Repairs to The Old Common

Last year Debbie was asked to sort out the posts which were falling down on The Old Common. The problem was, the land was owned by Stroud District Council and they didn't want to replace the posts. Residents and Parish Council did, and the Parish didn't want to spend money on land that wasn't theirs. Debbie brokered a deal in which the District and Parish Council split the costs and Reach was used to provide free labour. Reach is an organisation which promotes community payback, whereby those convicted of crimes work free of charge to help the community. After a long frustrating 10 months work has now begun.

Debbie said "It took about 10 minutes to broker the deal but 10  long months later it has finally happened, thanks to a lot of hard work from the Parish Council Clerk"