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Winter is a testing time for families affected by the invisible but devastating scourge of mental illness.

For a lot of people there is a stigma attached to the subject, and it almost seems  taboo to draw attention to it. But the harsh reality is that over the course of our lives 1 in 4 of us will have experience of some form of mental illness, either ourselves or within our family. That has been the case for me, which is why I am helping to raise funds for the Mental Health charity Mind, by running in the London Marathon.

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http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/marathonforMind I hope you can support me in this effort.   Clive Thompson email : clivecarol@googlemail.com

I dont know about anyone else but i have had enough of the editing style in the bulletin. The comments and language betray the biased prejudices of the editor and none of the facts.  For example in the most recent article the editor describes the members of the Campden society as vandals! He then goes on to suggest that Griggs, the founder of the society would turn in his grave over the societies plans to build a car park on an old Orchard!
First and foremost the society is clearly not led by vandals because the vast majority of the site is being preserved for the school to use. Secondly Griggs built his own house on Kingcombe lane on an Orchard! Thirdly it sounds to me like there are no plans to build anything on the orchard without the members voting. I for one think a new surgery is vital for the town!  I think the “editor” needs to curb his language and get his facts straight

Stratford’s planning committee met last night at Stratford Town Hall (Sheep Street) to decide on St Modwen’s ‘Masterplan’ planning proposal at Long Marston. The whole hybrid proposal has been recommended en bloc for approval by the planning officers of Stratford District Council. St Modwen will go ahead with this proposal if the Ecotown does not get government approval (decision on this still with the Housing Minister).

The joint parish working group that have been looking into the proposal are against it, particularly the proposed 500 houses (in addition to the 300 holiday homes, employment and leisure sections) which we feel are unsustainable and contrary to policy CTY18. Joan Matthews (Long Marston) and Mike Walsby (Quinton) plus Mike Brain (Ward Member) and Andy Murphy (Stansgate Planning) will all be speaking against the proposal.

What are your thoughts on this matter?…How will this affect/advantage to Campden?

The Chipping Campden Area Partnership was formed in 2004 to write a community plan for our town identifying priorities for the future.  “The Way Forward” is now nearing completion.  The Action Plan will be published in its final form once you, the members of the local community, have had the opportunity to comment. We want to ensure that the final action plan reflects the needs of the whole community. 

A Need for Local Housing

If a town of Campden’s size is not to go the way of many of our villages in rural areas, then there needs to be more of a commitment for providing local housing for young people. The only way that this can be achieved is for Campden to give up some of it’s precious an yes beautiful surrounding countryside to allow the development of affordable housing which should be specifically built for young people only. Yes, this will reduce some of our beautiful surroundings, however I believe that what makes Campden such a wonderful place is that at the moment we still has a wonderful local community spirit and in order to maintain this we will need to sacrifice some of it’s natural beauty.

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Town Hall

To all Campden residents

Please feel free to blog about the following account of the 14 September meeting in the Town Hall, or email me at clivecarol@googlemail.com

DOVER’S GAMES – 400TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS IN 2012

It was good to see so many new faces for this stage of the planning process, with ages ranged from – my guesstimate – 18 to 80. I was especially glad that India Sessarago played such a positive part in the discussions. She is Chair of the new Chipping Campden Youth Council, and there were other past and present pupils of CC School at the meeting as well.

The following sent their apologies but will remain involved : Jane Glennie, Sam Wass, Christine and Peter Watkinson, Bob Wilson, Sue Jepson, Charlie Bennett, Chris Jones, Liz Hodges, Betty Stocker, Tim Sexton, Marilyn Cox and Paul Rutter. (more…)

Traffic

5 days a week at roughly the same time (when school finishes) the traffic in Campden becomes ridiculously busy for obvious reasons…but what is more frightening is the speed the buses come at you as you meander through the traffic, often not giving a blind bit of notice as they scrape past you. I just have a gut feeling that there is an accident waiting to happen and something should be done to address the traffic flow between 3pm and 4.30pm.   On a sunny day when the tourists arrive (yay!!) it’s even worse!  It needs to be addressed…

Light Pollution

Well I have seen the new plans for the recreatin ground in Campden but have a point to make. It would appear that the tennis club has no means to expand its facilities given the location of the hockey pitch….not only this, if the tennis club did expand, this would add to the existing light pollution caused by the flood lights.

Please Don't!

I am constantly appauled whenever I come across rubbish left by people in the countryside. In my opinion they are so un-deserving of having the pleasurable experience of the countryside if all they have to do in thanks is leave their plastic bags, rubbish and bottles strewn all across our beautful Cotswold scenery…all those in favour say aye!

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