Welcome to the Barham, Claydon and Gt Blakenham Website

There is a unique and underrated link between our three Parishes – Claydon and Barham are geographically inextricably linked, therefore many issues and community facilities are common to both Parishes. Great Blakenham is a valued neighbour and the planning developments attaching to the former Blue Circle site have brought an even closer working relationship.

Please browse these pages and if you have any feedback please email. Alternatively please jump to the council webpage with regards to contacting your local parish council, or specific Claydon or Barham news.

Barham Parish Council

A complete list of all Parish Councillors, together with contact numbers, is posted on the notice boards at Barham Green and outside the Co-op Food Store, as well as on the website.   The boards are regularly updated with useful and helpful information on services and activities.  13/01/10

Barham PC Meeting

The next meeting is due to be held on Monday 1 March 2010 at 7.00pm in the Church Hall. Members of the public are welcome to attend and raise any matters which are of concern to them at the Public Forum. 13/01/10

Local Post Office Consultation

Suffolk ACRE are interested in your views about the range of services that should be offered at local post offices click here for more information. 12/01/10

Local Footpath Closure

As part of the A14 repairs the local footpath crossing the A14 will be temporarily closed see map and notice. 12/01/10

Gateway to Homechoice

At a meeting at Mid Suffolk District Council we heard that Gateway to Homechoice is the name of a new choice based lettings scheme used to allocate council and housing association homes in seven district council areas. If you are, or wish to be, on the housing register the contact details for a leaflet from Mid Suffolk District Council are Tel. 01449 724760 e-mail homechoice@midsuffolk.gov.uk or see the website www.midsuffolk.gov.uk.

The leaflet explains the scheme so that you are clear about how you qualify and apply for housing, it will also explain how you take part in selecting homes and the types of considerations that have to be taken into account in deciding who should be offered any particular housing. 23/11/09

Waste Incinerators

Just 77 people signed in at the public fact finding session at Gt. Blakenham. Recent news from Suffolk County Council suggests that the two identified sites in Great Blakenham and one in Sproughton will become a reality. The next stages are a planning application in February 2010, a public hearing May/June 2010 with the results due October 2010 followed by Suffolk County Councils adoption as planning policy in December 2010. You should get your chance to comment at the planning stage and attend the public enquiry, please let the Parish Council know what you feel about these incinerators in our area.

Bar-Clay Music Makers

Rehearsals are now well underway for this year's show, Cinderella. The show will be full of all the great gags, popular songs and colourful costumes that you have come to expect from the Bar-Clay Music Makers and will represent good value entertainment for all the family! The performances will be held at Claydon & Barham Village Hall on 22,23,29,30 January for more details click here  29/11/09

Sizewell Consulation

Sizewell is considered by Government to be potentially suitable for a new nuclear power station. The Government is consulting on its draft Nuclear National Policy Statement and list of sites, including Sizewell, around the country that might be suitable for new nuclear power stations.
The draft Nuclear National Policy Statement explains how sites are assessed, why we need new nuclear power and the Government's policy on managing radioactive waste safely. It will set the framework for planning decisions on new nuclear power stations
For more detailed information follow this link.     08/01/10

Message from Ambulance Service

We all carry our mobile phones with names and numbers stored in its memory.   If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call.   Hence this 'ICE' (IN CASE OF EMERGENCY) Campaign.

The concept of 'ICE' is catching on quickly.   It is a method of contact during emergency situations.   As mobile phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name 'ICE'.   The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn't know which number to call out of perhaps hundreds stored.

In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialling the number you have stored as 'ICE' (IN CASE OF EMERGENCY).

PLEASE TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS EXCELLENT SCHEME   13/01/10