Hoveton Community Council

As you may be aware, Hoveton Parish Council has recently taken over responsibility for arranging the planting and maintenance of our village’s public flowerbeds. We hope you’ll be pleased with the results now that most of the initial planting has been completed, and the Council is immensely grateful to our tireless lead volunteer horticulturalist and her small group of helpers for the hours they’ve already spent digging, prepping, planting and watering the flowerbeds. We’re sure you’ll agree their hard work is much appreciated and that the village is looking brighter as a result.

It is disappointing to report, therefore, that just a few weeks after the flowerbeds by the village sign were planted with an array of beautiful marigolds, the beds were vandalised, with flowers being trampled on, broken, or ripped out of the ground and scattered on the grass. This mindless act of vandalism will not only have a financial impact, in that your Parish Council has to replace the damaged plants, but it also shows a blatant disregard for the efforts of our community volunteers, who have worked so hard to make Hoveton look nice.

We hope local residents will help us to look after these floral displays, which make such a difference to the look of our village. Please take care around the flowerbeds and if you see anyone interfering with them, please let the police or the Parish Council know.

Hoveton Parish Council and District Councillor Nigel Dixon held an on-site meeting with the developer Persimmon on Friday, to discuss outstanding matters relating to the Brook Park development and to emphasise the disappointment of the Council and of residents of this development concerning the lack of progress made. The meeting addressed a long list of varied issues and the Parish Council made clear the need to have these issues addressed quickly and completely by Persimmon.

Hoveton Parish Council has been informed that the children’s play area at Brook Park is expected to be open for the school summer holidays. It will initially be fenced off via the repositioning of the temporary Heras fencing, with an access gate. Permanent fencing and an access gate is expected to be installed after the holidays. The fencing around the rest of the public open space will be removed shortly to open this space for public use. We hope to be able to publish a full list of Persimmon’s agreed actions shortly, and the Parish Council will meet with Persimmon again in early September to discuss progress made.