At a Cabinet meeting to be held on 9 November 2023, Warwickshire County Council will consider options which include closing Bidford, Fenny Compton, Henley, Shipston, Polesworth, Kenilworth, Wellesbourne and Gaydon fire stations. These will be turned into ‘surge’ stations required four times in every five years and the firefighters will be required to work from other stations or made redundant.

The Fire and Rescue Services Association have said that ‘local people will lose a valuable local asset with little or no gain to the area.’

The County Council representative for Avon Dassett is Councillor Chris Mills.

The village defibrillator is being serviced (7/11/2023).

Once it is back in action we will post an update.

Concessionary parking permits for those of pensionable age are now available online:

• https://www.stratford.gov.uk/online-forms/concessionary-state-pension-age-permit.cfm

In November, EKFB will be working with utility suppliers to instal a new power cable connection under the A423 Banbury Road near Southam.

To complete this, a section of the A423, near our construction area between Ladbroke and Southam, will be closed for one weekend in November. 

• A section of the A423 Banbury Road between Ladbroke and Southam will be closed from 6am on Saturday 11 November to 6am on Monday 13 November 2023.
• Following on from this, there will be temporary traffic lights on the same section of the A423 from Monday 13 November to Friday 18 November, from 8.30am to 5.30pm. 

A works notice has been published and is available to download here: 

https://assets.hs2.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Notice-of-road-closure-A423-Southam-October-2023_Final.pdf

If you have any questions regarding this work, please contact the HS2 helpdesk and we will endeavour to answer any questions as quickly as possible: email hs2enquiries@hs2.org.uk or call 08081 434 434.