Attendance at meetings

Local residents and other members of the public are most welcome at Parish Council meetings.

Parish website

Please advise any Councillor or the Parish Clerk if there is any additional information that you would like to see on the website.

RVBC

Ribble Valley Borough Council minutes, reports and agendas.

RVBC Councillors.

Local LCC Councillors

Leaflet on local LCC Councillors (Oct 09).

LCC

Lancashire County Council minutes, decisions and Councillors.

Ribble Valley MP

Nigel Evans (Conservative) is the MP for the constituency of the Ribble Valley. Mr Evans' email is evansn@parliament.uk, and his 'phone number is 020 7219 6939.

Members of the European Parliament

The contact details of the MEPs for the North West are available on the website of the UK Office of the European Parliament.

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Parish and Ribble Valley Councillors

Parish Council Meetings

The currently scheduled meetings of the Parish Council for the year April 2009 to end-March 2010 are:

• 6 April 2010 (AGM).

The meetings take place at 7:30pm in St Ambrose's Parish Room. The dates may change - please email the Parish Clerk to confirm the date of an upcoming meeting.

Minutes

The Parish Council minutes are available for download in the table below. There is an Annual Meeting in April/May and normally six Ordinary Meetings each year. The links will open in a new window.

Village Diary

This is a schedule of extra-ordinary or yearly future events. It does not include regular weekly or monthly events (such as WI meetings) which are catered for elsewhere on the website. Please email the Parish Clerk and the web-designer Graham Cooper if you have events for the Diary.

Parish Plan

A Parish Plan was published in 2008. The aim was to determine what villagers want from their community, enable the Parish Council to reconnect with local people and move forward with new vigour to tackle what the community recognises as its problems and opportunities.

The Parish Council wanted villagers to lead the process to enable different voices to be heard. A grant from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs was acquired at the end of February 2007. An open meeting was held in June 2007 to engage with the community and set up a working group. A questionnaire was developed to determine the views of residents. In total, the questionnaire was returned by 52% of households.

Initial issues were reflected back to the residents at a sociable session on 21 April 2008. We were pleased to welcome some of the outside agencies who may be involved in bringing about some of the actions needed (like the LCC bus operator officer and a youth officer). Many of the issues will need further investigation and work with a variety of outside agencies as the Parish Council has only limited resources financially and in terms of personnel. The Parish Council has tacitly accepted that it will be the driver/monitor of the Plan, reporting back to the community at its AGM and at other times if appropriate.

The Parish Plan incorporating the village survey outlines the rationale for the Plan and the outcome of the survey of residents. Actions arose from the Plan and the report Parish Plan Actions declares the action, the approach for delivery, timescale, responsibility and resource implications. The Actions are reviewed at each Parish Council meeting with a major review at the AGM.

The Parish Plan review that took place at the Annual Meeting on 7 April 2009 is available for download.

Accounts

The Council is required to abide with financial regulations regarding External Auditing and with Financial Controls and Procedures.

The draft Parish Council accounts for the year ending 31 March 2009 are available for download. The Notice of Conclusion of Audit was issued on 7 December 2009, for the financial year ending 31 March 2009.

Freedom of Information Act

A document outlining information available from Grindleton Parish Council under the model publication scheme to comply with Freedom of Information Act is available for download.

Traffic Study

The Parish Council commissioned VTC (Highway and Transportation Consultants) Ltd. to carry out a traffic and parking study on Main Street in February 2004. The study included the following investigations and action:

• An Open Meeting was held on Wednesday in March 2004 to invite residents and members of the Parish Council to discuss traffic management and parking problems on Main Street. The meeting was attended by over 50 local residents and Councillors.
• A questionnaire was distributed to residents of Main Street to seek their views on traffic conditions and parking along Main Street.
• Traffic and parking surveys were undertaken and observations made of traffic movements, parking and the use of the street by vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians.

The results of the Traffic Study are available for download. Also available are the blank Traffic Study Questionnaire and the Traffic Study Questionnaire Results.

Parish Lengthsman

The Parish has a Lengthsman and his duties encompass the maintenance of:

• Footpaths and stiles;
• Recreational Ground play area;
• Minor blocked drains;
• Seats & Notice Boards;
• General tidiness of the village.

Please direct any comments or suggestions for work needed to Cllr. Jeffrey Cowling (01200 440868). The LCC website has general information on the Parish Lengthsman Scheme.