Notices

Noise at Whilton Mill kart track

The Parish Council was asked to contact the DDC to complain about the nuisance noise from Whilton Mill activities. Here is the reply:

I am writing in reply to a letter sent by the Chairman of the Parish Council which is written on behalf of a resident or residents. In order to investigate the complaint I need to have an aggrieved party and in order to carry out monitoring I need to have a location. The noise nuisance needs to be monitored from the boundary of the nearest noise sensitive property as well as from inside, if possible, to observe the effects on the occupiers. I also need to get the complainant to compile a ‘log’ of the noise nuisance.

Can you ask for any aggrieved parties to contact me to arrange monitoring.

Ian Collings, Environmental Protection Officer 01327 302542

If you want to complain, please contact Mr Collings direct but please let the Parish Clerk know so that details can be collated. Her contact details can be found here.

Construction work at Roughmoor

Work started in January building the new farmhouse and the majority of the construction vehicles are coming through the village.

The contractor is Edgar Taylor and should there be any damage to residents’ property, and you can be certain that it is a ‘Roughmoor’ vehicle, please inform the Parish Council with full details. Contact details can be found here.

Allotments

There have been instances of rubbish being dumped on the allotments by village residents. Please note that the allotments are not a public tip and any further instances will be regarded as fly tipping.

Community Speed Watch

The Community Engineer is supportive of 20mph in the village but judging by the response to the Dec/Jan newsletter article we do not have a speeding problem. If we think there is, then we should back it with some real data and show some commitment to reducing speed and improving safety.

It is not too late to start Community Speedwatch – we require 20% of the electoral population to support the project, a volunteer coordinator and a minimum of 10 volunteers to be trained to use the laser speed gun to monitor traffic speeds.

Please contact any parish councillor if you would like to help,

Mike Lewis,

Chairman WPC

Also to obtain a lorry weight limit we need hard data on lorries using Whilton as a through route, any volunteers to carry out a lorry survey over a couple of days to support the automated traffic count carried out last year.

Aims

reduce excessive speed through the village
change people's attitude to speeding
create a safer environment

If we wish to curb speeding in the village, this scheme is a good idea; we could get:-

monthly visits from the Safety Camera Team
use of portable speed indicator devices
high visibility Community Speed Watch boards on lamp posts etc
loan of hand held gun for use by locally trained community volunteers

To participate in the scheme we need:-

20% of the electoral population to 'sign up' for the project to go ahead
a minimum of 10 volunteers to monitor traffic
one nominated person to be the co-ordinator

In consultation with the police, three places in the village have been identified as suitable for using the hand held laser speed gun and the Speed Watch team can come out to give us a short presentation on the scheme and demonstrate the equipment.

So, if speeding is really a problem we should start with the co-ordinator - any volunteers?

Please contact any parish councillor.