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Update 3. July 2017 - new Transparency page (link below) and simplified layout

As usual, there will be no Parish Council meeting in August, so the next meeting will be held in the Parish Rooms, Hill Top Road, CW8 3RA, at 7:30pm on Monday 4. September. The Agenda will be published here as soon as it's available; the Agenda for our most recent meeting can be downloaded from here.

Residents of Acton Bridge are reminded that they are always welcome to attend Parish Council meetings, to raise concerns or simply to observe our proceedings. Matters of urgency can be brought to the attention of the Clerk or any Councillor, or by e-mail to the address at the bottom of this page (shown as an image to reduce spam).

Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) :
PCSO Diana Wiggins will be holding a Police Surgery at Acton Bridge Village Hall [Parish Rooms] between 10:30 and 11:30 am on the following dates :
Saturday 10th June 2017, Saturday 8th July 2017, and Saturday 29th July 2017
Residents with any issues or topics on Police matters are invited to raise them with PCSO Diana Wiggins.

News Flash - your Parish Council has received a generous Award from the Police and Crime Commissioner's Safer Communities Fund, which will be put towards the cost of the Interactive Speed Warning Sign. Click on the image to download a PDF file of the Award.

Parish Councils are the lowest tier of Local Government in England, and are therefore generally the closest to the people they represent. To quote from Judge John Prophet :
"The Parish Council is one of the great survivors in our governmental institutions. It was the only council not abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 and has now been in continuous existence for over one hundred years. Long may it prosper as an admirable example of the benefits to our governmental system of local decision-making by elected representatives of the people". ["The Parish Councillor's Guide" (Shaw & Sons, ISBN 0 7219 0515 3)]

Acton Bridge Parish Council consists of eight Councillors and a Clerk. We usually meet at 7:30pm on the first Monday of each month in the Parish Rooms, to discuss planning applications, local concerns and items of interest to the community. You can see a calendar of forthcoming Meetings here.

Members of the public are welcome to attend Parish Council meetings, but are not generally permitted to speak except during a special agenda item set aside for the purpose before the main business begins. Visitors' active participation is, however, encouraged during the Annual General Meeting, when the Councillors will do their best to answer questions and discuss matters of concern to local residents. Most meetings are attended by one or more of our three Local Government Representatives. Following the local government reorganisation in April 2009, Vale Royal Borough Council was abolished and we became part of Cheshire West and Chester Council. Since the May 2011 elections we are in a new "Weaver and Cuddington" Ward, which consists of four Parishes - Acton Bridge, Cuddington (which includes the community of Sandiway), Dutton, and Weaverham. You can read more on our Boundary page.

As part of our "Freedom of Information" initiative, PC Meeting Minutes are published on this website, following approval at the subsequent meeting. Please click on the monthly links to see recent Parish Council Minutes...

From June 2017 the Minutes are being published as .PDF Documents. The June Minutes can be downloaded from here. Those and previous Minutes are available as web pages by clicking on the following links: June 2017 ; May 2017 AGM ; May 2017 ; April 2017 ; March 2017 ; February 2017 ; January 2017 ;

...and click here to view our online archive of Minutes for 2016 back to 2003. Previous Acton Bridge Parish Council Minutes dating back to 1972 have been archived at the Cheshire Record Office, Chester.

Details of your Parish and Borough Councillors, your Weaver Vale Constituency MP, and links to Statutory Documents and Compliance and Transparency Information have been relocated to a new Transparency Page (June 2017)

Please note: this is a personal website, and does not necessarily represent the views of Acton Bridge Parish Council or any other organisation. Its editor is Steve Pardoe

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