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All welcome. Monday 6 September 2021, 7.30pm, Alpington Village Hall. 7.15pm for refreshments!

Come and hear about your Parish Council’s activities for the past year and the future, and learn about the clubs, groups and societies in our community.

Apologies for the previous post having the wrong venue, it’s now to be held at the village hall, due to the pub being closed.

The Friends of St. Mary’s Church are holding a coffee morning on Saturday 21st August, with other things also for sale, and a raffle. Entry is free.

Click the image or button below to download the flyer:

This weekend there is an opportunity to chat to our local police safer Neighbourhood team, as they are out and about on Sunday 15th Aug.

The closest one for us would be the 11am outside Poringland Budgens, before they move on to Trowse for 1pm.

If you see them you can stop and have a chat and let them know of any local concerns or issues.

Please see details on the attached poster and please feel free to share and distribute it.

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:

…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:

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