Gas generation starts at Walpole Digester   Deliveries of food waste to the anaerobic digester commenced on 20th August as part of the commissioning process. The amount of food waste will be increased gradually over the commissioning period until the point where all food waste arisings collected by SWP from the county will be received. The plant is already producing […]

Fly-tipping figures released today [15 October 2013] by the government show incidents county-wide have dropped by 497 or 8.7% from 5,687 to 5,190. South Somerset’s fall has carried on into the first three months of this financial year, down by 114 to 338 on the same period last year, and down by 94 on January-March […]

Your local councillors (Parish, District and County) are working together with YTFC to try to reduce the match day problems, but we recognise that any fix is dependent on help from the Police and from County Highways. The councils’ main concerns are: safety for pedestrians, getting the bus route roads working and allowing residents to […]

Looking for Charity Work or just trying to “put something back”? Abbey Manor Community Centre needs volunteers and more Committee Members. Some roles such as Chairman (and Deputy), Honorary Secretary, Bookings Secretary, Treasurer, Minutes Secretary and Caretaker are year round. Other roles form around tasks or events, for example fundraising to refurbish the Toilets and organsing an […]

I thought you might be interested in reading the response from DCLG which I received recently, especially once you know the back-story. We had noticed that the business rates charged on retail units in Yeovil town centre were high, and very much higher than Peel Retail Park (just off the A30 towards Sherborne). This huge annual […]

The April 2013 update on refurbishing Yeovil Town Centre is now out. You can see how we’re spending your money. So far the story has been one of success with significantly improved trading conditions at the top of town.

  Last Friday (1st March) I had the honour of chairing the Council Tax Setting Committee of South Somerset District Council. This doesn’t happen often (indeed ever), but the Police were so late setting their budget that it wasn’t available at the normal Council Meeting. Hence my sitting on a sub-committee with 5 colleagues (in […]

There are measures in place to ensure that nobody is actually on the street and that every rough sleeper, once identified, is able to access some form of emergency provision, (although some rough sleepers may reject help offered). We have two specialist outreach workers; Sharon Woodsell, who can be contacted on 07918 088118 and Kerry […]

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have today released figures highlighting a dramatic increase in fly-tipping incidents in the South Somerset area during the 2011/12 period. Official statistics from the Government show that whilst nationally there had been an overall decline in fly-tipping (of around 9%), in South Somerset  fly-tipping increased a staggering 55% during the […]

It’s always been an anomaly that you couldn’t get a bus to work from Abbey Manor, and some time ago we started to negotiate for improvements. The County Council has been cutting buses (and plans more cuts) so in order to get the change SSDC worked with Brympton-based South West Coaches to establish a commercially […]