We are very pleased to present the latest history article by Alan Langley. Alan describes the history, including photos, of the East Farndon Age Concern team, which ran for 28 years through the 70s, 80s and 90s. Please click the link above to access the article directly or use the menu to visit the village history home page.
When you get a spare minute, please take a look at our new Village Story page on the East Farndon village website. This has been designed as a single place where new residents and others can get an overview of our village, complete with useful links to explore the wealth of information that is available on our website. The new page can accessed from the link above, the website menu and directly from the home page. Huge thanks to Caroline and Russell Burton for helping to pull this new page together. Also, huge thanks to everyone who has written articles for the website, giving us such a rich information source. Please email or Whatsapp Mervyn Curtis and / or Caroline Burton with any comments you might have. All feedback, good or not so good, is very welcome 🙂
Many thanks to everyone who joined us us at the East Farndon Village Hall, on Sat 21st Dec, for the Laugh Out Loud Theatre Company, professional production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Everyone had a great time and please click this link to see some photos from the evening.
Back in March 2024, Jack Beesley and Will Evans presented a plan to the East Farndon Parish Council to renovate the bench on Lubenham Road, East Farndon, as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award. Jack presented a very eye catching design and the project was gratefully accepted by the Parish Council, with a budget agreed of up to £100 for materials. The renovation team of Jack Beesley, Will Evans and Alfie Freeman set to work to clean up the old metal bench and then re-paint using their design. Click this link to see photos of the team and the renovation work. The project was managed well within budget and reported as complete at the Parish Council meeting in May 2024. The finished bench looks superb and many village residents have commented on how good it looks and that the design very much reflects community life within East Farndon. The Parish Council is very grateful to Jack, Will and Alfie for their hard work, innovative design and excellent support for our community. The team were very professional in the planning and execution of their project and definitely achieved all of the objectives set. They have created a lovely on going asset for the residents of East Farndon to enjoy. Well done Jack, Will and Alfie! Posted on behalf of East Farndon Parish Council.
Many thanks to everyone who joined us at the Remembrance Service at the East Farndon War Memorial on Sunday 10th November 2024 and afterwards at the Village Hall for tea and coffee. Huge thanks to the War Memorial team for organising the event and raising a fantastic total of £235 for the Royal British Legion. Also, many thanks to Corporal Oliver Burton, Royal Corps of Signals, for laying the wreath on behalf of the parish. Click this link to see some photos from the event.
Many thanks to residents in East Farndon who supported the Halloween Trick or Treat trail around the village on Saturday 2nd November, everyone had a great time! Bonfire night is now very close and so please make sure that you enjoy yourselves and stay safe. Click this link to see Bonfire Night safety tips from the Northamptonshire Police & Fire Service.
As part of the West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) development of a new local plan, in June 2024, East Farndon Parish Council (EFPC) responded to submit our drawn Village Confines, 4 nominations for Local Green Spaces and a request to extend the WNC Special Landscape Area within which East Farndon is located. These requests will remain in a pending status until the new WNC local plan is formally accepted and published, this being expected in 2025. In Sept 2024, WNC reported that new housing targets have been set by the new Government. A further 460 houses each year need to be built, which over 17 years is an increase of about 8,000 houses (a 21% increase). This means that WNC have to revise their draft Local Plan and re-consult. The EFPC submissions from June 2024 can be viewed in map form by clicking the links below.
Local Green Space Nominations Map
Also, most people will know that East Farndon has medieval settlement remains in the village and this is a Historic England Scheduled Monument. This can be viewed in map form by clicking the link below.
Medieval Settlement Remains & Scheduled Monument Map
The parcels of land in the WNC spatial options strategy and call for sites documents, identified for potential major housing developments between East Farndon and Market Harborough, remain in the latest / new WNC local plan. The good news is that all of these areas have been marked as not suitable and thefore will not be going ahead into the new housing areas to be developed for this plan. It remains the case that Harborough District Council (HDC) could request these development areas from WNC to include in the new HDC local plan. This is unlikely, but EFPC will continue to monitor closely the development of both the WNC and HDC new local plans.
Please click this link to read more about this on our page dedicated to Planning & Major Housing Development.
If you have any questions, please use this link to email our Parish Clerk, Caroline Burton.
Thanks for attending the 80’s Party Night held at the Village Hall on Sat 19th October 2024. Please click this link to see a few photos.
Home-Start Daventry & South Northants is a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under five years of age and living in West Northamptonshire. They offer a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers to support families.
Volunteers visit families in the families’ own homes on a regular basis giving informal, friendly and confidential support that helps to increase parents’ self-esteem and confidence in their parenting ability. The volunteers also help run groups, such as school readiness or fitness and fun groups. Sometimes volunteers go on to develop professional careers in related services.
If you are interested in being a volunteer for Home-Start, or perhaps know someone who might be, please visit https://www.home-start.org.uk/Pages/Category/how-to-volunteer
Last week was Bees’ Needs Week, but you can still get involved. Our bees call on everyone to take five simple actions to help pollinators. To sustain bee populations, people can:
For more details and information, please see https://defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2024/07/08/5-simple-actions-to-help-pollinators-this-bees-needs-week/.