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BERE REGIS WI BERE REGIS NEWS

This month, you may be asking yourself why the BERE REGIS PARISH COUNCIL
Bere Regis WI is adorning the village with green
hearts of all shapes, sizes and materials. The answer
is simple, we’re joining thousands of people across the country in making and Chairman: Ian Ventham 471480 ianrventham@gmail.com
sharing these hearts to #ShowTheLove for all we want to protect from climate
change, and to encourage everyone who sees them to think more about our
environment and what we can do to protect it. We are of course using recycled Vice Chairman: Robin Pitcher 472151 robinpitcher@btinternet.com
material and scraps we already have in our work boxes!

The initiative is coordinated by the Climate Coalition Parish Clerk: Amanda 472327 bereregispc@gmail.com
(www.theclimatecoalition.org/about-us), a group of over 130 organisations, Crocker
including the WI, who are working together to generate grass roots support to
combat climate change and to ask politicians to put aside their differences and Websites: www.bereregisparishcouncil.co.uk
commit to doing whatever is necessary to protect our environment. www.bereregis.org
We hope our efforts will make you smile, and perhaps think a little...
At time of writing, we’re also looking forward to our February meeting where December
Elaine Standfield will be telling us all about Life as a Shepherdess. Visitors are
always welcome; if you’d like to find out about future meetings, or would just like The Parish Council met on Thursday 13th December 2018 at the Sports Club. The
next meeting will be on Thursday 10th January at the Drax Hall, starting at 7pm. All
more information about the WI, please contact Di Pitts on 01929 471322.
parishioners are very welcome to attend and to take the opportunity to raise any
matters or concerns at the start of the meeting.

Neighbourhood Plan
We are hopefully nearing the end of the 6 year plus process, which has been
putting together our Neighbourhood Plan. The plan has gone through Purbeck
District Council’s consultation and is now with an independent examiner, who
checks it from a neutral point of view and makes sure that everything in there is
correct and viable, and then it will go out to the public again for a final
consultation before the whole village gets a chance to vote on it in a referendum
in May.

Dark Lane Footpath

Dark Lane, which is a path that runs up to Black Hill from Shitterton (see the map
below) is not formally recorded as a right of way on the definitive map of rights of
way in Dorset which can be found at https://explorer.geowessex.com. To make it
a right of way, and to ensure the right to use it is not lost we need to gather
evidence that it has been used without any hindrance from 1949 up to today. If
you have regularly used this path in the last 20 years, we would urge you to
complete an evidence form which can obtained from Amanda our clerk then

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