Supply and Installation of LED street lanterns
Pontesbury Parish Council
Pontesbury Parish Council is inviting tenders for the supply and installation of 66 LED lanterns to complete the conversion of the village to LED street lighting. Applications should be submitted via email to Gillian Bailey gbailey.locum@gmail.com. See link below for tender documents.
Procurement reference PPC LED
Procurement stage Opportunity
Closing 18 September 2023, 5pm
Date notice published 8 August 2023, 5:28pm
Printed and published by the Counting Officer,
Shropshire Council, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 6ND
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
Pontesbury Neighbourhood Plan Area
Referendum on the adoption of the Pontesbury Parish Neighbourhood Plan
1. A referendum will be held on Thursday 7 September 2023 to decide on the Question below:
‘Do you want Shropshire Council to use the Neighbourhood Plan for Pontesbury to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?’
2. Applications to register to vote or to vote by post or proxy should be made to the Electoral Registration Officer at Shropshire Council, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 6ND.
Application
| Application | Deadline for Receipt |
| New applications to register to vote. Applications can be made online: www.gov.uk/register-to-vote |
12 midnight Monday, 21 August 2023 |
| New applications to vote by post or to cancel or amend an existing postal/proxy vote | 5 pm on Tuesday, 22 August 2023 |
| New applications for Voter Authority Certificates | 5 pm on Wednesday, 30 August 2023 |
| New applications to vote by proxy | 5 pm on Wednesday, 30 August 2023 |
| Applications to vote by emergency proxy | 5 pm on Thursday, 7 September 2023 |
Dated: Wednesday 2 August 2023
Andy Begley
Counting Officer
Shropshire Council
A Referendum relating to the adoption of the Pontesbury Neighbourhood Plan will be held on Thursday 7 September 2023.
The question which will be asked in the Referendum is:
“Do you want Shropshire Council to use the Neighbourhood Plan for Pontesbury to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?”
The Referendum area is identified on the map - (please scroll down to the link below).
The Referendum area is identical to the area which has been designated as the Pontesbury neighbourhood area.
A person is entitled to vote in the Referendum if on Monday 21 August 2023:
• he or she is entitled to vote in a local government election in the Referendum area; and
• his or her qualifying address for the election is in the Referendum area. A persons qualifying address is, in relation to a person registered in the register of electors, the address in respect of which he or she is entitled to be registered.
The Referendum expenses limit that will apply in relation to the Referendum is
£2,519.00. The number of persons entitled to vote in the Referendum, by reference to which that limit has been calculated, is 2,661.
The Referendum will be conducted in accordance with procedures which are similar to those used at local government elections.
A copy of the specified documents, that is those documents listed below, may be
inspected online - Pontesbury Neighbourhood Plan | Shropshire Council
Paper copies of the specified documents are also available to view at:
• Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6ND
Monday – Friday during office hours
• Pontesbury Library, The Pavillion, Hall Bank, Pontesbury SY5 0RF
Opening times –
Mon 10am -1pm, Tues 10am – 5pm, Thurs 2pm – 5pm and Sat 10am -1pm
The specified documents are:
• The Pontesbury Neighbourhood Development Plan;
• The report of the independent examiner into the Neighbourhood Plan;
• A summary of the representations submitted to the independent examiner;
• A statement by the local planning authority that the draft Neighbourhood Plan meets the basic conditions specified by statute and complies with the provision made by or under Section 38A and 38B of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004;
• A statement that sets out general information about town and country planning including neighbourhood planning and the referendum.
Dated: Friday 28 July 2023
Andy Begley
Chief Executive
Shropshire Council
Shirehall
Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury
SY2 6ND
Date of Announcement: 13th June 2023
Each year the smaller authority's Annual Governance and Accountability Return needs to be reviewed by an External Auditor appointed by Smaller Authorities' Appointments Ltd. The unaudited AGAR has been published with this notice. As it has yet to be reviewed by the appointed auditor it is subject to change as a result of that review.
Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates and all books, deeds, contracts and bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested. For the year ended March 2023, these documents will be available on reasonable notice, by application to:
Caroline Higgins, Responsible Financial Officer, Pontesbury Parish Council, c/o Pavilion, Hall Bank, Pontesbury SY5 0RF or via email to finance@pontesburypc.org.uk.
COMMENCING ON 14th JUNE 2023
ENDING ON 25TH JULY 2023
Electric Car Guide is a new guidance site for EV car owners. The site supports owners with education guides and resources to help you transition from petrol to electric. The site is non-commercial and free to use.
Local residents are being encouraged to have their say to improve local health and care services, and to get involved by attending upcoming public meetings, as part of the Big Health and Wellbeing Conversation.
The Big Health and Wellbeing Conversation aims to understand local views on what is affecting their health and wellbeing, what is working well and what things would make the biggest difference to improve experiences of local health and care services. The feedback gathered at these events will help NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin develop its future plans and shape our local NHS.
Local residents can give their feedback by attending one of the events taking place across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin during March and May 2023.
Find out more about The Big Health and Wellbeing Conversation and when the public meetings are taking place, click here.
A big thank you to Campaign for Protection of Rural England and all the local volunteers who turned out last week to do some tree and hedge planting around Pontesbury and Cruckton. Two oak trees were planted on School Green and in Cruckton, some Liquid Amber trees on Brookside and a stretch of Hedge around the green open space at the bottom of the Hall Bank estate. Many thanks for helping to support nature and wildlife locally. The trees and hedging whips were provided under the Shropshire Council Community Tree scheme and the Liquid Amber trees were bought by Pontesbury Climate Emergency Action Group with a grant from Pontesbury Parish Council.
Apologies about the late arrival of the newsletter this month. Unusually, some of the work was outsourced by our printers and there has been a delay due to staff sickness. We will get them to you as soon as possible. In the meantime you can see the newsletter online - see below.