Jan 17th 2024
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Planning Meeting 14th Feb
Harrow Development
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Compton Parish Council will hold an open meeting at Pucks Oak Barn, from 7pm on the 14th February, to discuss the proposals and seek your views on the development of the Harrow into private dwellings.
If you are unable to attend, you are very welcome to send your thoughts to the Chairman, Stephen Mallet, at stephen.mallet@btopenworld.com, copying the Clerk at joanna@joannacadman.com.
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Planning Application 22/P/01999
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Planning Meeting - Guildford Borough Council
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Decision notice - REFUSE The proposal by reason of the scale of the development would constitute inappropriate development and there are no very special circumstances that have been demonstrated to justify the scale of the development and outweigh the harm to the Green Belt contrary to paragraph 154 of the NPPF
Mar 20th
Planning applications to 20th March 2024
24/P/00061 Maple Mead, Summers Lane, Hurtmore
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Conversion of detached outbuilding from garage and annexe to ancillary habitable accommodation (contrary to Condition 3 of planning permission 89/P/00612)
24/P/00152 Bavins, Mark Way
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Certificate of Lawfulness for existing development to establish whether the building works for a ground and first floor infill extensions were substantially completed more than 4 years before the date of this application.
24/P/00276 Jasmine Cottage, The Street
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Construction of a double garage following demolition of an existing single garage
Finances
Compton Parish Council was one of the earliest established parish councils as it was set up shortly after civil parishes were formed in 1894. Seven councillors make up the full entitlement and decisions not requiring input by a full council, can be made, as long as the council is quorate which means having three councillors in attendance. Parish councillors are elected every 4 years. If there are insufficient candidates to warrant an election, councillors can be co-opted. The next election will be in May 2019, when all councillors must stand down but can be invited to be re-elected unless a full election is needed (i.e. if there are more than seven prospective candidates).
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Compton Parish Council receives a precept that forms a small percentage of the council tax paid to Guildford Borough Council. The Parish Council receives payments for burial plots and an annual payment by Watts Gallery as part of the management agreement undertaken in 2014. Grants can also be applied for community based work and projects.
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The Clerk to the Council is also the Responsible Finance Officer (RFO). Updates on the council's accounts are minuted throughout the year and the audited annual accounts are published.
The Council has a running list of projects, jobs, reports etc. and progress is periodically updated and reported with the minutes of each meeting, meetings being held on the 3rd Wednesday of every other month (starting in January).
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The Parish Council is the registered owner of the allotments, which are managed by the Allotment Society and Watts Chapel and Cemetery, which is managed by Watts Gallery Trust.