Broadmayne's Hall and Field project
At a Village Meeting on the 17th October the villagers present gave broad approval to the Project Team’s proposals for these very exciting developments for the village. In outline they agreed to suggestions to extend the village hall in order to improve its entrance, kitchen, meeting room and storage provisions. The new extension would involve the demolition of the now outdated changing rooms and the incorporation of modern changing and shower facilities for the Playing Fields. The playing fields would also benefit from a Fitness Trail around its perimeter involving various exercise stations. The proposals have been developed from the responses to surveys of the village and user groups.
Taking into consideration various suggestions made at, and after, the meeting the Project Team are now going ahead with further investigations and hope to engage an architect soon. With firmer plans it should be possible to roughly cost the project and assess our funding situation.
For more details contact Steve Diamond:
sdiamond@waitrose.com
PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS
The draft minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Monday the 9th January can be found by following the link to the left of this page under 'Parish Council'.
Superfast Broadband - Make your case NOW
The government has set up Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) and put aside some money with the intention of making Superfast Broadband available across the country. Two issues will affect the success for most of Dorset; one is that the project is only partially funded and secondly that we are not seen as an area with commercial potential.
Over the next couple of years it will be essential for the whole of Dorset and, for us in particular, for the Warmwell exchange and Broadmayne to demonstrate high demand and likely high take up of the service; this will encourage funders and service providers to take us seriously.
A project team is being set up by DCC and WDDC to spearhead Dorset’s response and their first aim is to secure funding, matching the Government’s contribution, from the County and District Councils and to get Dorset firmly into BDUK’s planning before Christmas.
What you can do.
At this stage we need to drum up support from DCC and WDDC so writing to our County and District Councillors NOW urging them to support the project is vital. We need to show what Superfast Broadband would mean to us and how keen we are to take advantage of it. In particular, if you run a business you need to stress the advantages to continuing to trade competitively in Dorset, to employment in the area, to reducing travel, etc..
Later we will need to assemble further proof of our need for the service in order to attract service providers and finance for “the final mile” connections on which we will ultimately depend.
A link to a full presentation about the project can be found by clicking
here
Lobby your Councillors now:
County Councillor: David Crowhurst: email
D.Crowhurst@dorsetcc.gov.uk
or C/O DCC, County Hall Colliton Park, Dorchester, DT1 1XJ
District Councillor: Alan Thacker: email
westknighton@tiscali.co.uk
Or C/O WDDC, Stratton House, High West Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UZ
WALKS AROUND BROADMAYNE
The first of a series of walks exploring the countryside around Broadmayne has just been published.
Click on the "Broadmayne Walks" link on the left to download the route and map.
Community Speed Watch
At the Parish Council meeting on Monday 3rd October five residents expressed interest in setting up a Community Speed Watch scheme in Broadmayne as already operates in Warmwell.
More volunteers would be needed and if you want to know more please contact Cllr. David Eaglestone.
Dorset Police Scam Busters Website Now Live
Dorset Police have created a NEW website to assist parishoners with scams that are currently happening in Dorset just click on the link on the righthandside of the sceen
National Crime Map Website
Dorset Police has recently been involved in the creation of a new national website, launched today, to give you more local information about crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB). You can visit the site at
www.police.uk. or click on the link to the right of this page.While the site has safeguards in place to protect the identity of individuals and victims of crime, this new level of crime, ASB and local policing information will, we hope, encourage you and your community to tell us about any concerns you may have about crime and disorder in your area. We also hope it will highlight the importance of individuals and
communities taking action to prevent crime and getting involved in working with or supporting your local Safer Neighbourhood Teams to tackle crime and ASB in your area.
As well as allowing you to find out information about crime in your area, it should also help you to hold your local Safer Neighbourhood policing team and our partners to account for the action jointly we are taking to deal with issues that matter locally to you.
We rely on you to tell us how well the team and their partners are tackling crime and other policing issues in your area. If you think more should be done to tackle crime or that improvements could be made to the type of action that is taken, then please do attend a one of the team’s public or street corner meetings or contact your
local Safer Neighbourhood Team directly.
Our police officers and police community support officers and are keen to work with you to find solutions to help us to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour together.
Further information about your local Safer Neighbourhood Team, details of future events and meetings will be accessible from www.police.uk or by logging onto www.dorset.police.uk
Yours faithfully,
Martin Baker QPM
Chief Constable
Fraud
Have you ever suffered at the hands of fraudsters or know someone that has? Did you report the matter or would you like information about fraud, then click on the link to the right of this page.
FLOOD PROTECTION FOR BROADMAYNE HOMES
Broadmayne Parish Council can make sand bags available to householders in the event of a threat of flooding.
If sandbags are required you should contact any Parish Councillor and they will be able to give immediate assistance.
Village Hall Bookings
Should you wish to hire the Village Hall, which is ideal for parties or dances, you can contact....
the Bookings Secretary, Mrs Beryl Stewart-Smith
on telephone number 077 4847 4715... or e-mail her on
Broadpea@aol.com
Age Concern Dorchester's once a month minibus shopping service curently has a few spaces. The service is funded by Social Care & Health, it costs £2.00 to register, and then only £1.50 per trip. This can be a lifeline to older people who cannot access public transport." said Sally Goss, Services Manager at Age Concern Dorchester. For more information and an application form please phone 01305 269444. "you can also use the service for dentist or optician appointments on that first friday of the month, it need not just be for shopping. If you need to take a carer or wheelchair/walking aid with you, let us know."
Created on 08/29/2003 05:51 PM by kelvinjury
Updated on 01/26/2012 09:03 AM by sdiamond
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