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VILLAGE HALL Waste and Recycling information
Below is a personal message from Jill Haynes the Cabinet portfolio holder for
Currently still has more outgoing than income we hope waste to all Councillors.
that soon the groups that were using it will want to come You will all appreciate how incredibly hard our staff from Dorset Waste have
back to increase our income. Current use is Pop In Place worked during the pandemic. I am writing today to flag up the pressures we are
every Friday morning Pop In Place movement to music currently under with staff availability due to a combination of factors. We are
every Monday Morning. Pop In Performers Group every VILLAGE getting a number of staff being asked to self-isolate through track and trace, this
Thursday evening. The Parish Council once a month and is at a time when there is a national shortage of HGV drivers and agency
the Gardening club are planning to start in October. HALL provision. We also have staff with much deserved and needed annual leave
booked. The combination of these factors has led to us have concerns about
Village Hall Hiring cover for some areas. At the moment we are managing but it is a close call. We
will always collect black bin and food waste, but our policy is that, if we have to,
The village hall has two options for hire the large upper Hall at £8 per hour and the we will take staff from the garden waste and or recycling rounds to ensure
Lower room at £8 per hour please telephone Lyn Simmonds on 01929 471528 to cover. If we need to do this, I will ensure that local members are informed, there is
discuss your requirements and view the facilities available. Or email appropriate comms and that those affected receive a refund. We hope that this
popinplace@gmail.com is not needed but I felt that I had to warn you of the pressures on the service and
would ask for your support locally.

Defibrillators in Bere Regis All of these are Public Access
Verge Cutting
Drax Arms West Street - Visible from street on front wall
This seems to be a current
The Village Hall North Street - Visible from Street on front wall hot topic and I have
The Sports Club end of North Street - On Wall of the larger white building near summarised an article
entrance (not the old barn building) from our countryside
manager below. The
------------------------------------------------------------------- detailed policy is on the
website
There is a defibrillator at the Doctors Surgery Manor Farm Road for use by them it
would only be available when the surgery was open. There is a huge
opportunity for verges to
Monday -Friday 8.30- 6.30 Weds 8.30 -4pm be managed more
There is also a defibrillator at the school that would only be available when the sympathetically to help
school is open. compensate for the 97% reduction in UK wildflower meadows since the
1930s. Dorset Council has significantly changed the way we manage many of our
Alison Bennett verges in the last few years to do more than ever to protect, conserve and
enhance the verges in Dorset for biodiversity. These changes include, increasing
the amount of 'cut and collect' mowing for the verges within the 30-mph urban
road network – this is where we collect the vegetation clippings instead of letting
them decompose into the soil. Collecting the grass clippings reduces the soil
fertility, resulting in lower growth rates, longer periods between cutting and a far
better environment for wildflowers to establish and thrive; in some examples a
reduction from 7 cuts a year to 2 has been achieved within towns and verges full
of wildflowers. This reduction in verge cutting allows wildflowers the time to
complete their life cycles which benefits bees and other pollinators. This method

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