Games and competitions.
Skittles, boule, quoits and stocks.
Make a jubilee 'Elizabeth' sponge,
Children's cookie competition
and the family Crown competition.
Winner of the Crown competition is awarded Queen (or King) for the day and assists the judges in the other competitions.
A Jubilee Breakfast Feast at Longney School
Start your Jubilee day with a cracking Jubilee Breakfast at Longney School 9 - 11am Tuesday 5th June
This event is currently being organised and the broad outline is as follows:
Breakfast on Jubilee sausages, egg and bacon on a home made bap, or Scotch pancakes and syrup, or if your a vegetarian (or not) veg wraps.
Add smoothies and real coffee and tea and that’s a great breakfast.
Leaflets will be circulated to every house in the parish during April with full information for the day, with contact details and timings.
Village Design Statement
The Longney and Epney Village Design Statement was formally adopted as Supplementary Planning Advice by Stroud District Council (SDC) on 22nd September 2011. This means that from now on the guidelines within it are
taken into account by SDC and our own Parish Council in considering planning applications.
Down load the Village Design Statement here 
If you have any difficulty in down loading please contact the PC here
Current plans for Flood Defences - help with insurance problems
The Environment Agency’s (EA) consultation document “Managing flood risk on the Severn Estuary” (2011) has generally not been well received, not least because of the problems it may cause with the insurance and valuation of properties in the area. While this remains the case and until matters have settled, you may find the following contact useful.
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Longney school joined the Eco-Schools programme.
They have decided to tackle litter as their major project.
Epney to Saul Road will be closed from 19th to 30th September to allow for essential carriageway repairs
Elmore Lane West will be closed from the 21st -23rd September to allow for carriageway resurfacing works by Gloucestershire Highways.
RIVER DEFENCE PLANS RAISE CONCERNS FOR OUR PARISH continued...
Their overall strategy in our area is, over time, to move the present river defences inland, thus allowing large areas of land adjacent to the river to flood and revert to saltmarsh.
The EA project manager presented the plan at a meeting of Severn Voice parishes on February 22nd and met with some robust (and so far unanswered) questions from local parish representatives. These included concerns about inaccuracies in the maps showing where flooding will occur, the apparent “downgrading” of issues around national and global food production and food security, the lack of convincing cost-benefit arguments, and the effect of their present publications on insurance premiums or even insurability of our homes.
Their consultation document “Managing flood risk on the Severn Estuary” is available on the web at http://www.severnestuary.net/frms/publications.html. It is important we get as many responses to the EA as we can. Please read it and complete and return the attached questionnaire. If you have any questions about it, don’t hesitate to contact Roger Godwin who chaired the meeting with the EA and is in possession of the relevant detail.
Longney and Epney Parish Council are responding with interviews with the press, liaison with our MP Neil Carmichael who came to the meeting on 22nd and sits on the Whitehall Flood Committee, and a detailed set of questions on our particular area to the Environment Agency project manager.
This is an issue with serious current, medium and long-term consequences for us all. We shall be updating our responses on this website as it progresses.