Page 9 - Countesthorpe Herald August 2023

Open Day
The Parish Council is to hold its first Open Day on 31st May at 4 pm – 8 pm at the Village Hall.
Come along and talk to your Councillors. There will be various displays on show. See what your Council is doing for you. Tea and coffee will be available.
Hanging Basket Competition
Would you like to enter the Hanging Basket/Container competition?
The more unusual the better!
For more information and an application form please contact the Parish Office.
Cemetery Chapel Renovation
Pictured here are Leicestershire County
www.leicestershire.gov.uk/roads-and-
Play Equipment on Dale Acre
the right hand side of the cemetery.
Councillor Les Phillimore with Parish Council Chairman, Councillor Mick Gillespie.
travel/road-maintenance/grass-cutting.
The Parish Council are investigating
The Parish Council also lists the areas
MOBILE SPEED SIGNS
it maintains on its website. The Parish Council does get asked if it would take over the maintenance of other areas. This
playground designs for Dale Acre
Recreation Ground.
The first of the Mobile Vehicle Speed
The designs will be displayed at the Parish
to replace damaged notice boards, it would require an agreement wiLthintdhen Farm Drive Bridge closure
Activation Sign has now been installed
Council’s Open Day on 31st May.
County Council and due to the number
is carrying out a general survey to get
at Willoughby Road. Thanks to
Leicestershire County Council has
The Parish Council are also investigating
of areas this unfortunately would not be feedback as to whether they are in the
Leicestershire County Councillor Les
closed the bridge at Linden Farm Drive
providing a trim track around Willoughby
manageable within the Parish Council’s
most appropriate locations, how regularly
Phillimore allocating £6900 to the Parish
Road Playing Fields.
due to health and safety issues. This has
Council from his County Highways Fund,
existing resources. A list of the open spaces managed by the Parish Council is included on our website.
LIBRARY NEWS
The Summer Reading Challenge is here.
Running from July 1st to Sept 2nd,
people read the information on them, the
this has enabled the purchase of two
information provided on the board, or
Countesthorpe Country Park
report. what method do you use to keep up to date
mobile signs in total.
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Meetings have been held with representatives
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four locations in the village, including
County Council.
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The Country Park is due to be transferred to
and Station Road/Cosby Road which
in the Library and from the Parish Council
offices. Or you can just email us with
Blaby District Council by the developers and
suffers from heavy through traffic. The itnwstasllhaotpioend tohfattthe Psiagrinssh iCsoiuncriel swpounlsde lteoasleotchaetliaonds, hoofwceovenrctehrenrefaorre ismppeoerdtaintg lvaenhdisclaepsinpgraenvdiodurasilnyagheigishsluiegshtoedbetorestohleved bPeafroirsehthCisocuannciblebcyonlsoidcearledre.sidents. The Leicestershire County Council Highway Fund was a pot of money that was allocated to each Leicestershire County Councillor for use on highways projects across the parishes in their area. It was
at the discretion of the County Councilor on how the funds were distributed. LCC Councillor Les Phillimore’s approach was to share his allocation of funding across the parishes in his area and consulted with those relevant Parish Councils. As this amounted to around a sum of £7000 for Countesthorpe, it was felt that to purchase these Mobile Speed Vehicle Activation Signs was the most beneficial use of the funding available. These signs provide a long term benefit to residents, promoting road safety to the village and the project has been able to be carried out at no cost to the Parish Council, which would otherwise have been costly to carry out.
Parish Council office opening times:
Parish Council office opening times:
The Parish Council receives calls with regard to the mowing of grass verges
The Parish Council are in the
within the village. The Parish Council
process of buying the land adjacent
is responsible for mowing its own open
County Council, the Parish Council aims
Visitors to the cemetery will have
to carry out grass cutting as it is needed.
noticed the works taking place.
Unfortunately, the County Council has a
A new cremation area has been
schedule of mowing so the grass is not
added at the end of the cemetery
always cut. Here is the County Council’s
to provide many additional plots.
grass cutting schedule website: https://
A path has also been installed on
This area is being landscaped to
provide additional burial land.
children aged 4-12 can borrow 6 books or
any comments you have. Please send responses by 31st August. Your feedback
more from the library and earn themselves
a medal, certificate and other incentives
Monday to Thursday 8.00 am to 4.00pm
along the way.
is greatly appreciated.
Friday 8.00 am to 1.00pm
Our Jigsaw swap is expanding every week. From 200 pieces up to 250 pieces, we have puzzles of varying sizes.
Did you know you can borrow 12 books for up to 3 weeks! Why not pop in before your holidays and stock up.
We’ll still be running our RhymeTime sessions during the summer holidays for 0-5year olds (Older siblings are welcome!) For more information check out our website, or Facebook page.
SCOUT GROUP ELM TREE
We are sad to report that the Elm Tree planted by the Countesthorpe Scout Group at the Centenary Paddock in March was vandalized and unfortunately didn’t survive. The Parish Council donated the tree as part of the group’s initiative to remember the period of Covid pandemic and the impact it had on young people
COUNTESTHORPES OWN BRASS GROUP
been highlighted in a structural engineer’s
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GRASS CUTTING
in the village and the period of time in their life that was lost. The Scout Group chose the Elm Tree as a symbol of new growth and new beginnings and as the tree remains small it would not impact adversely on the surrounding area. The Parish Council will continue to support this and has purchased a replacement Elm tree which it will nurture until an appropriate time for the Scout Group to plant. We hope the replacement tree will be respected and protected by the local community.
CONSULTATION NOTICE BOARDS
We have a number of notice boards at
various locations across the Village.
Occasionally a notice board can be
damaged and need repairing/replacing.
To inform the Parish Council as to whether
to the cemetery on Foston Road for
spaces, however, there are a number of
future cemetery provision.
areas within the village that the Parish
Restoration of the Chapel is also
Council cuts on behalf of Leicestershire
being considered and it is hoped
County Council by agreement or do not
that it can be opened to the public
have a registered owner. Unlike the
for quiet contemplation.
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