Bit of a dilemma?

What do they do, dammed if they do and hypocritical if they don't.  A new planning application has been submitted for the piece of ground in front of the Packet Inn site.  At the moment there are empty houses on the site, houses more in keeping with a town than at the side of quite a pleasant side of the village with the old bridge over the Chesterfield Canal.

It is said that the houses have not been offered for sale due to the fact that all services are not laid to the properties.  Planning of course should never have been given in the first place, and given the amount of trouble that resulted, it would have been a good idea for the planning department at Bassetlaw to have turned the application down.

Moving on to 2014, our benefactors over the common land issue, who put money into the parish piggy bank, Wykeham Estates, have put in an application for three more town houses in a back garden, knocking the old extension that created a second residence down. So what does one do.  Nice little bungalow would have been nice, three town houses, not really in keeping, although a precedent has been set for terraced houses with those on that ill fated site and Bassetlaw want more houses.  Can't get any more in Misterton in big chunks because we are well over our limit for some years.  So a bit of infilling will do nicely for them, I bet the planners will rub their hands and say yay.  So we get even more town houses in a village.

I dread to think what the street scene will look like if they get passed. You can see of course where the access point is onto Station Road, which of course according to folk law, the Packet Inn site does not have as Wykeham Estates owns the common land, whereas we existing residents have full access.  Yet another tangled web. 

 

Clash of the Titans

Have you seen them on an evening, going this way and that.  You can't miss them really.  Asda one way, Tesco another along with Sainsburys and then there's Ocado.  Not seen a Morrisons yet.  It used to be £5 a pop to deliver, now it's a pound and I have no idea how they make it pay without making a huge loss.  You would think they would get together and have one distribution channel, maybe a mini Stobart might help.  Could be an avenue for a new business start up for someone with drive and enterprise.

The Bowling Club  saga rolls on, apparently since the end of last year.  What really annoys me is that a few years ago, nobody was using the sports field for football and in the end it was hired out to another team from Bawtry, I think.  Now you know what kids are like, hot on one thing this year, cool the next.  If they did get their third pitch, probably two or three years down the line they would probably kick off onto something else, leaving a big empty space and red faces.  Although having  said that, some people in this village have no shame.

So, if I were on the Bowls Committee I would sit tight because nothing can push them out of that corner.  The sports field is for the use of all, not just youngsters, and if any Tom, Dick or John wants to change things, he might find himself up against  an army of opponents and finish up with a bloody nose.  Now I'd like to see that sight.

More chaos with the railway bridge being shut soon.  It must be a nightmare for residents at the  bottom end of Soss Lane.

Was It Good For You

I have to admit that I am scratching my backside for info this week since I've not been around much, hence the jungle drums are as tight as a drum.

I was around on Sunday when the pillars of hell rattled the windows in fact the following rumbles  were worse than the actual thunder claps and a bit too close for my liking.  Usually we are lucky in that thunder splits at Gringley and goes round us.  Since I didn't put my nose out of the door, I don't really know if there was flooding at the railway bridge or at the church corner, although a little shower can flood that corner.

The only thing of interest to note is that the football club want one of those horrible containers on the sports field to store their goal posts.  Also the parish council is looking to tender for the demolition of the old library area.  That should be fun with asbestos involved.

It would have been nice to have seen the minutes of the first parish council meeting  with the new team but unfortunately the administrator of the fancy new website is maintaining her accuracy record by only showing the first page.  No doubt this will change shortly, we hope.

As far as the bowls club saga, heard nothing since although I suspect this particular controversy is not over yet.  I have to say I think whoever came up with this idea has bit off rather more than he can chew.  I just hope it leaves a very nasty taste in his mouth.

40 Years and counting

Just when you think some people could not be more ill mannered or badly behaved, they go and surprise you. This has been through the mouths of a few people so might be a bit exaggerated but I suspect there is a lot of truth in the tale.

The Bowls Club has had a letter from the 'Football Club' asking them to vacate (probably a bit of an exaggeration since the sports field is run by the parish council).  However it transpires that one parish council member is getting his feet well in the mire and  getting involved in this 'back of the office'.  In other words most of the other parish council members probably know nothing about this.

The gist of all this is that the 'Football Club' want a  third pitch, siting at the top of the field where the bowls pavilion and green is.  Now I know sport for children of any kind should be encouraged, but trying to kick our Bowls Club members off the field is a kick in the teeth, especially when some of them are in their 70's and exercise is even more important.  There is already a very expensive ball court for children and skate board on the opposite side to the Bowls Club so it is not as if they are being  shortchanged on facilities.

The secretary of the 'Football Club' is Annette Wilkinson so doesn't take a huge leap to guess who the other participant is stirring this little pot of broth.  The Bowls Club have also been asked to prepare a Health and Safety Report.  One would assume that the Football and Cricket Club have been asked to do the  same and if not why not.  Creating obstacles?

Now I am quite sure if this little piece of information got passed around the rest of the village and the newspapers, there would be quite a furore.  Depriving council tax paying residents of their sport, especially when an enormous amount of money has been spent on the green and surrounding area is just not on.  Think not, take a hike and pick on someone else.  After over 40 years of using this facility, why would anybody in their right mind even think of depriving them of it?

I can see this story is going to run for a bit.