Parish Council Meeting – 02 January 2013

Note that the meeting will start at 7:00pm and will take place at Church House, Abbots Bromley. Agenda items are:
1. Apologies for absence
2. Public session
3. Declarations of Interests
4. Planning
– Applications
– Decisions
5. Lengthsman’s Contract
6. Financial Matters
– Report on payments made since last meeting
– Payments to be made
– Receipts
– Finance Report to 30th November, 2012
– Budget 2013/14 Enclosed
7. Date and time of next meeting
– Wednesday, 30th January, 2013, Village Hall

The full meeting notice is available on these pages

Uttoxeter Neighbourhood Watch Newsletter – December 2012

The latest issue of the newsletter is now available (see link below) and contains some timely advice on how to protect your property over the holiday season.

Neighbourhood Watch Newsletter – December 2012 (463.4 Kb)

Christmas 2012 waste and recycling collection dates

Information about the collections over the Christmas period is available on the ESBC web pages at (link expired).

Of interest to residents of Abbots Bromley, is that there will be no collection on Boxing Day, but there will be a collection instead on Saturday 29th December.

Some other relevant information from the ESBC web pages is, “Up to 3 additional bags of the appropriate waste type will be collected with your blue and grey bins during the period 24th December up to and including the 5th January on your collection day. Flattened cardboard will also be collected at the side of your blue bin.

PLEASE NOTE: the brown bins will NOT BE suspended this year. Brown bin collections will be continuing through the Christmas and New Year period to enable residents to recycle any leftover food waste.”

Waste and recycling collection dates

A variety of information is available on the ESBC web pages about the bin collections at (link expired).

Collections for Abbots Bromley are on Wednesday and the schedule of which bins are collected which week can be downloaded here or from the ESBC pages.

Village Grass Cutting: Invitation to Tender

If you would like to receive the full Invitation to Tender Document, please contact the clerk.

Sealed Tenders must be submitted to the Clerk using the enclosed forms and envelopes and arrive no later than midday on Wednesday 18th November 2009. To verify receipt, those submitting tenders may wish to make use of the “Signed for” delivery service offered by Royal Mail.

Tenders will be opened and considered and considered at the Parish Council meeting on 2nd January 2013, with the outcome communicated in writing to all those who tendered as soon as possible thereafter.

In reviewing the tenders, the Parish Council will not be constrained to accepting the lowest quote but will take into account the principles of “best value”.