February 2020 parish mag 2

Dear Parishioners
MARCHINGTON PARISH COUNCIL
CHAIR’S REPORT – FEBRUARY 2020
Happy New year to you all, if it isn’t too late to keep saying it (at least now we
are in February!). By the time you read this we will have held our Flooding
Meeting with the Environment Agency and Severn Trent Water at Marchington
village hall which I hope you will have found useful. Precept Grants have also
been decided at January’s meeting and the recipients will have been notified.
We have received several complaints from Residents concerned with the Jack’s
Lane development and have forwarded these on to the developers directly to try
to resolve those issues. The weather has not helped the state of the road in recent
months but Chevin Homes are working with those concerned homeowners to try
to address issues.
We have also had correspondence from concerned residents regarding the
Industrial Estate and the noise/ lighting issues as well as vans and lorries ending
up in the village due to Sat Nav problems. We are booking a meeting with the
Estate owners to try to resolve these so we will keep you posted.
As many of you will have noticed we are experiencing flooding issues now at
Birch Cross just before the Smallwood Manor turning. This has been reported to
highways but if more residents wish to complain, this will only add strength to
our concerns about getting this situation resolved.
On a sad note, our Clerk Catherine Thompson has decided to leave Marchington
Parish Council and is moving on to a new job role elsewhere. Although she will
be with us until March, I would like to take the opportunity of thanking her for
all her hard work over the last few years. It has been greatly appreciated and she
will be missed. This now means that we have a job vacancy for Parish Clerk and
if you are interested or know someone who might be, could you please contact
Catherine on marchingtonpc@gmail.com with your CV.
Until next month!
Julia Hayhurst - Chair
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