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Oswestry Rural
Parish Council
 

About us

 

WARDS

MAESBURY WITH ASTON  /  TREFONEN WITH TREFLACH   /  MORDA WITH SWEENEY

                                  RHYDYCROESAU        /          SYCHTYN

  

The Oswestry Rural Parish Council was formed in the 1890s and has continued mostly unchanged since then.

The Parish consists of 5 wards and has 15 councillors representing the electorate.

The Council employs a part-time clerk.

                                 The areas that the Parish Council is responsible for are:

  •   Representation of residents' views
  •  Street Lighting - maintenance, inspection and repairs
  •  Highways - reporting of ruts, verges, surface faults etc
  •  Cemeteries- Maintenance, plot administration and liaison with undertakers
  •  School representation on governing bodies at Maesbury, Morda and Trefonen
  •   Representation on Village Hall Committees (Morda,Trefonen and Rhydycroesau), Llynclys Quarry,    Montgomery Canal Trust, Cambrian Railway Trust, Racecourse Management Assoc., Morton Playing Field Comm, Police Committee, Area Committee of Town/Parish Councils and Local Joint Committee, Standards Board, Play Partnership Group.
  • Planning Applications- discuss and comment on applications, taking the village design statements into consideration
  • Footpaths & stiles -  reporting damage
  • Annual Budget preparation- budget is prepared in order to claim Precept

 

Some of the achievements of the Parish Council in the last two years are:

  •   Ongoing campaign for improved safety at Maesbury Road  Junction (A483)
  •   Traffic Calming campaign for safer speeds in villages
  •   Opposing proposed school closures - particularly Maesbury
  •    Extended Trefarclawdd Cemetery ( formerly Trefonen Cemetery in Coedygo Rd)
  •   Consultation evening in Trefonen with Enterprise re: new pipe laying by Severn Trent
  •   Adopting Maesbury and Aston, Rhydycroesau and Trefonen,Treflach and Nantmawr Village    Design    Statements
  •   Councillors attended  training events to ensure compliance with latest legislation
  •    Clerk undertaking Quality qualification in order that the Council will achieve Quality Status and be   fully recognised as a 'Quality Council'.
  •       Attended events in the preparation for a unitary council
  •    Dissolution from the Burial Joint Committee saving Precept Money.
  •       Held annual Remembrance Day services
  •       Ongoing work to produce a Parish website
  •        Clerk's clippings in Maesbury and Trefonen village magazines
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