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: Ms Alison M Baseley

Vice Chair: Mrs Sue Schofield

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 minutes 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 be answered at the next.

Next Parish Council meeting is 11th February 2010

at 7pm in the

St Martins Centre

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ShropshireLink…

Since the launch in November 2008, ShropshireLink has seen a continued increase in usage with December 2009 recording the most passenger journeys in a single month - despite the bad weather! Feedback from users contacted as part of the recent review confirms ShropshireLink is providing a valuable service to the passengers, with 89% satisfied or very satisfied with the service overall.

“A great service which I was very pleased to use”.

Tim Andrewes – ShropshireLink Passenger

We are aiming to inform and encourage even more members of the public to take advantage of this service for transport to and from rural areas.

So we would like you to give it a try. We invite you to register for ShropshireLink to get a first hand experience of what the service has to offer, and hopefully help more people in your parish to get involved. If you or someone you know could use public transport to access shops, medical centres, work places etc or would simply enjoy a day out in the local market town, ShropshireLink may be of help…

As an incentive to trial the service, we are offering all newly registered customers their first return journey for free, and we would appreciate if you could help to spread this message. Please find enclosed a number of flyers, for distribution to Councillors and for the attention of any other residents who may wish to use the service.

To register or for more information on how ShropshireLink could help you please call Shropshire Council’s Customer Service Centre on 0345 678 9068 or register online by visiting www.shropshire.gov.uk/traveltransport.nsf

Claire Evans

Transport Marketing and Publicity Officer

Passenger Transport Policy

Development Services

Telephone – 01743 253036