The heart of the Allertons in the heart of Somerset

The Old Schoolroom situated in Stone Allerton is available for hire. The building is run as Registered Charity to provide a “village meeting place”.

A Management Committee, which is elected annually from organisations and users of the Schoolroom, looks after the day to day running. The operation is purely funded by income from bookings, fund raising activities and donations.

The current office bearers of the Management committee are:-

Chairman Robin Skidmore 712084
Secretary Alan Williams 712256
Treasurer Andrew Midgley 712642

Booking Clerk Jeni Skidmore 712084
(May Tree Farm next door to Old Schoolroom)

The facilities include
• Single open room with a supply of stacking chairs and tables
• Single unisex toilet with hand washing facilities
• Small kitchen with kettles, microwave oven and sink with hot and cold water, this is for the provision of refreshments prepared off site and brought in.
• Entrance hall, complete with a real blackboard and easel, which houses a notice board provided by the Parish Council as a “PIP” (Parish information point)

(information supplied by Robin Skidmore)

Old Schoolroom Hiring Rates: effective from 1st October 2008

 

Hire of Schoolroom for for morning, afternoon,or evening meetings

• Winter rate 1st October to 31st March £ 8.00
• Summer rate 1st April to 30th September £ 6.00
• Hire of Schoolroom for parties; £20.00
• Hire of Schoolroom for Coffee Mornings £10.00
• Hire of Schoolroom for Profit making events, other than fund raising events for local organisations £15.00

For all day hire and other events contact the Booking Clerk
Mrs. Jeni Skidmore 01934 712084

Hire of furniture

The Old Schoolroom has some furniture which is available for hire subject to it not being required for a booking. To hire the furniture contact the Booking Clerk. The charges for this depends on the quantity hired. The Schoolroom Management Committee have suggested a minimum donation of £10 for the hire of a reasonable amount of furniture.

Available

• Trestle-table top (various lengths): 7
• Small Square tables: 15
• Tubular stacking chairs:  25
• Folding wooden chairs: 25

Please note that the Blue stacking plastic chair are not available for outside hire

China

The china in the schoolroom cupboard is the property of Allerton Womens Institute. This can be used by arrangement with the W.I. and/ or the Booking Clerk. A donation for its use is always appreciated.

Hiring conditions and points of guidance for users of the Old Schoolroom Stone Allerton

Electrical

• Please switch OFF the water heater, in the kitchen, using the switch above the right hand draining board.
• When you finish your hire please ensure that all wall heaters are switched off - using the switches in the entrance lobby.
THESE ARE THE SWITCHES NUMBERS 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9
Leave the switches 1, 2 & 3, SWITCHED ON
• Please switch off the inside lights, including the kitchen, toilet and vestibule when your group has finished with the hire.
• During cold or frosty weather a background heater is plugged in and switched on in the kitchen, with the kitchen door left open. This is done to prevent frost damage. If when you use the Schoolroom and find this heater on, please ensure that when you leave the heater is switched on as you found it.
• Please switch off the outside lights when the last of your group leaves the Schoolroom
• Please note that it may be necessary to levy an additional charge if hirers leave electrical equipment switched on.

Storage and Insurance

• Please ensure that any equipment, articles etc that you bring to use in the schoolroom are taken away at the end of your session.
• If you store anything in the Schoolroom, please ensure it is kept in the agreed place, so as not to inconvenience any other Schoolroom users.
• These items are not covered by the Old Schoolroom’s insurance.
• Therefore all hirer’s equipment used and stored in the Old Schoolroom is at the hirer’s risk.

Booking / Cancellations

• As normal all bookings to be made through Jeni Skidmore 01934 712084
• Cancellations or changes of bookings should be notified to Jeni ASAP.
• In winter, where practical, heating will be switched on for a short period before the time of hire.
• If a booking is not taken up, not cancelled with Jeni and the heating has been switched on, hirers will be asked to pay the hire charge.
• If you wish to make a booking and are unable to contact Jeni, mark the calendar in the Schoolroom and put a note in Jeni’s post-box.

Locking Up

• Please lock the inner door when the last of your group leaves the Schoolroom
• Leave the outer door unlocked to allow access to the Parish Council’s notice board.

General

• Please note that the Old Schoolroom is a no-smoking zone
• In the interests of public health and safety, no dogs are allowed inside the Old Schoolroom. The only exceptions to this condition are registered ” assistance dogs”.
• Please report any problems or damage to the booking clerk, so that they may, where possible, be rectified before the next booking.

M.Skidmore,
Chairman for
Allerton Old Schoolroom
Management Committee

Allerton Old Schoolroom Management Committee

 

CHAPEL ALLERTON PARISH COUNCIL

Minutes of the Parish Council meeting held at the Old School room
Stone Allerton on Monday 19th July 2010 at 7.30pm

Present: Councillors Skidmore, Morse, Pomeroy and Ryder.
Jan Benson, Fiona Torrens-Spence David Dixon, Steve Reading, Richard Cook and John Oldfield.
                         
Clerk:  Gerald Prince

1. Apologies for absence – Cllr Smith

1. Declarations of any new relevant interests – None.

3. Minutes of the Parish Council meeting and the Planning meeting held on Monday 7th June 2010 which had been previously circulated were approved and signed.

4. Matters arising – Standing Orders, It was agreed we will draft additional words and include on next agenda. Duckett planning issue, follow up with enforcement.
The Chairman was concerned about incorrect information appearing in the press regarding the PC and confirmed that only the Chairman or the Clerk should report council business. Broadness Bridge no report back from SCC to date.

5. Hinkley C connection meeting and Pylons update
The Chairman and the Clerk will attend the NGC community forum at the Webbington Hotel.
A draft response to the second consultation period was discussed. It was agreed it can be sent off and published on the Allerton Website and in the Allerton News.
                                                                                                                      Action GRP                                                                       
6. Electoral review of Sedgemoor District Council
The number of Councillors has been reduced from 50 to 48 and there are some boundary changes.

7. Ashton Windmill
 An unofficial approach had been made to the Chairman by a SDC councillor asking if the PC would consider taking over the Windmill and funding it via the precept.
Following a discussion with the Members of the Windmill Committee it was agreed we will write to SDC with a number of questions.                                     Action GRP

8. The following cheques were authorised for payment.
a) Repair of memorial wall. £1.180.00p
b) Accounts Audit £58.75p

9. A.O.B.
            a) Cllr Morse and the Clerk will attend the Cheddar valley Cluster Meeting
            5th August  Shipham

b) Cllr Pomeroy will attend Alan Ham’s Annual Community Meeting Thursday July 22nd 7.30 at East Brent Village Hall.
c) Parking by Memorial wall junction. The Clerk had received 2 phone calls regarding parking by the memorial wall. After discussion it was agreed the problem may be resolved when the local building is finished.

d) The Chairman had received information that a large Swimming Pool is being built behind a house in the Stone Allerton conservation area and asked if planning is required? The Clerk will follow this up with planning. Action GRP

e) A large amount of literature has been received re Hinkley C this was given to Cllr Pomeroy for circulation.

f) There had been more fly tipping on Allerton Moor, this has been removed and is being followed up by enforcement dept.

g)   Date of next meeting
Councillors will be summoned to the next meeting at 7.30pm on Monday 6th September.

The Meeting dates for the rest of the year are:-
18th October
29th November
10th January 2011
21st February
4th April, Annual Parish Meeting

Meeting closed 8.45 pm.

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Hinkley Point C Connection Project: Drop-in Events

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Chapel  Allerton  Parish  Council
Clerk:  Mr Gerald R Prince,  Ye Olde School,  Back Lane,  Chapel Allerton,
Axbridge, Somerset.  BS26 2 PH
Tel:  01934 710261      E-mail:  gerald@prince100.freeserve.co.uk

Freepost RRKX/EBGK/XXHT
Hinkley C Connection Project
Consultation response
PO Box 5689
London
W1A 4FG                                                                                       19th July 2010

Dear Sirs
Re Hinkley Point C Connection Project

This letter is the response of Chapel Allerton Parish Council to the second consultation for the Hinkley Point C Connection Project Document, together with information from various meetings organised by NGC.

At its meeting on Monday 19th July 2010 the Council considered its response to your proposals for power transmission from Hinkley C Nuclear Power Station to Avonmouth and would like to respond as follows.

We are concerned that the original consultation and the recent public information campaign have been inadequate.

The Parish Council believe that it is National Grids intention to push ahead with overland pylons which totally ignores its Company policies on undersea routes in the UK and the rest of the World as promoted by its Chief Executive on its own website and as such has not offered the parishioners of Chapel Allerton Parish Council any other realistic options.

It has ignored requests for all of the options to be costed on a whole life basis and continues to pursue the lowest cost capital option. National grid has also been unable to quantify the effect of the various options on the average household electricity bill despite being asked to do so at numerous meetings.

There are other omissions in the various presentations and meetings to date with no clear decision on the fate of the existing Western Power line in Corridor 1 and no policy on mitigating the visual effects of the pylons in open countryside or close to houses in both Corridors 1 and 2.

At a recent consultation meeting we were told that it was the off shore wind farms which are instrumental in creating the requirement for the new lines to be 400kV, this was new information we had not heard before.

With the new proposals by the coalition Government for the building of a new super grid, the likely delays to Hinkley nuclear project and possible new plans for off shore wind farms we believe a further period of reflection is required before any decisions are made and that both corridor routes should be rejected.

Yours sincerely

Gerald R Prince
Clerk to Chapel Allerton Parish Council

News from the Parish Council 

The following planning application has been received

Mr R Duckett Manor Farm, Back Lane Chapel Allerton BS26 2PH. Retrospective full planning application for the change of use of agricultural building to light industrial workshop (B1) use on land at Manor Farm

Mr A Coles Underhill Cottage, Copsewood Lane, Stone Allerton, BS26 2NR application for listed building consent for erection of garden wall, demolition of existing

The following planning applications have been approved

Mr D McGill, Old Mill Barn, Ashton, Wedmore BS28 4QE. Conversion of garage to living accommodation with infill extension between dwelling and garage. Erection of new garage and store room.

Two Applications from Mr E Warrender Moor View Farm, Ashton Drove, Ashton Wedmore BS28 4QD. Erection of three storey extension to East elevation of farmhouse to form staircase, partly on site of conservatory (to be demolished) installation of Dormer windows and Erection of single storey extension, with first floor storage area, to East elevation of Stable Block, partly on site of existing (to be demolished) to form building for the storage of classic vehicles.

Next Meeting

The next Parish Council Meeting which will be the AGM will take place on Monday 19th April 2010 at 7.30pm in the Old School Room, Stone Allerton.

Clerk to the Parish Council
Gerald Prince

AGM April 2010

The next Meeting of the Parish Council, which is the AGM will take place at 7.30 pm on
Monday 19th April 2010 at the Old School Room Stone Allerton

Agenda for the PC Meeting

1. Apologies for absence:

2. Declaration of any new relevant interests

3. Appointment of Officers

4. Approve minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on the 8th March 2010 and Planning Meetings held on 21st March and 6th April.
   
5. Matters arising.

6. Neighbourhood Watch Scheme
PC Peter Wills and Sue Venn Addams will attend.

7. Finance
            a) Approve the annual accounts.
            b) Authorise payment of Annual Insurance £508.60p
c) Authorise payment for Hire of Schoolroom.

8. Adoption of New Standing Orders
a) Feedback from Cllr Skidmore from SALC meeting

9. Enforcement Action at Airfield Site and Pallet City

10. Town and Parish Workshops 4th May Biddisham and Badgworth Hall
12th May Sedgemoor Room, Bridgwater House. All at 6.30pm.

11. A.O. B
            a) Hinkley Point Community Planning Days
b) Date of next meeting

Gerald Prince
Clerk to Chapel Allerton Parish Council

Sedgemoor District Council has ambitious plans to deliver even more affordable homes over the coming years and is running an Affordable Housing Open Day at the Sedgemoor Auction Centre in Bridgwater on Thursday 16 July 2009. This is a free event and opens to the public between 1600 hrs and 1930 hrs.

Visitors will have the opportunity to receive advice and guidance from a range of local experts including estate agents, house builders, housing associations, mortgage companies, financial advisors and representatives from the services provided by Sedgemoor District Council. Anyone looking for an affordable home, either for rent or to buy are encouraged to come along – this is an excellent chance to tell the Council about how the authority can help you to find a home of your own.

The open day will give visitors the chance to register for affordable housing, gain information on the new Choice Based Lettings system, find out about a range of affordable housing products including the governments new HomeBuy product aimed at first time buyers and obtain information about where new homes are proposed.

Sedgemoor District Council is exploring ways of improving the quantity of affordable housing across the district and welcomes enquiries from Landowners with plots of land for potential development, especially in the rural locations. The event is also an opportunity for employers and businesses to tell the Council about its employee’s housing requirements both now and into the future.

For more information see the Council’s web pages or contact the Council’s Affordable Housing Project Officer, Mary Chorley by 01278 435556 or email