The November Country and Western Dance will be on Saturday 2 Nov with Julie Dawn, commencing 8pm. Tickets are on the door and are £6.00 each. The doors open at 7pm, the bar will open at 7.45pm and there will as ever be a BBQ. As previously advised in Green Links the dances are due […]
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Cockfield Computer Circle 2019-20 Programme
The first 2 sessions of the CCC 2019-20 Programme are cancelled, as the quorum has not been reached. The first sessions to take place are Organising Files & Folders Parts 1 & 2 on 18th and 25th November. Over the coming weeks further sessions for 2020 will be announced. The shape of the Programme will […]
Community Council News, September 2019
Community Council News – September 19 Sunday 8 September saw another splendid Cockfield Produce, Flower and Craft Show. Considerable thanks go to all those who participated and congratulations to the winners of the many and various Categories. Whilst the focus of the Show was of course on the flowers, produce and craft, this year also […]
Parish Council Extraordinary Meeting Report, September 2019
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 […]
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 […]
