Elections and Parish News
Elections
Could you be a Councillor?
Are you passionate about your community and want to make a change to help improve residents’ lives. Do you want to be part of Parish projects and make decisions on the future of the parish?
If you want to make a change in Slimbridge – simply contact the Parish Clerk for more details and a nomination pack.
Come along to the next Parish Council meeting on Monday 18th March (7.30pm in the Village Hall) to see what happens and how things work.
For further information on the role of being a Councillor, please go to www.stroud.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/elections/becoming-a-councillor
To stand as a prospective Councillor, you will need to complete a nomination paper. Nomination papers for Town/Parish elections can be collected from either the Parish Clerk or from Stroud District Council and District Council Nomination papers are available to collect from Stroud District Council Offices.
Nomination papers must be delivered by hand to Stroud District Council, Ebley Mill, Ebley Wharf, Stroud, GL5 4UB between 10am and 4pm from Tuesday 19 March 2024 – Friday 5 April 2024.
Parish News
The Annual Parish Meeting will be taking place on Monday 8th April in the Village Hall, please do come along to see what your Councillors have achieved over the last year and what they aim to do in the coming year. Unfortunately we won’t be able to serve refreshments this year due the Village hall kitchen being refurbished.
The faculty for the restoration works on the listed tombstones in St Johns Church yard is continuing and grants are being applied for to carry out the works. Do you have any history on the tombstones, are you related to any of those buried within these tombs. Please do contact the Parish Clerk if you have any interesting information that we cold include as part of this project. Information on the restoration project can be found on the Parish Council website.
The Parish Council have now placed an order to have the drains repaired on the Playing Field car park, this will take place over the summer holidays, so hopefully this will now alleviate the flooding coming off the field by taking it back into the culvert. More information will come on this as we will have to close off some of the car park when works take place.
It has been noted the amount of fly tipping we are getting in certain places in the parish and these are always reported to Stroud District Council. SDC have now erected a sign in Dursley Road and also installed bin covers on the wheelie bins on the A38 layby