Colton Parish Council Community Plan

Colton Parish Council and our Accountability

We aim to be open, transparent, and accountable and to encourage feedback from the public and our partners. We will feed back on our decisions, activities, and progress towards priorities via:-

• The Annual Parish (open) meeting
• Themed/focused open meetings where appropriate
• Public Participation in our regular meetings
• Agendas and Minutes shared on our website and local noticeboards.
• Adapting our agendas so that each heading is a standing item on the CPC agenda.
• Publishing information on our website, Colton Link and through local Community Newsletters
• Reviews of actions taken, and decisions made under each heading feedback in the Annual Chair’s report, which are published on our website.
• Where problems arise, we will seek to work with you to resolve them as soon as we can and where this is not satisfactory, we will follow our complaints procedure.

We Welcome Your Comments and Contributions

Please get involved:-

• Talk to your local Councillor
• See our website Welcome to Colton Parish Council
• For up-to-date PC and community news, sign up to Colton Link (see the bottom of the home page of our website)
• Come along to a meeting – for dates, agendas and minutes of previous meetings see Parish Council Meetings
• Consider becoming a Councillor. Come to a meeting to find out more or contact the Parish Clerk
• For queries, requests for support from a Councillor or the Parish Lengthsman, or complaints, contact the Parish Clerk or speak to your local Councillor
• Please remember we are part-time unpaid elected Councillors, and we aim to respond to you as quickly as we can, but this may take time.

Acknowledgements

The production of this plan has only been possible because of the hard work and support we have had from many members of the local community. We would like to thank all those who have come along to our meetings, taken part in our consultations, prepared, edited and offered feedback on the drafts and continue to work to make our area a very special place.

Particular thanks go to the children in Year 5 and 6 at Leven Valley CE Primary School and Penny Bridge CE Academy for their inspiring enthusiasm to making our area a better place for both us and nature and whose input enabled us to draw up Our Young People’s Manifesto

And, to Mandy Lane for her work on the ONS Data to enable us to use it in the development of this Plan and David Kidwell whose photographs have added colour and life to our Plan.