Useful guidance from the Rights of Way team at Wiltshire Council on greenlaning – what’s allowed and what isn’t.
Category: Information
Rural Crime Prevention
Wiltshire Police has launched its rural crime prevention booklet.
94% of Wiltshire is classed as rural areas so there is some great information inside that could be relevant to you.
The booklet gives advice on the following topics:
•Farmhouse and outbuilding security
•Vehicles, machinery and boundaries
•Fuel tank and heating oil security
•Livestock and horse identification and protection
•Protection of wild animals, poaching and hare coursing
The majority of the photos from the booklet were supplied by members of the public through a photo competition Wiltshire Police held earlier in the year. Please have a read and remember if you see any suspicious activity to ring it in on 101.
Pewsey Pylons Project
PCAP attended the Technical Workshop with National Grid, the NWD AONB and others to work through the implications and route of the potential Visual Impact Provision (VIP) project in the Pewsey Vale, between Pewsey and Burbage.
The attached notes are from the meeting and should answer most of your questions.
2015-03-03 PCAP Notes from National Grid Visual Impact Provision
Useful documentation for Parish Councils
Dawn Wilson, in her role as Parish Councillor for Wilcot & Huish (with Oare) created the attached documents which other parish councils may find useful.
The first is a summary of the notes taken from the Parish Councillor training by WALC (Wiltshire Association of Local Councils) and is a good starting place for new Councillors or as a refresher.
The second is a template that Parish Councils can use to check the quality of what they deliver – are you doing everything you should do and are you doing it the right way?
Parish Council Quality Review Template
Let us know if you have useful information to share with other Parish Councils in the Pewsey Community Area by emailing pcap@hotmail.co.uk
Village Halls – at the heart of our communities
Most of our village halls are well used and provide an important hub for our parishes, particularly at this time of year. In order to make them affordable to local people and keep them well-maintained, a constant pipeline of events needs to be maintained. How a hall is marketed and advertised plays a major part of maintaining the pipeline.
Many people look for locations to hold events by searching the internet – particularly if they don’t know the area very well. An on-line presence is therefore important to all village halls. These are some pointers to assist you – by all means let us know if you have any words of advice to add to this!
Wiltshire Village Halls Association (WHVA) – www.wvha.org.uk/
You have to be a member to register your hall on this website – annual membership costs £37 and has other benefits:
- Full support from the Village Hall Advisory Service
- Full membership of Community First
- Full membership of the National Village Halls Forum
- Access to individual advice from the WVHA committee and other Member Halls via a mentoring scheme
- Regular editions of First News
- Discounted fees for information events and training
Contact the secretary – Carol Southall at carol.southall@wvha.org.uk
Halls Hire – www.hallshire.com
No membership fee required and this website covers the whole of the UK.
Halls for Hire – www.halls-for-hire.co.uk
No membership fee required and this website covers the whole of the UK.
Facebook – www.facebook.com
Not everyone wants to be on Facebook, but it does offer free opportunities. You can set up your village hall as a Page on Facebook and get people to support it and post comments. Of course not all of these may be good, but you can respond to comments to demonstrate you have put something right if there is a complaint which is a positive thing to do. You can use your Facebook page to advertise events and to share news.
You can also keep an eye out on local Facebook Notice Boards (e.g. Pewsey Notice Board, Upavon Notice Board – there are lots out there!) where people are asking for recommendations for a venue and then respond with details of yours.
Pewsey Community Area Partnership – www.pewseycap.org.uk
We have all the parishes in the Pewsey Community Area listed and their village halls also listed with a link to their website or page on one of these sites. If you would like yours included (for free) on our website, just email me with the link to the detailed hall info and confirm the name of your hall. See http://www.pewseycap.org.uk/pewsey-community-area-parishes/ to see whether you have already been added.
North Wessex Downs AONB Presentation
Andrew Lord from the North Wessex Downs AONB did a fascinating presentation on planning within the NWD area at the October PCAP meeting.
Dementia Awareness Project
What is Dementia Awareness and why is it important? Lots of information here from Dawn Wilson at WfCAP on why we all need to get involved.
No Cold Calling Zones
A scheme from Wiltshire Council that can be implemented in parishes to make it clear that cold calling and doorstep trading is not allowed in certain areas. Refusal by doorstep traders to go away may be a criminal offence.
This toolkit provides the information any group or Parish Council will need to set up a No Cold Calling Zone in their area:
MyEnvolve survey website
MyEnvolve is a free resource for anyone who wants to canvas the opinion of people based on geographic area. Ideal for clubs, parish councils and other local organisations, it is simple and intuitive to use.
To register and start setting up surveys, go to the MyEnvolve website.
