Chipping Campden Bulletin - May 2022 Issue

No 435 

May 

2022 

A D I N F O R M A N D U M N E C Q U E V E R O 

I N F L A M M A N D U M 

Since 1984 

Together with Broad Campden, Ebrington, Charingworth, Draycott, The Hidcotes, Northwick Park, 

Paxford, Aston Subedge, Weston-sub-Edge, Mickleton, Saintbury, Willersey and Blockley. 

CHIPPING 

CAMPDEN 

COUNTRY 

MARKET 

FRIDAY 9.00 – 11.00am • LOWER TOWN HALL 

The Country Market is a co-operative of food and craft 

producers that has been providing goods to the town for over 

40 years. 

All our food is produced in home kitchens with locally sourced 

products. All food producers have to have a food hygiene 

certificate and comply with national legislation re labelling 

and allergens. Our crafters also work at home. 

We offer a wonderful array of savoury, sweet and baked 

goods, alongside local fruit, veg, eggs, marmalade, jams, 

chutneys and honey. As all the meals on offer are freshly made 

the majority can be frozen and microwaved. 

Our crafters offer a variety of goods, from cards, knitted 

children’s garments, to willow, wooden and sewn items. 

Platinum Jubilee Weekend June 2nd – 5th 

We will be open on Thursday 2nd June from 2.00 – 4.00pm. 

We are offering to provide boxes of items for you to order for 

the Street Party etc. There will be 3 options – A Cream Tea 

Box, A Sweet Box and Savoury Box. 

Cream tea box for two - £5.00 

2 fruit scones, 2 plain scones, jam and cream. 

Sweet box for two - £10.00 

2 squares shortbread,2 small squares brownie, 1 mini lemon 

drizzle, 1 mini carrot& sultana loaf, 2 squares flapjack, 2 plain 

scones, Jam and cream. 

Savoury box for two - £10.00 

2 sausage rolls, 2 mini Quiche Lorraine, 2 cheese straws, 2 

cheese scones, mackerel pate for 2, 

Melba toast for 2 

Vegetarian options available on request 

Last orders Friday 27th May for collection Thursday 2nd June. 

If you are interested please do talk to us at market or email 

countrymarket@tutamail.com for an order form. 

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CHIPPING CAMPDEN 

OVER 60s OUTING 

Tuesday May 10th - a trip to Bath 

9.00am The Noel Arms, Chipping Campden 

9.15am Weston sub Edge • 9.30am Broadway 

Everybody welcome - to book, 

please call Ann on 01386 840529 

SALE IN AID OF UKRAINE 

REFUGEE FUND 

Saturday 21st May in Lower Town Hall 

10.30am onwards 

We have BRAND NEW handbags along with pashminas 

and other items of new and nearly new clothing + anything 

else we collect up in the meantime. 

Please come along to support our help for Ukrainians coming 

to our area. 

If you would like to book a table to sell items 

please just ask. 

Contact Rachel Cunynghame 01386 291 005 

PEST PROBLEM? 

For a friendly, reliable and efficient 

service please ring Sue Baker 

Pest Control on 

07940 911 669 

I’m experienced, qualified and insured. 

One off treatments or annual 

contracts undertaken. 

Very competitive rates. 

Bespoke cakes, patisseries, sourdough and bread 

selection all handmade to order. 

Dessert of the week, making 

every celebration 

sweeter or just for a 

weekend treat 

Based in Draycott 

contact Katie on: 

07736 673576 or katieee1@live.co.uk 

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CHIPPING CAMPDEN BULLETIN 

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Willersey WR12 7RR. 

Tel: 858900 Email editor@campdenbulletin.co.uk 

If your email does not receive an acknowledgement then 

it has not been received. 

ADVERTISING: AS ABOVE 

Articles and advertisements must be sent, preferably 

via e-mail to the above address for the June issue by the 

20th May. New advertisements must be accompanied by 

payment please, all ads, whether old or new, must be paid 

for in advance. We are most grateful to all our advertisers for 

without your support it would not be possible to publish the 

Bulletin and deliver it free as 3,400 copies in the parishes of 

Chipping Campden, Broad Campden, Draycott, Ebrington, 

the Hidcotes, Northwick Park, Paxford, the Sub-Edges, 

Saintbury, parts of Mickleton, Willersey and Blockley. 

The Bulletin takes up many hours to produce each month 

and this time is spent during daytime working hours. The 

Bulletin is not a hobby, it is a job. 

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CHIPPING CAMPDEN SURGERY 

MONTHLY NEWS FLASH 

New Surgery Building - Update and start of Consultation 

As previously reported in our bulletin newsletters and on 

the surgery website, work continues on our new premises 

project. We’re pleased to say we have an opportunity to 

buy a piece of land behind the Gloucestershire County 

Council’s Aston Road development. This is the first time 

since we started looking for new premises in 2009 that 

we have both a potential site and prioritisation for NHS 

funding. This will allow us to develop a new, purpose-built 

surgery to replace our existing premises. 

The new surgery will have more space and modern facilities 

to help us improve access and provide a wider range of 

services for our growing patient list. It will also allow us to 

work more closely with other providers such as community 

services and mental health teams to offer more joined-up 

care. 

Plans are in the early stages and remain subject to 

consultation and NHS approvals. At the beginning of 

April we held our first consultation event with Staff and 

our Patient Participation Group (PPG). We introduced our 

chosen developer, Assura, who presented various plans and 

ideas for initial feedback. Thank you to all those who gave 

their time to attend and offer their thoughts. Our next step is 

Peridot Digital 

Chipping Campden 

We are a computer shop and Post Office that offers a LOT more than that, with 

stationery and DIY tools available as well as snacks, gifts and cards we really are 

that go to shop in Chipping Campden. We offer more than just computer sales and 

repairs as well, you can have a watch battery replaced or get your Dry cleaning 

done or even convert your old video camera tapes or VHS to a digital format. 

We really have tried to think of everything.’ 

Located within Chipping Campden Business Hub 

2C The Cambrook, High Street, Chipping Campden GL55 6AT 

(next to Cutts of Campden Ford Garage) 

T: 01386 840810 E: sales@peridotdigital.co.uk 

www.peridotdigital.co.uk 

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to incorporate feedback from this event and to offer a more 

formal proposal for feedback from our wider patient group 

and local residents. 

In the meantime, we continue ask patients to complete a 

short survey to help us understand the impact of proposals 

on our patients. This is available on the link below, in the 

practice, or on our website. 

https://forms.office.com/r/Mz4MTTAg4s 

We continue to assess our options, develop plans and 

progress the NHS approval processes. We look forward to 

sharing later versions of our plans with you in due course 

via a new dedicated website (details to follow) and in the 

practice. 

Repeat medication 

Due to ongoing delivery and stock issues from the 

pharmaceutical suppliers and to ensure your prescriptions 

are dealt with by your own GP, could we request that 

patients order medication at least 4 working days before 

collecting. Campden pharmacy have also requested this 

time frame. This helps with continuity of care and ensures 

patients are ordering well before running out of medication 

in case of supply issues. 

Staff changes 

As mentioned last month, we have started a new system for 

GP personalised lists. Each patient has a named GP who 

will provide their care. More information is available on 

the surgery website. 

LOST AND FOUND 

March & April 2022 

This report is compiled by Chipping Campden Information 

Centre. Please contact us on 01386 841206 or email 

info@chippingcampdenonline.org (not the Bulletin) 

if you have any lost or found items, or come into the office 

Mon and Tues 9.30am-1pm, Wed 9.30am-4pm, Thurs and Fri 

9.30am-1pm, Sat 9.30am-4pm Sun 10.30am-4pm 

Items Lost 

• Tractor keys with tag on 

• Diamond in ring 

• Pattern teal zip bag knitted 10” - inside knitting (socks) 

• Car key on soft toy fob 

Items Found 

• Small child/ baby slipper – light brown 

• Black zipped pouch with make up inside found on High 

St near Woodland House opposite Charles Wiston 

• Ladies glove black (left hand) with fur type surround 

at bottom of glove found in Back Ends at entrance to 

Twine Cottages 

• Keys (set of 3) – 1 gold coloured, 1 silver JMA and 

1 other silver coloured on Knight Frank green tag (Stow 

on the Wold office) found on ledge outside Kettle 

House, Leysbourne 

Chipping Campden Bulletin welcomes 

editorial and diary date contributions. 

Please email to: editor@campdenbulletin.co.uk

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OPEN GARDENS 

FINAL CALL FOR 

GARDENS! 

We hope you are enjoying your 

gardens in this wonderful spring weather and that 

you have the dates in your diaries for Open Gardens 

weekend, which this year is the weekend of Saturday 

18th – Sunday 19th. We have had a good number of 

responses for gardens to open but we would still like 

to hear from you if you can open; so if you are able to 

please do register with us at the usual email address: 

ccopengardens@gmail.com This will ensure that your 

garden is represented on the printed programme and 

nearer the time we will, as usual, deliver your garden 

number and additional programmes for sale to those 

visitors who may arrive without a ticket. The deadline 

for registering your garden with us is 27th May. 

If you would like to simply display some pots at the 

front of your house, please email us and we will send 

you a small poster to print and display with your pots. 

We will then send out a small poster which we ask you 

to print out and display on with you pots. If you are 

unable to print the poster, please do let us know by 

email if and we will arrange to drop one off to you. 

We are delighted that Lady Blomefield is our guest 

gardener this year. Gina is a keen gardener in her own 

right and is looking forward to visiting a wide selection 

of Chipping Campden’s wonderful gardens. 

The Campden Society have agreed to open Wolds End 

Orchard for the event which will allow visitors to see 

the beautiful and much-loved orchard on their tour 

around the town gardens. 

In addition to teas at the Church Rooms, Rachel and 

Arthur Cunyghame have kindly agreed to provide teas 

at Pans Place in Back Ends and we are delighted that 

Geoff Soulsby will be having a plant stall in Back Ends. 

This year we are again supporting the two local charities 

that we have supported for the last few years: Campden 

Edge and Campden Home Nursing. We do hope you 

will be enthusiastic about supporting this event to raise 

money for these two great local charities. 

Tickets will be on sale in June at the Tourist Information 

Centre for £7 per day or £10 for the weekend. 

With best wishes and many thanks; 

and happy gardening! 

The Chipping Campden Open Gardens Committee 

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

We welcome your contributions. 

Email: editor@campdenbulletin.co.uk 

Dear Editor 

KEITH J. BENT 1958 – Dec 2021 

Sincere thanks for all the expressions of kindness, sympathy 

and support shown to us during the past few months. 

Keith was born and bred in Ebrington, attending the village 

school before moving on up to Chipping Campden. 

A gifted sportsman enjoying darts, tug-of-war, bowls and golf. 

Excelling as a goal-keeper, playing for local football teams 

where he was talent spotted by top division clubs. He was also 

a popular member and keen supporter of Chipping Campdens 

Mens Keep Fit. 

Working first at Crowthorne Concrete he then joined his 

grandfather Gordon James’s transport company based in the 

Northcot Brickyard. Later developing Paxfords Ltd into the 

successful business that it became. 

There will be a memorial service at Longstretch Farm, 

Honeybourne WR11 7QH at 3pm on Saturday 21st May. 

Those who knew Keith are very welcome to attend, a chance 

to share your memories with other friends. 

Melanie and Jennifer Bent 

* * * 

Dear Editor 

In March we reported that the finial vase on the Town Hall 

roof had fractured and a chunk had fallen off in early February. 

The Four Shires Conservation master stonemason, Shaun 

Hester, has since prepared two estimates for repair, either insitu 

or take down and repair. He could not guarantee that an 

in-situ vase repair would not fail again. The Trustees met in 

early March and agreed on the take down and repair option, 

and the Town Clerk immediately instructed James Mackintosh 

Architects to proceed. 

It now appears that the vase cannot be removed until 

permission to do so has been granted by both Historic England 

and Cotswold District Council Conservation Officer. This 

procedure is lengthy and we do not yet know when work could 

commence. 

The recent Condition Survey confirmed that the Town Hall is 

in a ‘fair condition’ while making observations at 4 levels of 

priority repair works required in the future. The four categories 

being urgent works, works required in 5 years, works beyond 

5 years and desirable works. 

A Working Party is currently meeting to review these 

recommended actions, initially focusing on the urgent works 

priority. These are repair works to the clock tower roof, 

replacement of felt on the flat roof, restoration of two first 

floor windows overlooking the High Street, replacement of the 

badly corroded metal decorative finial on the north elevation, 

rainwater hopper and gutter repairs and replacement of the 

damaged mullion on the semi circular window on the west 

elevation below the vase. 

The mullion replacement will be carried out at the same time 

as the vase repair to make use of the scaffolding already 

assembled. 

A first estimate of the full cost of all maintenance is in the order 

of £200,000 and the Trustees are reviewing how that will be 

financed over the coming months and years. The Trust earns 

revenue from two sources - Town Hall lettings and the car park 

and has accumulated savings in a specialised charity savings 

account over the years. The total is insufficient to cover costs. 

The working party will in time be making recommendations 

for the Trustees to review. 

Future developments will be posted in the Bulletin. 

Richard Orr 

Chairman 

Chipping Campden Town Trust 

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Dear Editor 

New surgery 

I appreciate the opportunity to draw your readers attention 

to the fact that within a few weeks Chipping Campden will 

be told that they are to have a new doctors surgery at the far 

end of Aston Road. Cotswold District Council in their March 

issue of Cotswold News does not mention the fact. The local 

doctors are seeking views on the development but do residents 

know what is being proposed? 

A few weeks ago I attended a presentation by a property 

developer who did not give their name but claimed that they 

were intending to buy a plot of land in Campden and would 

build a new surgery at their own expense and lease it on a 

25 year lease to the present group of Campden doctors. The 

meeting was badly organised. I could not hear clearly what was 

being said, a contribution by the Zoom format was defective, 

charts screened with details of the scheme could not be read. 

There was no discussion of the financial implication of the 

proposal. The developer had an algorithm that purported to 

show that the land they were to purchase was the most suitable 

for a surgery in Campden. 

All the details of the proposal were to be put in written 

form and the residents consulted. I am not aware that the 

consultation has taken place or the proposal put in writing. 

Your readers may think that they should have this information 

before it is too late. All may be well but the way the developer 

has progressed this matter, residents may feel they need some 

reassurance. 

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Dear Editor 

Scuttlebrook Wake - Saturday June 4th 2022 

Having spent the last couple of months promoting Scuttlebrook 

in the Bulletin and online, we are very excited to present our 

programme for 2022 which can be found in this month’s 

edition. This year’s event has all the much loved elements of 

the day and more, including Scuttlefest, our live mini-music 

festival outside of the Lygon Arms. 

We would like to take this opportunity to once again encourage 

everyone in the community to take part in the Fancy Dress 

Competition. There is no form or theme and details of the 

categories and times can be found on our website or Facebook. 

We are also pleased to announce that we are looking forward 

to welcoming back the fairground in Leysbourne. This is a 

traditional part of the day and we hope that you will come 

along to enjoy the rides. Alongside the Cotswold Olimpicks 

and Jubilee Street party, this is shaping up to be a fantastic 

weekend of community events for all the family! 

The Scuttlebrook Wake Committee 

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Dear Editor 

RETIRED SCUTTLEBROOK WAKE QUEENS 

To help celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne, 

the Scuttlebrook Wake Committee would like to call upon all 

retired Scuttlebrook Wake Queens. 

We would like to organise a group photograph during the 

Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Sunday 5th June. 

Please contact kate_hartwell@hotmail.com for further details. 

Many thanks 

Kate Hartwell 

On behalf of Scuttlebrook Wake Committee 

Dear Editor 

CALLING ALL LOCAL BUSINESSES! 

As you may or may not know, each year the bonfire and 

fireworks event held on the Chipping Campden recreation 

ground is organised and run by the St James and Ebrington 

Primary School PTFA. This requires a huge amount of input 

from PTFA members to achieve the amazing night such as 

the one experienced in November 2021. The fireworks are 

provided through a company who has close connections with 

the school. This year, the PTFA are looking for sponsorship 

from local companies to raise £3,000. In exchange, your 

company will be well advertised on all media correspondence, 

social media and dedicated boards displayed around the town 

up to and including the event itself. 

If you would like to make a donation, please contact the 

PTFA directly on friendsofstjames01@gmail.com or Emma 

on 07526 646700. The intention is to scale the various logos 

and branding to broadly reflect the size of the contribution. 

Once the £3,000 has been reached, no further funding will be 

allocated against the fireworks although dependent on interest, 

we would gladly arrange for alternative forms of advertising if 

companies are willing to contribute. 

Emma Taylor 

JUBILEE CELEBRATION PHOTOS 

In the June issue of the Campden Bulletin, we will be 

featuring photos of previous Jubilee Years - if you have 

any pictures you think would be good to include, please 

email editor@campdenbulletin.co.uk 

before 20th May 


OPEN GARDEN 

SHEPHERDS CLOSE 

WESTINGTON 

14th May 2022 

10am - 3pm 

(last entry 2.30pm) 

Entry £5 on the gate 

All proceeds to 

Campden Home Nursing 

Refreshments are available 

Sponsored by Huxleys 

Parking at Haines Field 

corner of Blind Lane 

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LIVING WELL AT JECCA’S HOUSE 

BEREAVEMENT 

COUNSELLING 

If you live in our defined geographical area 

and you or anyone you know is struggling 

with grief, our trained counsellors provide 

a safe, confidential place to talk and your 

concerns will be heard in a non-judgemental, 

caring and respectful way. 

A Bereavement Support Group is held on the 

last Friday of every month, between 10-12pm 

at Jecca’s House. 

For more details please email 

info@campdenhomenursing.org 

or call 01386 840505. 

www.campdenhomenursing.org 

Registered Charity Number 1178423 

There is no charge for any of our services, 

however any donation to help cover our costs 

will always be appreciated. 

It’s not too late to join the crafting workshops. Please call 01386 840505 

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1ST CHIPPING CAMPDEN BROWNIES 

We ended the Spring Term with eight Brownies gaining their Brownie Bronze Award, which is a great achievement for 

them as they were Guiding through lockdown with zoom meetings, then face to face outdoor meetings and finally back to 

indoor regular 

meetings. 

They have all 

worked hard 

to complete 2 

Skills Builders, 

2 Interest badges 

and a set amount 

of hours of unit 

meeting activities 

to complete this 

award. 

Alice, Betty and 

Isobel will remain 

with the unit and 

as Elizabeth, 

Ermione, Estelle, 

Freya and Jessie 

are all 10, they 

can move on 

to Guides to 

continue their 

Girlguiding 

journey. 

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SCUTTLEBROOK WAKE 

PROGRAMME 

Saturday 4th June 2022 

WINDOW COMPETITION 

“Happy and Glorious: The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee” 

LITTLEWORTH 

1.45pm Judging of the Fancy Dress and Floats 

2.30pm Procession of the Scuttlebrook Queen-elect and Fancy Dress to the 

Square led by the Bretforton Silver Band. 

TOWN SQUARE 

2.45pm Crowning of the new Scuttlebrook Queen 

Fancy Dress and Window Competition Prize giving. 

Dancing from our local Primary Schools and Campden Morris Dancers. 

Procession along the High Street followed by the Fancy Dress and Floats. 

HIGH STREET 

5pm Scuttlebrook Children’s Races near the Lygon Arms. All ages welcome. 

Including the Marathon and Wheelbarrow races! 

& INTRODUCING - SCUTTLEFEST! 

3.30pm -7.30pm Family friendly live music outside the Lygon Arms from 

Jon Doran and Janice Burns, Generation Jones, Orange River Remedy 

and Wes Finch. 

Traditional Fairground open in Leysbourne 12 till late 

More details at scuttlebrookwake.org and on Facebook 

Funded by the Build Back Better Market Town’s Fund 

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RETURNING TO CHIPPING CAMPDEN 

Friday 3rd June 2022 

Find out more at: 

olimpickgames.co.uk 

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COTSWOLD OLIMPICKS SCUTTLEBROOK WAKE AND 

JUBILEE STREET PARTY 2022 

ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE 

Below are details of the Road Closures and Diversions that will 

be in place over the weekend of June 3rd - 5th. Road closures 

and diversions will take effect from 12 noon on Friday 3rd of 

June until 20:00 on Sunday 5th of June. Please note this also 

includes the road closures for the Jubilee Street party. 

We would kindly request that all vehicles are removed from 

Leysbourne by 10am on Friday 3rd June ready for the fair to 

arrive from 12 noon. We would please also ask that diversion 

and no parking signs are observed. 

Although the road is closed to vehicles, shops and businesses 

will remain open. 

Full details of all road closures and diversions are printed below 

and will also be available on our website and Facebook pages 

shortly. Also below is a map summarising the main features 

including the flow of traffic around the one-way system that will be in operation. 

We would like to thank the community in advance for your cooperation and apologise for any inconvenience caused. 

The Robert Dover’s Games Society, Scuttlebrook Wake Committee and Town Council 

Road Name and 

Number 

B4081 

Leysbourne 

B4081 High 

Street 

B4035 Church 

Street 

3/116 The 

Square 

From To Distance Parish Type Diversion Route Date & Times 

Jctn B4081 High 

Street 

Jctn B4081 

Leysbourne 

Jctn B4081 

Leysbourne 


Street 

3/116 Park Road Jctn 3/116 Lower 

High Street 

3/116 Dyers Jctn 3/116 Park 

Lane 

Road 

3/116 Dovers Hill Jctn 3/104 

Road 

Kingcombe Lane 

3/116 Park Road Jctn 40516 Blind 

Lane 

3/116 Lower Jctn 3/116 Park 

High Street Road 

3/116 Dyers Jctn 40516 Blind 

Lane 

Lane 

Jctn B4035 Cider 

Mill Lane 

3/116 Lower 

High Street 

Approx 180 mtrs 


Chipping 

Campden 



40515 Calf Lane Approx 75 mtrs Chipping 


Jctn 3/116 Lower Approx 250 mtrs Chipping 

High Street 


3/116 Dyers 

Lane 

Jctn 3/104 


Entrance To 

Dovers Hill 

Jctn 3/116 Lower 

High Street 


Street 

Jctn 3/104 


Approx 290 mtrs Chipping 


Approx 1200 Chipping 

mtrs 










Closure As signed on Site 12:00, Friday 3 rd June – 

06:00, Sunday 5th June 2022 

Closure As Signed on Site 12:00, Friday 3 rd June – 

01:00, Saturday 4 th June & 

14:00 – 24:00, Saturday 4 th 

June 2022 

09:00 – 20:00, Sunday 5 th 



06:00, Sunday 5 th June 2022 


01:00, Saturday 4 th June & 

14:00 – 24:00, Saturday 4 th 


09:00 – 20:00, Sunday 5 th 


Closure As Signed on Site 21:30 – 23:00, Friday 3 rd June 


Closure As Signed on Site 21:30 – 23:00, Friday 3 rd 


Closure As Signed on Site 21:30 – 23:00, Friday 3 rd 


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Closure As Signed on Site 14:30 – 15:00, Saturday 4 th 


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3/116 Dovers Hill 

Road 

Jctn 3/104 


40515 Calf Lane Jctn B4035 

Church Street 

40515 Badgers 

Field 

45520 Haysums 

Close 

45520 Pear Tree 

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47027 Cherry 

Orchard Close 

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Lane 

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Badgers Field 

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Tree Close 

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Badgers Field 

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Cherry Orchard 

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Catbrook 

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06:00, Sunday 5 th June 2022

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presents: ‘BELFAST’ 

Friday 27th May2022 in the Town Hall 

This British coming-of-age drama, written and directed 

by Kenneth Branagh, chronicles the life of a workingclass 

Ulster Protestant family 

from the perspective of their 

nine-year-old son, Buddy, 

during the ‘Troubles’ in Belfast 

from 1969. The family attends 

church, where the minister 

delivers a harsh ‘fork in the 

road’ speech. This rhetoric 

is continually reflected upon 

Buddy throughout the film, 

particularly in relation to 

the feelings he develops 

for a fellow high-achieving 

Catholic classmate, Catherine. 

Based on Branagh’s own childhood in Belfast, it stars 

Jude Hill as Buddy, with Jamie Dornam, Caitriona Balfe, 

Ciaran Hinds and Judi Dench. 

Doors open at 7.10pm, film starts at 7.30pm 

Tickets £5.00 from TIC or on the door (if not sold out) 

Refreshments available 

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THE HEDGEHOG BUS 

Your local community bus 

VOLUNTEER NEEDED 

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As we get going again with our full services, we are looking 

for a volunteer to help support us with the administration and 

organisation side of things. This would NOT require you to 

drive the buses at all – although you would be very welcome 

to volunteer to do that as well! 

The role is very much about helping to keep our paperwork, 

our documentation and records, and our systems in place. 

The commitment is not particularly onerous, and is not 

scheduled to specific times. You can do it at your own 

convenience. You would be asked to become a member of our 

Committee which meets once a quarter. The key requirement, 

apart from enjoying keeping the Community Bus running, is 

to be reasonably well-organised, and to be comfortable with 

basic Word, Excel, and Dropbox 

The Hedgehog Bus provides a vital community service, 

available to everyone, particularly, but not exclusively, the 

elderly and isolated. We are a completely volunteer-run 

organisation. 

If you would like to find out more about what’s involved, 

please contact Alan Barclay, Chairman of the Hedgehog Bus 

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HISTORY SOCIETY 

CCHS Archive and Local History Room, 

The Old Police Station, High Street, 

Chipping Campden. Tel: 01386-848840. 

website: www.chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk 

News is added regularly so do visit us. 

email: enquiries@chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk 

www.facebook.com/campdenhouse 

The CCHS History Room is currently closed to the public. 

Please contact us via our website if you have a query. 

The feast won, and the cost estimated at £43.5s.9d was just 

below the promised contributions amounting to £55, so there 

was unlikely to be anything left for a permanent monument. 

The proposal for a feast soon developed into a full day of 

activities and several committees were formed to organise 

different parts of the event. 

The CCHS Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 

21st April and it was reported that membership is now at its 

highest level, over 300 members. 

The new season’s programmes of talks will be publicised in 

the August edition of the Bulletin, but research and answers to 

queries by volunteers will continue through the summer. The 

Society can be contacted via the website. 

Jubilee Celebrations 

The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria was celebrated on 20 

June 1887 and communities all over the country debated how 

they would mark the occasion. The Evesham Journal reported 

on the Campden committee’s survey of public opinion, three 

months before the event: 

‘..they found an almost unanimous expression of feeling 

in favour of a parish feast to be held on Tuesday June 21st, 

the feast to be the first charge on the funds [donations for the 

event]. Should, however, a surplus remain, then opinion was 

in favour of some permanent memorial…’ 

The programme for the Day is held in the CCHS Archives and 

together with the Evesham Journal report we have a picture of 

the activities that brought Campden together in celebration. 

The church bells were rung early in the morning and at 

10.30 am the procession wended its way through the town 

to Cotterells Orchard, “First came the royal coat of arms and 

then a large flag, surmounted by a crown. Then followed the 

band under the leadership of Mr 

William Warner; the members 

of the Brittania, Oddfellows and 

Hearts of Oak friendly societies 

and last of all the parishioners 

generally.” The ‘Baron of Beef’ 

and the ‘Jubilee Loaf’ joined 

in – were they ‘real’ or people 

dressed up? The feast, enjoyed 

by 934 adults and 493 children, 

was followed by a varied 

programme of sports, including 

‘The Royal Jubilee Stakes 

Grand Prize of Campden’ – a 

donkey race in which last past 

the post wins! The programme 

also stipulates that the 

Donkey Races are “open to 

Donkeys with four legs only 

belonging to the Parish”. 

How is this to be interpreted? 

– no donkeys with three or 

five legs? The legs belong to 

the Parish but the rest of the 

animal doesn’t? Maybe they 

weren’t real donkeys? But it 

seems they were – according 

to the Journal the ‘last past 

the post’ winner, perhaps 

the most stubborn donkey, 

was Mr Blakeman’s Forest 

Boy. ‘A most enjoyable 

occasion.’ 

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DARK SKIES OF THE COTSWOLDS 

Last month’s Bulletin mentioned Dark Skies within 

the town council report. 

A recent article announced that all the best places 

to watch the stars are in the UK. More specifically, 

within our National Parks. 

There is no doubt that these unspoilt areas offer a 

unique vantage point from which to stargaze. 

Whilst the Cotswolds has not, yet, received National 

Park status, it may well do so within the next ten 

years and I’m sure once the Cotswolds makes the cut, 

it will be quickly added to the list as the premium 

stargazing spot. 

We are home to some of the darkest skies in England, 

untouched by light pollution and enhanced by various 

secluded locations free from skyscrapers and other 

tall buildings. It is an astronomist’s dream, with two 

sites being awarded Dark Skies Discovery Status. 

With no restrictions on visibility, the skies are open 

and ready to be viewed by anyone with a telescope or 

a good pair of binoculars. 

Turns out, dark skies are important for us all, not just 

astronomers. A recent news report found that sleeping 

with even a little bit of light in the room keeps the 

nervous system awake, so you don’t get the restful 

night’s sleep that your body deserves. 

This means that your heart rate doesn’t decrease as 

much as it should and your body creates more insulin, 

which makes you hungrier in the morning and more 

inclined to snack on poor-quality foods. 

Light pollution is even having an adverse effect 

on the environment, disrupting the natural patterns 

of wildlife, and releasing waste CO2 into the 

atmosphere. Reducing our light pollution can have a 

big impact on climate change. 

The easiest thing to do, if you want to be part of the 

solution, is to turn off any lights that are not being 

used in your home. Make sure no lights are left on 

overnight and that you turn lights off whenever you 

leave a room. With the current hikes in energy prices, 

this will also help to lower your monthly bill. 

When you do need to turn on a light, make sure all 

your bulbs are LED. These are a little more expensive 

than traditional bulbs, but they last longer and use 

far less energy. If you like to have a light on in your 

hallway so that children can easily find the toilet in 

the night, consider using a sensor light. Dimmers are 

also a great idea, allowing you to set the tone while 

only using the exact amount of light that you need. 

You should also turn off any sources of blue light 

such as TVs, phones and iPads an hour before bed. 

This will also help you have a better night’s sleep. 

Councils can also help tackle light pollution. You 

can ask them turn off streetlights in the middle of 

the night – and help save the taxpayer money. In 

planning applications they can ask for shields to be 

fixed to lights, so that they are dimmer. 

After all, what is wrong with using a torch when you 

are out and about at night, especially in rural areas?

PLANNING MATTERS 

UPDATE 

and white mosaic across our 94 fruit trees, sitting within 

nearly three acres of ridge and furrow landscape. It’s not just 

about the fruit trees. We also have a ‘Shadow Orchard’ in the 

form of boundary hedges where you’ll also spot a variety 

of blossom including hawthorn, blackthorn, elder and wild 

damson as well as pussy willow catkins and maybe even 

some early wild rose. Everyone is welcome - just pop in 

and have a wander around. Note: the orchard is very uneven 

underfoot so ensure you wear appropriate footwear. Also, no 

dogs please as the orchard is a nature reserve as well as a 

working orchard. 

The Town Council is now seeking advice from a Planning 

Consultant over the Craves/Leasows offer. This is after the 

guidance they received from the NALC in-house solicitor 

was that, although the Council is empowered to acquire land 

for the benefit of the community, it is important to ensure 

that a gift of land from a planning applicant was not, in 

fact, a bribe. Copies of the exchanges these can be found 

on the Town Council’s website under About the Council/ 

Documents: NALC Craves Leasows Submission CJ; The 

Craves Leasows NALC Additional Information; and NALC 

Response Craves Leasows. The Council are then hoping to 

conduct a referendum over the matter; they are now indicating 

that they may hold a public meeting prior to this. 

In other news, a 

draft of the Chipping 

Campden Design 

Guide has been put 

up on the Town 

Council’s website 

for public comment 

under About the 

Council/Documents: 

Draft Design Guide. 

This document is aimed at providing guidance for planning 

applications and is part of the town’s Neighbourhood Plan. 

We encourage everyone to read and comment on the draft. 

Art in the Orchard. 

Track the arrival of 

Spring through monthly 

visits to sketch, paint, 

photograph, etc., as 

the season shifts from 

winter to summer. Meet 

in the orchard between 

4 - 6 pm on Friday 

20th May. Bring your 

own art materials and 

come for the whole time, or whatever part suits 

you. There’s no expectation to show anyone your work or 

to attend every session. Our next visit is planned for 17th 

June, taking us to Midsummer. If you register your interest 

by contacting foweo2020@gmail.com, or ringing/texting 

07767111338, we can let you know if the dates change due 

to weather or other circumstance – but feel free to just roll 

up on the day too. (Poets also welcome, though we have 

no daffodils.) Organised by Christina Kingsmill, Derry 

Sharman, Susie Tombs. 

Our thanks to everyone who has taken part in our twice 

monthly work parties. Work this spring will include 

starting our Wildflower Project with the first mowing of the 

area - visible from the entrance gate - in late April, raking 

and removing all the cut grass and will be followed by a 

wildflower survey in June. We thank Cotswold Glorious 

Grasslands team for their advice on this. If you’d like to join 

as a volunteer, please email Donna on foweo2020@gmail. 

com. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone with 

event organisation experience, to lead one or two of our open 

day events. It’s great fun! 

Update from the Wolds End Orchard Sub Committee: Geoff 

Carr, Julianne Davis, John Ellis, Donna Evans, Chris Leese, 

Mike Newman, Susie Tombs, Geoffrey White. 

WOLDS END 

ORCHARD 

Blossom Weekend 

Saturday 30 April 

– Monday 2 May 

Join us over the bank 

holiday weekend! 

The gate will open 

from 10.30am-4pm 

each day. Come 

and enjoy what 

we hope will be a 

breath-taking pink 

SOCIETY NEWS 

It is with great pleasure we would like to announce the cooption 

of David Roberts to our Committee. Many of you will 

know David as he has lived in Campden for over 20 years 

and is a founding Trustee of the Chipping Campden Music 

Festival. 

We are always looking for volunteers to help with various 

projects. Enthusiasm for the town, a willingness to pitch in 

and a few hours spare a week are all that is necessary. 

If you are interested, contact campdensociety20@gmail.com 

for an informal chat. 

Elizabeth Devas, Chair 

Images: Map Detail/OS1885; Design Statement/AECOM; Sign/Orchardeers; Blossom/Shuttlefish 

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UPDATE FROM 

ST CATHARINE’S CATHOLIC SCHOOL, 


END OF 

TERM 

Term concluded with a wonderful 

Easter bonnet parade and raffle. 

Thank you to the ‘Friends of St 

Catharine’s’ for organising this for 

us all to enjoy. 

CLASS TRIPS 

Dover Class enjoyed a blustery 

walk around Campden, following 

the trail of the River Cam. This was 

part of their unit on rivers. 

Four children were selected to 

become Commonwealth Games 

ambassadors for the school and 

attended a day of training in 

Cirencester. The focus of the day 

was sports media and broadcasting 

and the children were lucky enough 

to meet and interview Paralympic 

athlete Clare Griffiths and 

experience some commentary 

practice led by sports commentator 

Dan Strange. The children really 

grew in confidence throughout the 

workshops and Dan was impressed 

with their live commentary. 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE 

MAGISTRATES MOCK 

TRIAL 

St Catharine’s entered this event 

for the first time, and it was an 

incredible effort from our team. 

Children used their talents well for 

roles such as court artist and court 

news reporter. 

The organising magistrates wrote 

after the event to praise the 

children’s team performance, and 

described our session as an 

‘excellent trial.’ When all the trials 

had concluded, we were delighted 

to receive the following 

information! 

Not only had St Catharine’s placed 

second overall, Kajetan (Legal 

Advisor) received a special 

recommendation, and Marco (PC 

Madison Gill) was the overall stand 

out performer, across all 

competing schools! 

BIKEABILITY 

Year 6 pupils all carried out 

‘Bikeability’ training before the end 

of term. This is part of our work to 

ensure that children leaving St 

Catharine’s are prepared for their 

next life stages. All children were 

certified as being able to ride safely 

on the roads, at the basic level at 

least. 

NATIONAL 

CROSS 

COUNTRY 

Congratulations to Hayden who 

finished 4 th in the National Cross 

country Championships in Market 

Harborough last weekend. His time 

for the 2.7km run was just 9 minutes 

8 seconds, and this was better than 

his personal best. Hayden really 

gave everything and we are all 

incredibly proud of him. 

PLACES 

If you are interested in securing a 

place for your child at St 

Catharine’s, please contact 01386 

840677 to arrange a visit. We are 

proud of every single day that we 

offer the children and every day is 

an ‘Open Day’ at St Catharine’s. 

Spaces are available in certain 

year groups. 

Joanne Welch, Headteacher 

www.st-catharines.gloucs.sch.uk 

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Nurture, Cherish, Shine, Flourish 

St. James' and Ebrington 

C of E Primary School 

Ebrington's Little Pickles Nursery 

Our Christian Value this term is: 

If you are interested in enrolling at our school, please contact the office to organise a visit. 

stjebadmin@ncsf.school 01386 840634 

Experience Easter 

The children from both sites came together to 

Experience Easter at St. James' Church. We are 

very grateful to the Church team for putting 

together the activities and sharing these with the 

children. 

Mill House Care Home 

Our Reception children made Easter placemats 

for the residents of Mill House Care Home. 

Some of the children, with their teacher, walked 

to Mill House and delivered them. We hope that 

the children's Easter art work was enjoyed by 

all the people who received them. 

We have a few spaces left at Ebrington's 

Little Pickles Day Nursery. 

Our nursery offers places for children 

from 2 years-old up to school age at our 

Ebrington site. If you would like more 

information or to visit the setting please 

email us for an information pack or visit 

our website. 

littlepickles@ncsf.school 

www.northcotswoldschools.co.uk 

Nurture, Cherish, Shine, Flourish 

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The Bulletin’s 

monthly columnist: 

JB 

TAKES A LOOK 

AT LIFE 

Leading the charge 

Let’s talk wind, I’m embarrassed to say I have a problem and I think you can help. 

I was listening to a bloke on a podcast about harnessing the energy produced by 

nature and he said more natural energy is produced in a single day from wind, water, 

and the sun than we use in a whole year and that triggered a thought. As we all come 

to terms with the fact that we have a climate emergency we start to hit barriers to 

progress and that’s silly. 

In an area of outstanding natural beauty, I imagine there would be a heck of a hooha 

if someone suggested a wind farm, but why? If we are to save the AONB we 

must act and if that means being less than conventional, so be it. Our coastline from 

Cornwall to Scotland and inland areas between are beginning to become decorated 

with wind turbines and these, majestic to some and ugly to others are as necessary, if 

not more so, than pylons. Subtle tree planting and clever landscaping the solar farm 

on Five Mile Drive renders it discrete and many people coming to the area would 

be completely unaware of its presence or even the digester which works to produce 

something good from ‘bad ’in the nearby quarry. 

I’m no eco warrior nor would anyone call me Greta behind my back or to my face, 

but I rather like the idea that one of the most beautiful areas, as the Cotswolds 

undoubtably is, should play its full part in caring for the wonderful earth. 

When the Campden Society gets all up in the bows about a few fruit trees I’m left 

thinking why aren’t they banging the drum to ensure rainwater recovery and solar 

roof panels are specified on all the new houses which are planned for the Aston Road 

development? In fact, why aren’t we all demanding important steps being taken 

now? I know some new homes in the area have to have an electric car charge point 

but more needs to be done and it’s not beyond the pale to get our council to take some 

bold decisions. Reopen the train station perhaps? If not now, when? So, this is my 

plan. Let’s lobby the planning people in Ciren to be a bit radical and lead the charge. 

As well as proper homes at proper prices for the local community can we build them 

to harness the power of nature, to have them completely affordable, in these times of 

escalating energy costs. 

The dreadful boxes, on Barrels Pitch, costing hundreds of thousands each, which 

have been squished onto what was Campden School land would have been a great 

opportunity to show the nearby young pupil population how serious we are about 

saving the planet, had county planners had the foresight and been brave, rather than 

allowing poorly designed, boring, unimaginative construction which now stands as 

our very own ‘carbuncle’ of Campden. They wouldn’t win any awards, which in itself 

is a disgrace. The students at the school should have been tasked with both helping 

design the homes and their all-important environmental credentials. Now that would 

have been brave, as the climate crisis forces us to think ‘outside the box’ – literally. 

The opportunity still exists to specify environmentally friendly elements into the new 

housing stock the district council is hell bent on building in our community – building 

I might add on fertile, crop and grazing land, but that’s an argument for another day. 

As the crisis in the world has been brought sharply into focus by the events in Ukraine, 

food and energy security in Britain are essential and so too is the health of the world, 

threatened again as Putin’s troops messed about in Chernobyl. 

At the very least get school students involved in the design of new homes they and 

we will be looking at for years to come. What they come up with may just blow us 

away. 

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COURT BARN 

A museum of craft and design 

Open: April – Sept: Tues – Sun, 10am – 5pm 

Oct – March: Thurs – Sun, 10am – 4pm 

Closed Mondays, except bank holidays 

VOLUNTEERS 

We are always looking for volunteers, particularly on 

Sundays. As a volunteer you will benefit from our volunteer 

social events, free entry to our exhibitions, a 10% discount 

on all museum shop purchases plus it is a great opportunity 

to make new friends in a warm and friendly environment. 

Please contact the administrator, Barbara Alderton who will 

be happy to discuss volunteering options with you. 

Saturday 30 April to Monday 2 May 

Wearable Art: A Celebration of Jewellery Weekend 

Celebrating a new commission from internationally 

renowned contemporary jeweller, Vicki Ambery-Smith. 

Thanks to the Friends of Court Barn who made a substantial 

donation towards the funding of the Campden Ring. 

Sunday 1 May 

Fee: £5 (including exhibition entry) 

Demonstrations throughout the day by jewellers including 

Stefan Day, plus two films : one on the making of the 

Campden Ring and another looking at Arts and Crafts 

jewellery. The day will also include an Activity Table – why 

not try your hand at making? 

(This weekend is supported by Gloucestershire County 

Council Build Back Better scheme.) 

Saturday 7 May – Sunday 10 July 

Campden celebrates: the Jubilee and 120 years of 

Ashbee’s Guild 

This year marks the 120th anniversary of arrival of C.R. 

Ashbee in Campden. The exhibition will explore how craft 

and design has changed over the years and how it is still 

alive in Campden today. 

FRIENDS OF COURT BARN 

Sadly, the Ashbee walk on Saturday, May 14 to celebrate 

Charles Roberts Ashbee’s birthday has had to be cancelled 

as St Nicholas church in Saintbury will not be open due to 

ongoing roof repairs. 

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C.POTS 

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Gutters Cleaned 

Broken Roof Tiles Repaired 

Call Chris M: 07969 423020 

Evenings: 01386 841808 

1902 CLUB LOTTERY 

The 1902 Club Lottery supports Court Barn and gives you a 

chance of winning a cash prize each month. To be a member 

there is either an annual subscription of £60 or a standing 

order for £5 per month. 

Visit www.courtbarn.org.uk to download an application 

form OR call into Court Barn and collect a leaflet. 

For your safety we have complied with the government’s 

guidance on managing the COVID-19 risk. 

www.courtbarn.org.uk 

Tel :01386 841951 

Email: admin@courtbarn.org.uk 

COULD YOU VOLUNTEER 

TO HELP PEOPLE IN THE 

CAMPDEN AREA? 

Charity Cotswold Friends need volunteers to support people 

who may be isolated in your local area by providing them 

with community transport, carer support and much more. 

If you’d like to provide regular breaks for carers by befriending 

the people they care for, you could also volunteer with the 

charity’s Carer Support Service, which has individuals 

waiting for help. 

People waiting for support include a lady in Willersey that 

likes classical music and musical theatre who would love the 

company of a female volunteer while her husband shops. 

Fundraising volunteers are also always welcome at Cotswold 

Friends, to come up with ideas, organise, and host community 

fundraising events. 

“Volunteering with us is enjoyable and rewarding, so if you 

would like to drive, befriend, support full-time carers with 

respite, help at lunch clubs or set up a new social group, just 

let us know.” 

If you think you could help with just one of these volunteering 

opportunities, get in touch with Volunteer Manager, George 

Halling, on 01608 697007 or email 

volunteering@cotswoldfriends.org. 

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CHIPPING CAMPDEN CELEBRATES 

THE QUEEN’S 

PLATINUM 

JUBILEE 

JUNE 2nd – 5th 2022 

Preparation is underway for the Town to celebrate the 

Queen’s amazing achievement. Plans include a Street 

Party, a Children and Young People’s Art Competition 

and a Photo Competition open to all. 

The Town Council has obtained a grant from the National 

Lottery Community Fund to purchase a significant 

amount of bunting to decorate the High Street, but would 

like to encourage households to also put decorations out 

or in their windows. 


Platinum Jubilee Street Party 

Sunday June 5th 

High Street 

12.30 pm 

The Jubilee Street Party will take place in the High Street 

on Sunday 5th June from 12.20 pm. We hope this event 

will be as successful as the one held to celebrate the 

Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. 

The road will be closed for the event and tables put up 

the middle of the High Street starting from the Town 

Hall. Entertainment will be provided in the square. There 

will be food available from the Red Lion and Munchies 

Mobile units, and many of the cafes will be offering items 

to purchase to take away. The Volunteer will be running 

a bar in the square. The Country Market will be offering 

food boxes to order and collect before the weekend. 

A large number of tables and chairs are being provided 

by local schools and organisations for use, but it maybe 

that you will need to bring your own should demand 

outweigh supply. To help us with this, please either 

register your interest via the Town Council Facebook 

Events page or drop into the Tourist Information Centre, 

during opening hours, who will take your details. 

Volunteers will be required to help on the day. If you 

would like to volunteer, please email Joanna Harrigan, 

Town Clerk clerk@chippingcampden-tc.gov.uk 

Children and Young 

People’s Platinum 

Jubilee Art Competition 

You are asked to produce a picture that reflects 70 years 

of The Queen’s reign using any medium, paint, collage, 

crayons etc. 

Judging will be in two categories: Primary and Secondary 

Ages. The competition is open to all children and 

young people who attend Chipping Campden School, St 

Catherine’s RC Primary School, St James’ & Ebrington 

CofE Primary School or who live within the Parish of 

Chipping Campden and are educated elsewhere. 

The two winning entries will be hung in the Town Hall 

and win a prize of art materials. 

The Closing date is 12 noon on Friday 27th May. Entries 

should be handed in to the Tourist Information Centre, 

High Street, Chipping Campden GL55 6HB. 

Please attach your name age and contact details to the 

entry. 

Platinum Jubilee Photography Competition 

You are asked to take a photograph that best sums up the 

Jubilee Street Party. 

Judging will be in 3 categories Under 11’s, Under 11 to 

18 and 18+ 

The three winning entries will each win a prize of £25.00 

Entries to be submitted by Monday 13th June. Please 

email digital photographs in jpeg (.jpg) format to 

campdenjubileephoto@gmail.com or hand paper entries 

to the Tourist Information Centre, High Street, Chipping 

Campden GL55 6HB. 

Platinum Jubilee Beacon 

Cllr Graham Greenall is arranging for a Platinum Jubilee 

Beacon to be sited on Dover’s Hill as part of a string of 

beacons to be lit throughout the Commonwealth on the 

evening of Thursday 2nd June 2022. The Honourable 

Philip Smith has kindly agreed to light the beacon as he 

did for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012. 

PLATINUM JUBILEE 

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NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE TEAM 

REPORTED CRIME FIGURES 1st APRIL 2021 – 31st MARCH 2022 

Area Chipping Campden Ebrington Mickleton Weston Sub Edge 

Category 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 

Violence 62 39 5 3 42 42 6 2 

Burglary 20 21 5 4 9 9 3 8 

Theft 22 17 6 3 20 11 4 6 

Fraud 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 

Criminal Damage 14 9 2 3 18 12 2 3 

Drugs 1 4 0 0 1 2 0 1 

Other 5 5 0 0 0 1 1 1 

Total 124 99 18 13 90 81 16 21 

The Annual crime totals for each Parish are as above. It’s 

disappointing to report there has been an increase over the 

past year, aside from Weston sub edge, which saw a small 

reduction. 

The majority of the increases falling within the crime 

categories of Theft, Violence or Criminal damage, although 

not one underlying contributor was evident from within the 

figures. 

Call in to one of our Police surgeries, held from Chipping 

Campden Council Office - The Old Police Station, High 

Street, Chipping Campden, GL55 6HB 

Friday 6th May 1500 - 1600 

Wednesday 11th May 1500 - 1600 

Monday 16th May 1500 - 1600 

Sunday 22nd May 1200 - 1300 

Tuesday 7th June 1500 – 1600 

Thursday 16th June 1500 – 1600 

Wednesday 22nd June 1500 – 1600 

Monday 27th June 1500 – 1600 

Saturday 2nd July 1500 - 1600 

Friday 8th July 1500 - 1600 

Thursday 14th July 1500 - 1600 

Sunday 24th July 1200 - 1300 

Saturday 30th July 1500 - 1600 

Please feel free to turn up, no appointment required. 

Please remember you can contact Police via 101 

Reports can also be created via the following link - 

www.gloucestershire.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-toreport-a-crime/ 

Crime reduction advice can be found - 

www.gloucestershire.police.uk/cp/crime-prevention/ 

Neighbourhood Policing Team. 

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Adjacent to kitchen and toilets. Audio visual equipment 

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If you know Chipping Campden you might well know Ken 

Shadbolt too. Most ‘Campdonians’ soon leave the village 

once they are grown up, but Ken was 94 years old, born, 

raised, settled, retired in Campden the oldest and ‘truest’ 

Campdonian. 

Ken was born in 1927, and one of nine children, the family 

lived in Catbrook. 

His first work was providing casual labour for the vicar at 

St James Church, and then for a local plumber. He soon 

left that for better paid work on Honeybourne aerodrome. 

National Service after the war found him posted to Germany. 

He returned to Campden to work on the land. Married to 

Claudine in 1951, they started a family and had five sons. 

This demanded a greater and more regular income and Ken 

began work at Dowty’s at Tewkesbury, and then at Joseph’s 

factory in Stratford, becoming a skilled metal polisher. But it 

was hard, repetitious and dirty work. 

Eventually he took new work, a job he truly loved, as a 

fabricator custom building Autosleeper motor homes in 

Willersey until he retired. 

Fortunate to have a large back garden producing a wide 

range of vegetables was always a passion, pausing to chat 

to all walkers as they passed by his garden on the Cotswold 

Way. As his children grew up motorcycling, camping, home 

movies, wine-making, farm cart model making and woodturning 

were hobbies he enjoyed. 

In retirement, Ken also travelled abroad with Claudine, and 

his loneliness when she died after 64 years of marriage was 

only softened by the love he had for his village. Having 

survived a heart attack and cancer he maintained his fitness 

with a regular walk along Back Ends and returning along 

the High Street. Resting on the seat below Church Lane, or 

‘Mums Seat’ that he funded near to the Sheep Street junction. 

OBITUARY 

KEN SHADBOLT 1927 - 2022 

Always engaging conversation with all who would listen. 

Buying an electric tricycle revitalised his life, made him 

fitter, and when the sun came out he was able to range farther 

beyond Campden itself, and rediscover the countryside he 

loved. Ken died on 24 March 2022. 

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fishcakes 

makes 10 

These fishcakes are one of our best 

sellers, serve two as a light lunch 

with some seasonal asparagus and 

hollandaise or one as a starter with 

some dressed leaves and a good 

tartare sauce. 

We recommend a well chilled Baron 

de Badassiere Picpoul de Pinet as 

a lip smacking accompaniment 

either which way. 

Ingredients: 

500g skinless boneless salmon 

500g skinless boneless smoked haddock (undyed) 

400g potatoes 

1 finely chopped red chilli 

Large bunch of coriander, finely chopped 

1 large red onion, finely diced 

5cm piece of ginger, finely minced 

Salt and pepper 

Flour 

Beaten egg 

Breadcrumbs 

Method: 

Poach the fish in the oven in water until just cooked (about 

15 mins) then flake into a large bowl checking for bones. 

Boil the potatoes until soft and mash over a low heat to 

dry them out. Add to the fish and allow to cool slightly. 

High Street, Chipping Campden GL55 6AG 

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Add the chopped flavourings and season with salt and 

plenty of pepper. Mix well but try not to break up the 

fish too much, you want nice large chunks not a uniform 

texture. Form into 10 fishcakes then dip in flour, then egg, 

then roll in the breadcrumbs. 

These can now be frozen (provided the fish hasn’t already 

been frozen) and can be cooked straight from the freezer. 

Heat the oven to 180 degrees and dot the fishcakes with 

butter. Cook for 30 mins, turn, add another dot of butter 

and put back in for another 10 mins. 

Reduce the cooking time if from chilled by approx 15 

mins, you want the outside to be crispy and golden. 

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CHIPPING CAMPDEN LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2022 

3rd - 7th MAY PROGRAMME 

Tickets on the door: Check availability on the website - www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/events 

What’s new: Wed 4 May 11.30am To set the scene actor/director Auriol Smith reads Jean 

Rhys’s 

short, short-story I Used To Live Here Once, the title of Miranda Seymour’s hot off the press 

(official publication date July) biography of Jean Rhys. 

After huge early success, Jean Rhys vanished from view and was rediscovered in the 70s 

and taken to the heart of ‘cool’ London. She died in ’79 but has again become a cult figure. 

Be the first to get a signed copy of Miranda’s biography of 

Jean Rhys and hear the discussion about why some novels, such as Jane Eyre, are so 

enduring they give rise to numerous sequels and prequels. 

Don’t miss 7pm Alison MacLeod’s new novel Tenderness: a gripping epic of the 20th 

century itself. Powerfully resonant for readers today it explores the creation, banning 

and 1960 show-trial of D. H. Lawrence’s ‘scandalous’ Lady 

Chatterley’s Lover, the ‘sex novel’ into which he poured the 

last of his life and all of his daring. 

Rising fuel bills a worry? Kate Hughes 2pm 5 May Going 

Zero 

On Friday evening relax with a glass of wine! ‘walking laureate’ Duncan Minshull 

discusses his wonderful anthology of best selling authors’ magical walking stories with 

memoirist Sally Bayley and then Danielle McCabe, the General Manager of Cidermill 

Theatre, interviews Anna Whitehouse on her up to the minute, Sunday Times best selling 

novel Underbelly. 

Festival Saturday MAKE A DAY OF IT: Book all 6 events online for 20% discount 

• 10am Doors open for coffee, browsing the books and visiting the Prospect magazine 

stall. 

• 10.30am White Debt: Alan Rusbridger interviews Thomas Harding posing questions 

about Britain’s colonial past and what we should do about it today? 

• 12 noon Sarah Churchwell returns: We are the first festival at which Sarah will be speaking about the ten academy 

award winning film Gone With The Wind and Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 epic best selling novel. As Sarah finished edits 

in April, she realised that this new book had expanded well beyond her original idea, and she and her publishers agreed 

The Wrath To Come needed a new subtitle: Gone With The Wind And The Lies America Tells. 

• 2pm We’re right up to minute with Zoe Playdon in conversation with Finn Mackay about an extraordinary 1967 

transgender legal hearing The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes. 

• 3.30pm Richard Overy returns with his magnum opus Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War 1931-1945 The 

history behind Russia/Ukraine, Israel/ Palestine, Nato and much, much more. 

• 5pm Sue Cook of BBC Crime Watch fame interviews the lawyer Julian Stonehouse: a different take on the headline 

grabbing disappearance and return of Julian’s great uncle John Stonehouse from that of Stonehouse’s daughter whom 

Sue interviewed at another festival. 

• 6.30 pm We hand over to the Music Festival: Charlie Bennett discussing Mozart In Motion with author Patrick 

Mackie. 

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CHIPPING CAMPDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022 

Saturday May 7 th – Saturday May 21st 

Full online booking available with ‘select your own seat’ facility 

www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk 

Bookings update & Lunchtime concerts 

Ticket sales have been phenomenal this year with some concerts sold out, and others very close to it, but for 

others there is still reasonable availability. With sold out concerts we do not operate a waiting list but any returns 

will be put back on the website so it is always worth checking there. It will be possible to purchase tickets on the 

door each evening subject, of course, to availability. 

The quickest and easiest way to book is online but if you prefer to book in person, our Festival office in The 

Old Police Station, High Street, Chipping Campden, will be open each day from May 9th onwards. Opening 

times are planned to be 11.30am- 2pm each day but there may be times when our box office manager has to be 

elsewhere so, to save you a wasted journey up to the office, please check whether the 'Box Office open’ sign is 

outside on the pavement before coming up. If it’s not there we aren’t open! 

Lunchtime Concerts - we are delighted to be able to reinstate the Young Artists’ lunchtime series of concerts 

this year. They all start at 1.05pm and run for approx one hour without interval. All seating is unreserved and 

tickets can be booked online or purchased on the door. Tickets for individual concerts are £8 but if you book 

for all five concerts online this is discounted to £6.50 per concert. Artists and programme details are below. 

Tuesday May 10th 1.05pm 

Roman Kosyakov Piano 

Mozart Piano Sonata K.570 in B-flat major 

Prokofiev Sonata No.1 Op.1 

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition 

Wednesday May 11th 1.05pm 

Broken Bones Brass Quartet 

Goff Richards A Suite for Trombones 

Bruckner Christus Factus Est 

Bartok Romanian Folk Dances 

Verdi ‘Ave Maria’ from Othello 

Hummel Trumpet Concerto Movement 1 

Verdi Nabucco Overture 

Debussy The Girl with the Flaxen Hair 

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet 

Thursday May 12th 1.05pm 

Clara Orif soprano & James Cheung piano 

Grieg 6 songs op.48 

Gruss, Dereinst, Gedanke mein 

Lauf der Welt, Die verschwiegene Nachtigall ... 

Zur Rosenzeit, Ein Traum 

Berg 7 early songs 

Nacht, Schilflied, Die Nachtigall 

Traumgekrönt, Im Zimmer, 

Liebesode, Sommertage 

Debussy Ariettes oubliées 

C'est l'extase langoureuse 

Il pleure dans mon cœur L'ombre des arbres 

Chevaux de bois "Aquarelles I. Green” 

"Aquarelles II. Spleen" 

Friday May 13th 1.05pm 

The Fiora String Quartet 

Purcell Pavane and Chaconne in G minor 

Haydn String Quartet Op.77 No.1 in G major 

Mendelssohn String Quartet no.2 in A minor 

Op.13 

Tuesday May 17th 1.05pm 

Christina McMaster piano 

Meredith Monk Ellis Island 

Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in C major K132 

Sonata in C major K159 

György Ligeti no. 7 from Musica Ricercata 

Domenico Scarlatti F major Sonata K445 

Erik Satie. Gnossienne no.1 

Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in d minor K1 

Erik Satie Ogive no.3 

Fazil Say Black Earth 

György Ligeti Etude no. 13 Escalier Diable 

Arvo Pärt Für Alina 

Debussy Etude Pour Les huit doigts 

“The Chipping Campden Music Festival brings world-class 

artists - and also young musicians starting their professional 

journeys - to a wonderful venue. After a long lifetime as a 

performer, having the chance to be part of the audience and to 

hear concerts of outstanding quality in such a setting is the 

purest joy.” 

Bernard Haitink 

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APRIL NEWS 

At our April speaker meeting we welcomed Mark Reckitt, who 

spent many years in senior positions at Cadbury, to talk to us 

about a charity, Precious Sisters, which is close to his heart and 

of which he is the UK chair. Mark explained that secondary 

education in Kenya is simply out of the reach of the poor and 

especially so for girls. The charity thus focuses on selecting 

and sponsoring able girls from poor families, principally in the 

Nairobi area and then supporting their education and emotional 

well-being during this period through 1-1 mentoring sessions. 

The work of this charity is truly life changing, not only for the 

girls but also for their families and it was this very focused 

approach which caught the attention and appreciation of 

our members and their partners. In sum, a truly memorable 

night. You can find out more about this charity should you be 

interested at ‘precioussisters.org’. 

On the 22nd of March we held our twenty fifth annual Primary 

Schools Public Speaking Competition The students had to 

make a speech for not more than five minutes on the subject 

‘Freedom’, in front of teachers, parents, friends and of course 

the judges. When we set the subject this year, the escape from 

long periods of lockdown was on everyone’s minds, we had 

not anticipated the terrible situation in the Ukraine, and this 

was one of the threads our young speakers picked up on in 

their speeches. 

As always, we were overwhelmed by the quality of the 

speeches given by the young entrants, who came from Year 5 

and Year 6 of local primary schools. We were also very proud 

of the way they supported and congratulated each other, some 

of the students had never met before yet they quickly formed 

an extremely supportive group and were a credit to their 

parents and teachers. 

The speeches from the students looked at freedom from 

various angles. There was a wonderfully personal account of 

how a family pet was brought from abroad into the relative 

freedom of living with a family in England. One student talked 

about how a guide dog could bring freedom and joy to a blind 

person. There were then various impassioned speeches on 

the subject of equality, the right for everyone to be free from 

discrimination, and the need for social justice and acceptance. 

Students took us back into history to talk about slavery and 

injustice, but also looked towards a more hopeful future where 

everyone could be free. We were all very proud of these young 

people who all have bright futures ahead of them. 

The judges, Vanessa Rigg, Anne Bartholomew, and Hugh 

Munroe faced an almost impossible task of choosing a winner 

and two runners up, but choose they had to and in 1st place 

was Henry Nicholas from Mickleton School, in 2nd place was 

Oliver Deaves from Saint Catharine’s and in 3rd place Eli 

Linklater from Rissington School. 

The following students were 4th runners up: Simer Sangha, 

(Mickleton), Cecily Burns and Joseph Penn (St James & 

Ebrington), Toby Luff, and Charlie Hunt (Blockley), and 

Evie Medcroft (St Catharines). We believe that they were all 

winners on the night. 

One of our Judges, Anne Bartholomew is Rotary’s District 

Youth Lead and so impressed was she by the whole evening 

she felt that she would like to promote the event in the wider 

Rotary community; our next winner might find themselves 

competing with other schools at District Level. 

In addition to our annual Junior Youth Speaks competition we 

also organise a Senior and Intermediate Youth Speaks a Young 

Writers competition and a Young Photographer competition, 

at Chipping Campden Academy. We are also hoping to host 

our first Young Musician event very soon. 

We are delighted that the winner of the Young Photographer 

Competition, here in Campden, Flynn Paget-Wall Collins, was 

runner up in the District Final – Well Done! 

You can follow us on our Facebook page and Instagram. If 

you are interested in joining us, either as a full member or as 

friend, you can contact us through our Facebook page or by 

email at: chippingcampdenrotaryclub@gmail.com 

Alternatively, we meet at 6.30pm for a 7pm start on the second 

and fourth Thursdays of each month at The Cotswold House 

Hotel, all are welcome to attend where you can find out firsthand 

about our small, yet very active Rotary Club. 

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FESTIVAL CHORUS 

Review of Concert on 2 April 2022 

What a concert that was, and to think it nearly didn’t happen! 

Having spent the previous three months rehearsing, the 

normally 48 strong Choir of the Chipping Campden Festival 

Chorus suddenly found themselves ten members down three 

days before the concert. 

The programme, which was a lovely selection of music, really 

needed many voices to make it shine, so if a few more members 

had tested positive for Covid, the show could not go on! 

In another twist, the organist also tested positive, which meant 

a replacement had to be found at very short notice; this is no 

small undertaking and this all at three days to go! 

Fortunately, the musical gods must’ve been looking down, and 

Charles Matthews (Musical Director of the Chipping Campden 

Festival Chorus) was able to find a replacement organist, Ben 

Sheen from Christ Church Oxford University. Stepping in at 

the last moment, and what a super-sub he was; having never 

seen or played the music before, he never put a note wrong all 

weekend, 

The concert itself received very positive reviews from the 

good-sized audience. St James’ Church’s well-known good 

acoustics always add to the beautiful sound. The Chorus and 

soloists - Eleanor Broomfield (Soprano), Tabitha Reynolds 

(Mezzo Soprano), Alex Haigh (Tenor) and Robert Garland 

(Baritone) - gave a fabulous performance of the programme 

of Dvorak’s “Biblical Songs”, Gounod’s “Messe Solennelle 

de Sainte Cécile”, Cesar Franck’s “Quae Est Ista” and 

Mendelssohn’s “Lauda Sion”. 

The programme put together by Charles Matthews was new 

to many Choir members at the start of the musical term, but 

during the rehearsals, over 13 weeks, everyone grew to love 

the music. Mendelssohn’s “Lauda Sion” is very moving and 

with some of the sections as powerful and moving as you 

would hear in Mozart’s more famous “Requiem”. 

What next for the Chipping Campden Festival Chorus? The 

next concert is scheduled for the 9TH of July and rehearsals 

start on the 27th of April. The Chorus is a community project 

supported by the Chipping Campden Musical Festival and is 

open to all to join the Choir) The Chorus always welcomes 

new members to come along, there are no auditions, and you 

certainly don’t have to be an experienced singer to be part of 

this excellent Choir. 

The benefits of singing in a choir with other people are well 

documented, and it is proven to be good for the mind and body 

with a massive feel-good factor, getting together and having a 

good old time in the process! 

Now in its ninth year the Chorus would welcome anyone 

who would like to join to come along and try it. Rehearsals 

generally take place on a Wednesday night at 7:15 pm in the 

Chipping Campden School and last for an hour and a half. The 

Choir is open to people of all ages and abilities to join with a 

simple message: come along, enjoy yourself, and the more, 

the merrier! 

If you would like more information on this, please contact 

John Robertson, the Choir Administrator at 

johnerobertson40@gmail.com and he will be happy to give 

you more information. 

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12th April 2022 

The Town Hall, Chipping Campden 

Key to Councillors: Michael Allchin MA, Michael Haines 

MH, Patrick Spink PS, Teresa Newman TN, Chris Jones CJ, 

Richard Orr RO, Graham Greenall GG, Liz Hodges LH, 

Bob King BK, Trevor Webb TW, Lutti Bates LB. 

Lynden Stowe LS, Gina Blomefield GB, Tom Stowe TS 

Present: Cllrs: Chris Jones, Michael Haines, Liz Hodges, 

Teresa Newman, Trevor Webb, Graham Greenall, Richard Orr, 

Bob King. 

County Cllr Lynden Stowe, District Councillors Gina 

Blomefield and Tom Stowe. 

Six members of the public. 

Minutes of the meeting of 8th March 2022 were approved. 

County Councillors Report - LS reported that he hopes the 

reinstatement work at Broad Campden has been completed. 

At 5.30pm this evening LS had a phone call saying that someone 

had been stuck in St James Church since this morning with a 

suspected broken hip awaiting an ambulance. LS rang Neil at 

the fire station who did a full assessment and got the ambulance 

there within 15 minutes. Some of the ambulances are taking at 

least 6 hours to unload at the hospital. My thanks to Neil for a 

brilliant response. 

LH asked why the County Council are closing care homes. 

LS responded that it was a consultation document and any 

comments he made are not prejudging any decision he might 

make at GCC. The rationale for closing these homes is because 

they are not at full capacity. GCC have a duty to manage them 

efficiently. Some of them are at less than 50% and it impacts on 

the viability of other care homes. None of these homes are in the 

Cotswolds. Some of the care homes don’t even have en-suite 

bathrooms. The real capacity issues GCC has identified is that 

there are not enough homes in Gloucestershire that specialise in 

dementia and GCC will be re-investing in these. 

The other thing GCC has done is close Treverne House in 

Gloucester and then reinvested in it to make it into a home for 

children in care and GCC will be doing that with another care 

home in Stroud. We want to make better use of the council’s 

assets. 

MH asked LS about the blocked drain on Dyers Lane which he 

reported about three months ago and the water is still running 

down the road. LS will forward the Highways response to this. 

RO asked if LS was able to contribute to the ANPR camera. LS 

is waiting for a GCC report on how communities can bid in for 

road safety measures including ANPR and 20s Plenty. 

MH asked about electric car charging points. LS responded 

that this is being looked at it in the urban areas initially and 

Cotswold DC are also looking at it in their off-street car parks. 

If you want one/some in Campden then LS would need a list of 

prospective sites agreed by the town council. 

District Councillors’ Report - TS reported that the main items 

on the agenda were agile-working from home which would free 

up office space to lease to other bodies. 

Licensing fees are being increased by 5% across the board. 

CDC will take action to stop raw sewage being discharged into 

the rivers. CDC will engage with the MP to improve sewage 

and waste water infrastructure. 

The plight of the Ukrainian refuges was debated and we will be 

working closely with GCC on this. 

GB reported that the Cider Mill wall belongs to Duchy Homes 

who said they would fix it within two weeks. I will chase this. 

Jubilee Fields: Lagan Homes have a problem with some of the 

tenants in the social housing. They were getting nowhere with 

Bromford Homes and I hoped I would be effective with using 

CDC’s CEO to get this situation managed effectively. To date 

nothing has happened though. 

CDC spent £360k on improving the facilities of the gyms in 

the three leisure centres that they own, including Chipping 

Campden. 

Update on the scheduling on the Local Plan. Hoping to pass 

the draft Local Plan in March 2023 and adoption in early 2024. 

PS asked if there were any sanctions which we can take on 

Bromfords. 

GB is concerned about Bromfords as they have shut a lot of 

offices and they are a huge organisation and the personal touch 

has disappeared. Housing Associations need investigating as to 

how successfully they are managing our social housing. 

LS stated that the housing stock is owned by Bromfords. There 

is no council involvement whatsoever and the council has 

no mandate. The decision as to who takes on the new social 

housing is made by the developer. 

Planning - a report was received from the planning committee 

meetings of Tuesday 15th March and Tuesday 5th April 2021. 

The minutes had already been circulated and MH outlined the 

decisions. 

It was resolved to appoint Andrea Pellegram to provide planning 

advice on the Craves/Leasows proposals. 

Amenities - a report was received from the Amenities 

Committee meeting of Tuesday 15th March. 

It was resolved to increase the cost of an exclusive right 

of burial in the Town Cemetery to £900 and to adopt the 

following policies: The ICCM Management of Memorials 

guidance; The Ministry of Justice Managing the safety of Burial 

Ground Memorials Practical advice for dealing with unstable 

memorials guidance; The Town Council’s Health and Safety 

in Churchyards and Burial Grounds guidance and The Town 

Council’s Memorial Bench policy. It was resolved to accept the 

offer of a memorial bench for siting on the High Street from 

Emma Simpson in memory of Kate Wass. 

Platinum Jubilee Working Party 

CJ reported that there have been four meeting of the WP and the 

posters have been sent out today. There will be a street party in 

the High Street on Sunday 5th June. There will be some catering 

available and a bar and entertainment will be provided. 

A grant has been received from the Lottery Community Fund so 

the costs to the council have been reduced. 

GG will prepare a beacon on Dovers Hill which will be lit by 

Philip Smith on Thursday night as part of the national beacon 

trail. 

TS will print some fliers so everyone knows everything in 

advance. 

The schools have been given details of the children’s art 

competition and there will be a photographic competition on 

the day. If the day is wet we will utilize the school hall. 

The mugs have arrived and will be given free to all children 

resident in Chipping Campden under the age of 16. 

Public participation 

John Ellis stated that he was puzzled that the council is still 

pursuing a linked development with the Craves and Leasows. 

Can’t see any benefits to the Council taking on the Craves and 

the costs of the reports and investigations required to develop 

the Leasows. 

CJ stated that the council hasn’t reached a conclusion on either 

of this all we have decided to do is conduct a public consultation 

and get some advice from a planning consultant. It would be 

wrong to not investigate. 

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JE stated that there had been no proper debate about the costs 

of the different proposals. No assessment of the costs, risks and 

resources allocations and its ongoing management costs. 

Elizabeth Devas echoed John Ellis’s concerns about pursuing 

the Craves / Leasows given the advice given by NALC and 

CDC and we are concerned that the Town Council still intends 

to spend further money seeking alternative advice. I would 

suggest that there is enough information that has been received 

to allow the Town Council to abandon the project. 

With regard to the Aston Road development the Campden 

Society requests that GCC puts very strong conditions on any 

housing association which takes on the properties and we will 

be pursuing this with Cllr Stowe. 

We would welcome an update on the NDP. 

We haven’t heard from the Resilience Committee recently 

especially on flooding. 

Would like an update on the Tuers Barrier. 

John Ellis said that the Civitas document was not a normal 

consultation as we know it as there was no way to ask questions 

and investigate the proposal. It was effectively a referendum. 

A consultation would be appropriate but it needs far more 

information especially on the costs etc. The proposal to use 

Civitas is an unnecessary expense. 

BK added that this project is extremely controversial and the 

views both ways must be respected. 

PS said that a consultation doesn’t preclude a town meeting but 

everyone in the town needs a chance to add their views. 

LH proposed and GG seconded and with a vote in favour it was 

resolved to reconvene the meeting. 

GAPTC - To consider a resolution for submission to GAPTC 

for its AGM. LH proposed and PS seconded that Social Housing 

Providers be decided by the District Council and not by the 

Developer. 

CJ proposed and PS seconded and with a vote in favour it was 

resolved to request a return of virtual meetings for at least a 

proportion of council meetings. 

Campden and District Peelers Trust 

A report was received from the Chairman of CDPT, John Ellis, 

who reported: 

The past six months have been quiet with a stable position 

regarding tenancies, income and costs. There have been no 

changes of tenancies, and efforts to relet the ground floor room 

vacated without notice by Filhol have not so far been successful, 

despite several enquiries. This appears to be due to post Covid 

uncertainties for potential tenants starting a business. The Court 

Room and Meeting Room continue to attract fewer bookings 

than in the pre Covid period. 

The financial position of the Trust has improved slightly, with 

a small surplus in the six months to 31 December 2021, and 

a consequent increase in reserves. However, reserves remain 

lower than desirable, representing only four months of trading 

revenue. At present there are no heavy demands on reserves for 

maintenance of the building, but we are conscious of the future 

need for substantial renewal of the front roof tiles before too 

long. Some minor repairs are currently being progressed, and 

a recent survey suggests that this will be sufficient for the next 

few years. 

The entrance hall has been repainted with a light colour which 

has lifted the appearance of the ground floor. Some repainting 

of the Court Room has also been undertaken. Further repainting 

of the first and second floor corridors is about to be undertaken. 

An incident of a person being trapped in the lift by a failure has 

identified inadequacies of notices and response arrangements, 

and these have been addressed. 

The failure was due to the power cable being snagged, and this 

has been replaced at a cost of over £2000. 

A decision was made some time ago to provide the public toilets 

in the yard without any charge arrangement. The toilets are well 

used by residents and visitors alike, and they are encouraged 

to make a donation for the facility. There is a good response to 

this, producing a small income, which the Information Centre 

collects for us. 

Rents have not been reviewed during the Covid period, and 

tenants are currently receiving notices of proposed rents for the 

three years from 1 July. 

PS asked when the rents were last reviewed. JE reported that 

they were last reviewed six years ago. 

It was resolved to accept the proposed 18% rent increase for 

the Clerk’s office (new rent £7,500 pa from 1st July 2022); to 

accept the proposed 20% rent increase for the Old Cells (new 

rent £3,000 pa from 1st July 2022) and resolved to increase the 

rent for the ground floor Old Council Office by 20% (new rent 

£4,200 pa from 1st July). 

Grants – it was resolved to grant: 

£500 to The Hedgehog North Cotswold Community Bus 

(budgeted). Local Government and Rating Act 1997 s26 – s29 

£20,000 to Campden and District Peelers Trust (budgeted) LGA 

1972 s133 

£4,000 to Chipping Campden Information Centre (budgeted). 

LGA 1972 S144 

£17,500 to Chipping Campden Playing Field and Recreation 

Ground Charity. LGA (Misc Prov) 1976 s19. 

Finance - financial statements for the Town Council were 

received. 

Next meeting of the Town Council – also the AGM 7.30pm 

10th May 2022. 

NOTES FROM THE 

ANNUAL ASSEMBLY OF 


26th April 2022 

The Town Hall, Chipping Campden 

Present: Chris Jones, Michael Haines, Patrick Spink, Bob 

King, Teresa Newman, Liz Hodges. 

Chris Crookall-Fallon, CDC. 

Ten members of the public. 

1 To Receive Apologies for Absence 

Apologies were received and accepted from Cllr Michael 

Allchin, Richard Orr and Bob King, District Councillors Tom 

Stowe and Gina Blomefield, County Councillor Lynden Stowe, 

residents Ben and Marion Ward. 

2 To Receive a Report and Outlook from the Mayor 

Welcome to the Chipping Campden Annual Assembly for 

2022. A highlight of the Agenda is to receive a report from 

Chris Crookall-Fallon, Head of Climate Change Action at 

Cotswold District Council, followed by a report from our Own 

Climate Change Emergency Working Party. The rationale for 

this is that decarbonisation of energy sources is going to have 

an increasing effect on Chipping Campden, for example in the 

provision of the electrical infrastructure (both for generation 

and distribution) to support Electric Vehicles and the adaption 

of planning policies to incorporate energy efficiency and solar 

generation. We also need to ensure that the emerging plans of 

our own Climate Change Working Party are in step with those 

of Cotswold District Council. I am pleased to welcome Chris 

Crookhall-Fallon and thank him for giving up his evening to be 

with us. 

We have been able to re-establish the committee structures from 

the beginning of this council year after the pandemic. You will 

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e hearing from our Committee Chairman later in the meeting. 

I would very much like to thank them for their work over the 

past year which is much appreciated. 

I feel that this Annual Assembly is the appropriate time for 

me to thank Mark Annett for his years of service to Chipping 

Campden as Town Councillor, Town Mayor and latterly District 

Councillor. I’d also like to thank our current County and District 

Councillors, Lynden Stowe, Gina Blomefield and Tom Stowe. 

Finally, I would like to thank our Town Clerk, Joanna Harrigan 

for her work throughout the year. 

In October, the Town Council successfully co-ordinated 

Camfest on the Recreation Ground as a Community Celebration, 

incorporating elements of Scuttlebrook Wake and Dover’s 

Games that had had to be cancelled for two years running. I 

am pleased that the traditional activities of Dover’s Games and 

Scuttlebrook Wake will proceed as normal over the weekend 

3rd-4th June this year, with the additional attraction of a Street 

Party to Commemorate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on 

Sunday 5th June. In accordance with a long-standing tradition, 

the Town Council will be presenting all children and young 

people resident in the Town with a commemorative Platinum 

Jubilee Mug. I trust that this weekend of events will bring 

together residents of all ages, including this old and new to 

Chipping Campden. 

I am pleased to announce that the Town Council is looking 

forward to hosting visitors from our Twin Town, Pont D’Ouilly, 

Normandy on 19th June as 2022 marks the 40th Anniversary of 

the Twinning Agreement. Following the public consultation 

in the autumn of last year into the proposals for housing, a new 

surgery and the provision of car parking for Chipping Campden 

School Academy on Aston Road, we will continue to work with 

other interested parties to explore options for public off-street 

parking on the Academy site. I am also hopeful of obtaining 

a resolution to the ongoing issue of the proposed public 

consultation on the Craves and the Leasows. 

Finally, this Council has one more year in office before the 

local elections in May 2023 and by the time of the next Annual 

Assembly, nominations for those elections will have closed. 

Since it is likely that Local Government in Gloucestershire will 

be reorganised around one or more Unitary Authorities, Town 

and Parish Councils will play a much more important role in 

representing and delivering services to local communities. I 

would urge people to consider putting themselves forward for 

election to ensure that our community continues to be well 

represented. 

3 To receive a report from the Chairman of the 

Planning Committee 

It has been a busy year for the Planning Committee considering 

over 160 applications. We are grateful for the helpful and 

considered input from the many members of the public who 

have attended the meetings. 

Breakdown (not including duplications): 

1. 31 applications for extensions, many increasing the floor area 

by more than a third. 

2. 21 applications concerning Listed Buildings. 

3. 4 change of use. 

4. 2 barn conversions to living accommodation. 

5. 10 new build dwellings 

6. 15 commercial units 

7. Commercial Westington/Stanley’s Quarries 

8. Removal or cutting back of trees 

New builds and conversions, etc. could account for an additional 

13 dwellings. This does not include large developments at 

Jubilee Fields and Aston Road that were granted earlier. 

As one would expect in our historic town, many applications 

are for Listed Building Consent and require a considerable time 

spent on them to understand the significant impact upon the 

historic components and context of the building. This would 

be a lot easier to understand and reconcile if we had the various 

Conservation Officers’ comments available to us, but these are 

generally only made available to the CDC Planning Committee. 

Listed Buildings 

With many Listed Building changing hands in recent years and 

new owners wishing to undertake essential repairs/maintenance 

as well as possible improvements to suit their needs, there have 

been a number of retrospective applications for us to consider. 

The key however, is that they have at least made applications, 

our concern must be with possible internal alterations to the 

fabric of a number of Listed Buildings that goes on basically out 

of sight and without the consideration of any Listed Building 

Consent. 

There have been a number of noticeable examples of this 

in the last year or two and identifying them early enough to 

prevent the loss of historic assets is of concern to both the Town 

Council and CDC. Both are grateful for information provided 

by interested members of the public. 

Neighbourhood Development Plan 

It has taken a considerable time to satisfy CDC with regard to 

the Design Code. 

However, the plan still requires work to meet ever changing 

recent circumstances and progress on this has not been a quick 

as we would have liked. 

It was recently agreed to include the redevelopment of the Broad 

Campden Village Hall as a community aspiration in the NDP. 

CDC Local Plan 

The Town Council responded to the questionnaire raised by 

CDC. 

There is concern that CDC has not kept up with the housing 

which has been developed in Campden since the start of the 

Local Plan and there is some concern that with CDC not 

fulfilling its new housing allocations across the District that it 

leaves us open to speculative development. 

4 To receive a report from the Chairman of the Finance, 

Standards and Audit Committee. 

Cllr Patrick Spink reported: 

As reported at the last meeting of the FSA on 4th January, the 

Town Council continues to maintain a healthy and prudent 

reserve, in line with NALC recommendations. An updated 

Financial Statement (as at the April TC meeting) is attached at 

Appendix 1. The TC financial policy is to maintain this position 

through the next financial year and accordingly a slightly 

increased precept, in line with inflation figures as at end of 

2021/start 2022 – approximately 3.5%, was set in the Budget. 

A copy of the approved budget (set at the Council meeting 

on 11th January) is also attached at Appendix 1. However, it 

is anticipated that the risk of significantly increased inflation 

through the next 12 months is likely to deplete the reserves. 

Although this is not likely to have a major impact on the 

financial health of the Town Council overall, some further 

upward adjustment to the precept may be required next year to 

maintain reserves at a prudent level. 

In terms of this year, the biggest portion of the budget, 

£82,087, is allocated to Staff/Admin and related expenses 

which are typically non-discretionary – although the increase 

in rental charges payable to Peelers Trust agreed at the April 

Council Meeting is likely to lead to an overspend in this area. 

Additional budget provisions include £46, 000 on Grants to 

local organisations, £23,700 on Amenities; £20, 000 on Traffic 

Management, including a £10,000 provision for ANPR cameras 

intended to reduce excessive speeds on approach roads to 

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Campden – although the Council are hopeful this may be offset 7 To receive a report from the Chairman of the 

by grants from GCC/Police Commissioner funds. 

Tourism Committee 

Standards 

Cllr Patrick Spink reported: 

Standing Orders for Committees and Working Parties have been The Tourism Committee was formed earlier this year, in response 

reviewed in the past year and their ToRs have been updated and to a series of changes in National and local Government support 

standardised. 

for Tourism and in recognition of its vital role in the Cotswold 

The TC has always been, and continues to be, totally committed and Town economies; it generates revenues of £360,000,000 

to transparency and accountability in line with the Nolan in the CDC area and accounts for 17% of jobs in the North 

Principles. Some issues relating to possible conflicts of interest Cotswolds. The committee held its first meeting on 1st March. A 

and due process relating to Planning have been reviewed by set of potential initiatives was identified and work is underway 

the CDC Monitoring Officer. The Monitoring Officer was to produce a prioritised plan to increase the number of Visitors 

satisfied that the TC had acted properly in all regards. Further, in to the Town and their spending whilst here by focussing on 

accordance with guidance provided by CDC, the TC, following promoting Chipping Campden as both a Hub from which visits 

consultation with the National Association of Local Councils, can be made to attractions in the surrounding area and as a 

is currently seeking professional advice relating to a planning highly attractive Destination in its own right. 

matter of considerable interest to the Town. This advice will be As a first step in developing this plan, a Tourism Forum was 

published once it has been received, reviewed and discussed in held on 25th April in the Old Police Station, funded by the Town 

Council. 

Council and attended by over 20 representatives of a wide range 

Audit 

of local businesses that are part of the Visitor/Tourist economy. 

All TC accounts have been approved, following due process, This generated a significant number of ideas on ways in which 

by appropriate financial authorities. Due to Covid limitations, we can work together to achieve mutually agreed objectives and 

Internal Verification as recommended by GAPTC/NALC has increase tourism related revenues. A summary of these ideas 

been curtailed. However, the internal verification regime will and our Next Steps will be published shortly. 

be resumed over the coming months and appropriate reports 8 To receive a report from the Chairman of the 

produced. 

Traffic Management Committee 

5 To receive a report from the Chairperson of the 

The following written report was submitted by Richard Orr. 

Amenities Committee 

Three Traffic Management Committee (TMC) meetings were 

The following report was given by Cllr Teresa Newman: held during the year; 12 April, 2 November 2021 and 1st 

The allotments are all let and we have 10 on the waiting list, February 2022. The first meeting was by Zoom the others were 

they are self-sufficient in the respect that they have their own face to face in the Town Hall. 

WhatsApp group. Peter Nias and Adam Quinton (along with A group meeting with Park Road residents, councillors and 

the other allotments holders) have made an application to CDC Highways was held on 22 February 2022 

to have the allotments listed as an Asset of Community Value There is no doubt that Budget constraints and Covid have had 

(ACV). It should go through soon. 

an adverse effect on the performance and attention given to 

All the wooden seats and benches have just had their annual traffic management issues by Highways in our parish. 

maintenance completed thanks to the contractor Graham In particular there are several specific and notable disappointing 

Hughes and we now have a memorial bench policy. 

observations to make regarding Highways actions or nonactions. 

The grass cutting contract went out to tender but we only had 

one tender back from Lawns to Mow who maintained the same Delay and originally poor quality of workmanship to the new 

pricing that they had done for the past three years and they have pavement on the High Street. Subsequently mostly rectified. 

done an excellent job. 

Poor response to the concerns raised by Park Road residents 

We now have 5 defibrillators sited at the chemist, fire station, regarding safety and damage to parked vehicles. 

the post office, the phone box at broad Campden and Berrington No immediate action taken to alleviate the damage to the Aston 

road with a 6th having just been granted planning permission at Road verges following various construction works. 

St Catharine’s School. If access to one of these is needed, then Frustrating and slow progress with implementation of double 

999 should be called and the call handler will give you a code yellow lines in 3 locations. 

to gain entry to your nearest defib. Councilor Lutti Bates has Poor supervision of the third-party contract to install the new 

taken on the job of auditing them all and I’m sure you will all foot path to Broad Campden. Remedial work has not been 

agree that this covers the town sufficiently 

completed. 

We’ve given permission for the vicar to plant 2 memorial trees in Littleworth Round about continually being damaged by HGV’s 

the churchyard and “wild” part of it to enhance the environment making U-turns. 

for bees 

Nevertheless there have been several meetings between 

The tombstone safety test is to be carried out by myself and Highways, the Town Clerk and TMC Chairman to progress 

Councilor Orr on 10th and 11th May, this was postponed from the outstanding list of 32 Highways issues or action points, 

the original date to wait the arrival of specialist equipment to including those mentioned above. So far six of these have been 

enable us to carry out this task as instructed by the ministry resolved and communications continue. 

of justice in their guide ‘managing the safety of burial ground Meanwhile much debate has concentrated on 20 MPH zones 

memorials 

and ANPR camera installation. Both for road safety and traffic 

I would like to thank my fellow committee members and the calming. A detailed report on suggested improvements to 

town clerk for their help, work and support over the last year road signs was prepared by Simon Cluley, this is still waiting 

and all of our contractors for their expertise. 

Highways response. 

6 To receive a report from the Chairman of the 

9 To receive a report from Christopher Crookall-Fallon, 

Emergency Resilience Committee 

Head of Climate Action, Cotswold District Council. 

There was no report as the meeting of the Committee to elect a Thank you for inviting me. I would like to explain where CDC 

chairman had been inquorate. 

is at the moment and explain some of the things we are doing. 

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Who is familiar with the assessment report from the IPCC which 

was published a while ago. This is the most reliable source we 

can go to to explain the global impact of the climate change 

emergency. It is extremely sobering and says we are now out of 

time to do something about the climate. We need an immediate, 

emergency response to the problem. Options include more solar, 

more wind and less deforestation. There is an option for us to 

play a part in this with renewable energies. 

The report by Chatham House sets out the cascade effects from 

the climate impacts around the world. There will be water stress, 

heat damage, windstorms and flooding. The report follows the 

chains with the climate impact for example the current situation 

in India with sustained high heat. It explains that there will be 

mass migration and a break-down of our food system. 

CDC declared a climate emergency in 2019 and the strategy 

was adopted in 2020. Key words are global leadership and 

the leverage that we can use to make others take effect. As a 

council, CDC’s emissions are less than 1% of the emissions of 

the whole district. We are a rural district and people have to 

travel by car and this gives a profile of our district which is hard 

to overcome. We want our own council to be net zero by 2030 

and the district to be net zero by 2045. 

We want to make the Local Plan more robust and determined 

to tackle the climate emergency and we thank you for taking 

part in the consultation. We are analysing the responses at the 

moment. 

There is a covid recovery investment strategy: this is the 

intention to invest money which is raised as a debt from the 

government. This will do two things it will deliver a return on 

the financial investment in terms of social housing, solar power, 

and a financial return. 

We will be looking at retrofitting existing buildings which is an 

enormous challenge but is an extremely important part of the 

existing picture. 

We are working on a sustainable transport strategy and how we 

develop and prioritise active travel in a rural district. We want 

to see more walking, cycling etc as well as electric transport 

and we are investing in electric charging points in our car parks. 

Cotswold Climate Investment has been launched today. It is 

a new initiative where we are inviting residents to invest your 

own money directly into projects that deliver carbon reduction 

in the district. The first projects are electric vehicle charge 

points and the second is solar panels on the roof of the building 

in Cirencester along with more energy-conserving measures. 

This is a way of starting a more ongoing engagement and 

communication with people all across the district. 

It is a 5 year investment and you get 2.1% interest one your 

investment and you get paid back your capital and interest every 

6 months over the five years. 

10 To receive a report from the Chairperson of the 

Climate Change Emergency Working Party 

About 40% of Parish Councils has declared a climate emergency 

and so have we. We have had one meeting to date and it was 

extremely interesting and had an honest approach to climate 

change. 

Even in a small space like Chipping Campden we can’t keep 

using the earth’s resources as we are. There are many topics 

to cover on climate change. Our little group won’t change the 

world, but we can make small changes to make a difference. 

We are going to look at a local biomass plant shortly and we are 

aiming to research each part and we have the schools onboard 

but we haven’t been in to listen to the children as they are the 

ones who are going to have to clean up the mess. 

We did a small survey in Broad Campden and a majority wanted 

to plant more trees. 

The Cotswold Conservation Board is looking at windturbines 

at the moment. 

We will be looking at issues such as walking buses for the 

children. These are they small steps that a small rural community 

can take. 

We need local composting schemes and not be using all that 

carbon to transport garden waste to other places. 

We need to get our local communities aboard and we need to 

start making life-style changes and we look forward to reporting 

back to council later in the year. 

11 Public Participation and Questions 

John Ellis commented that it was very interesting but you made 

no mention of tree planting or on-shore wind turbines and what 

is CDC doing about the pollution of our rivers and streams. 

CCF replied that he couldn’t comment on the pollution in rivers 

and streams as he is not qualified. With regard to wind we have 

asked residents about how they feel about wind turbines in the 

AONB and are evaluating the responses now. My own view is 

that this climate emergency is of the most profound importance 

and most people have not grasped what is happening with the 

emergency. There is no option but for us to accept and adopt any 

technology that gets us out of this mess and that includes here. 

I am more interested in what my five generations descendants 

will be dealing with than what we are looking at now. 

JE added that he supports CCF in that and I don’t see why 

wind turbines should be so controversial and Elizabeth Devas 

seconded JE and CCF. 

JE asked if there was any evidence that residents were opposed 

to windturbines? CCF said that nationally, the government 

publishes a survey on the public attitudes and there is a strong 

public support for on-shore wind (70 – 75% in favour). MPs 

in parliament take a different view but most of them have not 

read the public survey results. Locally, we are analysing the 

responses to the public consultation and quite a sizable number 

of people are saying that it is urgent and we accept the need for 

the windturbines. 

Mark Evans asked about housing that would be developed in 

this area, we guess that about 20% of our current homes are 

second homes and we are now building 200 new homes. Is 

there a district council view for keeping new homes for local 

people? 

CCF said he doesn’t have enough information to answer the 

question but he understands the point. 

PS asked if there was any data on the energy use of second 

homes? CCF said it would be too difficult to find out. 

Elizabeth Devas asked about fitting retrofit insultation. We 

need to conserve energy and retrofitting insulation would do 

this but it needs to be done externally. Will CDC be supportive 

of a move to deregulate the use of Cotswold Stone externally to 

retrofit thin-skin brick to aid insultation on post 1919 properties. 

CCF said that there was an increasing appetite to look at those 

difficult decisions but it will be coming out to public consultation 

at a later date. 

Patrick Spink asked what can be done to convince people that 

making small changes will make a big difference. 

CCF said that the data is out there but it takes a lot to translate 

that down to the smaller scale. We need to stop burning fossil 

fuels and cutting down trees. It touches on every part of our 

lives: meat, dairy, flights, petrol and gas use and pensions. If 

you can take your investments and put them where they aid 

climate change instead of the oil and gas industries then you can 

make a big difference. 

JE asked what CDC are going to be doing. Does the Council 

have any policy or powers that all new housing stock is insulated 

and has solar panels. 

CCF. The existing Local Plan cannot impose that: CDC 

doesn’t have the powers to do that. Building regs are nationally 

determined and if we have local conditions that exceed building 

regs we would have to have a very robust legal defence as the 

developer would argue that the conditions mean that they would 

not be able to build or sell houses in that area. 

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COMMENTS FROM A MEETING 

OF CHIPPING CAMPDEN 

TOWN COUNCIL PLANNING 

COMMITTEE 

5th April 2022, The Town Hall 

Present: Cllrs: Michael Haines, Trevor Webb, Lutti Bates, Teresa Newman, 

Bob King, Liz Hodges (6.09pm). 

Members of the public: Rosie Vidal, Mrs Kissel. 

The Clerk, Mrs Harrigan. 

PLANNING APPLICATIONS RECEIVED: 

Bedfont House High Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HB 

Ref. No: 22/00951/TCONR 

Large conifer at the rear of the property, 30% reduction to take it off the 

neighbour’s property 

TW proposed and TN seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 

to request further information as the google map is insufficient. 

Kendall House High Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6AG 

Ref. No: 22/01013/LBC, Ref. No: 22/00858/ADV & Ref. No: 22/00857/FUL 

Display of a hanging sign and change of use of ground floor from 

residential to retail 

LH proposed and TW seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 

to raise no objections. 

The Lodge Station Road Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HY 

Ref. No: 22/00829/FUL 

1.5 storey side extension to provide garage and home office, single storey 

rear extension, loft conversion and associated alterations 

BK proposed and LB seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 

to object to the very large window in the rear of the garage due to loss of 

privacy. LH proposed and TN seconded and with a vote in favour it was 

resolved to object to the loss of the chimney. 

Chandlers Station Road Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HY 

Ref. No: 22/00768/FUL 

Replacement porch 

TW proposed and TN seconded that we raise no objections subject to the 

porch being built in stone to match the existing. 

Oldstones Angel Lane Broad Campden Glose GL55 6UT 

Ref. No: 22/00766/FUL 

Creation of first floor home office accommodation to existing garage 

with x2 dormer windows and open sided store with associated works. 

LH proposed and LB seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 


34 Castle Nurseries Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6JT 

Ref. No: 22/00757/FUL 

Single storey rear extension 

LB proposed and TW seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 


1 Cherry Rise Pear Tree Close Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6DB 

Ref. No: 22/00580/FUL 

Erection of oak framed carport with tiled roof 


to raise no objections 

RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING LICENCING APPLICATIONS 

AND AGREE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CDC: 

Chipping Campden School Cider Mill Lane Glos GL55 6HU 

Ref No: C/22/00402/PRMA 

New Premises Licence (TO REPLACE EXISTING LICENCE) 

BK proposed and TW seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 


TO NOTE THE FOLLOWING COMPLIANCE APPLICATIONS: 

Covenant House Cider Mill Lane Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HU 

Ref. No: 22/00991/COMPLY 

Compliance with conditions 2 (Door design details), 3 (Lime plaster 

repair methodology), 4 (Roof insulation), 5 (Floor Structure and Ceiling 

details) and 6 (Pipework and vents) re permission 21/03622/LBC - Internal 

alterations to the ground and first-floor layout, reinstatement of stairs and 

attic rooms, and associated works 

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Grevel House High Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6AG 


Compliance with conditions 5 (Design details) re permission 20/02611/ 

FUL - Internal alterations to the ground and first-floor layout, reinstatement 

of stairs and attic rooms, and associated works 


Compliance with condition 3 (Samples of roof slates) re permission 

20/02612/LBC - Various works of refurbishment and restoration with 

updated services and fittings, internal and external alterations including 

replacement and new heritage roof lights, enclosure of open ended lean-to 

structure to form garden room, rear single storey lean-to extension, external 

lowering of ground levels, new retaining wall to garden forming patio and 

raised beds, and new internal partitions and various works to former stable 


Compliance with condtion 3 (Samples of roof slates) re permission 

20/02611/FUL - Various works of refurbishment and restoration with 







Compliance with condition 4 (Sample walling panel) of planning permission 

20/02611/FUL - Various works of refurbishment and restoration with 







Compliance with condition 4 (Sample walling panel) re permission 

20/02612/LBC - Various works of refurbishment and restoration with 


replacement and new heritage roof lights, enclosure of open ended leanto 

structure to form garden room, rear single storey lean-to extension, 

external lowering of ground levels, new retaining wall to garden forming 

patio and raised beds, and new internal partitions and various works to 

former stable 

Canons Mead Station Road Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HY 


Compliance with conditions 6 (Samples) and 7 (Orangery eaves details) 

re permission 18/04779/FUL - Dormers to front elevation, two storey 

rear extension to main house, flat roof additions to existing roof, new 

upper floor window to east elevation, new side extension with balcony 

above to provide garden room, raise and re-roof existing rear extension 

in zinc, replacement orangery to rear, re-roof and clad attached garage in 

zinc and timber, covered walkway between dwelling and new detached 

double garage with ancillary accommodation above 

Church House West End Terrace Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6AX 


Compliance with condition 3 (Window details) re permission 21/03417/ 

FUL and condition (Window details) re permission 21/03418/LBC - 

Conversion of two dwellinghouses to one dwellinghouse, demolition of 

and erection of conservatory, with associated works. 

DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING TREE PRESERVATION ORDER 

AND MAKE COMMENT: 

CDC Tree Preservation Order TPO 22/00004/IND 

Verge of Aston Road Chipping Campden, to the northwest of 

Lavender Drive 2022 

Trees Specified: 

T1 Hornbeam, in front of Ellesmere 

T2 Hornbeam, in front of Oaksey 

T3 Hornbeam, in front of Highclere. 

LH proposed and TN seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 

to support the tree preservation order. 

THE FOLLOWING DECISION NOTICES FROM CDC NOTED: 

Poplars Farm Westington Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6EG 

Ref. No: 22/00490/NONMAT Application Withdrawn 

Non-material amendment ref permission 20/04521/FUL for changes to 

roof covering from cement based corrugated profile sheeting to plain 

concrete roof tiles and for the extenal doors and windows to be changed 

from timber to aluminium - Erection of single storey outbuilding to form 

ancillary living accommodation and garage 

Bank House Leysbourne Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HL 

Ref. No: 21/04637/LBC Permitted 

Installation of en-suite bathroom

Existing Telecommunications Base-station Near Heath Farm Middle 

Hill Chipping Campden Glos 

Ref. No: 22/00230/TELEC Approval not required TELEC 

Prior approval for the Installation of 3 No. proposed antennas, 

installation of 2 No. proposed 300 MM diameter dishes, installation of 

2 No. equipment cabinets, installation of minor ancillary apparatus and 

associated works 

Grooms Lodge High Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HB 

Ref. No: 21/03349/COMPLY Permitted 

Compliance with conditions 3 (design and details) and 4 (rooflights) 

of planning permission 19/04381/LBC - Removal of 3 no. rooflights, 

creation of 5 no. rooflights and internal alterations 

COMMENTS FROM A MEETING 

OF CHIPPING CAMPDEN 

TOWN COUNCIL PLANNING 

COMMITTEE 

26th April 2022, The Town Hall 

Present: Cllrs Haines, Orr, Webb, Jones, Newman, Bates, Hodges (1812) 

Two members of the public 

PLANNING APPLICATIONS RECEIVED: 

Rosedale Station Road Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HY 

Ref. No: 22/01154/FUL 

Variation of condition 2 (drawings) of permission - 21/03332/FUL 

- Erection of two rear extensions to existing dwelling, removal and 

replacement of detached garage 

RO proposed and TW seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 

to make no objections. 

Camperdene Gallery High Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6BD 

Ref. No: 22/01036/LBC 

Replacement of shop door. Reinstate secondary door to customer toilet. 

Damp proof internal shop walls. Remove modern plasterboard and skim 

to stairwell and fill cavity with firesafe insulation double board existing 

studwork and skim (retrospective) 


to make no objections. 

Covenant House Cider Mill Lane Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HU 

Ref. No: 22/01236/LBC & Ref. No: 22/00990/FUL 

Construction of external swimming pool, timber gate replacement and 

insertion of gas flue 

TW proposed and TW seconded and with a vote in favour that due lack 

of information on the swimming pool, building materials, proposed 

cover and any proposed heat source for the pool which could cause a 

noise nuisance for neighbours the Committee could not comment. 

Sheppards Close Westington Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6EG 

Ref. No: 22/01267/TCONR 

Group 1 (G1) Yew x 7 - Canopy reduction by 2m in height and branch 

length to reduce the overhang to the garage beneath: Norway Maple 

(T1) - Crown reduction by approximately 1.5m in branch length, to ease 

weight and leverage on badly bark included unions 

TN proposed and TW seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 

to request photographs of the trees to be included with all tree application 

as it is impossible to comment on a blurry overhead shot. 

Poplars Farm Westington Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6EG 

Ref. No: 22/01045/FUL 

Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) to change roof covering re 

permission 20/04521/FUL - Erection of single storey outbuilding to form 

ancillary living accommodation and garage 

RO proposed and LB seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 


Land South East Of 1 - 3 Birdcage Walk Chipping Campden Glos 

Ref. No: 22/00876/FUL 

Erection of 1no. dwelling with parking 

RO proposed and LB seconded and with a vote in favour it was proposed 

to strongly object to this application for the following reasons: 

There are multiple owners and multiple covenants including S157 on 

this land. By putting in the planning application he is in breach of the 

covenants, particularly the covenant with Cotswold District Council 

which was put in place in 1991. The applicant has included Spring 

Cottage’s land in his application to gain access to the site for the new 

dwelling. There is no mention of an easement to allow the applicant or 

construction traffic access across Spring Cottage’s land. 

The application is inaccurate as the land at No.9 is not in the applicant’s 

ownership, therefore, this should be a joint application with No.9 or he 

should have served notice on No. 9. 

The garden is flood area 1 so there is an increased risk of flooding. 

In addition, we would support the comments from the owner of Spring 

Cottage. 

It is an overdevelopment of the site in the Conservation Area and 

adversely affects the setting of the locally listed Spring Cottage. 

The access is terrible which would require larger vehicles to reverse out 

of the property down a pedestrian thoroughfare. 

The proposed property is raised up and would tower over the neighbouring 

property and would lead to loss of privacy. 

It would adversely affect the street scape and conservation area. 

One parking space is inadequate for a property of this size which is 

configured internally to demonstrate two bedrooms but has the same 

square footage as a modern four-bedroom home and could easily be 

reconfigured post construction. 

White House 1 Paxford Road Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6LA 

Ref No: 21/04799/FUL 

Change of use of paddock land to incorporate into residential garden 

to facilitate the creation of a driveway and utilise an existing point of 

vehicle access 

TN proposed and RO seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved 

to object on the basis of converting agricultural land to domestic land 

which is a steppingstone to development. In addition, converting 

agricultural land to domestic land adversely affects the rural character 

of the area. As it is outside the development boundary a new road is not 

permissible. 

THE FOLLOWING DECISION NOTICES FROM CDC NOTED: 

4 Far End Broad Campden Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6XA 

Ref. No: 21/04765/CLOPUD Application Withdrawn 

Extend 3 metres from existing elevation of property, not exceeding 4 

metres high and 2.5 metres eaves height 

Sedgecombe House Broad Campden Glos GL55 6UX 

Ref. No: 21/03869/FUL Application Withdrawn 

Erection of double storey garage block with associated hard standing and 

works 

Bedfont House High Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HB 

Ref. No: 22/00951/TCONR No Objection 

Large conifer at the rear of the property, 30% reduction to take it off the 

neighbor’s property 

Holdenby Broad Campden Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6UX 

Ref. No: 22/00684/TCONR No Objection 

To fell aged ornamental Laburnham tree which has become damaged 

and diseased due to proximity of other trees. There are several dead or 

damaged boughs and growth has become unsightly. The intention is to 

replace the tree with another ornamental tree or shrub 

St Catherines Roman Catholic School Lower High Street Chipping 

Campden Glos GL55 6DZ 

Ref. No: 22/00524/LBC Permitted 

Installation of a defibrillator unit 

1 Berrington Cottages Station Road Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HY 

Ref. No: 22/00216/FUL Permitted 

Proposed two storey and single storey rear extension 

4 Far End Broad Campden Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6XA 

Ref. No: 21/04765/CLOPUD Application Withdrawn 

Extend 3 metres from existing elevation of property, not exceeding 4 

metres high and 2.5 metres eaves height 

Lavender House 13 Fereby Close Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6ET 

Ref. No: 21/04606/FUL Permitted 

Front porch, replacing existing canopy 

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THE GREEN PAGE 

GUIDED WALKS WITH THE 

COTSWOLD VOLUNTARY 

WARDENS 

The guided walks programme has restarted and Cotswold 

Wardens are once again leading the public on walks in a 

safe and careful way. Details of the walks available are 

described on the website (below). Please check walk 

details carefully on the website, including whether booking 

is necessary. 

www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/visiting-and-exploring/ 

guided-walks/ 

Alderton to Dumbleton around the hills 

Tuesday 3rd May – Moderate 2.5hr 5ml 

A beautiful walk around the hills of Alderton and 

Dumbleton. We may be lucky to see bluebells. Bring a 

drink/snack. Refreshments are available in the Gardeners 

Arms following the walk. 

Start: 9.30 Gardeners Arms, Alderton, GL20 8NL. OS Map 

ref: SO 999 333. 

Springtime on the scarp around Stanton 

Monday 9th May – Moderate 3hr 6ml 

A lovely walk from Stanton via Buckland to Littleworth 

Wood looking for wild flowers. Hopefully bluebells aplenty 

plus lots of other delights. Bring drink/snack. 

Start: 10.00 Stanton village car park WR12 7NE. OS Map 

ref: SP 067 344. 

Literary Connections 1 

Wednesday 25th May – Moderate 5hr 9ml 

A walk taking in Stanway and Snowshill, tracing the literary 

figures past and present who have found inspiration in the 

Cotswolds. Please bring drinks/snack and packed lunch. 

Start: 9:30 Stanton village car park WR12 7NE. OS Map 

ref: SP 067 344. 

Chipping Campden Town Walk – Every Tuesday and 

Thursday starting from Tuesday 31st May to the end of 

September – Easy 1.5hr 

We will walk along the High Street and provide a historical 

tour of the town. From the granting of Campden’s Charter 

in the 1180s, the growth of the town and its magnificent 

buildings, to the arrival of the Arts and Crafts movement. 

Refreshments available in the town after the walk. 

Start: 14:00 on Tuesdays and 10:00 on Thursdays. 

Meet at the Market Hall in the centre of town. 

OS Map ref: SP 151 392. 

PLEASE use appropriate footwear as some walks may be steep 

and muddy in places. EASY - Length may vary but terrain is mainly 

flat (level); MODERATE - includes some hills and rough ground. 

STRENUOUS – may be rough underfoot and ascents and descents 

may be steep. We welcome guide and hearing dogs - sorry, others not 

allowed. Walks are free although we do invite donations to help fund our 

conservation and improvement work. 

The Green Page is sponsored by Vale Press 

ST JAMES’ CHURCH REPAIR CAFE 

APRIL 9th 

St James’ Church Chipping Campden held the first of a 

planned monthly series of repair cafes at the Church Rooms, 

the next one (always the second Saturday of the month) being 

on May 14th. 

Electrical items tested and passed for use included a kettle and 

toaster, and for the Church Rooms themselves a hostess trolley. 

A damaged lock in need of a spring was dismantled, and one 

of the team has taken it for 

repair and handing back 

next time. 

A charming toy, a Dutch 

wooden doll of over fifty 

years of age, was brought 

in for some TLC – all 

its elasticated joints had 

broken, with the remains 

of the elastic perished 

and stuck in the holes. 

This was cleaned and 

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re-elasticated 

on the spot, just taken away 

overnight for glue to set, 

and a favourite childhood 

toy restored to its owner. 

As well as items to be 

repaired, delicious cakes, 

tea and coffee are always 

on offer. 

COME AND SEE US 

NEXT TIME – EVEN 

JUST FOR A COFFEE 

AND A CHAT 

We will try and look at ways of repairing most things, including 

textiles, books, household appliances, toys, small pieces of 

furniture, tool sharpening, but really anything that you don’t 

want to throw out, of sentimental value, or that can be repaired 

or repurposed. 

There may even be someone on hand to talk through IT issues. 

And of course if you have a skill and you would like to join the 

team – come along and introduce yourself. 

We are a team of enthusiasts and happy to chat things through 

and find solutions if we can. 

REPAIR, REUSE, RECYCLE 

ST JAMES’ ALREADY HAS A SILVER ECO CHURCH 

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You may have noticed that advertising for ‘green’ or ‘ethical’ 

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public by encouraging them to invest their pension or other 

assets they may have into funds that ‘make a difference’. 

There’s no disputing the fact that change needs to be made, 

quickly, and the appetite for it is definitely growing. According 

to Which?, UK investors poured a staggering £16 billion into 

‘responsible funds’ in 2021, but how much of this is going 

towards making a genuine difference? 

Regulatory changes are requiring advisers and investment 

managers to add environmental, social and governance (ESG) 

considerations to their suitability checks. This means we 

are now required to have the conversation with our clients 

about their thoughts on ethical investing. This, of course, is 

a positive move from the regulator but presents firms like 

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We are inundated with fund managers contacting us about 

their latest ‘green’ fund offerings. With so much choice, you 

would think that finding a solution would be easy, but there 

are currently no rules in the UK on what qualifies as an ESG 

or sustainable fund. This means fund managers can use the 

label for their fund, regardless of their actual commitments to 

sustainability. This presents the very possible risk of investing 

in a fund believing it’s ‘greener’ than it really is, otherwise 

known as ‘greenwashing’. 

There is also the issue for those that already hold less ‘ethical’ 

investments. Rather than seeking out genuine ‘green’ 

funds, they may be tempted to make a positive change 

by disinvesting from what they see feel no longer fits with 

their views. While this may seem like a sensible approach, 

sometimes the actual results are just ‘shuffling the deck’ as 

the investment is ultimately just being bought by another 

investor, who cares less. The reality of this situation is that 

you are not starving that company of cash, the investment is 

still in existence, it is just now held by someone else! 

The vast majority of clients we speak to have a desire to 

make a positive impact, but understandably are keen that 

we also consider the cost and performance of green funds, 

and their overall financial planning goals. For those who feel 

particularly passionate about investing ethically, ‘Positive 

Impact’ portfolios are specifically designed to make an impact 

and invest in good. However, because of the management 

and research involved, they typically run with a higher cost. 

The alternative offering are funds that would simply just 

screen out the negative, but with no current regulations 

surrounding this screening process, this is still a complicated 

and grey area. 

At the moment, the onus is on the investor to spot 

‘greenwashing’ in their funds. We feel that, for now, it is 

important to understand the legitimacy of appealing options 

and possibly to let regulation catch up on what is a rapidly 

expanding industry. 

If, perhaps, investing isn’t the most effective means of 

making a difference the moment, we could be looking at 

implementing changes to other areas of our lives. A good 

place to start is by taking a look at your individual carbon 

footprint, which can be calculated online at www.wwf.org. 

uk. For now, the small changes we all make now to the energy 

we use, food we eat and ways we travel may be the best way 

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Sunday 22 May 2022 • 2pm – 4pm 

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The Community Heartbeat Trust will be 

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and explaining how the equipment 

works and its benefits to the community 

in saving precious minutes in the 

treatment of sudden cardiac arrest. 

The more people that know how to 

use the portable defibrillators installed 

in our community, the more chance 

there is of saving the life of a victim of 

Sudden Cardiac Arrest. 

Everybody is welcome, and no special 

skills are required, just your willingness 

to play an important role in the event of 

a medical emergency. 

This training will cover: 

What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest 

5 minutes to save a life 

Physiology of the heart 

How to recognise SCA 

How to dial 999 

What to expect 

Questions you will be asked 

How to do CPR and why 

Practical Demonstration 

How to use your AED 

Recovery position/turning a patient 

Handover to the Paramedics 

Governance and support programmes 

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TRAVEL WITH MERV BATES 

The world of travel has been turned upside down and inside 

out over the last 2 years and although we are not completely 

out of the woods, things are becoming much brighter. More 

and more of us are starting travel if not making plans to do so 

in 2022 and beyond. 

More countries are lifting restrictions and opening their borders, 

much less much preparation is needed to travel and masks 

on flights are becoming optional rather than mandatory with 

some of the world’s largest airlines. As examples, Australia, 

New Zealand, USA and Canada are all reducing restrictions 

to welcome more visitors in the forthcoming months. This is 

fantastic news. Asian countries, although slowly opening their 

borders, seem to be more hesitant and most still have strict 

restrictions for European visitors. Industry experts predict 

that countries in Asia will be more open to visitors in the 

forthcoming year. 

I have seen a surge in bookings especially for customers 

visiting family and friends or rebooking that trip that has 

been postponed over the last couple of years. Cruising is also 

having a huge comeback. Small cruising ships with capacity 

of around 100 up to 1200 passengers are booking particularly 

quickly and much faster than normal. Only a couple of weeks 

ago, I checked the availability for a Seabourn cruise sailing 

around Australia for 2024 and the cruise was almost full! 

Airlines still haven’t got all their aircraft back flying and 

ALEXANDRA MANN – COUNSELLING HYPNOTHERAPIST 

BASED IN THE COTSWOLDS 

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troubling thoughts, or feel trapped and unable to sleep? 

I can help you overcome these physical and mental blocks. 

For more information please do look at my website: 

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Enquiries welcome – please get in touch as my approach is 

one of warmth and no judgement 

Tel: 07764 576254 

some routes still operate a reduced schedule. This is driving 

up prices as customer demand is there but not the capacity. 

My advice for anyone thinking about travelling in 2022 or 

early 2023 is to start planning now to ensure you lock in the 

best possible prices. Remember when booking with me I can 

often make your booking with a deposit only and if your plans 

change or you need to amend then I can easily do that for you. 

If you need to cancel, then most airlines will often move your 

deposits to a credit booking to be used in the future if you do 

this around 10-12 weeks prior to travel. 

In other news, as I write this the UK passport office are having 

huge delays up to ten weeks to issue replacement passports. 

If you are travelling to EU countries in 2022 it’s a good idea 

to check now that all your families’ passports are valid. UK 

passports will only be valid for 10 years from the issue date 

and any validity carried over from your previous passport will 

not count. Most EU countries require 3-6 months validity on 

passports. It’s a good idea to check children’s passports as 

these are only valid for five years! 

Finally, I would like to thank all my customers that have 

booked with me and a huge thank you for your patience in 

waiting for me to come back to you with your itineraries, I 

am still helping customers, rebook, amend, make insurance 

claims from the last 2 years as well as making new bookings. 

If you need help planning your next trip, please get in touch 

and I would be delighted to help you. 

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Around the villages... 

EBRINGTON & DISTRICT 

GARDENING CLUB 

The club hosted a very successful Intergardening Club 

Quiz on March 23rd in Ebrington Village Hall. Teams from 

Bidford, Blockley, Bretforton, Ebrington and Mickleton took 

part. The winners were Bretforton Gardening Club after a 

very close fought competition - well done to them! 

Our Annual Spring Show was held in the Village Hall after a 

three year gap owing to the pandemic. There were over 120 

entries with the standard being as high as ever. We had lots 

of visitors in the afternoon when the show was open to the 

public. The main trophy winners were: 

Stella Elphick Vase for most points in the Show: Gabrielle 

Falkiner. 

Ebrington Gardening Club Shield for the best exhibit in 

classes 1-17: Brian Wheatcroft for his Pheasant Eye Narcissi 

Eric Williams Memorial Salver for the best exhibit in classes 

19-22: Christina Kingsmill for her container of growing 

Spring flowers. 

SAVE THE DATE 

SATURDAY 9th JULY 2022 

EBRINGTON’S TRADITIONAL VILLAGE FETE 

AND FAMILY DOG SHOW 

with CLASSIC VEHICLES too - from 2.00 o’clock - at 

Ebrington Cricket Ground near Chipping Campden. 

There’s free parking, plenty of fun for all the family with 

all the familiar stalls as well. 

‘HISTORY IN BLOOM’ 

A FLOWER FESTIVAL 

Ebrington’s Tribute to our Queen’s 70 years Reign 

To celebrate our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee we are holding a 

flower festival in St Eadburgha’s Church over the weekend 

14th and 15th May. 

The church will be full of flower arrangements depicting 

many events that happened in the parish of Ebrington since 

Her Majesty became Queen. 

Wedding photo’s of couples married in St Eadburgha’s over 

the 70 years will be displayed. 

If anyone has a wedding photo from this time at St 

Eadburgha’s and would like to be included in the display, 

please contact Jean Stanley on 01386 593250 as soon as 

possible. All photographs will be returned. 

There will be a display of drawings by our school and parish 

children. 

Every decade will be represented with a brief history of each 

flower arrangement. 

The church will be open from 11am to 5pm both days 

Cream teas and a selection of homemade cakes, slices and 

biscuits will be available both days. 

A plant sale will be held in the churchyard car park. 

All proceeds raised are to fund the Parish Platinum Jubilee 

Celebrations on June 2nd to 5th. 

EBRINGTON VILLAGE HALL 

Ebrington Village Hall is holding a TABLE TOP SALE on 

Saturday May 7th from 10am - 12 noon, in order to raise 

money for the village’s Jubilee Events in June. Featuring 

good quality second-hand goods, handmade crafts and our 

usual excellent coffee & cake, this is an event not to be 

missed! Catch up with friends and support the Jubilee!! 

BLOCKLEY MAY FAIR 

IS YOUR DOG THE BEST IN 

TOWN? 

Do you own the brightest, most handsome and best-behaved 

dog around? If you think so, why not enter him or her in the 

Dog Show at Blockley’s forthcoming May Fair on May 1st? 

The Fair opens at 12 noon in the Blockley Sports Ground. 

Dog owners need to register when the Fair opens. The Dog 

Show will start at 12.30pm. 

Dogs may be entered under five different classes - cutest 

puppy, most handsome dog, prettiest bitch, best OAP over 9 

years of age, and best 6 legs. The winner of each class will 

go into “Best in Show”. For further information contact Sally 

Mayo - email: sallybakersarms@btconnect.com. 

In addition to the Dog Show, the May Fair will offer a wide 

range of fun for all the family, including stalls, music, skittles, 

bouncy castles, a fire engine and refreshments. 

The programme also includes displays 

of Morris Dancing, 

Maypole Dancing and a 

demonstration of famous 

TV dogs such as Antilly 

from “Afterlife” starring 

Ricky Gervais and Paddy 

who stars in the detective 

series “Midsomer 

Murders”. 

WESTON SUB EDGE 

COMMUNICATION UPDATE 

PARISH COUNCIL 

The Parish Council met on the 29th March. 

County Councillor Lynden Stowe, Gloucestershire County 

Council and District Councillor Tom Stowe, Cotswold District 

Council attended and reported: 

County - Investment continuing into Highways, B roads and 

improving local roads phase. 

Build Back Better scheme Grants available. 

Boundary Commission proposals to elect two Cotswold MPs 

District. - Council agreed agile working and utilise office 

space by letting it out. 

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...Around the villages 

Supporting Glos. Action for Refuges (GARAS). 

Various village matters were discussed including: 

Ongoing issues with heavy vehicles and speeding through 

village. New signage and mobile radar gun being explored. 

Allotment maintenance including tree surgery and rubbish 

removal. 

Village Hall urgent need for supporting officers. 

Plans for Queens Platinum Jubilee celebrations - Thursday 

2nd June. 

The Village Litter pick on Saturday 2 April received a good 

turn out and a lot of rubbish was collected. Thanks to all the 

volunteers involved. 

Your Parish Council is active in reviewing all planning 

applications within the parish. If you have particular views 

on applications, please make them known to councillors or 

engage in the planning process as individuals. 

The next meeting: Village Hall at 19.30hrs, Tuesday 26 April. 

The Agenda will be posted online and on the Village Notice 

Board in the bus shelter. Members of the public are welcome 

to attend the meeting. Once approved, minutes of Council 

meetings are available on the web site. 

to additional catering facilities. Consideration is being given to 

refurbishing the first floor of the Old Hall to improve insulation 

performance and the decorative state. Insulation improvements 

are essential, driven by increasing energy prices. 

Decoration of the main Hall progresses with new curtains 

being ordered. 

Further work has been done to improve the Bowling Green 

Camp site and campers and motor caravanners are most 

welcome – pitches are booked via the Hall website. 

Officer’s for the Council are still being sought with a Treasurer 

being urgent – if any one is interested or knows a candidate 

please contact a Council Member 

VILLAGE HALL UPDATE 

Rural Cinema: The cinema needs your support!! 

Forthcoming Events: Plans are developing for the Queen’s 

Jubilee celebrations commencing on on Thursday 02 June with 

a village party at the Village Hall and Bowling Green (weather 

dependent) providing games, food and live entertainment. 

Village Bar: The Village Bar continues to be an attractive 

option for a casual drink and dining out, with Becky and staff 

eager to welcome new patrons. 

Sunday lunch at the bar is very popular and it is essential tables 

are booked. 

Hall Council: The Hall Council and Trustees met 19 April and 

progressed the capital projects in hand with priority being give 

MICKLETON WI 

Our March meeting was our craft evening 

with Lucy from Cotswold Mosaics. It was 

very well supported and we welcomed three 

guests. 

Lucy is an artist and she gave us a short introduction into 

her mosaic artwork, workshops and kits. She brought with 

her several examples of her work, which we all admired. 

With the help of Lucy and her daughter we were all able 

to produce a small item e.g. butterfly, bird, heart etc. There 

were various templates and lots of coloured materials to use. 

There were moments of concentration 

– very quiet – and other times humour 

and laughter. It was all very relaxing and 

enjoyed by everyone. We expressed our 

thanks and appreciation to to Lucy and 

her daughter. It is hoped that some of the 

items produced will be displayed at our 

Annual Show in October. 

Our first walk of the year was also very 

successful. The weather was sunny and 

warm. Our next walk will be at the end 

of April and will be local. 

With 

tuck 

shop 

Our team took part in the first round of the County Quiz 

Competition. Sadly they did not make it, but thank you for 

taking part and representing Mickleton WI. 

Our next meeting on 11th April is an egg extravaganza – a 

talk by Liz Evans. During the meeting we will be holding a 

raffle and the proceeds raised will go to the Ukraine Appeal. 

Further into the future our May Meeting will be on Monday 

9th May and will be a talk about re-cycling. 

If you are thinking about becoming a member why not come 

along and give us try, you will be most welcome. 

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Around the villages... 

THE MICKLETON SOCIETY 

The Society held its AGM with a celebratory history of its 

foundation from its retiring Secretary Geoff Field. 

The AGM received reports from its officers and approved a 

modest increase in its subscription to ten pounds per annum. 

John Kilbey was appointed as the new Secretary and Mike 

Edwards welcomed as a new member of the committee. 

The Society thanked Geoff for his excellent contribution as 

Secretary since 2017 with an engraved tankard in recognition 

of his service. 

Formally business done Geoff then delivered his entertaining 

talk on the first fifty years of the Society. Started in 1972 as a 

result of recent developments and concern for the future of the 

village two residents Mr D. Leigh and Mr PJ Coleman thought 

it would be a good idea to form the Society to give the residents 

a means of expressing their views. Distinguished members of 

Mickleton formed the first committee; the Chairman of North 

Cotswold Rural District Council being the first chairman, 

the headmaster of the local school being Secretary and Lady 

Pollen of Norton Hall being its first President. 

Geoff showed a photo of construction underway of the first 

development to expand the village at Ballards Close and 

took members through each decade of the Society where 

major concerns were proposals for further development and 

increases in the passage of heavy goods vehicles through the 

village. Whilst members reflected that these concerns continue 

what shocked many was the effect of Dutch Elm disease and 

the destruction of the beautiful avenue of trees between the 

church and Kiftsgate and the efforts of the village to save the 

large tree outside the Kings Arms which was finally laid low 

in a gale. 

On a lighter note Geoff showed photos of various street parties 

in the village and amused everyone with tales of the Ox 

Roast in Chapel Lane on the occasion of the Royal Wedding. 

Mickleton did not make do with a mere pig, however the one 

drawback was that it was not cooked until late evening! 

Other surprising information to new members was that 

Mickleton won the Bledisloe Cup for Best kept village in 

Gloucestershire in 1983 and that at one time Mickleton 

boasted a pickle factory which gave rise to much discussion 

not only to where it was but what type of pickle it produced. 

Geoff concluded with the role of the Society in the ‘Welcome 

to Mickleton’ booklet for new residents and subsequent web 

site and the efforts to keep the Society going through the 

lockdown. He has left the documents and his account in good 

shape for future secretaries to report on the next fifty years. 

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GARDEN NOTES FOR MAY 

Many people took up gardening during the plague; and many of them tried 

growing a few vegetables. It would be good to think that they have kept to it, 

having had some successes alongside the inevitable failures. Now we have more 

reasons to try, if we can, to grow some of our own food. Ukraine, we learn, is a 

major wheat exporter, as are neighbouring areas of Russia; and it is expected that 

this horrible war will greatly reduce production and exports from that region, 

leading to shortages and consequent rising prices: bad news for us, and worse 

for poorer countries who depend on them for bread. So there are both moral and 

economic reasons why we should try to produce more food at home if we can. 

You might even find you enjoy it. 

I’m not suggesting you put your garden down to wheat, and you’d probably 

not get a combine harvester through your gate; nor that you replace all your 

ornamental plants with vegetables. But what about a few ornamental vegetables 

in gaps in those beds? Runner beans were first grown in this country for their 

colourful flowers: they’ll add height to a bed, grown up a few sticks tied together 

at the top. Chard comes in various colours: look especially for ‘Bright Lights’, 

with a mixture of red, organge and white mid-ribs. Lettuce - look for those with 

frizzy or coloured foliage. Carrot foliage looks good too, contrasting with other 

plants around. If you plant up containers or hanging baskets, there are cherry 

tomatoes to cascade over the edge. 

Tempted? See what your local plant centre can offer in the way of seeds or 

young plants. 

While there, you’ll find a great choice of summer bedding: this is the peak season, 

once you reckon frosts are over. Will you try to mark the Queen’s Platinum 

Jubilee? The dictionary says platinum looks rather like silver, but less shiny, so 

go for shades of while, silver or grey, at least as much in foliage as in flowers. 

Not too much grey or the effect will be of a wet Wednesday in Wolverhampton; 

but here and there to contrast with surrounding colours. How grey is grey? It all 

depends on what is planted nexty to it, and on how fussy you are. 

In containers or baskets, look for Helichrysums or silver leaf Cineraria. Smallish 

shrubs with silver foliage tend to do well in hot dry areas: Lavenders, Convolvulus 

Cneorum (not that hardy in winter), curry plant (Helichrysum Italicum), some 

Hebes. Herbaceous subjects: Hylotelephium (as we must now call Sedum 

Spectabile), with its spectacular late summer flowers, Heuchera (those with a 

pewter-coloured marking on the leaves), or quite a number of small succulents, 

Sedums and Sempervivums. Small trees: Amelanchiers have lovely white spring 

blossom, when somewhat greyish leaves. Pyrus Salicifolia looks good, but needs 

regular taming with the secateurs or its grows like a demented haystack. 

Happy hunting and growing! 

“Garden Notes” is sponsored by 

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Broadway Road, Mickleton. Open 9am-4pm every day. 

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A wide range of greeting cards available 

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Plus fresh air, space and always plenty 

of FREE PARKING!

DIARY DATES... 

MAY 2022... 

Monday 1st 12 noon Blockley May Fair, Blockley Sports Ground 

Sun/Mon 1st/2nd 10.30am - 4pm Blossom Weekend, Wolds End Orchard 

Tuesday 3rd-7th Chipping Campden Literature Festival 

Friday 6th 3pm - 4pm Police Surgery, The Old Police Station 

Saturday 7th 10am - 12 noon Table Top Sale, Ebrington Village Hall 

Saturday 7th-21st Chipping Campden Music Festival 

Mondau 9th 7.30pm Mickleton WI, King George’s Hall 

Tuesday 10th 9am Over 60’s Outing to Bath, pick up Noel Arms 

Wednesday 11th 3pm - 4pm Police Surgery, The Old Police Station 

Saturday 14th 10am - 3pm Open Garden, Shepherds Close, Westington 

Saturday 14th 10am Repair Cafe, St James’ Community Hall 

Saturday 14th 3pm - 5pm Mickleton Annual Plant Sale, Allotments, Stratford Road 

Saturday 14th - Flower Festival, St Eadburgha’s Church, Ebrington 

Sunday 15th 

Monday 16th 3pm - 4pm Police Surgery, The Old Police Station 

Friday 20th 4pm - 6pm Art in the Orchard, Wolds End Orchard 

Saturday 21st 10.30am onwards Sale in Aid of Ukraine Refugee Fund, Lower Town Hall 

Sunday 22nd 12 noon - 1pm Police Surgery, The Old Police Station 

Sunday 22nd 2pm - 4pm Community Defibrillator Training 

King George’s Hall, Mickleton 

Friday 27th 7.10pm for 7.30pm Campden Rural Cinema, Town Hall - Belfast 

REGULAR EVENTS... 

Mondays 6.30pm-8pm Chipping Campden Men’s Keep Fit 

Chipping Campden Leisure Centre 

Tuesdays 10am - 12 noon Chipping Campden Art Society Painting Sessions 

Tuesdays 

The Old Court Room (first three Tuesdays of month) 

10.30am - 12.30pm Men in Sheds, Jecca’s House, Aston Road 

Tuesdays 12.30pm Broad Campden Lunch Club, Bakers Arms 

(second Tuesday of the month) 

Tuesdays 2pm Chipping Campden Town Walk - meet at Market Hall 

Tuesdays 8pm CC Badminton Club, Meon Vale Leisure Centre 

Wednesdays 6.40pm - 10pm Chipping Campden Bridge Club, Upper Room, Town Hall 

Thursdays 10am - 12 noon Renew 55, Campden Baptist Church, High Street 

Thursdays 10am Chipping Campden Town Walk - meet at Market Hall 

Thursdays 

10.30am - 12.30pm Men in Sheds, Jecca’s House, Aston Road 

Thursdays 7pm - 8.30pm Meon Singers Mickleton, King George’s Hall, Mickleton 

Fridays 9am - 11am Chipping Campden Country Market 

Fridays 

Fridays 

Lower Room, Town Hall 

12.30pm - 1.30pm North Cotswold Foodbank, Baptist Church, High Street 

12.30pm - 1.30pm Citizens Advice Representative, Baptist Church 

The Bulletin thanks all our Readers, Advertisers, Contributors and Deliverers 

for their continued support. 

Extra copies of the Bulletin 

are available from: Campden Information Centre, Peridot/Campden Post Office, 

Blockley Shop and TOPS Plants in Mickleton 

Postal subscriptions available - please email editor@campdenbulletin.co.uk 

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