Glorious Gloucestershire Esmond Lane took this picture of the lake in Pittville Park

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As a charity the Cleeve Common Trust does not receive any government funding or financial support, so if you feel you could help by joining the practical conservation team, contact conservation@cleevecommon.org.uk For information regarding other ways to support the trust and for future events on the common contact Parish Office, Church Road, Bishops Cleeve, 07471 687 877 – Ranger: 07756 828 458

» St Michael and All Angels is now closed for public worship until further notice. This decision was taken with sadness and reluctance. The church is still open for private prayer on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 10am to 11am. For any information regarding St Michael’s and All Angels Church, contact admin.stmichael@ gmail.com

Biblewatch: www.facebook.com/ groups/stmichaelbishopscleeve/

Children’s Ministry: cafministry. stmichael@gmail.com. Or telephone 01242 673612

St Michael’s online services are continuing, reaching out to the community, especially the young. Sunday morning service 11.15am on St Michael’s Facebook page. Also now a list of events to include virtual pub nights, Urban Saints Zoom session for school years 4-8, home prayer sessions, as well as a Lenten Alpha course. For more information, contact Church Office, St Michael’s Centre, School Road, Bishop’s Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8BA (telephone 01242 673612 or go online to the following addresses:

» www.facebook.com/groups/ stmichaelsbishopscleeve/

» www.stmichaelsbishopscleeve.co.uk

» www.achurchnearyou.com/ church/14402/

» You can take any foodbank donations to Bishop’s Cleeve Parish Office (next to Tesco’s car park) any Friday morning between 9am and noon. Thank you for your generosity supporting local people who don’t have the money and are really struggling to feed their families at this time. Please refer to the latest shopping list for further details of shortages on the donating food link at northcotswold.foodbank.org.uk and details for making monetary donations.

» Badham Pharmacy has a special collection point to tackle hygiene poverty in the UK.

Required donations include toiletries, female sanitary products, baby wipes, nappies and laundry products.

Tesco now has installed a foodbank drop-off station. The Co-op on the Green is also taking donations for the foodbank, and is now operating a system whereby you can donate monies to the foodbank charity.

Lidl Supermarket also has a foodbank collection point in store.

» There will be no table top sales at Denley Hall, Bishop’s Cleeve, until further notice.

» Bishop’s Cleeve Methodist Church Wednesday Fellowship – no meetings until further notice. For more information, call 01242 673612.

» Cleeve Ladies’ Probus Club – for any information about meetings in the current situation, contact 01242 529664.

» The Bishop’s Cleeve WI – for any information about meetings in the current situation, contact bishopscleevewi.org.uk or 01242 676647

» Gotherington, Woolstone and Oxenton WI – for any information about meetings in the current situation, contact 01242 317276 or go to gwowi. org.uk

» Bishop’s Cleeve Library – for any information, contact 01242 672217.

» Serious Scam warning. There is a gang operating in the area targeting the 50+ age group. They make contact by phone and pretend to be from ‘Safety Awareness in Cheltenham’ and connected to first responders. The service they purport to offer concerns safety alarm systems for your home and personal safety devices.

The matter has been reported to Gloucestershire police, who advise that you do not continue any conversation with them and do not invite them to your home, under any circumstances.

Please contact the police 101 line or Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 to report any incidents.

WOODMANCOTE

» The May Day Committee has organised a Woodmancote Teddy Bear Trail to take place from May 1 to 10, 2021, instead of the usual May Day Fair (fingers crossed for 2022).

Teddy bears will be displayed in many windows around the village. Collect your trail sheet (£2 each sheet) from lewis@woodmancote.

The trail sheets are available now. Go out to look for the teddies, record the letter of the alphabet you find next to each teddy and complete the “teddy trail phrase”.

Return your completed trail sheet to lewis@woodmancote by May 11. The prize draw will take place at 11am outside the village hall on Saturday, May 15. You could win £50 cash!

» Woodmancote Village Hall has been saved from closure. The chairman of the hall committee was delighted to announce that, due to a fantastic response to the public appeal for prospective committee members, the Woodmancote Village Hall executive committee has now been formed, with all four executive officer roles being filled. In due course the non-executive committee members will be co-opted and so the full committee will be formed. It will include deputy positions for each of the four executive officers and they will, if required, step into the executive roles, so succession is guaranteed.

So, our beloved village hall has been saved by you, the generous residents of this wonderful village. Thank you – Stephen Barnes, chairman at Woodmancote Village Hall Committee.

» Woodmancote Probus Club – all meetings cancelled due to the coronavirus until further notice.

» Woodmancote WI meetings cancelled due to coronavirus until further notice.

» Dog training classes, Woodmancote village hall – for information regarding this group in the present situation, contact 07830 247691.

» The following list, sent across by Cheltenham Borough Council on Friday April 23, contains planning applications that became valid in Cheltenham last week.

ALL SAINTS 21/00239/FUL: Loft conversion including rear dormer window and rooflights to front elevation, single storey garage extension and new doors to ground floor rear (retrospective). 41 Oak Manor Drive

21/00888/ADV: Installation of six fascia signs. Cycle Republic, 64 Winchcombe Street

21/00891/ADV: Internally illuminated fascia sign and internally illuminated projecting sign. Poundworld, 111 - 115 High Street

21/00891/FUL: Part change of use and subdivision of existing (Class E) retail unit to allow sale of hot food for consumption off premises (Class A5). Installation of flue in rear elevation. Poundworld, 111 - 115 High Street BATTLEDOWN 21/00788/FUL: Part two, part single storey rear extension. 38 Churchill Drive, Charlton Kings

21/00874/FUL: Hip to gable roof conversion and side dormers to facilitate a loft conversion, and replacement porch. 27 Strickland Road

21/00901/FUL: Two storey front extension and first floor rear extension. 77 Ryeworth Road, Charlton Kings BENHALL/THE REDDINGS 21/00750/FUL: Extension to existing compressor room and two exterior canopies. Arle Court, Hatherley Lane

21/00870/ADV: Erection of one internally illuminated fascia entrance sign, two wall mounted signs, one sign on north elevation and 1no. panel sign to existing double sided totem sign (Pioneers Nursery). Land at North Road West and Grovefield Way

21/00859/FUL: Single storey rear extension and conversion of garage to create study. 16 Coberley Road

21/00913/CONDIT: Variation of condition 2 (schedule 1), 4 (highways), and 6 (highways 3) planning permission 21/00266/FUL for partial redevelopment of an existing petrol filling station. Shell Cheltenham, 352 - 356 Gloucester Road CHARLTON PARK 21/00799/FUL: Two storey side and rear extensions, remodelling of front elevation including dormers, replacement windows and projecting gable. (Revised scheme ref 17/01620/FUL). 11 Charlton Close

21/00857/FUL: Demolition of existing conservatory and erection of rear and side extensions. 29 Tensing Road

21/00877/FUL: Single storey rear extension and extension to porch. 22 The Avenue COLLEGE 21/00829/LBC: Repairs to external envelope (roof, chimneys, parapets, windows and exterior joinery) together with internal alterations to lower ground, first and third floors. 118 Bath Road

21/00839/FUL: Extension of roof from hip to gable and new dormer for loft conversion to provide additional bedroom and ensuite. New roof tiles to whole of roof. 44 Naunton Way

21/00862/COU: Change of use ground floor to sui genaris hot food takeaway, first floor to C3 dwelling and addition of new floor with C3 use. 4 Bath Road LANSDOWN 20/02178/LBC: Internal works to top floor flat. Top Floor Flat, Treaford House, 54 Lansdown Road

21/00879/FUL: New doorway and metal steps with balcony, new bay window and alterations to the fenestration. 59 St Georges Road

21/00879/LBC: New doorway and metal steps with balcony, new bay window and alterations to the fenestration. 59 St Georges Road

21/00918/PRIOR: Change of use from B1(a) offices to C3 (dwelling house) including proposed installation of rooflights and sun tunnels. 60 Lansdown Crescent Lane LECKHAMPTON 21/00831/FUL: Single storey rear extension. 33 Moorend Road

21/00878/FUL: Side and rear extensions. 24 Westbury Road

21/00782/FUL: Lower ground floor rear extension. 71 Leckhampton Road

21/00909/FUL: Single storey rear infill extension, rear dormer to facilitate loft conversion, and alterations to fenestration. 155 Leckhampton Road PARK 21/00840/FUL: Change of front garden area into parking for two cars, proposed surface to be permeable gravel driveway and installation of a dropped kerb. 30 St Stephens Road

21/00868/CONDIT: Variation of a condition 2 (approved plans) of planning permission 19/01141/FUL - to raise roof light within new dormer window and addition of flues (retrospective). 2 Bethesda Street

21/00886/CACN: Treeworks. Jolly Brewmaster, 39 Painswick Road PITTVILLE 21/00867/FUL: Detatched garage with pitched roof and rear single storey in-fill extension. 4 The Gardens PRESTBURY 21/00849/LBC: Replace internal wall and door on ground floor dining room, remove mid-century fireplace in lounge and replace with replica Georgian fire surround, to match dining room fireplace and install log burner. 4 High Street, Prestbury

21/00898/FUL: Proposed rear extension to form granny annexe and proposed new porch. 42 Swindon Lane

21/00903/FUL: Erection of detached garden room within rear garden. 3 The Old Surgery, Prestbury Road

21/00911/FUL: Erection of a detached garage/annex. Little Duncroft, Evesham

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21/00924/FUL: Demolition of existing single storey rear lean-to extension and replace with a larger flat roof single storey extension. Construction of side dormer to facilitate a loft conversion to a habitable room with ensuite. Removal of kitchen window and replace with door. 14 Shaw Green Lane

ST MARKS 21/00881/FUL: Proposed single storey flat roof extension to rear in place of existing conservatory (revised scheme to approved application 20/01841/FUL). 3 Stone Crescent

21/00914/FUL: Two storey rear extension with a pitched gable roof. 67 Tennyson Road

ST PAULS 21/00875/FUL: Erection of two storey and single storey rear extensions. 49 Russell Street

ST PETERS 21/00882/FUL: Change of use of Unit 3 from E (B1 office use) to sui generis (community centre). Units 1-3, St Georges Business Park, Alstone Lane UP HATHERLEY 21/00615/FUL: Replacement of existing conservatory with new single storey rear extension. 15 Redthorne Way, Up Hatherley

21/00904/FUL: Two storey side extension. 35 Radnor Road WARDEN HILL 21/00864/FUL: Demolition of conservatory, erection of a two storey rear extension and a single storey side extension. 23 Loweswater Close

21/00873/FUL: Demolition of attached out building and detached domestic garage and the erection of a single storey rear extension. 5 Salisbury Avenue

» The following list, sent in by Gloucester City Council on Monday April 26, contains planning applications that became valid in the previous week in Gloucester.

ABBEYDALE 21/00411/LAW: Enlarge existing kitchen extension. 58 Curlew Road

21/00428/FUL: Two storey side extension to extend garage and provide additional bedroom and ensuite. 55 Hawk Close

21/00430/FUL: Two storey side extension. 9 Owl Close ABBEYMEAD 21/00378/FUL: Two storey extension to rear of property. 7 Hadrians Way

21/00433/FUL: Proposed single storey extension to rear of the property. 9 Vernal Close BARNWOOD 21/00421/FUL: Proposed single storey extension to rear of property. Parapet roof with K-render finish. 191 Barnwood Road BARTON AND TREDWORTH 21/00373/FUL: Extensions to dwelling at first floor level. 4 Falkner Street

21/00414/FUL: Demolish existing outbuilding and part demolish existing garage and construct proposed annex. 84 Falkner Street ELMBRIDGE 21/00424/FUL: Retrospective Planning for single storey rear extension. 7 Kenilworth Avenue

21/00461/LAW: Demolition of existing conservatory and construction of new lean-to garden room. 16A Grosvenor Road

21/00501/CONDIT: Discharge of Conditions 3, 4 and 10 of the planning permission 20/01206/FUL. Land adjacent to 65 Sandyleaze GRANGE 21/00419/FUL: Single storey rear extension. 34 Windsor Drive

21/00429/FUL: Single storey rear extension. 36 Grange Road

21/00431/FUL: Demolition of glazed porch and construction of single storey extension to the rear of the bungalow. 30 Longleat Avenue

21/00434/FUL: Proposed additional rear second storey extension and loft conversion, orangery and garage extension. 30 Grange Road HUCCLECOTE 21/00463/FUL: Two storey rear extension to provide new family room at ground floor and enlarged fourth bedroom and study area at first floor. 18 Millfields KINGSHOLM AND WOTTON 21/00293/FUL: Removal of existing 16m length of wall and reuse of the existing brickwork to reconstruct new wall. Claremont House, 42 London Road

21/00395/FUL: Proposed loft conversion and extension to existing residential unit. 100 London Road KINGSWAY 21/00425/FUL: External lighting. Parcel I, Kingsway Business Park, Newhaven Road, Quedgeley LONGLEVENS 21/00214/FUL: Two storey side and rear extension. 40 Oxtalls Drive

21/00381/FUL: Proposed two storey rear extension. 8 Laura Close

21/00457/FUL: Construction of new boundary wall and gates, widening of driveway. 65 Cheltenham Road MORELAND 21/00324/FUL: Change of use from private residential to HMO. 26 Lannett Road

21/00417/FUL: Removal of existing side/rear extensions and erection of new two storey side/rear extension. 32 Theresa Street

21/00452/FUL: Rear double storey extension and rebuild garage. 41 Lannett Road PODSMEAD 21/00459/FUL: Siting of two condenser units within the bin store area and two extract ducts venting through the roof. Unit 2, The Old Log Pond, Bristol Road

21/00460/ADV: Display of three internally illuminated fascia signs. Unit 2, The Old Log Pond, Bristol Road QUEDGELEY FIELDCOURT 21/00450/FUL: Single storey extension to east elevation of property. 32 Foxwhelp Way, Quedgeley QUEDGELEY SEVERN VALE 21/00266/FUL: Side extension over existing garage, single story rear extension and alterations to existing porch. 2 Acer Grove, Quedgeley

21/00427/LAW: Erection of garden room to dwelling. 70 Welland Road, Quedgeley

21/00442/LAW: Loft conversion to provide additional bedroom and bathroom. 14 Apperley Drive, Quedgeley TUFFLEY 21/00436/FUL: Replacement ground floor extension, first floor extension and loft conversion. 232 Stroud Road

21/00441/FUL: Two storey side extension with external alterations. 39 Campden Road WESTGATE 21/00439/FUL: Replacement of existing sash and casement windows. Removal and renewal of pitched roof coverings. Brickwork repairs and rainwater goods replacement. 1A - 3 And 1C, St Aldate Street

21/00482/ADV: Installation of one internally illuminated fascia signs and one internally illuminated projecting sign. 5 Northgate Street