Compton & Shawford Parish Council

Annual Parish Meeting - 27 April 2001

Meeting notices were posted on the noticeboards and delivered to all households in the parish about 10 days before the meeting.

Printed copies of the 2000 Annual Parish Meeting minutes are available on request from the clerk or here - also in PDF format

Consultation leaflet about the new pavilion distributed with the APM meeting notices

Report of meeting as published in Parish Magazine

The Chairman, Mr. N.Campbell-White, welcomed 54 members of the Public to the meeting, at 7.30pm, which was exceptionally being held on a Friday evening.

In his report of the previous year, the Chairman made reference to the changes within the Parish Council, four new councillors being elected in the elections of May 2000 and the loss of another Clerk during the period. This caused additional administrative work on the council and a period of consolidation was necessitated. With the increase in experience of the New Councillors and Clerk, the Parish Council can now move forward again in a positive way to serve the Parish in the years to come. He paid tribute to Ray Wilmshurst who had resigned after 34 years on the Parish Council, 10 years as Chairman.

Reports were given by all the Sub-committee Convenors, each outlining the activities of their Sub-committee's during the preceding year.

Questions from members of the Public were addressed, such questions ranging from the re-opening of Footpaths to Noise Measurement of the M3 Motorway. The general consensus view of the meeting was that it was both informative as well as enabling Parishioners to air their views. The meeting closed at 10.00pm after which refreshments were served during which numerous informal discussions were held.