St. Martins Parish Council

Parish Clerk - Mrs S R Crow                                                          Email clerksmpc@dsl.pipex.com           Tel: 01691 655385    

  (Please address all correspondence to: 3 Fernhill Close, Gobowen, Oswestry, Shropshire SY11 3PW)

Chairman: Mr Neil Graham                                                                                                                       (scroll down to find this months chairmans report)

Vice Chair: Ms Alison M Baseley

The Parish Council is charged with looking after the best interests of the Parish and is made up of unpaid volunteers guided by our Clerk, Mrs Sue Crow. Whilst we do get involved with interesting projects that can take up time, most of us spend a few hours a month on village issues. The Parish Council is involved with planning applications, street lighting, roads and footways, obstructions, parking, play areas ,new legislation, and also county, regional and Government decisions affecting the community. We enter into discussions, confer and often object to decisions taken at district and county level. There are sub-groups dealing with specific issues when required. We are members of both SALC (Shropshire Association of Local Councils) and NALC (National Association of Local Councils), and are able to raise important issues with government department, as we have done over the porposed over-head power lines and the consultations on local border reforms.

We meet on the second Thursday in the month (except August) and the public and press are invited to attend. The first 15 minuets of each meeting is dedicated to the public being able to ask questions . If the council is unble to answer at that meeting then they will answer at the next.

Next Parish Council meetings 8th January 2009 at 7pm in the