{"id":726,"date":"2020-10-09T00:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/?page_id=726"},"modified":"2024-06-04T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T21:10:27","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/index.php\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The plans for housing and much more for the Wappenshall and Wheat Leasowes areas have been revealed in the Local Plan.\u00a0 \u00a0This is likely to have a big impact upon us here in Preston, as 3,100 new homes are proposed and this is likely to increase the traffic into the village.\u00a0 \u00a0 The masterplan is available here<\/a>.<\/div>
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There will be a public consultation in the Leegomery Community Centre on Wednesday 29th November from 4pm-8pm regarding this “Sustainable Urban Extension”.<\/div>
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The Government has instituted a series of reviews of electoral boundaries and the need to balance the number of\u00a0 Councillors required to support their local communities.\u00a0 \u00a0Telford and Wrekin have published papers and information booklets about the process.\u00a0 \u00a0These can be found as follows:\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>
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Here in Preston Village we have a choice of remaining as a Village Meeting or becoming Preston Parish Council or amalgamating with Kynnersley to become a larger entity with an equal number of Councillors (4) for each village.<\/div>
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Telford has set up an online survey<\/span> (which can be found by clicking this link<\/a>) and would like residents to respond.<\/div>
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMany of us will know that there have been a number of incidents along the 30 mph limit stretch of road at Moorhead, when drivers, often exceeding the speed limit, have lost control and powered into residents\u2019 walls and gardens.\n\nWe have made representations to Telford & Wrekin Highways about this situation and it has been gratifying to receive an email from the Neighbourhood & Enforcement Services Team Leader recently, proposing a scheme, which is part of this year\u2019s Capital Road Safety programme. for the length of road from the Leegomery Roundabout to The Humbers.\n\nBecause of its accident record, Moorhead figures quite largely in this proposal. \u00a0\u00a0Options are being considered to implement the following features along the Moorhead road and our opinions regarding the three installations are important:\n
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      1. The installation of a mini roundabout at the junction of Moorhead and the road leading into the rest of the village.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nYou will appreciate that at the present time we have no specific details, nor a time schedule for the work.\u00a0\u00a0 This is really advance notice of what is being considered.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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        Within the Telford & Wrekin Borough, Preston upon the Weald Moors and Eyton upon the Weald Moors remain as the last two surviving Village Meetings.<\/p>

        In our case, in recent times, the village has expanded from some sixty dwellings to around one hundred and our representation within the Telford Borough is through two Councillors, who have other, larger responsibilities.\u00a0 \u00a0The question is, can we, as a Village Meeting, adequately serve the needs of our enlarged community?<\/p>

        As a Village Meeting, we do have difficulty in getting support or attention from the Borough and, too often, requests for help or support seem to be placed on hold. \u00a0\u00a0For example, those of our residents who witnessed the closure of Horton Lane will know all too well how our opinions were overridden and communication and consultation with the Preston officers was minimal. \u00a0\u00a0Could this be because we lacked the status of a Parish Council or, at that time, were too small to have any influence?<\/p>

        Thinking about the future, it is possible that we may come under pressure to change our status, but at the moment we have three choices that we can possibly make for ourselves.<\/p>

        The first would be to attempt to make Preston upon the Weald Moors a Parish Council in its own right. \u00a0\u00a0This would require a lot of catching up with procedures, regulations and policies. \u00a0\u00a0Our Meetings would be more formal, with a public session and a closed Council Representatives session.\u00a0 \u00a0Higher precepts would need to be levied on the rates, due to a greater call on our Council finances:\u00a0 one example would be the funding of Council elections. \u00a0\u00a0Fortunately, there is help available, with all the required procedures that we would have to implement, from officers at Telford & Wrekin Borough.\u00a0 \u00a0Any change in our status would have to be agreed by a majority of the village electorate.<\/p>

        A second option would be to combine with Kynnersley Parish Council, provided their electorate will have us and our electorate decide we want to join. \u00a0\u00a0There would have to be agreement over the equal representation of Councillors between the two villages. \u00a0\u00a0One huge advantage would be that all the necessary procedures and functions are already in place. \u00a0\u00a0Our conversations with the Kynnersley Council Chair and Clerk suggest that they, personally, would be interested in an amalgamation of our two villages.<\/p>

        The third option would be to remain as we are and this depends much on the interest and involvement of our village community.<\/p>

        Any information in support of change could be obtained initially by speaking to officers from other local parishes, Kynnersley and Telford & Wrekin Borough Council.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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        News Sustainable Urban Extension The plans for housing and much more for the Wappenshall and Wheat Leasowes areas have been revealed in the Local Plan.\u00a0 \u00a0This is likely to have a big impact upon us here in Preston, as 3,100 new homes are proposed and this is likely to increase the traffic into the village.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":126,"href":"https:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preston-upon-the-weald-moors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}