Parish Council

Parish Council meetings are open public meetings and are held on the First Wednesday of every month. The meetings take place in the Forbes lounge at the Parish Hall and usually commence at 7.30 pm.   The accessibility of the  Parish Hall is given on their page here.

Every one is welcome to observe the the meetings and to contribute to the discussions.

If there is an issue in the Parish that you are concerned about, or an idea you would like to share with us then please let us know. Either attend one of the meetings, phone or email a Councillor or the Clerk.

The Parish Council is the voice of the parish to local and ultimately central government, if we don't know what you want then we can not speak for you.

The Agenda for any forthcoming meeting is put on the official noticeboards around the village before each Meeting. 

The Minutes of recent meetings are held here

Your Councillors are listed here.  Councillors are all unpaid volunteers, we have one part-time salaried Clerk.  

Here is a link to a BBC page listing your national representatives (MP and MEPs).

Here is a link to the Police Crime website for this area.

There is a page with useful environmental links here.

The Council does not have Quality Status yet.

The Parish Council currently has two projects which are handled seperately; the Longmead Field Development and the Youth Centre.

Planning
You can find out what Planning Applications are being processed by Mid Devon District Council and when by looking at their web site here.

You can find details of any Planning Application, once you know its number, either from the link above or from the statutory notice displayed on the site by searching here.

Hemyock Emergency Plan
Hemyock has an emergency plan which is designed to cover situations where the 'blue light' services cannot attend. 

A copy of the main Plan is here. 
There are a number of Annexes to the main plan which are kept seperate for ease of updating. 
Annex A Risk Assessment
Annex B Emergency Control Desk
Annex C Accommodation and Feeding Centre
Annex D Contractors Equipment
Annex E Emergency Services Contact Details

These documents are in Adobe Acrobat format  If you dont have a reader, you can download a free reader here

Let us hope we never have to use the Emergency Plan, but a great deal of necessary preliminary work has been done, which should help if an emergency ever does arise. 


Just for interest, here is a link to the 1997 Parish Appaisal.  Many of the graphics have been lost, but it still makes very interesting reading.  A Parish appraisal is underway at the moment (April 2009), the results will be published soon.