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Co-Op is trialling a ban on free plastic bags
In case you haven’t noticed yet, the Co-op are doing a trial ban on free plastic bags – great news, and all thanks to Jo Baldwin!
However, the counter staff are getting lots of flack from disgruntled people used to using free bags on every visit. I think we can support the ban in becoming permanent by voicing our support for it, and sympathising with the till staff who have to put up with verbal abuse during this period. Hopefully the staff themselves will then be more likely to want to continue the ban when the trial period is up.
8th to 14th May AMAZING STITCHES
An exhibition of contemporary textile art and mixed media at Ashton Court Estate Visitor Centre. 10.00 - 17.00
Best Kept Road
The Best Kept Road and Cul-de-Sac Competition will again take place in June/July. This year there will be a new category - a "Nominated Best Kept Garden" shield. Any resident can nominate an individual address (but not your own) and all nominations must be sent to the Clerk by 7th July. You may nominate one garden.
Newsletter Delivery
We need people to deliver the village newsletter in the following roads:
Brocks Lane
64 houses in Long Ashton Road
Tydings Close
Offers to the Clerk, please.
Petition against proposed development
There is an online petition against proposed development in the Long Ashton valley and around Ashton and Yanley.
We are told that 10,500 new homes are to built locally, much in undeveloped and current greenbelt land between Long Ashton and Ashton. Once developed, this open space, hedgerows, fields and woodland will be
gone for ever.
Please add your support by signing the on-line petition. Go to http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/YANLEIGHHOUSES/ to sign up. Please feel free to send the link onto as many local people as possible.
If you're looking for the official parish council site, you'll find it at www.longashtonparishcouncil.gov.uk (site opens in new window).