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Update 26. January 2010
The January 2010 meeting took place on Monday, 11. January, at 7 pm with a Public Meeting to discuss local government reorganisation. We were pleased to see more than a dozen residents, as well as a full Parish Council and two of our three Cheshire West and Chester Councillors, Cllr Alan McKie and Cllr Ralph Oultram. The meeting fully endorsed the Parish Council's recommended alignment with Weaverham, and the rural villages to our west (Alvanley, Manley, Norley, Kingsley, Aston, Crowton, Dutton, and Sutton) but excluding Cuddington. Weaverham has our local schools, library, shops and Post Office, and is balanced by the essentially rural character of the villages along the Weaver Valley, which is important to residents for leisure and open space as well as having its own agricultural heritage.
You can read more about this matter on our new Boundary page, and you can see the Parish Council's letter to the Boundary Committee there. We would urge residents to write to the Boundary Committee expressing their own views and you can get the address and background information on the above page.
As part of Acton Bridge Parish Council's "Freedom of Information" initiative, PC Meeting Minutes are published on this website. Please click on the links below to view them.
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 presently consists of eight Councillors and a Clerk, all of whom live in the village. Local Government Elections were held in May 2007, but since the number of candidates being proposed for the Parish Council did not exceed the number of available members, no PC election was held. Following the local government reorganisation in April 2009, Vale Royal Borough Council has been abolished and we are now part of
Cheshire West and Chester.
We usually meet at 19:30 on the first Monday of each month in the Parish Room, to discuss items of interest to the local community. Some meetings are attended by our Local Government Representative. If the first Monday falls into the second week of the month or is a Bank Holiday, then the meeting will be on the first Tuesday.
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, or discuss matters of concern to local residents.
Recent Minutes and Parish Council Announcements are linked below.
Other links:
Your Cheshire West and Chester Councillors are now
Alan McKie,
Ralph Oultram, and
Lynn Riley
Your Member of Parliament is Mike Hall
Model Code of Conduct on HMSO website
Consultation on the Model Code (local copy
here)
Natural England
DCLG The Department for Communities and Local Government (new name, new site)
Please note: this is a personal website, and does not represent the views of Acton Bridge Parish Council or any other organisation. Its editor is Steve Pardoe.
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