Giving Local support
Coleby Play Area
Well done all involved in this brilliant new play area, which I helped to open this week. Star of the show was our own Kirsty Moore, ex Coleby School Pupil and the first woman Red Arrows pilot - what an inspiration!
Congratulations to Nocton and Dunston
Nocton had a great village fete which included a produce
show and scarecrow competition where they gave me a tough time judging!
Dunston’s huge Scarecrow weekend raised a staggering £2,400 for the Church. Pictures on their new website. www.dunstondossier.org.uk
Lives
The new Cliff Villages LIVES continue to gather excellent volunteers and more funds to save lives. Thanks for your support of the coffee morning which raised £363.
Coleby Ball
This was, as always a brilliant event raising substantial funds for the village.
Relate & LCC
Relate are “the relationship people”, with over 70 years experience. Relate Lincolnshire, where I am a Trustee, won a bid for £¼m from national government in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) to help families regain their lives.
This contributed to LCC winning the highest score in the country for the service of safeguarding children. Working on the committee improving the service prior to assessment and on the panel being assessed, I was impressed with the contribution made by young people themselves when we gave them a “front seat”
Relate was also shortlisted in National Awards for its pioneering work on “Relate for Parents” and won the prestigious Charity Times Award for the Best Use of Technology and shortlisted for best use of the web, important in our rural areas. www.relate.org.uk Tel 01522 524 922
Bus services
More than 150 people signed the petition which I presented to Dave Skepper, Operations Manager for Stagecoach and made our case clearly. I looked at the detailed timings of the number one bus which, like all routes, does have a few minutes contingency built in. I asked for these to be spent travelling to Leadenham and back. The bus companies can suffer a huge fine if they do not meet their target for timeliness, which is why all of the routes have a few minutes contingency, especially if they involve getting in and out of Lincoln.
We need bus priority lanes from Lincoln, coming in early next year. This should create more time on the route so that the half-hour service to Welbourn and Leadenham could be restored. There have been no objections to the bus priority routes, and Stagecoach has agreed to review our service when they are in place.
It now seems likely that the Bus Service Operator’s Grant will be removed by government, further threatening some of our bus services locally.
Information
Road repairs on the A607
The road repairs of the worst parts are working their way southwards along the A607 to Wellingore. These are the improvements we fought for. Thanks for your support.
Road Safety
The road safety presentation “Too Fast, Too Soon” for young people is powerful and well worth seeing. It is coming to Sleaford Schools on Oct 4th & 5th. This is highly recommended for all young and not-so-young drivers or soon-to-become-drivers.
I put a motion to support road safety to full Council and it will be now considered by councillors. I also moved that we write to national government to ask that cuts will only be made to local government at a rate that still protects front-line services. If you can ignore the politics, see the full County Council Meeting on www.lincolnshire.public-i.tv/site/player/pl_compact.php?a=44930&t=0&m=wm&l=en_GB
Anti social behaviour
Just a reminder to report all incidents, as this is used by the authorities in calculating where the resources should go. Also the police rely on information ('intelligence') being forwarded to them. The bit of information which you may think isn’t important, could just be the last piece in the jigsaw that solves a crime. 0300 111 0300
Sustainable Village
Navenby has been selected for a study to establish what makes it tick so successfully and look at ways to draw in more resources.
Register to vote
You can check about registering to vote on 01529 414155 Make sure your voice is heard!
Nocton dairy
Below a link to the information from the visit to Withgill Farm in August: A few photos are on my facebook. www.facebook.com www.n-kesteven.gov.uk/committees then choose “planning”, and “26 Aug” One of three landowners, Patrick Dean Ltd have withdrawn from the application. The East Midlands Business grants are also suffering government cuts, which could affect the dairy.
Rural and Small business Rate Relief
Rural rate relief of 50% or more is available for single businesses providing an important village service. Registered charities get 80-100% off. From October 1st, Small business rate relief (up to 100%) is for businesses with a rateable value of below £12K or £18K on two properties. Apply to the Business Rates Team on 01529 414155 or 01522 699699 Business Rates = Rateable value x 0.407 (small businesses)
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