The Parish Counci’s reponse to the DBAT education consultation can be found here.
Additionally the Travel Plan context document from DBAT can be found here.
Category Archives: Parish Council
Highways and NEV updates
The following links lead to the latest updates from Swindon Borough Council.
Highways News: https://preview.mailerlite.com/x2e6s9/1675969484541662672/h9v8/
NEV News: https://preview.mailerlite.com/b3r5t2/1675470921416054702/m6n5/
Please also see the article by the Chair of the Parish Council in the forthcoming May edition of Community News which covers some of the traffic issues in the village.
Annual Meeting of the Parish Council
The Annual Meeting of South Marston Parish Council will be held remotely on Wednesday 5th May 2021 at 7:00pm. At this meeting, the Council will elect a Chair and Vice Chair, appoint roles and responsibilities and review and adopt its key policies. A copy of the agenda can be seen here.
Members of the public are welcome to observe the meeting – joining details can be obtained by emailing the Clerk at clerk@southmarston.org.uk.
Parish Council Meeting April 2021
The next monthly meeting of the Parish Council will be held remotely on Tuesday 27th April 2021 at 7:30pm. The agenda can be seen here.
Members of the public are welcome to attend remotely – please contact the clerk for joining details at clerk@southmarston.org.uk. Any questions for the open 10 minutes should be submitted in advance to the same address.
In March 2021 the Council held its regular monthly meeting and the minutes of this can be seen here.
Please note that these minutes are draft until approved by the Parish Council at the next meeting.
School Expansion – Parish Council Interim response
The Parish Council remains confused by the Education and Planning consultations that are being run almost in tandem by the Diocese of Bristol Academy Trust and the Education Department of the Borough.
Villagers should not be put off from contributing to the discussion. The next event is the Zoom meeting held by the Academy, as set out in the Consultation Document that can be read on a previous post on this website.
The PC’s submission ahead of this meeting can be found here:
We are pleased that we are now in constructive dialogue with the Academy and school and are addressing some of these issues.
Parish Council Meeting – rescheduled
Please note that the next meeting of the Parish Council has been rescheduled to take place on Tuesday 27th April.
This is because of the period of national mourning following the death of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, during which summons and notice of meetings should not be issued.
The summons and agenda for the rearranged meeting will be published towards the end of next week
Kevin Morgan
Clerk to the Council
Honda Announcement & Allotment site
Honda has issued a press release today with details about the future of its main Swindon site. The press release sent to the Parish Council can be found here.
As many of you will be aware, South Marston allotments sit on land that currently belongs to Honda that is rented for a minimal fee. The Parish Council has previously requested that Honda gifts the land to the parish as part of its legacy when it leaves. From previous correspondence, and talking to a Honda representative today, we remain hopeful that this will be the case and will be seeking further clarity on the future of the allotment site over the coming months .
School Expansion Consultations
As you may have seen the School Expansion consultation has started and will be running for the next 3 weeks.
The associated Planning consultation will run until the end of April, with a public Zoom session on the 22nd April.
There is a dedicated website via this link:
http://www.swindon.gov.uk/southmarstonprimaryconsultation
The Parish Council has been working with the Planning team at the Borough to mitigate the traffic issues by providing a cycle/footpath system for the proposed housing to the south and west across the expanded Village Centre.
A new car park is planned, accessed from the west and Magdalene Close. A temporary car park is required until this is available. We have been working with the Ed. Dept. to incorporate this thinking into the school design and are making progress with this.
We will be updating the village once we have been able to consider the documents.
Parish Council Meeting March 2021
The next monthly meeting of the Parish Council will be held remotely on Tuesday 16th March 2021 at 7:30pm. The agenda can be seen here.
Members of the public are welcome to attend remotely – please contact the clerk for joining details at clerk@southmarston.org.uk. Any questions for the open 10 minutes should be submitted in advance to the same address.
In February 2021 the Council held its regular monthly meeting and the minutes of this can be seen here.
Please note that these minutes are draft until approved by the Parish Council at the next meeting.
Parish Council Meeting – urgent extra item
An urgent extra item will be discussed during the Parish Council meeting tomorrow (16th) relating to the school expansion and the requirement for a temporary car park off Old Vicarage Lane.
This is the result of discussions with the borough council which were confidential until this point. This would normally be included on the agenda but the matter has only just been finalised and needs to be dealt with as soon as possible.
A draft working version of the document to be discusssed can be found here.
If anyone would like to raise any queries about this in advance of the meeting please email the clerk on clerk@southmarston.org.uk
