B1113 Closures 15 June

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Temporary Road Closures for the Women’s Cycle Tour Event (South Norfolk)

NCC Highways are restricting access to a number of roads to facilitate the safe passage of the Stage 1 of the Women’s Cycle Tour. For Wreningham this will mean that between 11.30 and 14.30 on 15th June 2016 you will not be able to access or travel on the B1113.

NCC documents are below

  1. The Order -This allows the Traffic Authority (Norfolk County Council) to temporarily restrict or prohibit the use of a road and/or footpath – Order
  1. The Notice – This is the public Notice we must advertise at least seven days before making an Order – Notice

If you have any questions about the order and notices, please contact Hazel Simmons on (01603) 222988. If you have any questions about the work, please contact the Area Highways Office on the number given on the notices.

Archaeological Dig

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30 May: Just to update my recent post following some helpful information from David Kirk.

The scoping document, Archaeological Written Scheme, for the recent dig is from the SNC website posted as part of the developer’s planning application documentation. This document summarises the report (Archaeology South East 2015) of an earlier dig on site and in paragraph 1.3.5 states:

“Dating material was found in a majority of the features and indicates a late Anglo-Saxon and early medieval date for most of the activity on the site. There is no pottery that dates to after the 14th century and only one context that can with any certainty be said to be of 13th – 14th century date. Reliably stratified earlier material was only found in one feature, a pit that can be securely dated to the Iron Age. Undiagnostic, but most likely pre-Middle Bronze Age, struck flints were found within later contexts and are therefore residual but do indicate use of the area in prehistory.”

David also unearthed the report from the Bird in Hand dig which identified the Roman oven or several ovens (they are uncertain which) along with other finds. This is held on the Archaeology Data Service website and you read it here. It is highly likely that the full report of the most recent dig on Church Road will appear on the Archaeology Data Service web site before Heritage Norfolk produce their own version.

24 May: People have been asking the Parish Council about the results of the archaeological dig on Church Road. Norfolk Heritage confirm that the contractors working for the developer have now completed their work and are preparing their report. This will be sent to Norfolk Heritage in the next 3 to 6 months and following review it may be loaded on their website http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/. Norfolk Heritage said the findings and artefacts are consistent with the known history of the village and its medieval past.

European Union Referendum

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NOTICE OF REFERENDUM

Referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union in the South Norfolk voting area.

1. A referendum will be held on Thursday 23 June 2016 to decide on the question below:

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

2. Applications to register to vote must reach the Electoral Registration Officer by 12 midnight on Tuesday 7 June 2016. Applications can be made online: www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.

3. Postal vote applications, amendments or cancellations must reach the Electoral Registration Officer, South Norfolk Council, Cygnet Court, Long Stratton, NR15 2XE by 5pm on Wednesday 8 June 2016.

4. New applications to vote by proxy at this referendum must reach the Electoral Registration Officer, South Norfolk Council, Cygnet Court, Long Stratton, NR15 2XE by 5pm on Wednesday 15 June 2016. Requests for changes to existing proxy vote arrangements and cancellations must reach the Electoral Registration Officer by 5pm on Wednesday 8 June 2016.

5. Applications to vote by emergency proxy at this referendum on the grounds of disability or for work/service reasons must reach the Electoral Registration Officer, South Norfolk Council, Cygnet Court, Long Stratton, NR15 2XE by 5pm on 23 June 2016. The disability must have occurred after 5pm on Wednesday 15 June 2016. To apply on the grounds of work/service, the person must have become aware that they cannot go to the polling station in person after 5pm on Wednesday 15 June 2016.

17 May 2016

Counting Officer: Sandra Dinneen

Printed and published by the Counting Officer, South Norfolk Council, Cygnet Court, Long Stratton, NR15 2XE

 

Village Litter Pick 2016

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On Sunday 17th April, a very bright and sunny day, 20 or so volunteers gathered at the village hall for the announced Village Litter Pick and to collect their pickers, Hi-Viz jackets, and sundry large bin bags. The Social Club had made the arrangements and South Norfolk provided the equipment.

Men, women and children dispersed along the four main roads of Wreningham to retrieve the litter dropped along the roadsides. An hour or so later, when all had returned, there were 11 bags of landfill and 10 bags of recyclables. South Norfolk collected them on Monday. Three fly-tipping locations were identified and reported for South Norfolk to deal with.The Social Club prepared a splendid spread of  filled rolls in the Margaret Preston Room. Everyone enjoyed the stroll around the village and supported the idea of coming back next year for Village Litter Pick 2017.

Thanks to everyone who helped put this event together and especial thanks to the volunteers giving up a small part of their weekend for the village.

Tablet Computer for Sale

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Wreningham Parish Council has a tablet computer which is now surplus to requirements. The details are: 2 years old, Microsoft surface, Tegra 3 chip, windows 8.1(?), 10.6 inch screen, wi-fi, 64Gb Ram, with a bluetooth keyboard (microsoft sculpt mobile keyboard). The tablet is similar to this.

Reasonable offers to Wreningham Parish Clerk – clerk.wpc@gmail.com .

New LoveWreningham Facebook page is launched

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A new Facebook page has been launched for everyone who loves Wreningham, and is called, very appropriately, LoveWreningham

It is a public page, open to all and we want to hear your news, events and information about the village and everything that happens here.

We want you to post your thoughts about and photographs of our beautiful and fun village.

So if you want other people to know what you are doing, or what you group or organisation is up to, please post your news, at  www.facebook.com/LoveWreningham

Please give us a “Like” and share the site with your friend and neighbours.