Wildlife watch volunteers clear riverside area bordering Bere Stream (From Dorset Echo)

Wildlife watch volunteers clear riverside area bordering Bere Stream

12:12pm Saturday 20th February 2010 in

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Bere Regis

• SCOUTS joined adult volunteers from the wildlife watch group to help to clear an area bordering Bere Stream to create a conservation area recently.

This area had become very overgrown, and clearing it will give light and space to spring flowers like primroses and marsh marigolds.

If you would like more information about the wildlife watch group, telephone Tony Bates on 01929 471563.

• A JUMBLE sale was held in the scout hut in Elder Road to raise funds for Bloxworth church. with a donation going to the Bere Regis scout group.

• AT THE February parish council meeting, following comments from two residents, the dog bin due to be placed at the end of Butt Lane will now be located at the west end of Back Lane, a popular route for dog walkers.

The parish council welcomes input on matters affecting our village and is pleased to respond accordingly.

All dog owners are again urged to use these facilities, once installed, to ensure hazards and problems to other villagers are prevented.

In particular we would urge people not to dump dog poo that is bagged up into plastic bags into the hedges; in this form they are unsightly and take very many years to biodegrade and this is what the dog bins are for!

Thank you all for your forbearance and help on this.

Our MP, Annette Brooke, has written to the parish council expressing concern regarding road safety in West Street.

A constituent has written to her requesting that parking be banned on the southern side of West Street and a pedestrian crossing be installed, as the speed and volume of traffic are a major concern.

The parish council has replied that, working with Dorset county council, the council had nine speed humps installed which the parish council feels are doing a good job in keeping the speed down to a safe level.

Regarding parking, the council has always felt, and continue to do so, that double parking creates a funnel which reduces speed still further and discourages West Street as a rat run.

There will be a consultation from Dorset county council about the Purbeck schools review shortly. The proposal is that Bere Regis School children will go to Lytchett Minster School at age 11. It will still be possible for children to go to, for example The Purbeck School, but this would be parental choice and the cost of travelling would be the parents’ responsibility.

Any problems or comments on this proposal, please contact our county councillor whose email address is a.brenton@dorsetcc.gov.uk.

Paul Derrien, the Housing manager of Purbeck Housing Trust will be coming to the next meeting of the parish council.

If you have any questions about any of their properties or the surrounding grounds to their properties please do come along and ask Paul directly.

The Parish Council will be discussing Housing in Bere Regis Over the Next 20 Years with Steve Dring – the planning policy manager at Purbeck district council - at our next meeting in March.

As a parish council we will then review what options are open to us and which one we think would be best for Bere Regis.

We would then hold an open consultation Meeting on Thursday, April 9 in place of our normal parish council meeting for the month at 7pm in the Drax Hall where we hope as many members of the public as possible would be able to come along and give us your views so that we can review our proposals in the light of this.

I would emphasise that there will be further opportunities for people to comment after this but that this will direct the next stage of the consultation process which will result in a pamphlet being issued to every household in Purbeck with the views of the various town and parish councils.

Please put April 9 in your diary.

Tolpuddle

• TAI CHI classes are to be held in Tolpuddle Village Hall every Wednesday from March 3 from 4pm until 5pm..

This is a collaboration between Age Concern, Dorchester and TOSCA to provided exercise opportunities for the over-fifties.

The Tai Chi master, Patrick Harries will lead the Village Hall sessions, which are subsidized under the Fit as a Fiddle campaign.

The first session is free, then it costs £25 for a further 12 sessions.

Tai Chi has been shown to have real benefits in aiding co-ordination, joint flexibility and improved mobility as well as concentration.

For all information, telephone Jan Hopkin 01305 848486.

Affpuddle

• SPYWAY Theatre presents Little Arthur's History of England in Briantspuddle village hall on Saturday, March 6.

This one-woman show is about Nancy Cummins and her charge in the nursery of a big house in September 1939.

Tickets cost £6.50, available from Philippa Thorniley, telephone 01929 471497.