Whenever possible, documents are
published as pdfs, which means you
can easily print them and bring
them to a meeting, should you wish.
Minutes of Meetings
Please note these are draft minutes
which may be corrected at a Council
meeting. The copies here will
usually remain uncorrected. Draft
copies are also displayed each
month on the noticeboard by the
phonebox, usually within two weeks
of a meeting. The legal copy is that
signed by the chairman of a
meeting. All meetings are open to
the public.
If you do not already receive Agendas, Minutes and occasional other alerts from the Parish clerk,
and would like to do so, please send your email address to the Clerk at
SKPC@somerfordkeynes.org.uk. Under new Data Laws from May 2018, organisations cannot
contact you by email unless you have given specific permission. If you ignore such requests,
your email box may empty! If you wish to stop receiving this material, if you move or die for
example, please send a note to the Clerk. Click Data Protection (left) for the Council’s Policy,
agreed in July 2018
Publications 2019
Minutes
Jan
Feb
Publications 2018
Minutes
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
There was no meeting in August
Latest Neighbourhood Plan Draft Document (August 2018)
Newsletters
October
Accounts 2017-8
Receipts and Payment Account 2017-8
Notice period for exercise of public rights
Annual Governance statement 2018
Accounting Statements 2018
Internal Auditor’s Report
Certificate of exemption from external audit
Bank Reconciliation 2018
Explanation of variances 2018
Note: all expenditures are recorded in Minutes as they occur. Land and other items owned by the council
are listed on the Receipts and payments account.
Publications 2017
Annual Parish Meeting 28 April 2017
Minutes of 2017 meeting
Chairman’s Report 2017
Minutes
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul Sep
Oct Nov
Dec
Accounts 2016-7
Notice of completion of Audit
Annual Governance statement 2017
Accounting Statements 2017
Internal Auditor’s Report
External Auditor Certificate
Receipts and Payments Account 2017
Note: all expenditures are recorded in Minutes as they occur. Land and other items owned by the council
are listed on the Receipts and payments account.
Newsletter March 2017
Newsletter August 2017
Publications 2016
Parish Emergency Plan
Minutes
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Minutes 2016 Annual Parish meeting
Annual Parish Meeting Chairmans Report
Accounts:
Notice of completion of audit 2016
Receipts and Payments 2015-6
Annual governance statement 2016
Accounting Statements 2016
Internal audit report 2016
External Auditor certificate & report 2016
Note: all expenditures are recorded in Minutes as they occur. Land and other items owned by the council
are listed on the Receipts and payments account.
Newsletters
April
Neighbourhood DP no.4
Other Publications
The Draft Neighbourhood Plan can be found on NDP Documents page
Emergency Plan Questionnaire This version of the Questionnaire is in MSWord format, so that you can
fill it in on your device. Instructions on where to send it are in the introduction. If there is no change in
your circumstances or capability to assist, there is no need to fill it in again.
Publications 2015
Minutes
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Accounts -
Receipts and Payments 2014-5
Chairmans Report Spring 2015
Minutes Annual Parish Meeting 2015
Newsletters
June
October
Other Publications
Neighbourhood Development Plan documents
Earlier Publications
Lake 99 Vision
Flood information
Letter to MP re flood issues
ABI response
EA Response
Flood Advice from the Parish Council
The following EA documents are copyright the Environment Agency 2014 and should be read
together:
Email from Customer Office
EA Product4 (floodmap)
Risk of flooding Information Sheet
Other Publications
Drainage Map v3 [3MB]
part of the Parish Council Flood Defence study.
This download is large. You should therefore save it once opened to your desktop
or other suitable place, rather than download it each time you want to look at it.
You may wish to upgrade your pdf reader (search pdf reader) to the latest version
to read it more easily. It can be enlarged considerably. If you wish to comment on
the accuracy of the plan or have other comments on it, please email Karen
Mogridge
If you wish to see older publications please contact the Clerk. All minutes before the Millennium are
deposited in the Gloucestershire Archives. The earliest minutes, handwritten in ledgers are quite easy to
read. Some of the typewritten and computer printed pages are not easy to read, as the clerk was given
erroneous information that the special paper used was archival. It turned out not to be so. Pat Cook
laboriously photographed the old minutes before they went to the archive. The images are available on
the History Group DVD.
Flood Advice
The weather during the last two winters has been exceptional, but if we are to believe recent reports this
is a foretaste of winters to come. In Somerford Keynes we have been more fortunate than most and the
issues which have affected other communities have largely passed us by. The Thames has not (so far)
reached the level that it did last winter. This year the management at Lower Mill Estate has been able to
keep the Thames spillway clear of both weed and water voles, with excellent results. The flood defences
at Neigh Bridge have operated as they were designed to do. We have survived two winters without
significant river flooding.
However we can’t ignore the fact that we live in a largely flat area on a flood plain. We are near enough
to the source of the Thames that most of our water heads to the more unfortunate communities
downstream; but there is a small risk of river flooding. Ground water also continues to be a concern for
some households, as it is elsewhere in the country following such severe rains. One or two houses are
surrounded by standing water, and some have suffered septic tank problems.
The Parish Council is pursuing matters of drainage with CDC, but each household in the Parish should also
be considering its own response to excess water. It’s well worth visiting Mary Dhonau’s website
http://www.marydhonau.co.uk/. She lives near the Severn and has been flooded numerous times but has
refused to become a victim of flooding and has a wealth of practical advice, including such things as
making a household Flooding Emergency Plan (for which she provides a template) and purchasing extra
buckets to stand furniture legs in if the worst happens. The National Flood Forum website
http://nationalfloodforum.org.uk/ also contains a lot of useful information, including a section on
insurance.
The time to plan for flooding is when you are not threatened by it! [Feb 2014]
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Somerford Keynes Parish Council
Published Documents
Next Meeting
The next meeting of Somerford
Keynes Parish Council will be
held on Monday 4th March at
7.30pm in the Village Hall. The
Agenda will normally be shown
here a few days beforehand.
All meetings are open to the
public.
Agenda Feb 4th 2019
Page updated 5 February 2019