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• Sale of Poor Patch south west of Church Bottom Drove: contact Michael Roe tel. 07831 103062 or email mjroe99 @ gmail.com (no spaces); sealed bids must be submitted before 3rd July 2024.
• Proposed village notice board; a short presentation was made to the Annual Parish Meeting on 8th May 2024 for village views.
• Proposed playground upgrade
• All eight bells were rung at 7.40pm on 25th July 2023 after many years silent. The timber steps to the bell gallery were unsafe, although the chamber where the ropes hang is accessed by the stone spiral stairs.
• Fibre to the premises (FTTP); The Bowerchalke (and South Street) area is allocated within the BDUK Type B intervention for Lot 30. BDUK is still seeking market engagement with the aim of awarding a suitable contract toeards the end of this calendar year between October and December 2023.
• A small working group has met to look at how best to promote the Neighbourhood Watch.
• Friends of Broad Chalke Playground have a target of £60,000 for improvements.
• Planning Application for 6 nr. affordable houses in Knighton Road See Planning Application PL/2023/00911. Deadline for comments 10/03/2023. Decision is delayed.
• On Saturdays The Hub store will be closed at 1.00pm & the coffee shop at noon.
• Planning Application for new High Lane house See Wiltshire Planning Application PL/2023/00794 previously Wiltshire Planning Application PL/2022/08054; application refused.
• Low Lane footpath improvement is now complete.
  
  May 2023: Funds received by the Low Lane Improvement Project are £19,420 and a further request for £5.000 has been made to Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership.
• Climate Action Strategy Draft Plan November 2021 presented by Mrs Richter was fully endorsed by the parish council.
• The village shop was nominated to the South of England Prestige Awards 2021/2022 and was announced as the Village Shop of the year.
• May 2023: The Parish Council update states that the cash at bank is £24,323.22 but is subject to Low Lane expenditure and remaining grant from The Chas & Chalke Landscape Partnership.
• The Parish Council update states that the repositioning of the Church flagpole is being considered.
• There is a Planning permission application for demolition and rebuilding The Plough Comment via Wiltshire Planning Application PL/2021/06074 or email the Parish Council at clerkbroadchalke @ gmail.com (no spaces) before 07/10/2021. The application decision date is 26/10/2021.
• The Broad Chalke Neighbourhood Plan Referendum took place on 1st July 2021 at the village hall. The vote endorsed the plan by a large margin. Read details in the Government Section below where there is a contact address.
• The Hub shop opening hours are from 9.00am to 5.00pm on weekdays and 9.00am to 1.00pm on Saturdays.
  The Coffee Shop opening hours will be 10.00am to 2.00pm Monday to Friday for hot food and lunches, and coffee and cakes 10.00am to 3.30pm. Saturday opening time will be 10.00am to 12noon for coffee and cakes with a reduced menu for lunches.
• Broad Chalke Surgery is open from 9.30am to 1.00pm and 2.00pm to 6.00pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is closed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays but the Broad Chalke phone number is still manned. It is closed on weekends.
• Broad Chalke mobile signal project. Contact Chalke Mobile for information.
• There is a Planning permission application for a Beer Garden for the Queen's Head in the meadow opposite the Hub. Comment via Wiltshire Planning Application 21/02324/FUL or email ronnie @ queensheadbroadchalke.co.uk (no spaces) or email the Parish Council at clerkbroadchalke @ gmail.com (no spaces). The application has been approved and the beer garden is open.
• A new boiler is required urgently for the village hall. Donations should be payable to Broad Chalke Village Hall and sent to Henry Flint, Mead House, High Road, Broad Chalke Salisbury SP5 5EH.
• Plans and sketches of the proposed Community Land Trust affordable houses at Knighton Road are on display upstairs in the Hub; Houses for sale are proposed in Newtown next to the primary school entrance. Broad Chalke Community Land Trust on Facebook
• Affordable Houses plan for Knighton Road:
  This plan has been revised after comments from the residents of the bungalows.
• Planning permission application for a Communications Mast at Chalk Pyt Farm for EE; (a large mast 18m high for 5G); Wiltshire ref. 20/10166/PNTEL plans & PDF documents. See "Supplementary Information" for a diagram of it and "Photo Montage" for a picture. This application's Home Page; This application's Comment page before 17th December 2020.
• The Post Office opening hours change to 9.30am to 1.30pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8th January 2021 under the direction of Ed Rigg & CJ from Tisbury Post Office.
• A Petanque Facility has been constructed.
• Parish Council village handy-person is Justin Allison.
• Wiltshire Food Collection of non-perishable and in-date items will take place on Thursdays at 2.00pm from the Church Porch.
• CORONAVIRUS Covid-19 The Hub shop will now take orders and make deliveries, tel. 01722 780998 or email info @ chalkevalleystores.co.uk (no spaces). The Pub is now selling hot food in the evening to take away, Website.The Link Service will fetch and deliver medications, tel. 01722 780800.
  Volunteers required: for Shop & Pub deliveries tel. Linda Walton 07775 581579; for Link medication collection & delivery tel. 01722 780800.
  Covid-19 Support Network tel. Nicki & Nigel Tinkler 07771 967961.
• Major changes in refuse collection start from Tuesday 17th March 2020; the blue lidded bin takes more items and the black box will only be for glass and bagged textiles.
• Demolition and rebuilding of Knighton Mill started at the end of February 2020 and was substantially complete in May 2023.
• The Broad Chalke Neighbourhood Plan Final Draft is published.
  The village will be incorporated as a Community Benefit Society (part of a Community Land Trust).
  The Pre-Submission Consultation Letter and proforma for comments is available in the Government Section below.
• The Queen's Head became a FREE HOUSE on 2nd December 2019.
• Mail & parcels must not be left at the Hub when the Post Office is closed.
• A defibrillator has been installed in the old telephone box near the URC.
• Tony Patel has taken over from Ellen as manager of Chalke Valley Stores from 7th May 2019.
• Causeway footpath work started on 15th October 2018 and has been completed with grass seed sown on the extended village green.
• Fibre broadband cable was fixed to poles along High Road from the Broad Chalke telephone exchange on 2nd November 2018, as a distribution cable which will enable houses to connect directly to fibre broadband. A few years ago an underground ducted fibre cable was laid along High Road for the mains fibre cable to the exchange.
• Planning Application for Reddish House. Winter Garden (conservatory) to be demolished and rebuilt in a different style. Wiltshire Planning website
• Planning Application for Knighton Mill. Demolition and replacement of the single family dwelling; Wiltshire Planning website
• Village Hall redecoration needs financial contributions. Contact Henry Flint tel. 01722 780763
• A Speed Indicator is being used next to High Road, High Lane and the school.
• Parish Questionnaire: Friends of All Saints' Church have discussed improvements for the Church. Contact Chris Littlemore on chris @ cplarchitecture.com (no spaces) or by hand to Meadow House, High Lane. The 2008 proposals below are now largely out of date.
• The Housing Needs Survey Report Word document may be slow to download and may open in a separate window. Contact Daniel Richter, Hill View, Knighton Road, Broad Chalke SP5 5DX with queries.
• The proposed 20mph zone is shown on the plan below:
  
  
  The zone extends from the present 30mph signs in High Road to a position near Timperley House in High Lane, also along North Street, Doves Meadow, Tank Lane, Chalk Pyt Lane, Manor Farm Close and parts of The Causeway, Bury Lane and Newtown.
  Documents can be viewed online at Wiltshire Consultations.
  20mph signs were erected on 30th November 2016.
• Vodafone has located sites for transmitters for a Rural Open Sure Signal.
• Chalke Valley Stores has been named as joint winner of the Countryside Alliance South West Region Award and national winner for Village Shops & Post Offices. See News below. The Shop has been entered for the Champion of Champions; vote by telephone or email in November; postcards will be available at the Shop.
• The parish council has agreed to recommend the refusal of the planning application for a wind turbine at Knowle Farm.
• A car parking area for Community Hub users and, on the opposite side of the road from the Hub, a layby for use as a bus stop has been given the go-ahead and is now completed. The cost is estimated to be about £31,000. Wiltshire Council has agreed to pay £21,000 and South West Wiltshire Community Areas Transport Group (CATG) will provide £10,000.
• Superfast Broadband has been installed into the Broad Chalke exchange (but links to homes will remain copper, so only those close to the exchange will benefit to a large extent).
• Chalke Valley Stores shop and post office in the Chapel. See Community Shop for details. Building works started on 25th February 2013 for the conversion of part of the Chapel into a shop and were completed on June 3rd 2013. The Official Opening by Terry Pratchett took place on 22nd June 2013 at 11.00am. Robert Fry closed his shop in South Street at 1.00pm on 31st May 2013 for the last time. Shop Proposal and Meeting Minutes held on 19th April 2013 at 7.00pm in the Village Hall. Contact The Secretary, Chalke Valley Community Hub, Lodge Farmhouse, Hut & Lodge, Salisbury SP5 5LU regarding all Community Hub matters or 01722 780998 for the Stores Manager.
• Wessex Water have submitted a planning application 13/00879/FUL for a booster station in the field opposite Mead House in High Road and a new pipeline to Chalk Pyt Farm to pump water past Chalk Pyt Farm and over Compton Down to Fovant. Work is completed.
• Public Meetings regarding a new community shop and post office were held on 20th and 26th October 2012 and on 19th April 2013 in the village hall. Read the proposal and my Meeting Minutes of the three meetings.
• The Surgery is closed on Monday afternoons and Wednesdays but the Broad Chalke Surgery phone number 01722 780282 is still manned.
• South Wiltshire Core Strategy Development Plan was adopted on 7th February 2012; see the Document List and the Core Strategy Plan. "Desired outcomes: The delivery of at least 9,900 new homes carefully managed to be in the most sustainable location and to respect the local character. Well over half the number will have been built in or around Salisbury, with significant growth in Amesbury."
  "Secondary Villages: The secondary villages are ...Broad Chalke, ... In terms of their role, function and level of services, this group of villages perform a less significant, but nevertheless important complementary role to the Local Service Centres. Levels of growth proportionate to their size, character and environment will be supported in these settlements."
  "Salisbury and Wilton Community Areas Planned growth: at least 6060 homes and 29 ha (23ha new allocation and 6ha saved) of employment land..."
  "Rest of Wilton Community Area: at least 220 homes... The Community Area has three secondary villages... Broad Chalke..."
• Report potholes online; fill in details and Submit.
• There is a Village Archive stored on the Chapel balcony; contact Michael Powis tel. 01722 780483 (secretary), Ann Ferreira tel. 01722 780477 or Michael Roe tel. 01725 519242 (chairman) if you would like to contribute time, documents or money.
• Fifield Bavant Church Restoration Appeal; contact William Hillary, tel. 01722 417900 or email will @ willhillary.co.uk (no spaces)
• The status of the track between High Lane and Chapel Lane. The Inspector has concluded that the footpath should extend over the full width of the existing track.
• The Environment Agency has made the River Ebble subject to a wild fish preservation order.
• All applications by trail riders before the cut-off date to have by-ways converted into by-ways open to all traffic can no longer be pursued and there can be no appeal against this decision.
• Conservation area appraisals and management plans for Broad Chalke have been issued in draft; Broad Chalke PDF file;
  High Road (Eastern approach leading to Vikings Corner) has been removed from this Conservation Area. Reason:-
  "The houses are outside the housing policy zones and this area is essentially open countryside. It does not have a relationship with the settlement and the boundary appears to drift out to an arbitrary point, including buildings of reasonable but not special quality. The setting of the conservation area would preserve any potential threats to this part of the open countryside." Surely it should read "negate any potential threats", not preserve them.
  The south side of Howgare Road has also been removed from the Conservation Area.
  Comment: Although the Plan says "outside the housing policy zones", would these areas, without the planning restrictions applicable within a Conservation Area, be more or less likely to be developed with housing, not immediately, but possibly in the future if government pressure on local authorities to find development land is stepped up? Although the areas are agricultural land, future policy changes might allow areas on the fringes of villages to be developed and Conservation Area restrictions would not apply. Note that recent houses in New Town and Knighton Road and the Primary School were allowed even though all were built on agricultural land outside the Conservation Area.
  Between now and 2026, Salisbury district has to find space for 12,400 new houses in the 2009 plan, reduced in the 2012 Core Strategy Development Plan to 6060 for Salisbury and Wilton Community Areas. Will the above areas be targetted?
  Submit comments to Development Control, Wiltshire Council, PO Box 2281, Salisbury SP2 2HX.
  See further comment in the Local Government section below.