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March 2010 Bulletin
Annual Parish Meeting
The Annual Parish Meeting is an opportunity for all local residents to obtain up-to-date information on parish affairs, meet their local parish, district and county councillors or just air their views on local issues.
This year’s meeting is on Wednesday 10 March at 7.30 pm at Copythorne Parish Hall (rear extension) and a warm welcome is extended to all parishioners. Light refreshments will be available before the meeting.
IT Workshops for Older People
Are you a computer novice? Would you like more help with word processing, surfing the net or sending e-mails? Then a new Computer Club organised by Age Concern may be the answer. The aim is to offer facilities for older people to have local access to computers, with a tutor to teach them the basics of using a pc.
Club sessions will be held on the following Fridays at Copythorne Parish Hall, from 2 pm to 4 pm (all at £3 per session): 12 and 26 March; 16 and 30 April; 14 and 28 May.
For more details, contact 023 8084 1199
In Pantomime Mood?
The Copythorne Amateur Theatrical Society (CATS) is staging a production of Mother Goose at Copythorne Parish Hall in March. Performance dates are:
| Friday 12 March 7.30 pm | Saturday 13 March 2.30 pm and 7.00 pm |
| Friday 19 March 7.30 pm | Saturday 20 March 7.00 pm |
Tickets prices are Adult £5, Child £4, with family tickets at £15 (2 adults + 2 children). Tickets are available at Bartley Post Office or by telephoning 023 8081 3415
Moped Loan Scheme
Community First New Forest operate a Wheels to Work scheme designed to help people aged 16 to 25 who have difficulty getting to employment, interviews or work-based training, because they have poor access to public or private transport.
The scheme is available to people living in East Hampshire, New Forest, Test Valley and Winchester districts and can provide the loan of a moped for up to 12 months for a small weekly hire charge.
For further information, contact Sue Ward at Community First on 01425 482773 or mopedadmin@cfnf.org.uk
Join the Garden Waste Collection Scheme
New Forest residents are invited to join the Garden Waste Collection service in 2010/11 and have all their garden waste taken away direct from home. The service, run by New Forest District Council, provides householders with a durable garden waste sack and offers a fortnightly kerbside collection.
The sack can be filled with grass and hedge cuttings, weeds, twigs and leaves. It costs £26 a year for the first bag and £15 for each additional one. The charge has been frozen for the third year running to encourage more people to join.
Residents can join online at www.newforest.gov.uk/gardenwaste or by calling NFDC Customer Services on 01590 646123.
Local Policing
The number of reported incidents in the local beat decreased again in January, falling to 59. Details for Copythorne parish include:
Assault:Domestic dispute in Bartley – being dealt with by the police
Criminal damage:Damage caused to the inside of a house in Bartley following a domestic dispute
Dwelling burglary: 0
Non dwelling burglaries:A secure lock-up at Ower entered by force, with cash and car keys stolen
MacDonalds at Ower entered forcibly but nothing stolen
Sheds at Cadnam broken into and tools stolen
Theft:Incidents include a drive-off from a petrol station at Ower, a caravan stolen from Paultons’s Golf Club, a water tank stolen from a field in Bartley and cash stolen from a handbag in Bartley.
Thefts from motor vehicles:Once again, there have been thefts from vehicles parked in New Forest car parks. This month they have mainly been in the Fritham area. Vehicles were also broken into outside Copythorne School and in Romsey Road, Ower.
Your local police officers are: PC Dee Faulkner and PCSO Lisa Quinn.
To contact your Safer Neighbourhoods team, phone them on 101 or e-mail 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 9 March 2010 | Planning |
| Tuesday 23 March 2010 | Council |
| Tuesday 13 April 2010 | Planning |
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.gov.uk
