Welcome to our web siteHere you will find information about what’s happening in West Dean as well as details of the council’s work and how you can contact us. If you have any questions or would like to suggest something new for this site please contact us at admin@westdeanpc.org.uk West Dean Parish is divided electorally into 5 wards with a total of 15 councillors to represent electors as follows: Ellwood and Sling Ward 2 councillors The Council meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 7.00pm. These meetings were traditionally held at The West Dean Centre, High Street, Bream, but starting from June 2012, they will be held at various venues around the parish. Every Council meeting begins with a Public Open Forum to enable electors to ask questions or comment on matters that affect the Parish. The Council is fully committed to representing and serving the people and communities of West Dean. PARISH NEWS!! •Village web sites: for information about West Dean villages and what’s on, please visit one of the following web sites. 4 Villages (Clements End, Ellwood, Little Drybrook, Sling) click here Yorkley click here •West Dean Parish Council Newsletter: The Spring edition was published on Monday 23rd April 2012. Copies were included as inserts into the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean on Wednesday 25th April for all Parish residents who have this newspaper delivered to their home. Copies are available in some shops and community areas, but if you have not had the opportunity to get your own copy please contact the Parish office. •Highways: The Parish Council’s Public Safety have responsibility for all highways matters. If you have a complaint or comment about any highways issues, please contact the Clerk. A register of highways faults, including road surface and drainage concerns, signage, speeding concerns and other safety issues is maintained in the parish office, and a regular meeting every second month is about to be initiated between the Parish Council and the Gloucestershire County Council Highways Department. If you would like to report a problem, you can report direct to GCC Highways (08000514514) or through the West Dean Parish Council. •Jubilee Celebrations!! The Council has provided some funding for community events around the Parish. A schedule of events will be published here. •The Five Acres Educational, Sporting, Leisure and Cultural Centre: A series of public meetings have been held to consider the proposed move of the facilities at Five Acres, Berry Hill. You can listen to the first meeting at Berry Hill Rugby Club on 16th April using this link to Triangle FM •The West Dean Centre is now hosting Bream Methodist Church. See ‘West Dean Centre and Gosling Cafe’ link to the left. •For the 23 Bus Service (Coleford to Gloucester via Sling, Bream and Lydney) timetable, effective from Sunday 4th March 2012, Monday to Friday service click here, Saturday service click here , Sunday service click here. •For the local Gloucestershire County Council mobile library service timetable from March to June 2012, click here •Parish Plans: The Council has embarked on an extensive programme of community consultation to develop a Parish Community Plan. With support from the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, five Neighbourhood Steering Groups have been set up to find out local views, through questionnaires, public meetings and presentations. The Bream Group have already reported. The POVY (Pillowell, Oldcroft, Viney Hill, and Yorkley) and the 4 Villages (Ellwood, Little Drybrook, Sling and Clements End) Groups are due to report soon. We are looking forward to the contributions from the Berry Hill & Christchurch and Whitecroft & Parkend communities, whose Steering Groups will have reported by the end of the summer. Please have your say!! The plans will then be consolidated into an overall Parish Plan, to help determine the Council’s objectives and priorities over the next few years. •Bream Play Park - Work started on Monday, 12th March 2012, and the Park was officially launched at a great fun day on Saturday, 28th April 2012. For further information read more here….. •Snow Wardens: Volunteers in Whitecroft, Ellwood, Sling, Pillowell and Berry Hill have been issued with West Dean Parish Council grit spreaders and supplies of grit to keep streets passible and safe in snow and ice. Volunteers are still required for Yorkley, Parkend and Bream. Please contact the Parish office. •West Dean Parish Council were pleased to make a donation of £250.00 to Berry Hill Rugby Club to help towards replacing equipment lost in the recent sad arson attack at the club. The Club were overwhelmed with support received from all the local community. •The next Council meeting will be at the West Dean Centre, Bream, at 7.00pm, Wednesday 30th May 2012. There is always a Public Forum preceding the Council meeting to which residents are invited to attend and speak. From June 2012 the Council will be taking its meetings around the Parish. Please watch this space for details of venues. A full programme of Parish Council meetings with venues will be published on this site. •Broadband progress: for further news on the Gloucestershire broadband project and for your opportunity to make your views known visit www.gfirst.co.uk/broadband •The Annual Parish Meeting will be held at the West Dean Centre, 7.00pm, Wednesday 23rd May 2012. This is not a meeting of the Parish Council, but is an opportunity for residents to express views. Guest speakers are Greg Smith, Principal, and Lynne Craig, Forest Principal, of Gloucestershire College, and Wendy Jackson, Regeneration Manager at Forest of Dean District Council. For details of the meeting, click here
This site was last updated Thursday 17th May 2012
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