPRE Hedgerow campaign report
Mobile Library Van The Suffolk Mobile Library van calls every four weeks on a Thursday. Its first stop is the lay-by outside the chalet bungalows, from 9.45 to 10am. The second stop is outside Haymead House in The Street from 10.05 to 10.20. It is free to join. Come to the van with proof of identification or complete an online form Books can be ordered online or browsed for on the van and can be borrowed for eight weeks. Next dates are Thursday 21st October and 18th November
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Thank you Many thanks to everyone who helped, and offered help, in a variety of ways and also to those who have been enquiring as to my general welfare, either personally or indirectly, both during and after the fire at Hall Farm on August Bank Holiday Monday. Your ongoing support has been much appreciated during this upsetting time. Once again, the power of kindness has been shown in this village. Thank you all Romaine
Sue Mayers It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Sue Mayers, after a long illness. She lived in our village for 30 years and was an active member of Hilltops, the Village Hall and the Church. Molly Gurney, her mother, aged 102, also died two days before her. She was brought into our village by Sue and was one of the first residents of St. Andrew's Close. Our sympathy goes out to Chris and his family.
Suffolk Churches Ride & Stride Many thanks to all who sponsored me. It was a very pleasant day - I managed 20 churches & 37 miles. I was able to raise nearly £250 – if you would like to sponsor me retrospectively, please contact me by Wed 13 Oct. Of the money raised, 50% goes to the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust & 50% to St Andrews to be spent on the building fabric of the church. A special thank you to all those who sat in the church to welcome cyclists with the offer of a drink & a biscuit. It was noticeable this year that quite a few small village churches had not opened & I had to sign myself in, so well-done Wickham Skeith! Pete Davidson
~ S T. A N D R E W ’ S C H U R C H ~ Church of England, Wickham Skeith Facebook: @bactonbenefice Rector: The Revd Carl Melville, The Rectory, Bacton, IP14 4LJ 01449 781650, email: carlmelville@hotmail.com Wardens: Liz Davidson 766622 and Margaret Jones-Evans 767121 For all enquiries about baptisms and weddings, please contact the Rector. Services in October 2021 3rd October 10th October 17th October 24th October 31st October For other benefice
All services at 9.30am unless otherwise stated All Age Communion Café Church in the village hall Holy Communion Family Service 10.00am Benefice service at Wyverstone services, please view our Facebook page.
Services – our service pattern has changed. We hope that our services and pattern will be more friendly to all ages and offer something for everyone. In Wickham Skeith 1st Sundays will be an All Age Communion, suitable for the whole family. 2nd Sundays we will hold Café Church in the village hall. This is a relaxed short service with a café set up. Enjoy coffee, breakfast nibbles and chat. 3rd Sundays will be our traditional Holy Communion. 4th Sundays will be our Family Service. A short 45 minute service which will include everyone. 5th Sundays will rotate round the benefice churches (see notice board & newsletter for details of these) If you’ve not been to one of our services before, why not try it. You’ll get a warm welcome! The Benefice – the benefice (group of churches) covers the villages of Old Newton and Gipping, Cotton, Wickham Skeith, Bacton and Wyverstone. We all share the same Rector and Ministry Team who lead our services and provide pastoral care. For all enquiries about baptisms, weddings, visits, funerals and so on, please contact your local Churchwarden or the Rector. Evensong – once a month, Gipping Chapel hosts an afternoon service of Evening Prayer (Evensong). It is a peaceful, relaxing service which uses the Book of Common Prayer. We welcome all ages to join us – why not give it a go? Diddy Disciples – a short service for parents and tots, 10.30am at Bacton Church, followed by refreshments. Oct 6th and 20th, Nov 3rd and 17th. All welcome. Harvest – thanks to everyone who made the church look so beautiful for Harvest and to everyone who donated tins of food for the Stowmarket Foodbank. The Benefice is no longer operating the separate BOB food bank. Any items still with Margaret or Sue have been added to the harvest collection. A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed so much over so many months. Stowmarket food bank continues to help families in need and this church and the village hall will continue to support it with the red boxes.
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Flower & Cleaning Rota Sept 26 & Oct 3rd Miss M Jones-Evans & Mrs J Keable Oct 10th & 17th Mr & Mrs P Paine Oct 24th & 31st Mrs J Kemp & Mrs S Merriam Nov 7th & 14th Mrs E Davidson th
Weekly Email and News – if you’d like to sign up to receive our weekly news email, please contact a Warden or the Rector Benefice Diary Dates 8th Oct, No More Tiers Concert, Cotton Church, 7.30pm 24th Oct, 6.30pm, Candlelit Communion at Cotton 4th Dec, Coffee Morning at Gipping
Rector’s Ramblings I often get asked why I go to Church. In some sense the answer is obvious: because I’m a vicar! However, people come to church for a variety of reasons. We go to church to worship. We believe God created us and loves us deeply. Our response to that overwhelming love is one of worship, prayer and praise. Sometimes this is lively and bubbly, sometimes it is more reflective. We believe that the worship of God is the full purpose of our lives. The church is a place to encounter God. Of course, God is everywhere at all times, but the church building has been a place of worship and prayer for hundreds of years. The windows, doors, altar and all the furnishings speak of a community who have sought God for years and years. The building represents the faith and spirituality of the whole village. Our buildings are open daily for private prayer, to look round at the history or seem to enjoy the peace and quiet. It’s a hub for social interaction and community building. Coming together to worship, sing and listen, as well as all the social activities that take place, helps to build up a community. The church acts as a space to reinforce our shared humanity, values and beliefs. We are built up and reenergised. Some find that coming to church, as a believer or not, allows them to use their skills, talents and gifts, find acceptance and to be built up in body, mind and soul. At the end of each service we are sent out into the world to model the life and example of Jesus – for that we need God’s strength and love. “The fundamental business of life is worship. At the root of all your being, your intellectual studies, the games you play, whatever it is, the impulse to do them well is and ought to be understood as being an impulse towards God, the source of all that is excellent. All life ought to be worship; and we know quite well there is no chance it will be worship unless we have times when we have worship and nothing else.” Archbishop William Temple (1881–1944) Never been to church before? Why not come along and find out why you should be coming to church? The Revd Carl Melville
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The Open Gardens Weekend Huge thanks to everyone who was involved in any way with the weekend. The organ recital on 18th, Saturday evening, was just lovely, the organist, Peter Godden, kindly played for the church service on Sunday here too and got us all singing at our best. Then we moved into the afternoon with inspiring gardens kindly opened – there is always something new to learn. A nice cup of tea and cake went down well and visitors bought lots of jam and chutney, gardening books, jigsaws, handmade cards and art. £523 was raised for FOSA (Friends of St Andrew’s Church) on Sunday and £400 was shared with Bacton Church after Saturday’s recital. Mini savoury snack bags Anyone who can use crisps/Cheeselets/bagels etc in mini bags please get in touch with Liz Davidson 766622. The next book/jigsaw sale and coffee morning at 10am on Saturday 2nd October. There are lots of excellent books and jigsaws ready for you. Do come and buy because this needs to be the last sale until the warmer weather next year. No fun with all the doors and windows open in winter. You need a good supply of books and jigsaws for the winter so do come. Carrier bags will be available. At Margaret’s 1, Broadway 767121 Everyone very welcome. The Christmas Pudding Stir-up on Saturday 20th November 10am at the Village Hall Father Christmas has agreed once more to direct the stirrers as they mix a WI-recipe Christmas pudding. Tea/Coffee, mince pies and a cake will be available for the audience but if you’d prefer - just arrive from 11.30am with your pudding bowl. We’ll have bowls available to buy too and you will steam the pudding at home to put aside until it’s re-steamed on Christmas Day. At the Village Hall 10am to 12md. 767121 with queries or if you’d like a pudding delivered to your home. The church is now open from 10am to 4pm every day do please visit. The BoB Food bank has now closed for donations of food and we shall return to supporting the Stowmarket Food Bank with a red box in the village hall and another box in the church. Over the past eighteen months, while the Stowmarket food bank was overwhelmed, your donations were distributed to needy families around this benefice. Thank you all so much for all that you have given but remember the need hasn’t gone away – please put something for a family, children, their pets or an older person struggling with the benefits system in one of the boxes. We shall make sure that it is delivered to the Food Bank. All of the contributions at our Harvest Service, including monetary, on Sunday 26th will go to the Stowmarket Food Bank. Thank you all for your help in so many ways – Margaret Jones-Evans 767121
~ W I C K HAM S K E I T H PAR I S H C O U N C I L ~ MINUTES of PARISH COUNCIL MEETING held MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021 at the Village Hall, Wickham Skeith. Present: Cllrs T Thorogood (Chair), K Knights, R Palmer, M Appleby, J Keable. Clerk: H Roberts. Also present: District Cllr Warboys, County Cllr Stringer. Apologies received and accepted from: Cllr Rowe. 1
13/09/21: Chairman’s Welcome.
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13/09/21: a). To receive members’ Declarations of Interest on Agenda items. Cllr Knights declared a nonpecuniary interest in the discussion about the Land West of Grange Road. b). To consider requests for dispensations. None received.
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13/09/21: The minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 12th July 2021 were approved. It was noted that future minutes should be clearly marked as ‘draft’ prior to approval (for example, if published in the village newsletter).
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13/09/21: Village Forum 4.1 13/09/21: A representative from the architects for planning application DC/21/02582, Land West of Grange Road, attended and presented some alternative designs for possible amendments to the application. Councillors summarised their previously expressed concerns about the previous applications for the development of the site, several of which it was felt would still apply to the amended designs presented. The Council did not, and could not, give a final view on the proposed amendments.
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13/09/21: To receive reports from County and District Councillors, Police, Parish Clerk and Parish Councillors: 5.1 13/09/21: SCC: Cllr Stringer’s report was received. A copy is available on the Council’s website, along with these minutes. Main points: 5.1.1 5.1.2 5.1.3 5.1.4
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An update on the Suffolk Climate Emergency Plan Review of Special Educational Needs and Disability provision Suffolk’s expression of interest in discussions with Government on Devolution for Suffolk Zero carbon battle bus visiting Suffolk
Cllr Appleby noted that in the climate change strategy there seemed to be little promotion to encourage changes in behaviour, such as turning central heating down. 5.2 13/09/21: MSDC: Cllr Warboys’ report was received. A copy is available on the Council’s website, along with these minutes. Main points:
MSDC announcement of help for Afghan refugees Taxi licensing review Solar carport in Stowmarket Compost giveaway events in September Locality awards Mental health and wellbeing campaign Reporting anti-social behaviour Local Energy showcase events in October.
Cllr Knights said he hoped it would be noted that the lack of infrastructure, such as no bus route, was having an impact on the ability of the District Council to house refugees. 5.3 and 5.4 13/09/21 Parish Clerk (including Police report). The Clerk presented his report, including actions since the last meeting: an update on the village green land registration, the options for electric vehicle charge points, the Automated Number Plate Recognition pilot, and the defibrillator. A copy is available on the Council website.
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13/09/21: Community Speed Watch. This was already discussed under the Clerk’s report. It was agreed the Clerk would approach two households near the Speed Indicator Device post for their consent for the Automated Number Plate Recognition pilot.
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13/09/21: General Data Protection Regulation. The Clerk reported he was still working on new drafts of these policies having received notes from Cllr Palmer.
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13/09/21: Community Emergency Plan. This was discussed under the Clerk’s report. It was agreed the Clerk would arrange a video conference meeting of councillors and village volunteer reps to review the Emergency Plan. Cllr Keable suggested the inclusion of more information on flooding risk, and that the plan might recommend the purchase of sandbags by the Council.
13/09/21: Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations 2022. Cllr Knights asked if there as any funding available. Cllr Stringer there may be free road closures. It was noted that the Queen’s Canopy scheme would fund tree planting. Several ideas were discussed: a pop-up pub, moving the power wires from over the village green and planting trees. The Chair asked councillors to give thought to more ideas.
13/09/21: Correspondence Received. A summary of the correspondence received is available as part of the Clerk’s report on the Council website. Main points:
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The Mendlesham Neighbourhood Plan Consultation new deadline was noted. Registration of defibrillator with NHS database. Babergh and Mid Suffolk Joint Local Plan Notice of Commencement of Examination Hearing, 22nd September. MSDC: Parking Strategy Consultation. Published on website. 13/09/21 Finance 7.1 13/09/21: The RFO presented the Statement of Account as of 31st August 2021 (along with a copy of latest bank statement), which was reviewed and approved.
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7.2 13/09/21: RFO report and insurance review. The RFO presented their report. A copy is available on the Council website. The insurance cover and renewal was reviewed and approved. 7.3 13/09/21: Invoices for Approval. The following invoice was approved: 8
Insurance reviewal: £210.67 13/09/21: Planning
8.1. 13/09/21: Planning application DC/21/04804: Erection of 1no. two storey dwelling and construction of new vehicular access. Location: The Orchard, Kitchen Close, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk. After some discussion about the preservation of views of the Church, the open green space, and access visibility, the Council supported this application. 8.2. 13/09/21: Planning application: DC/21/04539: Householder application - Installation of air source heat pump heating system. Installation of 2no external units of 0.55 cubic metres volume. Location: Jacks Barn, The Green, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk IP23 8LX. After some discussion, the Council supported this application. 8.3. 13/09/21: The Council noted planning application: DC/21/04103: Householder Planning Application - Erection of two bay cartlodge, Erection of single storey extensions (following demolition of lean to building), external alterations as detailed in the Schedule of Works and Design and Access Statement. Alterations to existing vehicular access. Location: Willow House, The Street, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk IP23 8LP. 13/09/21: The Council noted planning application: DC/21/04116: Application for Listed Building Consent Erection of single storey extensions (following demolition of lean to building), internal and external alterations as detailed in the Schedule of Works and Design and Access Statement. Location: Willow House, The Street, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk IP23 8LP. 9 13/09/21: Working Parties: Village Green. Cllr Knights reported there would be an update at the next meeting. 10. 13/09/21: Matters for next agenda 8th November 2021 Cllr Appleby raised the issue of blocked footpaths and footbridges. Cllr Stringer agreed to report the two instances to Suffolk Highways and notify the Clerk of the report numbers. Cllr Appleby suggested a footpath map might be displayed on the village noticeboard.
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Village Website For information about Wickham Skeith, the Parish Council, and updates on events, visit the village website at https://wickhamskeith.suffolk.cloud/ Many thanks to Stephen McKie and Julie Sore for maintaining this and to our Parish Clerk, Huw Roberts, for keeping the parish council information updated.
And finally... Please send all your village news and adverts for next month’s newsletter to: melinda.appleby@mypostoffice.co.uk or call 01449 766879 By 25th October 2021
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