INFORMATION
Chairman's Annual Report April 2011
Chairman's Annual Report April 2010
Chairman's Annual Report April 2009
Chairman's
Annual Report April 2008
Chairman's
Annual Report April 2007
Chairman's
Annual Report April 2006
Chairman's
Annual Report April 2005
Chairman's
Annual Report April 2004
Annual
Accounts 1st April 2008 to 31st March 2009
Annual
Accounts 1st April 2007 to 31st March 2008
Annual
Accounts 1st April 2006 to 31st March 2007
Annual
Accounts 1st April 2005 to 31st March 2006
Annual
Accounts 1st April 2004 to 31st March 2005
Annual
Accounts 1st April 2003 to 31st March 2004
The precept for 2011/12 is £49,000. This is still one of the lowest precepts in Wakefield District.
About
the Precept.
Crigglestone Parish
is a Civil Parish as opposed to an Ecclesiastical Parish.
It is an independent local democratic unit serving an area
covering Crigglestone, Calder Grove, Chapelthorpe, Durkar,
Hall Green, Hollingthorpe, Newmillerdam and Painthorpe. It
has a Council of 11 (eleven) Councillors who are elected every
four years; the next election is on 5 May 2011. The Parish Council
meets on the first Tuesday of each month (except August) in
the Village Institute, High Street, Crigglestone at 7.00p.m.
The Public can attend and are welcome at these meetings.
The Council also holds an Annual Parish Meeting each year
in April when the Chairman gives a report on the working of
the Council over the year.
The Council’s main income is by way of a Parish Rate (officially
called a precept), which is a charge on each household in
the Parish. The amount varies according to the Band in which
the dwelling is placed for Council Tax purposes but for
a dwelling in Category D (the average) the Parish Rate
for 2011/12 is £15.70 per annum or 30.2p per
week. Parish Councils are the cheapest form of local government.
They receive no government grants so they have every incentive
to keep expenditure low.
Parish Councils have become more important because District
Councils have become larger and more remote. The Parish Council
works hard to improve the area in any way open to them. It tries
to protect the area by carefully scrutinising all planning
applications and by encouraging Action Groups to join with
it to campaign against proposals which may badly affect the
Parish area.
The Council also makes grants to
organisations for specific projects.
Remembering that Parish Councillors know the area very well,
they act as a body to represent the views of people in the
Parish to, not only the District Council but the Health Authority,
Public Utilities and Government departments. They appoint
Governors to local schools and charities and are continually
trying to improve, within their means and powers, the Crigglestone
Parish Area.
email Parish
Clerk
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