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Anstey Gala Saturday 6th September 2014
Summer is back and once again the Anstey Gala is just around the corner! Be there on Saturday 6th September, 12pm onwards on the Recreation Ground, Anstey to experience a great fun filled afternoon with entertainment running throughout for all the family. This years gala will be jam-packed with local talent from dance groups, the Anstey Swifts junior football, Jane's Groovy Movers and much more including this years arena headline act the Extreme Mountain Bike Show! UK and Europe's number one mountain bike demonstration team! We will also be on the hunt to find Anstey's Champion Dog for another year in the Fun Dog Show arena! And of course have a vast array of activities and stalls to choose from, from bungee trampolines to hook-a-duck! This year we are also introducing Craft Corner, an area of stalls to support small local businesses selling fantastic craft items at only £20 per stall booking. If you would be interested in stalls of either charity, craft or commercial nature, performing or have any ideas for the Gala commitee please email ansteygala@aol.co.uk.
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Residents of Anstey, we are pleased to announce that Cllr David Snartt has managed to secure a visit by your local MP Rt. Hon. Stephen Dorrell. Mr Dorrell will be coming to the village to host a question and answer session at Jubilee Hall! You can let him know your feelings and concerns over the unsolicited housing developments and associated planning applications that we are fighting. Your questions to Mr Dorrell will be most important and will we are sure show the strength of feeling within the village. Would you like to ask a specific question? Please let us know so that we can add it to the agenda or if you are of the shy persuasion, allow ‘Save Anstey’ to ask on your behalf. If you want help in setting your question or want any other help please contact SaveAnstey@gwkw.co.uk. The meeting will take place at THE JUBILEE HALL on Friday 1st August at 7pm. Spaces will be limited so turn up early. On to the outstanding applications: The application for the Bradgate Road site was resubmitted in March, this time for 19 houses but still including the demolition of the property on Bradgate Road to create access to the development. The closing date for comments was 25 April and the Council again received an even higher number of letters of objection. The developers, however, have been allowed to make further changes to the design and resubmit another amended layout. Anyone who commented on the previous scheme will have received a letter from the Planning Department explaining this. All comments previously received by the Council will still be considered. It does seem frustrating that in spite of the strong response there has been from the local community and further afield against this scheme, that the developers are able to keep amending their plans. Gynsill Lane - Awaiting a Section 106 legal agreement on footpath upgrade. All remaining developments are with Planning Officers under consideration, although LCC Highways are considering whether improvements can be made which would overcome their objection to the Cropston Road development. Let’s hope they don’t.
Yes, we must keep FIGHTING
Wanted 30 anstey householders Wanted 30 Anstey householders who would be willing to let us dig a small test pit in their back garden, a hole just one metre square by one metre deep. Early history remains something of a mystery in Anstey and there are clues waiting to be discovered in back gardens around the village. Beneath the earth are objects left behind by the people who lived in Anstey hundreds, even thousands of years ago. For more information please see page 12
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