Car Boot Sale, September, Oakham, Burley Road, Oakham Town Partnership 2013

Car Boot Sale, September, Oakham, Burley Road, Oakham Town Partnership 2013

Car Boot Sale – Oakham, Burley Road

The Oakham Town Partnership holds Car Boot Sales on the 2nd and 4th Sundays in the Summer.


Car Boot Sale  8 September 2013

Future  Date:

    22 September 2013

http://www.oakhamtownpartnership.co.uk/car-boot-sale/

Georgian Festival Stamford 2013, September

Georgian Festival Stamford 2013

Georgian Festival set for top-town Stamford

Lincolnshire’s classic market town of Stamford, the UK’s finest example of unspoilt Georgian architecture, is to host its first Georgian Festival in September to celebrate the town’s colourful heritage and architecture.
It will be another milestone for the stone town voted the top place to live in Britain earlier this year by the Sunday Times . (see: Editor’s Note).

The weekend festival, being organised by South Kesteven District Council,  will run from September 27–29 to celebrate the Georgian era spanning the period between 1714 and 1830.

Organisers South Kesteven District Council and partners are developing a programme of speakers and events to include a costumed performance of the town’s infamous Bull Run, a 700-year tradition where a single bull was chased and then slaughtered – halted in 1839.

Key speakers include Dan Cruickshank, art historian and BBC television presenter with a special interest in the history of architecture.

Annie Grey, celebrated BBC food historian, will open the festival with a talk on the food and dining habits of the Georgian period – including food tastings – and there will be a Friday evening opening church recital.
On Saturday a Georgian Street Fayre will combine craft and famers markets, rural crafts, period street performers, food demonstrations and tastings, old fashioned children’s games, a Punch and Judy show, arts and face painting.

There will be storytelling, exotic animals which were popular in the Georgian period, a town crier and live period music and dance.

The weekend will stage talks on Georgian architecture, garden design, fashion, natural philosophy, literature and poetry, artists of the period and the alchemy of brewing involving Stamford’s own Melbourne Brothers brewery.

Popular children’s favourite Horrible Histories is staging two shows in the Corn Exchange Theatre to portray their own popular brand of Georgian blood, battles, gore and glory.

As England’s first urban conservation area, Stamford’s appeal is rooted in its ancient stone buildings as the country’s most complete Georgian townscape, a photogenic backdrop for a festival dedicated to the period.
The town’s Arts Centre could see re-runs of films shot amidst the town’s unspoilt Georgian streets and there is a stage version of Pride and Prejudice booked, confirmed SKDC Leader Cllr Linda Neal.

““Stamford is a town with a rich heritage to celebrate and a strong community spirit and there is huge enthusiasm to make the most of both,” she said. “It deserves a festival that can conjure up the wonderful Georgian age of aristocracy and elegance and its heritage of literature, arts, music, food and fashion.”
We are always seeking ways to promote our towns and our local economy and this festival will, I am sure, achieve both.”.

Town councillors are equally enthused with the Festival plans, says Mayor and council chairman Cllr Brian Charles Sumner.  “After last summer’s Jubilee events and Olympics torch relay, we are thrilled to have another big event in Stamford and delighted to be working in partnership with the district council.
“Our traders are keen to be involved, and Stamford’s legendary community involvement will ensure that it’s a brilliant event.”

Editor’s Note:
In March, the Sunday Times published a list of the top 101 places to live in Britain, with Stamford top of the pile and described as ‘a reminder of the days when Britain was hale and hearty’.

The accolade rewarded the town’s mix of ancient and modern, architecture pretty enough for a host of costume dramas, hostelries such as the historic George Hotel  with its Anglo-Saxon roots, individuality  and organic produce retailers next to designer boutiques.

Summing up the character and community spirit that perhaps won the day over 100 other nominated places was the Times comment: ‘you are never more than a collywobble from a pint or a prayer book’.

Further information:  pr@southkesteven.gov.uk   01476 406494

A MEETING OF OAKHAM TOWN COUNCIL’S PLANNING AND PARKS COMMITTEE 7.30PM WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26th 2012 VICTORIA HALL, 39, HIGH STREET, OAKHAM

The next meeting of the Town Councils meeting is Wednesday
I was stopped yesterday and asked if these meetings were public
All Town Council Meetings are open to the public although very few
people attend, something the council enjoys and does its best to stop
me reporting.

Of course there are times when the council is deciding how to spend
large sums of your money they will make that an exempt item and kick
out public and press.

believe it or not this bunch of unelected people are serving and representing
the residents of Oakham, the public pay for this organisation that the Clerk
once put into a written report "we don't do much, but what we do, we do well"

The public overpay for very little if any service from the Town Council.




Oakham Town Council
Victoria Hall, 39 High Street, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 6AH
Telephone: 01572 723627 Fax: 01572 759395
e-mail: enquiries@oakhamtowncouncil.gov.uk

A MEETING OF
OAKHAM TOWN COUNCIL’S
PLANNING AND PARKS COMMITTEE
7.30PM WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26th 2012
VICTORIA HALL, 39, HIGH STREET, OAKHAM

AGENDA

1. APOLOGIES - Standing Order 1(u)
(i) To receive apologies for absence
(ii) To decide whether to approve apologies for absence

2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
Members are asked to declare, if required:
(i) Any Disclosable Pecuniary Interest they may have in respect to items on the agenda
(ii) Any other interest they may have in respect to items on the agenda
Members are also reminded to inform the Clerk of any changes in their Register of Members’
Interests

3. MINUTES (Appendix A)
To confirm the minutes of the meeting of the Planning and Parks Committee held on
Wednesday July 25th 2012

4. COUNCILLOR’S QUESTIONS
To answer questions previously notified to the Clerk under Standing Order 8

5. MEMBER’S REPORTS
To receive reports from members relating to the work of the Committee
(Members intending to give a report should inform the Clerk before the meeting)

6. CLERK’S REPORT – For information only
To receive a report from the Clerk

7. DEPUTATIONS BY THE PUBLIC
Members of the Public are invited to address the meeting in accordance with procedures laid
down in Standing Order 1(d) – 1(i)

8. FLORAL DISPLAYS (Appendix B)
To decide on various issues relating to the tender for floral displays in Oakham

9. LIME TREE – CUTTS CLOSE (Appendix C)
To consider a report and to make decisions as appropriate

10. AUDIT OF ROYCES PLAYING FIELD (Appendix D)
To consider a report on an audit of Royces Playing Field and to make decisions as appropriate

11. CHRISTMAS TREE (Appendix E)
To consider a request from the Rotary Club of Rutland to purchase a Christmas Tree

12. PLANNING APPLICATIONS
To consider the following applications received to date and to make recommendations
or observations thereon to Rutland County Council:

(i) APP/2012/0587/APB/(PTA) Mrs Ruth Bray
Crown lift of 4.5m to 1 No. Lime tree
Wrens Holt
20a Stamford Road

(ii) APP/2012/0598/APB(PTA) Mrs Blandamer
Crown reduce 1 No. Hazel Tree by 3-4m. Crown raise 1 No. Larch
Treetops 45 Stamford Road

(iii) APP/2012/0607/EZE(OTHR) Mr Kieren Lockner
Change of use to a mixed use of dwelling and child day care facility. Construction of a
two storey side extension to east elevation of the dwellinghouse following demolition of
existing garage
23 Lonsdale Way

(iv) APP/2012/0596/DTR(FUL) Mr Jody Marsh (Spire Homes)
Replacement of 23 windows and 3 doors in the Lodge Building
The Lodge Stamford Road

Richard White
Clerk to the Council
20th September 2012