Sally and the team – which has grown to about 15 regular pickers – are back in action on Sunday 10th February meeting up again at Morrisons Car Park at 9:30. New faces are also welcome to join in!
Popular play project returns for some half-term fun!
Parents and grandparents of children from across East Hampshire have their February half-term plans sorted as a popular play project returns for a week of fun.
The half-term week, which runs between Monday 18 February and Friday 22 February, will see the return of a range of exciting activities to many towns and villages across East Hampshire – including Ropley, Rowlands Castle, Selborne, Headley Down and Whitehill & Bordon.
The fun-filled week of activities start in Ropley for a candle making session where the kids will get the chance to make their own candles and lanterns for them to go in. There will also be an opportunity to make something for someone special in the afternoon when a Valentine’s arts and crafts session comes to the village hall.
Local children’s entertainer and RAPP favourite, Mr Giant, returns on the Tuesday morning for a circus skills and balloon modelling show and then the kids will be able to make penguins out of recycled plastic bottles in the afternoon.
Wednesday will see local activity and games club, Redwood Active, teach some archery and fencing in the morning and help build some bushcraft and catapults in the afternoon.
Youngsters will be able to build the Antarctic out of Lego on the Thursday while learning about the animals and creatures that lived their both past and present – including dinosaurs!
The week will wind down at Woodlands Hall, in Headley Down, on the Friday with a chance to create a story out of stones and create some art out of recycled bottles – which could include making fish, rockets, bird feeders, turtles and much more!
RAPP was set up 13 years ago by East Hampshire District Council to give children up to the age of 11 (under eights must be accompanied by an adult) the opportunity to get involved in fun activities, games, adventures, workshops and meet new friends in the school holidays.
The full programme of activities, prices and locations can be found here: www.easthants.gov.uk/rapp
Get Activ8d, which provides sporting activities for children aged seven to 14, is also back for February half-term in Petersfield, Kingsley and Alton.
The Get Activ8d programme includes indoor fencing, archery and lightsabers with Redwood Active, as well as tennis, basketball, cheerleading and tennis.
The full programme of activities and locations can be found here: www.easthants.gov.uk/get-activ8d
The new online booking system is currently under construction and isn’t ready yet. To book onto the February half-term activities, please call 01730 234295 after bookings open on Tuesday 5 February at 10am.
On Sunday 20th Jan 2019 Sally and the team will be carrying out their monthly litter pick of Horndean and Clanfield. All volunteers are welcome, especially new faces. The meeting point is at the far end of Morrisons Car Park at 9:30.
All of the equipment is provided and you can pick the areas close to where you live to pick.
Apprenticeship Fair in Horndean,
Wednesday 30 January
Show-off your business to the next generation of workers
EHDC spreading the Christmas cheer
Children from across the district are in for a treat on Christmas Day thanks to East Hampshire District Council staff and councillors. More than 200 Christmas presents have been bought, wrapped and delivered to children who were put forward by local schools and charities.
Cllr Julie Butler said: “We know that there are some children across the district who would really appreciate a present on Christmas Day and may not be as fortunate as their friends. I am so proud that EHDC staff and councillors really got behind this scheme again and bought more than 200 gifts. We had a record amount this year and had so many presents that they couldn’t all fit in the van! A really great effort from everyone. It’s wonderful that as a council we can make a little difference and bring some happiness to our local children over Christmas.”
The scheme was arranged by the Alton Buckle Local Children’s Partnership which works with schools and charities. The partnership provided a list of local children’s ages and genders, allowing staff and councillors to pick out an appropriate present.
The gifts were handed on to the partnership which will then deliver them to the children for a wonderful surprise on Christmas Day.
Jen Hammersley, from the Local Children’s Partnership said: “Some families really struggle at this time of year as it can be very expensive, you don’t understand how much the families and the children will appreciate your generosity. The presents will mean so much to those children who otherwise might not have received any. They will bring smiles and happiness to the children on Christmas morning.”
If you are a local business and would like to take part in this scheme next year by inviting your staff to take part please let me know on guy.shepherd@easthants.gov.uk and I will put you in touch with the team. Each gift should be about £20 and if you like we are happy to organise the gift and wrap it if you just want to collect cash.
So nearly 3 years ago LEOH was given outline planning permission for 700 homes along with a care village and plenty of community facilities. The planning conditions that were put onto the permission were very onerous to protect against any possible risk to the water supply.
All along the coast there is a strip of land several hundred metres wide where the geology has a very thin layer of clay covering the chalk below which contains natural below ground water pathways that rise at a number of locations, one of which is The Bedhampton Springs.
This thin strip has ‘Solution features’ which we may better know as ‘Sinkholes’ or vertical pathways where any pollutant could get from the surface to the water table. HERE is an earlier blog giving more detail.
In the last few years a significant amount of site investigation work has been carried out drilling boreholes and plotting the solution features to agree an updated site layout with Portsmouth Water. As a result Bloor Homes are submitting an up to date outline planning application for Hazleton and Pyle Farms with details of the cricket pitch and care village to follow. The development will still come with the same list of community benefits, public open space, highways improvements as the original application and we are discussing what else we get for the additional 150 homes.
The site investigation results show that there are in-fact very few solution features on the land and that gives opportunity for a better layout and an additional 150 homes which prevents us having to find another area of green field land to build on elsewhere. (See blog earlier this week about The Local Plan).
So here is the updated masterplan which forms part of the updated application and we have asked Bloor Homes to conduct an updated consultation on the revised layout. The public display was held at Merchistoun Hall a few days ago but for anyone who could not get to it a full set of the display boards is below with details on how to comment.
To download the consultation boards click on this link here: Bloor Homes Horndean Exhibition Banners Dec 2018
If you would like to give feedback on this consultation please can you email it to BOTH Bloor Homes on info@exhibitionfeedback.co.uk AND copy in the Ward Councillor Cllr Elaine Tickell on elaine.tickell@easthants.gov.uk Please can you do this by the 7th January 2019.
To view the updated Outline Application please click on this link HERE where you can also post a comment before the 11th January 2019 for the case officer to review.
