Tag: parish council

• 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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  21 Jan 2022

  parish council, politics

  council, land, local authority, management, parish council, privatisation, representation

• Time for change

  

  At last night’s Parish Council budget meeting, someone asked the question I’d rather been putting off and tipped the domino over. “Please will you reconsider and say you’ll stay on as Chairman?” And the answer was, of course, not in the positive. But hey, the cat’s out of the bag. And since I had an […]

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  10 Jan 2019

  parish council, politics

  chairman, chairmanship, freedom, parish council

• Vote for me!

  

  People say I’m crazy doing what I’m doing, Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin, When I say that I’m ok they look at me kind of strange, Surely your not happy now you no longer play the game, People say I’m lazy dreaming my life away, Well they […]

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  2 Apr 2015

  parish council, politics

  election, parish council, poll, vote

• Busy, busy, busy

  Catching up… Had a brilliant few days on Dartmoor and the weather chose to excel itself too, with bright blue skies, sunshine and soft breezes (thank you). We did as much as we could in a short time, visiting Tors, National Trust and megalith sites, and stayed in a comfortable hotel at Moretonhampstead. More pics […]

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  11 Apr 2010

  green fingers, holidays, parish council

  burial ground, dartmoor, forbidden, no access, parish council, vixen tor