MORE GOOD NEWS
The good news this month is that Hook has been awarded two generous grants – one from Tesco’s #BagsofHelp initiative for the Hook in Bloom village planting scheme, which will take place over the coming months and a Big Lottery Fund grant for Health and Wellbeing. The BLF money will be used to foster the Five Ways to Wellbeing which are Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give.
This means that it will help with activities such as the Health and Wellbeing Event, various aspects of In Bloom, help put on the Hook Village Show, help with the Taxi Bus, the Wellbeing Directory and go towards providing summer activities for children.
Another bit of good news is that Hook Parish Council has a new website thanks to excellent work by Cllr Jane Bonnin. The website is bright, clean, fresh and easily navigable. One of the reasons for changing is that it will be much easier to manage and update. Well done and thank you Jane.
WATER MAIN REPLACEMENTS IN STATION ROAD
Just as we launch into In Bloom, South East Water announced they will be digging up Station Road! In Bloom is an ongoing project so we will plan around the works. However, they will cause quite a bit of disruption in the village centre all through the summer until October.
The work will affect the road between railway bridge/Osborn Way to Griffin Way and will be carried out from April until October. SEW need to put in an entirely new water infrastructure rather than repairing the old. The good news is that there should be no interruption to water supplies.
The road will be closed in three work phases and large lorries will need to go through the village centre. Businesses reliant on use of large lorries are in direct discussions with the contractors to make it as safe as possible. Please take care, plan your visits to Hook centre and don’t forget all the businesses that still need your support to carry on as normal during the works.
LOCAL PLAN HOUSING OPTIONS CONSULTATION
New consultation begins. Please act (or act again) to make sure the views of Hook Residents are heard.
There is no clear indication of the reason that the consultation, run from November to January 2016, on the options to be included in the Local Plan was stopped the day before the consultation closed. The ‘refreshed’ Housing Options Consultation has been reopened, and can be found at: http://www.hart.gov.uk/consultations
The main changes over the previous consultation affect only the ‘Refined Options for Delivering New Homes’ document that now includes all the villages in Hart.
Those who gave an e-mail address on the original response should have received an e-mail from Hart asking you to confirm your previous submission. If you want your previous response to be re-used you should go to: www.hart.gov.uk/confirmation-of-local-plan-response
If you submitted a paper response a simple ‘re-submission paper’ is available at the Parish Council Office or Trees Newsagent.
If you did not submit a response originally, we encourage you to consider responding this time. Paper copies of the full form are available at the Parish Council Office or Trees Newsagent.
THANK YOU
Thank you everyone for being so courteous whilst using the Community Centre car park now the school building works are underway and there have been no problems. One or two minor concerns have been raised on the roads around Church View, where some parents are not parking considerately. So if care could be taken in this area it would be brilliant.
NEW ON LINE SEARCHABLE DIRECTORY
Work is well under way on the new Health and Wellbeing Directory – please make sure your organisation is included.
SAVE THE DATES
- Annual Village Meeting – Hook Community Centre – 18th May 2016
- Health and Wellbeing Event – Hook Community Centre – Thursday 7th April 2016
- Hook Fun Run – moves to Hartletts Park – Sunday 15th May 2016
- Hook Annual Village Show – Hook Community Centre – Sunday 11th September 2016