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Jubilee Orchard Working Party
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Aiming to promote pride in the local environment and enhance the quality of life for those living and working in our village.
There have been some concerns raised about the current road closures around the village. To clarify, there are currently two road closures in operation – one on Beacon Road and one on Station Road near the Brookside Hotel. Both have alternative routes that can be taken with diversion signs in place.
Both of these closures are official and road users should obey the signs in place. Because of the close vicinity of the two and the confusion arising a highways inspector will visit today to ensure that disruption is kept to a minimum.
In addition to the update below the Parish Council has also contacted our new MP asking him to pick up the actions agreed at the last meeting by Kate Kniveton.
Mark Swain, PSO Team Leader, Flood Risk Management, Environment Agency West has provided a brief update on activities they have been involved in over the past month:
1) The Environment Agency position statement which I shared with the public at the meeting on 23 May was requested by and supplied to Kate Kniveton’s office on 13 June. I am assuming the pre-election period has prevented the Action points being shared until after 04 July.
2) We have a project team set up to discuss the options for Flood Risk Management in Rolleston. Our consultants (Arup) are leading this and as requested at the public meeting we have identified dredging and increased maintenance in that list of options for consideration.
3) Dave Hughes has had meetings with landowners to discuss removal of debris and watercourse obstructions in the Rolleston Brook and plans to arrange for removal/cutting back are progressing.
4) There has been a meeting between Arup, our EA Flood Risk Team and our Natural Flood Management leads to discuss the opportunities for flood risk management upstream of Rolleston.
5) Dave Hughes has met with a resident to discuss their proposal to install fishing platforms in the Brook Hollows area.
Following the meeting mentioned at point 5 above we then received the following update from Dave Hughes:
I have been speaking to Assets and they tell me they are willing to help with some of the works on the Rolleston Brook channel downstream of the village. In particular, they will:
The Parish Council was disappointed to find trees in the Platinum Orchard that have been deliberately damaged. Repair work has been carried out and it is hoped that the trees will recover.
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