Somerset Business Newsletter 15.09.23
Benefice Newsletter 15th September 2023
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Please take a moment to view the attached documents regarding Lithium-Ion battery Fire safety if you have an ebike. Kind regards, Paul Johnson, NHW Admin Attachments: e-bike-e-scooter-fire-safety.pdf |
Dear All, Somerset Council is carrying out a public consultation on a set of planning policy principles that would steer new development in Somerset. This is a rare opportunity for all bus users to influence planning policy and ensure that new developments encourage the use of sustainable transport rather relying on the assumption that everyone uses a car.
The proposals are aimed at prioritising sustainable methods of transport and reducing the need to travel, but they overlook the need to ensure that the developments can be served safely, adequately and efficiently by bus routes. There’s a need to ensure that there are safe, well-lit paths to bus stops too.
Also, developers should be required to fund new and improved bus stop infrastructure as well as providing revenue support for new bus services for the first few years of operation.
The Somerset Bus Partnership is drafting a detailed response but I encourage all bus user groups and your members to do so too, particularly if there are examples you can cite on your local patch where previous planning decisions have had a detrimental impact on the ability of bus operators to provide a bus service to the development (such as a superstore set well away from main road bus stops but with a large car park just in front of it, or a linear housing development along a lengthy cul-de-sac).
Full details can be found via the link below and the closing date is 16th October 2023.
Polden Planning is asking the local community to comment on their affordable housing development in Wheddon Cross and Cutcombe. Don’t miss the chance to have your say:
Find their consultation at www.poldenplanning.co.uk/consultations/dunkeryview
Delivering affordable housing is a priority for Somerset Council. Would you like to be considered for available housing in your local area? Make sure you are registered on Homefinder Somerset to be included https://www.homefindersomerset.co.uk/choice/.
Further details of the Cutcombe plans
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Every piece of plastic Somerset Council collected from households and via the recycling sites last year was recycled in the UK, Somerset Council can reveal. The 6,500 tonnes of plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays all went to UK companies to be turned into new products and packaging – everything from plastic wrapping and compost bins to fleece jackets. The figure is up from 99.4% the previous year and features in Somerset Council’s annual Recycling Tracker which will be released next week for Somerset Recycling Week. The tracker shows what happens to every tonne of household waste – where it goes, the companies involved and the likely use, the latest tracker will be published online later in September, at: www.somerset.gov.uk/recycling-tracker. In Somerset, most types of plastic, including bottles, pots, tubs and trays can be recycled with kerbside collections using the Bright Blue Bag. Somerset Council is one of a handful of authorities taking part in a national trial of the kerbside collection of plastic bags and wrapping. This is working well in the small sample of properties in Frome and the aim is to expand it in years to come. |
Benefice Newsletter 8th September 2023
Yoga classes resume this week!
This term our theme will be building strength, and riding the waves!
Here are 5 of my favourite reasons to come and try a yoga class this term….
Let me know if you have any questions – get in touch on terry@shiatsuyoga.co.uk or on 07961 892526
Terry Bruce
Yoga Teacher & Shiatsu Practitioner
Exmoor Wellbeing Safari
www.shiatsuyoga.co.uk
07961 892526
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Talented Exmoor artists Georgina King and Jill Davies are delighted to be exhibiting at Townsend House, venue 67, for Somerset Art Weeks from September 16th to 1st October. This beautiful 16th century house in the centre of Minehead is being brought to life with the vibrant colour, texture and rhythms of Exmoor which both artists portray so passionately in their paintings and prints. There will be an opportunity to wander in the charming walled gardens and tea and cake will be served in this historic gem at weekends. The exhibition will be open from 10.00 – 4.00 every day except Mondays and Tuesdays and there is an opportunity to visit several other popular artists in venues in Minehead nearby making this event an Autumn cultural treat not to be missed.
Timberscombe 