About Michael Hill

Wreningham Parish Council Chair

Parish council team give playing field a make-over

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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 Track Activity Calendar for 2017

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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

Nr. Elm Tree Farmhouse, Hethel Road – Planning Application

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2017/0518
Applicant: Mr. J. Moon
Location:Land South Of Elm Tree Farmhouse Hethel Road
Proposal:Outline application with all matters reserved for a detached chalet bungalow.

Copies of the submitted plans can be viewed on-line. If you want to comment on this planning application please send your comments to South Norfolk Council by 31 March 2017 at:

South Norfolk House, Cygnet Court, Long Stratton, Norwich, NR15 2XE
Tel 01508 533780
planning@s-norfolk.gov.uk

Elm Tree Farmhouse, Hethel Road – Planning Application

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2017/0382
Applicant: Mr Jon Moon
Location: Elm Tree Farmhouse  Hethel Road Wreningham NR16 1BB
Proposal: External staircase & door to south end of existing farmhouse. Conversion of existing cart shed / garage to domestic annex.  Steel framed & clad Shed 2 within existing gardens.

The submitted plans can be viewed here

Please return comments to South Norfolk at planning@s-norfolk.gov.uk by 14 March 2017

Church Road – Pentaco email

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The following e-mail was received from Pentaco this morning:

You are undoubtedly aware that the works along Church Road are progressing apace and there is a reasonably increase in vehicle movements in and around site. This is unfortunately a consequence of the restricted area for site parking and the external works now required to complete the project. To mitigate this problem and prevent vehicles parking on the surrounding highway, we have made an informal agreement with the landowner to form an area of parking on the field behind, with access off Hethel Road.

We have discussed with the planners at South Norfolk and they have agreed to this temporary arrangement with immediate effect for a period of approx 6 weeks.

We trust you will agree this is of benefit to all parties and will hopefully allow the development to be concluded with minimal disruption to the residents of your parish; however if you wish to discuss any of the above, please do not hesitate to call or visit Dean on site.

Many thanks for your continued co-operation.

Regards,

Paul Chappell, Contracts Manager, Pentaco Construction Ltd

15 Hurricane Way, Airport Industrial Estate, Norwich, NR6 6EZ

Tel. 01603 778950; Mob. 07866 925140 ; E-mail.  paul.chappell@pentaco.co.uk

Tree felling & trimming

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Following a report about the trees on Parish land, the Council commissioned Paul Reeder to undertake some trimming, felling, cutting out and tidying up of the trees around the Village Hall, at the back of the “Reading Room” and beside the children’s play area on the playing field. The first two are well underway as I write this. The latter is planned for next Wednesday, 22nd February 2017.

If you or your family are in the playing field on Wednesday, take care.

 

Litter Pick 2017 – 30th April

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Last year we had a successful Litter Pick in the village and lots of fun doing it. Besides £20 for registering our Litter Pick, we won £200 in the South Norfolk Council draw for club funds. This year the Litter Pick will be on 30th April. Further information will be posted on this site or on the village noticeboards. SNC information is here.

Do contact us on info@wreningham.org if you want to help organising it, take part, or have suggestions to improve on last year.

litter pick poster 2017

Vandalism

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A fourth act of vandalism to property belonging to the developers on Church Road has been reported.

Besides being pointless, this just raises the level of insecurity along Church Road, with the builders and in Wreningham as a whole. Where a person has a grievance about some aspect of their life then they should address it in a manner which does not cause concern to others about their property or themselves.

From March the houses will start becoming available for occupation by people new to the village, or indeed some villagers who are thinking to move house within the village. Petty vandalism is not the way to present Wreningham or its residents.

As far as we are aware, no other incident has been reported in Wreningham. If you do see anything untoward or are a victim of vandalism you should inform the Police as soon as you can.

Item (with a story) needs repair? New BBC 2 series…

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Ricochet TV asked us to inform you about their new television show for BBC, “The repair shop” ( repair shop flyer ). Their team of experts include trades such as blacksmithing, ceramics, clockmakers, upholsterers and carpenters. The show looks into repairing beloved and interesting possessions for people who would like to see them restored or repaired back to their original working order.

They have looked to include items ranging from pocket watches to grandfather clocks, rocking horses to drawn carriages, from toy cars to VW campers. Communities, too, may have items that are important to them: e.g. memorial plaques; eroded statues; snapped weather vanes; broken sun dials; cracked gargoyles; fading carvings, etc.

The show will feature sentimental/interesting items in need of repair and will feature the repair-work of some items in the show with a community value, are treasured or, are essential to communities, but which may have an interesting story and purpose.

If they accept it for the show, the item would be repaired at their repair shop (a barn outfitted for their experts) and returned to the community at no expense to its owner. There would be broadcast TV coverage from start to finish of the item, in the work shop and when it is revealed to the owner or community.

Contact them at repair@ricochet.co.uk or on 01273 224800 or via:
Ryan Leigh, Casting Team / The Repair Shop, Ricochet Ltd
Pacific House,126 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 3TE
Tel: 01273 224800 Fax: 01273 770350
www.ricochet.co.uk