Correction to circular sent this weekend:

If you choose to send your comments in by email the correct address is not as previously advised, it is:

planning@wychavon.gov.uk

You should receive a response confirming receipt and thanking you for your comments. If you do not then it may not have registered.

In any event your comments should be on the system within 24hrs.

For the attention of all organisations in the Parish.

If your organisation is interested in carrying out a litter pick in the Parish, during March/April 2005 on behalf of the Parish Council, Please contact the Clerk, Mrs Holland, on 01386 793050 or email southlenchespc@gmail.com to register your interest.

The council will, on successful completion, offer the organisation a financial benefit.

The Parish Council has requested that you let them know your opinion regarding the Mayfield Housing Estate (by the 1st of Feb).

All you need to do is to send an email to: southlenchespc@gmail.com indicating whether you are for or against the Housing Estate being built.

You should note that this is NOT your formal comment regarding the development which should be sent via the means listed on the Lenches Action web site or on the Wychavon web site

Yesterday afternoon a local resident was returning to her house in Sheriffs Lench. She was followed by a Blue Volvo Estate Registration something like VE032NR. The Blue Volvo Estate followed her all the way down the farm track to the barns in Sheriffs Lench and when she had got out of her car in the the man in the Volvo asked if she had a Sat Nav or a Smart phone and then asked if one of the neighbour’s cars was for sale. Suspicious!

She immediately called the Police who visited her soon after. She was told that the owners of the Blue Volvo Estate are to be regarded with due suspicion (edited from the original).


If residents see this car in any suspicious circumstances could they report it to the police immediately. If it is just seen on the road it may help if you make a note of the time.


Update:


We have more suspicious vehicles in Sheriffs Lench today.
A white Ford Transit with 2 men and the first four reg digits: VG60 was asking various residents about people’s car they wanted to buy.

The Police are aware and would ask residents to immediately report anything suspicious to them on 999.

The application for a 31 house estate in Church Lench has now been filed with Wychavon Planning, following just behind the application for 3 houses at the end of Malt House Lane,

Details can be found on the Wychavon web site:

Mayfield Housing Estate

Malt House Lane 3 houses

Wychavon web site (in case the above links do not work - search the location address for 'Lench')

Anyone wishing to object or just comment on the applications can do so via the Wychavon web site itself but be advised that the local action group opposed to the development will be issuing guidance with regard to objections within the next few days. There will also be a number of public meetings where you can ask questions and make your feelings known.

The deadline for objections and comments, looking at the Wychavon site, is the 13th of February.

For more information please go to www.lenchesaction.org.uk   and   spitfirepg.co.uk/news

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Please pass this news on to your friends and neighbours
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Lenches Action, a local group opposed to the recent spate of housing developments in the Lenches (including a 31 house estate), following a brief period where we extended the use of a section of this site now now have their own web site:

www.lenchesaction.org.uk

Any comments or queries should be sent directly to Lenches Action action@thelenches.org.uk

We are pleased to note that the one stipulation we put on hosting their content, namely the representation of all opinions, is being continued in the publication of an open letter from the Mayfield Estate landowner.

Apart from notifying you about important milestones and events in the process of the various applications we do not plan to comment on the matter further on this site.

For details of this scheme making £50,000 available to local voluntary and charitable groups please click on one of the links below (both if you like):

Wychavon Community Grants Scheme - Poster
Wychavon Community Grants Scheme - Leaflet

They will open as PDF's