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by Saxtead Parish Council
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by Saxtead Parish Council
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The next Parish Council meeting will now be on TUESDAY 4th June at 7.30pm, at Foxearth Lodge Training Room, NOT on Thursday 4th July as previously advertised.
The pond at Little Green appears to be thriving after the removal of the scrub around it. The pond is now filling with water, having being dry over winter, and it seems to be benefiting from receiving more natural light.
The District Council Elections for the new East Suffolk Council will take place on Thursday 2nd May. Saxtead falls within the Framlingham Ward. A Statement of Persons Nominated for the ward is attached here.
We would welcome reports from village groups for Saxtead's Annual Parish Meeting on Thursday 9th May 2019 at 7.30pm.
Police in Suffolk are urging people who fly drones, either commercially or as hobbyists, to be mindful of the locations they operate in at this time of year due to nesting birds.
Monday April 1 will see the historic creation of a brand new local authority, replacing Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils.
East Suffolk Council will deliver essential services to local people and communities, from Lowestoft in the north to Felixstowe in the south, and is the natural culmination of a partnership between Suffolk Coastal and Waveney which has seen them save a combined total of over £22 million.
The creation of this new ‘super district council’ is a historic first for local government. It is the latest step in a meticulously planned journey designed to ensure that local people receive the services they deserve and expect in the face of considerable financial challenges for local government.
The primary reason for creating this new council is to meet the challenges presented by a hugely pressurised financial and service-delivery environment. Compared with the other options considered, it is the most simple to implement and has involved limited transitional costs. It will enable the new council to grasp more opportunities and deliver its priorities for East Suffolk: financial self-sufficiency, economic growth, and enabling communities.
So what will you as taxpayers see that is different? First, the number of councillors is being reduced from 90 across the two authorities to 55 and the elections to the new council will take place on May 2nd. A lot of work has gone in to ensuring that it will be ‘business as usual’ when the new council comes in to force on April 1.
Residents will continue to pay their council tax in the same way, refuse and recycling will be collected by the same friendly and efficient teams a and a range of important services from Planning and Coastal Management to Housing and Environmental Health will continue in exactly the same way.
There will of course be some changes. A new telephone number is being introduced for the Council’s switchboard and customer contact centre: 03330 162 000. This will be a non-geographic number, meaning that callers will be charged at a local rate, no matter where they call from in East Suffolk. And of course, there will be new signs – from the largest logos on the side of our main buildings, to car parks and vehicles.
These changes will be made gradually to keep costs down; another example of how the creation of a brand new council has been carefully planned with the taxpayer and public money in mind.
Celebrating Saxtead
The Wardens recently received a visit from the
two case officers for the pilot project of the
Taylor Report, for church buildings in Suffolk or
Manchester. The officers give advice about
grants for maintenance work and ways of
working with the wider community.
Please send tenders by email to: saxteadparishclerk@gmail.com
Saxtead Parish Council would like to thank the Community Payback Unit who has just cleared around the pond at Little Green. Everyone worked very hard and the end result is very impressive, as our before and after photos below show.
