December 2015 - Great Milton, Oxfordshire

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December 2015
The Great Milton Bulletin
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Published by the Parish Council
www.great-milton.co.uk
No. 504
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Great Milton Parish Council
Chairman:
Stephen Harrod
01844 278068
Ward:
Church Road to Monkery Farm/The Priory
Vice Chairman: Peter Fewell
01844 279400
Ward:
The Green from Priory Bank to Tara/Applewood
Councillor:
Bill Fox
01844 279716
Ward:
Thame Road, inc Fullers Field and Green Hitchings
Councillor:
Rosalind Deacon
01844 278554
Ward:
High Street from North End Cottage to The Old Garage
Councillor:Vacancy
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Ward:
Thame Road from Green Hitchings to A329
Councillor:
Gwen Harris
Ward:
Kings Head House/Red Roofs to Wheatley Boundary
Councillor:
Peter Allen
01844 278334
Ward:
Milton Common
Clerk/Responsible Financial Officer: Helen Cherry – 07554 516989
21 Fullers Field, Great Milton, Oxford OX44 7PJ.
[email protected]
Parish Council Representatives
Rec Ground Committee:
Michael Robinson, Michele Block
Old Field Charity:
Hazel Hand, Niki Patrick
Hard Surface Play Area:
Susan Read, Jon Devitt
Neighbourhood Watch:
Lesley Bush, Liz Sands
Kent & Couling Charity:
Cynthia D’Anger
Sheppard Trust:
Ann Price, Pat Cox
Parish Council Publication Scheme (Freedom of Information Act)
Residents of the Parish can see the records of the Council held by the Parish
Clerk or learn where they may be accessed. These records include minutes,
financial information, and responses to planning consultations. Applications can
be made to the Parish Clerk and documents viewed by appointment. Any copies
required will be charged at 10p per page.
Front Cover
Clare Isaac, Siân Isaac, and Kabuki Snyder setting off on the Walk4Chris as
reported in April’s Bulletin. More inside…
If you have any photos of the village or events, we would love to include them!
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In My Opinion…
Some years ago, Great Milton published its CommunityLed Plan (CLP) for the next decade. One of the principal
themes in the document covered your views on the preferred
nature and extent of housing development that the village
would welcome – or resist. While this has provided some
quantified evidence of the wishes of the community at
large, the CLP does not have any statutory status in the
determination of planning and development issues.
Neighbourhood Plans (NPs) are the means by which local communities can set
out their own policies for future land use and development – and they carry statutory
weight in decision making. So, why don’t we get on and produce one? Well, the major
hurdle is to bring together a motivated team of local volunteers with the drive and
stamina to plough through the formal processes of developing an NP. These could
take a year or two and include formal, external scrutiny and a local referendum on the
drafted document. Also, the development processes can cost not insignificant sums of
money although Government and District grants cover most of these and make them
affordable.
Essentially, NPs allow local communities to plan the numbers, types, locations and
broad designs of future housing developments and to set out associated policies on
green spaces and local infrastructure. On the other hand, there is the view that Local
Plans issued at District level already provide adequate guidance on development in
small villages such as Great Milton. Moreover, strategic policies in such Local Plans
will always trump the subordinate policies contained in an NP.
All levels of Government are promoting the benefits of NPs for local communities
and will be using the carrot of greater distribution of Community Infrastructure Levy
(CIL) money to spend on their own local priorities. CIL will be levied by SODC from
next year on virtually all new housing developments at a probable rate of £150 per
square metre of internal floor area. Cutting a long story short, communities which
have NPs will receive 25% of CIL to spend on their own priority projects, but those
without will only receive 15% and be capped according to the number of dwellings in
the parish.
Your Parish Council has started to consider whether to embark on a Great Milton
NP project on its own or in collaboration with one or more adjacent parishes. Please
let your Council know your views and, if you are minded to be part of an NP project
team, they would be delighted to hear from you.
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My thanks to John Gilbert from Tetsworth PC for allowing me to plagiarise most
of the above writing!
In the meantime, best wishes for a happy, healthy and apathy free Christmas and
New Year, which we will be celebrating with carols around the (soon to be erected)
village Christmas tree, led by Simon, and followed by mince pies and mulled wine at
the Bull, starting at 18h30 on Friday 11 December.
See you there.
Stephen Harrod, Chairman
Parish Council Notes
The November meeting of Great Milton Parish Council was chaired by Cllr Stephen
Harrod (Chair & District Councillor), Cllrs Peter Allen, Peter Fewell, Bill Fox and
Gwen Harris in attendance. Also present were Helen Cherry (Clerk) and one member
of the public. Apologies were received from Rosalind Deacon. The next meeting will
be held on Monday 21st December at 7.30pm in the Pavilion.
Planning Applications
GMPC held no strong views of Planning Application P15/S3615/HH received
from SODC. P15/S3615/HH – Rylands Lower End, Great Milton. Single Storey rear
extension.
Planning decision notices received from SODC
SODC has approved a planning application, reference P15/S2939/FUL, for
development work at the following location: Great Milton Methodist Church Lower
End Great Milton. The application is for: Erection of a single storey front extension (as
amended by plan reducing roof height, and supporting information rec’d 15/10/15).
SODC has approved planning application reference P15/S2742/FUL, for a
proposed new dwelling at the Wheatley Farm Shop Old London Road Wheatley
OX33 1YW. The application is for a Proposed new dwelling (Log cabin style) to
replace existing dwelling. Red edged site area as amended by drawing no 6 received on
9 October 2015.
SODC has approved planning application reference P15/S3076/HH at 6 Lobb
Hill London Road Milton Common OX9 2NT. The application proposal was to erect
a replacement single storey rear extension to the property.
County Council Planning and Regulation Committee
The County Council’s Planning and Regulation Committee on 19th October 2015.
A consultation is to be carried out on a proposed update to the Local List of
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Information Requirements for validation of planning and related applications. It is a
statutory requirement to update this list at least every two years. However, no changes
are proposed to the items which feature on the list and the only changes are minor
modifications to the supporting text to update references to policy and guidance which
has changed since the list was published in January 2014.
The Maple Tree Children’s Centre
A concerned Parent (Charlie Payne) raised her concerns over the potential closure
of The Maple Tree Children’s Centre.
The Maple Tree Centre covers Great Milton, Wheatley, Little Milton, Garsington,
Cuddesdon, Horspath, The Baldons, St John, Beckley, Forest Hill Milton Common
and Tiddington. It is managed by Great Milton Primary School and runs regular
events. Here are some of the activities that the Centre covers; Baby and Child First Aid
course; Family Links; Breast Feeding Support and Advice. Maple Tree Children Centre
not only provides activities and courses it has also joined forces with Police, health
visitors and social services to offer guidance and support to victims of crime, mental
and physical health issues. The Centre is seeking financial support to enable it to stay
open. GMPC would like to support Maple Tree Children’s Centre in any way it can.
Police Report
In October Thames Valley Police received 2 calls from the Great Milton area.
They related to: 1 x Miscellaneous call, 1 x Traffic
Crimes Reported:
There have been no reported crimes in October from the Great Milton area
Crime Statistics:
The Home Office National Crime Mapping website gives the public access to
street-level crime information as well as information on their Neighbourhood Policing
Teams, Neighbourhood Priorities and Events - details of Have Your Say and other
neighbourhood activities. Log on to www.police.uk,
Have you signed up to Thames Valley Alert?
Thames Valley Alert is the new system for receiving crime and policing updates for
your area. You can also filter the updates you receive by specifying the priority level of
the messages. To sign up to receive alerts visit www.thamesvalleyalert.co.uk/
Please note that Thames Valley Police now has a new non-emergency number
which is 101.
Report sent on behalf of the Wheatley Chalgrove Neighbourhood Police Team
[email protected]
Financial Resolutions
Draft budget 2016/17
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The draft budget was received and reviewed. Further adjustments and savings need
to be made. These will be considered again at the next meeting on 21st December.
Great Milton Carol Singing on the Green
Friday 11 December at 6:30 followed by mulled wine and mince pies outside the
Bull Pub.
Helen Cherry, Clerk to Great Milton Parish Council
Notes from Your District Councillor
Air Quality Website Now Live
You can now see real-time information about air quality thanks to a new website.
The site www.oxfordshire.air-quality.info gives hourly updates about the level of
pollutants in the air, information about how poor air quality can affect people’s health
and what people can do to reduce their own impact on air quality.
It’s funded through a £20,000 Defra grant following a successful bid by our
environmental health team.
For more information, contact Claire Spendley:
[email protected]
Voter Registration Update
We’re making good progress visiting homes to confirm people’s voter details. By the
end of the month our 44 canvassers will have visited around 30,000 homes and
we’ll also have called well over 7,000 properties.
To see the latest response for your ward, vo to http://tinyurl.com/nc27p8c.
Our canvassers carry official ID, but our advice to anyone with doubts about
somebody on their doorstep is to politely turn them away, close the door and give
Elections a call on 01235 540351.
Funding Means GO Active will go Gold in January
We’re getting £227,000 from Sport England to launch Go Active Gold - a new
three year project offering sports and classes for those over 60 in our rural areas.
The activities will begin in January and include dance, tai chi, table tennis, golf,
bowls, Pilates, yoga, Nordic walking and fitness. We’ll be recruiting enthusiastic
volunteers to help set up activities and raise awareness of the scheme nearer the time.
Funding Available for Rural Businesses
In just four years the Southern Oxfordshire LEADER Project handed out more
than £1.2million to projects aimed at supporting the rural economy across the two
districts. It was so successful that when the opportunity to get more funding came up
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we jumped at the chance.
We’ve now set up an Oxfordshire wide LEADER scheme which also includes
Cherwell and West Oxfordshire and there’s £1.5million on offer for rural projects
until 2020. We’re looking for farmers, foresters, rural businesses or communities with
projects that fit into one or more of these themes:
• growing, selling, eating more local food
• vibrant villages
• reviving the River Thames and associated waterways
• unlocking the potential of woodlands.
If you know of a project that could benefit from some funding please encourage
those involved to visit http://www.oxfordshireleader.org.uk to see if they’re eligible.
Green Belt Study Published
The Green Belt in South Oxfordshire is continuing to do its job of protecting
our settlements and rural setting. That’s the conclusion of an independent study
we published this week, giving further weight to our position against large scale
development on the edge of Oxford.
There are a few small areas where the Green Belt boundary could be changed or
where there are opportunities for some sustainable small scale development and we’ll
look at these as part of the work towards our Local Plan. We’ll also ask parish councils
to consider the study when preparing their Neighbourhood Plans.
To read the full study visit http://tinyurl.com/nh8mc43.
Our First Criminal Behaviour Order
We’ve had our first big prosecution for dealing with scrap metal without a licence.
Anthony Joyce of Redbridge Hollow was last week fined £7,770, and received a
Criminal Behaviour Order - a first for the councils! For more details see our press
release: http://tinyurl.com/ogp2j4f.
A Watchful Eye
Our CCTV team has helped the police with 141 arrests across both districts
between April and September, and provided 120 evidence packs for court.
They monitored 1,256 incidents in Abingdon and Wantage, and 1,216 in Didcot,
Henley, Thame and Wallingford.
You can read the latest quarterly report at http://tinyurl.com/olzjyy5. If you have
any questions, please contact Steve Webb: [email protected].
Cash for communities
We’ve recently agreed to give over £400,000 to the following community projects:
• £100,000 for improving Henley’s skate park
• £100,000 towards Henley’s Rugby and Football Club’s club-house
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extension and refurbishment
• £28,950 for improving Stoke Row’s play area
• £53,700 towards improvements to Stoke Row’s village hall
• £49,037 for improving Great Milton’s play areas
• £39,028 towards refurbishing The Watlington Club
• £51,691 for new equipment and improvements to Oxford City Football’s
Clubhouse in Berinsfield
• £21,360 for new equipment for Wallingford’s Rowing Club
There’s still money available, so if you know of a group looking to fund a project
like any of these then please let them know they have until Friday 27 November to
apply
For more information, contact the grants team: [email protected]
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need any further information on any of
these items, or indeed any issues not addressed here.
Steve Harrod
District Councillor
Haseley Brook Ward
M: 07944 077 209
T: 01844 278 068
E: [email protected]
OCC Parish Briefing
Budget Consultation
OCC has launched a public consultation on options for saving money. It has already
saved or has firm plans to save nearly £300m since 2010 but believes it needs to find
another £50m of savings over the next four years. Council Leader Ian Hudspeth said:
“The government is rightly reducing public spending to tackle the national budget
deficit, which means we have to make some difficult decisions about council services.”
As well as receiving less money from government, the council faces rising demand
for services – particularly for vulnerable adults and children at risk of abuse and neglect.
About half OCC’s budget is spent on 2% of the population of Oxfordshire, and that
proportion is set to rise to as a result of a growing aging population. The council is
consulting the public before taking the decisions and delivering a balanced budget on
16th February 2016. Talking Oxfordshire, the council’s budget consultation, started
on 20 October, when all the savings options were published on the council’s website.
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It will close on 30 November.
There are three public events with an independent chair alongside the leader and
chief finance officer to provide residents with a chance to find out about the council’s
budget position and have their say. The first was on 27th October in Oxford, and
the second at Banbury Town Hall on 2nd November, and the last at Regal Centre,
Wallingford on 5th November. Start time 7.00pm. People need to register in advance
to attend the event. To register or take part in the consultation online go to www.
oxfordshire.gov.uk/budget. Hard copies of the budget consultation documents will
also be available in every library.
Children’s Centre And Early Intervention Changes
OCC is also asking for views on its proposal to adopt a new model of children’s
services in Oxfordshire for children aged 0-19 to save £8 million from the budget by
2016-17. The proposal is to create a brand new service for families and their children
aged 0-19 years old, or up to 25 if the child has additional needs. The consultation runs
until 23:59 on 10 January 2016.
OCC would open up to eight new Children and Family Centres across Oxfordshire.
These centres would support children and their families who need help and will integrate
the work of the Children’s Centres, the Early Intervention Hubs and Children’s Social
Care. As well as the new Children and Family Centres OCC would also provide an
outreach service so children and families can be supported close to where they live.
Furthermore, OCC would work with schools, health and other services to ensure that
children and families get the help that they need.
As part of the consultation process OCC would like to identify any potential
impact of this proposal. OCC would also like to identify options for the future use
of the Children’s Centres and Early Intervention Hub buildings. Options about how
universal services could continue to be run without financial support from OCC are
also to be considered. Hard copies of the consultation are available at all children’s
centres and early intervention hubs. There will also be three open meetings to discuss
the proposals. The events are 6-7.30pm and dates are:
18 November - Kings Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES
23 November - Didcot Civic Centre, Britwell Road, Didcot, OX11 7JN
30 November - John Paul II Centre, Causeway, Bicester OX26 6AW
Oxfordshire Together – Successful Launch Event For Parish Councils
As referred to above, OCC is looking at alternative ways in which it can deliver a
number of different public services, across a wide range of areas. The way public services
are delivered will shift towards enabling people and communities to take ownership
of local priorities. OCC will continue to provide community leadership and
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foster partnership working, but the days when the council could deliver all services to
all people have gone. OCC has started talking to town and parish councils to identify
opportunities to work together. An initial engagement event for town and parish
councils took place on 21st September. OCC’s vision for working together is outlined
in Oxfordshire Together – the Model booklet, with further details on some of the
initial services in scope included in the Transitional Offer of Highway Services booklet.
Both can be found at www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshiretogether. The programme
timetable is:
September – December
• Initial discussion with town and parish councils.
• Engagement with town and parish councils interested in taking on delivery of
some services to develop agreements.
January - April 2016
• Implementation of the first ‘tranche’ of agreements
April 2016 onwards
• Review viability of approach and consider further roll out.
Better Broadband For Oxfordshire – Update
OCC is on track to achieve the target – agreed back in 2013 – of connecting
64,500 homes and businesses with superfast broadband by the end of 2015. By the
end of August OCC had enabled over 56,000 premises to be connected to superfast
(24mbps) broadband, and expects to reach the goal of 64,500 premises by the end of
the year, on time and within budget.
Free Wi-Fi In Libraries
OCC has been awarded more than £86,000 by Arts Council England for Wi-Fi to
be installed in the 28 Oxfordshire libraries that currently do not have it (it is already
installed in 15 of the county’s 43 libraries). The WiFi fund supports the Arts Council’s
goals around developing library services, ensuring that they are fit for purpose now and
in the future. This is one-off grant from the Arts Council. It is therefore not a substitute
for money that may be saved from the Library Service’s annual revenue budgets in
future years as part of the council’s 2016-20 budget savings options. Installation will
take place during Spring 2016.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you require any further information.
Stephen Harrod
County Councillor
Chalgrove & Watlington Division
Oxfordshire County Council
M: 07944 077 209 • T: 01844 278 068 • E: [email protected]
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Services in Our Benefice for December
Sunday 6th
Advent 2
St. Mary the Virgin
Great Milton
St. James’
Little Milton
St. Peter’s
Great Haseley
Holy Communion BCP
8:00am
Holy Communion CW
9:30am
Family Service
11:00am
Christingle Service
with the children of
Little Milton School
6:00pm
Thursday 10th
Sunday 13th
Advent 3
Holy Communion CW
9:30am
Morning Praise
11:00am
Lessons & Carols
at Rycote
8:00pm
Wednesday 16th
Thursday 17th
Celebrating Christmas
with the children of
Great Milton School
2:00pm
Saturday 19th
Lessons & Carols
5:00pm
Holy Communion BCP
8:00am
Lessons & Carols
5:30pm
Sunday 20th
Advent 4
Sunday 24th
Christmas Eve
Holy Communion BCP
8:00am
Benefice Crib Service
4:00pm
Lessons & Carols
3:00pm
Midnight Communion
11:15pm
Friday 25th
Christmas Day
Christmas Day
Family Communion
9:30am
Sunday 27th
Christmas 1
Benefice
Communion CW
10:00am
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Services in Our Benefice for January 2016
Sunday 3rd
The Epiphany
St. Mary the Virgin
Great Milton
St. James’
Little Milton
St. Peter’s
Great Haseley
Holy Communion BCP
8:00am
Holy Communion CW
9:30am
Family Service
11:00am
From the Rectory
I have a treasured memory of when our daughters (who are now in their twenties)
were very young. Of course they enjoyed a story at bedtime, they also enjoyed a song or
two. One year, and for the whole of the year there were two songs that they especially
asked for, Away in a Manger and Little Donkey. Being the terrible kill joys that we were,
Cath and I did our best to persuade them that in the heat of an August night Christmas
songs might wait until a more appropriate time, but they were not to be deterred, Away
in a Manger and Little Donkey it was. The truth was they loved Christmas, for them
it was a wondrous time. For me that year their wonder was an antidote to my seasonal
cynicism, which began to bite hard as the first Christmas decorations appeared and the
first Christmas jingles were suffered at the supermarket. My daughters wanted to hold
onto the wonder they experienced at Christmas and were doing so by asking us to sing
those songs for the rest of the year.
However, I know that for many, Christmas is a hard time of year. I know that it
is over stressful, and a painful reminder of loved one’s now gone. It can be lonely and
hard for those on their own, I know these things. And yet I don’t want to lose sight of
the wonder of Christmas. Whatever our over commercial world tries to do, it remains
the hope for those who find themselves alone, who grieve, who find life just too much.
My young daughters were so right, this particular wonder can be with us all year,
long after the last tired looking piece of decoration has been taken down and the last
mouthful of turkey curry has been consumed! It is the wonder of God’s love seen in the
birth of a child, the knowledge that God has shared in the vulnerability of human life,
the fragility of a baby and a mother’s love. This is what we call the incarnation and it is
the most magnificent statement to us that God has come among us, a light shining in
a dark place, at Christmas we can truly say to ourselves, ‘we are not alone’.
Maybe us older and cynical ones need to have our eyes opened by younger less
cynical generations to keep this Christmas wonder alive throughout the year. We live
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in a troubled, confused and dangerous world, no less so than the world Jesus was born
into but he remains Emmanuel, God with us, a light shining in the darkness. I do look
forward to meeting with you at our school services, carol services, midnight service
crib service and of course on Christmas morning itself at St Peter’s Great Haseley at
9.30am. This service will be a Christmas family communion, children are invited to
bring an opened present or stocking filler (and any adults, a woman last year back at
Hughenden was dared by her family to come to our service on Christmas morning
dressed in a special Christmas costume, she came dressed as a frog!) Details of all these
services are also printed in the magazine. Do come join in and experience some of this
wonder for yourself.
Simon
Great Milton Methodist Church Services
For further info. please contact Rev Adam Stevenson on 01491 613223
December
Date Time
6th
11:00am
13th 11:00am
20th 3:00pm
25th 9:15am
27th 11:00am
Church
Gt. Milton
Gt. Milton
Gt. Milton
Gt. Milton
Gt. Milton
Preacher
Adam Stevenson
David Harper
Adam Stevenson
Adam Stevenson
Watlington
Detail
Holy Communion
Cafe Church & Carols
Christmas worship
United Service
The Neighbours Club
The trip to the Ferryman, Bablock Hythe on the 28th October for lunch and the
afternoon’s entertainment was very enjoyable as also was the visit to Club the following
day by John Fox when his subject was “Autographs”.
On the 12th October we had our annual visit from Beryl Hulbert who gave a talk
and showed slides about the Lake District. Also her friend brought her BBONT stall
with lots of goodies for Christmas including cards and calendars.
Forthcoming Events - December
Thurs 3rd - Christmas Lunch - 1.00 p.m.
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Great Milton Needs More Bell Ringers
St Mary’s Church has 8 bells – and Great Milton has 9 bell ringers – this is not
enough! With work, injuries, holidays and just everyday life it is difficult sometimes
to regularly have enough for a practise evening. We need 6 ringers to make a practise
session really work.
If you would like to learn (we have a good teacher) or if you are a ‘lapsed’ ringer, we
would like you to join us. Please consider this – maybe 2016 will be your year to be a
bell ringer – at least come and see us and understand how it works! Thursday evenings
7.30pm at the Tower.
Stop press!
Our thanks to everyone who has already completed the ‘Building Great Milton’
flyer. Still some more to come, please – the box will be in the Shop for a while longer. The more we have the easier the project will be to complete.
Thank you again – and a very Happy Christmas from Great Milton History.
The Neighbours Hall A.G.M.
The AGM will be held on Wednesday 16th December in the hall at 8:15pm. All
welcome.
Ann Price, Secretary
Please Save Your Used Postage Stamps
Christmas is coming, with post upon our mats. Envelopes and parcels for us to then
unwrap. So please don’t bin them.
Save your stamps for this very special recycling team. The money raised from
your stamps helps to support the training of these very special dogs who dramatically
improve the lives of people. People who can’t hear the door-bell, smoke alarm, fire
alarm, cooker timer or even the sound of dropping their keys. These dogs not only
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compensate for all of this but become a very loved and loving companion.
Please don’t just throw your stamps away.
Pop them into an old envelope and, in Great Milton, put them through the letterbox
at Tinkers Cottage, The Green,(the house with the stone porch on the ‘one way’ road)
or, hand them to Christine at the Post Office. You can also give them to your children
to put into the box at Great Milton School.
You’ve been wonderful so far. Please continue.
Pat Dawson
The Pavilion
Following the sad closure of Little Owls Nursery, the Recreation Ground
Committee is looking for alternative uses for the Pavilion. If anyone is interested in
putting this valuable village resource to good use during the week, then we would be
very interested to hear from you. Please do contact [email protected] with
any ideas or suggestions.
Fireworks On New Year’s Eve
Dear Neighbours A polite note to inform you that, as usual, we will be having a short firework display
to welcome in the New Year. This will take place on our field that runs alongside the
A329. The fireworks will start at midnight and last for no longer than 4 minutes.
If you wish to join us from 23.50 to enjoy the display please do.
Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
On behalf of Raymond Blanc
and the team at Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
The Neighbours’ Hall
The Neighbours’ Hall car park has recently been resurfaced by the generosity and
exper- tise of Greenplant and the road entrance repaired by the Council. This has
improved the functioning of the car park and it now can be used by some of the
Manoir staff as well as the users of the hall, with mutual profit.
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We have some plans drawn for renovation of the hall and would welcome comment.
If you would like to see the proposals they can be viewed in the Neighbours’ Hall, the
Village Shop or the Great Milton Website.
Tony Jefferis
The Friends of Great Milton School
‘100 Club’
Here is a list of all the recent prize winners
congratulations to you all!
22 September
No 29
29 September
No 22
6 October
No 97
13 October
No 59
20 October No 33
27 October
No 64
3 November
No 68
10 November No 35
of the FOGMS 100 Club – many
Mrs T Green
Sheila Reeves
Helen Styles
Mrs J Jewell
Mrs J Jewell
Mrs J Jaunet
Chris Groves
Miranda Cook
Many thanks to all those who support this school fundraiser.
A big thank you to Ann Price for all her help in co-ordinating the draw at the
Neighbours Hall and Christine Donnelly for her invaluable help with the prizes.
Keep Lucky!
Miranda Cook, 100 Club Co-ordinator
Review
Great Milton Singers, Bagatelle & Syrinx, St Mary’s Church, 14 November 2015
I’ve long thought that the worst thing about ‘Classical Music’ is the name itself. It’s
all right for those in the know but it may put some people off. That’s a shame because
November’s concert by the Great Milton Singers, Bagatelle and Syrinx would have
appealed to everyone. A ‘lollipop’ like ‘Zadok the Priest’ leads comfortably on to some
of the less well known but equally enjoyable pieces.
Handel wrote his ‘Coronation Anthems’ for the coronation of George II and Queen
Caroline in 1727. They’ve been used at every coronation since and they’ve been a
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regular item on concert rosters too. This is a good thing really, as otherwise we wouldn’t
have heard the music for the last 63 years and not for many more to come, we all hope.
In addition to the rousing ‘Zadok’ we enjoyed three other anthems, ‘My heart is
inditing’, ‘Let thy hand be strengthened’ and ‘The King shall rejoice’.
In both halves of the concert the singers bookended performances by the wind
of Syrinx, so to speak, and the strings of Bagatelle. It’s a great way of organising the
evening because although both add greatly to the event backing the singers they come
into their own on their own. Syrinx, for example have been together for 13 years and
you can tell. Bagatelle have a crispness too that comes from knowing each other well.
They played extracts from ‘The Water Music’ by Handel, an arrangement for a string
quartet of Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria’ and ‘Two Rondeaux’ by Henry Purcell. It was used by
Benjamin Britten as part of his ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’. I suppose
that’s what ‘bros like me down on the street, like, innit man’ would say was probably
an early example of sampling. Or perhaps not when I think about it.
Syrinx’ repertoire included two pieces by Percy Grainger, a Hungarian Rustic Piece
and three popular pieces by Arthur Sullivan all played with panache and, at times, with
tongue in cheek if that’s possible when piloting an instrument like a bassoon.
So just when you thought it was all over and time to make our way out into the
rain, maestro Kate Billimore informed the audience that the doors had been locked.
There was no escape as the Choir intended to perform ’Zadok the Priest’ one more
time. And so they did in fine form raising the roof yet again.
The evening also raised funds for the George Oliver foundation, a cause close
to many Great Milton hearts. A splendid night out with good companionship and
enjoyable music. One Susannah and I will hold in our memory as it was the last chance
we will have to enjoy these concerts. After nearly 18 years in Great Milton we are off to
pastures new, with equal measures of excitement and sadness at what we leave behind.
So thank you to the Great Milton Singers in particular but to the village of Great
Milton in general. Thank you for a wonderful time here.
www.georgesfoundation.org
Phil Ashworth
The Bull Great Milton
Doug and staff at The Bull wish all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We will be open on Christmas Day for drinks from 12.00 till 2.00.
Doug
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Sheppard Trust
At their last meeting, the Trustees were pleased to be able to make grants to Great Milton
Athletics Club, to help to fund coaching courses and replace equipment, and to Great Milton
School to offset some of the costs of their forthcoming residential trip.
Whilst the Trust is not flush with money, funds will be available to distribute at their next
meeting, which is scheduled for Tuesday 26th January 2016. If your group/organisation meets
the criteria of being based in Great Milton, and benefitting the inhabitants of Great Milton,
please do not hesitate to apply.
Applications should be sent to Jane Willis, Briarwood, Haseley Road, Little Milton, OX44
7QE, or emailed to [email protected] and should arrive by Monday 11th January 2016.
From the Archives
Christmas beef
The Vicar and Churchwardens will again make a distribution of Beef to the poor in the
Parish. The distribution will be at the rate of 3lbs for each poor person habitually receiving
Parish Relief.; 2lbs for each adult over 20 years of age, 1lb for each member of a family between
20 and 14 years old, and 1/2 lb for each child between 14 and 2 years. The Beef will be paid
for by the Church collection on Christmas Day, aided by the liberal subscriptions of Mrs.
Sheppard and the Rev. J. H. Ashhurst. The employers of labour will be consulted as in former
years, and by their kind cooperation the Vicar and Churchwardens hope to provide that every
needy person shall have a piece of meat on the table on Christmas Day.
The Milton Magazine, December 1871
Walk4Chris
You may remember that we put a notice in the Bulletin in April as I was walking 250 miles
in memory of my younger brother Chris Isaac, who sadly died of cancer in August 2014. We
invited friends and residents of the Miltons who had known Chris or our family to join us for
the start of the walk and to make a donation to Cancer Research UK if they wished.
We had a great turn out to cheer us on our way when we set off on Saturday 9th May and
many people generously supported our cause. I am delighted and amazed to announce that we
raised over £43,000 for small bowel cancer research, as well as enjoying a beautiful walk from
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On behalf of the Isaac family, I would like to thank everyone from the Miltons who kindly
donated to Walk4Chris, came to see us off or joined the beginning of the walk and helped to
raise such a fantastic amount of money.
Siân Isaac
Siân, Clare and Kabuki with everyone who joined in to walk the final mile into Polruan.
View from Views
By the time you read this, my last in 2015, you will all be
preparing for the festive season yet again it seems only yesterday
that I was making these comments last year, but then that’s the way
time goes. By now I expect all the Christmas puddings and cakes
are made as we are now well past “Stirrup Sunday” I hope we were
able to supply most of your eggs needs for this important time in
the calendar. The weather has been exceptionally mild with some
stormy weather, but as yet nothing has happened to worry us here.
Wildlife, or at least the small farmland variety of birds seem to be ever increasing at Views Farm
which is very satisfying, it was suggested that we had Golden Plovers the other day, plus a pair
of Ravens none of which have I seen personally. On the wildlife downside I notice that the
pigeons have just started to attack our “Oil Seed Rape” crops, and Badgers seem to have taken
a liking to our maize in the wild bird plots, that’s life down on the farm, always something to
thwart one’s efforts.
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The conflicting reports on what foods are good or bad for us continue to abound, the latest
being aldehydes, whatever they are, which are present in Vegetable oils once they are heated,
after being lead to believe that vegetable oils were better for us than animal fats. Eggs were once
seen as being full of cholesterol, but now, thank goodness in our case, they are listed as a rich
source of high quality protein, and the British Heart Foundation has dropped their connection
with cholesterol. Margarine was said to be healthier than butter but now the reverse is said to
be the case. White bread was shunned in favour of brown, as it was connected to weight gain
and digestive problems, now we are told that the use of refined grains as used in white bread
lowers the risk of heart disease. When the Government first introduced the 5 a day rule, fruit
juice was an easy option, but now they are found to contain excessive amounts of sugar, now
celebrity Chefs are joining in the argument to reduce the sugar content of our diet. All this is
fine but it does make decision making for us producers exceedingly difficult, because it take
so long in farming to change course. For example take “Oil Seed Rape”, (this by the way is
Vegetable Oil the same as Olive, Coconut Sunflower, and Corn oil, the report I read did not
mention Rape!) announcement made November 2015 when all Rape Seed will be planted for
next year’s harvest (2016), the result could be demand for Rape Oil disappears, (which hitherto
we are lead to believe is good). So not until then can we make any change to out cropping plan
to agree with any new research results that may or may not be found. Then in autumn 2016
we are free to plant a new in favour crop, if there is one, and have a large tonnage of unsaleable
product, (assuming all the research has been done to find out how viable this new in favour
food crop may or may not be, or indeed how to grow it) then say in August 2017 we have the
raw material ready to be processed into food, not easy.
The other vexing question at the moment is do we vote to stay in or out of the EU, it is
a very powerful marketing group to be part of, I am informed, for what it is worth that the
EU has a positive agricultural trade balance, 18bn Euros, with the rest of the world, inspite
of the fact that the UK is a net food importer importing nearly twice as many food products
as we export, we did export some £12.8bn of agricultural products in 2014, meaning that
the Farming industry is important to the UK economy. This illustrates that the food sector is
the largest industry in the UK thus making it an important part of our economy making the
justification for the support we get. One of the possible effects of leaving could be the loss of
this support, we then may well not be able to compete with the rest of the world, I don’t believe
any country except perhaps New Zealand, does not support their Farmers with some sort of
subsidy or other, neither are we the only industry to be helped by Government as we know
just lately by the discussions re the steel industry at present. In all deliberations we the general
public have to realise that Agriculture does play an important role in the country’s economy
contributing, as I have mentioned earlier, some 12bn Euros per annum. One fear is that if we
were to pull out, and our urban politicians decided that we could no longer justify supporting
Farming, the danger is that the smaller Farmers in favour of the larger scale specialist producers,
could well just walk away from the land, as the ever increasing restrictions and costs related will
make life too complicated, or not worth the hassle then it would be too late.
I hope everyone who reads this column have seen the Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
programmes on waste, I found these very interesting, especially the section on general waste,
what machinery is now capable of doing, and what councils actually achieving, especially
SODC, being one of the leading lights in recycling. I do though think it would be helpful if
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more publicity were available enabling the general public to understand what is being achieved,
plus as simpler form of labelling. Perhaps we should suggest that SODC convene a series of
meetings around the area backed by a video and possibly followed up by a site visit to a recycling plant. At the moment I don’t think we really believe or understand what is actually
being achieved.
Charles Peers
Great Haseley And District Horticultural Society
Storm Barney hit the UK last night and very impressive it was. The damage to the garden
doesn’t seem to have been too bad, but I did find several garden chairs which were not where
I left them. Two had landed in a border where they had flattened several plants. A stem was
broken on a perennial stock (Matthiola incana alba), but more worrying were a few broken
stems on a young Daphne X transatlantica ‘Eternal fragrance’.
This Daphne is one of my star performers flowering as it does from early spring to autumn.
Its first flowers are on last year’s growth and are followed by fresh flushes of flower all through the
summer. The flowers are pinkish in bud opening to white and are beautifully fragrant. I bought
my first one a number of years ago and it had steadily grown until, last summer, it was about a
metre in diameter and gave a lot of pleasure in its position outside the back door. Unfortunately
we needed the roof fixing and part of the Daphne was damaged by the scaffolding. I tidied it up
and removed all the damaged wood, but to no avail as, over the next few months, it gradually
died back to such an extent it had to be removed. Daphnes have a tendency to respond badly to
pruning and it was a relatively old plant. I have planted a tiny replacement (only about 10cm
across); it will be a few years before it is looking as good as the old one. My concern about the
one damaged last night is because it has two summers of growth on it and I will be sad to lose
it if it also dies back. Hopefully its youth is in its favour.
The very mild autumn has resulted in the appearance of lots of seedlings in bare earth and I
am not sure what they all are (they are not weeds) so I will watch their development and pot on
or move to new positions in the spring. I love getting plants for free! There is still a lot of colour
in the garden, but I am expecting a lot of this to fade over the next week or so as temperatures
are predicted to fall rather dramatically at the end of this week.
I haven’t finished planting all my bulbs and will need to do this very soon. The wind has
also reminded me that I need to shorten the stems of tall roses as they are vulnerable to wind
damage and their movement in strong wind can loosen the roots of the bush. I will complete
the rose pruning later in the winter.
Finally if, like me, you still have tender plants outside do try to get them under cover if you
can; even moving them next to the house wall can mean the difference between life and death.
Happy Christmas.
Liz Moyses, Membership secretary – [email protected] • 01844 279875
Please contact me for further details of membership which costs only £5 per family per year
The Annual Christmas Party will be held on 10th December at 7.30pm in Great Haseley
Village Hall when Graham Tarling will speak on the subject ‘What’s your poison?’ This will be
a light hearted look at plants you wouldn’t want to eat for lunch! This will be followed by wine
and mince pies and a chance to chat. All welcome.
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Great Milton Website
Have you seen the website?
http://www.great-milton.co.uk/
It is important to keep it up to date
so please could you advise Carina Martin
of any updates that need to be made
([email protected])
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The Three Villages Car service
exists to help people who are having
difficulty in getting to their doctors’
appointments. For those who are
unable to drive, get a bus, or get a lift
with family or friends, we will, if able,
take you to the doctors surgery or
to appointments at Thame Hospital.
For appointments at the main Oxford
hospitals, we suggest you ask for the
Hospital Transport services.
If you need our help, please phone
Jane Jefferis – 01844 278743 or
Wendy Richardson – 01844 278479.
We are also seeking some others
to join the small band of volunteer
drivers. If you are able to help in this
way, Jane or Wendy would love to
hear from you.
At the Pine Lodge, Little Milton
CRAFT CLUB
Every 3rd Wednesday of the month
16th December
7:30 – 10pm
with mulled wine & mince pies
All crafts and crafters welcome
£2 per session
CINEMA CLUB
Every 3rd Thursday of the month
17th December 8pm
Enjoy a film on the big screen, without the
hassle & cost of going to the cinema
Plus licenced bar
For further details & news visit us at:
www.facebook.com/lmpinelodge
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Adverts for community or fund-raising
events can have quarter page free.
Larger sizes are charged at half the
normal rate.
Please contact Helen Cherry
Tel: 07554 516989
Email: [email protected]
21 Fullers Field, Great Milton, Oxford
OX44 7PJ
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Private cooks, chefs and
couples for all occasions,
from one-off events to
full-time placements.
M| 07710 122428
W| www.bookacook.com
E| [email protected]
Waterperry Gardens December Events
A place to explore, relax and shop in beautiful
surroundings all year round.
Waterperry Christmas Market
12th & 13th December
10.30am to 4pm Waterperry estate open until 5pm.
Bring the magic back to Christmas by visiting
Waterperry’s Christmas food and gift Market. There
will be artists and craftspeople with gorgeous gift
ideas and festive food and drink, as well as the
chance to buy your Waterperry-grown Christmas trees
and hand made decorations. Enjoy a festive menu in
the Teashop whilst you are here too. We are a onestop shop for all your Christmas needs!
Entrance to the Christmas Market is free.
Find Santa’s Reindeer
14th November – 3rd Jan 2015
(Closed 25th, 26th, 31st Dec & 1st Jan)
10am – 5pm (27th-30th 10am-4pm)
Help Rudolph find his eight friends who are lost all
around the gardens and then collect your festive treat.
£2 per child. Children must be accompanied by an
adult for whom the garden entrance fee applies.
Gardens Teashop Garden Shop Gallery
Gift Barn Museum Courses
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Friday 9:30 to 11.30
Hayley on 01844 279016
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Diary
Monday
Fitness & Yoga – The Neighbours Hall. 7:30pm – 8:45pm
contact Yvonne Cartwright – 01844 279205
Bingo – Neighbours Hall. 7:45pm contact Ann Price – 01844 279474
contact Sandy Lane Farm – 01844 279269 www.sandylanefarm.net
contact Daphne Holland – 01844 214198
contact Pat Cox – 01844 279300. www.gm-bellringers.freeuk.com
For more information contact Olivia – [email protected]
Athletics Club Training. Year 9-4. Morning. [email protected]
contact Tash Groves – 01844 279637
Contact Alex Kirkman – 01844 278090
Bingo – Neighbours Hall. 7:45pm contact David Spiers – 01844 218345
Tuesday
Wednesday History Room Open at The Bull. 11:30am – 1:00pm
Fitness & Yoga – The Neighbours Hall. 6:00pm – 7:15pm
Athletics Club Training. Year 9-4. Evening. [email protected]
Thursday The Neighbours Club. Alternate Thursdays.
contact Janet Earl – 01844 279432
Sandy Lane Farm Market. 2:00pm – 6:30pm.
Friday
Saturday
Badminton – Great Milton School Hall. 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Bellringers – St. Mary’s Church Tower. 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Toddler & Baby Group – The Neighbours Hall. 9:30am – 11:30am
Junior Sports – Recreation Ground. 5–11 years 10:00am – 12:00pm
Old Field: 2nd Saturday of each month. 10:15am – 12:00pm.
December
3rd Thurs Neighbours Club: Christmas Lunch
1:00pm
5th Sat Christmas Fayre at The Pine Lodge, Little Milton
11:00am
11th Fri Carol Singing on The Green (with mulled wine and mince pies!) 6:30pm
16th Wed Craft Club at The Pine Lodge, Little Milton
7:30pm
Neighbours Hall A.G.M. in the hall
8:15pm
17th Thurs Cinema Club at The Pine Lodge, Little Milton
8:00pm
19th Sat Singalong of carols at The Royal Albert Hall
departs 9:00am
21st Mon Parish Council Meeting at The Pavilion
7:30pm
25th Fri Christmas Day. The Bull open for drinks.
12:00 – 2:00pm
All copy (except adverts) to [email protected] by 20th December 2015.
Adverts to Helen Cherry 21 Fullers Field, Great Milton, Oxford OX44 7PJ.
07554 516989 • [email protected]
Paper copy to Jonathan Dudley
Sheppard Cottage, Lychgate Lane, Great Milton, Oxford OX44 7PB.
The views expressed in this bulletin are not necessarily those of the Editor nor of the Parish Council.
The Editor reserves the right not to print items submitted for publication, and to edit those which are published.
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