Welcome to Denby Dale Parish Council
Welcome to the website of Denby Dale Parish Council. The site offers information about the parish and about the work of the parish council itself. The activities of the parish council are recorded in the minutes of its meetings, all of which are placed on this site once they have been formally approved by the council.
A full list of the elected members of the council is available, together with information about their committee membership and their membership of other bodies on which they serve as representatives of the council.
We hope you find the website useful and easy to navigate and a helpful way of keeping up to date with what's happening in your area.
Hazel Chowcat
Clerk to the Council
Council Offices
Commercial Road
Skelmanthorpe
Huddersfield HD8 9DA
Tel/Fax: 01484 222963
email: denbydaleparishcouncil@kirklees.gov.uk
Council News
New No. 95 Bus Service
Stagecoach has now agreed to run a new bus service from Skelmanthorpe to Barnsley via Lower Cumberworth, Denby Dale, Scissett, Clayton West, High Hoyland, Kexborough and Barnsley Hospital. This is being run for 6 months on a 'use it or lose it' basis and and follows some prolonged campaigning by the Parish Council. Accordingly, the Parish Council hopes that the service will prove successful to enable it to be made permanent.
The new timetables are available in Skelmanthorpe Library together iwth timetables for other local bus and train services.
Council Vacancies
The following notice has been published by Kirklees Council:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in accordance with Section 87(2) of the Local Government Act 1972, that two vacancies have occurred in the Skelmanthorpe ward of the Denby Dale Parish Council, as a result of the resignations of Councillor John C Birdsall and Councillor Jane E Birdsall.
An Election to fill these vacancies will be held in accordance with the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986, if notice in writing of a request for the Election is received by the Returning Officer not later than the 12th day of August 2008. The notice should be signed by ten electors from the Skelmanthorpe Ward of the Parish Council.
Dated this 23rd day of July 2008
Rob Vincent
Returning Officer
Small Grants Scheme
As in previous years, Denby Dale Parish Council has set aside a small fund out of which it offers grants of up to £500 to local organisations from within the Parish Council area. In previous years, this scheme has funded a wide range of projects, including the purchase of musical instruments for local bands, repairs to church clocks, grants for equipment for youth groups, such as the Brownies and the Scouts and to sports organisations.
The Parish Council will only make grants to bona fide organisations which are properly constituted and all applications must be accompanied by an up to date financial statement, copies of bank statements and evidence of the likely cost of the equipment or project for which grant monies are required. Grant forms are now available. Forms can be downloaded here or by contacting the Clerk and should be returned to the Parish Clerk at Denby Dale Parish Council, Council Offices, 24 Commercial Road, Skelmanthorpe, HD8 9DA by 24 October 2008. Applications received after this date will not be considered. Applications will be considered in November 2008.
Council Meetings
All council meetings are held in the Civic Chamber of the Council Offices, Commercial Road, Skelmanthorpe. The schedule of forthcoming meetings is as follows:
Council
The next meeting of the Parish Council is at 7pm on 2 September 2008
Plans Scrutiny Committee
The next meeting of the Plans Scrutiny Committee will be held on 29 July 2008 starting at 7.30pm.
Finance and General Purposes Committee
The next meeting of the Finance and General Purposes Committee will be held at 7.30pm on 18 November 2008
Click here to see the minutes of the last council meeting