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Rounders Tournament|70's
Disco |Coffee Mornings |End
of Consultation Rally |Petition Presented
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Save Our Village Quiz Night
Saturday 21st June at
Elsenham Village Hall
An excellent evening organised by
Petrina and Andre Lees, Jennifer Jarvis, Ruth
Fulton and
all the other helpers. The hall was full, (I believe
there were seventeen tables), and the food, especially the cakes was great. The questions were very fair and it was
obvious that everyone had a great time. A splendid £851 was raised towards
campaign funds. Thanks to all involved and
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Rounders Tournament 1st June
at Woodend Green
A thoroughly enjoyable afternoon
which saw ten teams from Henham fighting it out to become the 2008 Save
Our Village Rounders Champions. Over the afternoon, an estimated 400 people
turned up to watch the competition, sample the excellent food and drink, picnic on the green and generally have a great time. Many thanks to
the organisers, especially Gerry and Sheena Bigland, Karen Lafferty, the
umpires, people manning the stalls and all the other helpers. So far
the grand total raised is a magnificent £610.
Brilliant! |
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The finalists were
the 'Tennis Juniors' and the 'Little Fishes' seen above. The Tennis
Juniors won by a convincing 13 points to 4 1/2 and Alice Brooks, their team
captain received the trophy from Councillor Don (Indiana) Sturgeon. |
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Well done
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70's
Disco In Aid of Campaign Funds.
Saturday 19th January 2008
at 7.00pm at The Cock, Henham
An outstanding success
and a great time was had by all.
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COFFEE MORNINGS
Starting on Thursday 7 February,
Jennifer Jarvis and Ruth Fulton will
be holding Coffee Mornings every fortnight in the Memorial Hall, Elsenham
between 9.30am and 11.30am.
Originally our intention was to
donate the proceeds to local charities, however in view of recent events, we
will be donating initially to the "Save our Villages" fund.
All food will be home-baked - come
and have a coffee and a natter!!
Whilst helping to support your local community. 
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End of Consultation Rally - Outside the
Council Offices, London Road, Saffron Walden
Friday 11th January 2008 – 1.30pm
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To mark the end of the six week Consultation Period, a
good crowd braved the rain to go to the Uttlesford District Council
Offices in London Road Saffron for a rally, |
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The meeting was addressed by Petrina Lees and Stuart
Pimblett, the Chairman of Elsenham Parish Council. Both thanked everyone
for their efforts tremendous efforts over the past few weeks and Stewart
presented Councillor Susan Barker, the Chair of the Environmental
Committee with the Elsenham objections to the Preferred Options,
see above.
Henham’s had been submitted earlier in the week. |
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Councillor Barker then made herself available to
answer questions and whilst perhaps not all her answers were received
with acclaim the people present appreciated the opportunity to talk to
her and express their views.
Click
here to see a letter from David Morson, District Councillor for Henham
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Young People of Henham and
Elsenham Petition Presented
Friday 4th January
10.00am |
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With just a week to go before the end of the consultation
period, a good crowd of children and parents went to the Council
Offices to see Councillor Catherine Dean, the Chair of Uttlesford
District Council receive a petition containing more
than five hundred signatures of children and young people from our
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It was presented to her by Alice Brooks aged 15 from Henham
who read her a prepared speech setting out the opposition to the options. (Click
here to see the full speech)
Councillor
Dean accepted the petition and promised to pass it to the U.D.C. planning
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A few minutes later Catherine passed the signatures to
Roger Harborough, Head of Planning and Housing Strategy.
Contrary to what some people in the
Uttlesford Council may have thought, this was not a 'political'
demonstration. It was young people showing their concern about what
the U.D.C. intend to do to our villages. |
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Boxing
Day Walk (by Don Sturgeon) |
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Around 100
people, including mums, dads, assortments of children and dogs arrived at the
Elsenham top playing field at 11.00am, just in time for the photo shoot where
the children took centre stage with the SAVE OUR VILLAGE banners. A few
stragglers caught up as we formed a long snake of well wrapped bodies on a
beautiful morning which had been preceded by Christmas day rain causing several
children’s buggies to get stranded. Lifting gear had to be called for at
several points but apart from a few muddy coats, no major incidents. We
were taken around the field’s ear marked by Fairfield, passing the badger sets
and the stunning views of which we are currently blessed. There was a
positive atmosphere and lots of banter which continued in The Crown public house
where the walk finished at around 12.45pm.
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Our thanks to the
organisers of this event and to all who took part in what is an annual Elsenham
event, this year slightly marginalised by several of us Henhamites!
P.S. My
apologies to those I was talking to en route who may have noticed a slightly
unpleasant whiff. My dog, Jedi (coz he only has one eye!) left a deposit on the
path at a very early stage which quite appropriately ended up in a plastic bag
in my wax jacket pocket for the whole of the walk!
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Tasmin Makes The Front Page in The Herts and Essex
Observer - see the latest edition and also below. She takes on the
Uttlesford Councillors. |
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Tuesday 11th December
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7.45 pm. A very brave and articulate Tasmin Lees
aged 12 from Elsenham addressed the meeting of the full council at
Uttlesford Council Chambers.
She had written her own speech and gave
council leaders her not too flattering opinion on their behaviour in
promoting the building of 3000 or more houses in her village. The
Chair of the Council, Councillor Catherine Dean, congratulated her and added
that Tasmin was probably the youngest person to ever have spoken at such a
meeting.
Tasmin's mother, Petrina then followed
with very well reasoned observations on the way the Consultation
Period was being conducted. She was particularly critical of the
quality of the consultation leaflet and the fact that the full consultation
document was very difficult to download. She stressed to council
members that too much reliance had been placed on the use of the internet
and that many residents did not possess computers whilst others did not have
either the skill of ability to respond electronically.
A question and answer session followed
and again the manner of consultation was questioned by some members. I
personally found the responses defensive and less than satisfactory and in
the main unhelpful. Councillor Barker totally rejected a request to
extend the Consultation period and stated that she had never referred to the
proposed development as an 'eco-settlement'.
Both Petrina and Tasmin were subsequently
interviewed by The Breakfast Programme on BBC Radio Essex this morning, 12th December, but I
unfortunately was not up early enough to hear it. I did hear it later
by listening to it via their web site but the link has now been removed. |
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