VACANCY FOR PARISH CLERK
Applications are invited for the part-time post of Parish Clerk. The contract is for 12 hours a month, paid in accordance with NALC salary scale SCP 7-10 (£11.63- £12.28), depending on experience. Both hours and hourly rate will be reviewed in April 2024.
The Parish Council convenes on six evenings a year (on the second Tuesday of alternate months – Jan, Mar, May, July, Sept & Nov). In exceptional circumstance additional meetings are called.
The work involves the preparation of the agenda and papers for the meetings, taking the minutes, following up the action points, keeping accurate financial accounts and the preparation of the end-of-year accounts, publishing documents on the Council’s website, liaising with local authorities, other organisations and members of the public, dealing with planning applications and general correspondence.
You can work from home and a laptop and printer will be provided. Expenses can be claimed for telephone/internet usage and any mileage incurred.
Closing date for applications – Friday 6th October 2023
For further information, please contact the Chairman, Mr Jonathan Baker, telephone 01935 891049 or email: cllrjonathanbaker@southperrottparishcouncil.org
The next Parish Council meeting will be held on the 12th September at 6:30pm at the Village Hall.
Finance
The annual accounts for 2022-23 were accepted and approved by the Parish Council at the meeting on Tuesday 9th May 2023.
They can be found here.
The accounts are being examined by an external auditor and are waiting for them to be approved.
If anybody would like copies or has any questions please contact the Clerk clerk@southperrottparishcouncil.org
Updated – 02/06/2023
Suspicious Activity in South Perrott
Recently there has been an incident in South Perrott where a resident was phoned by a company calling itself Nationwide Drains and Water Limited about a collapsed drain in their area. Permission was given for an inspection to be carried out which was done by two males in an unmarked metallic grey transit van (HW69 EJE) who subsequently reported various faults and produced a quote of £3000 to rectify.
The resident became suspicious and reported it to PCSO Alex Bishop who believes it was a ‘fishing trip’ to try to get business and possibly to scout the area. It is also being investigated by a Senior Trading Standards Officer.
Please remain alert to these kinds of activities and if in any doubt report the matter to PCSO Alex Bishop.
TAKING PRIDE IN SOUTH PERROTT
YOUR VILLAGE NEEDS YOU
The village of South Perrott has always had a wonderful community spirit with residents helping each other out. Lockdown has been no exception and highlighted how much we all need, and value, the support of our friends and neighbours. Now that times are hopefully getting back to normal the Parish Council would like to harness the many skills and abundant enthusiasm of the South Perrott residents to build a bank of people willing to give a few hours, whenever they are able, to keep our village one of the best in Dorset.
If you would like to help with, for example, hedge trimming, litter picking and small manual jobs around the village then the Parish Council would love to hear from you. You don’t have to commit on a regular basis and hopefully with small teams of like-minded people it will be fun as well as a beneficial community activity.
If you would like to be involved please contact our new Councillor, Gill Denny
Tel: 07825 839076
email:cllrgilldenny@southperrottparishcouncil.org
Parish Council Meeting
The next parish council meeting will be held virtually on Wednesday 10th March 2021 at 7.30pm.
The agenda is available here
The Zoom meeting is available here.
The Little Book of Big Scams
Written by the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit with the foreword by Gloria Hunniford
This excellent fraud prevention resource has been created to help raise awareness of the dangers of fraud and offer preventative measures to help keep everyone safe from the insidious creep being seen in financial crimes in recent years.
The Little Book of Big Scams – 5th Edition
An audio version of the Little Book of Big Scams can be found at this link
Pipplepen Solar PV Project
Elgin Energy EsCo Ltd. is seeking to develop a ground mounted solar PV farm on land located at Pipplepen Farm, South Perrott, Beaminster, United Kingdom, DT8 3HS.
The development will occupy approximately 120 acres of agricultural land and is located in South Perrott, Beaminster, Dorset within the administrative boundary of South Somerset District Council.
A page has been setup for this project
Contact information
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