Tag: council
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The Privatisation of Place
There are approximately nine thousand parishes in England, and their history goes back to the Local Government Act of 1894. Some sixteen million people in England live within parished areas, and the local taxation of precept that they raise (a listed part of the Community Charge) is in the order of six hundred million pounds.…
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Pothole update …ish
Exactly a month after writing a bit of a rant then posting it to Hereford County Council, regarding the loss of a tyre to a massive pothole near Ross on Wye, I got a reply. You couldn’t really make it up. Apparently, customer services have “chased this again” with their contractor and are awaiting a…
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Remembrance
It all comes around again, and this year Remembrance was actually on Sunday 11th November, and at eleven o’clock plus or minus we held ourselves quietly and remembered those who ensured we had the chance to make this land as we chose. The parish council took over the organisation of our village Remembrance ceremony last…
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Charfield Burial Ground ready to go
What a lovely way to spend a sunny spring equinox day, wandering over our brand new burial ground! Today we are basically able to inter if needed – although of course I sincerely hope we don’t have anyone need our services for a while yet… So under blue skies and amidst birdsong and gentle breezes…
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Power of Prayer
Well you heard it here first, and I’m not always proved right. Eric (I’m in a bit of a) Pickles has played his trump card in response to the banning – or more accurately, the declaring unlawful – of prayers during Council meetings. Pretty close to what I said a week ago in my blog post.…
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Prayers
I was obviously interested to read today that a town council has been found to have exceeded its statutory powers by putting prayers on the agenda of the full meetings of the council. The case has gone right up to the High Court and there may yet be an appeal, but substantially it has been…
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I’d like to thank the Awards Committee… and… and…[gush]
Yeah, I feel good. Why not shout about it? http://www.charfieldparishcouncil.org.uk It’s the best (nearly)… 🙂
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Who’da thought it? Chairman bish!
At this evening’s annual Parish Council meeting I was voted unanimously into the Chair of the Council. What do you think they know that I clearly don’t?
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Charfield Parish Council
Very happy to say the new website was extremely well received. http://www.charfieldparishcouncil.org.uk It’s based on the same WordPress engine I’m using for this blog, but without comments and stuff. This means that it can be updated by folk with little or indeed no knowledge of HTML, FTP or all the rest of the Internet technobabble…
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