September newsletter

Home-watch

We’ve made contact with the Home-watch co-ordinator and he is going to start sending us their alert messages. We will put them on the website and will also forward them on to residents that are potentially affected by them.

Meet the new Chief Executive

A date for your diary: on Thursday 27^th October at 7.30pm at The Hall on the Hill, Marlow Drive, David McIntosh the new CBC-East Dorset Chief Executive will be attending our public meeting.
If there’s an issue you would like him to address please let us know by 1^st October

To clear or not to clear – that is the question

Should residents clear snow from (a) their own driveway and (b) the pavement outside their house? Some say no – if you touch it you can be sued if somebody subsequently falls over. Others say that’s an old wives’ tale – you should do the neighbourly thing.

Given the summer we’ve just experienced we decided to prepare for winter and to ask CBC for a legal opinion which, after some consideration, they gave. You can read the whole thing on the website www.wcresidents.co.uk but the essence of it is – don’t clear it away. If you do and somebody then falls over they can sue for compensation if they can prove you were negligent – and who needs that to cope with on top of everything else.

Pretty Pictures

In preparation for the public consultation on the management plan for St Catherine’s Hill we’ve taken some photographs of some of the key features that the plan will address. They are accompanied by a short commentary that highlights the main points of interest. You’ll find them on the website www.wcresidents.co.uk

Whilst we were taking the snaps we spied local folk throwing acorns over the south side of the hill (where ARC chopped down all the trees). Can’t imagine what that’s all about.

It’s all happening

Quiz night- including a fish and chip supper - on Saturday the 10th September at 7.30 pm, doors open 7.00 pm at The Hall on the Hill. You can buy tickets priced at £6 on their website www.hallonthehill.org.uk which also has details of other forthcoming events.
Tea-Dance– these recommence on Tuesday 13^th September at 2.30pm also at the Hall on the Hill
History on the Hill– Friends of St Catherine’s Hill are organising their annual History and Archaeology day on Sunday 18th September from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm. Demonstrations of traditional activities that locals have indulged in will be demonstrated in the vicinity of the concrete reservoirs. The wearing of woad is optional. For more details please call: 01425 272479