Lyonshall Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) results are in from a Parish turnout of 48.37%

Yes –  232 votes / 82.3%

No –  50 votes / 17.7%

This means that the NDP will have full weight from this morning and now forms part of Herefordshire Council Planning Policy.

Please click here to view the RESULT

Tenders for Mowing Amenity grass areas in Lyonshall Parish

To undertake specific mowing duties within the parish from 1^st March—31st October 2020

Applicants should be self-employed, able to provide their own transport and qualified to use any relevant tools and equipment.  In addition, they should carry public liability insurance with minimum limit of indemnity of £5 million.

Job specifications and information from the clerk.    

Written tenders should be sent to the parish clerk, Rebecca Bissell, lyonshallparishclerk@gmail.com or

Firbanks, Lyonshall, Kington, HR5 3LN, by noon on 31st January 2020.  

A group of Herefordshire Tree Wardens led by Tony Norman have been working on a plan to make disease resistant elm trees available to the public for planting .

There are several different varieties available, all have very good resistance to Dutch Elm disease and will grow with a similar form to the trees of yesteryear. These are best planted in hedgerows or in positions where they can become features in our landscape.

Elm Tree Offer

European White Elm  £10 (Plant anywhere esp. wet or waterlogged sites)

LUTECE  £10  (plant in good or heavy soils –needs staking to start)

Wingham  £12  (plant in good soils)

Fiorente    £12   Available Dec (plant in good soils)

Ademuz    £12   Available Dec (plant in good or heavy soils)

Please follow this LINK for full details or contact David Griffith on porthcelyn@btinternet.com

All parishioners on the electoral roll will receive further information on the Neighbourhood Development Plan referendum soon.

The Country Diary page has all the latest updates including a paper on Lyonshall wetlands. Check it out here.

Many apologies for the lateness of this bulletin. Where does the time go? All the August news available here. The next one will be along soon.

All the latest news on Lyonshall wildlife now available. There is an additional item about the danger to our native oaks in the information section. Click here.

The April update on Lyonshall Country Diary is now available on this link.

All the latest news from the Lyonshall wildlife watchers are available on this link. Thanks to you all.

Sorry the February Country Diary is late. I'm afraid life sometimes intervenes to delay. Follow this link to get the update.

Here is the first Lyonshall Country Diary of 2019. You will see that Julia has been making some interesting comparisons with previous years. Contributions and sightings come in from lots of local watchers. Many thanks to them all and please keep information flowing in. You will find January news and information about Isobel's Oak on this link.

We are already well into 2019 and I hope our many wildlife spotters will continue to send in sightings to Julia. Check out the news for December last year on this link.

If you were wondering what was happening in the great outdoors in Lyonshall, wonder no more. Thanks to our wildlife watchers overseen by Julia Evans there is a month by month update of sightings on our Country Diary page, click here.

Many thanks to all contributors and a good 2019 to all our readers.

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