The unapproved minutes of the October Parish Council Meeting and Notice and Agenda for the Council Meeting to be held at Lackford Church on Monday, 14 December 2009 at 7:30 p.m. are published in the following PDF files:Minutes 2009-10-11 – 001 draft JFS and Councillors notice & Agenda 2009-12-14 – 001

The unapproved minutes of the Annual Parish Meeting and Annual General Meeting of the Council held at Lackford Church on Monday, 11 May 2009 at 7:30 p.m. can be viewed by clicking on the following file: Minutes 2009-05-11- 001 draft JFS

The unapproved minutes of the March Parish Council Meeting and Notice and Agendas for the Annual Parish Meeting & the Annual General Meeting to be held at Lackford Church on Monday, 11 May 2009 at 7:30 p.m. are published in the following PDF files: minutes-2009-03-02-001-draft-jfs1 and councillors-notice-agenda-2009-05-11-0012

The agenda for the next parish council meeting that will take place on Monday, 2 March 2009 at 7:30 pm in Lackford Church is published as the following PDF file. councillors-notice-agenda-2009-03-02-00114

The revised unapproved minutes of Lackford Parish Council meeting, held on Monday the 8th of December,including corrections and tables omitted from the original version are now in PDF format.

We need everyone in the village to know about the blog and the “all” email list.   So when you meet with your neighbours for a glass of mulled turkey this Christmas and New Year can you please remember to ask them if they know about ”lackford.com“.

It’s easy to access the blog:

• On your PC at “lackford.com“
• On your mobile phone at “m.lackford.com” – think “m” for mobile

And anyone can sign up to the all@lackford.com email list by visiting “all.lackford.com” in your browser.

Happy Christmas.

Bov.

The village council will be using this blog to publish the minutes and agendas of the parish council meetings. This should make it easier for us to stay in touch with events and become more involved with our village. The minutes of the 8-12-2008 meeting are now available as a downloadable PDF (download a free reader from the Adobe website if you don’t already have it).

Download the parish council meeting minutes 8-12-2008.

As some of you may be aware, St Edmundsbury are considering their future development plans and have issued “Core Strategy Preferred Options (view online or PDF)” and “Strategic Sites (view online or PDF)”  documents on their website at http://stedsbc-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal. The relevant map of Lackford with the proposed sites is below.

Proposed sites in Lackford

SS51 is proposed for residential use, although the council comments that it is within a Special Landscape Area and that protected and notable species have been identified at this location. SS54 is for mixed use and again is within a Special Landscape Area.

I’m sure this will get discussed in the upcoming parish meetings, but in the meantime here is a little poll to see what the general feeling is.

Once again Lackford will be hosting a “bring a firework” party on Saturday 8th November. The Gough family has been kind enough to allow us to use part of their land to the right of Lackford Lane. This is not the triangular field that we have used in the past, but an adjacent piece of land.  Fireworks and bonfire will be lit at 18:00 onwards.  Please note that this is a “private party” open to everyone in the village, and their family and friends.  It is not open to the public at large.

You can help in several ways:

· Donation of one or two large aerial fireworks by 7^th Nov to 10 Old Bury Road

· Preparing some food or drink to share – please contact Francesca Ober

· Making a donation towards the cost of organising the event, on the night

· Collecting fuel and building the bonfire on Nov 8^th.  Bonfire building will start at 10:00 (if you can help please meet at the Old Bury Road bus stop)

If anyone has material for the bonfire that they would like collected, drop me an email at fireworks@lackford.com.

Trevor

Dear Friends

I had a call this afternoon from the owner of the set-aside field. His tractor, parked by the pill-box has been vandalised by cutting the leads on the starter motor. He suspects this may be a reaction to the realigning of the fence at the bottom of the field as several of the posts have been removed and thrown into bushes. He wants to make it clear that he has no intention of withdrawing the permissive path round the field, and I have offered to cut a new path so that there should be no interruption of our enjoyment of this privilege. I cannot believe there is anyone in Lackford who would do such a silly act of vandalism, and suspect it is probably youngsters from outside the village. It would be such a shame if we lost the permission to walk round the setaside through someone else’s bad behaviour. Please keep a watchful eye (and ear) to help prevent further vandalism. If anyone has information about this incident, please tell Mr Aitkens or the police.

Kind regards

Colin Smith