At 5pm on Sunday 31st August, the fire service was called to a fire at Trigonhill, landfill site, near Wareham. The incident commander quickly requested the attendance of 6 pumps, 2 water carriers, 2 LandRover’s and the Unimog appliance. Due to the water supplies in the area, the High volume pump (HVP) was requested in order to pump the on-site water supplies to the fireground. On Monday morning a further HVP was requested from Hampshire.

The fire involved approximately 10,000 cubic meters of household waste which involves a significant amount of the landfill’s contents. The waste is approximately 25 meters deep, the face of the fire extended to this depth and is approximately 150 meters across. The fire service is working closely with the site operators, Viridor, and the Environment Agency to ensure the fire is extinguished effectively, and that all environmental considerations are taken to minimise the effect of the fire to the area.

The fire may burn for a number of days and the fire service continues to extinguish the fire and the weather conditions but it is likely that smoke will be detected in the morning periods as far away as East Dorset. The smell and smoke is not considered to be a risk to public health.

Dorset County Council proposes to construct a new access drive to link Southbrook to the new Bere Regis Primary School site. The route of the drive is across Souls Moor to the north of Egdon Close on registered common land owned by the Parish Council. The new drive will be unfenced, unlit, will be used only by school staff, essential delivery  and service vehicles, and will include a designated footway which will be open for public pedestrian use.

Bere Regis Parish Council, as land owner, will be making an application to the Planning Inspectorate to deregister the area of common land directly affected by the drive and exchange it for another area owned by the Parish Council adjacent to Elder Road, which will be registered as common land. The areas affected are shown on the map which can be accessed by following the link: Bere Regis Common land exchange plan 14-41 (1)

Dorset County Council is carrying out this consultation exercise on behalf of the Parish Council and would welcome any comments you wish to make by 17th September 2014. Your correspondence will be treated as public information and may be forwarded to the Planning Inspectorate as part of the determination process.  Please address your comments to C Eversden, Senior Project Manager, Dorset Property, Dorset County Council, Princes House, Princes Street, Dorchester DT1 1TP.

As part of the Purbeck: Nature Improvement Area, Smallwood Association and the Dorset Wildlife Trust have created an exciting woodland training opportunity.

A one year part time work placement on the Isle of Purbeck is on offer to a hard working individual keen to learn the basic skills needed to begin working within the woodland sector.

For further information please follow this link:  Coppice Apprentice

The deadline for nominations for the 11 councillor positions ended on 24th April 2014. Only 9 names had been submitted so this means the election was uncontested and residents of the Parish will not need to vote for their parish councillors on the 22nd May. You will still need to vote for your European and District Government representative.

As from the 26th May the parish councillors will be:

Tony Bates; Tom Bennett; Arlene Duncanson; Laurie Fairhurst; Brenda House; Simon Munnings; Robin Pitcher; Ian Ventham and Peter Wharf.

This leaves us 2 councillors short and means we are able to co-opt on to the council. This is open to anyone who wishes to put their name forward. The qualifications for standing are:

1. You must be at least 18 years old on the day you submit your name

2. You must be a British citizen, an eligible Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of any other member state of the European Union.

3. You must must be registered as a local government elector for the parish OR you must have occupied as owner or tenant any land or other premises in the parish during the whole of the 12 months before the day of your submission OR your main or only place of work during the 12 months prior to the day of submission has been in the parish OR you have lived in the parish or within 3 miles of it during the whole of the 12 months prior to your submission.

If you would like to put your name forward, or have any queries regarding how you go about doing so, please contact the Clerk on 01929 472327 or e-mail clerk@bereregisparishcouncil.gov.uk

The time has finally arrived when you must now start to use all the new bins that were delivered in January.

From next Tuesday – 4th March – the new recycling scheme comes into effect. You will need to put out the slim black bin containing rubbish that can’t be recycled and the larger of the two brown bins containing food waste.

On Tuesday 11th March, you will need to put out your current large black bin, containing paper, cardboard, tins, cans, aerosols and plastics and your current green bin, containing glass bottles and jars.

Full details and a calendar can be found on www.dorsetforyou.com/recycle or you can call 01305 221040 for more information.

The consultation period for the plan ended on 13th February but the Parish Council was able to gain a one day extension in order to allow debate at the meeting held on the 13th.

The Parish Council’s response can be found by clicking “Mineral Sites Plan Response” or, for full information and all the comments sent on all the proposed sites, visit www.dorsetforyou.com/mineral-sites

Dorset County Council will be carrying out a series of work on local roads. All this work is deemed major and will result in roads being closed over certain periods.

A full list, showing dates and locations can be found on Streetworks Purbeck

Thank you to everyone who attended the Parish Forum on the 26th.

To see the Presentation given on the day –click here.

Remember, we still need volunteers for the Volunteer Driver Scheme so if you are able to help, please contact Cllr Len Alderman on 403591 or the Clerk on 472327.

The roundabout will be closed from 7pm on Friday 4th October until 6am on Monday 7th October. Full details with the suggested diversions can be found on www.dorsetforyou.com/roadworks

Best advise – avoid this area completely if you can.

Come and enjoy the May’s Wood inaugural tree planting and Community Planting on Saturday 28th September at 2.30pm

Programme

Location Map