Wootton Bridge Parish Council

Help and Information Centre
4 & 5 Joanne's Walk
Brannon Way
WOOTTON BRIDGE
Isle of Wight PO33 4NX
Tele/Fax: 01983 884555
Email:

Next Parish Council Meeting

The next meeting of the Parish Council will be held on Tuesday 20 July 2010 at 7pm in the Wootton Community School Hall off Church Road. An agenda and previous minutes are available here:

To download the agenda please click here

To download the draft Minutes of the June meeting please click here.

An archive of previous Parish Council minutes and Reports is available online under Documentation. Copies of minutes may also be obtained from the Parish Council Help and Information Centre during office hours.

Annual Report

The 2008/2009 Annual Report has now been published. If you have not received your copy yet please contact the HIC or you can download a copy by clicking on the following link:- Annual report 2009.pdf

To gain more insight into the type of work and initiatives that the Parish Council has been involved in, you can view the extract from the Commission for Rural Communities Guidance notes by clicking on the following link:-
EXTRACT WBPC Case Study CRC England April 2009.pdf

Having been one of the first 12 Parish Councils in the country to achieve Quality back in 2003, we are now proud to announce that we are the first Parish Council on the Island to be re-accredited Quality status. ( 26 January 2009)

Attending & Speaking at Meetings

You can now speak during Parish Council meetings! As part of a new initiative to better involve residents in village matters, members of the public are now able to speak during parish council meetings on any agenda item, prior to members' discussion, for a period not exceeding 5 minutes for each person. If a group of people wishes to speak on the same agenda item they will be asked to nominate a representative from among themselves to speak for a maximum of 5 minutes, to express the views of the group. The Chairman reserves the right to limit the number of speakers and the amount of time they speak on any agenda item and his/her decision will be final. Please note: There is also an Open Forum at the start of every meeting when members of the public can raise any matters of concern or ask questions on any item that is not on the agenda. Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month except August when no meeting is (usually) held.

Local Councillors

Following the 4 June 2009 Parish Council elections, your Parish Councillors are:-

• Barry Abraham
• Brian Ballard
• Dick Doran
• Sarah Fulford
• Barrie Hailstone
• Ken Morris
• Peter Mundell
• Roy Murphy
• Steve Porter

Help & Information Centre

Remember that in our office we hold a huge variety of local and Islandwide information including all planning applications submitted for the village. If you haven't been to see us yet, please call in! If we can't help you, we usually know someone who can. We are open to the public every weekday from 10.00am until 1.30pm (to 1pm Mondays). Also the IW Council is here on Monday and Friday mornings, from 9.15am until 1.00pm. Services include information on all IW Council services and benefits matters, we can also do your bus passes and parking permits, you can pay your rates here by cheque or postal order and we sell garden waste sacks.

Wootton Bridge Plan

We had a display at Party in the Park showing you the feedback received from our Village Plan consultation day held in February this year. To view the display please click on the following links:- Getting out and about.pdf highways and traffic.pdf how our village should look.pdf making our village more prosperous.pdf making wootton greener.pdf our community facilities.pdf our countryside and coastline.pdf our village community.pdf police and nwatch.pdf

The Plan will cover all aspects of our village life, based on what you have told us you would like, and will include village design, economy, countryside and coastline and traffic and transport. We will be starting work on the first draft during the summer. The Wootton Bridge Plan will supersede our 2004 regeneration plan and will incorporate an updated version of our Village Design Statement. It will be a very important document which will help us to secure the funding and support we will need to achieve our aims. We will keep you informed of progress and you will have the opportunity to comment on each section of the draft plan, the first of which will be Traffic and Transport, which we hope to have ready by the end of the year.

Model Publication Scheme

Under the Freedom of Information Act it is the duty of every public authority to adopt and maintain a publication scheme. Publication schemes facilitate the proactive release of information and play a crucial role in supporting and providing greater openness and transparency across the public sector.

In line with section 20 of the Act the Information Commissioner has approved a new model publication scheme. This was adopted by the Parish Council at it's meeting held on Tuesday 18 November 2008 and is effective from 1 January 2009. Please click on the following links to view the Model Scheme and the Guide to Information. You may also contact the Clerk at the address above for more details. model scheme.pdf guide to information.doc