The next meeting of Stourpaine Parish Council will be held on Thursday 21st January 2016 at 7.00pm in the Village Hall, Draper Memorial Field, Stourpaine.
To see a copy of the agenda, please follow the link below –
Environment Agency – Groundwater Flooding Information
Have you been affected by groundwater flooding?
The Environment Agency have developed a number of new flood warning areas for communities at risk from groundwater flooding. These complement their existing flood alert areas.
They are working with communities to promote these warning areas and recruit people to sign up for Flood Warnings Direct service.
Please click on the link below to see How can you can sign up to receive these flood warnings?
Environment Agency Groundwater Flood Warning Information January 2016
Living Well Pilot Project
Skills and Learning: Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole are running a Living Well pilot project until the end of March 2016 that allows us to offer FREE courses and workshops. The focus is on self help, confidence building, lifestyle and employability and could offer you the opportunity to meet new people, learn new skills and develop new interests
Courses and workshops include:
- Wellbeing Foundation Course – 5 week courses covering: Connecting to self and others; Taking notice – perception and mindfulness techniques; Keep learning and self management – coping strategies, asking for help; Giving – reconnecting to our values, self compassion.
- Creative Writing
- Photography
- Art and Craft and many more…
The courses are co-designed and co-delivered by peer tutors with experience of mental health problems. A learner who attend the Positive Impression of Winter workshop said:
“I loved the overall effect of the session. I felt I was in a safe space and was inspired by the tutors and other students. The course did my heart good on every level.”
You can find out more about the pilot project and see if the courses are right for you by visiting http://www.skillsandlearningbdp.co.uk/living-well/
If you know of someone who may benefit from this pilot project please pass this information onto them. To enrol, you just need to complete the short application form by clicking here or by calling the Skills and Learning Customer Service Team on 01202 262300. Every application will have a one-to-one appointment arranged with a Wellbeing Advisor.
HAVE YOUR SAY – Dorset Police Council Tax Consultation
POLICING COUNCIL TAX CONSULTATION
Dear resident
Today, I have launched a consultation to seek your views on whether to raise the Policing element of the Council Tax for 2016/17. The consultation can be found here and I would encourage you to take part to ensure your views are taken into account.
Please share this email with friends and family who live in the area – it is vital I hear from as many Dorset residents as possible.
Martyn Underhill
Dorset Police & Crime Commissioner
Temporary closure of Dinahs Hollow, Melbury Abbas – 18th January 2016 for 5 days
DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL has issued a Notice under Section 14 [2] of the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984, as amended. All vehicles will be prohibited from proceeding along Dinah’s Hollow, Melbury Abbas from the junction with B3081, Higher Blandford Road, Cann Common to the junction with West Lane, Melbury Abbas, a distance of approximately 1,000 metres. The Notice is needed in order to comply with Health and Safety Regulations, which require the provision of safe working areas and to minimise the likelihood of danger to Highway Users. It will come into operation on Monday 18 January 2016 for 5 days.
For more information please see the attached notice –
Dorset Police Alert – Break in at the Disabled Riding School in Wareham
Over the weekend of 2nd and 3rd January 2016 there has been a break to the disabled riding school at Holton Lee, Holton Heath, Wareham.
Offenders have stolen specialist harnesses, tack and saddles that had been recently delivered. The charity are obviously distressed as this means they are currently unable to help the sixty plus people a week that come to them.
If anyone has any information or is offered any quick release harnesses for sale, then please contact Dorset Police on 101 quoting incident 55160001345
If you are able to assist in any other way, then please reply via this e mail and I will pass any offers of help to the charity.
Please also remember to get your equipment marked and consider your security around your horses and buildings.
Dorset Police – Alleged Assault In Blandford Witness Appeal
Detectives are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following an alleged assault in Blandford – with two men being arrested.
At around 9pm on Thursday 24 December 2015, police were called to reports of an assault in Carter Close.
A 31-year-old man of Blandford sustained a suspected broken nose.
Detective Constable Ian Davies, of Weymouth CID, said: “I am appealing to anyone who witnessed anything in the Carter Close area at around 9pm on Christmas Eve to please call me on 101.”
Two men aged 20 and 31, both of Blandford, have been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and have been released on police bail pending further enquiries until mid-January 2016.
Witnesses and anyone with information should call Dorset Police in confidence on 101 quoting incident number 24:336. Alternatively, call the free and anonymous Crimestoppers line on 0800 555 111 where mobile phone tariffs may apply.
PR5339 – C13 Road closed to improve traffic management
Road closed to improve traffic management – 18-22 Jan 2016
The C13 between Blandford and Shaftesbury will be closed at Melbury Abbas for one week to allow the replacement of barriers in Dinah’s Hollow.
Currently Dorset County Council has temporary traffic management within the hollow to move vehicles into the centre of the road, reducing the risk to road users from the possibility of a landslip from unstable slopes.
The existing water filled barriers will be replaced with more substantial concrete blocks. This follows a decision from the county council’s Cabinet, earlier this month, to delay the process of stabilising the slopes in order to investigate longer term measures for strategic traffic routes within Dorset, Wiltshire, and Bath and North Somerset.
Cllr Peter Finney, the council’s Cabinet member for environment, said:
“Although our plans for stabilising the slopes in Dinah’s Hollow have been delayed, it is important that we maintain the traffic management for the duration until we know about any future plans.
“We have already had a good meeting with our neighbouring councils and will continue to investigate all our options.”
The week long road closure, in place 24 hours a day, will start at on Monday 18 January and finish on the following Friday. During this time the highways teams will also be carrying out some safety works to the trees.
Resurfacing Boundary and West Hill will take place in the spring.
For more information about Dinah’s hollow visit www.dorsetforyou.com/dinahs-hollow
Issued By:
Fiona King, Public Relations Officer
Tel: 01305 224725
Email: f.e.king@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Communications Unit, County Hall, Dorchester DT1 1XJ
Tel 01305 224491
www.dorsetforyou.com/news
Dorset Police – Rural Policing Newsletter December 2015
Please follow the link below to see a copy of the latest Rural Newsletter from Dorset Police –
Dorset Police – Suspicious Activity
Good afternoon,
We have had a report this morning from a rural property in the Shaftesbury Rural area of suspicious vehicle at the entrance to their property on Monday evening.
The owner has reported this today as they have found a plait in the mane of one of the horses.
As North Dorset horsewatch, we have no evidence that suggests plaiting is used to mark horses for theft as we receive regular reports of plaiting but so far this year, there has only been one reported theft of horse in the whole of Dorset and that had no links to plaiting.
However, we would like to take this opportunity to remind all horse owners and rural residents to remain alert and to log details of any suspicious vehicles or people they see in the area.
These details can be called in on 101 or if a crime is in progress then 999.
You can also e mail details to your local officers through the Dorset Police website at www.dorset.police.uk
Don’t forget, you can meet the Horsewatch team tomorrow at Eccliffe Equestrian in Gillingham for mince pies and tack marking.
Thank you,
Kate 6268 and Vicki 5370
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