A KIND hearted volunteer who would be able to restore a significant signpost in Crediton is being sought by Crediton Town Council.

At its meeting on Tuesday, Cllr John Downes reported that the sign post at Red Hill Cross was in a poor state. He was concerned that this old style sign post could be lost if Devon County Council was to replace it.

Members said the Forches Cross sign post looked so good after Martin Binks restored it that it would be good if someone could do a similar job with the Red Hill Cross one.

Cllr Nick Way, also a county councillor, said that if a volunteer could be found to do the work, the county council could arrange for the post to be removed and delivered for the work to be done.

SAVE OUR ‘LOLLIPOP’

An agenda item has been put for the town council’s policy and forward planning committee to talk about the county council’s plans to do away with school crossing patrols, the lollipop men and women.

Crediton has one, Dave Cann, at the East Street zebra crossing. Cllr Way said he was very concerned at the county council’s plan; the situation with this crossing was “quite disgraceful” and he was not happy that the county council was talking about asking parents and schools to fund these patrols.

He said this crossing patrol not only protected children and parents, but regulated traffic. “Without someone there you would have a stream of people crossing the road and the traffic queue back towards Copplestone would be incredible,” he said.

Town clerk, Mrs Clare Dalley, said the town council had told the county council it was not happy with the plan.

REPORTS

Council chairman, Cllr Frank Letch, had met with representatives of the developers of the Wellparks site for housing who wanted to know what sort of housing the town council might prefer to see at Wellparks. It has been suggested that Saxon Close was worth looking at because people had seemed satisfied with the design.

The town clerk reported that Crediton Hospital League of Friends would hold its annual meeting on March 16 and was hoping to find more committee members and a treasurer.

Although it did not look as if the property the town council had hoped to lease on the High Street was any longer available to it, members agreed that the town council should keep looking for a suitable High Street premises.

Words were exchanged about the content of two items in the council’s current newsletter when Cllr Mike Szabo queried details.

Other members felt the newsletter was bright and informative. Any councillor could contribute articles and councillors congratulated its staff over the amount of work and thought they put into the newsletter.

Cllr Letch added that at meetings before the newsletter was put together the clerk asks for contributions, councillors are sent a draft and it was their duty to check the proofs.

Members voted to support Sandford Parish Council’s Town and Parish fund bid for £1,148 towards renewing and refurbishing the parish play area.

Members agreed with Cllr Downes that the South West Water contractors who had worked on the High Street deserved a letter of thanks.

PLANNING

There was no objection to an application for a certificate of lawfulness for the continued use of Woodcote on Western Road as two separate residential dwellings.

Nor was there objection to an application for change of use of the former Day Care Centre at 1 Bank Place, Market Street into two flats.

The council supported an application to crown reduce one common lime tree it owns in People’s Park by two metres.

The council objected to an application for a two storey extension after demolition of the existing single garage at 39 Tuckers Meadow because the plans did not show where the replacement parking might be.

By Sue Read