Crime Prevention talk by West Mercia Police – 8 May 2019

Crime Prevention

Rural & Business Crime Officer, Paul Crumpton, West Mercia Police will be giving Crime Prevention advice at the Annual Parish Meetings at 7pm on Wednesday 8 May 2019.

Mr Crumpton, the guest speaker at the Annual Parish Meetings, will give a Crime Prevention PRESENTATION on how you can stay safe at home, work and online.  And include useful tips and advice based on 34 years’ experience of what works…..and what doesn’t!

Luston Group Parish Council is providing wine and cheese and non-alcoholic refreshments following the Annual Parish Meetings which will be held at Cawley Hall, Eye Moreton.

A poster highlighting the Crime Prevention presentations is available to download – Annual Parish Meeting – crime prevention.

Luston Group Parish Council

West Mercia Police talk on Cyber Crime – 6 February 2019

Cyber Crime and Current Scams

Our new Police and Crime Community Support Officer, Steph Harper, will give a short talk on Cyber Crime including tips on how to be prepared and not get caught out – Cyber Security poster.

7.30 pm on Wednesday, 6 February 2019 at Cawley Hall.
Admission free.

We hope you can join us.

Luston Group Parish Council

Join parish council meetings from the comfort of your home

To make Group Parish Council meetings more accessible, open and transparent you can now listen to council meetings and raise matters with the council via the internet. You don’t need to go to the hall. The idea is to help people who may find it difficult to get to Cawley Hall when meetings are scheduled, for example on a wet and windy evening during the winter, when away from home, or because of a medical condition or disability.

The ability to use the internet in this way is the result of several months research and investment in new technology, including: broadband internet at Cawley Hall, dedicated conferencing hardware and Microsoft Office 365 for business, which includes Microsoft Teams.

The good news is that the only technology parishioners need to be able to ‘virtually attend’ council meetings is an internet connection and browser. Each council meeting will have a unique URL that you can use to access the meeting via your browser. To obtain the URL for the meeting you’d like to join online you’ll need to contact the Clerk who will email you the URL a few days before the council meeting. Then:

1. Click on the URL in your email from the Clerk, which will open a ‘Microsoft Teams’ page in your web browser;
2. Click the ‘Join on web’ dialog box on the Microsoft Teams page;
3. You will then be informed that you have been placed in a ‘lobby’;
4. Wait in the lobby, and you will then join the meeting just before the scheduled time of the meeting, usually 7.30pm;
5. On joining the meeting please remember that what you say can be heard by everyone at the meeting.

As you’d expect, the standing orders of the council will still apply whether you are online or physically at the meeting. This means that members of the public will need to be invited to speak by the Chairman. Public participation is usually requested under ‘Matters raised by residents’. Also, participation online is restricted to local people – you must be living in or have a business in the group parishes. Councillors will need to be physically present at meetings, so will be attending council meetings as usual.

Luston Group Parish Council.

Good Neighbour Scheme now on Facebook

The Good Neighbour Scheme now has its own Facebook page. Find out about news and events at Luston Group Parishes Good Neighbour Scheme. Please note this is a Closed group for residents and members only.

SID data reveals near enforcement problem with speeding

The two Speed Indicator Devices (SIDs) owned by the group parish council have been deployed quarterly over the past year.  The latest data shows that the average speed of 85 percent of traffic entering Luston from the direction of Eyecote was 34.7 miles per hour (mph).  According to the Safer Roads Partnership, the trigger for speeding enforcement is 35mph.

Luston Group Parish Council will be monitoring the data from future SID deployments, and intends to refer data that shows 85 percentile average speeds in excess of 35mph to the Safer Roads Partnership for enforcement action.

Top line data for the two SIDs deployed in February-March is:

  • Location opposite Lilac Grove measuring the speed of traffic from the direction of Nordan.  The average speed of 85 percent of traffic was 33.8 mph.  The movements of 37,224 vehicles were measured.
  • Location by the telephone box measuring the speed of traffic from the direction of Eyecote.  The average speed of 85 percent of traffic was 34.7 mph.  The movements of 25,156 vehicles were measured.

The SIDs will be back in Luston in May 2018.