Forncett Village Info

Preparations are well underway for The Forncett Flyers entry into this years Village Games on 9th June. We have already held an Archery Roadshow when the weather was very kind to us and this year we have been able to recruit some new members to our team so we are feeling very positive that this will be another good year.

 The Forncett Flyers show their paces
(click photo for slide show)

We will be holding regular Friday night practice sessions for our rounders team and young footballers and these will start on the 3 May on the Jubilee Green and should be a nice chance for us all to get together at the end of a busy week. Everyone is welcome to come along and join in.

We are still looking for a female tennis player to join our mixed doubles tennis team - has to be age 12 and over, and we could do with 1 or 2 more young footballers (age 9 - 11) to join our very successful junior football team. We may also have a space in our senior football team - please let me know asap if anyone would be interested.

The Village Games District Final will be held at Framlingham Earl Sports Centre on Sunday 9th June.

For further information have a look on the Active Norfolk website and click on to Village Games.

Glen Humphreys, Village Games Co-ordinator
01508 532440  or  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

We last opened Forncett’s gardens in 2007, and everyone said they wanted to do it again; so here we are.

We need a few more gardens so that there is a good spread around the village: at present we have gardens near the Jolly Farmers, and then as far away as the steam museum (with the others between) – it’s a big village!!

Do you have a garden? Would you like to be included? It doesn’t have to be perfect, just interesting with a few seats to pause and enjoy the view.

Please get in touch ASAP so that we can include you, and let you know what to expect.

Phone me, Su Leavesley, on 01953 789752. We have a meeting of ‘openers’ on Wednesday June 19th, but there are things you should catch up on before that.

We would love to see you and your garden,

The 2013 Forncett Village Fete will be held at the Village Hall and Jubilee Green

on Saturday June 29th 2013, from 1 to 5 pm  

After several meetings of the Committee planning the fete we can now reveal the following attractions (subject to later additions, confirmation and last minute changes)!

• Teas, Bar, Barbecue and Ice Cream;  
• Bouncy Castle;
• Tombola, raffle and mini-auction (lots to include an 'Experience Day' at Norfolk Tank Museum and a glider flight);
• Performances by Forncett Clangers, various classes from Forncett School and Little Tractors playgroup; 
• Static display of vehicles etc from Norfolk Tank Museum;
• Cake stall; coconut shy; target football; various traditional games (e.g. skittles etc); table top games.

Book the date! - We've booked the weather (there will definitely be some weather)!

Photos by Brian Frith
(click to enlarge)

Update: May 11th 2013

We have just heard that Forncett has won one of the £250 prizes for participating in the Litter Pick.  The prize money must be used for 'The Community'.  Those who helped with the Litter Pick have been asked for ideas - the final decision will be made by the Parish Council as the Litter Pick was done 'in their name'.  The prize is an extra bonus - in addition to the benefits of a cleaner village and some excellent Community work!  Wonderful!

Saturday April 6th 2013

• Sun shining (is this Spring?)
• 21 Volunteers
• 8 'routes' for picking, totalling approximately 14 miles of roads
• 2 hours (average) time
• 22 bulging bags of rubbish collected!

Congratulations to all volunteers who took part in our 'Big Litter Pick' - one of a number taking place throughout South Norfolk this Spring.  The photo shows 18 of the (mostly well-behaved!) volunteers at the Village Halll after depositing their bags of litter and enjoying some welcome refreshments provided by the Parish Council and served by Anne,  

Organ restorer Richard Bower has installed his recreation of a 1970's Hill, Norman & Beard Chester organ in St. Mary's  church. The organ has been brought back from loan to the Newcastle Roman Catholic Cathedral and is on temporary loan to St.Mary's. Hopefully organ recitals will follow!

Join us for our third Autojumble at the Forncett Industrial Steam Museummm, Sunday 12th May 2013, 10am-2pm

GENERAL OUTDOOR TRADERS:  4 metre pitches are only £10 if booked in advance, or £15 on the day.

TRUNK TRADERS:  If you only have a few items, you can sell direct from the boot of your car or a 2mx 1m space imediately behind it.Only £5 in advance, or £8 on the day.

PLEASE BOOK EARLY TO SECURE A PITCH - Spaces will be allocated on a first come first served basis, and ‘on the day’ availability cannot be guaranteed.

TRANSPORT RELATED ITEMS ONLY PLEASE AND NO FOOD OR DRINK SALES

NB. All trader prices (including cars for sale) admit 1 person to the event. Standard admission (£2) will be charged for all additional persons.

Traders will be allowed entry from 9am to set up but there will be no general admission to the event until 10am.

Advanced booking must be made and paid for (non refundable) by Friday 3rd May 2013.
Cheques to be made payable to Friends of Forncett StMary Church Autojumble 

for details contact Philip Yull on 01953 789 499

Supporting St. Mary’s Church, Forncett 3rd

For more detaisl see the Events listings

Planning applications at 'Millbank' and 'Fourways', Forncett End - Opposite 'The Jolly Farmers'.

Update:

At the meeting of the South Norfolk Planning Committee on 27th March, application 2012/1615 (for the building of three houses on the site of 'Fourways' bungalow) was approved with conditions.  It is expected that there will be a condition relating to the 'boundary treatment' on the corner of Long Stratton Road / Norwich Road, after concerns were expressed that loss of clear view of traffic would result from the application as submitted.

Original Article

Many residents will be aware that there have been several planning applications for the development of this site.  This article is an attempt to explain, in a purely factual way, what has happened and what is being proposed.

The whole area is within the 'Development Boundary / Settlement Boundary' of Forncett.  Bentley Road forms the 'boundary' between Forncett and Tacolneston.

The site has been unoccupied for some time, and over the winter of 2011/12 there was considerable clearance of trees before the whole site was divided by fence into three areas.  One is basically the area of the former 'vegetable garden' with frontage onto Bentley Road.  The second is the area around 'Fourways', the bungalow and former shop, with access to Long Stratton Road. The third is the area around 'Millbank' (the white house) with access onto both Norwich Road and Bentley Road.

Update March 31st 2013: Raising the roof at Forncett St Edmund

We are writing to all those locally who have expressed an interest or might be interested in the care of Forncett St Edmund’s church here at Forncett End.

You may well have already had a letter directed at enlisting volunteer help on our major project of re-roofing the church. Indeed, you may already have responded; for which we are most grateful. Circumstances have changed in the last week and we thought you would be interested in hearing the details. A general comment about the need to defer our intended start is appearing in the April edition of The Forncett Flyer.

We have had to suspend our intended start owing to health problems being experienced by our principal contractor, Barry Bradford, meaning that he will only be able to undertake a limited workload,  We also do not have adequate back-up of roofing expertise.