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East Boreham Residents Action Group (EBRAG) Update January 2013

Saturday 12th January 2013

Latest news on the ‘Stop The Development at Home Farm, Boreham’ Campaign, from EBRAG, courtesy of Nick Parker ~

Happy New Year to you all.

EBRAG is continuing its campaign to prevent the proposed development of Home Farm by Hallam Land Management, on behalf the land owners, by:

Raising awareness to a wider community through a combined local, regional and national media campaign and by distributing 1700 flyers in Dec to East Warminster and local villages.

Opening EBRAG website: www.ebrag.org.uk

Continuing to gather and collate all relevant information to fight the proposal.

Attending and speaking at various town council and county area board planning meetings.

Continuing to meet and discuss our concerns with a wide group of interested bodies, including our local MP, Dr Andrew Murrison, who is publically very supportive.

EBRAG has decided to seek professional help to draw together into coherent argument the vast amount of information gathered and provide a legal framework from which to fight this speculative proposal. Unfortunately fees will require payment. As such, there is therefore a need to create a “fighting fund’. While a challenging time of year to fundraise, it is something that we must begin now.

Any contribution you may wish to make can be made through a Bank Transfer or by cheque made payable to EBRAG and sent to any committee member. Alternatively you can contribute via the EBRAG website through PayPal, although PayPal do deduct a percentage fee from your contribution. If you need advice or wish to discuss please contact me on 07801-815463. The amount of any individual contribution will remain anonymous. Any surplus funds remaining after the dissolution of EBRAG will be given or transferred to charitable institutions that share the same aims in protecting our rural heritage.

In addition, we aim to start a petition campaign as soon as possible. Volunteers will shortly be making house calls gathering signatures; anyone willing to assist please contact Trish Thompson, 01985-217238, twooldthompos@me.com or through the web site at info@ebrag.org.uk If you wish to donate cash, our volunteers will be happy to collect it from you then.

EBRAG is also very keen to hear from any professional who can assist with the campaign – especially those who can provide advice directly and/or those with further contacts capable of raising awareness and keeping our concerns in the public eye. I have attached the latest poster for those wishing to display it.

There will be a further public meeting in early spring (for those separately notified, the meeting on Thurs 24 Jan 13 is cancelled). We will inform you of the date and venue as soon as they are confirmed.

Meanwhile, please continue to write to MPs, Town and Wiltshire Councillors, Wiltshire Planning Department, the press – local and national – as well as the many authorities, bodies and organisations affected by this proposal. It is imperative the communities concerns and continued opposition are kept foremost in everyone’s mind. EBRAG believes we are representing local community opinion and therefore rely on your continued support, help, advice and views. Please also continue to pass on local information relating to this proposal, much so far has been invaluable.

Nick Parker – Phone 07801-815463

On Top Of The Hill (The Dream)

Sunday 6th January 2013

dannyhowell.net readers will no doubt recall a poem published here at the end of October 2012, by Rikardo, called The Tranquil And Beautiful Battlesbury (Our Land, Our Hill), which he wrote in protest against plans to develop the fields of Home Farm, Boreham, into a massive housing estate. The poem was well received and was likened to a rallying call for the Stop The Development Of Home Farm protestors. Rikardo, who is rapidly becoming “The Bard of Boreham” has now written the lyrics to a song he calls On Top Of The Hill (The Dream), which he says was inspired by the view from Battlesbury (or ‘The Lyric Factory’ as he refers to it). This would-be anthem for the people features between verses one and two a suggested instrumental ‘cacophany’, which Rikardo describes as similar to the crescendo near the end of A Day In The Life, the final track on The Beatles 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Rikardo’s song could easily conclude with a reprise of his suggested instrumental, maybe lasting several minutes. Maybe a budding composer out there could come up with the music?

On Top Of The Hill (The Dream)

As I sit on top of the hill
It’s a good place to be
It’s a good place to chill
I look high into the sky
Knowing some day that I’m gonna die
But being here
Is all about living
In God’s beautiful world
Who is so renowned for giving
And then I look down
To the fields and the ground
There’s a breaking of silence
There’s a gathering of sound

Instrumental (3 minutes):
An avant-garde ~ classical/orchestral ~ upheaval. A clash between the musicians and their instruments, creating a non-melodic rumpus, replicating the breaking of a silence, to the gathering of sound.

Humans in helmets
Vehicles and machinery of all colours
Yellow orange red white and blue
Ripping up the land (without mercy!)
To a plan full of folly that’s so outrageous
Drawn out by an arrogant and narrow-minded
Bunch of hypocrites
Better known as the Motley Crew

Opening my eyes
And getting my head together
I sigh with relief
Knowing I’d only been dreaming
But sometimes our dreams
Can become reality
Sometimes so beautiful
Complete and true
And there are times when our dreams
Become a living nightmare
Check it out
And be aware of what’s happening around you

Decision On Sutton Veny Poultry Farm Deferred

Thursday 6th December 2012

Although Wiltshire Council recently recommended approval for a chicken farm at Deverill Road, between Sutton Veny and Longbridge Deverill, the decision has now been deferred. The chicken farm, proposed by the 2 Sisters Food Group, was to raise over 200,000 birds at a time, on a site previously used for the same purpose but on a lesser scale. The application met with strong opposition from local residents, with 140 letters of objection and 400 names on a petition. For the latest information on the deferred decision see the BBC News Wiltshire website, click here.

Protesting With Poetry

Sunday 28th October 2012:

Rikardo, anxiously moved by the threat of a speculative developer to build houses on Home Farm, at Boreham, which in turns threatens the peace and tranquility of Battlesbury Hill which overlooks the area, has sent us this poem he has written. He says “I’m concerned about all these houses and the cars this development will bring, and the pollution that will result.” Encouraging everyone to take a pro-active stand against the development, he adds: “Revolution provokes and prolongs decision, giving a voice to the people and alternative choice.”

The Tranquil And Beautiful Battlesbury
(Our Land, Our Hill)

We’re saying no to the houses
To the overspill
The cars and the pollution
And anything that threatens
To spoil or kill
The tranquil and beautiful Battlesbury
Our land, Our hill.

It’s all about the big money
The fat wallets and the till
A tale of greed on overflow
From the topping of your fill.
Just let it be
Listen and see
What we’re all standing for
You won’t shut us up
You won’t shut us out
We’ll keep hammering hard
Breaking down your door
Forever into eternity.

Long may we continue
To give peace a chance
To the tranquil and beautiful Battlesbury
Our land, Our hill.

Battlesbury Hill, photographed by Danny Howell.
The view looks north from Home Farm at Boreham.

Open Farm Sunday At Cools Farm

Cools Farm at East Knoyle, south of Warminster, SP3 6DB, will be open to the public on Open Farm Sunday, 17th June 2012, from 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. There’s a chance to meet the animals, take part in a hosted farm tour and self-guided walks, and refreshments will be available.

Farm Features:
Beef, Poultry, Flowers and plants, Environmental stewardship.

Activities: See Red Poll cattle and calves, chickens and chicks, woodland nature trails, history and landscape trail, soup lunch, barbecue Red Poll beefburgers and sausages, cream teas on the farmhouse lawn. Various competitions.

Directions: 6 miles north of Shaftesbury off A350 – right at Millbrook Lane, signposted West Tisbury, left at first crossroads, Cools Farm is 1 mile on right. 2 miles south of Hindon – at bottom of High Street turn right, after 1.8 miles turn right down hill.

Email: sunday@coolsfarm.co.uk

Telephone: 01747 830720

Website: www.BoxBeef.com

To help give an idea for numbers, it would be helpful if you could email sunday@coolsfarm.co.uk or ring 01747 830720 to say if you are planning to visit. Thank you.For more details visit: www.farmsunday.org

Shearing Sheep At Hanging Langford

Tuesday 22nd May 2012

Some photographs taken by Danny Howell, showing sheep
belonging to the Hinton family of Warminster,
being sheared at Hanging Langford
on the afternoon of Tuesday 22nd May 2012.

Results Of Wilts Angling Open

The results of the Wilts Angling Open, held at Eden Vale, Westbury, on Sunday 29th April 2012, are as follows (top placings):

1st, Dave Baker, Trowbridge, 28lb (carp and skimmer).
2nd, Roland Lucas, Frome, 21lb 12 oz.
3rd, Pete Neate, Holt, 17lb 12oz.
4th, Andy Pritchard, Westbury, 12lb 8oz.
5th, Mick Withey, Westbury, 10lb 10oz.
6th, Mick Martin, Trowbridge, 8lb 2oz.

Live System Bait At J. & K. Burton, Warminster

An A-board advertising C.C. Moore’s Live System bait for anglers, outside J. & K. Burton,
the animal feed merchants,
at The Old Warehouse, 13 Weymouth Street,
Warminster, BA12 9NP.

The photograph was taken by Danny Howell
on the afternoon of Friday 27th April 2012.

J. &. K. Burton, telephone number: 01985 219602.

C.C. Moore, telephone: 01963 362234
www.ccmoore.com/

mail@ccmoore.net

Farm Machinery Sale At Boyton Manor Farm, Corton

Cooper & Tanner are holding a genuine public auction dispersal sale of farm machinery and agricultural effects at Boyton Manor Farm, Corton, near Warminster, BA12 0SY, on Tuesday 17th April 2012. The auction commences at 11.00 a.m. and viewing of lots is on the day from 9.00 a.m. onwards.

The lots include:
Case 580G 4×4 Construction King Digger c/w 4 rear buckets (1986);
MF148 2wd tractor (1974/75) c/w canvas cab and front weights;
Nuffield 4/65 2wd tractor (part restored and runner);
MF135 tractor (non-runner) c/w roll bar (1973/74);
GP 18ft wooden trailers;
Single axle pig trailer;
Mtd 2,500 litre diesel bowser;
West Dual 1300 muck spreader;
McConnel Snolander mounted snow blower;
Ransome potato ridger;
Bamford 3-furrow plough;
Dowdeswell plough parts;
Knoche SC M/H 930F H/D cultivator (2002);
H/D cultivator (fixed tine);
Triple K spring tine cultivator;
Votex 3m flail topper;
NH hay turner;
Claas roll-a-wrap (twin) bale wrapper c/w Honda self-driven engine;
Alvin Blanch grass seed box;
15ft metal feed barriers (x12);
Tubar and Morris pig weigh crates;
Pig feeder trolley (x2);
Plastic pig and pheasant feeders;
Qty GI grain sides and plates;
Combine side knife;
JD dual wheels;
Lister diesel engine c/w water pump;
Selwood pump c/w Lister diesel engine and trolley;
Air compressor c/w B&S engine;
Portable compressor;
Portable 10cwt Workshop Engine Hoist;
Workshop and belt-driven saw benches;
Oil welder (3ph);
Anvil;
4ft fence panels;
Portable display chiller cabinet (x2) on trailer;
Large metal chiller container;
Sinks (x3);
Green oil Rayburn.

Vintage lots include:
J. Sager & Co. Halifax cast-iron H/D belt-driven and electric motor planer;
Denning & Co. Belt-driven circular saw c/w H/D motor on cast-iron bed;
F.W. Reynolds. Hand/workshop mortis machine.

Included by special permission:
3 cow holding pen;
5ft grass topper;
Single horse box (double-axle);
Howard 250 Rotospreader dung spreader;
Parmiter 12ft mounted disc harrows;
Taarup 928 pasture topper;
Kongskilde Triple K 5m cultivator (Hydraulic folding);
Row crop wheels c/w Ford/NH40 centres 9.5R48 & 9.5R32;
7ft 6in mounted snow plough (3PL);
2,000 litre diesel bowser and pump.

Conditions of sale and payment terms are given in the auction catalogue. For catalogues or further details telephone Cooper & Tanner, 01373 831010 or visit www.cooperandtanner.co.uk

Over A Gate To Ravenhill Trees

The view south east from an iron gate adjacent the Whiten Hill Drove, over a field at Haycombe Hill Farm, Sutton Veny. Ravenhill Trees are in the distance. The photograph was taken by Danny Howell on the afternoon of Wednesday 4th April 2012.