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THE TALBOT YARD CAR PARK
This major parking area for the town is due to be
refurbished once the vital work to cure water
leaks in the Dental Practice has been completed.
Once that is finished the park will be resurfaced,
OUR NEW TOWN CREST four street lights will be installed and the marking
refreshed.
This is the logo that will head all official town
correspondence and notices in future, a clear THE TOWN DEFIBRILLATOR
statement that Cleobury Mortimer is a town and This is currently located in the Kings Arms, a site
not a mere parish. It was selected from a number chosen because it had the longest opening hours
of styles submitted by designer John Renfrew and of any town centre business at that time. But it
does say who we are without wasting words and meant the potential life saver was not available 24
space. Business like, in fact. hours a day.
THE SECOND PEDESTRIAN So it will be moved into a brightly coloured
container on the front wall of the pub, where we
CROSSING understand it can be opened with a phone call to a
This will be located near the new Co-operative central control, whatever the time of the need to
supermarket, after consultation with a range of use the unit.
local interests and professional opinions. It is due STREET LIGHTS UPGRADE
to be given final approval at the Town Council’s Some of the town’s street lights are showing their
meeting this month or next and will then be put age and their concrete uprights are not as safe as
into the County Council’s programme of work for when they were new. So there is a programme to
the 2018-19 year. change 22 Town Council-owned lights to metal
It will do more than help shoppers cross the posts with LED lighting, which will make the
road, as there are a number of children needing to operating cost lower. To spread the cost, the
safely cross the road with their parents on the way programme will take two or three years to
to our two schools.
complete.
BE WARNED - CCTV WORKS This does not include the lights on the main
The installation of CCTV cameras seems to have street, which are the responsibility of the County
got some people worried . One of them decided to Council.
vandalise the wiring and support structure at one NEW COUNCILLORS
point, but the camera did its job and showed who
did it. Not a clever move. TO BE CO-OPTED
The guilty party was not taken to court, but was There are two vacancies for Town Councillors and
given a second chance after a police interview. three candidates have applied for the posts. Such
They are doing voluntary work and are lucky that a strong response is a sign that the work of the
the prank did not mean a criminal record. Council is seen as a positive force. The decision on
COUNTY LEADER CALLS who will be co-opted will be taken at either this
month’s Council meeting, subject to interviews
Peter Nutting, Leader of Shropshire Council, being completed in time, or in March. Good luck
visited the town in January and attended that to all candidates and watch this space for news of
evening’s Council meeting. He didn’t bring much those selected.
good news, with a warning that more cuts from
central government are coming, which means that THANK YOU
our Council Tax will rise by 5.9 percent for the The Christmas Lights brought many good
2018-19 financial year. comments. Thanks to the volunteers who put
The Town Council has decided to increase their them up, to Bill White Nurseries for the donation
income by a modest 2.0 percent, which keeps it of the trees and Alan Guest Mowing Services. Our
under the current inflation level. new infrastructure worked well, thanks to
Prysmiam Cables who installed it and helped
with the putting up and taking down.

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