1. Annual Parish Meeting Harwell
Thursday 27th April, 2017
7.30 p.m.

2. Agenda Minutes of the previous meeting
Taylor Wimpey: Grove Road North (20)
Parish Council Chairman’s Report (30)
Harwell Feast (1)
Harwell Village Hall (1)
Local Plan Part 2 (30)
Any Other Business (82)

4. Representatives
Parliament (Elected May 2015)
Wantage
Ed Vaizey Election June 8
Oxfordshire County Council
Hendreds & Harwell
Stewart Lilly (Elected May 2009 and 2013) Candidates for 4 May 2017 include Mike Fox-Davies (PC)
Vale of White Horse District Council (Elected May 2015)
Blewbury and Harwell
Reg Waite & Janet Shelley
Hendreds
Mike Murray

5. Who does what
Oxfordshire has six main councils - one county council, four district councils and a city council. There are also more than 300 parishes and town councils, mainly outside Oxford city.
Each council provides different services and has its own set of councillors to represent residents. On 4 May, you’ll be voting to choose your county councillor to represent you.
District councillors represent residents in areas called wards. District council services include:
Environmental health
Housing
Leisure and recreation
Planning applications
Waste collection.
County councillors represent larger areas called divisions. County council services include:
Children’s services
Support for schools
Fire and Rescue
Libraries and museums
Roads
Social care for older people and disabled adults
Community transport
Trading standards
Countryside services
Waste disposal

6. It’s a credit to the village”
Groundstaff
Gerry Still
Merv Woods
Mick Russell
“…the Cemetery, it’s so beautifully well kept.
It’s a credit to the village”

7. Parish Council Clerk - Stephanie Taylor
David Marsh, Chair
[Kate Beswick]
Dee Boughton-Waite
Gareth Buxton
Cath Convery
Mike Fox-Davies, V-Chair *
Sarah Gaspar
Debbie Greenfield
Jeremy Hawthorn*
Tim Howse**
Debbie Turner
Elected May 2015, except
*co-opted to represent Harwell Campus Ward
**co-opted to represent Village Ward

8. PC Vacancies Electors can call an election PC may co-opt
Community needs people to come forward and serve on the parish council
Planning, strategic and individual applications
Lands, upkeep and development of community resources
Traffic, and traffic calming

9. Traffic Calming? GWP scheme

10. Harwell Traffic: Sep 2016 when Blenheim Hill closed
Peak movement 400 vehicles/hour
Average movement 24/7 200 vehicles/hour.
Average day movement (7am-7pm) 333 vehicles/hour
Average night movement (0am-6am) 3 vehicles/hour
Traffic is more bi-directional than expected.
Morning % of traffic entering the village 42% GR, 33% WR
Evening % of traffic leaving the village 33% GR, 40% WR
Overall, and in peak hours
two thirds of traffic uses Wantage Rd, and
just over one third uses Grove Rd.
Higher than expected usage of Grove Rd. might be because of people trying to get to Didcot.

11. Harwell Link Road

13. Harwell Recreation Ground Facilities
Feasibility Study for the provision of support facilities at the Harwell Rec.
Scope:
All current users of the pavilion and the Rec.
Any needs of village clubs, not met elsewhere, that would benefit from being located at the Rec. (e.g. Scouts)
Consider both upgrade and replacement options
Conclusion
Offer the pavilion to the scouts
But
Need to ensure ground staff have adequate facilities

15. Harwell News New editor: Rebekah Pearson New look
New distribution co-ordinator: Penny Marsh
Thanks to
Distributors
Advertisers

16. Parish website www.harwellparish.co.uk 2016 (April – March 2017) 2015
sessions
21,788
14,084
page hits
44,569
41,735
Top Pages
Front
12,040
8,701
Developments
2,568
1,951
Meetings
1,476
1,543
Harwell News
1,449
1,641
GWP
1,050
1,972
News items
Road Closed
~4,000
Gladman
941

17. Finances £000’s 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 Income Precept 59 68 77 Other
Precept 59 68 77
Other 18 19 14
Expense
Salaries 44 47 48
Running costs, maintenance 30 34 43
Exceptional items
Pavilion emergency repairs 20
Tree pruning - cemetery and rec 7
Number of houses (tax base)
971.5
1031.1
1149.8
Precept as £ per Band D house
£60.89
£65.91
£67.00
Main areas for additional spending are
office equipment £1,500
play area upgrade (not being done but funds to be set aside) £5,750 – up from £1,000 last year
bench at bus stop £1,000
van/tractor/gangmowers reserve £2,000 – up from £1,000 last year
£880 skate park
£3,400 HN printing – up from £2,600 from last year

18. Planning Applications
Harwell
Total
Major
Full
Outline
DIS RM
2017/04 43 5 6 2 14
2016
101 8 28 35
2015
114 18 19 7 26
2014 95 9 16 3 37 4
2013 69 10
2012 72 21
2011 83
2010 59
2009 65
2008 41
2007 47