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8 New Stour & Avon, July 1, 2022
Letters
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Check your water and sewerage bills! My father recently died and, having sold his property, I then needed to deal with the final utility bills. I received both water and sewerage bills through the post at the same time. I was able to compare these in detail and found that the sewerage bill was being charged on a lot higher usage of water than had actually been used. The water bill showed usage of 13 cubic metres and 12 cubic metres but
the sewerage bill showed usage of 34 cubic metres and 31 cubic metres; so an overcharge of 40 cubic metres. I queried this over the phone with the sewerage company; they could not give a reason why this had occurred but I will be receiving an amended bill for the correct amount which will be over half the original amount claimed. Ian O’Hare Wimborne
Reading the letter from CPRE I would like to add my view. As far as I am concerned Dorset has NO planning policy, apart from ruining East Dorset. In seven years they have built at St Leonards Hospital, and now at Verwood, ThreeLegged-Cross. We now have more factories and houses. Wimborne has been completly trashed with back garden grabbing in St Leonards and close by. (When the Tories came into power they said there would be: ‘No back garden grabbing’. We now hear West Parley and Alderholt are next. East Dorset is being ruined by those who have no policy or understanding of how many grasshoppers, crickets, butterflies, insects, reptiles amphibians’, etc, homes they are destroying to allow mostly outsiders into the areas. We have a council the leader
of whom, Mr. Flowers, asked ‘would you like to work from home or work in the office?’ Well we know the answer and it means to get through by phone is sometimes impossible, including queries about planning. We also had a letter to say that council would not put up planning applications on boards, instead it was up to the applicant to tell locals! Please tell us why we should vote for this lot, or any of the others who are ruining our areas and our wildlife. But of course the bottom line is Government and their immigration policy, a policy which, when they came into power, stated only tens of thousands would be able to come here instead of 250,000 to 400,000 a year. So our beautiful East Dorset country side will become a concrete jungle. Thank goodness I will not be around to see it. G Brown Ashley Heath
OFF THE WALL...
Beautiful county is rapidly becoming a concrete jungle
Cartoon by Lyndon Wall justsocaricatures.co.uk
Beware of wayward cyclists
A young mum was on the zebra crossing carrying her toddler across the road from the beach to the cafe opposite. My heart was in my mouth as two cyclists whizzed along without due care or consideration to the pedestrians. My husband shouted out but the cyclists didn’t even slow down. Whilst on a road, cyclists are vehicles and should stop at a zebra crossing when
pedestrians are actually crossing! I asked the mother if she was okay and thankfully they were - although I was a little shaken! On a more positive note it was lovely to see a beautiful clean beach after the mess left by all the visitors at the weekend. My thanks to those who work hard clearing up all the muck. S Finch Ferndown
Coffee mornings suspended for now The weekly Wednesday coffee mornings at West Parley’s Community Sports and Social Club have been suspended whilst repairs are undertaken at the building. Meanwhile, Parley Health
Walks are also not meeting at the clubhouse but informally continuing until the Community Sports and Social Club re-opens. More details from westparley-pc.gov.uk/
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