Please come along on Monday 14^th November at 7pm for this month’s Parish Meeting – and it is to be held at Canada Hill Primary School in Rowan Class Room (the same one used for Polling day).

If we have a good turnout then hopefully holding regular meetings at the school can be arranged.

What happens at the meetings – well some things are pretty mundane but essential.  One Cllr has arranged for electricity on the green to be installed.  Planning Applications have to be discussed.  We have also started the mammoth task of updating the Luxton Road/Dawes Close Play Area, that we really want the residents to be a part of and chose what they would like to see on this site.

All the Cllrs are volunteers, many work, some are retired, some have young children or a pretty cool cattery!  But really they just want to make the best of their community.  We do have some vacancies for the Parish Council so if you are interested and can come to one meeting a month, with a bit of work in between (how much depends on you), then you could be perfect for the role.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday!

A big thank you to everyone who has offered to donate material for Saturday’s bonfire.

As anyone who has recently passed the site will be aware, the bonfire is already substantial and the organisers are concerned that if it gets any bigger, it may become, at best uncomfortably hot for spectators and, at worst, dangerous.

In the circumstances we are unable to accept any more fuel for the fire.

Ogwell’s Neighbourhood Plan is our opportunity to have a say in what happens in our community between now and 2033.

Local volunteers have spent the last three years talking to the people of Ogwell and have prepared a draft document to reflect the views of the community. Ultimately the hope and expectation is that the Plan will be accepted as a document that has to be consulted by all organisations with power to make decisions affecting us living in this parish. Before this can happen there are two more steps to take:

The draft Plan firstly has to be approved by Teignbridge District Council. This is because it has to contain certain statutory information and it cannot conflict with Teignbridge’s own Local Plan.

1. The draft Plan firstly has to be approved by Teignbridge District Council. This is because it has to contain certain statutory information and it cannot conflict with Teignbridge’s own Local Plan.
2. It then has to be approved by a majority of Ogwell parishioners voting in a local referendum.

A copy of the draft (pre-submission) Plan can be viewed on this website by clicking on the “Ogwell Parish Plan” tab, where you can also see many of the documents produced during the extensive consultation and research that preceded it.

Many of you will already have made valuable contributions to this consultation process and there is now another opportunity between now and 3rd October to comment on this document which, if approved by TDC, will be the subject of the referendum vote that will be held probably early in 2017.

 This is our Plan and your continuing involvement in shaping it is essential.