Vacancies for two councillors to support community

TWO vacancies for councillors have arisen on a parish council which serves a rural community.

Waterhouses Parish Council, which serves a wide area including the villages of Winkhill, Waterfall, Waterhouses, Cauldon and Calton, are seeking two people to join them.

The parish council owns a large sports pavilion and acres of green spaces and sports fields which it maintains, as well as the play equipment site in Waterhouses and more than 20 community allotments.

Anyone interested in playing a part in the community is asked in the first instance to contact the clerk, Chris Hinton, by email at: waterhousespcclerk@yahoo.co.uk

Meanwhile, at last week’s meeting of the authority councillors were informed by the clerk that they have been successful in obtaining a grant of £425 from Staffordshire Moorlands District Council for events covering the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

It was agreed to donate £100 each to the villages of Waterhouses, Waterfall and Calton who were staging events.

The remainder would be on stand-by to see if anymore community events arise. If no more came forward the remaining £125 will be split between the three villages who were staging events.

Councillors also agreed to submit to planners at the Peak Park that they had no objection to a planning application at The Old Beams, holiday accommodation in Leek Road, Waterhouses.

The application is for the construction of garden room to replace conservatory, construction of stone and tile games room to replace former garage and store, facing former plant room and store in natural stone, formation of en-suite bathroom and installation of replacement windows.

Councillors also voted to offer no objections to an application for a proposed extension to agricultural building to house new parlour and ancillary dairy equipment and siting of feed silo at Sparrowlee Farm, Pikelow Lane, Waterfall.