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Art Sale in Titchmarsh Church last Sunday

Despite a wet start to the day, the Art sale in Titchmarsh church on Sunday 23rd October was a great success and raised over £1,800 for STAUNCH. Local artist Daphne Winsor was delighted to sell 56 or her 75 paintings and generously donated 50% of the proceeds to STAUNCH, to help in their fight against…
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Proposed Titchmarsh Lodge Solar Farm

Many Titchmarsh residents will have received a booklet and letter from Elgin Energy to inform them that they are seeking to develop a ground mounted Solar PV farm 1 km southeast of the village, just off the Roman Road and behind Foxholes Farm. The proposed project covers approximately 154 acres and will generate sufficient electricity…
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Art Sale in Titchmarsh Church

Don’t forget the sale of Daphne Winsor’s paintings in the church this Sunday (23rd) from 11am – 4pm. There are over 70 paintings, mainly mounted watercolours although about 20 are framed. The prices range from £10 to £75 for the mounted paintings and £60 to £200 for the framed paintings. Daphne will be donating half…
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Nature is under attack and needs your help

The Government has launched an unprecedented attack on nature and we urgently need your help to stop it. Today nature urgently needs your help. The Government is threatening to tear up the laws that protect our best wildlife sites, offer up chunks of our countryside for unrestricted development and may scrap vital proposals that could help farmers…
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Glebe Not Greed

Northamptonshire campaigners staged a protest outside Peterborough Cathedral on the evening of Tuesday 23rd August over the sale of glebe land (land owned by the church) between Thrapston and Titchmarsh. In 2020 the Diocese of Peterborough sold a ten year development option on the land which sits off the A605 adjacent to the Haldens Parkway…
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STAUNCH – Sponsored Walk this Friday!

Sponsored Walk this Friday, August 12th at 5:30pm from the Wheatsheaf Titchmarsh to the Montagu Arms in Barnwell and back! (approx. 10 miles) The weather is looking good! It will be a fun thing to do together! Please come along to swell the numbers and raise money to help pay for the legal representation STAUNCH…
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STAUNCH at the Thurning Feast

After an absence of three years the Thurning Feast made a welcome return to the local calendar on Monday 25th July. The event had been postponed several times due to the Covid outbreak putting the future of Feast in some doubt. So it was with no little excitement that people turned out in large numbers…
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STAUNCH Holding Plan Objections for Glebe Land

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE CAMPAIGN GROUP STAUNCH’S FORMAL OBJECTIONS AND REASONS FOR REFUSAL IN RESPECT OF PLANNING APPLICATION NE/22/00698/OUT LAND ADJACENT TO HALDENS PARKWAY, THRAPSTON. THE SITE IS KNOWN LOCALLY AS THE GLEBE LAND (RECTORY FARM) AND IS OFF THE A605 TO THE EAST OF THRAPSTON WITHIN THE PARISH OF TITCHMARSH. This site is not…