Delabole Slate April 2022

COUNCIL CORNER Delabole Parish Council
The March meeting started with a short presentation from Lucy Muldowney who spoke about the ‘Foundations for Work’
scheme. Lucy is a mentor for individuals who are long term unemployed and who are looking to return to work. She is
organising workshops, drop in services and one to one meetings offering free help and guidance. There is a budget
available for training, transport costs, clothes for interviews and outreach courses in Maths/English and IT.
Our Parish Clerk will liaise with Lucy to provide further details via the Community Face book page, in this publication
and with posters around the village.
Our County Councillor, Dominic Fairman, spoke about planning applications being on temporary hold due to the high
level of phosphates being discharged into the river Allen. The Rivers Trust website shows that locally Delabole treatment
works are discharging 30% of sewage into the river Allen. Cllr. Fairman will raise this at the Community Network meeting
in June.
At the March PC meeting it was agreed to -
• Replace the PC mobile phone with a model that would be more functional.
• Renew the PC insurance which covers the Womble activity and Jubilee events.
• To purchase and maintain a further (3rd) Defibrillator at the Rockhead end of the village to serve the residents
of that area, Medrose Street and Rendle Street including the flats. This will be installed in the porch of the
Methodist Church and we thank them for accommodating this. The installation of this equipment will mean that
the village is covered as well as possible with potentially life saving equipment for residents and activities
occurring at the Methodist premises.
• A funding request towards setting up a Delabole Youth Club.
• Commit to installing CCTV to cover the King George V playing field and children’s play area.
• Complete repairs and maintenance to the public toilets to include motion sensor lighting as an economy.
• Begin to review, update and amend the PC policies.
May 2022 will mark the first year of Delabole Parish Council.
The Annual Parish Meeting will be held on Tuesday 10th May at 6.30 before the regular PC meeting at 7pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
The usual contact for our Parish Clerk is 07869 725450 or clerk@delaboleparishcouncil.gov.uk