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South Hams District Council pays a contribution towards each bag of compost created in this way, which is an inducement to good practice. Any surplus money can be donated to appropriate local charitable causes.
Cllr Jones has agreed to let the site free initially for a period of 12- 24 months to see if the system can be made to work. Naturally some of the woodier compost will need mulching so regular use will need to be made of SHDC’s munching machine. So that residents do not get bogged down in soft ground (What do you mean, it never rains in Devon!) some hard surface will need to be created; we do not want to be stuck in a field with wheels buried.
In the questionnaires for the Neighbourhood Plan, no less than 400 out of 500 residents supported having such a scheme in the village, so let’s hope people put their feet where their pen went and volunteer to take part. If you can help please contact either Cllr Edward Jones on 07974 739392 (fountainviolet@gmail. com) or Cllr Lucy Payne on 01803 752340 (overcreek@
overcreek.co.uk). They will be very pleased to hear from you. LET’S MAKE IT WORK.
Sad Losses The past month has been a sad one for Kingswear since we have lost two considerable contributors to village life over many years. Don Collinson of Beacon Road died aged 98; Don not only wrote his popular Chronicles of Dartmouth but many other booklets, articles and reports of the history of this fine estuary of
ours. He was a founder member of the Kingswear Historians and has been very constructive in putting together the village archive which now tells us so much about the history of the place we live in. He had an absolute fund of material in his memory and would often correct the rest of us when we got our facts wrong.
We have also lost Michael
Stevens aged 80; Michael was one time parish clerk and had been a keen contributor to the Kingswear Historians too. He wrote
the definitive text on the church, which has been much admired, and organised the booklet sales for the Historians for a number of years. On Tuesdays he could be found in the village hall playing badminton on a very regular basis.
In recent years Michael worked tirelessly to help the parish council to try to re-open Lighthouse Beach. He knew all the long ins-and-outs of the story behind the struggle and was always a reliable reference point.
They will both be greatly missed. •
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