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Parish Meeting or Parish Council
All
households in the parish recently received a form asking residents to vote
on the idea of the Parish Meeting becoming a Parish Council. Would you please return these forms quickly in order that
your opinion can be counted. Environment Agency On 21 June, village representatives of the Darrington Quarries Liaison Committee held another meeting with the area management of the Environment Agency. The main issue to emerge from this meeting is the use of the freephone number 0800 807060. This used to be a hotline number but is now to be used as an incident number. It can be used at any time to report the smell, dust, scavengers, in fact anything that should not be happening on the landfill site. Please, please make use of this telephone number. This only applies to the landfill site, not the quarry. It is important to use this number as all incidents reported are placed directly on to the computer of the Environment Agency to be used as evidence.
Another
issue raised was that the rubbish is left uncovered in the evenings and at
weekends.
Darrington Quarries Ltd has just received a written warning for
allowing this to happen. That
is why an attempt to cover the rubbish has been made this weekend.
The Area Manager of the Environment Agency is taking our complaints seriously.
They have started out-of-hours inspections as a result of our many
complaints. Children’s Library At the request of some of the children, a trial of a small library for
them is to be run in the village hall.
Donations of children’s books would be gratefully received to
enable this project to work. Please
contact Lisa Smith or Claire Crossdale to have them collected. Next Parish Meeting The
next Cridling Stubbs Parish Meeting is to take place on Tuesday 9th July
at 7.30pm in the village hall. Items
on the agenda are to include traffic calming in the village, an update
from the Darrington Quarries Liaison Committee,
grass cutting, a planning application at the old school and “should the
Parish Meeting become a Parish Council”.
Everyone is very welcome to attend. Forthcoming Events The cost of campaigning hard against some of the activities at the
Darrington Quarries Complex is high (e.g. photos, printing, telephone
calls, and petrol). In order
to raise funds to enable this campaign to continue, a “Social Evening”
is to be held soon at The Ancient Shepherd. Further
details will soon be available. This
will be a chance to help with this campaign as well as enjoying yourself. Next Issue If
you have any news or information that you want to share with other
residents of the village, please contact Bryan Crossdale at The Nook,
Cobcroft Lane or Lisa Smith at 39 Croft Lea to have it included in the
next issue of The Cridling News. |