The external audit of the Parish Council finances for 2018/19 has now been completed and there were no other matters were found which gives the Parish Council a ‘clean bill of health’.

The Notice of Conclusion of Audit is shown below with details of how to arrange to inspect the Annual Governance and Accountability Return in person and the cost for copies.

Mid Suffolk Council is offering grants between £1,000 to £5,000 to support residents and their carers carry out minor adaptations to their homes.

The grant is designed to help people and their families cope with challenges of living at home with long term health conditions. The scheme is open to all homeowners, private tenants and council property tenants in the district.

For more information call 0300 123 4000.

Public Notice

Babergh District Council and Mid Suffolk District Council are undertaking a second round of consultation on a new Joint Local Plan. The consultation period runs from 22^nd July 2019 until 4pm on 30^th September 2019.

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.

The School Leadership and Governance team at Suffolk County Council are working with Walsham-le-Willows CEVC Primary School to recruit two school governors.

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

Please see the reports from the 18 village organisations who presented a report this year (out of the 26 invited to do so.

This will be updated with the reports still to be supplied in electronic editable format. Thanks to all those who have kindly supplied these already.

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.

Please be aware that some pages on the website are currently not displaying correctly, especially those with many images.

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.

View the Annual Statements on Governance and Accounting and the Statement setting out the period for the Exercise of Public Rights (the right to inspect the accounting records of the Parish Council).

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!