Parish Council

The members of Newton-in-Bowland Parish Council are

Cllr Martin Beattie (Chairman)

Cllr Richard Thornber (Vice Chairman)

Cllr John Bennett

Cllr Brian Dixon

Cllr Richard Whitaker

The Clerk is Mrs Sandra Pinder

The Parish Council meeting due on 12^th May has had to be rearranged due to government legislation. For the last 12 months due to Covid-19 we were able to meet via remote means however from 7^th May we will be unable to do so and our meetings need to be held physically.

Due to this change, running alongside the current covid rules the plan is to hold the meeting on Wednesday 26^th May at 7.30pm in Newton Village Hall.

The meeting is open to everyone, but we ask if anyone wishes to attend they let us know in advance, so that we can adhere to the distancing rules.

Please let the clerk know if there are any items to go onto the agenda and if there are any changes to the meeting we will let you know in advance

If anyone has anything to be put to the Council or wishes to sit in on the meeting please contact Sandra Tel 01200 448289 or email newtonpc@boarsdenfarm.plus.com

HARP

The Haweswater Aqueduct supplies fresh drinking water to people in Cumbria, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. To ensure that we can secure the quality and resilience of these water supplies, vital work is required to replace six sections of the pipeline amounting to one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the North of England.

We have been busy consulting with local authorities, councillors, communities and their representatives about our plans as part of our pre-application consultation, including physical exhibitions and an online virtual exhibition, engaging with over 12,500 people and receiving over 2000 feedback responses. We would like to say a big thank to everyone who took part!

Taking into consideration the feedback we have received as much as possible, we have now developed our latest proposed plans for the Bowland and Marl Hill sections which you can view by visiting the updated section of our virtual exhibition at www.harpconsultation.co.uk.

We are also running a live webinar on Thursday 3 June at 6pm, where members of our team will be talking through our latest plans and the virtual exhibition updates. If you would like to join this event you can register by visiting the virtual exhibition home page and following the online instructions.

We will be submitting planning applications for these latest plans to Ribble Valley Borough Council and Lancaster City Council later in June 2021.

Best wishes,

HARP Stakeholder Relations

United Utilities have submitted their Environmental Impact Assesment to Ribble Valley Borough Council for the upcoming HARP. If you would like to see the proposals please copy and paste the link below to your browser

https://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/planx_downloads/21_0119_Scoping_Report.pdf

The parish council will look at these proposals at their meeting next week. If there are any comments you would like to make please let me know. Whilst we are able to make comments on the appraisal the parish council are not formally being consulted by the council at this stage.

The main reason for this addendum to the previous scoping request in 2019 is due to the introduction of a new haul route around Waddington.

To save any confusion our PC meeting due tonight, 10th February has been postponed until next Wednesday 17^th Feb, so if you have any comments on this or any other item please let me know so that I can place it on the agenda

The newsletter below has been circulated to all residents advising them of the possibility of B4RN extending their fibre optic broadband service to our area and to inform them of the positioning of the defibrillator on the walls of the village hall

Newsletter 5th February 2017

Declaration of acceptance office, Register of Members interests, Agendas and Minutes from previous Parish Council meetings are listed below and when clicked a pdf document will open in another window.

DECLARATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF OFFICE

Cllr John Bennett

Cllr Richard Whitaker

Cllr Brian Dixon

Cllr Richard Thornber

Cllr Martin Beattie

Cllr John Bennett

Cllr Richard Whitaker

Cllr Brian Dixon

Cllr Richard Thornber

Cllr Martin Beattie

MINUTES AND AGENDAS