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The Pixham Residents Association was formed in 2009 with the idea of enhancing our local environment and strengthening our community through encouragement of joint activities. As well as putting on successful social events, such as the Pixham Summer Fete, monthly coffee mornings and pop-up pubs, we have initiated a number of community projects, campaigned to make Old Pixham School a community centre, others are in the pipeline.
News......
CoFFee Mornings First Wednesday of month - Old Pixham School - 10.00 - 12 noon
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ST MARY'S SESSIONS
Live music sessions in St, Mary's Church, Pixham
Sat. 1st April
Ineza & Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories
In Women’s Words, Sisters' Stories, vocalist Ineza and the Alex Webb Trio explore the repertoire penned by the great female songstresses
Book tickets at Eventbrite
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Shiny Side Down monthly Film Nights at Old Pixham School have resumed - next film March 24th ‘Another Round’ (2020) in Danish with English subtitles
Book a seat - shinysidedownfilms@gmail.com
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FRIDAY, 31st MARCH - QUIZ NIGHT
Doors open 7.15pm, Old Pixham School.
All welcome. Just come along on the night or let tracyann.williamson@aol.co.uk know if you’d like to reserve a table. Bring a team or just yourself and join one.
£8.50 per person, including a meal. 8 people to a team. Cash prize!!!
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PROPOSED SALE OF THE DEPOT AND ADJOINING FIELD, PIXHAM
The Depot is directly opposite Old Pixham School: the field is to the north and the area west of the red line belongs to Thames Water, separated from the river and the Treatment Works by a wide bank.
Mole Valley District Council want to auction these areas. They plan to market them as separate lots to sell at the same time, in June, to the highest bidder(s) and will set a reserve of £500,000. If The Depot doesn’t reach the reserve they won’t auction the field.
The proposed sale will be considered at the next Scrutiny Committee meeting on Tuesday March 7th; if passed, the proposal will go to the MVDC Cabinet meeting on March 21st for approval. That allows them 3 months for marketing which will be widespread; they have some London auction houses in mind.
There are various issues associated with these proposals which will concern residents, and the PRA is taking action to raise these with MVDC - for full details of the site, PRA action and how to respond click here.
Update 8th March
At last night’s meeting of the Council’s Scrutiny Committee, it was decided to remove the field from sale until a full ecological survey has been done. This will take until autumn to complete. However, Scrutiny recommended that sale of The Depot goes ahead and that will now be discussed at the Cabinet meeting on 21st March. It’s not yet a ‘done deal’ so please let us know if you have any thoughts or information.
Speakers referred several times to the detailed and informative letters from the PRA and local residents. These letters definitely influenced the discussion, so thanks to all who wrote in.
Thoughts and comments are welcomed: email chairpra@yahoo.co.uk or leave a message on the contact page
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Development of Aviva site
Stonegate have submitted plans for conversion of the current office blocks on the Aviva site to apartments, and for construction of housing and community facilities on the rest of the site.
Our summaries of the two submissions, together with links to the full documentation on the MVDC website can be seen by clicking here for the office block developments and here for the housing.
NB. These summaries have been prepared by the PRA, and to the best of our knowledge are an accurate representation of the plans. They are provided for information only
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