Current News Items
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Development of Nursery Yarmouth Road Ufford
<click here> to view details of the application.
Planning Committee Meeting scheduled for Monday 20th August 2010 has been changed to Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Recreation Committee Meeting scheduled for Monday 27th September has been changed to Thursday 30th September.
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Parish Councils
Parish
Councils are the most local of all the various local government bodies.
The members of the Council are elected by the voters whose names appear
on the electoral roll, just as district and county councillors are chosen.
Each sort of local authority has a range of responsibilities, the things that it must do, and powers, the things that it may do. It is often difficult to see which authority is responsible for which activity. Reference can be made to the websites for the Suffolk Coastal District Council and the Suffolk County Council for details of their functions and authority.
Parish Councils have few actual duties but they have a wide range of powers. Melton Parish Council exercises those powers that they believe are for the benefit of the village. The main ones are:
- Liaising with local authorities on behalf of the parish
- Responding to planning applications
- Managing the playing fields, the pond and Burkes Wood
- Maintaining the bus shelters
- Organising the annual parish meeting
- Offering grants and donations to local societies and charities
- Overseeing the website
The Council is told about all applications for planning permission and makes comments and recommendations that are considered by the District Council, which is the planning authority.
The Council supports other local bodies in the village, for example the Burness Parish Rooms.
In 2005 the Council carried out a major survey in the village and details appear in the Village Plan (68 pages, 2.2mb PDF file) on this website.
The Village Plan, and many other documents on this site are presented as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Adobe Reader is required to open a PDF file - click the graphic below to download Adobe Reader if you do not already have it installed on your computer.
