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Spring has sprung, and the Bardsey Horticultural Society annual plant sale returns with it’s amaz-ing selection of quality, locally grown plants and at fantastic prices. Theres a wide variety of vege-table plants, annuals, perennials, shrubs and house plants all well grown and perfect for your plot.

If you are already sowing seeds and potting on or taking cuttings and find you have a few too many for your own use, we would be very grateful for any donations to the plant sale.

Doors open at 10am prompt and the plants sell out quickly so get there early to grab the best bar-gains and avoid disappointment.

Due to circumstances beyond our control the AGM planned for February has been re-scheduled for the meeting in March. Please also note the change of venue to Callister Hall. This will be a very short meeting and then we will be having a talk by Julie Sharp and Sue Dixon on ‘All things bees and gardening” to get us ready for the new growing season. This will conclude the talks for the 2017/18 season as our next event will be the plant sale to be held on Saturday 12th May 10am at Bardsey Village Hall.

New members and non members welcome.

Details: Bardsey-cum-Rigton W.I. are holding their annual Jumble Sale in the Village Hall on Sat Feb 17th at 1p.m.

Entrance is 50p and refreshments are available.

The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust (YDRT) is a charity organisation that works to protect and enhance the rivers Swale, Ure, Nidd, Wharfe and Ouse and their catchments. In 2017 East Keswick Wildlife Trust, Mott MacDonald and the YDRT worked together to bid for funding for our local area. They were successful, and YDRT was awarded £50,000 to lead on the Collingham Becks project. The funding will enable the local areas surrounding Collingham Beck to be part of a national pilot study, which will develop understanding around the methods and benefits of working with nature to try and reduce the risk of flooding. The project already draws on the support of many groups within the area and it is hoped to attract additional funding and volunteer support to allow even more to be achieved.

Collingham Beck – YDRT Research Project

Northern Gas Networks are carrying out essential maintenance work on the distribution pipework in Bardsey, especially in the vicinity of Bingley Bank. Residents are advised that Church Lane will be closed from the junction with Bingley Bank up the hill to just before the junction with Tithe Barn Lane for 7 weeks commencing on 12th February 2018. For further information please refer to the attached letter, which was sent to residents in the immediate vicinity of the closure.

30-11-2017 Church Lane Closure

Bardsey Horticultural Society

Friday 2nd February 2018 7.45pm

Callister Hall, Bardsey

AGM and talk

Are you concerned about the use of peat in compost and it’s impact on the environment. Is peat free compost just as good?

The short AGM will be followed by a talk by Julian Davies entitled Is there life after peat?  answering some of the key questions we all have about peat free compost.

All are welcome.

LCC REGULATION 19 DECISION STATEMENT

LCC issued the Regulation 19 Decision Statement to BPC on the 6th November 2017. This Decision Statement formalises the ‘making’ of the Neighbourhood Plan. The document may be viewed by clicking on the link below:-

Reg 19 Decision Statement – Bardsey Neighbourhood Development Plan

Some of the older and more long standing residents of our village may remember Tom (Thomas Gordon) Willans (see Archive section). Tom was a true ‘gent’, a centenarian and passionate about Bardsey.  Indeed the Parish Council some years ago were fortunate in enabling the acquisition of the plot of land at the junction of Wood Lane and the A58, subsequently named Willans Wood in permanent memory of Tom.

Earlier this year the Parish Council were contacted by a Mr Jos Punie who resides in Wintershoven Belgium. Jos was enquiring if the Parish Council were aware of a contact detail for a Willans descendant. It transpired that Tom and his wife Edith’s son Sgt. Alec Gordon Willans was a Co Navigator member of the crew of a Wellington Bomber no BJ606 PH-S  which crashed during World War 2 operations over Wintershoven, now a suburb of the municipality of Kortessem-Belgium.

All crew members including Alec Willans tragically perished in this crash.

Jos was keen to make contact with the Willans family to invite them to the 75^th anniversary of the incident at which a commemoration would be held together with the unveiling of a stone plaque to mark the Wintershoven’s respect for the sad loss of the air crew and their undoubted courage.

Whilst the Parish Council were able to provide Jos with details of the last contact, regrettably his   communications drew a blank.

The Parish Council have now been contacted again by Jos who kindly provided photographs recording the commemoration ceremony see below.

On behalf of the Village the Parish Council wish to express their thanks to Jos and his colleagues both for making not only this permanent tribute to the brave souls of bomber no BJ606 PH-S but also by doing so keeping the good name of Willans ‘alive’ for ever!

Tom would be might proud of this heartfelt tribute by the folks of Wintershoven.

Photos of the ceremony are as below:-

From left to right: Colonel Bijnens from the Belgian Air Force, Tom Thijsen (Wintershoven’s  Mayor), Ils Camps (master of ceremony), husband and daughter from the Australian Ambassador, Ms Caroline Millar, Ms Millar herself and SLt Fred Warren-Smith als representative from the British embassy.

On this picture you can see Nicky Cooper, grand niece of co-pilot  Jack Johannesen and Jos, during the unveiling of the memorial.

The local brass band.

The Last Post, during the unveiling.

The memoriam

The plaque inscription.

October 2017.

Bardsey Horticultural Society Talk
Bumby Hall Gardens, past , present and future
Friday 3rd November 7.45pm
Callister Hall, Bardsey

Our winter program of fascinating talks continues with a talk by Rachel Mort on the gardens at Bumby Hall near Pocklington, it’s past history, the present and what to look forward to in the future. Come along and find out more before visiting this award winning jewel in the Yorkshire gardens collection.All welcome.

The talk begins at 7.45pm on Friday 3rd November in Calister Hall, Woodacre Lane, Bardsey.

Bardsey Parish Council and its Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group have great pleasure in announcing that the results of the Referendum held on 12^th October 2017 on the Bardsey-cum-Rigton Neighbourhood Plan showed a resounding ‘Yes’ vote in favour of the Plan being used in the determination of planning applications in the Bardsey-cum-Rigton Neighbourhood Area.

794 votes were cast, with a total of 745 in favour and just 49 against i.e. a total of 93.82% voting ‘Yes’. It will be recalled that for a Neighbourhood Plan to receive formalisation a vote of over 50% was required. The 794 votes cast represent a significant turnout of 40.12%. This level of turnout compares favourably to an average of 32.9% of recent LCC Neighbourhood Plan Referendums. This average is derived from a minimum of 21.9% to a maximum of 48.66%  and based on six polls.

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Leeds City Council will now prepare a Decision Statement as stipulated by Regulation 19 ‘Decision on a plan proposal’ of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 which will detail the formal making of the Plan.

Due to a recent update to the Neighbourhood Planning Act it is important to note that as soon as a Plan has received approval by Referendum, it is considered made and part of the development plan for the area even if the Council has not yet made the plan.

Bardsey Parish Council would like to take this opportunity of thanking all Villagers who have contributed magnificently with their valued input into the arduous process of consultation over the years and to all those who voted on the 12^th October.

To view the actual LCC ‘Declaration of Result of Poll’ notice please click on the link below.

Declaration of result – Bardsey cum Rigton