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Parish Council Quarterly Newsletters
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12th September 2025
The Parish Council is sorry to report that Councillor Martin Romanovsky resigned from Weasenham Parish Council on 10th September 2025.
15th July 2025
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29th May 2025
The 1937 Coronation Bench, which was until recently, sited by the side of the old container on the Recreation Field, is in a state of disrepair. The metalwork is rusted, the bolts corroded, and the timbers are well past their best.
The bench has been dismantled and removed for refurbishment. The metalwork will be sandblasted, primed and repainted. This is being carried out by local people at no cost to the Parish. A generous donation from the Pearce family, following their family event last year, will be put towards the cost of replacing the timbers, bolts and a replica plaque. The Solar Fund will be used to cover the remaining costs.
It seems a bit of a shame, once all this work has been done, to set it back in the same position on the Recreation Field, where few will see it and even fewer will use it. To that end, the Parish Council would like to propose that the bench is placed in the vicinity of the village/millennium sign replacing the plastic bench which is currently there. This is a much more central position in the village, and it would be in keeping with the sign and the war memorials. Hopefully, it would get good use. The plastic bench could be re-sited elsewhere in the village in due course.
If you have any thoughts either way on this proposal, it would be good to hear from you.​​​​​​​​​​​
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UPDATE: A number of views were received on the re-siting of the bench, and all were in favour of it being relocated to the area by the village sign. The work on the bench is now complete and it is now looking resplendent in its new location.
The Parish Council wishes to place on record its appreciation of the help and support given by all involved in the project. Ian Bishop (T&B Blasting) in sandblasting and repainting the metalwork and Rudd Joinery, Tattersett, for providing the well prepared iroko wooden slats. Eric Morrison, who provided the tools and skills to rebuild the bench, and Ian Pearce, Desi Blower and Simon Brown who helped to transport the bench to its new location and, with additional assistance from Raoul Phillips, install it. Finally, as previously mentioned, a huge ‘thank you’ to Nancy and Brian Pearce for the donation of £180 towards the project.
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Sanders Bus Service 22A - Weasenham to Fakenham
7th April 2025
The above service operates from the Weasenham bus shelter to Morrisons, Fakenham, every Tuesday. It departs Weasenham at 10:30am, arrives at Morrisons at 11:01am, departs Morrisons at 12:30pm, and arrives back in Weasenham 13:01pm. It appears that the service is not being used sufficiently to make it viable. Equally, Service 22 (North Elmham to Fakenham) is being underused.
Sanders are proposing combining the services and introducing a service that runs from Fakenham, Oak Street to East Dereham Tesco (see the proposed timetable below). This new service will cover all the villages currently covered by Services 22 and 22A.
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(The ‘R’ represents that it’s a ‘Request’ stop. For example, if you get on the bus at East Dereham Tesco Store or East Dereham Market Place, and indicate that you are travelling to Weasenham, the bus will come into the village. If nobody is going to Weasenham, the bus will bypass the village.)
The Parish Council has not had any involvement in this proposal, it is simply passing on the information as a public service. If you have any comments, views or ideas on the service, you should contact Daniel Yellop at County Hall, Norwich, on 01603 223956 or email him at daniel.yellop@norfolk.gov.uk. Contact should be made before the end of April.
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UPDATE: July 2025
Following the consultation process, there was no negative feedback about the proposed change to the services. As a result of this, the new service (shown above) will come into effect on Tuesday 22 July 2025.
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Good news on grass cutting
7th April 2025
Following an enquiry from the Parish Council, Norfolk County Council’s Highways Engineer has confirmed that the grassed areas at the corner of Massingham Road and Harpley Road (by the Anglian Water compound) and the area of verge beside the A1065 (across the junction from the Fox and Hounds) are NCC’s responsibility. Both areas have now been passed to NCC’s contractor and will be added to the cutting schedule.
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Council Builds new website
18th February 2025
The Parish Council today launches its new website.
It is still a work in progress, with further items being added and amended.
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Defibrillator at Lambert's Close
January 2025
Victory Homes have very kindly donated a new defibrillator to the village and it is located at Lambert’s Close. The What3words location for the defibrillator is:
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The defibrillator has been registered with ‘The Circuit’ database so when you call 999 you will be given the code to access the defibrillator. The defibrillator is now an asset of the Parish Council, and as such will be monitored and maintained by the Parish Council in the future.
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​Community centre finally gets lifesaving defibrillator after year-long wait - Flagship Group
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