Help with Winter Fuel Costs
Do you need help with winter fuel costs?
Electoral Canvassers
Electoral Canvassers
It i
s that time of year again when canvassers will be calling on all properties within the council area who are required to, but have not yet returned, a Canvass Form with regard to Electoral Registration. The Canvassers will be trying to make contact with those households who have not supplied information that we have requested under Electoral Registration legislation.
The canvassers will be carrying ID and will be delivering forms and not taking information at the doorstep, unless it is offered to them.
Stop the closure of the mobile library service
Save Devon's Mobile Libraries
Image: Devon County Council
The campaign to save Devon’s mobile libraries from closure by Devon County Council has now reached more than 4000 online signatures and hundreds more paper signatures, with support from a whole host of celebrities and authors including Stephen Fry and Michael Morpurgo.
To sign the petition online https://www.change.org/SaveOurMobileLibrary
This petition calls on Devon County Council to keep the mobile library service running in Devon, especially here where we have many very rural and isolated areas which really benefit from its service.
Please sign and share this petition to help save our mobile libraries before the final decision is made by county councillors in the next few weeks.
The campaign to save the mobile library service has attracted national attention and support from Stephen Fry and Michael Rosen:
Authors join online campaign to save ‘vital’ Devon mobile library services
If you would rather sign the petition in person then please visit the Brentor Village Hall on Saturday 2 September during the Summer Fete and Produce Show between 9:30 and 3:00
Mary Tavy Ward – Election Results
Congratulations to Cllr Robert Oxborough on his election to represent Mary Tavy ward on WDBC.
You can read the official Declaration of Result below
Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy
A public consultation is being held on the draft Devon Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy. This consultation aims to find out your views on the draft strategy and its recommendations.
Click here for more information and to take part: devon.cc/ev-strategy-consultation
Grant applications
The Parish Council are taking applications for grants from village organisations. Click here for more information
Village Cemetery
The Parish Council are inviting tenders for the contract to maintain the village cemetery. More information can be found here.
Brentor Car Park charging proposal
A site meeting about the proposed introduction of charges at Brentor Church car park was held on Monday 18th July. It was attended by Andrew Watson (Estates Officer) and Richard Drysdale (Communities Officer) of Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA), Helen Harris, Rob Harris and Christopher Pancheri from Brentor PCC, Gary Hunt (Chairman of Brentor Parish Council (BCC), Terry Pearce of WDBC and BCC, and two other councillors from Brentor Parish Council, Caroline Mott , and Philip Sanders representing Devon County Council (DCC) and DNPA. Carol and Colin Sergant represented the bell ringers. (more…)
The Growing Communities fund
The Growing Communities Fund has just been launched by Devon County Council and is intended to support proactive, effective, measurable, and sustainable actions to enable individuals and communities to build self-reliance and community resilience, reduce food and fuel inequalities and improve mental health and wellbeing and respond to the climate emergency.
A wide range of groups and organisations can apply including ‘host’ organisations. The Growing Communities Fund will provide grant awards of between £500-£1000 and £1000-£3,000 (though we will enter discussions with applicants who have exemplary or innovative projects). The grants of between £1,000 and £3,000 will be reimbursed upon receipt of an end of project report outlining what the funds paid for and the impact and outcomes. (more…)
Cost of Living payments
Millions of people on means-tested benefits are receiving the first of two cost of living instalments totalling £650 from 14 July 2022, as part of a £37 billion government package to help families with cost of living pressures.
The first £326 instalment for qualifying low-income households in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by their usual payment method continue to the end of the month. For those eligible, the rest will follow in a second instalment in the autumn. (more…)
Free, energy efficiency home improvements
Lower-income households invited to apply for free energy efficiency home improvements.
If you have a household income of less than £30,000 a year, and live in Devon or Torbay, you may be eligible for free energy efficiency improvements to your home worth thousands of pounds.
From this week you can check your eligibility and apply through the Cosy Devon website. (more…)
USO Broadband survey
Full Fibre to the Property Broadband has now arrived in Brentor village. Unfortunately only a relatively small proportion of properties in Brentor are able to make use of this facility, the majority still need alternative methods with poor speed and/or reliability/cost issues.
In order to encourage OpenReach to complete coverage of the whole of Brentor Parish, over the coming weeks, one of your Parish Councillors will be visiting you with a short list of questions about the availability of broadband in your home and what your broadband requirements may be. The information you provide will be collated and used to try to improve the broadband service to all homes in our Parish. OpenReach have already installed a dedicated fibre from Tavistock to Brentor – we are now working to get OpenReach and/or Airband to extend coverage to the whole of Brentor.
Ongoing community issues
This website provides a source of information about issues which are of ongoing concern in our village. They first appear on the home page, but require additional space to do them justice and to provide a timeline of how important matters are progressing.
Click here for information about Broadband provision for Brentor
Click here for information about Local Needs Housing provision in Brentor
Click here for information about flooding and surface water management in Brentor
