March2010 Edition - Hatfield Heath Village Magazine

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I Melograni Bed & Breakfast In beautiful Tuscany Between Pisa and Florence LOCAL GIRL FROM LITTLE HALLINGBURY RUNS B&B IN TUSCANNY £65 per night inc breakfast www.relaisimelograni.com sue@relaisimelograni.com VILLA TO LET Beautiful villa to let in Menorca, Spain. See details online at www.lacasacolina.co.uk APARTMENT TO LET 15 mins from San Javier Airport, Spain. 2 bed ground floor apartment with garden, sleeps 4. From £150 pw. For availability and further information telephone 01279 730 479 Paula's Petsitting Service Going on holiday? Paula offers personal pet care in their own home! Choosing Paula’s Petsitting Service you can leave home knowing you will return to happy pets. Dog walking also available. All at competitive rates For more information, please call 01279 876 277 or 07986 270 336 Or email: paulathrower@tiscali.co.uk For All Building Works - Extensions/Renovations - Decorating - Plumbing - Electrics Carried Out with Great Attention to Detail Tel: 01279 757 323 07836 205 103 James Gardening Service All Garden Works & Odd Jobs 01279 651 498 07963 989 851 6 (Italian proverb:Breakfast without coffee is like a day without sun) “Una colazione senza cafè è come un giorno senza sole” I was a local girl from Little Hallingbury, and still come back every three months to visit my parents (although I am no longer a girl!) I live in Tuscany and run with my husband Ricardo a family B&B near Florence, in the countryside. I Melograni Bed and Breakfast is in the first and oldest part of a 18th Century villa set in the countryside and surrounded by a typical Tuscan landscape of olive trees and vine groves. The house is at the end of a quiet country road, 3km from the local town Empoli. It is not necessary to plan your Tuscany vacation around moving to different lodgings every night. With our central location, you can make I Melograni B&B your headquarters. Empoli is in the centre of Tuscany between Florence and Pisa and is in a perfect position for touring, connected to Florence (25 mins): Siena (1 hour): Pisa (1 hour): Lucca (1 hour), and the Italian Riviera (1 hour), by good motorways or a reliable and frequent train service. With or without a car, I Melograni B&B is an ideal location for exploring Tuscany. Breakfast on terrace During the summer months breakfast is served on the terrace where guests can relax and enjoy the lovely Chianti views before beginning their daily excursions. Just like a country hotel. An alternative to busy Florence accommodation. HATFIELD HEATH NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH SCHEME The January edition of the Village Magazine included notice of a meeting at the URC on Tuesday the 19th January 2010 to get Neighbourhood Watch in Hatfield Heath up and running. The local Police Team (PC Brad Healey and PCSO Joanna Trevail-Phillips) our Crime Reduction Officer and the NHW Chairman, his team and 14 residents attended. It was interesting to hear that, whilst we do not have high crime in our area we have had a number of house and outbuilding burglaries in the Ardley Crescent/End and the Dunmow Road which is very distressing and
frightening for those affected. Hatfield Heath is a potential target due to our location – all roads lead out of the village with easy access to the M11 and the new A120. Also surrounding villages already have an active Neighbourhood Watch scheme which then pushes the criminals to target villages that don’t. Statistics show that communities in a Neighbourhood Watch scheme have less crime because the criminals would rather target areas where they are less likely to be seen. I have volunteered to be the interim Village Coordinator and would be willing to hand over to anyone who wishes to do it in the future. Val Davenport has volunteered to be support coordinator. We have about 18 people who have asked to receive e-mail updates of criminal activity in the surrounding areas. Some of these have offered to be Street Coordinators but, obviously, we need many more to spread the word to the whole village. If you would like to look after all - or even part - of your street, then please contact us with your details so we can add you to the list. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes belong to the residents and all you are asked to do is be more observant, report crime in action to 999, or anything suspicious but non emergency to 0300 333 4444 (this number is published every month on the middle pages of the Village Magazine – thanks Bruno). Coordinators receive information from the Crime Prevention team and pass it on to the people they have volunteered to look after; they also receive information from residents about anything suspicious they may have seen or heard. The aims of the Scheme are to reduce local opportunities for crime, thereby deterring would-be thieves and vandals. Establish a community spirit and inform coordinators or police of anything suspicious. Members are not vigilantes, they do not patrol the streets, but help police in a most direct and practical way. If you are interested please contact me paula.osullivan@hotmail.co.uk or by phone 730 281. I’m also one of the Parish Councillors who sit on the Neighbourhood Action Panel (NAP) which meets with our local police team on a regular basis and enables us to set the focus for local policing. If you have anything you would like me to bring to these meetings please don’t hesitate to contact me. Alternatively you can contact Val valdavenport@yahool.co.uk or by phone 0771 615 9917. We hope to have full inbox on both our e-mail and phones to help support this scheme that we can all benefit from. Best regards Paula O’Sullivan, Parish Cllr 7 IANS AUTOS Little Hallingbury The Dairy Farm, Lower Road, CM22 7PX MOT TEST CENTRE Service and Repairs Collected and Delivered on arrangement within a 5mile radius OPENING HOURS Monday - Friday 8am- 5pm Saturday 8am - 1pm TEl: 01279 724 534
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