Talk by George Pilkington “Gardening for Wildlife….Give them a Home “
On Wednesday October 13th at 8pm at. Greenmount Old School.
Everyone welcome to come & listen to this very interesting speaker & learn how to make your garden a haven for wildlife.
Thank you Dorothy
For current table top sales dates, please check the “What’s on” page https://www.greenmountvillage.org.uk/whats-on/
Any other specific Table Top sales enquires please email Christine: [email protected]
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Table Top Sales are arranged for:
*same day as a Drop In when café will be open..)
All money raised will go towards alterations to the toilet area off the corridor and a new kitchen.
The success of the Table Top Sales depends on all our volunteers and that enough people are there to set up from 7.45am; sell on a stalls from 9am to 12; clear away 12 to 1pm.
New volunteers from our community are very welcome.
If interested please email Christine at [email protected] and say the time which suits you best.
Hi,
The long wait is over, perhaps….. and the next Woodland Management time is scheduled for Friday 1st October from 10am-12.30pm and currently the thought is to meet in Island Lodge car park. Please make a note in your calendar if you wish to come along.
Being in October there is likely to be some tree felling.
Have a lovely weekend,
Alistair
Dear All
Please find below details for the Bury Running Festival, a virtual challenge which is taking place in September.
Links are included in the text below
Best Wishes
Julie Southworth
Morning,
I hope you’re keeping well and have had a good Bank Holiday weekend.
Please can I ask where possible that you promote and share the Bury Virtual September Challenge through all your networks and communication channels please. Feel free to enter and take up the challenge yourself or with family, friends and colleagues too 😊
I’ve included some information below but if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to let me know. On social please feel free to include the #BuryMoving and the links to the website(s) are:
Basically speaking those who were already signed up for the Bury 10k or Bury 10miler this year which has been postponed will retain their place for next year, AND be able to enter for free for the virtual event this year which is great.
Those who weren’t already signed up can sign up for the virtual challenge for a small cost or they could even sign up to the virtual for this year and next years event for a discounted joint price.
Anyone can enter and all they have to do is complete 10k or 10miles in September and just submit their evidence – they don’t even need to do their distance in one go which is a great opportunity for more people. 👍🏾
Many thanks in advance
Pritesh
Pritesh Patel
Bury North Community Hub / Bury Live Well Service
Good Afternoon
A schedule of table top sales and Saturday drop in sessions have been planned, all to be held at Greenmount Old School, Brandlesholme Road, BL8 4DS
Here are the dates for your calendars;
The table top sales will be held from 9am to 12 on Saturday September 4th & 18th , October 2nd & 16th , November 6th & 20th , December 4th.
Three drop in sessions will also take place on Saturday October 2nd , November 6th & December 4th.
If you haven’t been before our stalls include; Bric a Brac, Toys, Jigsaws, Clothes, Jewellery, Bags, Shoes, Books, DVDs and CDs, Electrical Items, Heart Art and for the drop in sessions a café is in operation.
Now with CASHLESS/CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
These sessions are all run by our volunteers. If you want to help either setting up, during the event or packing away then please get in touch.
Best Wishes
Julie Southworth
Dear All
Please be aware that the Tottington And District Horticultural Society’s Show which was to held on September 12th at Greenmount Old School is cancelled.
Please note that the majority of groups are back using the Old School following the disruption caused by Covid. It is very good to see so many people using the building and being able to meet together.
Best regards
Julie Southworth
Dear All
We have been contacted by the volunteers who run the foodbank at the Brandlesholme Road Community Centre. Due to Foodshare’s funding being drastically cut back and the removal of their collection point in Tesco they are now very low on all essential foodstuffs.
They are particularly in need of tinned foods, tuna, beans, tomatoes, meat, fruit and veg as well as long life milk. They have freezers so can take both fresh and frozen items.
The centre is open and able to accept donations every weekday from 9:30am until 1pm, Thursday and Friday are particularly good days for dropping off items as that is when there is most demand.
Thank you
Julie
Dear All
Attached are details for the Tottington Centre’s Big Book Sale this Saturday.
Please support our friends in their fundraising activities and bag yourself a bargain read.
Best Wishes
Julie Southworth
Dear All
I am pleased to report that the Afternoon Tea held last Thursday was very successful with sixty four local residents enjoying good food and wonderful entertainment by the Greenmount Strummers. More important was the opportunity to have a catch up after such a long period of isolation.
Thank you to our volunteers, the Greenmount Strummers, Greenmount Old School, our caterers Wendy and Luisa and Bury MBC for funding the event through the Isolation and Loneliness fund.
Also a reminder that our regular Cuppa and Chat session takes place every Thursday 2pm – 4pm at the Old School.
Best wishes
Julie Southworth
Dear All
Please find below an invitation to view and comment upon the recently approved ‘Places for Everyone’ plan which replaces the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF).
This plan redraws the borough’s greenbelt boundaries. Some greenbelt will be lost in Bury but I am pleased to note that despite earlier threats under the original proposals, our greenbelt in Greenmount is protected under this plan until at least 2037.
Please read the attached document and links to the plans, responding if you wish via the links provided.
Kind regards
Julie Southworth
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are contacting you to inform you that comments are now being invited on an emerging plan for jobs, new homes and sustainable growth, known as Places for Everyone. Pursuant to Regulation 19 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012, comments on Places for Everyone are now being invited over an eight-week period from 9 August until 23:45 on 3 October 2021.
As with the GMSF, Places for Everyone will identify the amount of new housing, office, industrial and warehousing development needed up to 2037 and the key sites where this will take place. It will also identify the infrastructure needed to support new development, such as transport, schools and healthcare; identify the important environmental assets which will be protected and enhanced; and define a new green belt boundary for the nine boroughs.
How can you find out more about Places for Everyone?
The Places for Everyone plan and further supporting documents and background evidence is available on the Greater Manchester Combined Authority web site at www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/placesforeveryone.
Further information on Places for Everyone is also available on the Council’s web site at www.bury.gov.uk/placesforeveryone. This includes a series of Frequently Asked Questions which highlight the main implications of the plan for Bury.
Both Bury Council and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority will also be regularly posting information via their respective social media channels.
In addition, copies of Places for Everyone will be available for inspection at Bury Town Hall reception, Ramsbottom, Bury, Radcliffe and Prestwich libraries and at the Tottington Centre during their normal opening hours. You can also keep up-to-date on other ways in which we will be engaging with the local community and other stakeholders on Places for Everyone by visiting the Council’s Places for Everyone web site.
How can you have your say on Places for Everyone?
We are now at the ‘Publication Stage’ of the plan which is the version of the plan that the nine participating local authorities intend to submit Government.
At this stage, we are asking you whether you think the plan has been prepared in accordance with legal and procedural requirements and meets the four ‘tests of soundness’ (as set out in paragraph 35 of the National Planning Policy Framework).
We would prefer comments to be submitted by completing the online response form at: www.gmconsult.org. Alternatively, you can download the response form available on the GMCA Website and emailing it to [email protected].
You can also submit your comments to us by:
Comments and names will be published. Full details of how your information will be shared can be found in the Places for Everyone Privacy Notice.
Please refer to the representation guidance notes when preparing representations.
How to participate in the Examination
By using the response form you will be asked whether you wish to participate in the Examination and whether you wish to be notified of any of the following:
Alternatively, if you make representations by email or by letter, you should state whether you wish to participate in the Examination and/or be kept informed of the progress of Places for Everyone.
What happens next?
The Government will then appoint a Planning Inspector (or a number of Inspectors) to undertake an examination of plan. Once the plan has been submitted, the Inspector will take control of the examination process from start to finish. The Inspector’s role is to examine whether the submitted plan meets the tests of soundness defined in the NPPF and meets all the relevant legislative requirements.
Strategic Planning and Economic Development
Statement of Representation Procedure Notice
(Regulation 19: The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012)
August 2021
This statement relates to the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan Publication Draft 2021 (PfE2021). A brief explanation of the background of this document and its relationship to other development plan documents being produced by the relevant nine Greater Manchester districts is provided below.
Background
In 2014, the ten Greater Manchester local authorities agreed to prepare a joint Development Plan Document, the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF), with the GMCA co-ordinating its production on behalf of the ten districts. In December 2020, Stockport Council took the decision to withdraw from the GMSF. Subsequently, the nine remaining authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Trafford, Tameside and Wigan), agreed to continue to progress a joint Development Plan Document for themselves, known as Places for Everyone, which will form part of their individual district local plans.
PfE2021 provides the strategic policy framework for the districts including the overall scale and distribution of development, the spatial strategy, strategic site allocations and Green Belt boundary amendments together with a number of strategic thematic policies which will be used to manage development and determine planning applications in the individual districts. PfE2021 is accompanied by a Policies Map which shows the allocations and designations in the Plan.
Documents available for inspection
PfE2021 and supporting/background evidence documents are published on the GMCA Website on behalf of the nine districts. Additionally, copies of PfE2021 documentation will be made available in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 and the requirements of each district’s Statement of Community Involvement (SCI).
Copies of PfE 2021 are available for inspection at Bury Town Hall reception, Ramsbottom, Bury, Radcliffe and Prestwich libraries and at the Tottington Centre during their normal opening hours.
Period of Submission for Representations
Representations are invited on the PfE 2021, Publication Draft for a period of eight weeks from Monday 9th August until 23:45 3rd October 2021.
Representations at this stage should only relate to PfE2021 and its supporting/evidence base documents which have been published alongside it. Comments made previously, during stages of consultation in relation to the GMSF, have been summarised in the Statement of Consultation report, which will form part of the submission documentation.
Whilst representations may be made on any point in respect of PfE2021 and its supporting/evidence base documents, only those pertaining to the four tests of soundness[1] will be taken into account by the Inspector at the Examination.
How to make representations
Representations can be made by
Preferably completing the online response form at: www.gmconsult.org
Alternatively, downloading the response form available on the GMCA Website and emailing it to [email protected]
You can also submit your comments to us by:
What Happens Next
Once the period for making representations finishes, it is intended to submit the PfE2021 Plan to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government so that it can be assessed through an Examination in Public by an appointed Planning Inspector(s).
It will be the role of the Independent Planning Inspector(s) to examine whether the plan meets the tests of soundness in the National Planning Policy Framework and meets all the relevant legislative requirements. All representations received before the deadline will be submitted electronically to the Secretary of State for consideration by the Planning Inspector(s) as part of the Examination in Public. Comments and names will be published. Full details of how your information will be shared can be found in the PfE2021 Privacy Notice.
Please refer to the representation guidance notes when preparing representations.
How to participate in the Examination
By using the response form you will be asked whether you wish to participate in the Examination and whether you wish to be notified of any of the following:
Alternatively, if you make representations by email or by letter, you should state whether you wish to participate in the Examination and/or be kept informed of the progress of PfE2021.