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42 Sept 2023
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PARISH COUNCIL

Nov 2020 Feb 2021 Mar 2021 May 2021 Aug-Sept  2021 Oct 2021
OLD PC NEWSLETTERS
Jan 2021
May 2022 June 2022 Next Parish Council MEETING: 12th September  2023 7:30pm at Cradley Village Hall
Minutes from previous meeting
Dog Bins
Budget proposal 2023-2024
Small Donations 2023
Documents for Next Meeting
Agendas and papers for meeting 11th July 2023
August 2022
October 2022
November 2022
December 2022
February 2023
March 2023
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June 2023
DOG ACCESS QUESTIONNAIRE
Download a copy of the proposals for dog access to Buryfields Recreation Area Then fill in the survey questions to let your opinions be known
Safeguarding the Health & Safety of Children at Bu ryfields Recreation Gro und The Buryfields Recreation Ground is well used by Parishioners of Cradley & Storridge, and in particular by the residents of Buryfields and their immediate neighbours. Cradley & Storridge Parish Council are responsible for its safe upkeep and use, and this includes minimising the risks to children and adults using the area, from possible infection associated with dog faeces and from inappropriate dog behaviour/biting. Outlined below are a number of options to help reduce the risks from dogs at Buryfields. Each provides varying degrees of safety improvement for the children and adults using the area. We would like to hear your views and comments on the options we are considering, to help inform the Council’s decision making. The drawing overleaf illustrates how the Recreation Ground would be affected by each of the four options. Each option would be undertaken in conjunction with the Council establishing a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which could exclude dogs from particular areas and place other restrictions on them and their owners in using the Recreation Ground. A PSPO is legally enforceable and offending dog owners could be subject to fines. Option One: Exclude dogs from the whole of the Buryfields Recreation Ground. This app roach has been used at the Chapel Lane Recreation Ground where dogs have been excluded under established Byelaws. In the future their continued exclusion at Chapel Lane will be supported by a PSPO, so that there is a common system of enforcement in place across the Parish Council. Option Two: This option would allow dogs to enter an area adjacent to the Comm unity orchard. The area would be accessed from the path along the side of the Recreation Ground which runs down to th e stream, and not through the existing main access gate. The exact size of this dog only area can be varied dependent on people’s views about the amount of the general play/football are that should be used to support this option. This option could also include an area j ust inside the main access gate to the Recreation Ground, that could be fenced off to allow people with dogs to sit and socialise with the ir dogs as they meet with friends /neighbours and/or watch the children playing. This option could be considered a compromise which reduces the risks to children and adults using the Play Equipment and a slightly reduced general play/football area, while providing residents with a dedicated area where they can exercise their dogs and an area where they could still meet and sit with their friends and dogs to socialise. Under this option, the Council would apply for a PSPO to exclude dogs fro m the whole of the Recreation Ground and the Community Orchard, with the exception of the areas specifically fenced off for use by dog owners. The PSPO would also require dogs to be kept on a lead in the small seating area provided adjacent to the play a reas. Option Three: Divide the Recreation Ground with a fence across its ful l width, to separate the Adventure Play Equipment Area including the small children’s and younger persons’ swings, from th e general play/ football area and the Community Orchard area. This option would allow dogs to enter the general play/ football area. A PSPO would be used to exclude dogs from the area and equipment within the fencing and the Community Orchard area. Dogs would be allowed to access the general play/football area. Option Four: Provide specific fencing immediately around the Adventure Play Equipment Area and small children’s swings only. Under this option, the Council would apply for a PSPO to exclude dogs from the more compactly fenced Adventure Play Equipment Area and small children’s swings only and the Community Orchard. This option would allow dogs to enter the general play/football area only. Irrespective of the option eventually selected for implementation, the Council could also consider whether the PSPO should require any dogs accessing the Buryfields Recreation Ground under options Two Three or four, to be kept on a lead.
We would like to meet with Parishioners who use the Buryfields Recreation Ground to hear your views. We are arranging two sessions when Councillors will be available at The Leys Community Room to meet with people. These sessions have been arranged for:  Session One: Monday the 3rd July 2023 running between 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm, which should enable those who may need to meet children from the school to drop in.  Session Two: Monday the 3rd July 2023 running between 7 pm to 8 pm which should enable those returning from work to drop in after they finish work.  We hope you will be able to meet with us so that we can listen to your views first-hand.  If you aren’t able to meet with us however, we would still like to hear your views on our proposals. We would be grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete the following short questionnaire and return it to us by dropping it off in one of the boxes provided at: the school office or at No. 31 The Leys Buryfields, by Monday 10th July  You can also give the questionnaire to us at the open sessions we are proposing to hold.  If you are not able to meet with us, or able to complete the questionnaire, but would like to offer us comments, please feel free to email our Clerk at: clerkrichard@cradleyparishcouncil.gov.uk  It would be helpful if you could mark your email title as “Buryfields Recreation Ground Comments and Preferences”. In responding by email, we would also be grateful if you could indicate your order of preference for the options proposed, by ranking them on a 1–4 basis, with 1 being your most preferred option and 4 being your least preferred option. Please also tells us if you feel any option is totally unacceptable and why.  If you prefer, we can arrange for a Councillor to contact you personally to discuss matters. If you would like us to do this, please contact our Clerk, Richard James, by email or phone on 01886 886052 and Richard will make arrangements for someone to contact you as appropriate Drawing showing the Four options currently being Considered by the Parish Council to improve safety from Dogs at Buryfields Recreation Ground Option 2 Dedicated dog exercise area Return questions to here
Ellie Chowns drop- in NOTE CHANGE OF DAY
PC web site
Monthly Newsletter
Next Meeting Agenda 12th September 2023
42 Sept 2023
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PARISH COUNCIL

Nov 2020 Feb 2021 Mar 2021 May 2021 Aug-Sept  2021 Oct 2021
OLD PC NEWSLETTERS
Jan 2021
May 2022 June 2022 Next Parish Council MEETING: 12th September  2023 7:30pm at Cradley Village Hall
August 2022
October 2022
November 2022
December 2022
February 2023
March 2023
April 2023
June 2023
We would like to meet with Parishioners who use the Buryfields Recreation Ground to hear your views. We are arranging two sessions when Councillors will be available at The Leys Community Room to meet with people. These sessions have been arranged for:  Session One: Monday the 3rd July 2023 running between 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm, which should enable those who may need to meet children from the school to drop in.  Session Two: Monday the 3rd July 2023 running between 7 pm to 8 pm which should enable those returning from work to drop in after they finish work.  We hope you will be able to meet with us so that we can listen to your views first-hand.  If you aren’t able to meet with us however, we would still like to hear your views on our proposals. We would be grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete the following short questionnaire and return it to us by dropping it off in one of the boxes provided at: the school office or at No. 31 The Leys Buryfields, by Monday 10th July  You can also give the questionnaire to us at the open sessions we are proposing to hold.  If you are not able to meet with us, or able to complete the questionnaire, but would like to offer us comments, please feel free to email our Clerk at: clerkrichard@cradleyparishcouncil.gov.uk  It would be helpful if you could mark your email title as “Buryfields Recreation Ground Comments and Preferences”. In responding by email, we would also be grateful if you could indicate your order of preference for the options proposed, by ranking them on a 1–4 basis, with 1 being your most preferred option and 4 being your least preferred option. Please also tells us if you feel any option is totally unacceptable and why.  If you prefer, we can arrange for a Councillor to contact you personally to discuss matters. If you would like us to do this, please contact our Clerk, Richard James, by email or phone on 01886 886052 and Richard will make arrangements for someone to contact you as appropriate
Safeguarding the Health & Safety of Children at Bu ryfields Recreation Gro und The Buryfields Recreation Ground is well used by Parishioners of Cradley & Storridge, and in particular by the residents of Buryfields and their immediate neighbours. Cradley & Storridge Parish Council are responsible for its safe upkeep and use, and this includes minimising the risks to children and adults using the area, from possible infection associated with dog faeces and from inappropriate dog behaviour/biting. Outlined below are a number of options to help reduce the risks from dogs at Buryfields. Each provides varying degrees of safety improvement for the children and adults using the area. We would like to hear your views and comments on the options we are considering, to help inform the Council’s decision making. The drawing overleaf illustrates how the Recreation Ground would be affected by each of the four options. Each option would be undertaken in conjunction with the Council establishing a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which could exclude dogs from particular areas and place other restrictions on them and their owners in using the Recreation Ground. A PSPO is legally enforceable and offending dog owners could be subject to fines. Option One: Exclude dogs from the whole of the Buryfields Recreation Ground. This app roach has been used at the Chapel Lane Recreation Ground where dogs have been excluded under established Byelaws. In the future their continued exclusion at Chapel Lane will be supported by a PSPO, so that there is a common system of enforcement in place across the Parish Council. Option Two: This option would allow dogs to enter an area adjacent to the Comm unity orchard. The area would be accessed from the path along the side of the Recreation Ground which runs down to th e stream, and not through the existing main access gate. The exact size of this dog only area can be varied dependent on people’s views about the amount of the general play/football are that should be used to support this option. This option could also include an area j ust inside the main access gate to the Recreation Ground, that could be fenced off to allow people with dogs to sit and socialise with the ir dogs as they meet with friends /neighbours and/or watch the children playing. This option could be considered a compromise which reduces the risks to children and adults using the Play Equipment and a slightly reduced general play/football area, while providing residents with a dedicated area where they can exercise their dogs and an area where they could still meet and sit with their friends and dogs to socialise. Under this option, the Council would apply for a PSPO to exclude dogs fro m the whole of the Recreation Ground and the Community Orchard, with the exception of the areas specifically fenced off for use by dog owners. The PSPO would also require dogs to be kept on a lead in the small seating area provided adjacent to the play a reas. Option Three: Divide the Recreation Ground with a fence across its ful l width, to separate the Adventure Play Equipment Area including the small children’s and younger persons’ swings, from th e general play/ football area and the Community Orchard area. This option would allow dogs to enter the general play/ football area. A PSPO would be used to exclude dogs from the area and equipment within the fencing and the Community Orchard area. Dogs would be allowed to access the general play/football area. Option Four: Provide specific fencing immediately around the Adventure Play Equipment Area and small children’s swings only. Under this option, the Council would apply for a PSPO to exclude dogs from the more compactly fenced Adventure Play Equipment Area and small children’s swings only and the Community Orchard. This option would allow dogs to enter the general play/football area only. Irrespective of the option eventually selected for implementation, the Council could also consider whether the PSPO should require any dogs accessing the Buryfields Recreation Ground under options Two Three or four, to be kept on a lead.
Download a copy of the proposals for dog access to Buryfields Recreation Area Then fill in the survey questions to let your opinions be known Drawing showing the Four options currently being Considered by the Parish Council to improve safety from Dogs at Buryfields Recreation Ground Option 2 Dedicated dog exercise area Return questions to here
DOG ACCESS QUESTIONNAIRE
Minutes from previous meeting
Dog Bins
Budget proposal 2023-2024
Small Donations 2023
Ellie Chowns drop- in NOTE CHANGE OF DAY
PC web site
Monthly Newsletter
Next Meeting Agenda 12th September 2023