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!
The 79th 5 Parishes Show 2011
Sponsored by 
Sunday, 7th August 11.00 a.m -5.00 p.m
THE FINGRINGHOE RANGES
(By kind permission of the Commander Defence Training Estate East)
Attractions include:
Medieval Combat Display team- Tall Guy (Country & Western)
- Colchester Birds of Prey
- Suffolk Kite Flyers
- Colchester Model Flying Club
- Tendring Dog Agility Display Team
- Annie’s Fantasies
- Suffolk Punches
- Carriage Display
- East Anglian Fighting Vehicles
- Colchester History Alive
- Horse Show
- Exemption Dog Show
- Go Karts
- Mega Slide
- Archery
- Licensed Bar
- Lazer Shooting
- Horticultural Marquee (Entries on Saturday, 6th August)
- Food Stalls
- Over 60 Stalls and Side Shows
Main show schedules available as PDF download (print 2-sided on A4 to make A5 booklet) or from:- Sally Abbott –Tel : 01206 735931
Horse show schedules from:
- Linda May –Tel: 01206 735552
Dog show contact
- Jinny Gale – 01206 735846
FREE CAR PARKING
ENTRANCE £5.00 CONCESSIONS £4.00 CHILDREN £1.00
Wigborough Traditional Meats – Newsletter
Reservoir News Update
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.
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/
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!
Peldon Village Hall Update
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.
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.
(Free) Trees for Years 2011
Trees for Years 2011 will be taking place on Saturday 22nd January. The free trees will be given away from the Council Offices car park at Rowan House in
The trees will be available between 10am – 3pm. Trees must be planted on private ground. Cultivation guidance will be available. Postcode and housenumber will be recorded to monitor the distribution of the trees in
This year’s theme is fruit and nut and the following species will be available.
- Raspberry canes
- Blackcurrant canes
- Redcurrant
- Strawberry
- Pear communis – Pear
- Corylus avellana – Hazel cob nut
- Betula pendula – Silver Birch
- Quercus robur – Oak
- Acer campestre – Field Maple
For further information please email David Carter, Parks Development Officer, or telephone 01206 508632
Road Closure – Abberton Road, Langenhoe
Essex County Council has announced the temporary closure of Abberton Road, in the Parish of Langenhoe, from its junction with B1025 Mersea Road to its junction with Fingringhoe Road.
The closure is scheduled to commence on 9 November 2010 for 1 day and is required for the safety of the public and workforce whilst carriageway resurfacing works are undertaken.
The alternative route will be via 81025 Mersea Road – Fingringhoe Road and vice versa. Access for emergency service vehicles and pedestrians will be maintained at all times during the closure.
New Village Hall for Peldon
Following the meeting we held in February, our latest plans for a new village hall for Peldon will be on display at an open meeting and coffee morning on
between
in the Village Hall
Since February, when there was general agreement to the internal layout of the new hall, our architects have been considering alternative designs for the exterior of the building, taking into account views of the planners at Colchester Borough Council. Our architects and members of the management committee will be present and will welcome comments from all interested parties on the latest proposals.
We look forward to welcoming you all
Peldon Village Hall Management Committee