MASTER COMPOSTER SCHEME

Leics County Council want to raise the profile of home composting and are looking for volunteers to help & encourage people to compost waste. Ultimately reducing organic waste going to landfill.
Anyone interested should contact Laura Neale on 0116 305 5864.

October 2008 edition

More and more people are making use of their Community Forum to try and improve local services and raise issues of local concern.
- Residents in Birstall were unhappy that the swimming pool in Longslade Community College was no longer going to be open to the public outside school hours. Discussion at the local Area Forum meeting resulted in the College working directly with local users to find ways the pool can remain open.
- Following the Government’s shortlisting of ‘Pennbury’ as a potential Eco-town, the ‘Have your Say’ meetings in Kibworth and Tugby were the first opportunity for residents in the surrounding area to find out how the District and County Council were planning to respond to this challenge.
- At the Blaby South Community Forum residents and Parish Councillors from Sapcote, Sharnford, Stoney Stanton and surrounding villages expressed their concerns about the volume and speed of Heavy Goods Vehicles travelling through their villages. In response officers promised to look into a range of measures to reduce the impact of traffic and improve road safety in the short term, while explaining how they were looking to provide longer-term solutions.

Community Forums give you the opportunity to discuss local issues with your local Parish, District and County Councillors and representatives from the Police and the Health Service. There are 27 Community Forums across they county. To find out more about forum meetings in your local area, please visit www.leicestershireforums.org

Contact: Derk van der Wardt, 0116 3057581

April 2008 edition

NWLDC are introducing new byelaws for Osgathorpe from 1 April 2008.

Their enforcement officers will be able to issue £80 fixed penalty notices for offences such as:

1. failure to immediately remove dog faeces from any public place or a public footpath across private land.

2. failure to keep dogs on leads in any public area or a public footpath across private land.

3. failure to put a dog on a lead in any area, whether public or not, when instructed by an authorised officer.

4. falure to keep dogs off play areas or sports pitches.

The Dog Control Orders (Prescibed Offences and Penalties ) Regulations 2006

The incidents of Fly Tipping have increased considerably over the last few months.

The favourite places seem to be field gateways along our beautiful, winding, hedged and verged lanes.

Building waste is dumped most frequently and it seems to be unregistered tradesmen at the end of the day when otherwise it would cost large sums in Landfill Tax to go to a trade waste disposal site.

NWLDC informed the Parish Council that they were taking action on this issue but perhaps it has displaced the activity from the outskirts of Coalville to the Villages.