Buckland Monachorum Parish Council update

Buckland Art Group has painted the Crapstone bus shelter using a design by one of the pupils at St Andrew’s Primary School.

The Parish now has five defibrillators (outside the health centre at Yelverton, in the pub at Buckland, at the golf clubhouse entrance on Golf Links Road and outside the village halls at Clearbrook and Milton Combe). It's worth knowing where they are and which one is closest to you.

Feeding ponies is well-meant but nevertheless dangerous. People have been seen feeding ponies from car windows. If you see people doing this, do consider letting them know that the practice is dangerous as it encourages ponies onto the roads.

Residents of Crapstone were startled by the sudden felling of dozens of mature trees in the grounds of a property in the village. However even in AONBs or national parks, only trees that have Tree Preservation Orders (TPO) require planning permission to fell them (unless they are in a conservation area such as Milton Combe). So if you want to protect trees that you feel are important, contact your local authority and discuss whether TPOs should be put in place.

The wetlands project at Crapstone (in the corner of the Parish field below the Stonemoor development) is coming along. Tavistock Taskforce was employed to clear some of the area, so we could have a better understanding as to where it was wet and where it was under water. Local landscape experts David and Jenny Miles had already checked the area and given us a list of trees, shrubs and plants that would grow in the wetlands. Our first tree was planted on 19th April, a weeping pussy willow (shown in photo), and over time more there will be more planting. The object is not to change our little conservation area but just add to it, with shrubs for butterflies, plants for dragonflies and trees for bats and birds. We produce a newsletter every two or three months so if you are interested in keeping up with the progress and would like to be added to the mailing list, send your email address to swoollacott@hotmail.com.