Just a polite notice to be careful with fishing lines : This poor cygnet was caught up in a fishing hook and wire.
fish hook removed safely with 28ins of line
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Category Archives: News / Updates
Date For Your Diary
The 2013 Annual General Meeting will be held at COFTON HACKET VILLAGE HALL on Sunday 28th April at 4.00 pm.
The Committee thank all members for their continued support and welcome new members who have recently joined and invite you all to the AGM
New Website!
Behold, and welcome to the new Cofton Lake website! This is a completely re-written website but contains all the old material from the last one. It’s been changed to keep up with the latest web technologies and also to make it easier for members to contribute to.
The best way to navigate around the site is to use the menu bar above. You will see that there are sub-sections as you glide your mouse over it. For example, within blog, there is a sub-section for maintenance so that you can keep an eye on any planned works. There’s also a pull down menu to the right where you can see all the entries over the years.
The Gallery has been altered so that you can see photos submitted together. If you click on a photo, it pops up in front of you so you can take a closer look.
The Committee section holds who’s who but also contains all the minutes of meetings and the AGMs all in one place
Finally, there is a contact form for getting in touch. Please do that, leave some comments if you like the site, have some ideas for it, or any other lake related questions / suggestions.
Longbridge Area Plan
Colin and I recently attended a meeting held by the Longbridge Area Action Plan regarding ‘Water Related Matters’ – The meeting was chaired by Jill Kingaby who is the Government Inspectorate. In attendance were: 2 Representatives from Barnt Green Waters/Barnt Green Sailing Club who were concerned over the opening up of the River Arrow. Also in attendance were representatives fromBirmingham and Bromsgrove Council, two representatives from the Environment Agency and 3 Surveyors from St. Modwen.
Barnt Green Waters were concerned that the opening up of the River Rea and River Arrow would cause flooding. Apparently this area has flooded in the past. Bromsgrove Council stated they had carried out a strategic flood risk assessment and that there appear to be no specific major flooding issues. Our concern of course was to ensure that once the work is carried out, NO water can be taken fromCofton Lake in order to ensure the proposed watercourse is kept full of water. The Environment Agency and St. Modwens did assure all concerned that no water would be drained from Cofton Lake purely to ensure this watercourse is kept full.
We were also concerned who would be responsible once the building work was completed and officially handed over and St. Modwens had left the site. Who would be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the proposed culverted watercourse and surrounding parkland? St. Modwens stated that this would be handed over to ‘another body’ ! Either privately funded, a charity or Parish or District Council – none of the Council representatives sounded too keen on this idea and it was then suggested that when the houses are sold each individual resident pays an annual fee for this maintenance.
To sum up it seems that do date no one really knows – Fortunately it affects Barnt Green more than us and they are going to keep us informed of any further decisions.
Diane