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A30 speed limit will be reduced to 50mph at the Firs Rd junction

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The Parish Council weren’t successful earlier in the year in obtaining Local Highways and Footpaths Improvements Group (LHFIG) funding to allow the A30 speed limit to be reduced at the Firs Road junction.

However we have continued to work with Wiltshire Council to find alternative funding so that the scheme can take place. The Parish Council are pleased to announce that this has been successful and the speed limit will be reduced on the A30 to 50mph in the vicinity of the Firs Rd junction.

Wiltshire Council are undertaking the formal design work and the necessary legal procedures. The scheme will be implemented by their highway maintenance contractor. Unfortunately we don’t yet know when this will be, it could be 6-12 months before the new lower limit is in place.

 

 

Update: Drainage works on the byway will continue to 2nd August.

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The drainage works on the byway will continue for another 2 weeks.

There will be delivery of further materials including a large quantity of crushed stone via the footpath from Firs Road starting 23rd July. Residents are urged to keep clear and heed directions given by the contractors whilst heavy machinery is moving on the footpath.

Unfortunately due to the depth of the outfall, a swale will no longer be possible and a buried detention soakaway system will need to be installed. This will mean the byway ground level will be returned to a similar condition to before work started, and it will mean that the creation of wetland habitat will no longer be possible.

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Update: A30 to Salisbury closed daytime 30th July – 1 Aug

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The daytime closure of the A30 to/from Salisbury between Old Malthouse Lane and the St Thomas’s Bridge roundabout for surface dressing  has been rescheduled to:

Tuesday 30th July – Thursday 1st August between 0930 and 1500.

Signed diversion routes will be provided.

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Recycling of soft plastics

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The parish council have set up a bin for the collection and recycling of soft plastics, which is located by the post box at the entrance of Great Croft.

The Wiltshire Council blue bin collection does not collect and recycle these items.

The bin is for clean soft plastics such:

Carrier bags

Bubble wrap

Bread bags

Crisp bags

Fruit and vegetable packing

No polystyrene or plastics bottles, or other rubbish please.

 

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A30 to Salisbury closed overnight from 11th July and daytime 17th July

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The Parish Council have been informed that the A30 will be closed to/from Salisbury between Old Malthouse Lane and the St Thomas’s Bridge roundabout for surface dressing during the following times.

Overnight: Thursday 11- Sunday 14th July between 1900 and 0600.

Daytime: Wednesday 17-Friday 19th July between 0930 and 1500.

Signed diversion routes will be provided.

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Drainage works on the byway start on 9th July – machinery on site & areas fenced off

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Works starts on Tuesday 9th July to provide a permanent solution to deal with surface water from the drains on Firs Road. The existing soakaways and outfall within the byway are silted up and the pipework has collapsed. Heavy rain causes the outfall pipe to back up and flood gardens of properties in Firs Road. The Parish Council have agreed with Wiltshire Council that a long swale (channel) will be dug on the byway, adjacent and parallel to the field hedge. The swale will be approximately 100m long and will contain the rain water before releasing it slowly back into the ground. The swale will be deepest at the west end and will become progressively shallower towards its eastern end.

Tracked earth moving machinery will be in use, using the footpath from Firs Road for access. The work area will be fenced off but there will inevitably be some short term disturbance to other areas of the byway – it will look worse in the short term. The excavated top soil will initially be stored in the centre of the byway before being used to landscape and raise the edges of the swale and blend the edges into the surrounding land as part of the last phase of the works.

 

Long term, the Parish Council hopes that the swale will provide an increase in biodiversity due to the creation of a wetland habitat. Standing water is not envisaged to be present in the swale for long periods.

The photograph shows a similar swale elsewhere – it is likely that the Firsdown swale will be deeper but not as wide.

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Pitton Carnival Auction of Promises

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The Pitton Carnival on-line Auction will be running from 9:00am on Saturday 29th June, through to 6:00pm on Saturday 6th July. This year there will be a stand at the Carnival fete showing all the auction items and you can finalise your bidding there by phone. Then the Auction will close at 6:00pm, when the Carnival stalls close.

You can bid for items, or just donate money to the village hall.

When the auction finishes successful bidders will be sent a notification for payment of their item by credit card.

The software platform we are using is provided to us free of charge by Galabid. When you make your payment there will be a non-compulsory donation button. We use this auction platform every year and to keep this facility available Galabid need to achieve some income, so please give generously.

Please join and start making your bids

It’s more fun if you are not ‘anonymous’ – knowing who you are bidding against is part of the fun

Full details of how to register and bid are downloadable here: Auction poster 2024

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MoD road closure

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From Monday 1 to Friday 12 (inclusive) July the MOD section of Winterslow Road that crosses Porton Down Ranges will be closed to all traffic from the junction of the A30 to Blackbarn Road between the hours 10:30 to 15:00.

There will be sign posted diversion routes.

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Internal audit and financial documents

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Statute requires all town and parish councils to arrange for an independent internal audit examination of their accounting records and system of internal control and for the conclusions to be reported each year in the Annual Governance & Accountability Return (AGAR).

This report sets out the audit undertaken in relation to the 2023-24 financial year, which took place on 9th April 2024.

Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of AGAR, and the accounting records for the financial year to which it relates. For the year ending 31/03/24, these documents will be available on reasonable notice, between the period of 03/06/24 and 12/07/24.

The AGAR notice is available here.

The summary of public rights is available page 1 and page 2.

The full audit report and finance documents are available to download and view on our website here.

 

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Pitton Community Store – Pioneer Share target met

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The following update has been by provided by the Pitton Community Store Ltd:

We are pleased to report that we have reached the optimum target of £31,000 for the PCSL Pioneer share offer.

That means that the share offer is now closed.

There will be a further opportunity to purchase shares in the summer.

Thank you all so much for providing the community support to enable us to close this offer ten days earlier than the deadline.