Olveston Parish Council

LATEST NEWS

We wish a Happy New Year to all our Parishioners.

Rubbish and Recycling arrangements from Mon 25th January 2010: South Gloucestershire Council have produced a poster explaining how our local collections will be made from Mon 25th January.

Parishioners should now see that the Horse Chestnut trees in Aust Road have been "trimmed"! - despite the weather trying its hardest to delay proceedings. South Gloucestershire Council have confirmed that planting of other trees, probably lime, will commence soon on the opposite side of the road.

Congratulations to the village of Olveston in Olveston Parish on winning South Gloucestershire Village of the Year 2009 in the Small Village category. The competition is run by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) with sponsorship from Calor. This is the third time the village has won its category. Judging was based on four areas: community feel, sustainability, communication and business. June Lyons, Chairman of Olveston Parish Council, expressed delight at the wonderful news and attributed Olveston's success not just to the village's physical appearance but to Olveston's amenities and to the fact that 'there are lots of things going on'. Geoff Chappell, who co-ordinated Olveston's entry in the competition, also emphasised the vibrancy of village activities and paid tribute to the significant amount of voluntary work carried out by many in the village, including those on the Parish Council.

Points of interest discussed at the Parish Council meeting on 26 January 2010:

Olveston Pre-School Development Plans for Parish Hall
Parking Issues in the Parish

You can see the full agenda here.

Councillors

Chairman - June Lyons	632239
Vice Chairman - Irene Reid	613461
Allen Cogram	614821
Tony Heming	614906
Val Hudspeth	614984
John Spratt	619962
Jane Webb	201640
John Hughes	613754
Andy Clarke	613804

Clerk to the Council: Valerie Tutin	613730
Llyn-Din, The Common, Olveston BS35 4DQ
email: olvestonpc@googlemail.com


Chairmen of Committees:
Leisure and Recreation	John Hughes
Footpaths and Environment	John Spratt
Planning	Irene Reid

Footpaths Warden	Peter Cabban 612689

Council Meetings

Parishioners are welcome to attend Parish Council meetings. Check out the Events page on this website for dates and times of meetings. Please contact the Clerk if you plan to attend.

You can read the most recently approved minutes of Olveston Parish Council here and the most recently approved minutes of the Council's Recreation and Leisure Committee here. (These minutes are put on the website once they have been approved and signed as an accurate record at the subsequent meeting of each committee.)

Annual Parish Assembly

The 2010 Annual Parish Assembly will take place in the Olveston Parish Hall, Tockington on Thursday, 29th April 2010 at 7.30pm. The guest speaker, from South Gloucestershire Council, will discuss Emergency Provision in South Gloucestershire. Further details to follow.

The minutes of the 2009 Annual Parish Assembly were provisionally approved at the Parish Council meeting on 19 May 2009 but cannot be accepted formally as a correct record until the 2010 Parish Assembly. To see the 2009 minutes, click here.

The Council's Vision Statement

Read the Council's Vision Statement here.

Council Policy on its Donations to Charities

You can read the Council's policy here. For details of any decisions about donations, you can check the minutes each month.

'Olveston Parish Matters'

Andy Clarke, one of our Parish Councillors, writes regular articles for the community magazine, Meeting Point, highlighting local parish matters. His latest article is reproduced here:

It's 2010 and Christmas has gone, so what are you looking forward to as the New Year stretches before you? If you're looking for new resolutions to stiffen your resolve, how about getting more involved with our community. You can, of course, make as much or as little of this as you like, but there are many ways to do so, including Rod Williams' Parish-Tidy volunteer group and the Vale Link Transport volunteers (see November issue). It is possible that yet another group will be in the offing too, which will be concerned with an overview of the Parish's current provision and its identifiable future needs.

However, if you would rather keep it simple, why not just turn up to support local events, whether at our rejuvenated Parish Hall functions, activities at the Parish's churches, entertainment, skittles or Jazz nights at the local pub of your choice.

Whatever your interests are, you could well find ways forward into a positive new year in the Olveston Parish community. Whatever the future holds the Parish Council would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year.

As you go about the Parish you may notice that South Gloucestershire work teams have made considerable progress in improving some of our roadside footpaths and verges.

For the walkers amongst you, the wettest November in years will have made many off-road paths very wet and muddy. Indeed many of the areas in the wilder, wetter places have become treacherous underfoot, though slippery leaf mulch and wet conditions have also made some of our public places rather dangerous too- so tread carefully everywhere.

It may perhaps be appropriate at this point to remind dog owners to remember to collect their doggy droppings- after all , it's mucky enough underfoot as it is!

Still pursuing an outdoor theme, we have news that, due to their increasing growth interfering with the power lines, the row of horse chestnut trees along the Aust Road opposite the allotments, is to receive a manicure from Western Power Distribution's workmen. Similarly, it was discovered recently that one of the three old Holm Oak trees down Ley Lane is in a dangerous condition and urgent attention is required to alleviate the problem.

If any of the items here, or other issues that vex you, prompt you to contact us, please ring any councillor or our hard working clerk, Mrs Valerie Tutin (01454 613730).