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Radley
Parish Council has a long history
dating back to 1894. It now functions under the Local Government
Act 1972 and is a tier below the Vale
of White Horse District Council and Oxfordshire
County Council.
The
Parish Council is your local voice. Please contact any
of your Councillors
or the Clerk
about any issue relating to our village.
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Meetings
Radley
Parish Council meets on the fourth Thursday of every month
on these dates
in the Church Room.
Members of the public are welcome to attend the meetings and
may speak during the first 10 minutes if invited to do so
by the chairman. Here is a summary
of our last meeting and the minutes
of recent meetings. The Annual Parish Meeting, open to all
electors in the parish, is held between 1 March and 1 June.
The Council elects its Chairman for the coming year at its
Annual Meeting, held in May.
Councillors
The
number of Councillors depends on the size of the Parish. Radley
has eleven Councillors,
who are unpaid volunteers and members of the local community.
The Clerk is a
salaried employee of the Parish Council.
Committees
and Working Groups
In
addition to its main meetings, the Council delegates some
of its business to the following Committees and Working Groups:
Planning
Applications
The
Council makes recommendations on all planning applications
in Radley, although final decisions are made by the Vale of
White Horse District Council. Different councillors take responsibility
for planning in each area of the village. Some councillors
act as representatives for different organisations in the
village.
Funding
To
finance its activities the Parish Council receives funding,
known as a precept, from the District Council (paid for by
part of the council tax). This money pays amongst other
things for the Clerk, the playing
field, sports pavilion, play
area, maintenance of the village green and Centenary Garden,
collection of litter around the village, the garden
competition and donations to local groups. Details of
the way the money is spent can be seen in the Parish Council
accounts.
Garden
Competition
This
annual
event organised by the Parish Council takes place on a
Saturday in July.
Tree
Preservation Orders (TPOs)
| TPO
No. |
Site
of tree |
Type
of tree |
Date
TPO given |
| 1/1974
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South
of Peach Croft Farm |
Poplars
(20) |
25
March 1974 |
| 3/1997
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Bigwood
Caravan Park |
Whole
of the Caravan Park |
5
June 1997 |
| 16/1998
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The
spinney and trees at the junction of the Kennington/Radley
Road and Sandford Lane |
Various
species of trees – Woodland TPO |
27
August 1998 |
| 10/2001
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Land
to west of 4 Norfolk Close |
Horse
chestnut |
16
November 2001 |
| 1/2002
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11
Badgers Copse |
Scots
pines (2) |
2002
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The Parish
Council also asked the Vale of the White Horse District Council
to consider the cherry trees by the allotments in Church Road
for TPOs, but the Council indicated that it did not think
they were suitable candidates for a TPO – they are quite nice
but not outstanding and are not under threat of being felled.
Freedom
of Information
In
December 2008 the Parish Council agreed the information available
under the model publication scheme. This was reviewed in 2010.
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