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
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
The Parish Council's submission to Kirklees Council's Local Development Framework consultation document "Local Development: Land use where you live" can be accessed by clicking here.
COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE REVIEW
As previously report, Kirklees Council is conducting a review of the five parish and town councils in Kirklees: Denby Dale, Mirfield, Meltham, Kirkburton and Holme Valley. The first stage of the consultation has now been concluded and Kirklees has published its analysis of the submissions received together with its provisional options and recommendations for each Parish or Town Council. To download the document click on the following link https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/secure/meetings/pdfs/0109/CGAC29010934262D.pdf
The next stage of the review which will invite members of the public to comment on the specific proposals contained in the above report and will run from 16 February - 8 May 2009. More detailed information on the review a can be found at: www.kirklees.gov.uk/parishreview.
To access the Parish Council's submission to the first phase of the review click here.
VACANCIES FOR PARISH COUNCILLORS
Denby Dale Parish Council has the following vacancies for a parish councillors which it is proposing to fill by co-option:
Clayton West Ward - Two
Denby & Cumberworth Ward - One
The Parish Council would like to invite suitably qualified individuals to apply for these vacancies. To hold office as a Parish Councillor an individual must fulfil the following qualifications:
1. Be a British subject, a Commonwealth citizen or a Euro national and at least 18 years old.
2. Be either a local government elector of the parish; or a person who a) has, during the whole of the 12 months up to the date of their appointment, occupied land or other premises as owner or tenant in the parish or b) has, during the same period, resided in that area or within three miles thereof, or c) has during the same period, had his/her principal or only place of work in that area.
Suitably qualified individuals interested in joining the council are invited to submit a letter outlining why they are interested to Hazel Chowcat, Clerk to the Council at the address given on this letterhead. Suitably qualified applicants will be invited to address the next council meeting following receipt of their application and co-options will be decided by a vote of the council.
If you would like to know more about what the role of a Parish Councillor involves or would like any other information, please contact the Clerk who will be happy to discuss the matter informally.
Hazel Chowcat
Clerk to the Council
8 April 2009
BROADBAND SURVEY
The Parish Council has now analysed the many responses we had to our survey of broadband provision and the full report can be downloaded here.
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 Council Meeting will be held on 2 June starting at 7pm.
Plans Scrutiny Committee
The next meeting of the Plans Scrutiny Committee will be held on 26 May 2009 and will start 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 16 June 2009.
Click here to see the minutes of the last council meeting