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- Village news from Helen Price - 12th Dec 2019
- LDC info - keeping your home warm in winter
- A38 southbound works extension
- Village news from Helen Price - 5th Dec 2019
- Village news from Helen Price - 28th Nov 2019
- Village news from Helen Price - 21st November 2019
- Parish Council response to LDC re housing
- Reply from police re enforcement of turn restrictions
- Medical car share scheme
- Lichfield District Centre Master Plan
- Village news from Helen Price - 14th Nov 2019
- LDC Focus Group
- Housing needs for over 60's
- Garden waste sign up 2020
- Letter to Police and Crime Commissioner - weight restriction
- Contacting the local police
- Village news from Helen Price - 10th Oct 2019
- A38 Roadworks commence
- Review of the Temporary Restriction Orders on the A515.
- Best Kept Village
- Best Kept Village Presentation
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Village news from Helen Price - 19th Dec 2019
As sent to The Mercury
Kings Bromley WI
The Women’s Institute continued their year of celebration for their 90th birthday with a
splendid Christmas party on 5th December. The evening started with a seasonal talk and slide show from Kate Reynolds on
‘Tis the season to be jolly ‘, a look back in time at Christmas. Kate helped the ladies recall their childhood with
Christmas memories, using props and photos, funny stories and memorabilia from decades past. We looked at Christmas
cards and decorations to festive traditions and special toys. The ladies joined in with a few Christmas carols too.
Merriment continued with a buffet provided by the members.
The newly formed Drop In Café at the Village Hall
was very successful in November and will continue on 19th December and the third Thursday of each month from 1pm, for
everyone in the village to enjoy.
The ladies have a post Christmas meal on 6th February at the Royal Oak and
the meetings start in our 91st year on January 9th, a week later than usual when members are reminded to bring their
subscriptions.
A Happy New year to all from the WI.
Kings Bromley Village Harmony Choir
The
choir will be singing for the residents at Kings Bromley Care Home on Saturday 21st December. This will be followed by
another seasonal performance at the Royal Oak at approximately 3.30/4.00 pm. All are welcome.
Kings Bromley
Bowls Club Whist Drive
The last whist drive of the year will take place in the Village Hall on Tuesday 17th
December and re-starts 7th January – 24th March 2020. All are very welcome, £2 includes light refreshments.
Teresa Woodward 01543 473058
Kings Bromley Gardening Guild
Allan Howard gave the talk at the
November meeting on 'Tudor Cottage and George Manners'. George used to live in Tudor Cottage in Alrewas Road, but moved
to Yoxall around 15 years ago. Allan started with some of the early history of the house, which used to belong to the
church and could have been used as a parsonage at one time. As George was a prolific winner of trophies at the Show,
Allan explained the different cups which George had won over the years, including the trophy George himself donated: the
Triple Bean Shield for runner, French and broad beans. Then a number of photos of the front and back gardens were shown,
which highlighted George's expertise at growing flowers in a cottage garden style and a range of vegetables and fruit.
The annual Christmas lunch at the Boar's Head at Sudbury was enjoyed by everyone who attended on 2nd December.
The first meeting of the New Year will be on Monday 20th January at the Village Hall when Allan Howard will talk about
'Kings Bromley in the Best Kept Village Competition'.
Village news from Helen Price - 12th Dec 2019
As sent to The Mercury
Kings Bromley Historians
Kath Reynolds brought back some happy memories at our last meeting with a talk and
slides about sweets, many from our childhood. As some of us are of a ‘certain age’, we could remember rationing
and, more importantly, when sweets became ‘off ration’ in 1953. The ration was 12 oz. sweets per month; other than
that it was a carrot impaled on a stick and a lot of imagination.
Bertie Bassett was a trader in sweets in
1899, which he sold in various varieties. When he dropped his tray of samples the sweets became mixed and resulted in
his Liquorice Allsorts. We could all remember smoking sweet cigarettes and liquorice pipes and feeling very grown up
and sophisticated! It was surprising how many sweets were produced in the 19th century such as Rowntrees Fruit
Pastilles 1881 and Gums 1893, still familiar to us today.
Kath was an entertaining speaker and made it a very
enjoyable evening. A week later we enjoyed Christmas lunch at the Royal Oak, which was a very convivial occasion.
We will be enjoying our usual post-Christmas walk on 30th December, and the first meeting of the New Year brings us
Richard Stone’s ‘Painting with Light’, a talk on stained glass, at the Village Hall on Friday 31st January at 8.00
p.m. All are very welcome.
Kings Bromley Harmony Choir
The choir performed their third annual
Christmas concert to a full church on Saturday, providing a lovely start to the festive season. The programme was
interspersed with solos on the flute, piano, clarinet and saxophone.
Thanks were given to Gill and Glen
Wright for arranging the event and supplying refreshments, to Kathryn Pretty-Hopson for her leadership of the choir and
Linda Rich for the piano accompaniment. Cash donations were divided equally between the All Saints church and
Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital Renal Unit.
Branston Golf Club and Lichfield Morrisons store completed
a trio of fund-raising performances by the Kings Bromley Harmony choir this weekend.
A38 southbound works extension
See document detailing this work
A38 works timetable A38 / HS2 works (505.8 Kb)
Village news from Helen Price - 5th Dec 2019
As sent to The Mercury
Harmony Choir Concert in Church
It is two years since the village choir gave their first public performance in
church and we are delighted that they will be back to give another concert in All Saints Church on Saturday, 7th
December at 4.00 pm. It will consist of carols and a variety of songs both Christmas and non-seasonal. There will be
an interval halfway through and cups of tea and mince pies will be served. There will not be an entry charge but there
will be a retiring collection.
Everyone is very welcome to come along and support the choir.
Kings Bromley
Care Home Christmas Fete
There will be a Christmas Fete at Kings Bromley Care Home, Manor Park from 3.00 –
5.00 pm on Saturday 7th December. We have Craft stalls, Tombola, Raffle, tea, cakes and hot food plus Entertainment.
Everyone is welcome – please come and support your local care home.
Kings Bromley Bowls Club Whist
Drive
Join our Whist Drive which takes place each Tuesday at the Village Hall, starting promptly at 2.00 pm.
All are very welcome, £2 admission includes light refreshments.
For further details please ring Teresa Woodward on
01543 473058.
Village news from Helen Price - 28th Nov 2019
As sent to The Mercury
Harmony Choir Concert in Church
It is two years since the village choir gave their first public performance in
church and we are delighted that they will be back to give another concert in All Saints Church on Saturday, 7th
December at 4.00 pm. It will consist of carols and a variety of songs both Christmas and non-seasonal. There will be
an interval halfway through and cups of tea and mince pies will be served. There will not be an entry charge but there
will be a retiring collection.
Everyone is very welcome to come along and support the choir.
Kings Bromley
Care Home
There will be a Christmas Fete at Kings Bromley Care Home, Manor Park from 3.00 – 5.00 pm on
Saturday 7th December. Craft stalls, tombola, raffle, tea, cakes, hot food.
Everyone welcome.
Village news from Helen Price - 21st November 2019
As sent to The Mercury
Wednesday Club
Our November meeting began with members perusing the menu for next month’s Christmas lunch at
the Royal Oak. Once decisions had been noted and payments made the Chair welcomed everyone to our Annual General
Meeting. The Treasurer presented his report and copies of the accounts were circulated. The Chair then presented her
report. In her review of the year Lin recalled topics covered by our speakers including Luxury Handmade Chocolates,
Dragonflies, Life Behind Bars, A Mystery Tour of France and talks about the work of the Air Ambulance, Cat’s
Protection and RSPCA. In addition, members had enjoyed a Bring and Share Tea, a Cream Tea at Mabel’s and Christmas
Lunch at the Royal Oak as well as an outing to Stratford upon Avon. The Chair thanked the committee for their support
and a vote of thanks was proposed to Lin for all her hard work over the last 12 months.
A copy of the
programme for 2020 will be available next month. New members always welcome. Next meeting:
Wednesday December 11th
Christmas Lunch at the Royal Oak 12.30 for 1.00.
Kings Bromley Village Harmony Choir
Will be
singing at Kings Bromley Co-Op at 12.00 noon on Saturday 23rd November.
and also at
The Christmas
Concert, All Saints Church, Saturday 7th December, 4.00 pm
The choir will be singing carols and Christmas
songs in church, with an interval halfway through when cups of tea and mince pies will be served. There is no entry
charge but there will be a retiring collection. Everyone is very welcome to come along and support the choir.
Parish Council response to LDC re housing
This is the reply made to LDC re the proposed housing off Alrewas Road
Application No 19/01526/OUTM.
After due consideration the parish council would like to make the following comments
on this application.
It is felt that the building of a further 57 homes will put undue pressure on the local school,
which is already over subscribed
There will be additional vehicle movements created with all these movements having
to access the proposed site between existing houses fronting Alrewas Road.
The proposed site is flat and with the
additional of hard surfacing in the form of roads and driveways, additional flooding is inevitable. Sections of Alrewas
Road already have large areas of standing water.
The council understands that this site lies within the 'area of
search' in the Staffs County Council Mineral Plan.
The council feels that providing 57 affordable homes in just one
area does not make sense?
It is not clear from the application who will maintain the roads and recreational areas.
Reply from police re enforcement of turn restrictions
Below see a letter from PC Royce made in reply to a letter sent to the Police and Crime Commissioner
Click here Letter from PC Royce (40.1 Kb)
Medical car share scheme
Can you help?
Many residents do not have access to a vehicle and find visiting the doctors and / or local hospitals very difficult. For many years a car share scheme has operated and now the parish council is to administer this. The council desperately needs volunteer drivers - can you help? It would only involve around 1/2 trips per month and you will be reimbursed. If you are interested please email the parish clerk in the first instance. https://www.kingsbromley.com/Message/Clerk
Lichfield District Centre Master Plan
LDC wants to hear your thoughts. Read this document.
Click here http://lichfielddc.gov.uk/issuesandoptions
Village news from Helen Price - 14th Nov 2019
As sent to The Mercury
Kings Bromley Gardening Guild
Jeff Bates was the speaker in October and his topic was 'The Garden in Winter'.
Jeff gave a very interactive talk, involving questions and answers from the Members and identifying of plants shown
in the many beautiful photos. Winter gardening is affected by temperature, shorter days with less intensity of light and
the lower angle of the sun. His presentation showed many excellent winter gardens to visit, such as the Cambridge
Botanical Garden, Dorothy Clive Garden, Wisley, Anglesey Abbey and Dunham Massey. Winter plants included trees such as
liquidamber and maples; shrubs such as viburnum bodnantense, daphne, sarcococca and callicarpa; many plants e.g.
aconite, pulmonaria, hellebore, bergenia, ivy and heather; bulbs such as scilla, narcissus and snowdrops. It was a very
informative and entertaining talk.
Allan Howard will give the talk on 18th November on 'The Garden of George
Manners'.
Quiz Night and Grand Draw
A very entertaining evening was had by all the participating
teams on Saturday night at Kings Bromley Village Hall. The quiz was expertly organised and run, as always, by Gill and
Glen Wright.
The final total from the Quiz and Grand Draw was £2216, all proceeds going to All Saints Church.
Thank you to everyone who donated prizes and bought tickets to produce this excellent result.
Kings Bromley
Bowls Club Whist Drive
Weekly whist drives take place each Tuesday at the Village Hall, starting promptly at
2.00 pm. All are very welcome, £2 includes light refreshments.
Teresa Woodward 01543 473058
Kings
Bromley WI
Kings Bromley WI celebrated their 90th birthday with a hilarious guest speaker Pat Hall on 7th
November. Pat gave a very amusing talk called ‘Life Can Be Funny’, telling comedy stories from the past and
present. The room was filled with laughter and good cheer. A beautiful birthday cake was made by Kate Nicholas and we
enjoyed celebratory wine and champagne in a birthday toast. There were lots of great raffle prizes to be won and it was
a splendid evening with good company.
The ladies also had great news to celebrate as the Craft and Social
group have been selected as the Co-op’s local community cause for this coming year. The 1% from members’
contributions will help run a monthly social group every third Thursday of the month in the village hall. The next
meeting will be on 5th December in the village hall where Kate Reynolds will be talking about “It’s the Season to be
Jolly”. We will have an American supper when everyone can bring a dish of their choice to share.
The
ladies of the WI wish you all a Merry Christmas and good wishes for the New Year.
Garden waste sign up 2020
Sign up for 2020 garden waste collections
Keen gardeners across the district are being reminded that it’s time to re-subscribe to the garden waste
service.
Registration is now open for the garden waste service, and Lichfield District Council is urging local
residents to sign up again to have their brown bins emptied in 2020
The council has held 2019’s prices and it will
continue to cost £36 per garden waste bin for fortnightly collections in 2020. Customers will receive a maximum of 23
collections, as the council does not empty brown bins over the Christmas and New Year period.
Councillor Liz Little,
Cabinet Member for Recycling & Waste, said: “I’d like to thank everyone who signed up to our garden waste service in
the last year.
“We’re now reminding all our residents that they will need to sign up again if they would like
their brown bins emptied in 2020.
“It costs the same regardless of when you sign up during the year, and your
annual subscription will always end in December. This is why it makes sense to register before the first collection in
2020, so you can get a full year’s worth of collections.”
Sign up for the 2020 garden waste service at http://lichfielddc.gov.uk/mygardenbin or call the shared waste service
on 0345 002 0022.
“It is important to remember that your brown bin will not be emptied in 2020 unless you are
signed up and have displayed your new sticker on your garden waste bin.
“We are also encouraging anyone who signs
up not to cover up their 2019 sticker with their new one, so our crews know to continue to empty your garden waste bin
for the rest of 2019,” added Cllr Little.
Ends
Media enquiries
Esther
Epstein, Press & Communications Officer, Lichfield District Council
T: 01543 308778 E:
esther.epstein@lichfielddc.gov.uk
Letter to Police and Crime Commissioner - weight restriction
Below find a copy of the recent letter
... sent to Staffordshire PCC, Matthew Ellis and a copy of his reply.
The letter is here Letter to PCC (85.0 Kb)
This is
the reply
Thank you for the below e-mail and attached letter of which the Staffordshire Commissioner is in safe
receipt. Mr Ellis is sorry to hear of the difficulties you have experienced around engagement with your Neighbourhood
Policing Team which is not what he would expect. As Mr Ellis has external meetings throughout the week he has asked me
to respond to you on his behalf in order to offer you a swift response.
As your letter relates to a number of
operational matters in terms of a request for data, information around legislative powers and for force representation
for a meeting, I have been asked to refer these matters directly to the Chief Constables Office to be addressed. Your
dissatisfaction around the lack of response to communications with the police should also be reviewed firstly by the
Chief’s Office and then potentially by the Performance and Standards Unit.
This matter was referred to the
Chief’s office on the day of receipt and we would therefore trust you will received a response to all the points
raised at the earliest opportunity. Should you not receive feedback in a timely manner please let me know and we will
pursue the matter further.
Mr Ellis thanks you for taking the time to raise these matters with him.
Contacting the local police
If residents need to contact the police
... there are 3 options.
1. in an emergency dial 999
2. for non emergency call 101
3. Vist them at Lichfield
Council Offices in Frog Lane
Village news from Helen Price - 10th Oct 2019
As send to The Mercury
Kings Bromley Historians September Outing
Although we had arranged to meet in the coffee shop at Sharpe’s
Pottery Museum, Swadlincote, we were split into two groups on arrival – no time for coffee! Group 1 were taken
upstairs to the ‘Magic Attic” which volunteers had opened just for our visit as they are normally closed on
Fridays.
The archives there were amazing. The collection of documents, books and newspapers, mostly relating
to the pottery industry or the locality filled two rooms. The oldest collection of newspapers dated back to 1725. A
lot of the documentation was already computerised and still an ongoing project.
The groups changed places and
we were given an introductory talk in the kiln by a pair of very knowledgeable and enthusiastic volunteers. They
explained the process of production of the pottery and the labour involved. The average life expectancy was 46 years,
children were employed from the age of 8 and worked a 12 hour day. We were then taken to the exhibition room with
examples of their products and those of other local potteries. It was really interesting and we would have enjoyed
spending more time there but were booked for lunch at the Bull’s Head Repton!
After some impressively huge
lunches, we still managed to walk around Repton church and descend into the crypt where some of the Viking burial stones
survive. It was a very varied and enjoyable day out.
Our next meeting is on 25th October when Catherine
Cartwright will speak of her “Research on World War 1” in the Village Hall at 8.00 pm. All are welcome.
A38 Roadworks commence
Works on the A38 will commence in October
More details are here
A38 Roadworks - Commencing October (516.7 Kb)
Review of the Temporary Restriction Orders on the A515.
There was a meeting of the Transport Forum Working Party
.... yesterday which Steve Browne and Allan Howard attended. This is part of the promised review. A number of issues
were covered.
1. Reduction in HGV traffic. The Parish Councils of Kings Bromley and Yoxall reported that HGV
traffic had reduced significantly on the A515 and A513. A much smaller reduction has been seen through Draycott. The
cameras which have recently been put up along the A515 are doing the count which will provide the objective evidence of
the extent of this reduction. This information will be made available to the Parish Councils in the next few
weeks.
2. Exemptions. The Parish Councils raised this issue and urged County Highways to make exemptions on the
weight restricted turns for farm vehicles and local deliveries. They are already actively looking into this, having
already had representations from the NFU. There are some technical difficulties involved but it does look as though this
will happen.
3. Enforcement. While the police have been present at times at the turns and lorries have
been stopped it has not been possible to get them to provide information on the extent of this and the number of
prosecutions made. It was agreed that the most effective way of enforcing the ban is through direct contact with those
companies seen to be flouting the law. This effort, undertaken by the Parish Councils and YTAG has been very successful
with many companies such as Shell, Wincanton and Lomas committing not only to obeying the weight restricted turns but
also to not using the A515 at all. YTAG have just added to this list JCB and its contractors. We encourage parishioners
to send details of offending vehicles to me alan.how8@btinternet.com so that I can contact the companies involved. To
help in this we are also pursuing the use of cameras on the junctions.
4. Signage. County Highways are looking
at ways to improve the weight restriction signage, especially their encouraging Highways England to install signs on the
A50 and A38 warning HGVs before they get onto the A515 and A38.
5. Further work. The continuing objective of
the Parish Councils is to get a weight limit on the A515 between Woodend Lane and Stubby Lane. The displacement of up
to 70% of the A515 HGV traffic has not caused any problems on the A38, A50 or even Eastern Avenue. The total ban seems
to be next logical step since HGVs can still use the road through Yoxall which is totally unfit for them. County
Highways response to this was that the problem with such a weight restriction is to do with the difficulty on
enforcement, not the displacement of traffic. We do not believe that this is an insuperable problem so our next step
will be to take up this issue through our District and County Councillors. We have no doubt that, failing this, the
restriction order will be made permanent.
Best Kept Village Presentation
On Friday 20th the Community Foundation of Staffordshire
On Friday 20th the Community Foundation of Staffordshire presented Kings Bromley Parish Council with the 2019 plaque to
fix on the Trophy (Totem Pole) for winning the Best Kept Village Competition for the LIchfield and Cannock Chase area.
After a short ceremony at the Jubilee seat, refreshments were provided by the WI at the Village Hall and a short
presentation on the history of Kings Bromley's participation in the competition was given by Allan Howard. The
competition has been going since 1956: Kings Bromley has entered for all but 8 years and won the District 21 times and
the Trophy, which was been in existence since 1969 eleven times.
Thanks to the WI and Lynne Cole and Alison
Howard who provided cakes.