Forshaw Heath & Earlswood BoD in Warwickshire

Something has really captured my imagination today whilst working on the TIA NDP communications on Facebook and Twitter. Something so simple but necessary popped up and could mean the difference between living or dying  an unessential premature death . Whilst busy at work doing risk assessments and making sure  everyone knows what thy are meant to do in an emergency   How many of us actually plan a course of action should the need arise to evacuate our homes due to an emergency of some sort. I suspect we all have a plan of action in our own minds but nothing tangible My household will certainly be following the guidelines and making a plan.  I have to say it really made me stop and think.  Why not take a peak at this link Home Emergency Plan

Well OK yes I have been quiet again on my blog has been neglected, however time hasn't been wasted and I hadn't forgotten about anyone that happens to read the blog. The fact is I have been a busy BoD all for the good of the community I think! In fact I would say that since March my time has been consumed with the community. The buzz words at the moment are Tanworth Neighbourhood Plan. What is a Neighbourhood Plan well the steering group is on a very steep learning curve however the basics of it quite simply Stratford District Council has its proposed Core Strategy out and about and within the Core Strategy it is planned that the Tanworth In Arden Ward which includes Earlswood th Village of Tanworth and our new local service village Wood End will take an additional 100 houses between them. In short as a community we either can have an input as to where these additional houses go or we can leave it to our District Council to tell us where they are going. Of course the Core St...

The next Tanworth Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) Steering Committee Meeting is Tuesday 19th August 2014, 7.30pm at Earlswood Garden and Landscape Centre, Forshaw Heath. See attached agenda ==>  NDP meeting agenda  (PDF document)

PLANS to build two 35-metre-high wind turbines in Hockley Heath - the first in the area - have been submitted to Solihull Council, The Observer can reveal. Urban Wind has applied to build what it describes as two 'small scale' wind turbines on land at Box Trees Craft Centre so the centre can run off the electricity and reduce its carbon footprint. Hockley Heath Parish Council has already objected to the application, listing a number of issues including the wind turbines being too close to houses, having a negative visual impact on the village and being a distraction to motorists. Despite consulting with villagers, just two letters of objection were received by the Parish Council - both listing, among other things, concerns about the damaging effect on house prices. The two turbines will stand at 35 metres high, the same as seven double-decker buses on top of each other, and will have a 12m-long rotating blade. If approved, the wind turbines would be permitted to ge...

Common sense! I can't believe the lack of it being used! Here is my whinge for the month, Fulford Hall road had a rather nasty dangerous pothole on a bend which I must admit caught me out the first time I met it the and time I had no choice but to go down it due to on coming traffic and something so close behind I couldn't stop. Anyway not only was there the nasty pothole on the bend this whole lane seems to be crumbling at the sides but not in quite such a dangerous places. I couldn't believe my eyes the other day when I saw the pothole on the bend filled in and mended but the rest of the potholes left without being touched. It may just be a member of the public mended the dangerous pothole however I doubt it. Why didn't all the potholes get mended at the same time? what a waste of manpower and time. The pothole menders will only have to come back to mend the other ones in the near future. Well that's in the Solihull area there is an equally as nasty one in Forsh...

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Stratford-on-Avon District Proposed Submission Core Strategy Regulation 19, 20 and 35 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 https://www.stratford.gov.uk/planning/proposed-submission-representation-form.cfm/form/cspropsubs14/q/1  I am writing to inform you that the District Council has approved its Core Strategy for submission to the Secretary of State for independent examination. The Core Strategy sets out the vision, objectives and framework for managing development in the District up to 2031, contains policies on a wide range of specific subjects, and identifies a number of development site proposals. In accordance with the Regulations, before the Core Strategy is submitted there will be a six week period for making representations on the legal compliance and soundness of the Plan. This will commence at 4.00pm on Thursday 5 June and end at 5.00pm on Thursday 17 July. Representations received will be submitted to the Secretar...