Avon Dassett Gardening Club have published their new calendar of exciting events for 2025-26. New members are always welcome.

For the full list of events please see: https://www.avondassett.com/clubs-groups/gardening-club/

Bring your doggy along to the Dassett Country Show from 12pm-4pm on 2nd August 2025 and join in our Fun dog Show starting at 1pm in the Dog Ring!

Classes as follows:
– Lovely Lady
– Handsome Gent
– Golden Oldie
– Best Puppy
– Best Trick
– Waggiest Tail
– Best Rescue / Specially-Abled
– Most Appealing Eyes
– Fancy Dress
– Best In Show

Rosettes for 1st to 3rd, with Prize Bags for all 1st places from Croft Pet Foods in Banbury.
£2 entry per dog per class.
With support from Guide Dogs Leamington Fundraising Team.

Free parking and entry to the Main Show.
Avon Dassett, Warwickshire, CV47 2AX
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We hope to see you all there!

Please see below forthcoming dates for the Southam Safer Neighbourhood Team. All are encouraged to attend to share concerns:

The South Warwickshire Local Plan Team write:

It has come to our attention that there may have been some mixed messaging as regards the status of smaller sites submitted for consideration in the South Warwickshire Local Plan. I am writing to clarify the situation and encourage you to include comments on small sites as part of your consultation response.

Part A of our HELAA site assessment sifted out some sites, with the remainder being further assessed in HELAA part B. All of the sites assessed in part B remain in consideration for the SWLP. This is the case whether or not they fall into a Strategic Growth Location or a New Settlement location. While the majority of these sites are unlikely to be allocated, we do expect that we will need some of them, in particular:

• Sites in urban areas. Urban brownfield sites will be our first choice.
• Some small sites to maintain a 5 Year Housing Land Supply. Smaller sites tend to come forward more quickly than larger sites, and we need to ensure a constant supply of housing over the plan period.
• Some small sites for self and custom build. We are required to provide enough plots to meet our need. Some of this need will be met on larger sites, but it is likely that we will also allocate some smaller sites for this purpose.
• National Policy requires that 10% of our housing requirement is delivered on sites no larger than one hectare.

The smaller sites that we propose to allocate will be identified in the next stage of consultation, and there will be a further opportunity to comment on their suitability at that stage. However, it would be very useful to hear your comments on sites in or affecting your Parish in the current consultation, to help inform our site selection.

There is a question in the Preferred Options document, towards the end of section 4.1, where you can make comments on specific sites or the results of our assessment of these sites:

https://southwarwickshire.oc2.uk/document/148/4584#d4941

Using our interactive map, you can see which sites remain in consideration by turning on the layer “HELAA part B site assessment as at Preferred Options”. Clicking on a site brings up a pop-up window, where you will find a link to the relevant part of the document to make your comments.

We have recently updated our instructions for using the interactive map which show you how to do this in more detail. Also available is a video which talks you through the key steps.

For more information, please see this poster:

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The famous and hugely popular Avon Dassett Soapbox Derby returns on Saturday 21 June 2025.

Rules, regulations, and entry forms as well as the stallholders booking form are available NOW here:

Entry and Booking Forms

A fun day out for all the family raising money for charity.

A wide range of funding is available for local projects from the Rural Services Network. Please share with local groups.

COMPTON CHRONICLE FEBRUARY EDITION

Hello everyone, the February edition of the Compton Chronicle can be found below.

https://bit.ly/CC-FEB-2025

Paper copies will be delivered in the coming days.

For any contributions please note that the closing date for submissions will be 12th February.

– The Chronicle Editorial Team

South Warwickshire Local Plan – Public Consultation

Residents are encouraged to respond to the above plan which opened for public consultation on 10 January 2025 and will continue until 7 March 2025.

This is a strategically important plan which sets out the combined aspirations of Stratford and Warwick District Councils until 2050. It is important that the plan receives as much public engagement and feedback as possible.

The plan can be found at:

https:www.southwarwickshire.org.uk/swlp/

It comprises three main evidence based documents:

Scoping
Call for Sites
Issues and Options

The main documentation and route for feedback is online but there is information on where to obtain or view hard copies or give feedback by other means.

There are eight distinct categories within the documents, each combining a range of topic areas on which feedback is sought. Examples include Economic Development and Housing. This has been designed so that interested respondents can quickly navigate to their areas of interest, dipping in and out without having to read the complete documentation.

There are 24 strategic land groups but those of particular interest to residents of Avon Dassett are likely to include planned development sites closest to our community including:

SG 13 – Gaydon/ Lighthorne Heath
SG 14 – East of Gaydon
G 1 – Land West of Knightcote
F 3 – Land NE of Knightcote
F 2 – Land South of Deppers Bridge

Detailed maps show all specific sites.

This is likely to be our last chance to influence the development of the Local Plan so please find time to read the documents and respond.