February Planning Applications

 

Planning Applications for January

meeting4 Station Road. – Alterations and improvements of a garage with a pitched roof. The council had no objections subject to a condition of any planning permission preventing the building used for anything other than the designed garden room.

 Dyffryn Gardens. – A proposed charging shed for site vehicles and alterations to the compost bays and concrete apron. The compost area is at the far end of the garden and no objections were raised.

 Dyffryn House. –  The installation of a one hour fire door and frame to the second floor of the house. Alt-hough a modern edition as a safety feature the coun-cil did ot object.

 Land at the Lawns, Cwrt Yr Ala Road. – To con-struct an American barn to provide three stables and a feed store. As long as there was sufficient land available to graze 3 horses there were no objections.

 

 

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February Planning Updates

 

February Planning Updates

 

The following planning applications have been approved.

 

 35, Burdons Close, The Grange. – Convert the rear half of the double garage to a habitable room.planningupdate

 

 Plot 84, The Grange, Port Road – Alteration of the approved dwelling including a rear conservatory extension.

 

 Wenvoe Community Centre. – To fell the tulip tree

 

The finance committee recommendations for the forthcoming year were accepted by the council. The present local level of precept payments will be retained at their present level. There will be a slight increase in a few of the council charges.

The application for a grant from the Rural Community Development Fund for the construction of a replacement building has been submitted. At this stage of the process we are required to demonstrate the need and its benefits to the community. If the application is approved we will then have to draw up design and costings before obtaining final confirmations of the grant. A successful grant would hopefully see construct of a new building next year.

There are cases of graffiti appearing around the village again. The Vale were requested for assistance to remove an offensive word on a section of fencing, telecoms will be approached about the spray on the windows.

The Brooklands Terrace intersection, with its new traffic light control and bus lanes, is planned to come into service by mid-February. The Council were informed that the work plan is running about two weeks behind schedule.

The Community centre floor has been sanded and varnished with a light coloured stain.

 

 

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Graffiti Problem

 

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GRAFFITI

Is this your child’s handiwork?

Do you recognise their handwriting?

 

In the last few weeks the use purple spray paint graffiti has appeared around the village. A rude word on fencing near the Walston Castle has been removed. The paint on the stonework of the boundary wall near the park will be more difficult to cover up. The spray on the telephone box windows can be cleaned.

If you have any information on the perpetrator(s), the Community Council wish to know

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Gwenfo School News

 

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We would like to wish you all a Happy New Year!

The children have settled back to school really well and we have a very busy and exciting term ahead of us, including Welsh Week and Arts Week.

Year 6 visited Cardiff Museum to learn more about their Blitz topic. They thoroughly enjoyed the day and learn lot – as evidence by the photograph on Twitter. They were a real credit to our school. Still on the topic of The Blitz, Years 5 and 5 are having an Evacuee Day next week!

 

techniquestReception had a wonderful trip to Techniquest and enjoyed a presentation in the planetarium. As with Year 6, they were a credit to the school- well done, Reception!

Other classes have trips to come up, including Year 1 and 2 who will be visiting St David’s Hall for their topic on The Orchestra and Year 3 and 4 who will be visiting Techniquest.

 

We have had some super new equipment delivered for our Foundation Phase outdoor area and are eagerly awaiting our new Infant Writer Shed!

It will be half term before we know it!.

 

 

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President’s Welcome

 

 

wi-01Members were welcomed by our president to the first meeting of 2017 but sadly we learned of the passing of Vera Tipples, a former president and a faithful, enthusiastic member of our institute until ill health prevented her from joining us. Our thoughts are with Cliff and his family and members observed a minute’s silence in Vera’s memory.JaneGrey

At this first meeting our speaker was our own member, Janet Young, whose subject was the nine day queen, Lady Jane Grey, who was born in 1537 and was the great grand daughter of Henry V11. Her parents forced her into marriage with Guildford Dudley, a devout Protestant and was named as Edward V1’s successor. She was crowned Queen four days after the death of Edward. She was executed on the 12th February, 1554 at the age of 16 years and died a martyr.

Business matters followed refreshments when members were given details of Glamorgan Federation events in the near future. Raffle winner was Gloria.

At February’s meeting Tracey Wandsworth will be giving a beauty demonstration and visitors will be welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

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AGM and The Wild Orchard

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We held our 10th AGM in January with 28 attending – not many organisations get such a good turnout. However we still need practical help from people who might be able to contribute the odd hour here and there. So if part of your New Year's resolution is to get fitter and healthier and help to Save the Planet, do get in touch. Absolutely no experience necessary.

 

 

 

 

Much of our work in January was concentrated on the Wild Orchard – so where and what is it? This orchard runs along the noticeboard 2edge of a field at the eastern edge of St Lythans. It is a public footpath that runs from the road between Twyn yr Odyn and St Lythans (metal kissing gate by metal gate and ST 1115/7324 if you have a GPS) and eventually reaches another footpath which connects Wenvoe Woods and St Lythans Church. From the road, walk through one field, over a stile and the orchard starts just beyond this point. It is a linear orchard running along the edge of the field and currently has around 60 trees planted, marked with bamboo canes. There is a bench and noticeboard.orchard

 

 

 

The orchard is called 'Wild' because all the trees are of native fruit, including Crab-apple, Wild Pear, Wild Plum, Wild Cherry, Bird Cherry, Bullace, Cherry Plum, Chequers Tree and Hazel. We are gradually introducing a labelling code where each bamboo cane will have a colour tape corresponding to the type of tree and the code is on a notice on the noticeboard. The canes are there so that we can find the trees throughout the year – there are some vigorous nettles growing here and in the past we have lost some of the shorter trees in the vegetation. Hopeful-ly we now have it under control. The public footpath is becoming more and more popular with walkers and it is nice to see the bench being used regularly

 

 

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The Final Garden Notes

 

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welliesIt’s never easy for our birds to find all the right nutrition they need and it’s even more difficult in the cold days of winter and early spring. It’s up to us to help out by making sure we always provide nourishment and water, and we’ll be rewarded by regular visits, not only from birds which are very familiar to us, but some we don’t see that often. Recent visitors to our garden have been a nuthatch, flocks of long tailed tits and even a rare visit from a thrush.

Garden centres provide a variety of choice bird food from seed to peanuts to dried mealy worms, the latter so loved by robins, but buying these in large quantities can prove expensive, so why not investigate your own larder to see what you can utilise to supplement what you have to buy, such as the afore mentioned products? I can tell you not much goes to waste in our kitchen. If we think it’s OK for the birds we save it and the list is endless and most of it is leftover- cheese, bacon fat, biscuit crumbs, bread, cooked pasta, grapes, apples etc. Before fat balls were on the market we even made our own bird cake – oats, cereal, sultanas, currants, nuts, bound together with melted fat and cut up when solidified. If you grow sunflowers, save the dead heads to hang in from a branch. They don’t look very attractive but the seeds are full of valuable nutrition and the birds love them.

Does anyone remember a pheasant which was a regular visitor to gardens on Walston Road many years ago? We used to put out peanuts for him and eventually he became quite used to us and would feed from our hands and we grew quite used to seeing him around.

This is my final piece in its present form, having provided the magazine with gardening notes since it was started, during which time many aspects of gardening have been covered, and I feel I have very little else to say. However if someone would like to take over from me, please get in touch with the editors.

 

In the meantime, if any reader has a gardening question let me know through What’s On and I’ll do my best to give you an answer.

 

From the Editor

Rumor has it that someone has volunteered to step into Trevor's Wellingtons.   Watch this space for when Trevor's Garden may morph into The Wenvoe Garden Guru

 

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Allotments Available

 

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allotDo you enjoy growing fruit and vegetables but do not have sufficient room in your garden? Would you like an allotment. An enjoyable pastime, spring will be with us in the next few months and the growing season will be underway.

The Council has full and half allotments for rent. Full allotment £25/year, half allotment £15.

The allotments are located at Twyn-yr-Odyn, there is water available on the site.

Present allotment holders are only to happy to give you hints and tips if you are new to this hobby.

Interested – Contact the Clerk to the Council on 029 2059 1139 or e mail wenvoecc@googlemail.com.

 

 

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This Week’s New Additions

librarylogoThe Wenvoe Community Library

Contact us on   029 2059 417

 

 

 

 

The days are getting longer  – which suggests two things in particular, it's time to rejuvenate the garden and time to plan the summer holiday. We have a wide selection of travel books in the library and can obtain guides for most countries from within the Welsh Library network. We have a good number of gardening books available, some seriously horticultural, others are written by "celebrities" from TV shows, with an emphasis upon garden design

We have a host of New Books in the library this month.

In the Children’s Section:-

Reading level 1 to 4 Ladybird Books:

“Topsy and Tim go to the Zoo”,

“The Princess and The Frog”,

“The Jungle Book”

 “Pinocchio”

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid” – The Last Straw and The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney

“Thorfinn the Nicest Viking” by David Macphail

“Y Gruffalo” by Julia Donaldson

There is a book about Ancient Egypt and one about Space which is a visual Encyclopedia.

For the Grown Ups:

The Chelsea Strangler (sounds scary) by Susanna Gregory

Two authors who just keep going: James Patterson/ “Woman of God” and Danielle Steel “The Mistress”;

“The Fairbairn Fortunes” by Una-Mary Parker

“The Gentle Sleep Solution” by Chireal Shallow

You will find a few others in our special Section “New Books” – opposite you when you first come in to the library.cofffee

And do you know your “Bonjour” from your “Hola”? Come and chat to Rafael and Eva, two British teens who go to a French school in Barcelona. They will be in our Community Library on Wednesday February 22nd from 1030 to 1130. (Back of the Community Centre, in the car park).

Come and join us for a warm welcome and a croissant.

 

 

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Meeting Schedule February

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The group had a brief meeting in January in which the village Christmas tree was taken down and cut up for disposal. It was a larger tree this year and I’m sure you’ll agree that it was a focal point in the village.

Our next meeting will be on the 6th February as usual at the Community Centre at 9.30 when we may have a walk about to spot areas that could need attention.

 

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