Author: Lesley Webb

management of Wootton Ridge

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Forestry England’s John Ebsary, Forester for Exmoor and Quantocks, has offered  a site visit on Thursday 5th October 2023.  John will explain Forestry England’s plans for the ongoing management of Wootton Ridge.
We would like to make up a group of maximum 16 people from both our Parishes (Wootton Courtenay and Timberscombe). We will meet at Wootton Church and it will be a 4km walk.  Those attending do not have to be Parish Councillors.
If you are interested in taking part please contact Katy Attwater ( Chair of Timberscombe Parish Council) to register for a place a

kattwater@hotmail.com

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Updates

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Somerset Business Newsletter 15.09.23

Benefice Newsletter 15th September 2023

Police Notice 

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

Make Your Views Heard

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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.

Full details HERE

Housing

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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

100 per cent of plastic stayed in UK for recycling

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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.