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Shipbourne News

This page displays the latest news and items of interest in the village and will be updated on a regular basis. Email Curtis Galbraith at web@shipbourne.com with newsworthy items or your Village Events for inclusion in the Calendar.
 

ShipbourneShipbourne Parish Clerk
Shipbourne Parish Council has a vacant position for a part-time, home based Parish Clerk and Responsible Finance Officer, starting from 1st February 2010 (approximately 10 hours per week). Duties include attending 11 monthly (evening) Meetings per year, plus occasional Committee Meetings, preparing the agenda and taking minutes as well as carrying out the Council’s administrative tasks, keeping financial records and preparing accounts, giving procedural advice and dealing with general enquiries and correspondence. Applicants must be computer literate and ideally have experience in local government. Please send applications with curriculum vitae to the current Clerk:
Mrs. Yolanda Tredoux at No 1 Redwell Cottage, Redwell Lane, Ightham, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 9EE, or email to : clerk@shipbourne.com

ShipbourneRenewable Energy Guides
Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council has produced some free guides on renewable energy technologies that can be installed in the home including Solar Panels, Photovoltaic Cells, Wind Turbines and Biomass Options like wood pellets, wood chips or logs, which can be burnt to provide heating or hot water. Additional guides cover Saving Water at Home and Sustainable Drainage Systems.

All the guides are available on the Council’s website www.tmbc.gov.uk (links open in new window):
Achieving sustainable development
Water Efficiency and Sustainable Drainage
or by calling 01732 876266 or emailing ldf@tmbc.gov.uk 
 

ShipbourneShipbourne Village Sign
On Saturday 18th April our new Shipbourne village sign was formally unveiled.
Follow the link above to view some photos of the event.
 

ShipbourneShipbourne Farmers’ Market and The Chaser were worthy runners-up in their respective categories at the recent Taste of Kent Awards dinner held at Leeds Castle.

Although they did not win, they are still in the ‘best of the best’ in Kent and were worthy nominees for Kent Farmers’ Market of the Year and Kent Pub of the Year 2008.

Shipbourne Farmers’ Market and The Chaser were the only West Kent organisations to reach the final round.

More at www.producedinkent.co.uk
 

ShipbourneChurch Restoration
See the St Giles page for full details of the church restoration project with photo gallery.
 

ShipbourneA Taste of Shipbourne
Our local cookbook ‘A Taste of Shipbourne’ is selling fast. Costing just £10.00 it contains more than 200 personal recipes, including some contributed by Albert Roux, who, in his younger days, cooked for the late Peter Cazalet at Fairlawne. Many in the village have contributed their favourite and well tried recipes and anecdotes. Beautifully produced and bound and containing over 250 pages ‘A Taste of Shipbourne’ will become a Shipbourne classic and makes an ideal present for friends and family further afield. The Queen has sent a message of support and the foreward is by Sir Edward Cazalet. Available from Jackie Raven.
 

ShipbourneGreen Bin Collection
The new green-lidded bin is supplied for the collection of garden waste, cardboard and kitchen waste. This bin will be collected fortnightly with the green box while the normal black ‘wheelie bin’ will be collected only on the alternate week.

The green-lidded bin can be used to dispose of the following:

Garden Waste: Grass cuttings, hedge clippings, flowers, pruning, thorny branches, weeds and fruit.
Cardboard: Brown corrugated cardboard, flat grey cardboard, (typically as used in cereal and shoe boxes and toilet roll tubes) and shiny cardboard used around ready meals. Christmas and birthday cards can also be recycled.
Kitchen waste: All cooked and uncooked vegetables, cooked and uncooked meat and fish, bones, tea bags, coffee grounds and plate scrapings.

When placing kitchen waste in the green-lidded bin wrap it in newspapers, paper bags or place it in cardboard boxes. Plastic bags of any kind should not be used.

During hot weather, if flies or maggots are experienced, contact the waste services team at TMBC who may be able to help. It is most important to note that kitchen waste can also be collected in your black wheeled bin. Therefore during the summer you may place kitchen waste in whichever bin is next due for collection.

View TMBC's Green Waste Leaflet Green Waste Leaflet
For further details visit TMBC’s web site.
 

ShipbourneVillage Book
A book about the village and its people, Shipbourne Life and Times, is available from the author Frank Chapman at Martins Oast, Back Lane, TN11 9PP, 01732 810455 or fa.chapman@virgin.net Price £12.00 or £13.00 by post. The book tells the Shipbourne story, much of it in the words of people who live here and has scores of photographs. It also covers the story of the Fairlawne Estate and Peter Cazalet's racing stable there, including the ‘Hush-hush horses’; the stable's secret wartime role in protecting our soldiers from a variety of diseases.
 

ShipbourneDesign Statement
The Shipbourne Design Statement is an informative and quality 33 page booklet illustrated with 72 colour photographs and eight black & white drawings and maps. It enables the visual qualities of the village and local priorities - as defined by the community - to be considered in the planning processes. The design issues included in the Statement are of use to individual owners when contemplating or undertaking any alterations to their property. Likewise, developers and builders will find the Design Statement a helpful tool. Read more here: Design Statement.
 

ShipbourneParking
Please do not park on the double yellow lines or on the pavement when visiting The Chaser or the Farmers’ Market. A Penalty Charge Notice can be issued if parked here at any time 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The restrictions were put in place to safeguard the junction and access along Upper Green Road. Vehicles obstructing the junction or parked on the carriageway of the A227 may also be subject to prosecution by Kent Police.
Please park responsibly.
 

 


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