GRESSINGHAM PARISH COUNCIL
Next parish council meeting:
Monday 20th May 2024
at 7.30pm. Venue to be confirmed
Members of the public are always welcome to attend and participate.
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Annual Parish Meeting
The 2023 Annual Parish Meeting took place in the garden of Gressingham Hall on Wednesday 24th May.
Click here for the minutes.
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The Parish Council Annual Report summarises the work of the parish council during the past year.
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Annual Governance & Accountability Return
Financial documents 2022/23
Audit excemption 2022/23
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ParishCouncil elections
Nominations are now closed. There were no nominatons other than the encombent councillors, all of whom have been reinstated.
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Story Homes housing development proposal for Hornby.
A decision has been made - click here for details
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Link to: Gressingham Village community website
Coronavirus
Planning & Reports
Story Homes - housing development proposal for Hornby
Story Homes have submitted a proposal to build 76 houses and a medical centre on Fleet Lane, on land next to OneSchool Global in Hornby. Gressingham Parish Council is opposing the application.
The application’s reference number is: 18/01165/HYB
Decision date
Lancaster City Council has informed us that Story Homes’ Application will be considered by the Planning Regulatory Committee on Monday 30 January 2023 at 10.30 a.m. at Morecambe Town Hall.
The Parish Council has registered our intention to speak in opposition to the application. There is a strict protocol relating to members of the public seeking to speak at Council meetings.
You could join our Parish Councillors as observers for the Planning Regulatory Committee meeting to demonstrate your support in opposition to Story Homes' Application. Please inform Martin Brooks or Sally Riley if you wish to attend so that we can comply with the regulations in support of our case.
The Parish Council wishes to thank you for your continuing support in opposing this application but this is the day we have been awaiting for 5+years; now it is our chance to state our views.
Sally Riley
Parish Councillor
Pearson Trust Working Group
Information about the Gressingham Community Project to convert the Old School Room and re-order the church building can be found here: http://bit.do/PTWG
The website contains Pearson Trust Working Group meeting minutes plus all reports, plans, leaflets, questionnaire, fly-through video, etc.
In the pre-covid era, the next steps would have been to hold the referendum and progressing an application for funding from the Lottery Heritage Fund. As a result of co-vid, local authorities are not operating at normal strength and the Heritage Lottery have suspended all work on their major programmes, so PTWG work is effectively suspended.
Powers, Role and Responsibilities of the Parish Council
Standing Orders of the Parish Council
Code of Conduct
Community Emergency Plan
Meetings
Parish Council meetings are held every two months, usually on a Monday.
See HOME page for date of forthcoming meeting.
Any member of the public may join the meeting. During lockdown, meetings are held virtually via Zoom. Contact the Clerk if you would like to attend.
Minutes of the Extraordinary meeting held on 3rd May 2022.
Click here to view latest meeting Agenda
Click here to view latest meeting Minutes
Click here to view previous meeting Agenda
Click here to view previous meeting Minutes
Note: Only the most recent documents are displayed on this website. However, all documents are freely available. If you would like to view anything else, please contact the Clerk.
Councillors
Martin Brooks (Chairman)
07974 711412
Chair@gressinghampc.org.uk
Michele Luxon (Vice-Chair)
Grant Parker
Neil Read
Sally Riley
Clerk to the Council
Lesley Wareing
(015242) 21918
Clerk@gressinghampc.org.uk
Website Accessibility
Accessibility
If you or someone you know is having trouble reading the information on this website, please contact the Clerk and we will do our very best to help.
This might be by providing the information in alternative accessible format, or even by reading the material over the telephone.
Gressingham Parish Council (GPC) is committed to ensuring website communications can be used by as many people as possible.
New regulations* require public sector bodies to ‘make your website more accessible by making it ‘perceivable, operable, understandable and robust’.
Gressingham parish has a population of only about 150. The council has just 5 councillors and a clerk, and a very small budget.
At the time of writing, councillors are not aware of any parishioner who has difficulty accessing our website information.
After due consideration, councillors have concluded that with such limited resources the time and money necessary to make all communications meet the guidelines for such infrequent use would be a ‘disproportionate burden’ for GPC.
However, this issue is to remain under review; the Website Accessibility Assessment has been added to GPC’s ‘Annual Governance Cycle and monitoring arrangements’ as an item for routine annual review.
If anyone with an impairment or disability which makes accessing our communications difficult, we offer personal assistance. This statement is placed prominently at the head of our webpage:
Accessibility
If you or someone you know is having trouble reading the information below, please contact the Clerk or the Chairman and we will do our very best to help. This might be by providing the information in alternative accessible format, or even by reading the material over the telephone.
N Read
Chairman, Gressingham Parish Council September 2019
* Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility regs 2018.
Traffic Speed Survey
The Parish Council is proposing to ask Lancaster County Council to reduce the current 30mph speed limit within Gressingham village to 20mph. The views of villagers will be taken into account.
This survey is to gather information on how villagers feel about the current traffic conditions, and about the proposal to reduce the current 30mph speed limit to 20mph. (There are only 4 questions and will take only about 1 minute complete).
Please click on this link to take you to the on-line survey: