Melton Messenger

Wow my first month as Chair of the Parish Council is already over and what a busy month it’s been getting about in the community and meeting so many residents. Last month, I introduced myself...

Farewell from Alan In last month’s Melton Messenger you were promised a few words from me to say farewell.  A lot has happened in the last month.  Firstly we had a very well-attended Annual...

Because of the Local Elections on the 4th May, Councillors are not allowed to write directly on behalf of a Council in the period leading up to the election.  Therefore, Melton Parish Council has...

Quite Lanes After years of waiting Lodge Farm Lane and St Audry’s Lane have been designated as Quiet Lanes.  There is no enforcement, but the signs just ask road users to be a bit more...

New Islands have reduced speeding Melton Road was set up as a monitored speeding site by the Police, but a few months ago it was downgraded from a green site to a black site. This means it will...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter The Pavilion The Pavilion is completed. We have built the access road for the emergency services and the public toilet will be open...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter The Pavilion The Pavilion itself just has a few snagging issues to finish off. We still have to create an access route for the fire...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter The Queen Like so many of us, the passing of the Queen marks the end of an era.  For my part I would say that she has been the Queen...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter I usually a yield a sigh of relief in July as I don’t have to write an article for the Melton Messenger as there isn’t a publication...

Melton Parish Council – A Note from the Chair – Alan Porter Jubilee Events Well after a lot of work behind the scenes our two Platinum Jubilee events have been held and I think went very...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter Every year the chair of the Parish Council holds an Annual Parish Meeting, which we have not been able to hold in person since the...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter Every year the chair of the Parish Council holds an Annual Parish Meeting, which we have not been able to hold in person since the...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter Planning Issues One of the areas in which MPC has been heavily engaged in recently is with regard to Planning Matters. Many of you...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter Precept increase for 2022 Regular readers of my column will know that MPC has an active programme for investing in Melton’s...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter Happy New Year Well 2022 is upon us and the Christmas decorations are back in the loft. Meetings started in earnest on the 12th...

Melton Parish Council - A Note from the Chair - Alan Porter Vacancies for Parish Councillors Despite previous pleas we still have one vacancy on the parish council. If you’d like to find out...

Vacancies for Parish Councillors Councillor Mark Packard was co-opted on 22nd September at Full Council.  That means we still have one vacancy. If you’d like to find out more information please...

Vacancies for Parish Councillors It looks like my request for volunteers has borne fruit and one new person has stepped forward and he was co-opted on 22nd September at Full Council.  That means we...

Vacancies for Parish Councillors We still have two vacancies for Parish Councillors.  Perhaps now that the Melton Messenger will be delivered from September some new volunteers will emerge. So I...

We held our first council meeting face to face at the end of May, this was a meeting of the Recreation Committee.  I must admit it makes a refreshing change from all those Zoom meetings.  The...

Our first Full Council meeting in May is effectively our AGM.  This is where all the roles are allocated to councillors such as chairs, vice-chairs and representatives to outside bodies.  We also...

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that a version of this article appears in the In-Touch magazine.  From next month a shorter version will also appear in the Flyer.  This while...

Sizewell C (SZC) The Examining Authority’s (ExA) Preliminary Meeting for its “examination in public” of EDF’s planning application for SZC is scheduled for 23 March 2021.  A second...

England Coast Path Melton Parish Council has submitted a response to the consultation on the Felixstowe to Bawdsey stretch of the England Coast Path, which runs through Melton along the river...

Firstly a Happy New Year to all my readers. Clearly, I am reaching a larger audience than just writing in the Melton Messenger now that a slightly shorter version appears in the In Touch with Melton,...

Melton Messenger Currently there will be no paper copies delivered and this may not resume until the current Covid-19 crisis has been resolved one way or another. At Melton Parish Council we are...

Melton Playing Fields In order to keep the field in good condition we have spent some money on the grassed areas. The lower field was becoming very weedy and patchy following the dry spell that...

[caption id="attachment_3164" align="alignright" width="232"] John Hargreaves receiving his award[/caption] Melton Award I was hoping to present the 2020 Melton Award at the Annual Parish meeting...

As you know if you are reading this then you are probably reading it via the St Andrews website or off our own Melton Parish Council pages.  I don’t think many people are bothering to look online...

Tennis Court Vandalism At the end of May we suffered a spate of vandalism on the tennis courts; the wire was cut in several places allowing people to gain access without a key. Maybe this was to...

Playpark Maintenance As the playpark has been closed due to the restrictions, we have taken the opportunity to give some of the equipment a fresh coat of paint and it looks really great...

The Covid-19 Lockdown I must admit I have been a bit slow in starting this month’s Melton Messenger article, time has been passing in a most strange way for us all in these unprecedented times. ...

Coronavirus/Covid-19 Current government advice is for everyone to try and stop unnecessary contact with other people – 'social distancing'. We have decided to cancel all meetings that are...

In the middle of January I walked from Melton Station and then down Melton Road with a delightful lady from Suffolk County Council Highways and David Steptoe who is a friend of the council and a...

Christmas and New Year are over and now for the long struggle through January where for many there is too much month left at the end of the money, although I get the feeling that people have not been...

On Remembrance Day, the Book Behind the Name was finally published. Thanks to all involved and I hope everyone has had a chance to see the results. There is one in Woodbridge Library available for...

The Melton Messenger editorial team were mortified that they had failed to spot the words “oops late again” that had been printed at the top of my article last month. It certainly was not typed...