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Local Council Contacts

Compton and Shawford Parish Council

The members of your Parish Council are:

 Name, Address Phone Main Responsibilities
ChairmanNick Campbell-White, Ashridge,
Otterbourne Rd.
713891
713144(fax)
The Chair
email: nickcw(at)btinternet.com
Vice Chairman: Tricia Caffyn, Dunsfold
Shawford
712005 Highways and Byways convenor
nandpcaffyn(at)btinternet.com
Clerk Mike Langford
1 Meadowcroft Close
Otterbourne
Winchester SO21 2HD
714577 Minutes, all official correspondence, admin
e-mail: mikeg(at)langford62.freeserve.co.uk
Members: George Beckett
Compton Nursery, Otterbourne Road
Compton
713732 Planning, Playing Fields
GBeckett(at)WINCHESTER.GOV.UK
Martin Bell
St Michael's Copse, Shepherds Lane
713066 Planning convenor, Sports Club rep
martin_bell (at)mac.com
Sarah Clay
24 Martins Fields
711390 Footpaths, Compton Lock
sarahskeats(at)btinternet.com
Susen Harding
30 Martins Fields
717644 Compton Street Playing Field, Compton Tenants Association
Jean Millar
Medlars Mead, Fairfield Road
712310 Playing Fields convenor, CASCA
Cllrjeanmillar(at)aol.com
Una Stevens,
Combe Folly, Cliff Way
712370 Planning. Finance & Admin
unastevens(at)aol.com
Adrian Walmsley,
Flint House,
Compton Street
606957 Finance and Admin convenor, webmaster
adrian(at)walmsley.org.uk

Note: to help cut down on spam from automatic harvesting of e-mail addresses on web pages, we have replaced the @ sign by (at) in e-mail addresses. You will need to manually change this back to @ if you want to email one of the contacts listed here.

The members of the Parish Council are all volunteers and come up for election every four years. Any vacancies that occur in the meantime are filled by a by-election or co-option.

Most of the work of the Parish Council is done by subcommittees which are appointed annually.

We have a part time Clerk who works very hard for us.

Other Parish Representatives

District Councillors
(Winchester City Council details page)
George Beckett, Compton Nursery,
Otterbourne Road, Compton, S021 2RT
email: GBeckett(at)WINCHESTER.GOV.UK
713732
Eleanor Bell, 6 Heathcote Place, Hursley, Winchester, SO21 2LH
email: aebell(at)worldonline.co.uk
775521
County Councillor (on Hampshire County Council)Mrs Charlotte Bailey, 4 Grove Road, Shawford, SO21 2DD713392
Member of ParliamentMark Oaten, House of Commons, Westminster, London SW1 0AA
Public Transport Representative Roger Lowman713210
PC representative on Compton School Board of Governors Jeremy Dolphin 715025
Tom Threlfall is the author of the excellent "Serendipity Trail" which can help you explore the village on foot. Contact Adrian Walmsley about a printed copy.

Elections:

To the Parish Council, in May 2008 and every four years thereafter.

For the City Council, our ward (Compton & Shawford) having been deemed too small to continue to justify its own District Councillor, we became part of a larger ward in which we are combined with the former wards of Otterbourne and Hursley. This larger ward elected two Councillors to Winchester City Council in May 2002. Elections of our District Councillors are now staggered so that both do not come up for election in the same year. Councillor Bell was elected in 2007; Councillor Beckett was elected in 2008.

To the County Council, in May 2009 and every four years thereafter.

What the Parish Council Does

The Parish owns the Shawford Parish Hall, the Memorial Playing Fields in Shepherds Lane, and the Playing Field in Compton Street.

The Parish Council is responsible for the upkeep of these facilities and a small portion of your Council Tax.

The Council has the right of representation on planning matters, which includes all planning applications and structure plan proposals.

The Council also watches over footpaths, bridleways and rights of way.

We are responsible for the provision and upkeep of bus shelters and street lighting, and other activities such as monitoring the provision of rail and bus services through the Public Transport Officer.

We set up an M3 subcommittee to liaise with the various contractors during the motorway construction and tried keep all our villagers abreast of developments.

The powers of Parish Councils have been summarised by the National Association of Local Councils in a short leaflet.

Council meetings

Unless otherwise advertised, meetings are on the first Tuesday of every month, except August, in the Parish Hall starting at 7:15pm. The agenda and meeting notices are posted on the noticeboards around the village. Meetings are open to the public- anyone is welcome to attend, raise questions during question time at the beginning of the meeting and share in our coffee and biscuits. But if you have any problems which you think the Parish Council can help with, don’t wait for a meeting - talk to one of the councillors or drop a note to the clerk.

The Annual Parish Meeting is held in April or early May - notices of the meeting are delivered to all households in the village.


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last updated 19 May 2008 by Adrian Walmsley