What is the Parish Council?
What area does it cover?
What part does the Parish
Council play in Local Government
How is the Parish Council
Organized?
What does the Parish
Council do?
Who pays for the Parish Council?
What services does the Parish
Council Office Provide?
Parish Council Publication Scheme
Parish Council Code of Conduct
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area does it cover?
Not everybody is aware that there are two Parish
Councils to cover the Lindfield area . Lindfield"Urban"
which covers the area shown on the map alongside, and Lindfield
Rural which includes Walstead and Scaynes Hill. This is the
web site for Lindfield "Urban", which came into
being in 1987 and, at that time, voted to drop the "Urban"
from its title, hence it is known a Lindfield parish Council.
(click on the map to see a larger version)
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What part does the Parish
Council play in Local Government?
The Parish Council is the third tier of local
government, after the County Council and the District Council,
but it is a non-political body. It is at the "grass roots"
and is in the best position to represent the views of the
local community.
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How is the Parish Council
Organized?
Lindfield Parish Council has twelve Councillors,
a Clerk and a Deputy Clerk. The full
Council currently meets every two months, and much of
its work is remitted to three main Committees- Finance
and General Purposes Committee, Planning
and Traffic Committee, Environment
and Amenities Committee - which all meet every two months.
Click on the boxes below to find out more about each committee.
All meetings of the Council are advertised
on the Parish Council notice board in Denmans Lane, and on
this web site. They are open to the public and the Council
would like to encourage residents to come along - the elected
Members are your representatives and your views are important
to them.
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What does the Parish
Council do?
The Parish Council has a surprising number of
powers which it can exercise if it so wishes. Below are some
of the activities Lindfield Parish Council currently carries
out for the benefit of the village:
- Owns the Parish Office at 6 Denmans Lane, where, amongst
other things, travel passes and green garden sacks can be
obtained, and planning applications and Minutes of meetings
examined
- Owns the allotment site in Denmans Lane
- Considers all planning applications relating to Lindfield,
and makes comments as appropriate, to the District Council
- Provides and maintains bus shelters
- Maintains the King Edward Hall clock
- Provides litter bins and some seats and benches in the
village
- Plants trees and bulbs in roadside verges with consent
of the relevant authority
- Provides and maintains tubs of plants in Denmans Lane,
plus other gardening maintenance throughout the village
- Has responsibility for some of the street lighting in
Lindfield
- Has contributed towards the cost of traffic calming works
- Produces the annual Lindfield Parish Directory and Year
Book
- Funds and holds the Village Archives
- Works in partnership with the County and District Councils,
and the Society for the Preservation of Lindfield, for the
benefit of the village
- Undertakes special projects such as the Village Appraisal.
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Who pays for the Parish Council?
The Parish Council raises the funds to undertake these services
and facilities through what is known as the precept. This
is charged to residents through the council tax. For the current
financial year, this Council's precept is £69,000.
To see the Council's accounts for the last financial year,
click here.
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What services does the the Parish Office
provide?
The Parish Office in Denmans Lane opened in July 1996, and
many of you have taken the opportunity to visit it. If you
have not yet ventured in, then below is a brief guide to the
services provided, for details of opening times click
here:
- Purchase of Senior Railcards;
- Issue of free bus passes;
- Purchase of green garden sacks;
- Inspection of planning applications;
- Reading of Council and Committee Minutes
- Bus/Train timetables and other local information, including
a community notice board;
- Reporting of street lighting faults and other damage;
- General enquiries
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