Olveston Parish Council

LATEST NEWS

Olveston Parish Council Assembly will be taking place on Thursday 29th April at the Parish Hall, Tockington, at 7.30pm.  The guest speaker is Guy Astley-Smith who will talk about our local 'Disaster Plan Strategy'.   Everyone is very welcome and, if anyone has any questions, then this is another opportunity to ask them.  Please come along to show your support for the local community and find out what we all do.

Rubbish and Recycling arrangements from Mon 25th January 2010:  South Gloucestershire Council have produced a poster explaining how our local collections will be made from Mon 25th January. 

Points of interest to be discussed at the next Parish Council meeting on 23 March 2010:

  • Play Equipment Update
  • Annual Parish Assembly

 

 

Councillors

 

Chairman - June Lyons

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Vice Chairman - Irene Reid

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Allen Cogram

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Tony Heming

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Val Hudspeth

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John Spratt

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Jane Webb

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John Hughes 

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Andy Clarke

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Clerk to the Council: Valerie Tutin

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Llyn-Din, The Common, Olveston BS35 4DQ

 

email: olvestonpc@googlemail.com

 
   

Chairmen of Committees:

 

Leisure and Recreation

John Hughes

Footpaths and Environment

John Spratt

Planning

Irene Reid

   

Footpaths Warden

Peter Cabban 612689

  

 

Council Meetings

Parishioners are welcome to attend Parish Council meetings.  Check out the Events page on this website for dates and times of meetings.  Please contact the Clerk if you plan to attend. 

You can read the most recently approved minutes of Olveston Parish Council here and the most recently approved minutes of the Council's Recreation and Leisure Committee here.  (These minutes are put on the website once they have been approved and signed as an accurate record at the subsequent meeting of each committee.)

 

Annual Parish Assembly

The 2010 Annual Parish Assembly will take place in the Olveston Parish Hall, Tockington on Thursday, 29th April 2010 at 7.30pm. The guest speaker, Guy Astley-Smith from South Gloucestershire Council, will discuss Emergency Provision in South Gloucestershire. 

The minutes of the 2009 Annual Parish Assembly were provisionally approved at the Parish Council meeting on 19 May 2009 but cannot be accepted formally as a correct record until the 2010 Parish Assembly.  To  see the 2009 minutes, click here. 

 

 

The Council's Vision Statement

Read the Council's Vision Statement here.

  
  
Council Policy on its Donations to Charities

You can read the Council's policy here.  For details of any decisions about donations, you can check the minutes each month.

 

'Olveston Parish Matters'

Andy Clarke, one of our Parish Councillors, writes regular articles for the community magazine, Meeting Point, highlighting local parish matters.  His latest article is reproduced here:

If, like me, you have recently looked down from the top of Aust Road in horror at the ‘pollarded' trees, then you will perhaps imagine that those poor stunted horse chestnut stumps will never, ever recover. We are assured however that they will sprout again though whether they can ever resemble their former glory remains to be seen. On the plus side, you may be pleased to learn that South Glos Council will be planting a new row of trees on the wide verge opposite them, which should be very nice indeed. Also at the top of Aust Road, some special hedging work has left an excellent pathway for us all to use up to the corner of Elberton Road.

During some of our recent cold and wintry weather it has been a joy to walk the local footpaths to view our countryside as it wears a different set of colours. Muddy footprints on the paths now bear testimony to the plentiful numbers of people using them. Many of course are dog-walkers, the downside of which is the heaps of uncollected dog-mess. We would like your views on this issue and how to deal with it.

The frost and snow brought with it the problem of waste collections when our bin-men were ‘unable' to collect. At the same time, perhaps we should remember to thank those who still come to our doors regardless, to bring our daily milk, letters and parcels. Well done to them.

A number of people have asked for a plastic bottle-bank, possibly to be sited beside the Parish Hall. It now seems likely that South Glos Council have acceded to our requests, though it may be some time before it happens. The hope is to start in 6-12 months time - watch this space!

Car-parking on the pavement in the Parish is causing concern for both the disabled residents and mums with pushchairs, especially in some tight spots. Let's all try to think of others in whatever way we can, please, to look after our community.