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December 2009 Bulletin
Fill your Christmas recycling sack
Give the environment a gift this Christmas - recycle as much as possible, including your tree!
New Forest residents are reminded what can go in their clear recycling sacks over the Christmas period. Christmas cards, card, plastic bottles, paper, tins and cans can all be recycled using NFDC's clear recycling sacks. Christmas gift wrap cannot be recycled so it shouldn't be put in the clear sacks. Glass bottles should be taken to a bottle bank.
Christmas trees can be recycled at various recycling points from Monday 4 January to Sunday 10 January, including the village car park at Lyndhurst. Real Christmas trees less than 1.8m high can be left for collection with household waste, but will not be recycled.
Just as a reminder, the following can't be put in the clear refuse sacks:
Gift wrap, plastic, including yogurt pots, margarine and ice cream tubs, carrier bags and cellophane. Shredded paper. Drink cartons/Tetra paks. Textiles should be taken to textile banks. Food scraps should not be mixed with recycling waste.
New cashless parking system for NFDC car parks
Drivers in the New Forest will find it much easier to park with the introduction of Parkmobile. The Council's new scheme will allow drivers who find themselves without the correct change for parking machines to use their mobile phone to pay. A short phone call to a dedicated line will active parking. The system is easy to use and drivers can register for free. Drivers will be asked for their mobile phone number, car registration and credit card details.
A convenience charge of 20p is incurred on top of each parking transaction. For regular users, Parkmobile offer a membership service for £1 per month, plus 10p convenience charge each time the service is used.
For more information, contact Parkmobile on 020 3008 7058.
The new payment system will operate alongside the current pay and display system and the parking clock scheme to give customers more choice and flexibility.
No charge for battery recycling
Don't throw away your old batteries - you can now recycle them instead.
After joining the BatteryBack scheme, NFDC now has recycling containers available for the public during office hours which are provided at no cost to the council or the council tax paper. All types of dry cell household batteries are suitable for recycling.
The containers are available at all NFDC offices (including Appletree Court, Lyndhurst), NFDC leisure centres and the Civic Centre, Library Road, Totton.
Beat the (credit) freeze this winter
If you are getting poor returns on your investments, why not try energy saving? One of the biggest savers, cavity wall insulation, is very likely to cost nothing if you are 70 or over. Other measures such as loft insulation, hot water tank jackets, appliances taken off standby and energy saving bulbs can all add significantly to energy saving.
Call the Energy Saving Trust on 0800 512 012 for further information.
Local Policing
Crime figures for October supplied by PC Dee Faulkner show some improvement for the local area. Dwelling burglaries were down to zero and there was only non-dwelling burglary (a shed at Copythorne Parish Hall).
However, six vehicles had windows damaged in the Winsor/Newbridge/Cadnam area one evening in mid-October, possibly caused by missiles from a catapult. Two vehicles were broken into at Bartley and property stolen. Thanks to witnesses, a man and a woman have been arrested and are being investigated for the offence.
Police have attended and dealt with 16 separate road traffic incidents this month across the area. Seven of these involved animal death or injury on the Forest roads. Regrettably, animal road deaths have increased by 100% across the Forest since January. It is important to remember that any collision with an animal has the potential for serious injury or death to humans too.
Safer Neighbourhood teams currently have the following priorities:
* reducing the number of burglaries to sheds and outbuildings
* reducing the number of thefts from vehicles parked at New Forest beauty spots.
You can influence these priorities by contacting your team, either by phoning 101 or e-mailing to new.forest.north.snt@hampshire.pnn.police.uk
The Parish Council
The Council meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 7 pm in the Copythorne Parish Hall (rear extension). Members of the public are very welcome to attend the meetings and speak on any matter of concern during the first five minutes of the meeting.
Local planning applications are discussed at both full Council and Planning meetings, and the Council welcomes the views of both applicants and neighbours to help formulate a response to the planning authority.
The dates of the next few meetings are:
Tuesday 8 December 2009 Planning
Tuesday 12 January 2010 Planning
Tuesday 26 January 2010 Council
Please note that there is no full Council meeting in December.
The full calendar of meetings for 2009/10 is on the parish website.
The Clerk to the Council (Mike Derrick) can be contacted at 3 Chichester Close, East Wellow, Romsey SO51 6EY. Telephone and fax 01794 322080, e-mail copythornepc@tiscali.co.uk . Web site: www.copythorne.org.uk
Seasonal Greetings
The Parish Council sends all residents its very best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year
