Meetings
The full Council meets on the 3rd Monday of every month
excepting August.
Meetings are held either at the Blackbourne, Blackbourne Road –
clearly signed from Ashfield Road just north of the railway
crossing, or at the Wesley Hall on School Road next door to the
Railway Tavern. The notice of meeting specifies the venue.
The meetings start at 7.30 unless otherwise notified. The agenda
is published on the notice board at Crown Mill on Station Road on
the preceding Tuesday and at the Co-op notice board. It is also
posted on the website and is available by email or in hard copy on
request from the Parish Clerk.
The public are welcomed to all meetings and there are 2 points
on the agenda – towards the beginning and end of the session – when
they are invited to speak.
Meeting dates for 2012 are:
16th January
20th February
19th March
16th April
21st May – the Annual Meeting when officers are elected etc.
(starts 7.00pm)
18th June
16th July
17th September
15th October
19th November
17th December
Minutes, once approved by the following meeting, are published
on the website and are available by email or in hard copy from the
Parish Clerk. Copies are also filed for reference in the Elmswell
Memorial Library, Cooks road, where the whole of the previous
year’s Minutes are also available. Approved Minutes, in bound form,
are lodged with the Suffolk Records Office in Bury St Edmunds as an
annual May-April volume each year.
The Council’s Planning Committee meets on the first Monday of
each month, including August as necessary. These meetings are
convened only when the timescale set by the Planning Authority, Mid
Suffolk District Council, is such that the parish council’s
comments are required sooner than the meeting schedule of full
council will allow.
Planning Committee meetings are posted on the notice board at
Crown Mill on the preceding Thursday and at the Co-op notice board.
The rules and procedures of full Council meetings are followed,
including the encouragement of public participation. Agendas and
Minutes are made available as per those of full Council.
The Council also has a standing Complaints Committee which
meets, within the same framework as full Council, as and when
necessary. It last met in 2008.
The Parish Clerk’s office is situated on the Station Road
Industrial estate, behind the Fox pub and right next to the railway
line above Gobblins factory premises. It is open for business on
weekdays from 9.00am – 5.30 pm, excepting Bank Holidays. The
answerphone is monitored
daily.