Sunday 29th December 2019

4.30pm- 6.00pm

Gilston & Eastwick Village Hall

Join us for Crafts, Hot Food & Family Fun

(Open to children 2-16 years, please bring an adult)

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE

EASTWICK AND GILSTON PARISH NEXT COUNCIL MEETING

WILL BE ON MONDAY 9TH DECEMBER 2019

AT 8.00PM 

VILLAGE HALL, PYE CORNER

THURSDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2019

VILLAGE HALL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING

7.30PM

VILLAGE HALL, PYE CORNER

ALL RESIDENTS ARE MOST WELCOME TO JOIN US.

WE WILL MEET AT

ST MARY'S CHURCH, GILSTON (CM20 2RJ)

FOR A SOUP AND SANDWICH LUNCH AT

12.30PM

(FOLLOWING OUR 11.15AM SERVICE)

THEN SET OFF FOR A 1HR CIRCULAR WALK

AT 1PM,

ALL ARE WELCOME

DOGS NOT REQUIRED

WELLIES RECOMMENDED!

Hunsdon, Eastwick and Gilston (HEG) Neighbourhood Plan

The East Herts District Plan provides for 10,000 homes to be built in the Gilston Area, as a result of the Green Belt being removed. In exchange for the release of our Green Belt land, we were promised development of exceptional quality and 1,000 acres of community owned open space.

The residents of Hunsdon, Eastwick and Gilston have joined forces and formed a Neighbourhood Plan Group to engage with the developers and authorities in order to represent the local communities and safeguard the communities’ interests.

We need your support and encouragement again to make sure this happens.

We have written an Explanatory Note and a Draft HEG Neighbourhood Plan building on the Concept Framework, which include your views from previous workshops and consultations, as well as professional advice from experts.

By having an agreed Neighbourhood Plan it can be used to influence the key design and infrastructure decisions for the Gilston Area. Legally, developers will have to pay attention to our Neighbourhood Plan when putting forward their final planning applications and any planning decisions will have to give due consideration to it.

It's a real chance for our community to shape the future of our neighbourhood and the proposed development.

We want to capture the views of the whole community and invite you to give your comments and feedback before we develop the Plan further.

 You can read the full draft Plan here and the Explanatory Note here

Paper copies will also be available at The Plume of Feathers in Gilston, The Lion in Eastwick, St Mary's Church in Gilston, St Botolph's Church in Eastwick, Hunsdon Village Hall (meeting room - during surgery hours Monday and Friday mornings), and from Neighbourhood Plan Group members.

Our consultation period runs for six weeks from September 14th to October 26th.

We need you to input your support and comments at the consultation sessions or in writing with a letter or email.

We hope that you and members of your household will join one of our upcoming public consultation sessions:

September 14th
St Mary's Church, Gilston

10am-1pm with a presentation at 11am
Gilston Lane, Gilston, CM20 2RJ

September 21st
Hunsdon Village Hall

3pm-6pm with a presentation at 5pm
45 High Street, Hunsdon, Ware, SG12 8NJ

September 28th
St Botolph's Church, Eastwick

10am-1pm with a presentation at 11am
Eastwick Hall Lane, Eastwick, CM20 2QY

If you can't make it to any of the sessions, you can still let your voice be heard.

Please email: feedback@hegnp.org.uk, or post/hand-deliver your response to: Hunsdon, Eastwick and Gilston Neighbourhood Plan Group, c/o Channocks Farm, Gilston Nr Harlow, CM20 2RL

The Hertfordshire (Temporary Closing and Temporary Waiting Restrictions in Various Roads in Stanstead Abbots, Eastwick, St Margarets, Hoddesdon, Great Amwell, Rush Green and Ware) Order 2019

DOG WALK

SUNDAY 25^TH AUGUST

3.00PM

FROM

ST BOTOLPH’S, CHURCH

FOR A CICULAR WALK AND RETURN TO THE CHURCH FOR TEA AND CAKE AND A CHAT.

EVERYONE YOUNG AND OLD ARE WELCOME, WITH OR WITHOUT A DOG.

CanalAbility is seeking to recruit a Chair of Trustees to lead and direct the Board and organisation through our next exciting phase of development. - see below!

If you would like to read Eastwick and Gilston Parish Council and Hunsdon and Eastwick& Gilston Neighbourhood Planning Groups response to Places for People planning applications please go to document archives.

Your response to the Gilston Area Planning Applications

Please, before you go on holiday ………

The Neighbourhood Plan Group is working hard to review and make general representations on the three planning applications made by Places for People. We will publish this shortly and would welcome any endorsements of our viewpoints by you as residents and or businesses.

It is important that, if you have any concerns over the potential impacts of these proposals on your home, access and local facilities that you record these concerns directly with East Herts Council, before 9th August (we know that some of the consultation period is in the peak holiday season and have made the point that running a consultation exercise over late July early August is unhelpful to residents). Now however is the time to make sure your views are known to our Council before they determine the applications.

In essence the applications cover:

The Outline application (quote planning reference number 3/19/1045/OUT)

Seeks to secure the basic agreements for 6 out of the 7 villages planned to be built North of the Stort Valley and the A414 Gilston and comprises up to 8,500 residential homes and facilities. If you live near one of these proposed villages then they, their construction and associated infrastructure may affect your home and or business. The development will be constructed over the next 20 to 30 years.

The Eastern Crossing, (quote planning application reference number 3/19/1051/FUL)

Aims to secure a detailed consent to reroute the A414 from Harlow right through the middle of Pye Corner and Terlings Park into Harlow with a new bridge over the River Stort. It makes Pye Corner a cul-de-sac.

Central Stort Crossing (quote planning application reference number 3/19/1046/FUL)

Widens the existing access and road/rail bridge into Harlow from the Eastwick roundabout and proposes a high-level bridge for pedestrians and cyclists.

Things to possibly think about in any response you make:

• Have you been adequate consulted on the direct impact of these proposals on your home or business?
• Are the new facilities proposed what you would expect?
• Will the building works impact on your home or enjoyment of the local countryside?
• Will the changes to access work for you?

Responses can be made via https://publicaccess.eastherts.gov.uk/ or by letter to East Herts Council Planning Department, Wallfields, Pegs Lane, Hertford SG13 8EQ using the above references.

Full details of these applications can be found at https://publicaccess.eastherts.gov.uk/ using the above references and are available in printed form at East Herts Council Planning Department, Wallfields, Pegs Lane, Hertford SG13 8EQ.

Anthony Bickmore, Neighbourhood Plan Group

17th July 2019

TO GET REGULAR UPDATES AND INFORMATION ON THE GROUP

YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE MAILING LIST AT THIS LINK:

https://tinyletter.com/gilston

SUNDAY 21ST JULY 2019

4.30 - 6.00PM

ST MARY'S CHURCH, GILSTON

Public exhibitions 

Copies of the applications are available to view at both EHC and HC's offices and the councils will be running a series of public exhibitions in July on:

Monday 1^st July at Hunsdon Village Hall, 45 High Street, Hunsdon SG12 8NJ, 4pm-8pm

Tuesday 2^nd July at Eastwick & Gilston Village Hall, Eastwick Road, Gilston CM20 2RB, 4pm-8pm

Thursday 4^th July at Harlow Civic Centre Council Chamber, The Water Gardens, Harlow CM20 1WG, 4pm-8pm

The exhibitions will be drop-in events and officers will be on hand to help explain the planning applications and how members of the public can have their say on them. 

Following master planning with the community, more detailed planning applications will come forward on each of the villages.

APPLICATION:         3/19/1046/FUL (Harlow Council Reference HW/CRB/19/00220)

PROPOSAL:  Alterations to the existing Fifth Avenue road/rail bridge, and creation of new bridges to support the widened highway to west of the existing structure to create the Central Stort Crossing, including embankment works, pedestrian and cycle facilities, a pedestrian and cycle bridge over Eastwick Road, lighting and landscaping works and other associated works

AT:      Land Adjacent To Fifth Avenue Existing Eastwick Crossing Hertfordshire/Harlow

APPLICATION:         3/19/1051/FUL & 3/19/1049/LBC (Harlow Council Reference HW/CRB/19/00221)

PROPOSAL:  Erection of a new road, pedestrian and cycle bridge; alterations to an existing rail bridge at River Way; alterations to the existing local highway network; lighting and landscaping works; listed building works to Fiddlers Brook Bridge; and other associated works

AT:      Land To The South And East Of Gilston Village And North Of River Gilston Hertfordshire/Harlow

APPLICATION:         3/19/1045/OUT

PROPOSAL:  Outline planning with all matters reserved apart from external vehicular access for the redevelopment of the site through the demolition of existing buildings and erection of a residential led mixed use development comprising up to 8,500 residential homes including market and affordable homes; retirement homes and extra care facilities; a range of community uses including primary and secondary schools, health centres and nursery facilities; retail and related uses; leisure facilities; business and commercial uses; open space and public realm; sustainable urban drainage systems; utility and energy facilities and infrastructure; waste management facilities; vehicular bridge links; creation of new vehicular and pedestrian accesses into the site, and creation of a new vehicular, pedestrian and cycle network within the site; improvements to the existing highway and local road network; undergrounding and diversion of power lines; lighting; engineering works, infrastructure and associated facilities; together with temporary works or structures required by the development.

AT:      Land North of the Stort Valley and the A414 Gilston Hertfordshire

WE WILL BE HOLDING A SERVICE OF MORNING PRAYER AT 9.30AM AT ST MARY'S GILSTON

FOLLOWED BY A COFFE MORNING AT 10.15AM UNTIL 12 NOON

EASTWICK AND GILSTON PARISH COUNCIL

HERTFORDSHIRE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION OF UNAUDITED ANNUAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN

ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2019

Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 26 and 27

The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)

Hunsdon, Eastwick and Gilston Neighbourhood Plan Group response to the pre-application consultation held by the applicants Places for People and City & Provincial Properties.

This letter has been sent to Places for People / City & Provincial Properties, East Herts Council, Gilston & Harlow Garden Town Board, Herts County Council, East Herts Council election candidates and Mark Prisk.

PLACES FOR PEOPLE AND CITY & PROVINICAL PROPERTIES EVENT

FRIDAY 15^TH MARCH

6PM – 8PM

VILLAGE HALL, PYE CORNER, GILSTON

ANNUAL PANCAKE PARTY

TUESDAY 5TH MARCH 2019

MONDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2019

GILSTON AND EASTWICK VILLAGE HALL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

8.00PM

VILLAGE HALL, PYE CORNER

COMMUNITY DOG WALK

SUNDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2019

HARLOW AND GILSTON GARDEN TOWN VISION HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BY COUNCILS

Hunsdon, Eastwick and Gilston Neighbourhood Plan Group (HEGNPG)

January 2019 update

A414 Corridor  Strategy Consultation can be found on:

www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/consultations

SCHOOL BUS SERVICE SURVEY   - EASTWICK AND GILSTON

Do you have children that attend schools in High Wych, Sawbridgeworth or Bishops Stortford?

The Parish Council is working with other local parishes and towns to assess the feasibility of implementing self-funded school bus services to High Wych, Sawbridgeworth and surrounding villages.

To help us understand current demand within our parish please answer the following questions and email your response to Christine Law, Parish Clerk: christine.law2@btinternet.com

WORKING TOGETHER TO COMBAT FLYTIPPING

Fly tipping is a blight on the lovely landscape of Hertfordshire so working with our partners, we’ve been campaigning to make making sure everyone is aware of their responsibilities when disposing of waste.

Led by the Hertfordshire Fly tipping Group, we’re encouraging everyone to be vigilant and inform their local council of any fly-tipping in their area, or to report any suspicion of fly-tipping activity.

Reporting fly tipping

You can report fly tipping to East Herts Council at www.eastherts.gov.uk/flytipping, email enquiries@eastherts.gov.uk or phone 01279 655261 (Mon-Fri, 9-5pm)

Statement of the Leader of the Council regarding the Adoption of the District Plan

At 2.15 pm, the Director of Planning at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government notified the Chief Executive of East Hertfordshire District Council that the Secretary of State, Rt. Hon James Brokenshire MP has today issued a holding direction under section 21a of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (inserted by section 145(5) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016) on the adoption of the East Herts District Plan, due to be adopted this evening.

hertfordshire county council

The Hertfordshire (Temporary Traffic Management Measures on Various Roads in Barwick, Stanstead Abbotts, Ardeley, Benington, Epping Green, Hertford, Bramfield, Brickendon, Bayford, Eastwick, Watton at Stone, Hare Street, Wareside, Ware, Turnford, Wormley, Hoddesdon, Cheshunt, Throcking, Great Hormead and Burnham Green) Order 2018

NOTICE is given that the Hertfordshire County Council intends to make an Order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the effect on the following lengths of roads (“the Roads”) will be:-

Hunsdon, Eastwick and Gilston Neighbourhood Plan Group (HEGNPG)

Greatly disappointed by the Inspector’s Approval of the East Herts District Plan to build 10,000 homes in Hunsdon, Eastwick and Gilston, after two-year battle.

To view the Government Inspectors Report go to: www.eastherts.gov.uk/districtplanexamination.

• The East Herts District Plan was subject to an Examination in Public with hearing sessions held between October 2017 and January 2018 followed by a period of public consultation on the Main Modifications agreed through the Examination between February and March 2018.
• Following this, the Inspector has issued her Final Report on the Examination of the East Herts District Plan on the 9th July 2018. 
• The Report on the Examination of the East Herts District Plan 2011-2033 [257KB]
• Schedule of Main Modifications [3MB]
• Covering Letter [65KB]
• Hard copies of each document will be available for public inspection during normal office hours at the East Herts Council Offices in Hertford and Bishop's Stortford, town council offices and in libraries across the district from 17th July.
• Statement of Availability [48KB]

 Be part of the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town Vision

Harlow Council, Epping Forest District Council and East Herts Council will be hosting events throughout July to unveil the first look of the vision for the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town.

The Harlow and Gilston Garden Town Vision sets out the commitment from all involved councils, including Hertfordshire and Essex County Councils, to deliver a high-quality Garden Town with a strong sense of community, a mix of housing in villages and neighbourhoods to suit all budgets and a wide range of facilities and jobs for new and existing residents.

To give everyone an opportunity to provide their input and feedback before it is finalised, events are being held in Harlow, Epping and Gilston to welcome as many people as possible

The events:

Harlow Civic Centre, Water Gardens, Harlow, Essex CM20 1WG

Monday 2 July – Friday 6 July and Monday 9 July - Friday 13 July, 9am- 4.45pm there will be a static exhibition at Harlow Civic Centre

Monday 9 July, 4pm- 8pm, there will be a drop in event with project team members on hand to answer any questions.

Epping Forest Civic Office, High Street, Epping, Essex CM16 4BZ

Monday 2 July- Friday 6 July and Monday 9 July - Friday 13 July, 9am- 5pm there will be a static exhibition at the Epping Forest Council Civic Offices

Thursday 5 July, 4pm-8pm there will be a drop in event with project team members on hand to answer any questions.

Gilston and Eastwick Village Hall, Gilston, Herts CM20 2RB

Thursday 12 July, 4pm- 8pm there will be a drop in event with project team members on hand to answer any questions.

Claire Hamilton, Director, Harlow and Gilston Garden Town said:

“We are really excited to share our Vision for the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town with you. This Vision demonstrates our commitment to deliver a successful Garden Town with existing and new communities at its heart.

We do hope you can join us at one of these events to share with us your thoughts on this Vision. This is your opportunity to start shaping the future of the Garden Town.”

ENDS

Consultation materials will be available on the individual Council websites together with a feedback form, for completion by 5pm on Friday 27 July. Feedback forms to be returned to either harlowandgilston@am-up.com or the Garden Town Team at Epping Forest District Council, Civic Offices, 323 High Street, Epping, CM16 4BZ.

East Herts have updated their District Plan Examination - Latest News and Updates with the following:

www.eastherts.gov.uk/article/35049/Latest-News-and-Updates

HUNSDON, EASTWICK AND GILSTON NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN GROUP

RESPONSE TO THE GILSTON AREA HIGHWAYS - OPTIONS IN PYE CORNER EVENT 

MONDAY 21ST MAY 2018 LEBD BY PLACES FOR PEOPLE

COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE REVIEW OF EASTWICK AND GILSTON PARISH COUNCIL

HAVE YOUR SAY

EAST HERTS DISTRUCT COUNCIL IS CARRYING OUT A COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE REVIEW OF EASTWICK AND GILSTON PARISH COUNCIL.  ALL LOCAL RESIDENTS AND ORGANISATIONS ARE INVITED TO GIVE THEIR VIEWS.

Hunsdon, Eastwick & Gilston

Neighbourhood Plan Group (HEGNPG) Update March 2018

Saving our Green Belt and Villages

HERTFORDSHIRE’S LOCAL TRANSPORT PLAN

LTP4 (November 2017)

Consultation Response by Eastwick & Gilston Parish Council (E&GPC)

Eastwick & Gilston Parish Council fully endorses the comments made by Hunsdon Parish Council

The new Eastwick & Gilston Community website has been launched.

The new website includes lots of information about the Parish Council and the local area. Read on to find out more.