eNewsletter 15th May 2016

eNewsletter

AT A GLANCE – WHAT’S ON IN MINSTEAD MAY/JUNE 2016

Traditional Bread Making from 10am Mon 16th May Study Centre

Italian Bread Making from 10am Tues 17th May Study Centre

Charity Race Night 8.30pm Fri 20th May Trusty Servant

Earth Fest 10am Sun 22nd May Study Centre

Pre-school fun “Dress as a Fairy or Elf” 23rd May Furzey Gardens

Beat Surgery 9.30am Wed 25th May Village Shop

Minstead Makers 6pm Thurs 26th May Furzey Gardens

Spring Bank Holiday Mon 30th May

Children’s half term fun at Furzey Gardens 31st May-3rd June

Parish Council meeting Mon 6th June 7.30pm Old Surgery

Women on Wednesdays Wed 8th June Green Room

See below or the Village website for further details of these and future events.

MINSTEAD OIL

Please place your order for oil in May by 9am this Wednesday 18th May at minsteadoil@gmail.com.

The next order dates are 20th July and 21st September

ALL SAINTS CHURCH

See All Saints Notices 15th May 2016 for services and events.

 ACTIVITIES AT FURZEY GARDENS

23rd May: pre-school “Dress as a Fairy or Elf in the Gardens”

  Come and meet other fairies and elves dressed to impress in the Gardens; take a photo and send it in by 27th May to zak.khdir@minsteadtt.org and we will enter you into our Facebook photo competition.  The winner will win a personalised Fairy Door! Normal garden entrance donation applies.

31stMay-3rd June – Children’s Fun Half Term Activity in the Bug Barn

Plant a sunflower seed and decorate your own pot to take home to see how tall it grows. £3 (includes a drink and biscuit in the Gallery Coffee Shop).  Normal Garden entrance donation applies. Parent/Guardian supervision required.

Visit http://www.furzey-gardens.org/ for further information.

 ADVICE FOR OWNERS OF PROPERTY ADJOINING THE OPEN FOREST

If you have recently moved into a property that adjoins the open forest then there a number of bits of advice that will enable you to help preserve the New Forest and the areas of it that are grazed by New Forest ponies and cattle.

These are summarised in a recently published New Forest National Park Authority leaflet which can be read on line by clinking here or obtained from the Village Shop or any other NPA Information Point. They include:

  • How to protect your garden
  • How you can help preserve the New Forest character
  • Information about boundaries
  • How hedges can help wildlife
  • Considerate lighting
  • How to help keeping ponies healthy (e.g. do not feed them!)
  • The need to protect verges and parking with care
  • Cesspit and septic tank maintenance
  • Contact details for all the various organisations from which you can obtain further information

 PLANNING APPLICATIONS

The following planning applications for Minstead are out for consultation:

 No:              16/00103

Location:      Land opposite the House in the Trees, Emery Down, Lyndhurst,

SO43 7GA

Proposal:      Manege

Consultation

Period ends: Thurs 2nd June 2016

 Further information can be obtained by visiting http://publicaccess.newforestnpa.gov.uk/online-applications/ or directly from NPA Offices at Lymington Town Hall.

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