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<\/a>From time to time the Brentor Village website posts useful articles about aspects of living in Brentor.\u00a0 These are gathered together on this page for future reference.<\/strong><\/span>
\nClick on the links below to jump to the information article of your choice<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Brentor Emergency Plan<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nProtecting Dartmoor sheep \u2013 valuable assets<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nKeeping our roads clear of water<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nDitch and hedge maintenance\u00a0 responsibilites<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nReporting potholes<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nCattle can be dangerous<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nAsh dieback disease<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Brentor Emergency Plan<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brentor Parish Council has written an emergency plan for our parish, along with a home emergency booklet which will soon be printed and delivered to every home.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Emergencies can affect our parish with little or no notice.\u00a0 Being
\nprepared can help reduce the effects on our lives, reduce the need for help from others and enable us to support the vulnerable in our community.
\nThere are many ways an emergency can affect our busy everyday lives, from disruption to essential services such as water, electricity and telecoms to regional and national travel.\u00a0 Covid19 has shown us that we need to plan for the unexpected.<\/p>\n

Click he<\/strong>re to see the Brentor Community Emergency Plan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to see the Brentor Home Emergency booklet<\/strong><\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Protecting Dartmoor sheep \u2013 valuable assets<\/span><\/span>\"sheep-west-blackdown\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mary Tavy Commoners\u2019 Association has provided the following information:<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nSheep are valuable assets and any harm to them harms a farmer\u2019s livelihood.\u00a0 It is every dog\u2019s instinct to chase, even if they are usually obedient and good with other animals.
\nChasing by dogs can do\u00a0serious damage<\/strong>\u00a0to sheep, even if the dog doesn\u2019t catch them. The stress of worrying by dogs can cause sheep to die and pregnant ewes to miscarry their lambs.
\nSheep fleeing from dogs are often killed or seriously injured by their panicked attempts to escape, causing untold damage to fences and field boundaries in the process.\u00a0 Dogs chasing ewes and lambs can cause mis-mothering issues, with lambs dying from starvation or hypothermia when they become separated from their mother and fail to find her again.
\nDog bites can cause death in sheep or necessitate them being put down at a later date, or in less severe cases considerable veterinary bills and additional welfare issues as a result of flies being attracted to the blood and leading to a nasty health problem in sheep called \u2018fly strike\u2019. Injuries to sheep can also delay the normal farming routine, be it the mating season or administration of vital medicines and vaccines.
\nIt is an offence to allow a dog to worry sheep<\/strong>. Worrying includes attacking or chasing sheep and, in some circumstances, farmers are legally entitled to shoot dogs if they are endangering their sheep
\nIt is vital that you keep your dog on the lead around livestock<\/strong>, even if you can usually trust it to come to call.\u00a0If you live in or near a farming area, you must make sure that your dog cannot escape from your property<\/strong>, as it may find its way onto land containing sheep.
\n\"gibbet-walk-31-8-2004_005\"<\/a>The\u00a0Countryside and Right of Way Act\u00a0<\/a>(CROW Act) sets out public rights of access to open land and the restrictions to these rights. Although CROW allows anyone on to open access land (land you can access without having to use paths, including mountains, moorland, heaths, downs and registered common land) for recreation, the Act states that the public can only go on this land if they keep dogs on a fixed lead of 2 metres or less near livestock. The owner of open access land can close areas containing sheep to dogs for up to six weeks once a year, as a safeguard during lambing. Trained guide and hearing dogs are still allowed in these areas during this closure.<\/p>\n

Dartmoor national Park Bylaw 9<\/em>
\n9 Dogs<\/strong><\/em>
\n(1) Every person in charge of a dog on the access land shall as far as is reasonably practicable keep the dog under close control and restrain the dog from behaviour giving reasonable grounds for annoyance
\n(2) Every person in charge of a dog on the access land shall, as far as is reasonably practicable, comply with a direction given by a Ranger or other officer of the Authority to keep the dog on a lead.
\n(3) A direction under paragraph 2 above may only be given if such restraint is reasonably necessary to prevent a nuisance or behaviour by the dog likely to cause annoyance or disturbance to any person on the access land or the worrying or disturbance of any animal or bird.<\/p>\n

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Keeping our roads clear of water<\/strong><\/span>
\nFirst published in February 2017<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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A cleared gulley in Burn Lane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Walking around Brentor you may have noticed that many of our roadside ditches and watercourses have been cleared of debris that has been building up for some time.\u00a0<\/span>
\nWater can now drain off the roads more easily, avoiding the formation of puddles that can be a danger to traffic and pedestrians. This is thanks to the work of the local Parish lengthsman, whose recent work has been funded by a grant obtained by the Parish Council.<\/p>\n

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A cleared ditch in Burn Lane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The County Council also employs their own lengthsmen who are scheduled to work for four days a year in Brentor.\u00a0 In addition if there is flooding or large puddles on a road the County Council will, 24 hours after the rain has stopped, take action if:<\/p>\n