£13,750 has been paid to the Parish Council in respect of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). This is a levy paid by developers to the District Council and a proportion is allocated directly to the Parish concerned. The CIL money is to be spent within 5 years on Parish related projects. Send your suggestions for appropriate expenditure to the Parish Clerk. See the guidance – Parish Council CIL guidance note.
SNC Parishes receiving CIL – CIL report on SNC Parishes
Representatives from Parish Councils within the Policing Area D1 , which includes Wreningham, attended a briefing by Inspector Colbert. The police have forwarded their presentation and notes:
D1 Parish Council Presentation April 2017
D1 Parish Council Presentation April 2017 – Meeting notes
If you have questions about this or other policing matters, the Engagement Officer is Jim Squires who can be contacted through the Parish Clerk.
The Ambulance Service have now added the Wreningham Village Hall defibrillator to their database. This means our defibrillator is live for use. Should it be needed then they will be able to provide the access code.
The Parish Council is planning two training sessions open to all villagers to prepare them in the use of the defibrillator and assisting patients. More on this later.
A Parish Council work party gave the village playing field a spring clean and make-over on Saturday April 8.
From 8.30am to 3pm several hardy souls undertook to clean up the playing field and the play equipment on it. Jon put his pressure washer to good use and washed away years of grime from the zip wire platform, the skate park, the shelter, the table, swings and dolphin. Josh, Hughie and Michael worked on the grass covered mats – lifting them, cleaning away layers of earth and grass, and then replacing them. The turf came in handy to restore the grass under and around the shelter. Anne applied the graffiti remover with vim & vigour to the skate park. Meanwhile Keith fitted a set of goal nets onto one of the goal posts and cleaned the posts before helping with the mats.
Thank you everyone for your work. Especial thanks to Christine for allowing us to connect to her tap to provide water for the pressure washer.
So much done and still more to do. We will be arranging for at least one more day of effort to tackle the equipment we did not have time to spruce up. Watch out for announcements, we would love to see more helpers.
Lotus have written about the Track calendar 2017. They have new internal procedures intended to reduce their impact on the community:
- No Lotus Driving Academy at Hethel – LDA is now a global activity with Academies in Asia, North America and Europe
- No more Mitsubishi Lancer Club Sprint (exceptionally noisy vehicles)
- No more formula type race car testing by 3rd parties
- No vehicle running in evenings unless critical to Lotus business
- No back to back events over the same or consecutive weekends
- Weekend Events classed “potentially noisy” spaced out at no more than 1 per month with more than 4 weeks interval on average
- Updates for the local community.
Potentially noisy users in 2017 currently limited to:
Lotus on Track:
- No more than 6 Saturday events per year.
- Comprises Lotus product owners Track Day events.
- All vehicles noise tested to comply with regulation limits and records kept.
- Has been running for over 10 years at Hethel.
Lotus Motor Club Sprint:
- 2 fixed date Sunday events per year – 2nd April and 6th August 2017
- Comprises Lotus staff club members, Lotus owners, other varied vehicles from associated clubs.
- All vehicles noise tested to comply with MSA regulation limits and records kept.
- Has been running for 20 years at Hethel.
Classic Team Lotus:
- 2 hours allocated per week during office hours for testing. Generally used once or twice per month)
- Comprises classic and vintage Lotus racing cars.
Lotus Cars Engineering:
- Week days and possibly week ends during core hours.
- Vehicle engineering activities for Lotus products and 3rd party clients.
- Comprises road going type vehicles.
Any comments to Alastair Florance, Group PR Manager, GROUP LOTUS PLC, Hethel, NR14 8EZ
T: 01953-608462 or E: aflorance@lotuscars.com