Parish of Castlethorpe, Milton Keynes, UK
This is the Website for the village of Castlethorpe in Milton Keynes. The articles have been written by village organisations. The site is managed by the Parish Council.
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Peter Haynes writes a personal letter to the village announcing his resignation.
Philip Ayles, Chair of the Parish Council, responds with a tribute to Peter’s 11 years of public service.
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Milton Keynes Urgent Care Telephone 01908 201022
The number is for when you need urgent advice and treatment for illness, infections and injuries. It also covers the GP Out of Hours Service for Milton Keynes should you need advice or a GP appointment outside of surgery opening hours.
You can also contact the Urgent Care Centre via the number and to ensure you don’t make an unnecessary journey to the centre, please call the Urgent Care number in the first instance.
In emergencies such as heavy blood loss, chest pains, loss of consciousness or broken bones, always call 999. However, when it’s not an emergency, the Urgent Care helpline is always there.
The clock tower was removed from the school on Saturday 26th November.
It will be going to a joinery company where the rotten wood will be repaired. It is expected that the tower will be re-installed during the February half-term and the clock, which is also being repaired, will be put back shortly afterwards.
The school bell has also been rescued from the tower and is being kept safely.
Emergency funding for the repair was provided by Milton Keynes Council and the whole project is being managed by Milton Keynes Architecture Department.
Thames Valley Police has gone live with 101, the new national single non-emergency number, which will replace the 0845 8 505 505 number.
The 101 number should be used for all non-emergency calls. In an emergency, call 999. Calls to 101 (from both landlines and mobile networks) cost 15 pence per call.
For more information see the guidance on the Thames Valley Police website.
On 2nd and 3rd July , Castlethorpe held its second ‘Open Gardens’. The week-end was a big success for the villagers who showed their gardens and built the scarecrows, for visitors who had a great day out and, incidentally, for some much needed fund-raising!
David Warwick has taken a number of photographs which can now be seen by following this link to the Open Gardens
Football has returned to Castlethorpe with the formation of Castlethorpe Rovers.
Home games will be held at 10.30am on Sundays at the Sports Ground. All welcome to come and support.
Details of home games are in the Village Diary section of the website.
If anyone, regardless of age or ability, would like to join a Castlethorpe Rovers training session, please send a text to Phil Robinson on 07800 576564 and he will give you details.
Further information is available on the Sports Page
The parish council is one of only four MK parishes to win vanguard funding to produce a Neighbourhood Plan with work likely to start in 2012.
The article summarises the successes of the previous Parish Plan and gives details about what the government’s new Neighbourhood Plan will mean for our village so…
Castlethorpe Parish Council has been successful in gaining two grants from MKC’s ‘Parish Partnership Fund’. The grants have to be ‘match funded’ – an equal amount has to be raised by us. One grant is for improvements at the Sports Ground and the other is for the Youth Club for their musical extravaganza.
Both grants are excellent news for the village in these days of cutbacks.
The new play area at the Fishponds was opened on Saturday 11th June by Andy Dransfield, the Milton Keynes Council Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, and Phil Ayles, Chairman of Castlethorpe Parish Council.
The design, which was done by MKC on our behalf, is intended to extend the range of young people who can use the play area even including lounging logs for those who prefer to lounge rather than play!
At the same time, the existing equipment has been refurbished.
This project has taken about three years of work by the Parish Council and funds have been obtained from the Waste Recycling charity (WREN) who will provide £42,800, the government’s PlayBuilder Scheme (£4,700), an MKC Parish Partnership Fund grant of £5,400 and a contribution of £2,700 from the parish precept. This represents excellent value for the village.
Npower Renewables has submitted a scoping report to Milton Keynes Council for 5 wind turbines to be constructed on land between Haversham and Little Linford.
The site is about 1.7 miles from Castlethorpe and the turbines will be clearly visible from the east side of the village.
Public Exhibitions have been held on 6th and 7th May at Haversham.
Milton Keynes Council have reduced a number of services as part of their budget but vigorous campaigning by the parish council and our Ward Councillor have preserved the day time services on the 33 route.
The existing timetable can be downloaded here and the new timetable will be published when available.