ANNUAL PARISH MEETING - TUESDAY, 16TH APRIL 2024 COMMENCING 7.00 PM

to be held at -

St Bartholomew’s Church, Coffinswell

Meet your Parish Council and other representatives that serve Coffinswell & Daccombe

Learn about matters affecting your community

Your opportunity to bring issues to the Council’s attention

This is an informal meeting held for

Parishioners of Coffinswell and Daccombe to raise any matters of concern and give their views on anything affecting the Parish.

Refreshments available after the meeting.

COFFINSWELL PARISH CHURCH

CELEBRATION OF HARVEST

SUNDAY 1^st OCTOBER AT 11AM

WE WILL CELEBRATE THE HARVEST, FOLLOWED BY LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AND DRINKS.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO GREETING YOU ALL TO THE COFFINSWELL AND DACCOMBE HARVEST SERVICE.

COLLECTION AND DONATIONS WILL BE FOR THE HOMELESS IN TEIGNBRIDGE SUPPORT FOOD BANK (HITS)

REV.MICHAEL WILKIE

CHURCHWARDENS MICHELE BERRY & GORDON BOWER

From: Principal Transport Officer – Integrated Public Transport

Transport Co-ordination Service -

Stagecoach would like to make you aware of a large number of bus service changes that Stagecoach are implementing on Sunday 3^rd September 2023. The changes are mostly positive as they show signs towards growing the bus network back again, following the service frequency reductions in 2022. The enhancements are funded from the Department for Transport’s post COVID recovery grants. All the service improvements have the potential to achieve long term sustainability if patronage increases. This is why it is even more important that over the next two years we all play our part to promote bus usage in our communities.

This briefing note is addressed to the areas with bus services that are changing. As the list of changes is very long please click on the link for the Stagecoach  website so that you can focus on the detail for your area.

Stagecoach’s website -https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south-west/south-west-timetables 

( As you scroll down the web page, click the “show more” tab to open up the complete list).

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH REPORT - 2023

It has been another fairly quiet year from a Neighbourhood Watch point of view - which is good!

We now have 107 members which is almost all the households in the two villages (some households have more than one member on the list) This shows our communities interest in, and commitment to, their neighbours and their welfare which is very encouraging.

People continue to contact me with information to pass on or they have queries which affect them and/or the community and I can usually direct people to a source if I am unable to answer myself. So I feel people are increasingly making use of the Neighbourhood Watch as a community resource and support which can only be a good thing.

I now have a direct contact to our Neighbourhood Police Officer, Abbey Carpenter, which is very helpful as we had lost that contact over the Covid years and we had to go through the whole police process via the 101 system. Abbey is very happy for people to contact her direct on her email if they have any concerns

Abbey.CARPENTER@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk

however, any indication of illegal activity should be reported to the police using their online service.

The police and the Council are both monitoring the use of the caravan on Orestone Lane – I will keep a log for a month of any concerns that are reported to me and I will collate these and pass them on to Abbey. If you observe anything suspicious then let me know along with car registrations if relevant. If you observe obvious illegal activity then report this directly to the police online. Do not put yourself at risk at any time.

If anyone has ideas of how to improve or develop the Neighbourhood Watch then please do not hesitate to contact me.

I hope everyone enjoys the Coronation event on May 8^th and we look forward to more community events in the future and hopefully a continuing ‘Quiet Neighbourhood Watch’.

Sheenagh Orchard – Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator

https://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/elections/electoral-services/community-governance-reviews/