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62<br />
DICO CUM IGNIS<br />
Billinge<br />
Beacon<br />
Zero % increase in the Parish<br />
Council Precept for <strong>2022</strong>/23<br />
Parish Councillors were aware that removal of the<br />
energy cap and other cost of living increases would<br />
greatly impact on the income of Residents when they<br />
decided to not increase the Precept.<br />
The Chair of the Parish Council Cllr Dennis Mc Donnell<br />
praised the efforts of the Parish Council to control<br />
finances.<br />
The Parish Council is proud that over the last 12 years<br />
the Parish Precept has only had one increase. This has<br />
been achieved at the same time as the Council has<br />
managed to deliver high profile improvements in the<br />
Parish such as Community Allotments, Bridleway from<br />
near the Masons Arms to Carr Mill Dam and a new<br />
Public Hall & Community Centre.<br />
School Crossing Patrol Service<br />
The Parish Council will also continue to fund 50% of the<br />
cost of the School Crossing Patrol Service for <strong>St</strong> Aidan &<br />
Chapel End Schools.<br />
This will help to keep the Service going and our children<br />
safe.<br />
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee<br />
Celebration Sunday 5th June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Billinge Residents Association and the Parish Council are<br />
jointly working together to have a ‘Picnic in the Park’<br />
(Bankes Park) on Sunday 5th June to celebrate. The<br />
plans are that the event will include Bands, DJ, Dancing,<br />
Displays, <strong>St</strong>alls, Food & Drink, and Entertainers.<br />
Flooding Inquiry<br />
The sad news is that exceptionally heavy rain 8th<br />
December 2021 saw flooding in Carr Mill Road near the<br />
East Lancs traffic lights, Merton Bank Road and Collage<br />
<strong>St</strong>reet and by the evening Brownheath Avenue & Powell<br />
Drive, Billinge.<br />
Garden fences between Brownheath Avenue and<br />
Powell Drive holding back flood water gave way. For<br />
the first time in living memory residents were flooded<br />
out of four houses. This broke the hearts of those<br />
residents in the run up to Christmas.<br />
23 residents attended the Parish Council meeting on 17<br />
January to register their concerns about the flooding and<br />
to ask what action is being taken.<br />
The Chair of the Parish Council reported that he had<br />
attended Brownheath Avenue on the evening of the<br />
flooding and had received a report from the Commander<br />
of the Emergency Services that blocked water culverts<br />
had been found on land behind Brownheath Avenue.<br />
The Chair has reported the flooding to the Chief<br />
Executive Officer of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Helens</strong> Council and the Portfolio<br />
holder for Highways. <strong>St</strong> <strong>Helens</strong> Council Engineers have<br />
been tasked to identify the Landowner (where the<br />
culverts are) and gain permission to enter the site and<br />
inspect the culverts with a view to finding engineering<br />
solutions. The Parish Council will continue to monitor<br />
this issue.<br />
New Clerk<br />
The Parish Council<br />
welcomed Hazel<br />
Broatch as the new<br />
Parish Clerk.<br />
Tel:<br />
07483 325064<br />
Email:<br />
clerk@billingeparishcouncil.gov.uk<br />
Billinge Chapel End Parish Council<br />
The Public Hall, 216 Main <strong>St</strong>reet, Billinge WN5 7PE<br />
The Parish Council next meets at 7.30pm on 21.3.22 and 11.4.22.
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