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Rackenford Village Day

It rained and rained but we still had fun. Well done to all the organizers for putting on such a fun afternoon and despite the weather lots of people came out to make the afternoon a success.

Rackenford Club.

Rackenford Club now has it own website. Visit www.rackenfordclub.co.uk to catch up with all that's going on.

Trinity Well – update June 21 2008

The well was excavated by Fred, Brian and George Phillips in May. It turned out to be much bigger than we had thought, and nearly 10 feet of water filled up overnight. There is some handsome brickwork, and all the passers by expressed a hope that it would be possible to see inside after the pumphouse has been rebuilt. We said that it would be difficult to afford a viewing panel, but on hearing this Neil Uppington generously offered to give us the necessary toughened glass, so this will now be incorporated in the floor.

Mark Dean has been commissioned to put in the foundations and will be doing this over the next three weeks (after this the floor will be laid and the safety fence can be removed). John Hughes expects to start the cob walls in July. After seeing the size of the well and the dampness of the ground excavated we realised we needed a survey for the foundations, which Graham Lamb carried out. This stage will be more expensive than originally estimated, so we are now fund raising. We are grateful to the Garden Club for deciding to allocate proceeds from its July barbecue raffle to the well – any other donations would be very welcome.

The School has started work on the information panels; Year 6 walked one of the foot paths last week and took photos of the range of wild flowers out in June. They spotted two lots of red deer on Bullworthy too.

Village Community Shop

Click here Village Shop AGM Minutes.

The shop has been run by volunteers for the past couple of months and, thanks to the hard work of all of those people willing to give up their free time the shop is now a huge success. However no matter how hard the volunteers work, without the support of the community the shop would have no doubt closed. So I think everyone should be very proud of the part they have played in keeping this valuable asset viable.

The shop now offers a full range of groceries, household essentials, newspapers and magazines. Fresh fruit and veg can either be bought direct from the shop or orders can be placed for collection. If you want to contact the shop they do have their own email address rackenford.shop@btconnect.com

Wind Farms / Biogas Plant Forum

You will have heard that there are now several wind farms proposed for our area. If these companies get the permission for their sites we will have around 27 turbines  around Rackenford. To find out more about the campaign to try to restrict these controversial developments click here.

We also have a proposed £25m project to build a biogas digester plant at Gibbet Moor big enough to supply all of Tiverton's 20,000 population. To find out more click here.

Will the Biogas plant negate the necessity for these wind farms or will we get both? Are these developments too much for our countryside? Let me know your thoughts.

JOIN THE DEBATE Click here to view the page.