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Parish Council
February 2012
Contents: Parish Councillors Notes Planning Applications Waste Collections


Parish Council Information Map

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Parish Councillors and Clerk

Who we are, how to contact us and our special contact subjects.
Simon Talbot-Ponsonby
Simon Talbot-Ponsonby
West Barn, Home Farm Road.
BS8 3QF Tel: 375250
Chairman
Contact Person for:
Cycle Paths & Footpath Network
Highways
Verges
Recycling & Rubbish
Village Market
Audrey Telling
Audrey Telling
April Cottage, 60 Church Road
BS8 4QU Tel: 373935
Vice Chair
Contact Person for:
Planning Applications
Open Spaces
School Field
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Elizabeth Anderson
Leigh Lodge, Church Road,
Abbots Leigh BS8 3QP
Tel: 373160
Contact Person for:
Civic Soc. Liaison
Public Footpaths & Transport Links
Parish Plan








 
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Linda Cleeve
1 Dennyview Road, Abbots Leigh,
BS8 3RD Tel: 372643
Contact Person for:
Village Hall & Skittle Alley
Public Relations








 		 David Parkinson
David Parkinson
Fishponds Cottage, Manor Road
BS8 3RT Tel: 375861
Contact Person for:
Abbots Pool
Street Lighting
Communications
Website




John Bridges
John Bridge
22 Dennyview Rd.,
BS8 3RB. Tel. 373726
Parish Clerk
Contact Person for:
Secretariat
Insurance
Police Co-ordination

parishclerk@abbotsleigh.org.uk


Latest Planning Applications

planning applications


Parish Notes



Attend A Parish Council Meeting

The Parish Council welcomes residents at council meetings usually on the 2nd Monday of each month. You may listen. If you wish to address the council at the start of the meeting please contact John Bridge, Clerk to the Parish Council, in advance of the meeting. The next meeting will be held on Monday 13th February, at 7.30pm in the John Butler Room in the Village Hall. The agenda for the meeting is available here when displayed on parish notice boards . The latest minutes are here.


Recycling & Rubbish - Sorting is worth while

Recycling in your green boxes and food waste in your brown food bin is collected every Wednesday.
Recycle
Please help the recycling crew speed up the collections by separating materials in your green boxes. It can help them enormously especially as the volume of recycling around Christmas is much higher and weather can make it more difficult.

Plastic and tins are collected together because they are separated mechanically at the depot.

Cardboard and food cartons (tetrapaks) get collected and processed together so no need to separate.

Paper and cardboard are not collected together so please keep them well apart in your box

Separate out all other categories: paper, glass, clothes and textiles in bags, batteries, mobile phones and spectacles.

Flats in Leigh Woods If you live in a flat and have a shared mini recycling centre please continue to recycle your glass, cans and paper in the bins provided. North Somerset Council are working to extend the range of materials that can be recycled in this service and hope that this will be introduced next year. Residents who have this service will be contacted to let them know when the changes are happening.

Green waste is collected in the green bags on only one Wednesday in February. Additional green bags can be purchased for £1.50 each from the Community Resource Centre in Pill.

Rubbish is collected on alternate Wednesdays in your wheelie bins or special North Somerset rubbish bags. Bins that are over full and additional bags of rubbish will not be collected.

February
Collections		 Recycling Only
No Green Waste		 Recycling &
Rubbish		 Recycling &
Green Waste		 Recycling &
Rubbish		 Recycling Only
No Green Waste
All of
Parish		 Wed 1st Wed 8th Wed 15th Wed 22nd Wed 29th

Normal fortnightly green waste collections resume on 14th March

If you have problems with missed collections call 01934 888802 the following day or, even easier, log it on North Somerset's Council Connect website in the evening and it will be collected within 2 days.

Clean up! In the fortnight after Christmas May Gurney experienced delays in collecting the extra amount of recycling produced over the Christmas period, especially cardboard which increased by up to 45% over normal volumes. They worked long and additional days to overcome the backlog as quickly as possible.

Abbots Leigh Spring Clean and Litter Pick.

Advance warning, this will be held on Sunday 27th March between 10am and 12 Noon. The day the clocks go forward




POLICE
Crimestoppers: 0800 555 111
POLICE (Nailsea): 101

Our Local Police Beat Officer is PC Trevor Byford.
Our Community Support Officer is Penelope Gatenby and she and Trevor can still be contacted about local non urgent matters on 01934 638349 or via the nationwide number 101.
Pen Gatenby adds that you can ask for her and quote her Collar Number 7278 and be put through to her mobile.
Or email: penelopegatenby@avonandsomerset.police.uk
They cover Abbots Leigh, Leigh Woods and Long Ashton.

Meet the Police

The community police hold a local surgery on the FIRST Wednesday of every month, between 2 and 4pm outside St Mary's Leigh Woods to discuss local matters in Leigh Woods and Abbots Leigh. However, if due to unforeseen circumstances they are unable to be there they can always be reached on 101 and can come and visit or chat on the phone. They are always accessible via email, telephone or online at www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/contact/


Carl Francis-Pester holds a monthly surgery on the last Saturday of each month. It is held in the John Butler Room in Abbots Leigh Village Hall between 10.30 and 12.00 noon. He welcomes local opinions - so call in and see him. He will be holding his next visit on Saturday 25th February.

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