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Morval Parish Council
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14th January 2025

Parish playground fast taking shape

THIS MEETING IS NOW THURSDAY (same venue, time, agenda etc) 

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.



THE next meeting of Morval Parish Council takes place at the Village Hall, Widegates at 7.00 pm tomorrow (Wednesday, January 15).

The Council usually meets on the first Wednesday of the month but, in 2025, that coincided with New Year’s Day, so the session was deferred for a week.

Unfortunately, unusually heavy (for these parts) snowfall last Wednesday (January 8) led to the late postponement of the meeting.

It is now scheduled to go ahead this Wednesday (January 15) when items due for discussion include planning matters, routine finances, grant applications, and an update on the Farriers Way play park in Widegates.

Many parishioners will already have noticed the play park taking shape at speed but there is still time to suggest a lasting name for the facility (at least two suggestions have already been received) and, equally as important if not more so, for nominations to be received from members of the public to form a ‘Focus Group’.

That body has to be convened as part of the agreement in receiving the £120,000 grant from Cornwall Council’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund (an offshoot of the Government’s £7.6-million Community ‘Levelling Up’ purse) that has made the play area possible.

The Focus Group, which will, effectively, take the  form of a ‘Friends of…’  involving both councillors and members of the general public will oversee the general running and well-being of the park in the months and years ahead. It requires no financial involvement on those members of the public who volunteer.

The Parish Council, under current chairman, Cllr Andy Jackson, will be establishing this ‘management’ body but now is the time for anyone to express an interest in coming on board.

Cllr Jackson urges those interested in joining the ‘Focus Group’ to e-mail: clerk@morvalparishcouncil.org.uk

Reports at tomorrow’s Council meeting are also likely to be received from Police Community Support Officer David Billing and the Cornwall County councillor Armand Toms.

The agenda can be viewed at: https://www.morvalparishcouncil.org.uk/data/uploads/945_204114329.pdf

Members of the public are invited to attend and while they cannot take part in the actual meeting itself, they can address councillors during a Public Participation session in the first 15 minutes of the meeting.

Each speaker gets a maximum of five minutes, although more can be allocated at the chairman’s discretion.

The official agenda for the monthly meetings always invites ‘members of the public to address the meeting in relation to the business to be carried out at the meeting’ but, in reality, almost anything topic can be raised.

Speakers do not have to give the chairman or the clerk pre-warning of what they will mention – although, as ever, prior notice can be useful if a satisfactory outcome is to be swiftly achieved.

Anyone interested in speaking is also asked to notify the Clerk, Laura Storey (clerk@morvalparishcouncil.org.uk) beforehand as a matter of courtesy.