Cerney News Announcement
February 2002

Westbury Homes/CAMAS Site
The Parish Council would welcome members of the public to attend an open debate, on Thursday 28 February at 7.30pm in the United Church Hall in Clarks Hay, on whether or not the Parish Council should object at the forthcoming appeal to Westbury Homes' outline planning application to build approximately 150 new homes on the CAMAS site. The Parish Council will hold an Extraordinary Meeting on 1 March at 7.30pm in the Committee Room of the Village Hall to decide on its response.

Youth Action Day in South Cerney
Bernie Cox, Cotswold Area Team Leader from Gloucestershire Youth & Community Service is planning to hold a Youth Action Day in South Cerney on Sunday 24 March. The venue as yet is undecided but Mr Cox will publicise the event locally when final arrangements are in place.

Watermark Club Development
Cotswold District Council has granted permission to an application for outline planning for a new building to provide restaurant, gym and swimming pool at the Watermark Club development, Spring Lake (Lakes 14 & 15), Station Road, South Cerney. One of the Conditions of the granted permission is that no development shall commence on site until details of a pedestrian/cycle link between the development and the existing footway in South Cerney have been submitted and approved by the Local Planning Authority. A Section 106 Agreement states that the new club house will not be brought into use until the existing club house is closed to the public and Lake 16 car park has been completed in accordance with the approval granted.

Flood Report
As a result of a Flood Prevention meeting held on 18 January, the Environment Agency resolved four initial problems regarding river Churn strategy. Local landowners would be contacted regarding water storage up stream of Siddington and South Cerney which was predicted to be in place by 2004-05 but compulsory purchase orders would be needed and this could cause some delay. Thames Water had checked all the monitoring systems and reported that the two in South Cerney were being operated correctly under normal conditions. All six pumping stations appeared to be working correctly although the studies had been carried out in extremely dry conditions. Thames Water had undertaken to clean the whole system. Due to the absence of a representative, Fosseway Housing submitted a written report informing the meeting that all the work in the drainage system was now completed. Fosseway Housing required isolating valves but this has been delayed as a special licence is necessary which Thames Water would arrange.