Age UK Medway - The Mackenney Centre

Age UK Medway

Age UK Medway is an independent charity non-profit organisation offering care and support to older people across the Medway area, under the banner of a nationally recognised brand.

The charity has a 40-year history locally and has grown larger to cope with the increased demand for its services. They are dedicated to ensuring that the needs of older people are placed at the heart of all of their work.

Upchurch

Day Centre Manager, Simon Baker is looking to extend the offer of day services available at the Mackenney Centre in Woodlands Road, Gillingham into the Upchurch area.

The Mackenney Centre

The Mackenney Centre is a social club for those aged over 50, covering the Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham areas.

The club gives visitors the opportunity to make new friends, take part in creative activities, go on trips and outings, indulge in a freshly cooked meal, with access to foot care, hairdressing and bathing, and to enjoy a door-to-door service in one of their fleet of adapted accessible vehicles.

For more information, please call: 01634 380195

Email: enquiries@ageukmedway.org.uk
Visit: www.ageuk.org.uk/medway

Upchurch Matters

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Swale Neighbourhood Watch Meeting

Hartlip, Newington & Upchurch Ward

This is a message from Neighbourhood Watch.

There will be a meeting of Swale Neighbourhood Watch at Sittingbourne Police Station, Central Avenue, on Thursday the 22nd of August at 10:00am.

The aim of the meeting is to restart the organisation in the Swale area.

If you are interested and wish to attend, please telephone: 01795 419 212 and leave your name and contact number by 12:00pm on Thursday the 15th of August.

If you are unable to attend, but are interested, please phone and leave your name, contact number and Email address so that we can contact you.

For more information on crime prevention visit: www.kent.police.uk

Patricia & Maureen

(NHW Volunteers)

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Upchurch Parish Council - New Village Caretaker Required

Due to the retirement of Cliff our Village Caretaker, Upchurch Parish Council is looking for somebody to take on this role, to work 3 hours per week.

If you are interested, please contact the Clerk for further information.

Telephone: 01634 363906

Email: clerkupc@outlook.com

Thank you

Wendy Licence

Clerk to Upchurch Parish Council

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Proposed Residential Development of 8 Dwellings in Oak Lane, Upchurch

The plans

Planning application: 19/503869/OUT has been submitted to Swale Borough Council, seeking outline planning permission for a development of 8 residential dwellings at land south of the allotments in Oak Lane, Upchurch. All matters are reserved for future consideration with the exception of access.

The site is currently greenfield land and access is proposed from Oak Lane, opposite the lay-by at Granny's Green.

Planning application summary

19/503869/OUT | Outline application for residential development of 8no. three and four bedroom dwellings with associated amenity, parking and infrastructure (Access being sought). | Land At Oak Lane, Upchurch, Kent, ME9 7AY.

The application can be viewed online at: https://pa.midkent.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=PVESZRTYK3E00

To make comments about this application, you should either submit them online at: https://pa.midkent.gov.uk/online-applications

By Email to: planningsupport@midkent.gov.uk

Or in writing to: Mid Kent Planning Support, Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 6JQ.

The deadline to submit comments is Friday 23rd August 2019 - remember to quote the planning application number.

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Jackie Brigden

Jackie Brigden.

I would like to announce the sad passing of my mum, Jackie Brigden who lived in Ham Green, Upchurch for over forty years. Many villagers will remember mum from her days working at Shoregate Nursery.

If anyone would like to come and pay their respects, Jackie's funeral service will be held at Vinters Park Crematorium, Maidstone on Thursday the 15th of August at 1:15pm and after in the Crown Pub, Upchurch.

Please send your flowers to John Weir Funeral Directors, 130-132 High Street, Rainham, Kent ME8 8AR.

Thank you from all the family.

Louise Brigden

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Traffic Speed Survey on Horsham Lane

Residents living near this stretch of Horsham Lane have previously expressed
concerns over speeding vehicles.

Data from the recent traffic speed survey carried out on Horsham Lane, Upchurch between Monday 22nd and Sunday 28th July (inclusive) is now available.

Survey equipment was placed in Horsham Lane near the Crosier Court junction where it recorded traffic speeds both East and Westbound, 24 hours a day for a full 7 days.

The raw data (available to download at the link here >> www.upchurchmatters.co.uk/traffic-speed-survey-on-horsham-lane.zip) is broken down into vehicle types and numbers by time of day.

Below is the Traffic Manager's explanation:

“Speed survey equipment was placed immediately west of the Crosier Court junction, as discussed. Traffic speeds were recorded 24 hours per day for a full seven days by means of pneumatic tube counters. One of the limitations of this type of equipment is that it can generate some anomalies, for example when two vehicles cross the tubes at the same time but in opposite directions. This can ‘confuse’ the equipment and record what appears to be an exceptionally high speed for a couple of vehicles. The number of instances of this is usually very low and, because average data is used, these anomalies do not distort the data. However, we need to flag this in case people interrogate the raw data and spot these high speeds.

The two measures that are used when looking at traffic speed are mean (average) speed and 85th percentile speed. The latter is the speed at which 85% of vehicles are travelling at or below.

The mean speeds recorded were 27.2 miles per hour (westbound, i.e. towards Rainham) and 25.9 mph (eastbound, i.e. towards the village centre).

The 85th percentile speeds recorded were 31.9 mph (westbound) and 31.0 mph (eastbound).

These speeds are what we would expect on a length of road where 30mph applies (speed limits should be set so that the mean speed of traffic is below the enforcement speed for that limit, which, for a 30mph limit would require a mean speed of 35 mph or less).”

The traffic speed survey was paid for through a grant made by Swale Ward Councillor, Alan Horton to Upchurch Parish Council from his Swale Borough Council Ward Members Grant allocation (last year) and was to help inform the current Parish Highways Improvement Plan Consultation which residents can still take part in until Tuesday 20th August 2019, details of which can be found at the link here >> http://bit.ly/2M0XwSv

Thank you to Councillor Alan Horton for sharing this information.

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