Coronavirus/Covid-19
If you have symptoms of coronavirus (a high temperature or a new, continuous cough), use the 111 coronavirus service. https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19/ or call 111 if you cannot get help online.
The Government - What you need to know https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
The District Council has produced a community pack http://tiny.cc/dqyrlz
Household preparation advice for self isolation
Health
Download a poster to put in your window if you are self isolating or have a vulnerable person in your household Stop-Sign.pdf
Moreton Pharmacy is offering a delivery service of medications to the elderly and vulnerable in Moreton from Mondays to Fridays please phone 01608650306. Repeat prescriptions are taking longer than normal (5 to 7 days)
NHS - for advice on prevention, how it's caught and spread, self-isolation, testing and treatment, and foreign travel. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
NHS 111 https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19
Mental Health https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters
COVID-19 Guidance for public on mental health and wellbeing
Domestic Abuse https://www.gloucestershire.police.uk, by calling 101, or in an emergency by calling 999.
Help - For help or to offer help
Community Aid
Cotswold Friends for vital transport, shopping, telephone befriending and additional support .........also has a list of shops delivering food
Food and prescriptions and general enquiries - 01608 651415 option 6 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Food, prescriptions and transport - 01608 651115 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Where to find local help in the North Cotswolds
St Davids Church helping self isolators by picking up urgent supplies, posting letters, a friendly phone call and prayer 901608 652359 open 9-12 weekdays, answerphone out of hours)
Foodbank https://northcotswold.foodbank.org.uk/ 07879 375562
Gloucestershire County Council is the lead authority for Coronavirus and has set up a Community Help Hub to
- distribute information
- allow people to report that they are medically vulnerable and need support
- allow people and businesses to volunteer help
This service, is staffed by paid professionals to co-ordinate with all social care and support groups, plus the local NHS and other vital services.
Telephone 01452 583519 or email via this link
https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/gloucestershires-community-help-hub/
Financial Aid
Businesses – Self Employed
The government is the best souce of advice on all support schemes is www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19
Government Support for businesses willl be delivered via Cotswold District Council https://www.cotswold.gov.uk/coronavirus
Individuals
For grants, benefits, Council tax support https://www.cotswold.gov.uk/coronavirus
Energy Help
Most energy suppliers are helping those in difficulty due to Covid 19. If you or anyone you know is in difficulty please telephone the supplier.
British Gas - 0330 100 0303
EDF - 0330 200 5110
EON - 0345 052 000
NPower - 0800 073 3000
Scottish Power - 0800 027 0072
SSE - 0345 600 2006
Services
Cotswold District Council (01285 623000 or 01608 650881) has a very clear coronavirus webpage with information on
Bins and recycling - and changes to bin collections and what to do with rubbish whilst self isolating. The green bin service has now been suspended.
Excess black bin waste stickers are available from CDC. Waste must be double-bagged and the sticker clearly visible.
https://news.cotswold.gov.uk/news/covid-19-recycling-and-waste-services-update
Tax and benefits - financial help for employes and self employed people
Community support - how to find support in your coummunity and offer help
Business and licenising - support and grants, changes to licensing services, food businesses and takeaway regulations
Planning and building, Council facilities and meetings
Gloucestershire County Council. Information on schools, recycling centres, libraries, and highways
Report by Cllr Dr Nigel Moor March 26th 2020.pdf
https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/covid-19/
Town Council
The office is closed to the public but the Council can still be contacted by telephone, email or letter.
The playgrounds and skatepark are closed (safety inspections will not take place and the equipment will not be sanitised).
The parks remain open for exercise. Please follow Government guidance regarding 'social distancing'. Please can parents be especially vigilant to potential hazards in the parks. Please leave the parks tidy and take your rubbish home, your rubbish could be contaminated and endanger the lives of others.
The running track at the Fields in Trust site on London Road is now complete and can be used.
The Allotments and Cemeteries remain open, however social distancing rules apply.
Maintenance: To protect the health of the staff general maintenance work e.g. grass cutting, tidying the parks and cemeteries, inspecting play equipment, clearing the trash screen is limited.
Our contractors, Ubico, who are responsible for grass cutting have been diverted to waste collection duties.
Events: (e.g litter pick, music festival, Abba) have all been cancelled or postponed.
Youth Club is closed but there will be a Virtual Youth Club during term time
www.facebook.com/MoretonYC or https://www.instagram.com/moreton_youth_club/
Contact details
Town Councillor's contact details May 19.pdf
The Clerk
preferred method: email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
01608 651448 or if no answer 07746922569
For allotment enquiries contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Helping others
To support your neighbours you may consider:
- - Making sure they have enough food and other general supplies to cover a few days
- - Walking their dog, picking up a prescription, putting out their bins or taking in a parcel
- - Phoning, Skyping of Facetime them so they can see a friendly face, helping to reduce their isolation
- - Sharing child care or other caring responsibilities
- - Checking if any of their planned appointments have been cancelled before they travel
- - Making sure they have some simple recipes to hand, if they are not the normal chef or have done some batch cooking for the freezer
Government Social Distancing Guidance
Stay at home
Do not meet others, even friends or family
You can spread the virus even if you don’t have symptoms.
Welcome to the Town Council's website.
The Council hope that the website will improve communication with the parishioners and enable the community to keep up to date with what the Council is currently involved with.
You can now easily access the Agenda for forthcoming Council Meetings and download the Minutes too. Take a look at the CALENDAR which gives details of forthcoming Council and Committee Meetings and any major events that are coming up in the town.
Keep an eye on the LATEST ITEMS section which indicates when any new information has been put on the site. This could be Minutes of Meetings or any important information received from the other local authorities like the Cotswold District Council or Gloucestershire County Council, indeed any organisation that has information or news which the Council think would be of interest to the community.
The Council hope that you will find the website useful. If you have any suggestions for additional information that could be included on this site please do get in touch.
Emergency Plan
Community Emergency Plan for Moreton in Marsh Public Version.pdf
Places of safetyand defibrillators map
Flooding - Contact numbers and information
Please follow the link:
http://www.cotswold.gov.uk/residents/environment/flooding/
Trash Screen Procedure March 2019.pdf
Spring Community Litter Pick
Saturday 28th March 2020 Cancelled
Meet at Council Offices for 10am, Litter Pick commences at 10.15pm followed by refreshments at 12noon. Equipment will be provided.
All events have been postponed or cancelled
Biodiversity Work is starting in Blenheim Meadow
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s ERDF Wild Towns, in partnership with Moreton-in-Marsh Town Council are working to improve Moreton in Marsh’s greenspaces for both wildlife and people. Interventions will take place in two parks in the town, Queen Victoria Gardens and Blenheim Meadow, along with two of the town’s cemeteries and one of the allotment sites. Work is planned to take place over a 3 year period with activities starting now.
Blenheim Meadow has a variety of wet meadows, balancing ponds and streams within it. These habitats will be enhanced through management and creation of new features to create better structure within the existing features.
Meadow areas will be supplemented with plug plants and wildflower seeding to diversify the species found within them.
The neighbouring balancing ponds will have the scrub within them rotationally managed (through regular work parties with local volunteers) to provide a more diverse age structure, along with marginal planting to provide habitat for birds, mammals and amphibians which reside there.
Along the stream that flows through the park, two ponds will be dug. These will provide another habitat dimension to benefit amphibians, aquatic invertebrates and others such as dragonflies and damselflies.
- Blenheim Park will be enhanced for wildlife through the establishment of two wet meadows towards to southern end of the site.
- Balancing ponds on site will be brought back into a 4-year rotational coppice cycle in order to promote better age-structure of regenerating willow and alder.
- Marginal planting at the edge of these ponds will encourage greater biodiversity still.
- Two junction ponds will be excavated where streams converge in Blenheim Park, to provide extra pond habitats for wildlife.
- Tree planting and provision of roosting opportunities for bats will also be installed at Blenheim Park.
The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is asking for volunteers to help with scrub cutting on 19th October and 30th October, meeting at the bridge in Blenheim Meadow at 10am.
For more information on the project visit www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/erdf-wild-towns or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Snow – Gloucestershire County Council will clear snow from the roads.
The Town Council have grit bins located at the Cider Press (Fosseway Ave), Church St (Manor House), Church Street (St David's Church), East Street (steps to embankment), Wellington Rd and Hospital Road. The Council also have bags of salt that can be collected from the Council Office. The grit and salt is provided by GCC and is for use, by the public, on public roads and footpaths.
Crime Prevention
The Police are selling Home and Personal safety equipment at cost price, if you would like to place an order through them, please click on the link below:
CRIME PREVENTION list of equipment for sale.
To sign up for Community Alerts please visit https://www.yourcommunityalerts.co.uk/pages/4198/1/Register.html
Report it – local problems on your street like graffitti, broken paving slabs, potholes or lighting.
Location finder - what3words
Gloucestershire Police and South Western Ambulance Service are now using what3words. This means if you need to contact the police and are having trouble describing where you are, you can use the app to tell them your exact location.
what3words has labelled every 3m x 3m square in the world with an address made of three random words from the dictionary. For example, the 3 word address of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square is ///this.fantastic.notes
All you need to do is download the free what3words app. You’ll be able to see and share the 3 word address of your current location and also find out the 3 word address of your home (by typing in your address and selecting the square containing your front door).
Visit what3words.com or download the app to find out more.