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A surprising number of people ask us how to report a dangerous pothole that they’ve seen. It’s really easy once you know how, so we’ve put together step by step instructions on one of our pages:

How to Report a Pothole

…and you can get to that page through one of the links at the bottom of every page on this website.

When you click through to the Norfolk County Council reporting page, there’s 5 screens to click through:

• One is clicking on a map,
• One is multiple choice,
• Two are just a single drop-down,
• And the other one is to write a quick sentence on how to find it at the map location.

This is one of those things where sometimes we just expect that someone else will do something about it, which is perfectly natural when it’s not immediately obvious how to do it, or how easy it is.

It’s the responsibility of the council to fix potholes, but only once they are told about them. If everyone thinks someone else will report it then perhaps no one will for a while, increasing the time that the pothole could cause damage or even cause an accident.

So make a mental note that you can get to the step-by-step instructions from any page of this website, and next time you see a pothole come back here and report it. It’s much quicker than you think.

If you run a business you may find this particularly interesting. See the attached flyers for information on how you can apply for money from the Council to invest in your business, for any growth/expansion/upgrade projects.

Framingham Earl Road, Yelverton, will be closed, 18th-20th Aug, looks like about 200m down the road from the pond.

From the official notice:

…water connection works are required at the U76369 Framingham Earl Road from 200m west of its junction with C374 Church Road for 20m westwards…

If you’re curious how quickly cars drive through the village, we have reports for May, June, and July, generated from the mobile speed camera which gets moved around approximately every month.

The camera is run by the Parish Council. A generous village resident crunches the raw data from the Parish Council each month, and produces these easy to understand summaries downloadable below.

A quick look over the 3 documents paints an interesting picture, which is certainly worrying in some aspects. The camera was in 3 locations over the 3 months. In all locations the average speeder was going roughly 33mph.

On Framingham Earl Road (in the 30 zone past the pond) 13% of all cars were speeding. I’m not sure which way round the camera was facing but it possibly reflects the proximity of a 60mph zone further up the road?

By the village hall, only 1% of drivers were speeding, it’s an area which forces you to slow down really so it makes sense, and is reassuring in a way as many people cross the road near there.

Near the school, 5% of drivers were speeding.

For more detail see the pdf reports below.

This and future reports will be added to our Parish Council’s page.

The season was cancelled last year, but it’s now started up again!

Saturday 14th August. Yelverton first team vs St Andrew’s. 2:30 kick off

Saturday 21st August. Yelverton first team vs Norwich CEYMS. 2:30 kick off

Come along and support, or if you’re out for a walk in Alpington or Yelverton, take a detour onto Garrick Field for a bit and check out how our local team are doing.

The club badge is new for this year, a tribute to the Sauders brothers who supported the club so much.

We’ll attempt to put the home games on the village calendar and keep it up to date, so you can check there in future for the dates:

Village Calendar Yelverton FC TWITTER ACCOUNT Yelverton FC WEBSITE Our Yelverton FC Page

Aug/Sep edition of Eleven Says, the Newspaper of the Bramerton Group of Churches covering 11 Parishes.

This website previously posted some info on the planning proposals contained in the village clusters housing allocation plan:

https://alpingtonwithyelverton.com/2021/06/22/village-clusters-housing-allocation-plan-consultation/

Which was a while ago. If you saw it and decided to come back to it later, the deadline for any comments/objections is the 2nd August, a couple of days’ time. So this is just a friendly reminder in case you’d regret missing it.

The practicalities of adding comments are below:

Log in (If you have not already got an account you will need to create one which is quick and easy to do):

https://south-norfolk.oc2.uk/document/1/100

Scroll down and click on: Alpington, Yelverton and Bergh Apton:

Scroll down until you come to the questions in purple. Click on the message icon which will give you opportunity to object, then click Next and make your comments:

Thanks to a very helpful Nextdoor member for those details and screenshots, hopefully she wouldn’t mind us reproducing them here.

Well, our Summer certainly arrived in July with prolonged spells of hot and dry weather, hopefully you will have found some time to relax in your gardens in this time! August is the month to busy ourselves keeping our gardens tidy and cutting back early summer flowering plants. We can also continue to harvest some of our vegetables.

Harvesting

If you have grown vegetables, you may already be picking your sweetcorn, tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, beans, courgettes and other greenhouse crops. As pumpkins and butternut squashes come on, if you place straw or old tiles under the ripening vegetables this will stop them rotting on the soil surface.

Pick sweet peas regularly to encourage new flowers to form.

Supporting

Tie in or support tall late-summer perennials to stop them leaning or falling over.

Pruning back

Lavender, Rosemary and Dianthus will be finishing flowering by now, so lightly trim them by cutting off the old flower heads and stalks but try not to cut into the older brown wood.  Sprawling Geraniums which are nearing the end of their flowering can also be cut back as this will encourage a second flush of leaves and flowers.  Continue to dead-head Roses.

Prune any shrubs that have finished flowering. Cut back established Wisterias, trimming long growth back to between 4 and 7prs of leaves and pinching out the tips of the unwanted fast growing new young shoots and trim fast-growing hedges to keep them in check.

Watering

Water all pots, baskets and flower beds well in dry spells, ideally from collected rain water or with used bathwater. Dark-coloured, smaller or metal patio pots will dry out rapidly in the heat, so these may need watering twice a day.

Mowing

Mow the lawn weekly but raise the blades if the weather is hot and dry to prevent the grass turning brown.

We will always find things to do in our gardens but we have created them to enjoy them, so hopefully August will be a month of Summer socialising with family and friends in our outdoor spaces.

Some information on this event from South Norfolk Council:

In preparation for this year South Norfolk Community Awards we are now taking nominations for residents within our district.

The awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of residents from across the district, who go above and beyond to support others or complete incredible achievements.

Nominations will close on 5th September so we would really like to get this advertised soon to allow time for anyone to complete the nomination process.

The information poster is downloadable here:

We are keen to encourage the community to put in a nomination for someone (or group) who has had a huge contribution to the community this year.

There are several category descriptions and further information found on the website

We are really excited to see what your community has to offer and the nominations that come in.

Kind regards

Olivia Walker
Event and Communities Support Officer, South Norfolk Council

In this Parish, if you have a phone, you are very likely to receive regular scam calls. Thankfully they don’t seem too sophisticated mostly. You’ll have heard the delayed robotic voice telling you your internet’s going to be cut off on a regular basis, and hung up.

But would you hang up as readily if it was a real person ringing you and telling you the same thing? It’s not always obvious. See below for some info from the Neighbourhood Watch Network which might just save you a load of money.

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The Neighbourhood Watch Network are running weekly webinars in July to expose the truths behind scams.

The webinars are FREE to attend and are open to anyone who would like to know more about scams, the psychology behind scams, prevention and how a fraud case is investigated.

The webinars bring together experts in their field relating to online fraud, a topic which we are all too familiar with and can affect anyone and everyone, as our lives are played out more digitally.

You can find out more and register for the webinars here >

www.ourwatch.org.uk/webinars