Old Basing & Lychpit Parish Council

Cllr Paul Harvey is coming to catch up with Old Basing & Lychpit on Thursday 22nd August 2024 at 10-11am.

You are very welcome to join the meeting, which will be held at the Pavilion Tea Room on the Recreation Ground.

A quick email to [email protected] to confirm your attendance would be appreciated, so that we can manage numbers.

THOUSANDS OF FREE TREES UP FOR GRABS!

Residents can get two free trees to plant in their gardens this autumn to encourage native plants and wildlife and capture carbon as The Tree-Mendous Giveaway launches in Basingstoke and Deane.
People can apply for up to two free trees until Sunday 10 November, or when stocks run out, under the new initiative by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and The Hampshire Forest Partnership that aims to see new trees spring up in more than 1,800 gardens across the borough.
The 11 varieties up for grabs are spindle, guelder rose, wayfaring, blackthorn, hazel, elder, hawthorn, crab apple, field maple, bird cherry and rowan trees. Selected because of their suitability for local soil and weather conditions, these varieties of trees will also help to provide shelter and food for native wildlife in people’s gardens in support of the council’s recently adopted biodiversity strategy.
The trees are young, around 20cm to 40cm tall, and people can choose two of the same or two different varieties to plant in their gardens. They will be available for booked collections on Wednesday 16 October or Saturday 30 November at the council’s depot on Wade Road in Basingstoke.
Information will be provided with each of the trees when they are collected, including where in the garden they should be planted and how they should be cared for.
Cabinet Member for the Climate and Ecological Emergency Cllr Chris Tomblin said: “Every tree people plant in their gardens as part of our ‘Tree-Mendous Giveaway’ will nurture plants and wildlife to support nature recovery while also absorbing pollution and capturing carbon to help tackle the climate emergency.
“And trees have also been proven to be positive for people’s mental health and wellbeing too, with just being around them being calming and helping to reduce stress levels.
“With limited numbers of trees available, anyone who’s interested should apply as soon as possible. And if you want to get more top tips for what else you can do in your garden to encourage nature, then I’d encourage you to book yourself in for a free garden survey with the eco experts in our Green Team too.”
With the unanimous backing of its councillors, the borough council declared a climate emergency for the borough in 2019 and an ecological emergency in 2021.
The free trees for people’s gardens are being provided by The Hampshire Forest Partnership, which was set up in 2022 and aims to see one million trees planted across the county as part of an ambitious programme of work by Hampshire County Council to tackle the climate emergency.
People can find out more about the free trees on offer, including which varieties are likely to be best suited to their garden, and apply at

www.basingstoke.gov.uk

HCC Temporary Road Closure / Speed Restriction / One-Way System – A30 London Road, Newham Lane, Water End Lane, Ashmoor Lane, Poors Farm Road / Old Basing & Lychpit / Basingstoke / Oldskool Neverland Festival / 2024

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Hampshire County Council intends to make an order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984 to allow the Oldskool Neverland Festival to take place on the Friday 23rd August 2024.

ROAD TO BE CLOSED: those parts of the following roads:

1) Newnham Lane between its junction with Tylney Lane and its junction with Pyotts Hill.

2) Water End Lane between its junction with A30 London Road and its junction with Pot Lane.

TEMPORARY SPEED RESTRICTION – To impose a 30-mph temporary speed restriction on the following road:

1) A30 London Road between 2 points approximately 400 metres either side of its junction with Ashmoor Lane.


TEMPORARY ONE-WAY SYSTEM – To temporarily impose a one-way restriction on the following road(s):

1) Ashmoor Lane & Poors Farm Road between its junction with A30 London Road and Newham Lane will be restricted for the duration of the event (Traffic will only be able to flow Southbound along these roads).


ALTERNATIVE ROUTES:

1) The Street, Crown Lane, Hatch Lane, A30, Old School Road, Newham Road



DURATION OF ORDER: on Friday 23rd August 2024 and 24 hours a day for 4 days or until the event has ended, whichever is sooner. Reasonable facilities will be provided to allow access to adjacent premises while the event is being carried out.

The Restrictions have been granted by Hampshire County Council to facilitate the event for Oldskool Neverland Festival.

UK Traffic Management Serviced LTD will provide reasonable facilities to allow access to adjacent premises and provide notice to those directly affected while the work is being carried out.

A copy of this notice can be viewed: www.hants.gov.uk/publicnotices.

Telephone enquiries to Hampshire County Council, Highways Department on 0300 555 1388.

The Parish Council would like to thank the management team at Barton's Mill pub for working to improve the traffic flow issues which occurred in their local area on Wednesday evening. As their post this morning confirms, measures have been put in place to hopefully avoid a similar issue on Sunday evening.

Thanks also to our Borough Councillor Kate Tuck, and to the team at Basing House, for their support.

📢 An Update 📢

We want to address the parking problems that occurred during the last England games and assure you that we are taking steps to prevent any inconvenience to our neighbours.

With the support and guidance of the Borough and Parish Council, we have agreed a solution whereby we will be providing ten, professional, trained parking marshals to ensure only one side of Bartons Lane is used for parking.

In addition to our car park and overflow car park, our friends at Basing House have kindly allowed us to utilise their car park again, and we will have SIA door staff on hand for everyone's safety.

We apologise to those affected by the parking situation and ask all customers to cooperate with us to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for everyone on Sunday.

Our goal has always been to be a valuable asset in the community, and we appreciate the loyalty and support we receive from all of you.

Thank you for your understanding and support!

A reminder that the Annual Parish Meeting is taking place at 7pm this evening at Lychpit Hall. We would love to see you there. Refreshments will be served from 7pm and the meeting will begin at 7.30pm.

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Transport for the South East wants YOUR views about future transport needs

Transport for the South East (TfSE), the Sub-national Transport Body for the south east of England, is asking people to take part in their ‘Your Voices’ survey and submit views on the future transport needs of the region.
People are being asked to take part in the online survey where there are questions about transport-related issues such as accessibility and affordability.
Participants can also share their experiences regarding congestion, noise pollution, air quality, road safety, public transport, personal safety, and walking and cycling routes.

The ‘Your Voices’ survey can be found online at tfse.org.uk until Sunday, 2 June 2024.

A special podcast has been produced that explains in further detail why TfSE needs the views of people across the south east and how those views will help shape the future work of TfSE. The podcast can be listened to online at tfse.org.uk and is also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify by searching for ‘The TfSE Podcast.’
Councillor Keith Glazier, Chair of TfSE, said: “We want to hear the views and experiences of those in the region when it comes to all things transport related. One of our roles is to speak to government about the priorities they should consider when improving transport connectivity locally. To do this effectively, we need to hear from as many people as possible across the south east.”
The south east is defined as Bracknell Forest, Reading, Windsor & Maidenhead, Slough, West Berkshire, Wokingham, Kent, Medway, Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, Isle of Wight, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex, and Brighton & Hove.

Old Basing & Lychpit Parish Council is looking for a Finance Officer to work with its friendly, committed, and flexible team for 20 hours per month. Hired as a Contractor, the selected individual will work with the Clerk of the Parish Council (as Responsible Financial Officer) and support the Council to manage its financial arrangements and reporting.

This is an exciting and varied role, and the successful applicant will provide administrative and financial support to the Parish Council to ensure the efficient running of the Parish Office, have a can-do and flexible attitude, use their own initiative to carry out the responsibilities required in the role with minimal supervision and lead by example.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for more detailed information on Old Basing & Lychpit Parish Council’s website.

Job Vacancies - Old Basing & Lychpit Parish Council Old Basing & Lychpit Parish Council is looking for a Finance Officer to work with its friendly, committed, high performing and flexible team for 20 hours per month. Hired as a Contractor, the selected individual will work with the Clerk of the Parish Council (as Responsible Financial Officer) and su...

You can now book a free home energy survey for advice on how to keep your home warmer as you save money on your bills and cut your carbon footprint.

Undertaken using specialist software and taking around an hour to complete, the survey will help create a personalised plan for how you can take action to make your home more energy efficient.

And if you own and live in a home that is more difficult to make energy efficient, for example because it is older or in a conservation area, there’s specialist help available as we've made 125 comprehensive full-home assessments available for these types of properties.

These are also free, take around one to three hours to complete and provide a detailed property report with specific energy-saving recommendations.

You can book a home energy survey with our Green Team or find out more about the comprehensive full-home assessments at https://www.basingstoke.gov.uk/home-energy-saving-initiatives

We'd appreciate a few moments of your time to give us your opinion. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QK5Z25C

Thank you.

Another half term.. another completely unnecessary act of vandalism.

We have the entire event recorded on CCTV and the vandals are known and are from the local community. Please, if you are trusting your children enough to let them 'hang out' in the village on their own, could you remind them of the importance of respecting public facilities. Stupid behaviour causes damage which obviously costs money to rectify. Money which could have been spent in better ways, surely.

The public toilets will unfortunately now be closed for the foreseeable future whilst the damages are repaired.

Thank you for your patience.

Very frustratingly, the weather is still making the Recreation Ground too wet for football to be played, so sadly there will be no football this weekend again (Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th February 2024).

Sadly, the wet weather this week means that there will be no football at the Old Basing Recreation Ground this weekend (Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th February 2024).

Thank you very much to those who have returned their Neighbourhood Plan Questionnaires to the Parish Office.

Our Councillors are now in the process of gathering the data and preparing to include the feedback in the updated document.

The Parish Office will not be able to accept any further Questionnaires.

Old Basing & Lychpit Parish Council extends its warmest congratulations to Old Basing resident Katherine Antrobus, with the entire WaveBreakers team, on her unbelievable achievement - rowing across the Atlantic in 40 days is utterly staggering!

Very well done Katherine!!

💃🎊🎉***40 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes*** 🎉🎊💃
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AND THE NEW FEMALE TRIO WORLD RECORD HOLDERS!!!!! 🏆
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If you can even read this post through all of the tears that are undoubtedly streaming down your face; what we have just witnessed is quite simply mind blowing! 🤯🤯🤯
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Three strangers, became three colleagues, and then became three of the closest friends, by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean! 🚣‍♀️
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Perhaps the most brilliant part, is they didn't just complete the row, or even just get a world record - they did it in such a way that inspired thousands of people that followed them. It's been SUCH a powerful expedition to follow. 🙌
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The team have raised a PHENOMENAL £82,771 so far, all of which will be DOUBLED by the Vodafone Foundation - and there is still time to donate at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/wavebreakers2023 - Your £100 donation is worth £200! And all for such a fantastic cause; the campaign which aims to protect those on the frontlines of the climate crisis by supporting WWF and UNHCR.
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WHY CAN'T WE STOP CRYING!!!!! 😭🥹
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If you are able to dig out the questionnaire which was delivered to you in early December, complete it and return it to us at the Parish Office (using the accompanying freepost envelope or delivered by hand to the office at the Recreation Ground), your views will very much help to shape the update of the Neighbourhood Plan.

Thank you.

The Future Services Consultation can be accessed here: hants.gov.uk/future-services-consultation

Hampshire County Council is leading the preparation of the county’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy. They are working closely with Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in its development and are encouraging our residents to take part in a survey asking where they would like to see improvements for nature recovery, what their views for nature priorities are and what action they may be taking to help nature in their area.
Gathering this information is an important first step in the development of a local nature recovery strategy which aims to ensure Hampshire’s natural environment is restored for today’s and future generations.

Completing the online survey should take only a few minutes and will provide valuable information: https://www.hampshireonline.hub.arcgis.com

If you would like to sign up for regular updates and newsletters on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy here: http://smc-lp.s4hana.ondemand.com/eu/p/cs5VB

What do you want to see improved for nature locally? Take part in Hampshire County Council's survey to shape how and where we put nature into recovery across Hampshire. Your voice matters! https://www.hants.gov.uk/landplanningandenvironment/nature-recovery-hampshire/get-involved

But that's not all! We're hosting workshops across Hampshire for the Local Nature Recovery Strategy, and we're inviting passionate individuals to join. If you want to share more opinions, be actively involved, and discuss your priorities for nature close to where you live, register interest for our workshops. Your participation will help us create a more inclusive and representative strategy, benefiting both people and nature. https://hiwwt.typeform.com/LNRS-HIWWT

We're very sorry to say that it's too wet for football at the Recreation Ground again this weekend (6th and 7th January 2024).

Happy New Year to you all!

Having returned from the festive break, we just wanted to share some lovely photographs which were captured at our first Christmas at the Rec on 22nd December. Thanks to all those who came and participated - we hope you had a fun evening.

The Parish Council would like to extend its thanks one more time to those who helped to make it such a success (in our opinion!): the fabulous 'MC' Johnnie Hammond, our team of hard working Grounds Contractors, the amazing ladies at The Village Cafe Old Basing, and the very generous County Councillor Elaine Still.

We raised £729.69 in total for St Michael's Hospice (North Hampshire), so very many thanks to all who donated too.

Hampshire County Council's On-street Charging Facilities demand survey

Hampshire County Council would like you to tell them where you would like to see on-street charging facilities. They have installed some chargepoints across the county on their own sites. They are trialling public on-street chargepoints in Wi******er and Eastleigh.

They collect and use this data to help identify where demand is greatest. They are currently only collating information to inform our emerging EV Strategy. However, requests are being recorded for future installation, subject to technical feasibility and budget.

Complete the On-street Demand Survey here:

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