This page will be used to report on issues or council decisions
that will have an impact on the village or surrounding area.
Information will be added regularly, in line with reports in the
Bramford Community News.
Rather than fill the page with text there is, where appropriate, a
short note below on each subject and a link to allow you to view
any appropriate document.
Annual Parish
Meeting 27 April 2010:
This year the Parish Meeting will take place in the Church Room on
Tuesday 27 April. The chairman will give his report on
the past year along with the Parish accounts and there will be a
presentation about the work of the River Gipping Trust given by
their treasurer, Spencer Greystrong. The history of the
Gipping navigation and the current work of the trust in maintaining
the river is of interest to those of us living by its banks.
Safe crossing in The Street: Update 23-02-10
The Bramford Community Group (BCG) have been investigating safer
crossing options in The Street between Gippingstone Road
and the Co-op. There is a particular need to allow the
residents of Cherryfields to feel more secure whilst crossing the
road.
After a meeting with Suffolk County Council Highways it appears
that there is only one viable option. That is to increase the
pavement width near the drop kerbs South of the Co-op and on the
Northern side of Gippingstone Road. This will reduce the
crossing width to 6 metres in both cases. It would reduce the
amount of space available for car parking, but this would be
minimal compared to having a zebra crossing installed. A copy
of the plan drawn up by SCC can be found at
Street crossing plan
If you have any concerns about this proposal please contact the
Parish Clerk. Those residents in the Street directly affected
will be contacted individually. The matter will be
formerly discussed at Parish Council at its 15 March
meeting.
Lawn Cemetery extension: Update 23-02-10
The lawn cemetery is getting full and the Parish Council will have
to extend it into the field between the existing cemetery and the
houses on Bullen Close. Plans for this are available to view
at the Parish Room. Please contact the clerk if you wish to
look at these or make any comment. Houses bordering the
cemetery have already been contacted by letter.
Options for affordable housing or a woodland burial site have
been suggested, but have not yet been considered by the Council.
Neither of these would go ahead without further
consultation.
National Grid - Proposed overhead power lines 04-02-10:
We now have more information about the proposed new power lines
from Bramford to Sudbury. There are four suggested routes and these
all start from the sub station at the top of Bullen Lane and travel
West. The Parish Council takes the view that the new lines should
follow the existing route rather than take another line across the
Suffolk countryside. We have also asked that more visible
consideration should be given to putting the lines underground.
Chairman's Annual Report 2009
The following links will take you to the full report, accounts and
presentation
Report
Income and expenditure
Balance sheet
Boundary Committee report update 12-02-10:
The Minister of state has now ruled that the twin proposals for a
unitary Suffolk must go back to Suffolk for a consensus to be
reached as to whether the single or dual unitary model should be
used. A Ministerial decision that has decided nothing after
the expenditure of much money and effort. The Parish Council
has no idea what further consultation may be needed, but will take
its part when invited. Our position remains unchanged at
present from our original submission.
Our original submission is at
Boundary committee II .
Budget 2010-11:
The Council has agreed to an increase in the budget of 3% for the
year. Although we have many requests to fund more activities
we are concious that a large rise this year would be out of line
with most peoples pay expectations. The 3% rise will mean an
increase of 90P per month on the parish rate for an E band
property. More information will be given once we agree on the
precise allocation of this
money.