Chair’s report
This is our ninth published annual report and gives me the opportunity to review parish activities over the last twelve months.
Progress on the new community building and proposed development to the rear of the Village Hall has been frustratingly slow over the last couple of years and now that planning permission has been granted, albeit with several conditions/S106 negotiations/legal requirements still to be agreed/fulfilled between the developers/solicitors and CBC, things should hopefully start to get moving shortly.
Discussions are currently ongoing with the Charity Commission and our solicitors regarding the dissolution of the two existing charities (Village Hall and Playing Fields) and merging both into one new charity. A few of us have been sitting on these two committees over many years and are looking forward to making room for new trustees once this project is finally completed. Interestingly my grandfather Reg Collins (landlord of The Crown for 30 years until 1961 when he retired) was an original trustee on the Playing Fields Committee in 1947.