Pencombe Group Parish Council

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Result of the Election held on 31st March 2022
Following the election to fill the two vacancies on the Parish Council, Stuart Barrett and Sally Davis have been elected. Here is the link to the Declaration of Result-

Declaration of Result of Poll – Pencombe with Grendon Warren

Council Meetings now shown live on ZOOM
For the benefit of residents unable to attend the meeting in person there will be a live ZOOM feed of the meeting as it happens. If you wish to join the ZOOM meeting the details you will need are given in the agenda and also on this website under Council Business.

To use these details go to zoom.us and on the landing page you will find “Join a meeting”. Click on this and you will be asked for the meeting ID and passcode. You should then be able to join the meeting. (NB The actual meeting of the Councillors still has to be held face-to-face)

NDP -WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Following a very successful workshop held in the Parish Hall on 11 January 2022 and attended by 35 residents, our planning consultant Louise Kirkup has combined all the great work done by residents at that workshop and produced a first draft of the vision, objectives and key themes for the Parishes’ NDP. You can see that document here Vision, Objectives and Key Themes – First Draft 17.01.21

This document has now been sent out to the 80 residents who have given their email address and there will also be a few printed copies available at the Post Office in the Parish Hall. The next key date is Monday 21st February at 7pm in the Parish Hall where residents come together again to discuss and agree changes to this first draft document. Once that has been done we will then have an agreed final draft to go into the draft version of the NDP.

The 21st February event will follow the same format as the 11th January event. Depending on numbers attending groups of residents will check the documents received from Kirkwells with their earlier work on flip charts. The Kirkwells documents contain four questions which will be answered by the groups which will then modify the documents and feedback the changes to all other attendees. Once all the attendees are in agreement with the final comments the documents will then be the final draft of the vision, objectives and key themes which will form an important part of the draft NDP.

Dates for Parish Council meetings

Parish Council meetings are held monthly except for December when there is no meeting. All meetings are held on 4th Tuesday of every month (except December) and start at 7.30pm except for the Annual Meeting in May which starts at 7.00pm.

The current dates set for 2021/22 meetings are as follows-

22nd June 2021
27th July 2021
24th August 2021
28th September 2021
26th October 2021
23rd November 2021
25th January 2022
22nd February 2022
22nd March 2022
26th April 2022
24th May 2022 (the Annual Meeting)

All meetings except the Annual Meeting start at 7.30pm and last about 1.5 to 2 hours. The Annual Meeting will start at 7.00pm with the annual Parish meetings for the Parishes of Pencombe (with Grendon Warren) and Little Cowarne. When this meeting is finished the annual meeting of the Group Parish Council will start.

Most COVID restrictions have now been lifted with effect from 19th July 2021. Council meetings will now be held face to face in the Parish Hall.

The papers for the meetings are all available in advance on this website under “Council Business” then “Papers for Meetings”

Minutes

Latest Draft Minutes