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Blewbury Parish Council
Parish Council meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month (except August) at 7.30pm
in the Vale Room of Blewbury Village Hall. The meetings include an Open Forum for the public to speak.
The Parish Council section of this site provides recent parish council minutes,
and information on how to obtain other information from the Council.
- The Clerk to the Council
- Ms Elaine Smit, 83 Dibleys, Blewbury, OX11 9PU
(Tel. 9.30-11.30 am or 2-4 pm, or leave a message on: 07968-772935
e-mail blewburypc@googlemail.com)
- Chairman
- Mr Alan Cooper, 7 Whites Orchard (01235-851725)
- Vice-Chairman
- Mr Chris Whatmore, Chapmans, Nottingham Fee (01235-851055)
- Councillors
- Mr Martin Brassell, Lynchets, Bessels Way (01235-850082)
- Mrs Christina Duckett, Bakers Cottage, Westbrook Street
- Mr Richard Farrell, Hall Barn Close, Chapel Lane (01235-850275)
- Ms Jane Gibson, 5 Westbrook Green (01235 850689)
- Mrs Sheila Loy, 24 Grahame Close, Blewbury OX11 9QE (01235-850537)
- Mr Mark Shaylet, 2 Eastfields (01235 851496)
- Mr Mike Shread, 15 Dibleys (07530-133991)
The Parish Council was due to be elected on the 1st of May, 2007 for four years. However there were insufficient
nominations for an election, and the council filled the remaining place by the adoption of Jane Gibson.
Following resignations, Sheila Loy, Mike Shread and Mark Shayler were also co-opted.
Committees
- Affordable Housing
- Christina Duckett, Chris Whatmore
- Allotments
- Mike Shread
- Cemetery
- Martin Brassell, Christina Duckett, Jane Gibson
- Finance
- Martin Brassell, Richard Farrell + ex-officio Alan Cooper, Chris Whatmore
- Footpaths
- Jane Gibson, Alan Cooper
- Grant Application and Legal
- Mike Shread
- Planning
- Alan Cooper, Christina Duckett, Chris Whatmore, Mike Shread
- Recreation Ground / CIC
- Richard Farrell, Jane Gibson, Sheila Loy
Treasurer: Tony Salter (01235-850754)
- Recreation Ground Enhancement Working Group
- Christina Duckett, Martin Brassell, Chris Whatmore, Alan Cooper, WREN liaison: Chris Whatmore
- Small Grants
- Alan Cooper, Jane Gibson
- Transport and Road Safety
- Jane Gibson
- Cycle Paths
- Mark Shayler
Associated Committees
- BVS Environment Group
- Richard Farrell
- Cob Wall Fund
- Sheila Loy
- Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator
- Richard Farrell
- Reporter to Blewbury Bulletin
- Chris Whatmore
- Village Hall
- Chairman: Bruce Brock (01235-850730)
The Village Hall Management Committee is a charity independent of the Parish Council,
but Mr Whatmore represents the council on it.
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Vale of White Horse District Council
- The main office of the Council, where all departments are located, is
- The Abbey House, Abingdon OX12 3JE (01235-520202 Fax 01235-532217)
The office is open to the public on Monday to Friday from 9.00am to 5.00pm.
Answerphone messages outside those hours can be left on 01235-520202 or
email comments@whitehorsedc.gov.uk,
or for genuine emergencies ring 01235-524886.
The web site is www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk
Planning is dealt with by the Planning & Engineering Department, P.O. Box 147, The Abbey House, Abingdon OX14 3JE
- District Councillor
- Mr R.Farrell, Hall Barn Close, Chapel Lane (01235-850275)
The District Council was elected on the 1st of May, 2007 for four years. The Councillor represents Blewbury and Upton.
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Oxfordshire County Council
County Hall, Oxford (01865-792422)
The web site is www.oxfordshire.gov.uk
- County Councillor
- Mr Stewart Lilly, 2 Hengest Gate, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0HH (01235-832867)
The County Council election was held on the 4th of May, 2009 for four years.
Blewbury is in Sutton Courtenay & Harwell Constituency, where the turnout was 44.65%.
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British Government
An initial web address is www.direct.gov.uk
- Member of Parliament for the Wantage Constituency
- Ed Vaizey Esq MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA.
Mr Vaizey holds regular meetings with constituents.
Details of these are published in his letters to the Blewbury Bulletin and
can be seen on www.vaizey.com.
The Parliamentary election was on the 6th of May, 2010. Another election must be held within five years.
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European Union
The English Language web address is europa.eu/index_en.htm
The European Parliament election was on the 4th of June, 2009.
Elections are held every five years. Blewbury is in the South East England region which had an electorate of 6,231,875,
and the turnout in this election of 37.47%. The region returned 10 candidates on a system of proportional representation.
Each party provided a list of up to 10 candidates. A voter could only select one party.
The seats were allocated to the candidates of each party depending on the proportion of votes cast for the party.
Members of the European Parliament for this region are as follows:
| Marta Andreasen | UK Independence Party |
| Richard Ashworth | Conservative |
| Catherine Bearder | Liberal Democrat |
| Sharon Bowles | Liberal Democrat |
| Nirj Deva | Conservative |
| James Elles | Conservative |
| Nigel Farage | UK Independence Party |
| Daniel Hannan | Conservative |
| Caroline Lucas | Greens |
| Peter Skinner | Labour |
The results were remarkably similar to those 5 years ago.
For only two parties was there a change of more than 1.5% of the total votes cast (a change of 36,000 votes in 2,334,858)
with the Greens gaining 3.8% to reach 11.6% and Labour losing 5.4% to drop from fourth to fifth place with 8.2% of the votes.
There were no seat gains or losses by any party, and there were only two new MEPs Marta Andreasen and Catherine Bearder.
The seven parties who had not campaigned on 2004 gathered 5.2% of the votes between them.
The number of votes required for each seat in this region was around 164,000.
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