Shalfleet Parish Council Office/Help Centre

Main Road
Newbridge
Sally M Woods
Isle of Wight
Clerk to the Council
PO41 0TR

Tel: 01983 531491

Email: clerk@shalfleetiow.org.uk
Web: www.shalfleetiow.org.uk

Mrs Rosalind Neary JP

Chairman
Wellow Residents Group
No address provided

Dear Mrs Neary

Thank you for your email dated 22nd January 2017. I reply to a number of points raised:

1. Patient Participation Group (PPG) representative to the Brookside Medical Practice:

Further to your letter I have contact Brookside Medical Practice and they confirmed that as Mrs
Shirley Stables is not a patient with them she cannot be a member of their PPG. Mrs Stables has
been informed, as has the Chairman of the PPG.
I have decided that the Parish representative to the PPG will now go on the February Agenda, as
at the January meeting (when this was discussed during Question Time,) it was felt that in future
it would perhaps be good practice to advertise vacancies which are not taken up by Parish
Councillors and are open to parishioners.

2. Defibrillator:
Shalfleet Parish Council discussed this matter at their January meeting and agreed they required
further information before making a decision on whether to purchase one. Agreed decision on
location be deferred until such time as the Parish Council agreed to go ahead. I note your offer
of Wellow residents happy to go on the training course, thank you.

3. Planning:
The Parish Council have taken up planning issues, mainly enforcement ones, with the Isle of
Wight Council (IWC) through the Isle of Wight Association of Local Councils (IWALC), to
whom they are a member. IWALC (including the Parish Council Vice-Chairman) has met with
IWC and the Parish Council has received a full informative response from them which was
reported by the Clerk at the January meeting. Enforcement action is being taken against one of
the problems raised; Land at Homestead Farm, Calbourne Lane and land at Lower Dodpits Farm,
Warlands Lane, Ningwood. It was agreed the Clerk submit a Planning Enforcement Complaints
Record Sheet on a site and the Senior Compliance Officer has visited another, sent a report
(again reported on at the January meeting) and will be reporting back when matters have
progressed. Cont.
4. Communications from the Parish Council: Very sorry to hear that Wellow Residents Group
feels there is a problem.
At present the Parish Clerk forwards the Agenda for the forthcoming meeting to David Walter,
your Secretary, in a timely fashion, as well as sending through a copy of the Draft Minutes as
soon as they have been prepared. The Clerk puts copies of the Agendas on 8 noticeboards
throughout the Parish usually the Thursday prior to the meeting on the Wednesday (well within
the period stated by law).
The Clerk sends a copy of dates of the Parish Council meetings for the year and the Agendas to
the Isle of Wight County Press and Mal Butler the local reporter, as well as the local Police and
Ward Councillor.
The Clerk puts a copy of the meeting dates and Agendas on the Parish Council website and
copies of agreed Minutes.
The dates of the meetings are printed in the Village News which is circulated to residents of the
Parishes of Calbourne, Newtown, Thorley and Shalfleet.
The Parish Council welcomes residents to its meetings and indeed gives 30 minutes for them to
ask questions and raise issues.
The Parish Office/Help Centre is open Tuesday Thursday 9.30 am to 1 pm for visitors and the
Clerk contactable by telephone, email and post see contact details above.
I feel the Parish Council does all it can to listen to, and act on, residents concerns and issues.
The Vice-Chairman, Clerk and myself have attended the last few summer events on Wellow
Millennium Green and the Vice-Chairman in particular, has asked for the views of residents,
including where to plant bulbs in the village and which type to plant.
We have also recently engaged with Mr and Mrs Gable over the future of the Wellow red phone
box, indeed they attended a Parish Council meeting to discuss this with Councillors to agree a
way to retain it.

I would be grateful to have the views of the Wellow Residents Group and suggestions of how we
can improve communication, given the limited time the part-time Clerk has, before making this
an Agenda item.

5. Dog Poo Bins:

Firstly, for information, ordinary litter bins can be used to dispose of dog poo if in a sealed bag.
Otherwise if the Wellow Residents Group wishes to go ahead and arrange one it is best to contact
Island Roads and put in a request. Contact them by Tel: (01983) 822440, email:
info@islandroads.com or for those with internet access via their website: www.islandroads.com
The Parish Council have not budgeted for extra dog poo bins.

6. Wellow Post Office:

I confirm that Shalfleet Parish Council are very keen to retain a Post Office in Wellow. Indeed
the Parish Council invited Mrs Pritchett to a meeting to discuss this and suggested that she send
in a request for financial help towards any move that was necessary. The Parish Council are
aware there is a planning application under consultation, including the relocation of the post
office Ref: P/01665/16 deadline for comments 3rd February 2017, should any of your members
which to comment.
Cont.
 7. May Elections:
I confirm that Elections will be held in May, to include Parish and Town Councillors. Whether a
person is intending to stand or not I believe to be a personal matter and has not been discussed at
a Parish Council meeting. The Election process is very much undertaken by the Isle of Wight
Council, not on a local level in terms of organisation. I attach a copy of an article the Clerk has
written for the local Village News (and confirm the editor has agreed to put this in the next
edition,) for your information. The Parish Office receives a list of those people who have
nominated to come on to the Parish Council once the nomination date has past.

I hope the above information is useful to the Wellow Residents Group.

Best wishes.

Yours sincerely,

Pam Broadhead (Mrs)

Chairman to Shalfleet Parish Council