We have been told that there will be temporary traffic lights on Sandford Hill on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th September. The work will take place at the junction with the Sandford Farm approach track, and will be to allow Wessex Water to replace a stop tap.
With no prior notice, National Grid have set up temporary traffic lights this morning on Western Way, close to the pedestrian entrance to Chilton Trinity School. According to the information on the one.network website, the work is expected to last until next Monday.
We have been told that there will be temporary traffic lights from Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th September on Wembdon Rise, outside number 26. This will allow Wessex Water to install a water meter. The footway on one side of the road will also be closed.
There will be a temporary 20mph speed limit on Quantok Road (A39) to the west of the Whitegates Roundabout while the two access junctions to the new West Bridgwater housing developments are constructed. The Temporary Traffic Order applies from 10th September 2023 until 31st October 2024 but we have been told that the speed restriction will only be in place when required.
The work is expected to start on Sunday 11th September.
The extent of the speed restriction can be seen on the plan.
Long-awaited repairs will be carried out to the safety surfacing in the children’s playground tomorrow, Thursday 17th August. The playground will be closed and out of use for the duration of the work. Wembdon Parish Council apologises for the lack of notice, but the date was not confirmed by our contractor until today. Obviously we would have preferred the work to have been carried out in term time, but we have had no say in the timing.
The need for the repairs was highlighted in the monthly safety reports carried out by GB Sports Ltd, and was approved at the Parish Council meeting on 12th June 2023.
At the end of last week three Parish Councillors spent the morning fitting strim guards to 30 young trees on Parish Council land. They then strimmed around the trees and added copious quantities of mulch, which will help retain moisture round in dry weather. The trees included the newly planted trees celebrating the King’s coronation and the late Queen’s life, and the remainder of the Queen’s copse in the Park.
The work was carried out following recommendations in the Parish Council’s annual tree survey report, carried out by Sedgemoor Tree Services. Further recommended work will be undertaken later this year by professional tree surgeons.
The Parish Council own approximately 200 trees, all of which have to be inspected annually as part of our insurance requirements.
Surface dressing will be taking place in Waldrons Lane, Moores Lane, Perry Green Road and Straight Drove between Wednesday 9th and Sunday 13th August. The work on each road will require a one-day closure, but no timetable of the closure days has been published. The roads will remain open when no work is taking place.
Durleigh Road will also be closed for surface dressing from 30m east of Haygrove Road for a distance of 620m westwards, also between Wednesday 9th and Sunday 13th August.
For any further information about these closures please contact Somerset Highways on 0300 123 2224 quoting the appropriate reference:
We have been told that there will be temporary traffic lights from Tuesday 18th to Thursday 20th July in Church Road, near Crossfield Close, while Openreach carry out work.
Following the resignation of a councillor, a vacancy has arisen in the office of councillor for the Victoria Ward of the Parish of Wembdon. The Notice of Vacancy document can be viewed on this link.
To qualify to stand as a councillor a person must be aged 18 years or older and be a citizen of the United Kingdom, any EU Country or any Commonwealth country and also meet one or more of the following criteria:
There are a number of reasons why a person may not stand for this position. These include if the person:
Any person who is qualified to stand as a councillor, and is interested in applying for this volunteer position, is asked to email the Parish Clerk at clerk@wembdon.org for further details. The new councillor will be co-opted to the council at its meeting on 11th September. The closing date for applications is Wednesday 6th September.
Somerset Council is asking for patience as the county faces major disruption to its waste collections if strikes go ahead next week. Industrial action by members of the Unite union is due to start on Wednesday 12 July, striking on Wednesday, Thursday Friday, each week for the four weeks from Wednesday 12 July to Friday 4 August.
The council and its collections contractor Suez UK will redeploy staff to try and limit the damage but expect many missed collections of recycling, refuse and garden waste will be unavoidable. Talks continue in the ongoing pay dispute between the union and Suez and industrial action could be called off as late as the afternoon of Tuesday 11 July. But the council is contingency planning on the basis that it goes ahead as planned.
A dedicated web page www.somerset.gov.uk/strike is the best place for the latest updates on strike action and advice on how to manage when your collections are missed. This includes making the most of space in boxes and bags, and how to cope if having to store food waste for prolonged periods.
Collections of refuse, clinical waste, and waste from communal properties and schools will be prioritised but this is no guarantee they will take place on time. Recycling is more likely to be missed as staff are redeployed, though we will do our best to make sure everyone gets at least one recycling collection during the strike.
Residents are asked to:
From 17 July onwards crews will accept one additional black sack of refuse at the side of the bin.
Extra recycling will also be accepted, if presented as below:
There will be extra possible collection days for people whose recycling is missed in the first week of the strike:
All 16 of Somerset’s recycling sites will be open as usual and can take almost all the materials collected at the kerbside, as well as refuse as a last resort.
Mickey Green, Somerset Council’s Executive Director for Climate and Place, said: “If these strikes go ahead, major disruption and inconvenience is unavoidable.
“We’ll do what we can to manage it, but if the staff aren’t available you simply can’t get the waste off the ground.
“This could be a very difficult period and would ask for the public’s patience. We are far from the only area experiencing this kind of issue, but that won’t make a Somerset strike any less difficult for its residents.”
For the latest information on waste services in Somerset, follow @somersetwaste on Facebook and Twitter and find us on Next Door.
