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03/2024

Featuring: English expressions; Greenwood Seat; Volunteer Transport; WI Spring sale appeal; WI Community Hall appeal for help; Brookings Down & Eastern Hill Woods update; scam phone calls; Newton & Noss village Hall Lottery; Electric Ferry; Revelstoke Community Trust; Digital Drop-in.

Planning: Pear Tree Cottage Newton Hill; 26 Court Road; 1 The Fairway; Coombe House Noss Mayo;

Whitemoor Cross Holbeton; Millmans 70 Ford; Neighbourhood Plan review.

Whats On: 1st Tuesday Lunch Club; YAS workshop; Cinderella; Holbeton Film Club; Shoresearch Survey; Annual Parish Council Meeting; Neighbourhood Plan review; PUMA Fundraising Supper & Auction; Stroke survivors meeting; WI Community Hall Trust AGM; Songs of Devon with Jim Causley;

St Peters Morning Market; Yealm Garden Society; Thursday Lunch Club; Yealm Parchment Group; YAS Exhibition; Rockpool Safari; Tots and Toddlers Rockpool Safari; Regular Weekly Events; Community Police Surgery; Parish Council Surgery; WI talk on Women Spies; Easter Art Exhibition & sale

 Save the Date: RYDA AGM; WI SPring Sale; Revelstoke Community Trust AGM; Musical Satire in 20th Century; 80thAnniversary of D-Day


02/2024

Featuring: Gallows Humour; Sustainable South Hams; Get involved back stage with NNATS;Change Makers: Climate Adaptation with the Bioregional Learning Centre; Auditions for Shakespear Productions; Yealm Community Energy; Our villages in the past; Phone problems;WI Community Hall committee appeal; WI appeal for items for their Spring Fair.

Planning: River Yealm AkzoNobel remediation;93, Court Road;Williams Quay, Lower Court Road;Cleve Moor, Noss Mayo;Stoke Beach Caravan Park, Noss Mayo,Whitemoor Cross Holbeton,Ford Farmhouse, Ford, Holbeton. and the Neighbourhood Plan.

Whats On: Sea Watch Saturday; Free trees for your garden; Water colour painting with Simon Young;Mooring Holder Representatives;First Tuesday Lunch Club;PC meeting; An evening of music with Annabel Kennedy & David Green; Holbeton Film Club;Fundraising Evening with‘The Blue Jewel Ceilidh Band’;Shoresearch Volunteer Survey; WI talk on Dartmoors Vanished Industries;Change Makers-Climate adaptation;Thursday Lunch Club;Yealm Parchment Group; U3Atalk by the Yealm Medical Centre on the Anima onlineappointment booking system; Trebeurden Newton & Noss Twinning AGM;A screening of "Dear England"; Accessible bowls and Boccia; A list ofRegular Weekly Events around the Parishes of the River Yealm;

Save the date: RNLI Bicentenary Dinner; Sea Watch Saturday; Cinderella; Tealm Art Society Workshop; Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo WI Community Hall AGM; Shore search survey; PUMA fundraising auction & supper; Twinning Association Folk Singer Jim Causley; Rockpool Safari; Tots and toddlers rockpool Safari; St Peters Morning Market; WI Spring Sale; RYDA AGM;Revelstoke Community Trust AGM.



01/2024

Featuring: Strange phrases and expressions; SusSH; Pothole Gang update; Turning the clocks back in time; Election of Mooring Holders Representatives; Noss Lottery; Spirit of the Yealm.

Planning: International Paint Limited; Newton Downs Farm, 7, Riverside Road East, Membland Court, 1 Membland Court.

Whats On: Gentle exercise class; Bridge Club; Digital Drop in; Accessible Bowls; First Tuesday Lunch Club; How do you use the water; Upholstery group; WI Craft & Conversation; WI meeting; PC Meeting; Wembury Marine Conservation Area Advisory Group talk; Dementia Parishes AGM; Yealm Parchment Group; Thursday Lunch Club; Yealm Garden Society; Romeo & Juliet;

Save the Date: First Tuesday Lunch Club;  WI meeting; Thursday Lunch Club; Yealm Art Society; CInderella; An evening of Music with Annabel Kennedy & David Green; RYDA AGM


12/2023

Featuring: The meaning of December; Pantomime; Some Strange British Festive Customs;

RYDA committee meeting minutes; Brookings Down &  Eastern Hill Woods; Last posting dates 2023; Mobile libraries; Turtle strandings; Newton & Noss Lottery; renaming the AONB; Christmas rubbish collections; WI Trauma Teddies; Face book; 

Planning: commenting on Planning applications; Northshore, Riverside Road West & Tides Reach 8 Yealm View Road. Collaton Update; Construction Management Plans.

Whats On: Charity Bridge Drive; 1st Tuesday Lunch Club; Christmas Fair; Christmas Coffee Morning; Pop-up Art sale; Thursday Lunch Club; From Lapland to Broadway - a Christmas Spectacular; Holbeton film club; Making Space for Nature & People; WI Christmas Lunch; WI Craft group; Yealm Parchment Group; Carols around the Christmas tree; Dementia Diary; Digital Drop -ins; U3aTalk

Save the Date: Parish Council meeting; Dementia Parishes AGM; Cinderella

11/2023

Featuring:- The Meaning of November; Fireworks and how they work; Turning the Devil’s Boulder; Tar Barrel Rolling; Redwings and fieldfares; Winter nuts & Berries; Neighbourhood Plan; Newton & Noss Lottery results; 

Planning:- 13 The Fairway, 1 Membland Court, Ronsford, Stoke Road, Cleve Moor, Noss Mayo,

Land at SX 543 782 Noss Mayo

Whats On:- Bonfire night fireworks; Pig Racing; Identification of whales, dolphins and seabirds;

1st Tuesday Lunch Club; An Evening of Remembrance;  Yealm Art Society Open meeting; Sea Watch Sunday; Shoresearch Survey; Holbeton Film Club; Remembrance Sunday Service; Neighbourhood Plan Review; Kristien Harris - Magician; Thursday Lunch Club; Dementia Parishes AGM; Wildcat, Woodcat, Bad Cat, Good Cat?; An evening of Dinner & Kurling; Gig Rowing Club AGM; Yealm Parchment Group; Yealm Gardening Society; U3A talk “All at Sea & Up the Creek”; Dementia diary for November; Charity Bridge Drive; Christmas Fair; Christmas Coffee Morning; Pop-up Art  sale;  Thursday Lunch Club Christmas Lunch; From Lapland to Broadway - a Christmas Spectacular; Sea Watch Saturday!; Cinderella

10/2023

Featuring:- The meaning of October; Hiring Fairs; Punky Night; Soul Cakes; Joint Neighbourhood Plan Review and Collaton Housing Event;  Boatwatch; Historic England Archive’s USAAF Collection;

Court Woodland permitted paths; the Electric Water Taxi service; PUMA.

Planning:- 8 The Fairway; 5 Butts Park; 93 Yealm Road. Collaton update.

Whats On:- Extreme Rockpool Safari; Harmonies for Ukraine; Harvest Festival; Shoresearch volunteer survey; First Tuesday Lunch Club; Digital Drop-In; Divertimento Quartet; Bob Team Hudson; Tree Seed Sunday; WI Craft & Conversation; Free National Trust pass; NNATS is back; Plymouth Philharmonic Choir; South Devon Marine Strandings Network Volunteer Training Day; YAS workshop; Holbeton Film Club; YAS; U3A talk - Devons Bridges; 

Yealm Parchment Group; Silk scarf dying with Angela; Yealm energy; Coffee Morning;

Thursday Lunch Club; Pig Racing Night; Whale, Dolphin and Seabird ID course; Neighbourhood Plan; Evening of Remembrance; Christmas Concert; CINDERELLA

09/2023

Featuring:- The origin of September; Calling the Mare; Corn Dollies;Michaelmas Day; Goose Day; Curfew; Wasps;the Electric Water Taxi service;new railings at the steps toNoss Voss;River Yealm Remediation;Joint Neighbourhood Plan Review and Collaton Housing Event;Help me Angela; Brookingsdown & Eastern Hill Woods; Holy Cross Clock Project & Scam phone calls. N&N Lottery

Planning :94A Court Road;14 Butts Park;83 Court Road;Corston, Stoke Road;Point View;101 Yealm Road;71 Yealm Road &46 The Fairway

Whats On:- Snorkle Safaris; Extreme Rockpool Safaris;First Tuesday Lunch Club; Adult rockpool & snorkle safaris; Life beneath the waves; Midsummers nights dream; Holbeton Film Club;Wi Craft Group;Yealm Parchment class;El Galeón;Digital Drop-ins;Regatta Prize giving;Regatta Ball;Neighbourhood Plan Review; Noss Mayo Apple Day;WI talk on Aloe Vera;St Peters Pet Service; YAS working with a pallet knife;Yealm Gardens SocietyTalk on the Restoration of Hestercombe Gardens; U3A Late Summer Party;Night-Time Rockpool Safari;Thursday Lunch Club; Harmonies for Ukraine; Holy Cross Harvest Festival & Lunch;Shoresearch volunteer survey;Tree Seed Sunday; Plymouth Philharmonic Choir; YAS pastel landscapes; Cabaret evening with Kris Harris; Whale, Dolphin and Seabird Identification & Try Baked Apples Filled with Sausage. Dementia friendly Parishes Diary

08/2023

Featuring:- August and its festivals; Apathy; The Long-horned mining Bee; Life on the Edge;

Volunteer Transport Scheme - PAL; Dementia Friendly Villages Job Vacancy & Program; British Listed Buildings appeal; Holy Cross Clock Restoration Project; Joint Neighbourhood Plan Review and Collaton Housing Event; Yealm Community Energy Share Offer.

Planning:- Court Orchard 9 Court Road; Riverside Road West Newton Ferrers; 7 Riverside Road East Newton Ferrers; Oystercatchers 79 Yealm Road; Newton Ferrers County Primary School;

Searush Revelstoke Road Noss Mayo; Agora House Stoke Road; 34 Coach Road Noss Mayo;

The Mooring Newton Hill; 5 Yealm Road.

Whats On:- Regatta Events; The selfish shellfish; First Tuesday Lunch Club; National Marine Week Rockpool Safari; Extreme Rockpool & Shoresearch Survey; WI Meeting; Yealm Parchment Group; St Peter's Village Fete; RNLI Art sale.

Save the Date:- Night-Time Rockpool Safari; Snorkel Safari; Extreme Rockpool Safari; Midsummers nights Dream; Kris Harris – Magician:

 


07/2023

Featuring:- The origin of July; Sunscreen and sun safety; Heatwaves, heatstroke and heat exhaustion; Be tick aware; Water safety; The “Life on the Edge Project”; N&N village Hall update;  Report it right; Lottery Results;

Planning:- pollution around the Paint Laboratories; land adjacent to the new “Poppy Cottage;

Whats On:- First Tuesday Lunch Club; N&N WI; Holbeton Film Club; Yealm Regatta; Life on the Shore; Snorkel Safari; Tots & Toddlers Rockpool Safari; Yealm Parchment group; Defibrilator Awareness; 4th Thursday Lunch Club; Coastal Wildlife Walk; Regatta Fireworks; Night-Time Rockpool Safari; Dementia Parishes Diary.

Save the date:- Rockpool Safari; Midsummers nights Dream;Kris Harris – Magician:

 

 

06/2023

Featuring:- June & Juno; Life on the edge; Learn Devon; The New Electric Water Taxi; new U13s football club; Post Office Shop Appeal; NNVH Lottery results April & May; 

Planning:- Highfield, Parsonage Road.

Whats On:- Tuesday Lunch club; Yealm Art Society, Painting birds; WI Talk; Holbeton Film Club, Chorals by the Creek; WI Craft Group; Mevagissy Male voice choir; Yealm Parchment group;

guided snorkel around Wembury Bay's rocky reefs; Rockpool Safari; PUMA Craft Fair; Midsummer Poetry Evening; Thursday Lunch Club NNVH; YCE  AGM; Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir;

Plymouth Symphony Orchestra; 

Save the Date: Yealm Regatta; Snorkel Safari; Tots & Toddlers Rockpool Safari; Extreme Rockpool & Shoresearch Survey; Life on the Shore; Defib Awareness; Midsummers nights Dream; Kris Harris – Magician: 

05/2023

Featuring:-May Day celebrations; The Coronation; Blue bells in our Woodlands; Plymouth Ukraine Medical Aid; Devon banks; Volunteer Transport; 65 Degrees North; WI thanks following Easter Fair; Help Protect Wembury's Special Wildlife;  Yealm Community Energy; 

Planning:- Changes to Parking Restrictions; Consultations on a proposed Registration Scheme, new Permitted Development Rights and Use Classes for short-term lets; Paint laboritory;

The Post House, Pillory Hill; Mary steps, Church Park & 46 The Fairway

Whats On:- Gentle exercise class; Tuesday Lunch Club; Newton & Noss Village Hall AGM; WI Craft Group; Holbeton Film Club; Passage Race; Yealm Parchment Craft Group; History of Devon Air Ambulance; Yealmpton Bowling Club Open Day; Dame Hannah's cream tea & talk;

Thursday Lunch Club; Meet the bees at Mothercombe; Learn About the Wonders of Noss Mayo & other events by "Life on the Edge"

04/2023

Featuring:- Aprils Fools Day; Current scams; Parish Council elections; International Paints Laboratory; Harbour Clean Up; Newton & Noss Lottery; RYDA AGM

Planning:- Langdale Noss Mayo. & Yealm Gig Rowing Club Development Plan

Whats On:- St Peter's Morning Market; Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir; Tuesday Lunch CLub; WI Easter Fair; Easter hat competition for under 11's; Yealm Art Society; Pop Up Tea Room; PUMA; Thursday Lunch CLub; Yealm Bowling Club; Harbour Clean Up; Harbour AGM; RBL talk - Guarding the Monarch & Country, whilst avoiding the chopping block!; Yealm Parchment Group, RYDA AGM; Scarecrow Trail; WI Craft Group; Revelstoke Community Trust;  Big Lunch; Meet the Bees; Defib training.

03/2023   

Featuring:- Easter Traditions; Parish Council Elections; Village Directory; Wheat Bags; Brookings Down Wood New Shed. Newton & Noss Village hall Lottery.

Planning:-Newton Downs Farm; Briar Hill Farm, & 92 Court Road.  

Whats On:- YAS - playing with pointillism; Parish Council Meeting; Tennis Club AGM; Tuesday Lunch Club; U3A Talk with Clive Jenkins; Ring for the King; Holbeton Film CLub; Yealm Parchment Craft Group; WIC Hall AGM; Thursday Lunch Club; Digital Drop In; Gardeners Question Time; Drop Spindle Spinning; Dementia Friendly Parishes Programme; St Peter's Morning Market; WI Easter Fair; Pop Up Tea Room; Yealm Bowling Club; Harbour Clean Up; RBL talk - Guarding the Monarch & Country, whilst avoiding the chopping block!; RYDA AGM; Scarecrow Trail; Revelstoke Community Trust.

02/2023

Featuring:-Valentine's Day; Who is Cupid/Eros? Ring for the King; CLT Awards; Brookings Down & Eastern Hill Woods; Village Directory; Parish Council Roads & Highways Update; International Paint Ltd; Parish Council Vacancy. Noss Village Lottery

Planning:- 48 Yealm Road; Linden Lea Church Park; 71 Yealm Road; Butts Park; Collaton Park

Whats on:-Divertimento Quartet; Yeal Art Society (impressionistic style); 1st Tuesday Lunch Club; WI talk - Poldark - Mining in Cornwall; WI Craft Group, Coffee & Chat; Yealm Parchment Craft; Digital Drop In; Holbeton Film CLub; Dementia Friendly Parishes Programme; U3A talk -  Cyber Security; Thursday Lunch Club; Quiz Night; WI Craft group Sunrise Yarn Art; YAS - playing with pointillism; St Peter's Morning Market; WI Easter Fair; RBL talk - Guarding the Monarch & Country, whilst avoiding the chopping block! Soup for HUgs for Henry.

01/2023

Featuring:- New Years Resolutions; December's chilly weather; John Allen; Newton & Noss Parish Consultation (cut off date tomorrow 3/1/23);

Planning is in short supply but there is a bit about the deli on the green;

Whats On:- 1st Tuesday Lunch Club; U3A talk; Digital drop-in's;WI evening talk “Milan~The Italian Job” ; Holbeton Film Club; Yealm Parchment Group; Yealm Art Society; WI Craft Group; Thursday Lunch Club; Yealm Garden Society & the diary of events from the Dementia Friendly Parishes around the Yealm (You dont need to have dementia to join in - most of us dont have it)


12/2022

Featuring:- Christmas through the ages; video of the new electric ferry; Brookings Down Wood & Eastern Hill Wood; The RYDA Village Directory; Westcountry Rivers Trust’s Analysis of the Environment Agency’s published data; Yealm Community Energy tips to keep warm; Villages Christmas Card Delivery; Spirit of the Yealm Update; Dementia Friendly Parishes Newsletter' Lottery results.

Planning:- “Westerly” site at 59 Yealm Road; Tylecroft, Stoke Road; Membland House; Highbank, 5 Yealm View Road; 10, Munro Avenue, Collaton Park; 1 Pillory Hill & Wyndcroft, 6 Church Park.

Whats On:- U3A talk; Carer Support AGM; Holy Cross Christmas Fair; Plymouth Phiharmonic Choir; Holbeton Film Club; St Peter's Revelstoke Christmas Coffee Morning; Christmas Music for All; Tuesday Lunch Club; Carols around the tree on the green; Plans for Wembury New Barton Farm; Family Carols around the tree; An evening of Christmas Music; Gentle exercise class; Upright fitness class

11/2022

Featuring:- WHAT AN HONOUR!; Remembering the Falklands; Please Keep a Secret;More Bees and Butterflies in your Garden?; Digital Drop In;Teaching Kids to Sail; Gig rowing for Children; Christmas Card Delivery;The Environment Agency court case against International Paints; Lottery results.

Planning:-Linden Lea, Church Park (affecting Yealm Road), Newton Ferrers.& 59 Yealm Road

Whats On:-WI Craft Group; Neighbourhood Plan; Gentle Exercise Class; Artisan Christmas Craft Fair; Holbeton Film Club; Remembrance Sunday; Tennis Club Quiz night;Yealm Parchment Craft

Regatta AGM; YAS Painting Workshop; Kurling evening; U3A talk; Thursday Lunch Club; Carers support group AGM; Holy Cross Christmas Fair; Tuesday Lunch Club; Carols round the Christmas Tree; An evening of Christmas Music; Dementia Parishes Diary

10/2022

Featuring:- The State Gun-Carriage; VH Façade refurbishment completed; RNLI Thanks to local artists; Libraries open their doors tosupport local residents this winter; Yealm Estuary to Moor; Foraging Seaweed; N&N Village Hall Lottery results; Royal Mail Strike dates

Planning:- High Bank, Yealm View Road; Barnicott, Bridgend Hill; 71 Yealm Road

Whats On:- Upright fitness; Autumn Fashion Show; Divertimento String Quartet; WI Table top sale; WI Craft group; The NNATS; Yealm Regatta Prize giving; Coffee, Cake & Chat; Neighbourhood Plan; Art Trail; Dementia Support Group Coffee & Chat; Painting together; Yealm Parchment Craft;

Gardening in a changing climate; Yealm Dementia Support activities diary; WI Talk on Robins; Duplicate Bridge; Holy Cross Christmas Fair


09/2022

Featuring:- The reason daddy long legs appear in homes and why you shouldn't kill them; focus on yourself, and learn a new skill; Peter Prichard; Brookings Down and Eastern Hill Woods; Photography Competition; Bedroom to Business, 10 Weeks of Free Support; Yealm Community Energy; 

Planning:- Butts Park; 1 Church Park; Menryn, Court Wood; Even Keel, Pillory Hill; Cleeve, 83 Court Road; The Porthole 27 Yealm Road; Point Cottage; Willow Brook, Riverside Road West;

92 Court Road;

Whats On: Artistick story time; Apple Day cancelled; Holbeton Film Club; WI Craft group; Ray Balkwill talks about his work; Ocean Memories at National Marine Aquarium; Thursday lunch club; Fascinating drawing techniques with Anna Ventura; Coffee, cake & Chat; Yealm Parchment craft; Yealm Garden Society; The life of a costume designer; WI table top sale; Dementia parishes diary; A talk by General, The Lord Houghton of RIchmond; Autumn Fashion Show; Divertimento String Quartet

08/2022

Featuring: stunning photographs of wild life in our area; A joint statement from South Hams District Council and FCC Environment Limited on South Hams recycling, waste, street and toilet cleaning services; Strutt Safe; River water quality;  My Place, My Views;  Noss village Lottery

Planning:Poppy Cottage, Riverside Road West; Riversmead 2 Church Park Road &  Cleeve, 83 Court Road.

Whats On: Wembury Pirate Day & Treasure Hunt; Coffee Morning at Holy Cross; Rock Pool Safari's;  Holbeton Film Club; Snorkel Safari; Pop Up Arts and Crafts; Yealm Parchment Craft; Life Boats Art Sale; St Peters Revelstoke Village Fete; Dementia Parishes Diary; Dance Fusion; Community Orchard Apple Day; WI Table Top Sale

07/2022

Featuring:  Foraging; Noss Green Benches; What the RYDA does for you; Yealm Community Electric Transport : Electric Water Taxi Project; free website-checking tool; New defibrillator at Butts Park; A reminder of the Jubilee; Newton & Noss Village Hall 200 Club lottery.

Planning:  Mossgara House; Butts Park; The Blossoms Lower Court Road; Land at Collaton

Whats On: Tuesday Lunch Club; Orb & Sceptre Concert; Shark Day Egg case Hunt; National Whale & Dolphin Watch; Thursday Lunch Club; Yealm Parchment group; Flower Pot trail; Pop Up Arts and Crafts; RNLI Art Sale; Holy Cross Coffee Mornings; Dementia Support News; Regatta Dance; Holbeton Film Club; Upright fitness Classes; Tuesday Lunch Club; Regatta Fireworks; Rock up & row; St Peter’s Revelstoke Village Fete; Digital Drop in; Wembury Pirate Day & Treasure Hunt

Jubilee Special : Photographs of celebrations in the  villages around the River Yealm

06/2022

Featuring: slugs & Snails; Newton & Noss Village Hall 200 Club Lottery; International Paint Ltd.

Planning: Collaton.

Whats On: Digital Drop in; Holbeton Film Club; RNLI Yacht & Dinghy Passage Race; Yealm Parchment Craft Group; Yealm Art Society; Poetry at St Peter the Poor Fisherman; The  AGM for Yealm Community Energy; Thursday Lunch Club; Dementia Support Group Diary; YYC Community Sailing; Talk by Johnny Mercer; Opera in the Garden; River Yealm Regatta dates;

St Peters Revelstoke Village fete; 

05/2022

Featuring: Wood anemones; Bluebells; Rare Wild Orchids; Parking; Speed Limits; Village lengthsman vacancy; honey bee swarm season; Thank you Andrew Beveridge; Ukraine related activity in Newton and Noss; Newton & Noss Village Hall 200 Club Lottery – May 2022 Draw Results; The garden waste service.

Planning: Collaton.

Whats On: Holy Cross Coffee Morning; U3A flower arranging group; Wurlitza presents Diary of a Lost Girl; Holbeton Film Club; Pope’s Quay 40th Celebration; Yealm Parchment Craft Group; Newton & Noss Plant Sale; Holy Cross Jubilee Crown event; Understanding Evasive Species; Treluggan Boat Jumble; Beginner Snorkel Safaris; Holbeton Players present 50years of Music and Comedy; Jubilee Big Lunch; Poetry at St Peter the Poor Fisherman; Dementia Support Group May diary; U3A Table tennis; Jubilee Flower Pot Competition; Yealm Yacht Club Regatta date changes;  Yealmpton Bowling Club; Yealm Cycling Club

04/2022

Featuring: Don’t Spring into a garden clean up too soon; Oniscidae; Make a small pond;

it looks like being a good year for bluebells; A New defibrillator in Brixton; help to find the cheapest fuel; Commenting on Planning Applications;

Whats On: RYDA AGM; Jubilee Flower Project Competition; St Peter's AGM; Revelstoke Community Trust Grant Application forms; Newton & Noss Village Hall AGM; Holy Cross Coffee Morning; Tuesday & Thursday Lunch Clubs; Yealm Cycling Club; Yealm Gig Club AGM;

N&N Environment Group talk; Yealm Parchment Craft Group; Spring Art E|xhibition & Sale; Queen's Jubillee Royal Crown Event; Yealm Regatta Date Changes; Queen's Jubillee Big Lunch; Diary of a Lost Girl; Whittling Workshop;Dementia Friends diary; Rock Pool Safari's

Planning Applications:  Venta, 71 Yealm Road & Climate Change mitigation within future planning applications for development


03/2022

Featuring: Storms, Space weather & Radio blackouts; RYDA AGM; Newton Ferrers & Noss Mayo WI Commumunity Hall AGM; Newton and Noss Village Hall AGM; Twinning with Trebeurden; Thursday Lunch Club; Life on the Verge, a talk on rewilding public spaces; New Parchment Craft Group starting in March;  Dementia Friends diary; garden waste service is restarting; Harbour Authority daily Launch fees; Harbour Clean-up; St Peter's morning market; Verdi' Requiem @ Plymouth Guildhall; Plymouth Music Accord; Platinum Jubilee Big Lunch; Changes to dates of Yealm Regatta; Brookings Down Wood & Eastern Hill Wood; Clocks spring forward; Newton & Noss Lottery results

Planning Applications Include: Linden Lea on Yealm Road & Collaton

02/2022

Featuring: Viruses of the digital kind; Business & IP Centre Devon; Defibrilator Training; Defibrilator Locations; Community singing with the Villageaires; back stage crew wanted for pantomime; The Wizard of Noz; Dementia Friends diary; Digital Drop-ins; Lunch Clubs;

Yealm Garden Society talk; Gentle exercise classes restarting in Newton Ferrers;  Saint Valentine; The Highway Code changes for 2022: are you aware of the new rules?

Planning Issues include: The Old Paint Laboratory - 101 Yealm Road, Newton Ferrers; Land West of Collaton Park, & Land at Butts Park,

01/2022

Featuring: Viruses; Brookings Down & Eastern Hill Woods; Dementia Friendly Parishes around the Yealm diary & News; Harbour clean up 2022; Thursday Lunch Club;

Kurling evening Cancelled; Vehicle Activated Sign at Butts Park; Digital Inclusion Cancelled; 

Yealm Garden Society; Defibrilator Training; U3A talk on Agatha Christie; Book Troop - An online book group; NHS COVID Pass; Newton & Noss Village Hall 200 Club Lottery;

Planning Applications Include: The Old Paint Laboratory - 101 Yealm Road, Newton Ferrers;

Briar Hill, Poppy Cottage, Riverside Road West, Blossoms, Lower Court Road, & Land West of Collaton Park, Land at Butts Park,

The following older newsletters have been archived. If you would like to access a copy, please contact   rydamembers@yahoo.co.uk

12/2021

Featuring: How trees “Talk”; The 12 days of Christmas; Christmas Carols on the Green @ Newton Ferrers; Carols round the Tree @ Noss; Brookings Down & Eastern Hill Woodlands; Newton & Noss Village Lottery; Tree Planting; Opportunity for community electric transport on the Yealm; Digital Social Drop-In; Yealm Art Society visit.

Planning Applications Include: The Old Paint Laboratory - 101 Yealm Road, Newton Ferrers; 48 Court Road, Newton Ferrers & Land West of Collaton Park

 

11/2021

Featuring: The Wood Wide Web; Court Woodland; Tree planting Update; Cellars Beach Footpath; Bonfires; Tuesday & Thursday Lunch Clubs; Christmas Fair @ Holy Cross; Yealm Artists 4Dementia; St Peter's Coffee Morning; Christmas card deliveries; Dementia Parishes Diary; RNLI Race night; Yealm Garden society meeting; Royal British Legion Centenary Dinner & Auction; Digital Social Drop-In;  Yealm Regatta AGM; Spirit of Regatta Exhibition; Carols round the Christmas Tree; & The Holy Cross Raffle.

Planning Applications Include: Point Cottage Noss Mayo; Glen Cottage, Riverside Road West; Rodmells, 8 Church Park Road; Menryn, Court Wood; Land Opposite Butts Park, Newton Ferrers; The Old Paint Laboratory - 101 Yealm Road; & Land West of Collaton Park

 

10/2021

Featuring: Moths, Caterpillars & Creepy crawlies; Woodlands and Foraging; Quietly flows the Yealm; The WI Community Hall Management Committee; Digital Drop In Sessions; Lunch Clubs; St Peter's Market; Yealm Community Energy; Newton & Noss Village Hall Lottery; Yealm Art Society Workshop; Brookings Down & Eastern Hill Woods; Yealm Gardens Society; The NNATS; 

Planning Applications Include: Ash Die Back; Waters Edge and Hillside, Bridgend Hill, & Newton & Noss Community Land Trust regarding Collaton & Butts Park; and Agroforestry

09/2021

Featuring: Bats; The Yealm Estuary to Moor Project; Biodiversity at solar farm; How will wildlife be affected with larger building projects such as Collaton?; Hedgehog breeding season & health; Brookings Down & Eastern Hill Woods; Thursday Lunch Club; activities restarting after lock down; Yealm Art Society workshop; Holbeton Film Club; Newton & Noss Village Hall Lottery; Royal British Legion Centenary Concert; help for Newton & Noss village hall needed.

Planning Applications include : Venta on Yealm Road (adjacent to Doctors Steps)

08/2021

Featuring: Slow Worms; Italian wall lizards; Disabled Parking spaces; The Devon Artists Network; The Thursday Lunch Club; The Tour of Britain Cycle Race; RNLI art sale; Newton & Noss Village Hall Lottery; St Peter's Village fete.

Planning Applications include : Morningside 4 Riverside Road East; Wycherley, 66 Yealm Road;

Briar Hill Farm, Court Road Newton Ferrers; Riversmead, 2 Church Park Road; Collaton Cross & 

the old International Paints Site.


07/2021

Featuring: Newton Ferrers Pirate; Yealm Regatta flag; Re wilding; spiders webs;

Newton and Noss WI wildflower planting; Stag Beetles; The Regatta Dance; Scarecrow Competition and Trail; Cricket match

Planning Applications include : Hillside, Newton Hill; 105 Court Road - Helm Crag;

Glen Cottage, Riverside Road; 3 Briar Hill Farm; Venta, 71 Yealm Road

06/2021

Featuring: River Scours; The Oppies are back; John Allen; Newton & Noss Village Hall update; Dementia Parishes Around the Yealm; 41st year celebrations of Yealm CC;

Recycling; Coronavirus (COVID-19) rapid lateral flow tests; Court Woodland update; The

dandelion; Wembury Marine Centre Event; The N & N Coronavirus Emergency Fund

Planning Applications

05/2021

Featuring:  George Pollexfen Archer & the Archer Family;  Hedgehog Awareness; 

Brookings Down & Eastern Hill Woods Update; Newton & Noss bric-a-brac sale; Illegal parking; YEALM Medical Centre & Covid Vaccinations; Bee wild; Be our eagle eyes say police

Planning Applications include : The Fairway;  land off Court Wood, &  Mount Pleasant, Stoke Road

04/2021

Featuring:-When is Spring?; Neve and Freya have been raising funds for the Marine conservation society; Litter; A new, refreshed Countryside Code; Proposed Collaton Development; Water quality in the Yealm; Rip tides; New Mooring holders on the harbour board: Ancestral Mathematics; Events to look forward to &  The Paint Laboratory

03/2021  

Featuring:- Livestock Worrying; "Spirit of the Yealm" update; cliff falls; Yealm Cricket club event; Newton and Noss Village Hall AGM; more free things to do; A3121/A379 Road works; Slow worms; Wildflower Verges for Insects; Royal British Legion event; RYDA Harbour Clean-up; Dog thefts

Planning Applications include : 14 Butts Park - proposed front and rear dormer extensions and single storey rear extension; 3 Briar Hill Farm – Variation of design & Mossgara, Pillory Hill, Slope stabilisation and associated works.

02/2021

Featuring:-  Spring, a time of Hope; Respect - Protect – Enjoy; Celebrate what’s on your doorstep and #ExploreFromYourDoor; Local Footpaths; How to raise your property value in ten minutes; Wembury Marine Centre Update; Dog Fouling; Cliff falls & Newton & Noss Village Hall lottery

01/2021

Featuring:- Planning during Covid; How you can play an important part in planning; Dog fouling; Vacancy for RYDA Secretary; The N & N Coronavirus Emergency Fund; Lockdown freebies; Brookings Down Wood & Eastern Hill Wood Winter Update; Fake texts ergarding Covid tests; Vacancy for Part-time Parish Clerk

13/2020

Featuring:- 2020 a brief review; Christmas facts; recycling; Newton and Noss Village Hall;

Seagrass; a mini reading challenge for children; Libraries Christmas hours;

The Newton & Noss Parking debate; Yealm Community Energy Community Fund 2020; &

the death of two of RYDA members.

Planning Applications include : Cleve Moor Noss Mayo & Boathouse and Quay at Tamarinda, Yealm View Road.

12/2020

Featuring: Autum updates from Brookings Down, Eastern Hill and Court Woodlands; Woodland Bathing; Things to do during Lockdown; REMEMBRANCE 2020; Lock down Activities to keep you sane; The N & N Coronavirus Emergency Fund; BUTTS PARK OUTDOOR GYM CLOSURE; Estuaries- South Devon AONBDid (Opinions of Motorboaters sought); Libraries Unlimited.

Planning Applications include : Yonder Coombe, Hillhead and land south of Lochalsh, Lower Court Road

11/2020

Featuring: Remembrance Services; 2021 Harbour Clean Up; Change of RYDA Chairman; Yealm Community Energy Update; South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty;

Newton and Noss Village Hall Renovation Project; The Great Plague v Coronavirus;

See the wonders of the world without getting on a plane; Lock down Entertainment;

Hedgehogs & Bonfire night; Letters from Santa

10/2020

Featuring: Solar panel group-buying scheme; Court Woodland; Brookings Down and Eastern Hill Woods; Climb aboard the Mayflower; COVID-19; QR Code Soon to be Legally Required, &

The Government is proposing some significant changes to the Planning system. 

09/2020

Featuring: Parking and traffic problems; Newton and Noss Village Hall appeal; Newton & Noss in 1895; Traffic speed; Jungles Under the Sea; Did you know?

Planning applications include: Wycherley, 66 Yealm Road & appeal re boathouse at Tamarinda, Yealm View Road


08/2020

Featuring:- Scams, telephone boxes, Cellars Bay Seagrass Meadow, The mobile Library, Parking, Fly tipping, St Lukes Gardens, our whimsical item. 

Planning applications include: Rosemont and Woodville on Pillory Hill.



07/2020

Featuring:- RYDA update; Dog control Consultation; Additions to "Spirit of the Yealm"; Photographic competition with Yealm Bio Blitz; An update on the Harbour Clean-up; Suggested walks; Strange but true Trivia.

Planning applications include: Land at Kegwell Farm, Newton Ferrers, PL8 & Newton & Noss Housing

06/2020

Featuring:- Commenting on Planning Applications; An addition to "The Spirit of the Yealm";

Local Wildlife; The history of current day sayings; Free stuff during Lockdown; Food for Free.

Planning applications include: The Retreat, Riverside Road West; 46 The Fairway; Collaton

05/2020

Featuring:- Virus update; Additions to "The Spirit of the Yealm"; News from Plymouth Libraries; County Lines; recycling centres; River Yealm Harbour Authority;

Planning applications include: The Mooring, Newton Hill; Builder’s Yard opposite the Old Lifeboat House, Yealm Road; Ferrymans Cottage, Passage Road. 

04/2020

Featuring:- free web sites for entertainment and self improvement; Parish Council Out of Hours Phone number; Our Woodlands; Scams; what to do with glass bottles; National Garden Scheme; Wild Garlic; Dementia Friendly Parishes around the Yealm; Covid Guidelines;    

Planning applications include: Swans Way, Pillory Hill; The Retreat, Riverside Road West;

The Smithy, 61 Stoke Road, Bridgend; Rowan Orchard, Bridgend; Tamarinda, 11 Yealm View Road.

  

03/2020

Featuring:- free web sites for entertainment and self improvement; Road Verges for Wildflower Corridors; Fresh Fish Delivery; Plymouth Digital Library & Yealm Community Energy

02/2020

Featuring:- Court Woodland; free web sites for entertainment and self improvement.

Planning applications include: Land opposite Lifeboat House, Yealm Road; Carradale, Passage Road & Rosemont, 42 Yealm Road.

01/2020

Featuring;- RYDA AGM 2020; Harbour clean up; Air Ambulance landing area & litter.

Planning applications include: Construction Management Plans; Woodville; Pedestrian access from Barnicott cottage tennis court; The Retreat, Riverside Road West; 1 Church Park & the

Old paint laboratory

The following older newsletters have been archived. If you would like to access a copy, please contact   rydamembers@yahoo.co.uk

04/2019

Featuring :- Purchase of Part of Court Wood; New RYDA Committee members; Further additions to the “Spirit of the Yealm” book; feedback to response following the Yealm Road Parking questionnaire; 

03/2019

Featuring :-Village Parking Group; “Dementia Friendly Parishes around the Yealm”;

Purchase of Part of Court Wood; RYDA Committee members appeal.

Planning applications for:- Smithy Cottage; Poppy Cottage on Riverside Road West, and for a new dwelling on adjacent land & land to the South of Lochalsh, Lower Court Road


02/2019

Featuring:- coffee morning and chat organised between the village post office and the “Dementia Friendly Parishes around the Yealm”; Village Parking; “The Spirit of the Yealm” local history book & appeal for volunteer drivers.

Planning applications for:- Woodville, Pillory Hill, Noss Mayo & The Old Signal Station

01/2019

Featuring:- RYDA AGM; New courses and activities; Lunch Clubs & Life on the Yealm.

Planning applications  for:- house on land adjacent to Barnicott; self-build dwelling North of Perches Close, Membland; 2 new properties on Stoke Road, near the junction with Pillory Hill & the Public toilets

05/2018

Featuring:- Popes Quay; Winter driving; The villagers' get-away; Changes to the Committee & Yealm Community Energy. Planning applications  for:- A new house on Stoke Road near Junket Corner; and a new 2 bedroomed cottage on Lower Court Road

04/2018

Featuring:- Commonwealth War Graves; The source of the River Yealm; An appeal for photographs, information & help.  Planning applications for:- Briar Hill Farm &  a new quay and Boat house

03/2018

Featuring:- THE GREAT PILGRIMAGE (GP90) . The Launch of the RYDA web site; The parking study group & the Neighbourhood plan for Newton and  Noss. Planning applications for:- The land opposite Thorndean; The Moorings on Newton Hill ; The Lookout & 29, The Fairway.

02/2018

Featuring:- AGM; Harbour Clean up; Twinning; GDPR; Neighbourhood Plan. Planning applications for:- Yealm Hotel; Old Reservior House; 8 Perches Close; Tamerinda, Yealm View Road & Landfall, Court Wood.

01/2018

Featuring:- Professor Richard Thompson OBE ; charitable causes; the Post Office/Community Shop; Dolphins in the entrance to Newton Creek; the solar farm at Newton Downs; The RYDA AGM & planning applications for Landfall, Court Wood and Tamarinda, Yealm View Road


11/2017

Featuring: - Eastern Hill Wood; local community fund and the village hall in Noss. Planning applications for 48 Yealm Road & Briar Hill Farm


10/2017

Featuring: - the Post Office/Community Shop and its future


09/2017

Featuring: - New format newsletter; AONB; the Plymouth and South Devon local plan; N3P; Planning applications


08/2017

Featuring: - One council & the Post Office/Community Shop. Planning applications include: Steps Cottage; Westerley & Barnicott


07/2017

Featuring: - One council; the Post Office/Community Shop; Planning applications include: Yealm Hotel; the Fairway & the Tea House


06/2017

Featuring: - The water tower; the Post Office; Yealm Hotel; the Fairway & the Tea House


05/2017

Featuring: - The Yealm Hotel; the Co-op, & the neighbourhood plan. Planning applications include: The Tea House; Barnicott; 9 Butts Park; 10 Acre Archers Court & Brook Bakery


04/2017

Featuring :- The Yealm Hotel; The Co-op; Affordable housing; Brookings Down Wood & Eastern Wood and the Harbour Clean-up.


03/2017

Featuring: - The Yealm Hotel


02/2017

Featuring:- Eastern hill wood; The neighbourhood plan; Dye testing of the sewers; The harbour clean-up & Worswell Barton Farm


01/2017

Featuring: - RYDA 2016 Honours list; the Yealm Hotel; The neighbourhood plan; Eastern wood & RYDA web site


06/2016

Featuring: - Planning Application:  Extension to the Fairway


05/2016

Featuring: - Newton and Noss neighbourhood plan; the Yealm Hotel, smart meters, & the Lord Seaton


04/2016

Featuring:- Newton and Noss neighbourhood plan & the Fitzroy Barometers. Planning Application Parsonage Farm


03/2016

Featuring: - Eastern Hill Wood


02/2016

Featuring: - Housing needs survey; Harbour clean up; & AGM reminder


01/2016

Featuring: - Superfast Broadband (SFBB) for Newton & Noss; Work on the A379 to start in April? & Newton Downs Farm solar energy


06/2015

Featuring: - Local crime and neighbourhood watch; Congratulations to our Primary School; RYDA Website & village woodlands


05/2015

Featuring: - The Yealm Hotel


04/2015

Featuring: - The neighbourhood plan; Parish assets; Noss Steps; the Yealm Hotel & Village development boundaries


03/2015

Featuring: - South Hams District Council elections; Newton and Noss Parish Council elections; Affordable housing & Public consultation over the Parsonage Farm project


02/2015

Featuring: - Local bus service & the elections


01/2015

Featuring: - The elections; RYDA AGM & the village directory