BREAKING NEWS AND NOTIFICATIONS
SAVE THE DATES!
Live Music with Grey Wolves
Saturday 4th May 2024 The Bell Inn, Ash
Ash Parish Summer Fete
Saturday 25th May 2024 Ash Pavilion and Recreation Ground
2024 Ash Parish Summer Fete
Village Charity Cricket Match
Saturday 27th July 2024 Ash Pavilion and Recreation Ground
COUNCILLOR VACANCY ON ASH PARISH COUNCIL TO BE FILLED BY
CO-OPTION
Ever thought about becoming a Councillor? If you did you could:
1. Help represent the views of local people.
2. Have your say about issues local people care about.
3. Help decide how local money is spent.
4. Help decide what projects can improve our community.
5. Help get the services our community needs.
It is not necessary to be qualified in any particular area. All that is required is
that you are a local person with the desire to represent and improve our
community. Meetings are usually held at 7.00pm on the first Monday of each
month at the Pavilion, Ash.
To qualify, you need to be 18 or over & meet at least one of the following four
qualifications:
• You are, and will continue to be, registered as a local government elector for
the parish in which you wish to stand from the day of your nomination
onwards.
• You have occupied as owner or tenant any land or other premises in the
parish area during the whole of the 12 months before the day of your
nomination and the day of election.
• Your main or only place of work during the 12 months prior to the day of your
nomination and the day of election has been in the parish area.
• You have lived in the parish area or within three miles of it during the whole of
the 12 months before the day of your nomination and the day of election.
If you are interested in being considered for the vacancy, please contact the Ash Parish clerk for more information. Email: clerk@ashpcsomerset.com
Tel: 01935 571050.
If you would like to have an informal chat about becoming a Parish Councillor
contact: the Chair, Cllr Steve Davey, Email: steve.davey@ashpcsomerset.com
DEFIBRILLATORS
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
CONSULTATION OF ASH PARISHIONERS
Designation of Ash Millennium Wood as a “Local Nature Reserve”
Ash Parish Council proposes to declare Ash Millennium Wood as a “Local Nature Reserve” (LNR). We would like to hear the views of people who live in the Parish on the proposal.
Local Nature Reserves are areas of locally important natural heritage intended to give better opportunities to learn about and enjoy nature close to where people live. Local authorities (including Parish Councils) select and declare LNRs using powers under national legislation. These sites then receive protection through local planning policies that aim to resist development which would adversely affect them. Once declared Local Authorities are responsible for making arrangements for the appropriate management of the site. Further details can be found at:
Local nature reserves: setting up and management – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Declaration of a LNR supports the PC’s commitment to help nature recovery (as outlined in its Biodiversity Policy) through protecting and enhancing the diversity and quality of the wildlife which is already present. It will reflect the effort invested by the Millennium Wood Management Group and local volunteers into management of the site for nature, recreation and education. The management plan for the site will also encourage greater involvement and participation by volunteers and users in learning about and managing the site’s special habitats and species. It would support the gaining of external grants and funding to support enhancements. A copy of the current management plan can be found on the Ash village website at:
Ash-Millennium-Wood-Management-Plan-2023-FINAL.pdf (ashpcsomerset.com)
Please let us have your views by telling us, by the latest Friday 10th May 2024:
You can either:
a. complete the online survey at https://tinyurl.com/AshWoodLNR
b. fill out the form below and post in the Parish Council’s Post Box located at the Pavilion on the outside wall next to the defibrillator.
| Ash Millennium Wood Local Nature Reserve consultation | |
| 1.Do you support or oppose the proposal to declare Ash Millennium Wood as a ‘Local Nature Reserve’ (LNR)? | SUPPORT OPPOSE |
| 2.Your name and address (Personal details will be deleted after results have been collated) | |
| 3.Have you visited Ash Millennium Wood?
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YES NO |
| 4.What do you like best about Ash Millennium Wood? | |
| 5.What changes would you like to see? | |
| 6.Any further comments you have
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NEW TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR THE CLERK TO ASH PARISH COUNCIL
PLEASE NOTE as of 7th June 2023 the new contact number for the Parish Clerk is 01935 571050.
ASH PARISH BIODIVERSITY
We would like to invite volunteers to join the team to help gather key information to inform our plans, map habitats and areas of environmental interest and to identify key opportunities to enhance our surroundings (on Parish land or collaborating with private landowners).
WHY VOLUNTEER?
By volunteering, you can learn about and help to improve your local environment, have some fun and make new friends. If you have a couple of free hours and would like to join us in making a difference, please contact ashalertemails@gmail.com or phone 01935 825020.
Volunteers of all ages and experience are very welcome.
WHY NOT GIVE IT A TRY?
JUBILEE MUGS Yes we still have some available!
As part of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations the Parish Council made a gift of a Jubilee commemorative mug to each child in the Parish under the age of 16. A number of these mugs have not yet been claimed. If you haven’t received your child’s mug, please let us know by email ashalertemails@gmail.com or phone 01935 825020 and we will arrange for you to get them.
We have also been asked if people could purchase commemorative mugs for themselves, older children or grandchildren. We do have a small surplus of mugs which can be purchased for £5.00 each on a first come – first served basis, so don’t delay, contact us by email ashalertemails@gmail.com or 01935 825020.
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/
ASH ALERTS
If you already receive Ash Alert emails we would kindly ask you to encourage more of your friends, family and neighbours living in the parish to sign up to the service. The more people able to receive Ash Alerts the better placed we will be to communicate more quickly to more parishioners enabling us to better coordinate help should the need arise. Just email ashalertemails@gmail.com and ask to be added. Alternatively, you can make your request via the Contact Us page on the village website www.ashpcsomerset.com
Ash Parish Council will as usual publish information on the village website www.ashpcsomerset.com Facebook page Ash Alerts https://www.facebook.com/Ash-Alerts-104800641092793 and our Ash Alert email system ashalertemails@gmail.com
We recognise that not everyone has access to emails and the internet and so it goes without saying that we will also continue to communicate via the village notice boards but this will never be as timely.
Stay Safe. Take Care.
Ash Parish Council
01.09.2022
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.