Community Litter Pick !
Our community Litter Pick aims to raise awareness of litter and return the parish to a litter free one.
Please volunteer on April 14,
meeting points are: Eversley Centre play area 10.00am - noon or Lower Common play area 2pm-4pm. |
Please help by volunteering a few hours of your time (or whatever you can spare), to help us with the campaign. Lastly remember to wear gloves, strong footwear and suitable clothing.
The results of the day can be found here: http://www.thebigtidyup.org/tidyups_group.aspx?id=15921
Any particular areas that you would like us to litter pick at future events?
Contact: Cllr Dickens or EPC Clerk – Phone 01252876924 or mail:eversley.clerk@virginmedia.com.
OVER 80 LOCAL RESIDENTS DEMAND ACTION
86 people from Eversley, Finchampstead, Bramshill, Farley Hill and Yateley have put their names to a letter addressed to Wokingham Borough Council. They object to the complete lack of consideration of the highway implications of the 3,500 new homes to be built at Arborfield. They think the Council acted unlawfully when it adopted its new planning documents in October.
The action followed a hastily called public meeting in Eversley on 5th December. This was hosted jointly by Suzanne Craddock, a member of Eversley Matters, and Philip Todd, Chairman of Eversley Parish Council. Local residents were asked to consider the effects of the new town to be built on their door step and, more crucially, what action they were prepared to take to force Wokingham to address their issues.
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Issued on behalf of Eversley Matters and Eversley Parish Council
The Parish of Eversley is in the north-east of Hampshire, on the banks of the Blackwater River, which itself forms the County boundary with Berkshire. It is one of the northern parishes of Hart District, lying to the west of Yateley and north of the A30. It is about 4 miles from Fleet, 10 miles from Basingstoke and 6 miles from Camberley.
The village of Eversley comprises five distinct areas - Lower Common, Eversley Street, Eversley Centre, Eversley Cross and Up Green. Within these hamlets there are about 600 houses and nearly 1500 residents.
Eversley has many features typical of Hampshire villages - a church, a school, a village green and duck pond, a cricket pitch, a village hall and a shop-come-post office. However, they are dotted around the parish so that it has no obvious core.
Church Green
There are four designated Conservation Areas, at Church Farm, Eversley Street, Eversley Cross and Up Green. To the south and west of the vlllage there are large areas of forestry, parts of which are designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI’s), because of their nationally important wildlife. Some of these are also designated as parts of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area, because of the internationally rare birdlife, such as the Nightjar, Dartford Warbler and Woodlark.
There is an extensive footpath and bridleway network and ready access to the hundreds of acres of forestry land, which is much used by local horse riders. One of the bridleways, The Welsh Drive, passes close by a bronze-age bowl barrow called Cudbury Clump on the Bramshill boundary and crosses the parish to the Yateley border by Blackbushe Airport, with access to Eversley’s National Nature Reserve at Castle Bottom.