About Wrinehill

 The Stroud Water Research Centre has been encouraging people to bury their cotton underwear, since this will improve the condition of the soil in your garden/allotment/field.  However the underwear needs to be 100 per cent cotton for the microbes in the soil to be interested in recycling.  It seems that there are billions of hungry bacteria, fungi and protozoa (even in a teaspoon of soil)  and they are hungry for carbon - of which cotton contains a lot, we are told. So to improve your soil start planting!  After 60 days the underwear can be dug up to see how much has been eaten.  If completely disintegrated this means that your soil is 'healthy and alive'. Why not give it ago?  This gives a whole new meaning to soiled underwear!!  

 I have just received an anonymous email from someone who thinks that the NBC 'would not create a name'.  Please find below the paragraph in the letter recently received rom NBC prior to the one in the previous post below.  Proposed Street Name: Development on land off Main Road, Wrinehill   'We have received a request for street name & numbering for a new development on land off Main Road / New Road. The development has resulted in the creation of a new street. The street name allocated has been chosen from a previous theme used in the borough, as the site in question did not offer any suitable previous history that isn’t already in use as a street name. The new street name is:   Sixpence Terrace' Make of that what you will. To the person who responded to the Post, many thanks but it would be helpful if responses were not anonymous.  The new houses are not  a terrace - more of a row.  It has been suggested that the name Nelson might b...

 I have just received a response from United Utilities re the dead tree on the corner of the new road to the sewage works.  The letter informs us that: 'Our contractor sought a specialist arboriculturalist to assess the condition of the tree including careful hand excavation to identify the depth of the roots and to create a construction technique that would allow for improvement to the access road whilst protecting the tree. We are very disappointed that the condition of the tree has appeared to deteriorate despite the best endeavours that were employed. We have asked a further arboriculture consultant to visit the site and inspect the tree and provide recommendations for the removal of the tree if deemed necessary.' As the tree is dead and adjacent to the Main Road its removal might be imperative.  Also given that it was a TPO tree it should be replaced with a similar specimen.   An update has been promised. At the moment the road to the sewage works, and the ...

 The former garage site in Wrinehill is coming along and the parish councillors have just been informed that the NBC have created a name for it  - Sixpence Terrace.  We are informed that this has some relevance to the area/borough history although no-one is sure what.   The notification goes on to state: 'There does not appear to be any reason why the suggested name cannot be approved, as it is not in use elsewhere in the borough, as our policy requires. If you are happy with the above choice could you let me have your reply by 8 th September 2023. Should no reply be received by this date I will assume that you have accepted the name.'   As one of the Parish councillors for Wrinehill I thought it might be an idea if parishioners could be asked their view on the name, or if they knew of any local association with Sixpence etc..   Note the deadline!  I look forward to hearing from you.    

  Report on Roads and other issues in Wrinehill in July 2023 This report looked at the Roads in Wrinehill after the recent heavy rains .   If there had been any remedial action re drain unblocking it was not evident.   However, a permanent sign had appeared stating ‘road subject to flooding’ – which these days appears to be most of the time. Flooding These photographs were taken on Friday (14 July).   By Sunday, and more heavy rain, the pool was right across the road, and deep.   It is understood that when the 3-way road traffic control was operating over the last week, this contributed to the build-up of traffic at the junction of the Main Road and Checkley Lane.               From the two photographs below it would appear that water and sludge are coming not from Malt Kiln Farm land but from the temporary road (so called) with its steep incline onto Checkley Lane.   Water is also draining from th...

 I also saw the vandalised noticeboard in the bus shelter outside the village hall.   The notice board was not particularly substantial and was more like a kitchen noticeboard - a cork board within a wooden frame - rather than something fit for purpose.  Nevertheless, damaging it was not a particularly good idea since the notices posted on it provided some light reading whilst waiting for the No 85 bus to arrive.  Beside it was a dead blackbird.  Are we still in a bird flu zone and if so do we report the dead bird?     

I was informed to day by a helpful resident that the tree mentioned below was indeed a TPO Tree  (T4 within the TPO 80 Betley Village Hall).  Perhaps the Chair of the Village Hall Committee would contact either the Borough Council or the Staffordshire County Council to see what should be done about it, in terms of death of a TPO tree and a possible breach of the planning permission/conditions granted given the tree was intended to remain.  United Utilities might also be contacted, if they had commissioned the work to be done to widen the road. It would also be useful to know when the road might be completed (ie its surfacing), when the work on the Sewage works enlargement is going to be completed and when the fence is going to be installed.    Odour has been detected from the sewage plant last week from the main road.  Many thanks.  I was informed today that the mature chestnut tree that some people tried so hard to save from felling has since died....