GREETHAM COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2017 www.greethamrutland.com

Greetham Neighbourhood Plan Referendum

Thursday 7th September 2017 7am to 10pm

Community Centre

Please vote!

A copy of the plan is available in the Village Shop

If you wish to have it delivered to you e-mail hodson001@gmail.com

with a request

COMMUNITY CENTRE NEWS

Whats On ! Meet ‘em in Greetham – every Thursday

morning

Looking Ahead !!

Safari Supper Saturday 7th October !

Children’s Halloween Party – Saturday 27th Octo-ber 4-6pm Firework Night – Friday 3rd November from 6pm Children’s Christmas Party – Saturday 23rd De-cember 4-6 pm

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COMING EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER

Sun 3rd Greetham Church said Communion 8am Greetham Church 9.30am Morning Worship

Wed 6th Oak House Lunch Thu 7th Greetham Neighbourhood Plan Referendum Sun 10th Greetham Church 9.30am Morning Worship (9.00 breakfast)Mon 11th WI Thu 14th Mobile Library RCC Plan Review Roadshow 4pm - 7pm Village meeting 7pm Parish Council meeting 7.30pm Sat 16th Harvest Supper Sun 17th Greetham Church Harvest Festival 6pm Village Quiz Wheatsheaf 8pm Wed 20th Last day for newsletter items for October newsletter Thu 21st The Gathering Sun 24th Greetham Church 9.30am Holy Communion Greetham Open Garages Thu 28th Mobile library Sat 30th Church clean

Oak House lunch Our Oak House Over 60s Lunch Club will be on Wednesday

6th September - 1.15pm arrival. Two courses for £7.50.‘few spaces available, please book in advance, fabulous 2-course meal for £7.50 per person’. ‘Must ring to reserve on 01572 812647’. WI The next meeting of the WI will be on Monday September 11th. Geof-

frey Smith will give a talk ‘Behind the scenes at Chelsea Flower Show’.

Rutland Mobile Library in Greetham Thursday September 14th and 28th. Times are approxi-mate Oakham Road Lock’s Close 14.00 - 14:20 Church Lane Near No 20 14:20 - 14:40 Church Lane Opp. The Plough 14:40 - 15.00 For information please contact Oakham Library 01572 72291 Rutland County Council Local Plan Review Roadshow Thursday 14th September 4pm to 7pm Community Centre

Find out about a potential major development which Rutland County Council now want to impose on Greetham. This is your chance to express your feelings and concerns about the proposals direct to RCC.

A Village meeting will be held at 7pm on the same date so that your con-cerns can also be reflected in the formal Parish Council response to the proposed Plan. David Hodson e-mail: hodson001@gmail.com Tel: 01572 813902 Visit www.greethamrutland.com For all you want to know about the vil-lage

Parish Council The next General Meeting will be convened on Thursday September14th 2017 at Greetham Community Centre commencing at 7.30 to 8pm ap-prox in order to get GPC’s comments into RCC in time to be included in any reviews of the Core strategy. There will NOT be a PC meeting on the first Monday in September.

Greetham Monthly Sunday Quiz

At ‘The Wheatsheaf’ on Sunday September 17th 8pm.

(After the Harvest Auction). Teams of four or thereabouts.

£1 per person entry (to include a light snack) with the mon-

ey going to good causes - also a lucrative cash snowball.

Church clean Just a reminder that the Greetham church clean is on

September 30th 10.00 - 12.00. Bring your dusters and mops and let's get

our beautiful church spick and span. Tea/coffee and cake for all.

GREETHAM OPEN GARAGES

Bag A Bargain or Clear Out Your Clutter!

Sunday 24th September 2017

9.30am- 1.00pm

A great opportunity to turn your unwanted items into cash!

All participating households will have their locations advertised on the village

map, which can be purchased by bargain hunters from the Village Shop, before,

and on the day.

£5 per household, please submit your donation at the Village Shop

Closing date: Saturday 16th September - Snooze and you lose!

£1 donation per bargain hunters’ map, available at the Village Shop from

Saturday 23rd September

: Greetham Community Playarea

Raising Funds for Greetham Community Playarea

REVIEWS July and August Gatherings keeps on surprising

Owing to holidays and printing deadlines, we were unable to get the July Gathering reported last month, so we have included it with Augusts for a combined write up. As previously reported June was a massive Gathering meeting with all previous attendance records broken. With unsettled weather leading up to both the July and August events, we were expecting a drop in attendances – but did it hap-pen? Well, no it did not! July’s overall attend-ance was just about the same as June’s, and

Augusts only slightly down on that! In anticipation of an increased turnout at both events, the organisers set out the car park spaces, with more space being allocated to the classic cars and less to the public parking area. After all, historically July and August had been good months for the Gatherings and we did not want to be caught out with insufficient space in which to park the classics. With one eye on the weather forecast on each Thursday morning, and another on the downpour outside, it was looking a bit precarious. However, to be fair (and no weather puns intended) the forecast proved to be spot-on for both months and from lunchtime onwards we had warm sunshine and the roads were rapidly drying. Was it getting good enough for our supporters to come along? The answer to that is a resounding YES, as we again witnessed over 140 classic cars and over 30 classic bikes in the bike park at both meetings! In fact, we had a record number of 95 bikes turn up in July. Yet again, it was good to meet and greet our regular attendees, and extend a warm welcome to the new ones. We continue to hope that you will keep on coming. In July we had engaged the services of a professional drone operator to film parts of the event. This was all done in accordance with the CAA guidelines and rules. We will publicise where the film can be viewed when we have received it from the operator. Please note that we do not encourage or authorise any other drone activity in or around the Gathering unless specifically agreed in advance by the Gathering Committee and done so in accordance with the CAA guidelines and rules. We must ensure your safety is a priority. This time there will be just a few vehicles that were to be singled out. There are just so many now, but if you are interested then you should ensure you are at the next Gathering! In August we had a Doriot Flandrin Parant (DFP)– a rare early 20th century French car and this attracted a lot of attention. Also we had the usual mix of Brit-ish classics (Rolls Royce, Aston Martin, Jaguars, Austin, Rover, Singer, Lotus, Triumph, MG, Jen-sen, Mini, a nice Vauxhall Cresta and Ford Zeph-yr) and others (Citroen, Trans-am, GM, Porsche,

Maserati, Jeep, Mazda, Volvo). In the motorcycle park we has a gorgeous Modial 175, Suzuki T20, a couple of Guzzis, BMWs some BSAs, Nortons, Velocettes, a Laverda, AJS, Triton, Honda and Sunbeam. Thanks as always must go to all who attended, whether showing a vehicle or not. Also to Andy and crew for the fine food he always prepares; to Anne and team for the bar (which as always did a great job); to Maureen, Carol and their crew of addi-tional volunteers for the cakes and coffee, to Janet and Loreen for running the raf-fles; to Debbie and Sue on the gate, to Steve P, Steve C for helping marshalling, to The Jackson Stopps Inn (Stretton) for donating a generous raffle prize, and to all the supporters who lend a hand as and when. Finally a big Thank You to the first response team for attending and we give thanks that they had nothing to do. Finally, a repeat appeal for help. We would welcome anyone who can give their time on the day to help set-up the venue, assist during the Gathering (say from 5:00 to dusk) and help clear up. Even if it’s only an hour, it would be appreciated. Similar-ly if you can help Maureen and Carol on the cakes, teas, coffees then that would be appreciated. Lastly – could you bake a cake and donate it to the Gathering? The increased numbers attending are putting a strain on our capacity to keep the cake eaters satisfied! If you can bake a cake it would be appreciated and help the cause. Maybe you could bake one at some time and freeze it? If so, please let me know so I can pass it on to the ladies in the kitchen. Thank you. Your cake would help raise money for YOUR Community Centre as all profits from these sales are helping pay for the new kitchen – so can you bake a cake and do a bit for the community? Pictures from this Gathering will be posted on the Gathering website (www.GreethamGathering.co.uk) in the coming days. We shall only post the rarer ones as we don’t want to keep publishing the same vehicles when they kindly sup-port us each time. We shall hold the remaining Gathering for 2017 on the 3rd Thurs-days of September, but will keep you all informed of any changes or news. Martin Fairbairn. Email: Martin@Middle-house.co.uk, mobile: 07759052146, home 01572 813717

Greetham WI August 2017 Our August meeting was an evening trip to Melton Mowbray, where we visited Ye Olde Porke Pie Shoppe, home of the famous Dickinson and Morris pork pie. Nine-teen members were greeted by head baker Stephen Hallam who introduced him-self, then delivered a serious health and safety warning, following which we scrubbed up, and were kitted out in fetching red hairnets and blue plastic aprons. Stephen explained the philosophy and history of the business, then it was our turn to get down to business. Each one of us had a mould (known as a Dolly), a neat ball of seasoned pork shoulder, a cut- out pastry lid, and a ball of pastry dough to mould into a pie shape. Watching Stephen do this made it look effortlessly easy, which of course it is not! We all had a tin of flour for rolling out and for using on our hands, but the dough was so perfectly made that no one had problems with it falling apart, tearing or sticking to the Dolly. We were shown how to seal the edges with beaten egg and how to crimp the top (“north, south, east and west”) to make the top look attractive. The pies were then put to rest under refrigeration for a few hours before being baked overnight. We then moved into the shop to see (and sample) some of the products on sale. As well as pork pies (In various shapes and sizes) fine cheeses, cakes and other deli-catessen products. Stephen told us more about the history of the business---the shop was opened by John Dickinson in 1851. They currently produce 4000 pies per week, rising to 30,000 in the week leading up to Christmas. The firm also owns the

Sausage Shop next door----there must be a great many pigs in the Vale of Belvoir! We learnt that their pies were granted Protected Geographical Indication status by the EU, meaning that only pies originating in a designated local region can be called authentic Melton Mowbray Pork Pies. Chris Parkin offered to drive over to Melton the following day to collect our efforts, and kindly offered us tea when we collected them. Although some of our efforts did not look quite as perfect as we had hoped, they tasted fabulous, and everyone thor-oughly enjoyed our visit. Next month’s meeting (September 11th) will be a talk by

Geoffrey Smith entitled “Behind the Scenes at the Chelsea Flower show”

Greetham Bowls Club Saturday the 19th August represented the end of the outdoor Bowling season and was marked at Greetham by Finals Day held at the Pavilion. This was organised by George Ruff and Sheila organised the finger buffet for our lunch break with cake contributions from our worthy ladies. Prize Cups were pre-sented to Yvonne Smith, Don McGarrigle and Malcolm Rylance. We shall be using the green (next to the Community Centre) for as long as the weath-er (and light) holds on Monday and Wednes-

day evenings from 6.30pm so if anyone wishes to come and join us and try out the sport we would be very pleased to welcome you as we are very short of members. John Hall

Sunday 6th August 2017- East v West Olympics Following on from last year’s cricket match Stephen Calnan (East) & Steve Bertuzzi (West) hatched a plan to have a day of games. The weather was perfect and Greggie had white lined the 5 a side pitch, welly wang area and 4 sprint lanes brilliantly, thanks. Tennis started early at 12.30pm, then had the final at 3pm, the East took an early lead 4 points to nil, and followed up with a massive 3 points to 1 win in Petanque (West having to borrow players!), The West came back with a strong 2 points to 1 win in the badminton and even though the adult footy was won easily by the East, the u11’s West pulled back for a 1 point each draw. Basketball shootout really got the team members and crowd going, it went down to the last shot when Toby (just

finished Petanque) came and shot the winning basket for the East! Onto the field events which were started about 4pm with egg & spoon (plenty of cheating/disqualifications here), next was the sack race, followed by the surprise relay, welly wang and tug o war. The West came back into the points winning the tug of war 2 points to 1 and also many of the field events in the u11’s going their way.

The East managed to just hold onto their lead winning the day 16 points to 14. A great day was had by all and certainly, helped by the fair weather and villagers taking part. Hopefully next year more competi-tors can take part especially in the u11’s as someone needs to catch Drew! Many thanks to Mo & Jackie for or-ganising the BBQ, cakes, ice cream/sweets (profit £177) and Anne for running the bar, and SJ, Katie and Pippa for managing the tombola (profit £125.60) and U11 games/sign up tent. Also thanks to marshals, referees Trevor, Chris-tian, Steve Crad/Peers and the Community Centre committee help-ing set up and McGoo for playing their Irish magic! Finally thanks to

the hard boiled egg bakers and gazeebo (SJ) & easy up marque use (Roly) Don’t forget if you want a game of tennis, turn up Mon or Tuesday nights at 7pm for a game or 2! BW, Stephen Calnan & Ste-

ve Bertuzzi

GENERAL Rutland North Neighbourhood Police Leicestershire Constabulary 101 Through the force website – www.leics.police.uk and following the link – Your Community. Rutland County Council 01572 722577 Crimestoppers 0800 555111 URGENT Remember, in an emergency always call 999.

PARISH COUNCIL Greetham Parish Council Minutes Monday August 7th 2017

Greetham Community Centre @ 7.30 pm Members present: Mr K. Edward (Chair); Mr P. Hitchcox; Mr D. Hodson; Dr R. Oak-

es; Mrs Ann Jenkins; Mrs S. Begy; Mrs R. Marshall. Also in attendance: N. Begy (Ward Member); Clerk; 3 members of the public. Points raised by the public:

Speed of traffic in Main Street

Riparian stream responsibilities

Dog waste signage and impact

1 Apologies for absence Jane Denyer (Vice-Chair) 2 Disclosure of interests in items on the agenda None given 3 Approval of minutes from 5/6/17 Proposed: SB Seconded AJ Carried unan-imously Approval of minutes from July 3rd Proposed: RM Seconded: PH Carried unanimously Approval of minutes from July 17th Proposed: AJ Seconded: SB Carried unani-mously 4 Matters arising Ongoing Playground Project / CIL – A letter has been sent from Ward Member to Corporate support. Update at next meeting. Action: NB Clean up signs and waste bag dispensers. Clean up signs are now in some places throughout the village. It is proposed to replace the old one in the Community Centre car park. Suggestions for more sites for display would be welcome (Newsletter Edi-tor to be approached to include this in the September edition. Also to include a re-minder that it is the owner’s responsibility to clean up after their dog Action: PH). Bag dispensers, to be put up on CC field and Village Green. Action: DH. Speed Watch. (PH) Interest registered with Leicestershire Police. Church Lane meeting: Traffic Focus Group. For September/October (after the sum-mer holidays). June Defib – model checked. Bi annual battery and pads need changing shortly. Action: Clerk 5 Finance Financial audit. 3 month audit completed. by RM (June 2017) For information: RCC: £398. 6 Planning – all planning applications can be accessed on the RCC website

6.1 2017/0411/FUL Greetham Valley Golf Course (condition 3, holiday accommoda-

tion, not for residential use) Approved

6.2 Information/ clarification from Planning Enforcement Officer

Old Post Office/ Halliday’s Yard, Main Street.

The rear facing windows must all be rendered opaque prior to occupation.

The original gates to Halliday’s Barn (a listed building) must be rehung as per original

conditions of planning.

The fence must be removed by the end of September.

4, Great Lane. The agent has been advised that a planning application is required for the

wall and revised entrance.

6.3 Initial discussion of “ Rutland local Plan 2016 - 2036, Local Plan Review, Consulta-

tion Draft Plan, July 2017”

GPC have received this document which proposes two development sites in Greetham. A

response will be drafted by the Planning Focus Group for discussion at the meeting on

September 14th.

The following points will be included:

RCC have stated that the Local Plan Review outweighs the Neighbourhood Plan.

GPC propose to challenge this.

GPC are concerned about the road (parking and traffic), sewerage (impact of yet an-

other 20 plus houses on an already overloaded system).

It is possible that by 2020 there will be a 50% increase of houses in Greetham.

Action: Planning Focus Group to produce draft response to RCC for discussion at the Sep-

tember meeting.

GPC are reminded that this is a Consultation Process.

GPC will seek to inform all Parishioners of the potential of this development through a poster which will be displayed on the Village Notice Board. 7 Focus groups. One bench has been offered by a member of the public for Great Lane, and a second bench funded (also for Great Lane). Permits required from RCC. Action: PH Report from Planning Focus Group. Following the ‘Call for sites ‘when the whole County were invited to provide submission of sites for development 4 sites were selected for Greetham. RCC have now issued the Local Plan Review Draft Plan. Proposals for Greetham as preferred sites are: 28 houses opposite Garden Centre (Exton Estate/ Cot-tesmore Parish) and mixed use development on the quarry site which comprises of 30 houses and 17 hectares of employment land. The Planning Focus Group held a meeting with RCC to clarify issues and seek answers to : Q1 –Allocation of Precept/ CIL on Exton site (GRE02) which is in Cottesmore Parish. Re-sponse: This is not a responsibility of the Local Plan. Q2 – Development outside of Cottesmore, whose Neighbourhood Plan states this is not desirable. Response: Local Plan outweighs Neighbourhood Plan. Q3. The Greetham Infrastructure will not support additional development. Response: Infrastructure is not considered until after the preferred sites are selected. Q4 Quarry Site. The area will accommodate more than the Local Plan shows. Response: The current plan will be for 30 houses and 17 hectares of employment land. A meeting was held between RCC and the quarry site owner. A record of this meeting is not available to GPC. Q5 The preservation of wild life was considered in the original planning for the quarry. Response: The need for development outweighs this. Q6. Where can documents which show how these sites were assessed be accessed?

Response: These will be available on the RCC website shortly. Report from tree warden: Trees, will be watered twice in August. The trees have been inspected and are in good health. 8 Floods, sewers and surface water / Conservation and environmental issues 2017 Fly infestations. Greetham Parish Council received no communication from Pa-rishioners regarding high fly infestation in 2017. Many comments were placed on the Greetham in Rutland Facebook page, which GPC cannot accept as communication, and individual complaints were received by RCC. RCC included a copy of their investi-gations to GPC despite the fact that there was no direct involvement with them. Hedge removal at Garden Centre site – RCC have responded and are considering action to be taken. Great Lane ‘hedge’. This is beginning to impact on the road. Highways to be consult-ed. Action: Clerk. 9 Risk Assessment Draft risk assessment for discussion at next meeting. 10 Community Centre Update

Eat v West an excellent event.

Heating a priority. 11 Church grass cutting

Letter received from Church Warden regarding frequency of cuts. Grass cuttings

should be cleared – RCC to be contacted.

Contact RCC regarding subcontracting of grass cutting in 2018. Action: Clerk 12 Cylce path A survey is being produced regarding the need for a cycle path from Greetham to Stretton. Update at a future meeting. 13 Air pellets Concerns expressed regarding firing of pellets at the bottom of Great Lane. The dan-gers of this action are stressed 14 Neighbourhood Plan update Referendum on September 7th at Greetham Community Centre. Copies of the Neighbourhood Plan are available from the Village Shop. Greetham News will include this on the front page. 15 Welcome Visit East end of the village,4 completed by SB Northbrook Close development completed by RM 16 Correspondence and Communication Email from resident re new development. Resident contacted and concerns addressed. New Council Ward Boundaries. Information on Village Noticeboard. Email regarding churchyard grass cutting. Addressed as an agenda item. Clerk to re-spond. Rutland Local Plan Review. Discussed in the agenda. Greetham Neighbourhood Plan Referendum. Email from resident regarding planning conditions. Addressed in the agenda. Clerk responded. Emails from RCC regarding fly infestation and monitoring of chicken farms. Placed on website. Hooby Lane Quarry – update from NB at a future meeting. Email from resident regarding road naming. Clerk to respond. Lamp post poppies – finance item for September. Purchase of 50 suggested. Pro-posed: KE Seconded: RO Carried unanimously. Clerk to place order Green waste bins RCC propose a charge from 2018 Jules House Youth Service: Request to attend a GPC meeting to share information.

Clerk to contact. 17 Reports from outside bodies Environmental issues, Bio mass boiler. There has been no response to recent com-plaints. Action: Clerk to communicate GPC concerns over lack of response and request for assurance that the matter is being dealt with. For information: The Golf Club has achieved an environmental award for 2017. 28/9/17 Planning training – Parish Forum Confirm who open to. 18 Items for a future agenda Smoke omission. Environmental Agency, vole update Village Clean Up, proposed date in October. Update from Traffic Focus Group, traffic speed. Update from Environmental Agency (stream) 18 Date of next meeting – Thursday September 14th 2017

E mail: greethampc@gmail.com

Some ‘clean up’ signs are now in place in the village but more are pro-posed. The Parish Council would be grateful for any suggestions for where more signs could be sited. The Parish Council wishes to thank the many responsible dog owners who take dog waste home or use the bins, but would ask that all dog owners carry out this practice.

FOR YOUR DIARIES Macmillan Coffee Morning Monday 2nd October 2017 - 11.00 am - 1.00 pm At The Paddock, Shepherds Lane, Greetham Everyone welcome, raffle prizes required. Look forward to seeing you, Sally Cluley Ride and Stride 9th September 2017 Every two years, the Rutland Historic Churches Preser-vation Trust organises the Rutland Ride and Stride which challenges participants to walk, cycle or ride to as many churches in Rutland as possible in one day. There are 64 altogether! The funds raised are used to award grants towards the repair and refurbishment of our County's historic churches. This year we would like to make a big effort to support this worthy char-ity. If you would like to take part please visit the Trust's website to download a sponsor form and use their interactive tool to plan out how many churches you might try to visit. I have also set up a Just Giving page if you prefer online sponsorship: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/GreethamChurch Please get in touch with Sylvia Bland if you'd like to ride in a group with us - we'll try to accommodate everyone regardless of ability. With enough interest we might form a Starbursters group to visit ALL the Rutland churches between us. Otherwise, please help us to serve refreshments to those cyclists, walkers and horseriders coming to visit our church that day.

Greetham Safari Supper , Saturday 7th October Do you love to entertain, do you enjoy good food, and enjoy good company Join us at the Greetham Safari Supper on Saturday 7th October 2017 Three courses, three different houses, a different party at each sitting… always different, always fun Commencing with a sparkling reception at the Community Centre We are raising money for the community centre. Dress code is posh frocks and DJ’s The cost of the evening is for Hosts £13 per head And Guests £20 per head (Book early ,there are limited spaces) To find out more about the supper /or to request a booking form contact

Vicky Peers 812893 Helen McGarrigle 812804 All booking forms to be returned with payment by Saturday 9th Septem-

ber .

DARE TO DO

Monday 25 September

2017

6.15pm for 7.00 pm

Wilson Auditorium,

Oakham School

An evening with adventurer Sarah

Outen. The inspirational story of

Sarah’s four and half years solo

circumnavigation of the world by boat

and bike

Sarah’s talk will be preceded by wine and

canapes.

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