BREAKING NEWS AND NOTIFICATIONS
The full Under Hamdons Climate Adaption Plan is now available on the Somerset Wildlife website:
[https://www.somersetwildlife.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/Under%20Hamdon%20Parishes%20-%20CAP%20-compressed.pdf](https://www.somersetwildlife.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/Under%20Hamdon%20Parishes%20-%20CAP%20-compressed.pdf)
Through collaborative events, residents from Ash, Martock, Kingsbury Episcopi, South Petherton, and Stoke Sub Hamdon have identified four key themes for how Under Hamdon Parishes should adapt to the changing climate:
-Improving and increasing green spaces
-Adapting to flooding
-Building local climate knowledge and action
-Influencing local planning and development
If you would like to be involved in the project, please contact the Ash and Martock Nature volunteers:
Dr Andrew Clegg ac@asclegg.co.uk
Gareth Isaac Garethisaac2003@yahoo.co.uk
ASH PARISH COUNCIL VACANCY
Have a little spare time each month? Become a Parish Councillor and shape what happens in Ash!
Why join?
- Speak up for residents
- Influence local spending & projects
- Champion better servicesEligibility (age 18+; meet one):
- On Ash’s electoral roll
- Live/work/own property in or within 3 miles of the parish (last 12 months)
Meetings: First Monday monthly, 7 pm, Pavilion, Ash.
Interested?
📧 clerk@ashpcsomerset.com | ☎ 01935 571050
Informal chat: Cllr Steve Davey – steve.davey@ashpcsomerset.com
Co-Option Pack – Information and Application Form
Prepare Your Property For Flooding!
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Ash Alerts Notice
Already receiving Ash Alert emails? Please encourage friends, family, and neighbors in the parish to sign up. The more subscribers, the quicker we can communicate and coordinate help when needed.
To join, email ashalertemails@gmail.com or use the Contact Us page on www.ashpcsomerset.com
We’ll continue sharing updates on the village website, Facebook page (Ash Alerts), and via email. For those without internet, notice boards will still be used, but may not be as timely.
Stay safe,
Ash Parish Council
DEFIBRILLATORS IN ASH
Just to remind everyone, we have three defibrillators in Ash, one outside the Pavilion at the Recreation Ground, one in the old phone box in Milton and the other outside Ash Village Hall.
CPR-AND-DEFIBRILLATOR-TRAINING.pdf
NEW TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR THE CLERK TO ASH PARISH COUNCIL
PLEASE NOTE the new contact number for the Parish Clerk is 01935 571050.
OVERGROWN VEGETATION
When hedges tree or shrub overhangs the highway, pedestrians can injure themselves from the impact with the vegetation and alternatively, pedestrians can be forced towards the carriageway, which can result in an increased risk of an accident. Responsibility for cutting back vegetation lies with the landowners or occupiers of their boundary fronting the highway. The Parish Council’s responsibility is to report such matters to Somerset Highways.
Please can you check if any of your boundaries with the highway has offending growth and, if it has, make arrangements to remove any overgrown vegetation land owners must also remove any debris from the road surface to prevent nuisance and to stop it blocking surface water drainage systems.
Thank you
then please think about donating your old one to Prodigal Bikes. If you have a bike to donate to a person in Africa contact Jamie Bruce on 07791 123 337.
Thank you.
For more information visit https://www.prodigalbikes.co.uk/
BOOK EXCHANGE
Please do not leave piles of donated books on the concreate floor as they get damp and then have to be destroyed.
Thank you
NEIGHBOURHOOD AND FARM WATCH
It seems that we are entering a new wave of local burglaries and shed thefts . As a community we need to act, Ash currently has only two Neighbourhood Watch coordinators one who looks after part of Burrough Street and one who looks after part of Back Street and no Farm Watch cover. We would like to see the rest of the parish protected so please think about signing up. For more information and details of the aims and benefits of the schemes.
You Can Sign Up Here or you can contact one of the Parish Councillors contact details on Parish Councils Members Page to register your interest.