Summary report of the extra ordinary Parish Council meeting held 12th September 2019 The meeting was called to action urgent items prior to deadlines, principally payments, two planning consultations and response to the BMSDC Joint Local Plan. It was noted that a former resident of Cockfield had stepped in to undertake the painting of the […]
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Cockfield’s Telephone Boxes
We have two heritage Telephone Boxes in the village that the Parish Council purchased last year, one alongside the A1141 at Mackenzie Place and one outside the Post Office in Howe Lane. You may have noticed they are currently being painted. The Parish Council is seeking your views on possible uses for one or both […]
Parish Council Meeting Report, July 2019
Summary report of the Ordinary Parish Council meeting held 25 July 2019 Public Participation Session Suffolk County Cllr Lindsay’s report was circulated prior to the meeting. Cllr Lindsay updated the meeting on his attempts to get SCC to pursue the Developer (of the two dwellings on land south west of Clovelly, Howe Lane) for the […]
Summary Report of the Extraordinary Parish Council Meeting 14 Aug 2019
The meeting was principally convened to consider planning applications, items of urgent business and to receive a briefing from Local district councillor Clive Arthey. Pavilion: Cllr Southgate noted that the football club had indicated the hire charge for the pavilion 2018-19 would be paid this week. A further meeting on operational matters would be arranged […]
Mackenzie Place Housing Development Update, July 2019
When I last wrote we had just received the first stage tender submissions form the shortlisted building contractors and were undertaking an analysis to identify who we would be working with to progress the development. I’m very pleased to advise that the successful contractor was SEH French Construction. SEH French are an established, Ipswich based […]
Extraordinary Parish Council Meeting, 27 June 2019
Summary report Public Participation Session; Cllr Lindsay advised that he had obtained commitment from SCC Highways to undertake a 2nd cut of the grass verges on Cockfield’s C & U Roads to compensate the Parish Council for SCC Highways cutting the verges only 2 weeks after the Parish Council’s Contractor had undertaken this work. SCC […]
The Founding and Building of Cockfield School
The following article was written by Mark Webster’s father Tony Webster, who was Head Teacher of Cockfield School from 1968 – 1990. It is a short summary of a longer account that he wrote about the early history of the school and was first published in the second ever edition of Green Links, 40 years […]
Ipswich Northern Route Consultation
Members of the public are invited to have their say on the potential options for the Ipswich Northern Route when the consultation officially begins on 5 July 2019. The public are being asked to comment on three proposed routes for the new road to the north of Ipswich. The consultation is being jointly developed by […]
Summary Report of the Extraordinary Parish Council Meeting held 05 June 2019
With the scheduling of meetings around the election and the recent Annual Parish meeting, we called an extraordinary meeting to progress some urgent matters that required action prior to the next ordinary meeting 27th June. Consequently, the summary of items discussed is relatively short. The County and District Councillors were not in attendance for this […]
Parish Council Chairman’s Report to the Annual Parish Meeting, May 2019
Introduction: It has been another busy year for the Parish Council with the work load and administration process forever expanding. Our Clerk Steve Ball manages to keep his sanity with the flurry of emails that land every day from District and Country councils. In April we expressed our thanks to Barbara Ruffell and Rod Portwood […]
