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Residents asked to name important local issues

Residents living in the parishes of Oswestry Rural, Kinnerley, Knockin, Llanyblodwel, Melverley, and Llanymynech and Pant are being asked to name the local issues that are of most interest or concern to them.

A survey is being carried out by the area's Local Joint Committee (LJC) to help ensure that the subjects covered at its meetings in the next year are those that people feel are most important.

The St Oswald and Llanymynech LJC meets four times every year and gives local people the chance to find out more, and have their say, about local issues.

Councillor Arthur Walpole, Chairman of the St Oswald and Llanymynech Local Joint Committee, said: "We are currently planning our meetings for the next year, and we want to be sure that we discuss things that matter to local people. In the past we have discussed a wide range of issues that people told us were important to them, and we want to do the same again this year to ensure that our meetings remain relevant and interesting."

The survey - which can be found on the Shropshire Council website at www.shropshire.gov.uk/stoswaldsurvey - is asking people what they like most, and least, about living in their area; what they think are the most important issues in the area at the moment; and what they think could or should be done to improve the area.

They are also being asked what would make them more likely to attend a meeting of the LJC in future

People are asked to complete and submit the survey by Friday 16 July.

Responses will be considered at the next meeting of the St Oswald and Llanymynech Local Joint Committee on Tuesday 20 July at Melverley Village Hall. The meeting starts at 7pm and all local people are invited to attend.

Items discussed by the LJC in the past year at the suggestion of local people have included highways and road safety, affordable local housing, local health services, dog fouling, local tourism, waste and recycling, footpaths and funding for older children.

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For more information contact Gareth Proffitt, Communications Officer. Tel (01743) 252828