It’s beginning to
feel more like Spring, so time to start thinking about your Flower & Produce
Show
entries.
In this issue:
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A raffle has been organised in aid of SARA, the
Severn Area Rescue Association. Over the next few days, Radka Hlinikova and Kris
Mills will be selling raffle tickets around the village at £1 each. The prize
for the raffle is a Sonya skin care collection (pictured at www.birlingham.org/pics/sonya_raffle.jpg),
which you can win just in time for Mothering Sunday! The winning ticket will be
picked by Henry Morgan on Friday 13th March. For more information on the raffle,
please contact Radka at radkahlinikova@yahoo.co.uk.
All profits from the raffle go to SARA, which is the inshore boat rescue
and land search organisation covering the Severn Estuary and the surrounding
area, including the River Avon. More information on SARA can be found at
www.sara-rescue.org.uk.
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The next meeting of Birlingham Parish
Council takes place on Wednesday 18th March at 7.45pm in Birlingham Village
Hall. Among other items on the agenda, there will be a discussion about the
village survey, which was proposed at the recent Neighbourhood Plan meeting.
This is your opportunity to express your views on all local issues, so please
come along.
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The annual
litter pick takes place on Saturday 21st March. Please join us and help to
create a tidy village.
Litter-picking equipment is provided. Meet
on the village green at 10.00am.
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Birlingham PCC are organising a day of cleaning at
St James’s Church on Saturday 28th March, beginning at 10.00am. If you can spare an hour to help clean our beautiful church, please
come along. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please contact
Adrianne Woodward on 01386 750936.
The Church is also looking for help with this
year’s Easter lilies. If you would like to give a donation in memory of a loved
one, please contact Adrianne Woodward for more details.
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The Birlingham Flower & Produce Show
seed exchange is now open at the Village Show HQ in the phonebox, which also
contains many hints, tips and information on growing. There are already many
seeds to exchange, so please bring some of your own to swap.
This year the Show has two new trophies.
Following the auction last October, the Jams and Preserves Trophy will be named
by Joan Hollier while the Arts and Crafts Trophy will be given in memory of the
late Bill Trow-Poole. More information on these and other aspects of the Flower
& Produce Show can be found on the Show website, www.birlinghamshow.co.uk.
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The road from the war memorial towards Lower End
will be closed for up to 12 days from Monday 13th April to Friday 24th April.
The closure will be in front of the Old Coach House, near the junction with
Whitehall Lane, and the reason is to make a sewer connection.
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The following
planning applications have been received by the Parish
Council:
- Peacock Barn, Lower End:
Two storey extension to Peacock Cottage (Case No. 15/00223). Awaiting decision by Wychavon
District Council. (Consultation period ends on 3rd April.) Full details can be
viewed on the Wychavon DC website at www.e-wychavon.org.uk/pl/pl.exe?cs=15/00223.
- The
Paddocks, Broadway Road: Prior approval
application – change of use of agricultural building to dwellinghouse use and
associated operational development (Case No. 15/00432). Awaiting decision by Wychavon
District Council. (Consultation period ends on 18th March.) Full details can
be viewed on the Wychavon DC website at www.e-wychavon.org.uk/pl/pl.exe?cs=15/00432.
The following planning application has
been determined by Wychavon District Council:
- Land surrounding and including 1 and 2, Avon
Bank, Upton Road, Defford: Outline
application for the creation of a residential development comprising of 63
units (Case No.
14/01881). Refused. Full details and
reasons for refusal can be viewed on the Wychavon DC website at www.e-wychavon.org.uk/pl/pl.exe?cs=14/01881. (Not in Birlingham but the Parish Council have been
consulted because the application site comes down to our boundary.)
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