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Bleadon Parish Council will be sending out a 'long' questionaire to residents about the future of Bleadon. It is important for residents to make their views known. Important issues such as 'housing' and 'schooling' are being discussed.
Use this link to take you to Bleadon Village Plan Website
The matter of a village school relates to the village plan in several ways. Firstly, a proper
schools admissions policy is in the interests of everyone in Bleadon. This is something that the Parish Council cannot continue to ignore.
This question is in the interest in the village. Secondly,
Paul Arnold has had meetings with North Somerset Council where it has been agreed to hold the issue of the
priority of Uphill school on the backburner subject to a new admisssions
policy being thrashed out. This is called 'avsfavc', or a Village School for a Village Child, yet Paul says that Bleadon Parish
Council are currently refusing to include this concept in the village plan because of
the 'admissions policy' of North Somerset Council which even North Somerset Council now accept as needing revisiting
anyway.
It is recognised that a great disservice has been done to Bleadon children, and many therefore childen are going to the 'wrong school', consequently many of the children of Bleadon do not know each other. As it would now be very difficult to extract the children from their respective schools, the logical conclusion would be that North Somerset Council make a compensation like gesture for the village generally, possibly by way of an after-school club funding or provision of sporting activities.
In addition, housing is an issue, many of the landowners in and around Bleadon (like many landowners across the country) want to realise their lands potential into £'s profits - ie property development. Most of this land is outside the village fence. The village fence is currently protected by the Parish Council and no building outside it is allowed. It is important that the Parish Council keep protecting the village from the removal of this 'green'belt' type land. Losing this green land, bit by bit, could see us sucked in to being a suburb of Weston Super Mare. There are plenty of areas within the Village Fence that can be developed and built on without destroying our countryside. Check out this page for North Somerset Council Environmental and Housing plans, and here for a diagram of the Bleadon Village Fence
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