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The Parish Council meets on the third Wednesday of the month and only exceptionally in August. The meetings are held in the Village Hall in Littlebury village at 7.30pm; the general public are very welcome to attend. In March and October they are held at St. Peter's Community Centre in Littlebury Green, also at 7.30pm. There are nine councillors serving on the council. 

Agendas are posted on the noticeboards at Littlebury, Littlebury Green and Catmere End three days in advance. A brief report of the meeting is given in the Wendens Ambo and Littlebury Parish News distributed to every household monthly. Minutes are approved as a correct record of the meeting at the following Parish Council Meeting and are posted on this site and the noticeboards.

If you have something that you wish to be discussed at the meeting please contact either a councillor or Tracy Coston (Clerk).

Michael O’Sullivan (Chair)

01799 521777

Highways

Sam Sproul (Vice-Chair)

01799 527912

 

Matthew Clare

01763 836928

 

Jean Cowell

01799 524072

Street Lighting

Nick Dukes

01799 524522

 

Peter Farnsworth

01799 523640

 

Ginny Jones

01799 526264

 

Janet Menell (District Cllr)

01763 838553

Dame Bradbury/United Charities Rep/ LB Grn Rec

Lizzie Sanders

01799 528201

Supported Housing
Hedges/Churchyard

Tracy Coston

01223 894462

Clerk

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Parish Council Responsibilites

Parish Councils currently have a limited number of duties but they all impact directly on the community. The following are all under the remit of local councils:
  • Allotments
  • Burial Grounds, Cemeteries, Churchyards and Crematoria
  • Bus Shelters
  • Bye-laws – the power to make bye-laws concerning: baths and washhouses (swimming pools), cycle parks, mortuaries and pleasure grounds
  • Clocks – public clocks can be provided and must be maintained
  • Community Centres, Conference Centres, Halls, Public Buildings (the Wimbish Village Hall is owned by a registered charity on behalf of the community and is managed by an elected committee independently of the parish council)
  • Drainage – of ditches and ponds
  • Entertainment and the Arts
  • Footpaths
  • General Spending – parish councils can spend a limited amount of money on anything they deem of benefit to the community that is not covered by the other specific responsibilities described in this list
  • Gifts – parish councils may accept gifts
  • Highways – lighting, parking places, right to enter into discussions about new roads and road widening, consent of parish council required for diversion or discontinuation of highway, traffic signs and other notices, tree planting and verge maintenance
  • Land – acquisition and sale of
  • Legal proceedings – power to prosecute and defend any legal proceedings in the interests of the community, power to take part in any public enquiry
  • Litter - provision of litter-bins and support for any anti-litter campaigns
  • Planning – parish councils must be notified of, and display for residents, any planning applications for the area. Any comments submitted to the planning authority by the parish council must be taken into account
  • Postal and Telecommunication Facilities – power to pay a public telecommunications operator any loss sustained in providing services in that area
  • Public conveniences – provision and maintenance of public toilets
  • Recreation – provision of recreation grounds, public walkways, pleasure grounds, open spaces, village greens and commons, gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday camps and boating ponds
  • Rights of Way – footpath and bridleway maintenance
  • Seats (public)
  • Signs – danger signs, place names and bus stops signs
  • Tourism – financial contributions to any local tourist organisations allowed
  • Traffic Calming
  • War Memorials
  • Water Supply – power to utilise stream, well or spring water and to provide facilities for general use

 
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