The Environment & Highways Sub-Committee of West Bergholt Parish Council met on 12th January and discussed a range of issues including Village Ponds, Handymen, Storage & benches.
Environment & Highways Report
Sub-committee Meeting held on Thursday 12th January 2017 in Orpen Hall
| Sub-committee members present | John Gili Ross, Philip Spencer, Harry Stone, Jenny Church, Murray Harlow, Janet Crichton, David Short. |
| Apologies | None |
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Work of village Handymen |
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| Work in the storage units is completed, signs are up of the children’s 20mph posters, element on car fixed, Mower is being charged, refurbishment of benches needs completing, ride-on mower has been cleaned, hedge trimmer has been serviced, gazebo has been repaired, work in the Orpen Hall completed, roof of duck house on Queen’s Road pond needs repair, litter picking continues. Request Premises Committee if they can store litter picking equipment. | JGR | |
| It was suggested that we purchase waders for future use in the ponds. Janet agreed to check on website for cost and suitability. | Jan C | |
| We all appreciate the range of work carried out by our Handymen, David and Matt. An item of this appreciation to be written for the next Bulletin. Harry agreed to do this. | HS | |
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Village ponds |
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| a) | The 3 ponds are currently being cleared by “The Conservation Volunteers”.
Hall Road Pond. Proposed to leave excess vegetation to rot on mound beside pond. Also, agreed to ask for an Extra day of clearance from TCV as the pond is very overgrown. |
Jen C |
| b) | Queens Road Pond. Cleared and tidied. Excess vegetation to be removed by Norhurst – Jenny to organise. | Jen C |
| c) | Lexden Road Pond. Excess vegetation removed from pond. This will need removing by Norhurst. There are 3/4 tree stumps along the front edge near the grass verge. These could be a hazard and will need cutting down to ground level. Ask Norhurst to do.
A tree has fallen by the back edge of the pond which came down in the strong wind yesterday. The householder/owner will arrange to remove excess leafage and branches. |
Jen C |
| A tree beside the pond has roots that could be undermining a neighbour’s garage. Phil will investigate this. | PS | |
| d) | Need to investigate situation regarding ownership of ponds. | JGR |
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Storage facilities |
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| Situation re use of a container as storage to be further investigated. Chris to arrange a meeting with the Planning Dept. at CBC |
JGR |
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New benches for LD field and for Poor’s Land. |
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| Propose to purchase 2 benches to be site by MUGA on LD field and one to be purchased for Poor’s Land. Janet and Murray to investigate cost and suitability. | Jan C & MH | |
Date of next meeting – Thursday 9th February 2017 at 5pm in Orpen Hall. |