Warsash Residents' Association

The bottle banks in the village centre car park are often overflowing looking unsightly and dangerous. They are emptied by contractors to the Council, on Mondays and Wednesdays only. Please be aware there are alternative bottle banks at Passage Lane car park and in the Salterns Club car park.

Councillor Nadolski reports that soon control over emptying these will be returning to Council hands

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Item 2 Warsash Festival (Sat 5/7/08) Planning

Warsash Festival on Saturday 5th July 2008 is to be held on Strawberry Field, Newtown Road Warsash. 2008 promises to be a huge year for the community, the essence of the event is to celebrate local businesses and organisations. It is estimated that around £10 000 could be raised for local community and organisation needs.

The event is coordinated by the Festival Committee, chaired by Reverand Andrew Norris of St. Mary's Church, Warsash, http://stmarywarsash.org.uk

SHELLEY JORY

Shelley is British Powerboat Champion and is shortly to compete in the Powerboat P1 World Championship Series. Shelley is a local girl (born in

Osborne Road

) and is delighted to open the event. She will also help judge the Scarecrow competition in the week preceding. Shelley will attempt to link the publicity she will gain going forward with our event. She will attend the event in her “working gear – ie overalls” and will try to bring a Powerboat along for display.

STEWARDS

18 stewards are needed throughout the day. It is not necessary to do teh whole day and time slots are available. The WRA would be keen to support this requirement so if anyone can help please email in to warsash.residents@yahoo.co.uk

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Item 3 - The Hard in Flood! 10th March 2008

Thanks to Mike Worth for supplying these photos taken during the highest tide of the year on the shore by the sailing club and Rising Sun

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Item 4 - Warsash Common Volunteers

Have you ever wanted to learn more about the Common? On the first Sunday of each month a small group of volunteers led by Fareham Borough Council Warden Della, undertake a range of tasks. These could be, scrub clearance, pond clearance, litter picking, surveys, boardwalk repairs, hedge laying , all towards effective conservation management of the site.

Meet at 1000 at ,Fleet End Rd common entrance. Tasks last 2-3 hrs and it is good fun with local people caring for their local area.

You can contact Della at Fareham Borough Council, see our links page.

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Item 5 Workman's Lane Public Footpath Usage

Workman's Lane is a public footpath and it should be used as such. A broken footpath fingerpost coupled with an imposing 'Private Road' sign may put walkers off using it. There has been no change of usage as endorsed by our Councillors at our meeting of 20th February. USE IT PLEASE -

UPDATE - As of 10/03/08 sign has been repaired! A succesful intervention by the WRA!!

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Item 6 Monthly Clean up at Warsash and Hook shoreline

For the last four years Ben Spraggon has been organsing the monthly shore clean up. Meet him at 1000 on the first Monday of each month, at the Passage Lane car park on the shore. Ben has six sites that he asks people in groups to go to, armed with rubbish sacks, litter pickers and gloves which Ben provides.

Finishing by about 1200, most excursions produce 20-25 sacks of rubbish of all kinds, mostly plastic. Ben informs us that he has yet to find anything valuable! The rubbish is taken care of by Ben who has an arrangement with FBC.

Great exercise plus a feel good factor thrown in!

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Item 7. Red Cross Hut Volunteers Required

The Red Cross Service in Newtown Road, survives on volunteer help. If you can spare as little as 2 hours per month, more if you can, ring Jennifer Knight on 01489 574451

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Item 8 Local Police Summary

Good Morning,

I appreciate there has been no summary for the past 2 weeks and I would just like to thank you all for your patience. This was down to circumstances beyond my control. I'm afraid it may be a little disjointed as we slowly get through the silly season but I will endeavour to ensure you receive updates as they become available. Last week saw a Burglar disturbed in Warsash area and following a pursuit one was detained. It is possibly too early to speculate as yet, whether all the recent breaks in and around Warsash and Sarisbury are linked to this team but it will be looked at very closely by CID I have no doubt.

Pedal cycles are going on a regular basis and when resources allow I will arrange a suitable operation to address this matter. Sweethills Crescent Whiteley has had an increase in yobbish behaviour generally late night early morning and always drink related. It still seems adults are buying the booze for the youth's as both Tesco and other such premises are requesting ID where appropriate. We had made some good progress in and around this area but it appears we will need to step up the patrols once again. As ever this will have to be dictated by the limited resources available at this time.

Until next week take care.

PS 2208 DAVE SPACEY SNT FP West

Tel 0845 0454545 645 152

Fax 02392 891950

david.spacey@hampshire.pnn.police.uk

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Item 9 Dog Walkers Dirty Protest?

It seems that removal of two of the three dog poo bins on Hook Park has caused a bit of a stink. For some reason some dog walkers go to the trouble of collecting the mess then dumping it in a pile where the bin used to be. There are more effective and healthy ways of making a point, surely! This has been reported

Cllr Nadolski is looking into it!

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Item 10 Vandalism at Passage Lane Car Park

Discovered in early March and reported to the Police, there has been a car driven around and through the daffodils on the green area in Passage Lane car park. If this is repeated please can we make sure we report it to the Police or at least our Councillors.

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Item 11 Poor Footpath Access Hook Park Common

A resident has sent in some photographs of the poor state of the footpath access into Hook Park Common. It has become progressively worse over the winter making it a real challenge to walk across. Cllr Nadolski has been asked to look into the matter.

280308- update, a resident has noticed that people have made their own diversion by pulling back some fencing. Cllr Nadolski has been made aware.

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Item 12 Fatal Accident In Warsash

TRAGIC NEWS FROM WARSASH 25TH AUGUST 2008

A young motorcyclist has died in a crash on a Hampshire road.

Teenager Nicholas Hobbs died when his Suzuki bike collided with a car in Warsash last night. The 19-year-old had been riding his blue bike near the Silver Fern pub in

Warsash Road

when it was involved in an accident with a VW Golf.

Nicholas, from Warsash, was taken to Southampton General Hospital but died there later. Police said the crash happened at about 9.45pm and closed the road for five hours.

The black VW was carrying five people and was being driven by a 21-year-old from Fareham . He has been arrested and question by police over causing death by dangerous driving. His 28-year-old front seat passenger, from Titchfield, suffered minor head injuries and was taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital for treatment.

Our thoughts go out to Nicolas’s Family at this Sad Time.

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Item 13. Warsash Crime Statistics 20/03/08

Warsash Beat Information as supplied by PC Geoff Tarvin to our public meeting this week, 20th March.

Between 1st January and 17th March 2008 the following is the true state of local crime........

2 x House Burglaries

3 x non dwelling burglaries, (Locks Heath School, an attempt at the Salterns Club and an insecure private garage)

21 x Criminal Damage, fairly widespread across the patch

10 x assaults, 2 of which outside Tesco where the participants knew each other, one at the Ferryman, the offender has been banned. The remainder were all domestic disputes in the home.

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Item 14. The bench on the shore footpath

On the shore path, as you walk from the Rising Sun towards Strawberry Field, is a bench that bears a dedication to a loved one. The bench also bears an inscription indicating that it was donated by the Residents Association. The bench is in a poor state of repair and needs improvement.

The dedication reads as follows...........'Jackie Darling, love of my life, x, R.A.'

Is anyone able to help with the history of this bench?

Here are some before and after pictures of a weeding session undertaken this week by Committee members

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