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WYRE FOREST DISTRICT COUNCIL
ANNUAL REPORT OF ACTIVITIES 2008/09
COUNCILLOR: Douglas Godwin
WARD: Rock
Activities
I have been Chairman for the Parish Council for the past year and hope to be reappointed for the coming year. This allows me to be involved in many community activities and projects and I list some of them below that I attended in my capacity as District Councillor and Parish Chairman:-
1.Remembrance Sunday church service
2.St Georges Day Service (Scouts & Guides)
3.The Rock Village show
4.The Rock Church Fate
5.The Callow Hill Horticultural Show
6.Far Forest School open day ( June Show)
7.Callow Hill fireworks display
8.Far Forest dramatics pantomime show
9.The Friends of Rock Church Art Exhibition and sale
10.Attending events in Bayton and Mamble village as representative for the next door Parish of Rock
11.Bewdley (Rock) PACT meeting with the police
12.Kidderminster PACT meetings with the police
Council Activities
Local Development Framework (LDF) Review Panel
Ethics and Standard Committee
Planning (Enforcement) Committee
I have attended all the meeting bar one and I have also substituted for another member on one Community Services Committee.
I have been unable to attend other outside bodies and meetings due to the pressure of my work and meetings starting in office hours or in London which I could not attend.
I attended one site visit of the Planning Committee on a major development in Far Forest.
Achievements during the Year
I have started a monthly newsletter in the Rock & District news (Douglas's District Diary). I have assisted parishioners on matters as diverse as immigration applications to the completion of Rural Payments Agency applications forms for Single Farm Payment entitlements, shot gun licences and applications for Tree Felling Licences. I have attended meetings on highways, road safety and drainage and at the Forestry Commission on the management of the Wyre Forest. I have had a lot of correspondence on environmental contamination in Sugars Lane and the failure of the Severn Trent plant there.
As a Member, I have answered letters and numerous e-mails on planning matters, environmental matters, drainage of roads and land, gritting and the provision of grit in the winter, damage to property and policing issues including; road safety, criminal damage and a death on the road out side the Royal Forester Public House.
I have responded to letters on developments at Clows Top and in the village of Rock and Far Forest, buses and the travel problems of the OAP's in my ward. I have also received letters on matters that are outside the control of the District Council and have passed them on to our MP or other Government agencies such as the Benefits Agency the CPS and the Child Support Agency. Housing matters and questions I pass onto our Wyre Forest Housing Association.
Members' Surgeries
None, but regular contact with the public in my ward, at weekends and other social events through out the year.
Training and Development
Laptop Training 08/05/2008
Code of Conduct 08/05/2008
Scrutiny 21/05/2008
Planning 04/06/2008
Audit 13/06/2008
LSP ' Learning to Deliver' Workshop30/06/2008
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