What does the Parish Council Do?
This page which is taken from the Chairman’s report to the Annual Village Meeting illustrates the work of the Parish Council during the year from 1 April 2022 to 30 March 2023.
Members of the Parish Council this year were:
In the last year the activities of the Parish Council have included:
We liaised with County over the need for remediation after contractors installing cabling to the St Peter’s Close development dug up the pavements and verge and left it in an unacceptable condition
We liaised with the owners of Northfield Farm and the Shawdon Estate over the revocation of a permissive footpath off Playwell Road. We are currently looking into a possible new permissive path over a separate part of the Shawdon Estate to replace it
The proposed transfer of the site of the old St
Peter’s Church to the Parish Council for use as a children’s playground was regrettably
sabotaged by the buyer of the tennis court field who was also the developer of St
Peter’s Close. We were told by the vendor that he had agreed to buy the
remainder of the field and then said he would only proceed if they included the
site of the chapel, which unfortunately they submitted to despite having
promised the site to the Parish for a playground. The Parish Council had no
legal redress as there was no contract simply an agreement. The vendors have
promised the PC the sum of £5,000 in lieu in order to help fund an alternative
site but there is no suitable site currently available