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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.
 

ShipbourneLocal Policing
For Police contact details and recent news see our new Local Policing page.
 

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 Sue Lee (810556) or 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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