Parish Council Newsletter

The Parish Council now normally meets at 7pm in the Village Hall

on the second Thursday in each month.

Everyone is invited to attend.

Parish Matters

It’s been another couple of busy months in the parish. We continue to work on our response to the Ecotricity planning application; we hope you were able to attend the drop-in event on 17th November. Even though the ‘deadline’ for comments has passed, Stroud District Council will accept comments until the application goes to the Development Control Committee for decision, we anticipate this will be early 2017. To view the application please visit the Stroud District Council planning website at

www.stroud.gov.uk/apps/planning ref: S.16/0043/OUT

We spent quite a lot of time in October liasing with Stroud District Council regarding the West of Stonehouse masterplan that was decided on 25th October. We were able to achieve some amendments to the masterplan including the removal of two vehicle access points onto Nupend lane.

We were fortunate to receive a donation from the Horse Show towards a 4th defibrillator, which we hope to purchase and locate in the Churchend area. Community Heartbeat Trust will ‘adopt’ our 3 defibrillators already purchased which will be installed at the Co-op, Owen Harris Memorial Ground and Westend Suites in due course. This means that Community Heartbeat will look after the defibs for us and maintain the units annually and replace the pads when required. Community Heartbeat will also put on a training session, the date is still to be arranged but keep checking our Facebook and Twitter pages for updates.

The Parish Council is submitting an application for the Local Council Award Scheme; this is a framework that demonstrates a council is operating to an accredited standard. For more information on the scheme please visit the National Association of Local Councils:-

http://www.nalc.gov.uk/our-work/improvement-and-development/local-council-award-scheme

Pond Improvement - see below. Please let SVP know if you intend to come along so we can make sure we have enough equipment to go around.

The Parish Office will be closed from Friday 23rd December until Tuesday 3rd January. The Parish Council wishes you all a peaceful Christmas and Happy New Year.

Julie Shirley, Clerk to Eastington Parish Council

Phone 01453 799616

email: clerk@eastington-pc.gov.uk

Facebook: EastingtonPC Twitter: @Eastington_PC

www.eastington-pc.gov.uk

Eastington Pond at present

In partnership with Eastington Parish Council , Stroud Valleys Project team are looking for volunteers who are interested in improving and restoring the wildlife pond adjacent to Eastington Community Centre.

The pond and wildlife area is in need of some love, care & attention with pond clearance, scrub control and access improvements needed. We are initially planning three sessions at the pond in the New Year dates: