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Mrs Jen Linford-Clerk to the Parish Council 2, High Street, Oving PO20 2DD 01243 774522 Greetings from the new Parish Clerk... |
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| Letter from your Parish Council - Jan Linford | |
 December 2008
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Dear Parishioners, Postal deliveries in the village There were complaints at the Annual Parish Meeting in May that the delivery of mail in Oving seemed to be getting later and later. According to the Royal Mail, there is no set time in the day by which deliveries should be made. However, they do try to deliver all mail by 2pm in urban areas and Oving post should not be much later than this. Post is always delivered earlier on a Saturday because of the reduction of mail arriving into the Delivery Offices. At times in the spring, when the complaints were made, our regular postie was off sick and his job was covered by colleagues; this should therefore be a rare occurrence. However if you do have further concerns, you are advised to contact the Royal Mail on 08457 740 740 or , quoting reference 1-67501443. Alternatively, you can make a complaint to Postwatch on 08456 013265 or writing to Freepost Postwatch. Keeping the Parish tidy! Since the last edition of the OPN reached you, I am pleased to be able to announce a new service in our area, that of the Highways Rangers. This is a team of people from the Highways Agency who visit different areas on a rolling programme and are employed primarily to improve the “Street Scene”. Work may include cleaning signs, cutting back vegetation, doing small repairs. They visit once every 5 weeks and attempt to carry out any jobs recommended by residents. Their next visits are the weeks of: 22 December, 26 January, 2 March. Most recently I have had reports of problems in Challen Close; at the time of writing, I am not sure if this work has been completed. If you have any requests, please contact me and I will pass them on. On a more negative note, it would seem as if some Oving residents throw their garden compost over their fences. This is unsightly for neighbours and would seem a waste of the Rangers’ time to clear up (not forgetting that they are paid through our Council Tax!) |
| Greetings from the new Parish Clerk! | |
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I took over this role from Roger
Parsons in June and have since been learning something new every
day!
Having been a secondary school French teacher for 16 years, working from home in the village and dealing with accounts and tons of post and emails has been a really new adventure! What is a Parish Clerk? I certainly knew very little this time last year, but for those of you who don’t know, I am the paid officer for the Parish Council. I act as the Council’s mailbox and so deal with correspondence on a daily basis, forwarding items to relevant councillors. I am also responsible for the Parish Council’s accounts. I am not elected and have no authority to act alone, but if you wish to make a representation to the Parish Council, I will pass on issues to be discussed and acted on in the Council meetings. Please find my details on the first page. The Parish Council meetings are held bi-monthly on a Wednesday (the next two are on 14 January and 18 March) in Oving Jubilee Hall and are open to the public. Do look out for details on the Parish notice boards nearer the time and come and find out what is happening in your parish. Jen Linford |
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| New Parish Clerk |
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The Acting Parish Clerk from 1st April 2008 will now be
Colin Petherick
32 St. Thomas Court,
Pagham, Bognor Regis, West Sussex PO21 4RL
Tel.
01243 264810
Email:
coljan @petherickc.fsbusiness.co.uk
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