The Parish project Group of Aveton Gifford will be holding an open event on 16th October as per the poster, available by clicking on the link below:-
The Parish project Group of Aveton Gifford will be holding an open event on 16th October as per the poster, available by clicking on the link below:-
As part of the Marine Conservation Society’s ‘Great British Beach Clean’ which involved numerous beach cleaning efforts around the country between 18th and 21st September, the Aune Conservation Association arranged one of its quarterly rubbish clean ups on Cockleridge, Bigbury-0n-Sea, on Sunday 20th September. The photos show a) some examples of the typical rubbish found on the beach, including polystyrene pieces, fragments of fishing nets and assorted plastic objects and b) the happy, if rather small, band of enthusiastic participants. This year, the rubbish haul was somewhat smaller than on previous occasions and it would be tempting to delude ourselves into thinking this could be a direct result of our earlier efforts on Cockleridge. Sadly, we know that the next tide will probably bring in a richer harvest from the masses of junk floating around in our oceans or discharged through our sewerage systems and that we need to remain vigilant to help protect and conserve our beautiful local environment.
Thursday 1st October sees the first meeting of the Society’s winter season in Bigbury Memorial Hall at 7.30pm. We’re starting with a very local talk – The History of Kingston Fire Station by local Fire Officer Merv Freeman.
The Station is the only volunteer one in Devon and Somerset Fire Brigade and Merv will be presenting an entertaining look at it’s history and memorabilia since it’s formation in 1949.
This will be a bit different from the usual kind of subject of our talks but promises to be an extremely interesting evening.
Incidentally, for those of you who would like to come but may be put off by driving after dark, we’ll be happy to arrange transport. Just give me a ring on 01548 810023.
The agenda for September’s parish council meeting can be accessed by clicking here – AGENDA[1]
and will be available in the DOCUMENTS section of the Bigbury Parish Council GROUP
Devon and Severn Inshore Fishing Conservation Authority is conducting a review of netting byelaws in our river estuaries. If you follow the links provided here – newsletter netting review – , you can complete a survey to provide your views about netting in the Devon Avon estuary.
The development of the Royal Oak’s car park by the building of 4 houses has been approved. Full details of the South Hams DC Decision Notice and Officer’s Report can be found via the following link:- http://apps.southhams.gov.uk/planningsearch/default.aspx?shortid=05%2f2313%2f14%2fF
As part of the Great British Beach Clean, the Aune Conservation Association is organising a clean up of rubbish on Cockleridge on Sunday 20th September between 3pm & 4pm (low water will be around 4.30pm) – weather permitting You can sign up via this link – http://www.mcsuk.org/beachwatch/user/register
Please see our safety guidelines and further details here – http://auneconservation.org.uk/?page_id=791
If in doubt call Stuart Watts on 01548 810373.
We shall be recording details of what we find to complement our previous surveys and to add to the national database maintained by the Marine Conservation Society. Some interesting information about last year’s (2014) MCS results is available here – http://www.mcsuk.org/what_we_do.php/Clean+seas+and+beaches/Reports+and+downloads/Beachwatch+results+2014
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