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17th January 201227th November 2015

Interested in half a pig?

Halved pig They go in on a Monday and are available to collect from noon on Thursday. Each half pig weighs about 35kg and storage space of 60cm x 40 cm x 20 cm – two shelves should be OK.

Price: £2.90/kg or about £97 / half pig.

You have the choice of how they are cut and bagged. Common choices are:

Leg: – joints ( any size ), diced, ham or gammon.
Shoulder: – joints, diced, sausages, burgers or collar bacon.
Loin: – chops, steaks or joints. Back bacon: smoked or green.
Tenderloin: whole 9oz strip.
Hand & Belly: – makes approx’ 18 packs of sausages (8 / pack), you choose the flavour. The belly could be left as a strip, made into BBQ ribs or streaky bacon. The hand may be diced for casseroles.

Sausages and burgers are £1.90 / kg extra. Flavours normally available are: plain, Old English, Cumberland, Pork & Leek, Tomato & Basil, Garlic Chilli and Fennel – be warned theses are hot, Pork & Apricot, Pork & Apple.

Bacon, gammon and ham are £2.30 / kg extra and take 2 weeks.

The bones, liver, kidney and heart are yours if you would like them.

If you have further questions or to place an order please contact:

Kate Gladwin 01206 735 694 [email protected]

11th January 201227th November 2015

Beauty & the Beast

beauty-and-the-beast Beauty and the Beast by Stuart Arden adapted for the Peldon Players, will be performed in Peldon Village Hall for 5 performances; Wed 25 to Sat 28 Jan starting at 7.30pm and running to about 9.50pm. The Saturday Matinee starts at 2.30 pm and should be over by 4.50pm.

The two Saturday performances are already sold out with a waiting list, a few tickets remain for Thursday and Friday nights with plenty still available for Wednesday but we do tend to sell out so it is best to contact Mel Newton on Email: [email protected] Tel: 01206 736118/07738 000378 if you fancy coming along.

Prices are:

Adults – Wed & Thu – £5.00; Fri & Sat – £7.00
Concessions – Wed & Thu – £3.50; Fri & Sat – £5.00 (OAPs, children 14 and under)

Adapted and Directed by Alison Biegel, Angela Buckley and Mel Newton, this annual entertainment has been a part of the village calendar for 25 years, involves local residents from 7 to 70 and is a terrific way to spend a dreary January evening. Oh yes it is!

10th January 201227th November 2015

Church Lane closure January 2012

The portion of School Lane running from Drakes Corner on the Maldon Road up to the lane to the church (variously called Church Lane or St Stephen’s Lane) will be closed for five days from 23^rd January 2012. BT are doing overhead cabling works.

18th July 201127th November 2015

Peldon Village Hall – annual report

Home made sausage rolls The annual report and accounts of the Peldon Village Hall management committee are now online to review on the Peldon Village Hall webpage. Reviewing the year the committee’s chairman, Keith Banks, considers the progress made towards building of a new Village Hall as well as the huge amount of work needed going forward to turn it into a reality. He gives thanks to volunteers perhaps the most notable being 79-year-old Ethel Miller who, whilst standing down from the committee, still intends volunteering as a cleaner and regular provider of home made cheese straws and sausage rolls. Yum!

10th June 20118th December 2015

The 79th 5 Parishes Show 2011

Reservoir News Update

res-update-mar11 The Parish Council has been awarded a grant from the project’s Community Fund to help improve the Parish Council website and to incorporate up-to-the-minute Reservoir Development news within it, so keep checking on www.winstred100.org for more updates as we invest this money. To find out more about how the project is progressing and how wildlife is being affected, you can download the project’s quarterly newsletter here or read the following précis.

Following a period of bad weather with exceptional snow and rain, the predicetd finish date for the project has been put back a couple of months since some ‘critical path’ tasks were unable to be completed. Nevertheless, work has now resumed all over the site including the new section of the B1026 and ballast extraction at Rye Farm pit together with clay extraction at Blind Knights borrow pit. More material is being carted to the main dam, by the Layer/Abberton Road, as this becomes wider and taller.

The temporary off-take pumps will soon be working to pump the water to the treatment works, this will enable the old pump building to be altered so that various vital bits are not underwater when the level goes up. The causeway on the B1026 will soon have a large hole in it (hopefully not in the lane that the traffic is using) so that the culvert under the road can be strengthened. Soon some of the concrete facing of this causeway will be removed allowing the whole thing to be widened.

The pipeline that will help supply the enlarged reservoir is being put in place very soon. They are starting at the Layer Church and Wormingford ends simultaneously and, using the wonders of modern mapping, will meet by the A12.

This winter there have been more birds than expected using the reservoir, including a rare Water Rail (RSPB estimate less than 1,400 breeding pairs in the UK). Others seen include Bewick’s swans, smew, goosander , gadwall, goldeneye, pochard, black-tailed godwit, curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe, a turnstone, a bearded tit and bittern.

11th March 201127th November 2015

NEW 2011/12 Recycling Calendar out now

As in previous years Colchester residents are now receiving a copy of the new 2011/12 recycling calendar in the post with their Council Tax bill. This year deliveries will be made between 9 and 18 March. The recycling calendar applies from April 2011 onwards unless you use communal recycling and rubbish bins. Please look out for your calendar and help Colchester recycle even more this year. The Calendar includes information on:

what you can recycle in blue and green weeks
when and how to put your recycling out for collection
the enhanced garden waste collection of up to 8 sacks from 1 November 2011

Visit www.colchester.gov.uk/recycling for information and online services to help you reduce, reuse and recycle your rubbish, home compost and much more. Alternatively email [email protected] or phone 01206 282700. The Recycling Calendar can be viewed online where you can print replacement copies. It is also available at a range of outlets across the borough including the Customer Service Centre on Colchester High Street. You can also go online to find information on when rolls of recycling and rubbish bags will be delivered to households (except to flats with communal bins), and find where to get more recycling boxes, bags and sacks.

For collection news, handy tips and local events register online for the Recycling and Waste E-Newsletter and ‘like‘ Recycle for Colchester on facebook.

Thank you for recycling your rubbish!

27th February 201127th November 2015

Peldon Village Hall Update

pvh-new-designs The Peldon Village Hall Management Committee have recently been awarded a further £15,000 of grant funding towards the new Village Hall project. To find out more about the hall, the renewal project and to see the designs of the proposed new building (thumbnails on right) check out their webpage on this site. Also remember to keep your eyes open for fund-raising events listed on our home page event calendar.

21st February 201127th November 2015

Affordable Housing Review

The Housing Needs Survey report published after surveys and interviews in September 2010 is now available to read by clicking the link above. This report was prepared by the Rural Community Council of Essex (RCCE) following several discussions with Winstred Hundred Parish Council and surveys in each of the three communities within the Parish. Parish Councillors have no access to the information contained on individual survey questionnaires.

A closed workshop will take place towards the end of March 2011 to give Councillors an opportunity to explore together the mass of data contained in the report and to decide whether they feel the recommendations made by RCCE are valid conclusions based on that data.

Unless the workshop throws up unforeseen problems the subject of Affordable Housing will be on the Agenda for the Parish Council meeting to be held at 19:30 on 12th April 2011 in Salcott Village Hall. Following our usual practice there will be an opportunity then for members of the public to ask questions and comment. The Council will then decide whether to support in principle the recommendations of the report.