by Ian Plowman | May 20, 2025 | Chairman's Reports
Yatton Keynell Parish CouncilChairman’s Report 2024/25 Preliminaries With your indulgence, I’m going depart a little from the formal structure laid out in the agenda. I can hardly open this evening without firstly mentioning the recent elections and in particular...
by Ian Plowman | May 15, 2024 | Chairman's Reports, News, Parish Council
This year has been a year of tidying up loose ends and, alas, some of those loose ends remain unresolved and are becoming rather frayed. Drovers GreenDrovers Green is now fully occupied, and the residents I have met are very happy to be part of our community. For one...
by Ian Plowman | May 10, 2023 | Chairman's Reports, News, Parish Council
This time last year, I thought that 2022/23 would be a quiet year with few, if any contentious issues to deal with. How wrong can you be?Drovers Green and consequential changes to the speed limit;the culmination of the application to build a 49.9MW solar farm on land...
by Ian Plowman | May 11, 2022 | Chairman's Reports, News
2021 represented a significant and very welcome return to normality. On the COVID front most of us by now will have been thrice jabbed and some of us had a fourth. Whereas last year we perhaps knew of only a few who had caught it, by now we know of many and may well...
by Ian Plowman | May 19, 2021 | Chairman's Reports, News, Parish Council
2019 and 2020 rather have rather rolled into one and here we are at long last able to meet in person. I think the last time we met was in Sarah’s garden with Monty in the public gallery. Thereafter it has been all virtual meetings and although we all wondered how well...
by Ian Plowman | May 15, 2019 | Chairman's Reports, News, Parish Council
This time last year I reported that the major topic for consideration had been Draft Wiltshire Housing Site Allocations Plan. One year later and it might have been thought that due process had moved on to at least remove the epithet ‘Draft’ from the document. It went...