Bourne End Herts News

The Spring edition of the Bourne Ender, together with the schedule for the Village Show will be delivered to you over the next few days.  At the same time we aim to collecting subscriptions, which this year will remain at the usual £5.00 donation.  Your rep will also have tickets available for the forthcoming Jazz evening if you have not already bought them.

Tickets are now available for the Bourne End Village Association Jazz night on Friday 24th April.  

Quiz Night this coming Friday.  There are still tickets available.  Make sure you get yours without delay! The proceeds from the carol singing have now been passed to the charities, The donations were rounded up by BEVA so that the Swan and DENS each received £150.  A big thanks to all those who contributed.

The Quiz will soon be here!  Your local rep will shortly be coming round with tickets for this popular annual event.  To avoid disappointment, make sure you buy your tickets early.  At £10.00, which includes food, it's a night not to be missed. Why wait for us to call on you?  Give a rep a call. At the moment, the following have, or will shortly have tickets. Maggie Cassidy 866292/07809283074  maggie001@hotmail.co.uk Kim Hughes 873576 mail_kim_hughes@yahoo.co.uk Chris Mabley866293 chrismabley@yahoo.co.uk John Mawer 873657 / 07919870091 j .mawer@live.co.uk . Mike Pritchard 862987 michael@pritchardmichael.wanadoo.co.uk Javaid Punwar 07764 660754 javaid.punwar@btinternet.com Gordon Rolfe 863079 jean.rolfe@uwclub.net Martin Warner 866946 / 07870510138 mw812@btinternet.com

Carol Singing You will be pleased to know that the Carol Singing raised £125-41 on the first night and £146-03 on the second night. A total of £271-45! Well done and thanks to all those who came out and added their voices (good or bad) to our marling Christmas. I am sure we will consider the charities that will get the benefit at our next meeting. Happy Xmas and New Year to you all.   Mike Pritchard  Bourne Ender Residents of Bourne End will have received copy of the winter edition of the Bourne Ender a few weeks ago. To the rest who receive the electronic version via the blog, our apologies for the late arrival. Here it is, hopefully better late than never!  

At yesterday’s meeting of the Development Control Committee, the application to redevelop Bourne End Mills was rejected.  To be more precise, the rejection was of the application to enable 24 hour working and remove the height restriction on the buildings.  Consideration of the plans themselves was therefore deferred. Despite the recommendation for approval by the planning officer, not one member of the committee was prepared to propose the application.  They had clearly taken on board the view that this specific application would have resulted in a building and activities which would have dominated our village and the surrounding area. It looked rather bleak when the planning officer recommended approval.  What made the difference?  Probably not one thing but a combination of          the well-reasoned objections from so many of you;           Mike Pritchard’s clarity in presenting the case; ...

A reminder ..... AGM tomorrow, Friday 24th October 7.45 for 8.00 at the Village Hall .........followed by cheese and wine.