About Us - News

Newmarket Refuse – Open Door, Depot Road, Newmarket.

Opens 25th August, 10.00 - 16.00 daily

A Newmarket charity is to take over the running of the town’s household waste recycling centre so that it does not have to close its doors to customers.

Newmarket Open Door, a well-established charity which operates a nearby second-hand superstore, has agreed to take over the site and continue providing recycling services.

Newmarket Open Door already accepts a wide range of goods, including furniture, electrical equipment, white goods (such as fridges and freezers), tools, computers, clothing and household linen.

The charity has decided that by introducing charges of between £3 and £12, depending on the size of vehicle, it can accept the full range of items. This means everything which could go to the Household Waste Recycling Centre can now be taken to Open Door.
 
The County Council will provide land at a peppercorn rent, Newmarket Town Council has agreed to contribute £15,000 towards keeping the site going and Forest Heath District Council will consider how it could contribute at its full council meeting on 6 July.

Newmarket Household Waste Recycling Centre was due to close permanently in July this year because the County Council could no longer afford to keep it, and six other sites across Suffolk, open.

It closed as a council site on 31st July, but will re-open as Open Door on 25th August.
Opening hours will be 10am to 4pm, seven days a week, and will accept the following:

Newmarket Town Council Move Back to the Memorial Hall

The Town Council moved back to the Memorial Hall on the 8th August 2011. Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Residents Corner ‘Town Crier’

The ‘Town Crier’ newsletter will now be issued annually in the Autumn/Winter and will include a Residents Corner, which will allow residents to submit and exchange comments, ideas, concerns or stories with the rest of Newmarket’s residents. The Annual Review will still be issued in May.

Our first Residents Corner will be included in the Autumn/Winter edition of the Town Crier, due for distribution in November 2011.

If you wish to enter into this forum, please send written entries to the Assistant to the Town Clerk, Newmarket Town Council, King Edward VII Memorial Hall, High Street, Newmarket CB8 8JP
or email vicky.bright@newmarket.gov.uk.  Submissions are due no later than Friday 21st October 2011.

We look forward to hearing more from our residents!

Precept

The precept for the financial year 2011/12 has been set at £495,740.00. This is a rise of 7.45% over last year’s precept, which is equivalent to an increase of 0.12pence per week, based on a Band D property.

Horse about Newmarket

The horses are now painted and varnished and will be on display at the two-day Guineas Meeting on the Saturday 30th April and Sunday 1st May 2011.

The artists have worked tirelessly to finish in time for this meeting and Channel 4 Racing will be there to record the efforts of the following artists:-

• Rachel Drury – Sea the Stars
• Stella Frangleton – Mystiko
• Kevin Yarrow – Nectar
• Chris Winch – Cockney Rebel
• Stuart Roy – Sea the Stars
• Frances Wray – Sea the Stars
• Esther Albone – Wizard
• Kirsty Sharman – Shadeed
• Jac Butt – Only for Life
• Jilly Cunningham – Ten Winners in Blue
• Anne Ward – Sun Star
• Emily Jarvis – Interpreter
• Jacquie Jones - Atlantic

The schools have now painted their designs on to a small horse, ready to join the Carnival parade in June. The schools horses have been kindly sponsored by Suffolk County Councillor Bill Sadler.

Shadwell Stud has very generously offered to fund the prize money, for the winning school’s painted small horse to be judged at the Carnival. They are also funding one extra small horse.

One small horse funded by Newmarket Town Council has been painted by St Nicholas Hospice patients and staff. Racing Welfare also has a small horse funded by FHDC, which has been painted by a retired stable man.
There are 13 sponsors for the life size horses. The last horse to be sponsored was a syndicate of local businesses; David Jarvis Cars, Ian Button cars and Lettergold, and local artist Emily Jarvis will paint their horse. Other sponsors include: Darley Stud, Cheveley Park Stud, The National Stud, The Jockey Club, Tattersalls, John Gosden Racing LLP, The Bedford Lodge Hotel, Newmarket Town Council, Forest Heath District Council, Tesco Stores Ltd and Godolphin, The Guineas Shopping Centre/Ashdown Phillips & Partners Ltd.

Grateful thanks also to BBA Shipping who transported the horses in one of their lorries to Chassis Cabs in Bury St. Edmunds where they were varnished.

On the evening of 16th June 2011 there will be a Gala Evening attended by the artists and sponsors, and a winner of the competition will be chosen. The horses will be displayed on the Severals on Friday 17th June 2011 and at the Guineas Centre throughout May and June.

Commemorative Bench Scheme

The Town Council’s commemorative bench scheme; to place benches on the Severals, and in the Memorial Gardens, has been a great success and we have had a good response from residents, wishing to sponsor a bench in memory of their loved ones.

The benches are manufactured by Whitehouse Enterprises, who offer work experience for adults with disabilities, and are made of 100% recycled composite plastic seating planks, with cast iron legs, and are supplied with a brass effect plaque, engraved with an inscription.

Sponsorship of the bench is a one off fee of £395 & VAT; this includes purchase of 1 fully assembled Stour Bench (delivery included), one brass effect plaque (fitting and engraving included) with engraved inscription of your choice (up to 20 words),  installation and lifelong maintenance of the bench.

If you are interested in sponsoring a bench in memory of someone close to you contact Vicky Bright on 01638 667227 or email Vicky.bright@newmarket.gov.uk.
 

© Newmarket Town Council 2012