Welcombe shelter for five-year-old

Bideford Rural Council are to give their support to an application by Mr W J Pengilly, of Oakley Farm, Upcott, Welcombe, for permission to erect a small shelter at Upcott Cross in which his five-year-old daughter can wait for the school bus. This was decided at the Council’s meeting on Tuesday when it was reported that the site of the proposed shelter was roadside waste belonging to Devon County Council.

The Rural Council’s permission is subject to no cost being borne by them, and to Mr Pengilly indemnifying them against any possible claims. It was also agreed, on a proposal from Mr J C Hilton, that it should be stipulated that the Council could remove the shelter as and when they required. The Clerk (Mr C T Braddick) said the Finance and General Purposes Committee had recommended that the Council should made application to the County Council for the erection of the shelter. Then they had been informed that it was a matter which had to be settled between the RDC and Mr Pengilly, or between the Parish Council concerned and Mr Pengilly. The County Council did not come into it. The RDC would inform Mr Pengilly that he could erect the shelter on a site to be approved by the County Council. It would also have to be of an approved design. ‘It is a mystery to me how the County Council come into this at all’ commented the Chairman, Sir Denis Stucley.

The Divisional Surveyor, Mr L R Jackson, said: ‘We cannot recognise a private individual who wants to put up a shelter, but we can deal with the County Council or the District Council’. In fact, we are a sort of go-between’ said the Clerk.

Gazette article dated 30 September 1960