Public Notice

This consultation is part of the initial stages of plan production and is being carried out under Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Plan) (England) Regulations 2012.

The Joint Local Plan will inform how Districts develop over the next 18 years. It will establish how much housing and land for businesses will be needed and where it will go, alongside protecting and enhancing the environment and delivering infrastructure.

View the consultation document online, and to submit your comments

Have Your Say on the draft Local Plan as well as viewing dates for drop in sessions around the District.

Paper copies of the consultation document are also available to view at libraries within the Districts and at the Councils’ office for the duration of the consultation period.

Walsham-le-Willows currently has two vacancies, one for a parent governor which can only be filled by a parent or legal guardian of a child on roll at the school, the other for a Local Authority governor and could be filled by a member of the local community.  

Would you like to apply? Do you know someone who might like to apply?

If so please email Lyndsay Cook, Governor Development Advisor at Suffolk County Council | 01473 260163

This meeting has traditionally been arranged by the Parish Clerk but is not a Parish Council meeting. Attendance by Parish Councillor’s is not required but it is considered good practice for them to do so and for the Chair of the Parish Council to give a report.

A wordpress update has introduced a new ‘block’ editor for the creation and updating of pages and content. This cannot be reversed. Therefore each page will have to be revised in the new editor. There is a bit of a learning curve involved in this, so please accept the webmaster’s apologies whilst this is worked through.

The events calendar has been removed as this was becoming increasingly time consuming to update, was causing issues with other plugins and and was not always displaying correctly.

Given that most of the calendar content was regular weekly events, these will be added back as a listing on a dedicated page where the event/organisation does not have a dedicated page already.

Pages on the site for specific events and organisations will be updated to include contacts and next event dates at the top of the page.

Contact the Clerk to make arrangements for inspecting the accounting records between 17th June and 26th July.

The Parish Council and village residents have observed an ongoing and worsening dog fouling problem along public footpaths in the village, in particular the ‘permissive’ path behind Four Ashes, and requests that dog owners please take proper responsibility for clearing up after their dogs in the interests of public health and the quiet enjoyment of other residents and footpath users.

Volunteers have had to clear footpaths of dog excrement before the Great Run Local takes place.

Permissive paths are not public footpaths and can be closed to public use by the owners if residents continue behave inconsiderately.

The footpaths are maintained by the Parish Council, landowners and volunteers for the benefit of everyone in the village but this requires all users to show a modicum of consideration for others.

Dog litter bins are provided.

Please pick it up and bin it!