Stapleford Parish Council

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING NOTICES

Next Parish Council Meeting No. 2 Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 7.00pm in Stapleford Village Hall:

AGENDA for meeting No. 2 2025/2026 See the Draft Agenda below for details - also available on the Village Hall Notice Board.

The Following public notices published on the Village Hall Notice Board in accordance with Annual Governance and Accountability Return 2024/2025

Notice of period of exercise of Public Rights on display till 15 July 2025

Items 1 - 6 above are available to view - please contact Parish Clerk - Details below.

All villagers are welcome to attend all meetings of the Parish Council Meeting.

Stapleford Parish Councillors

1 Keith William JACKSON - Councillor

2 Robert James Charles RHIND-TUTT - Vice Chairman

3 Dom SIMMONS - Chairman

4 Susan Jane WALDRON - Councillor

5 Position Vacant

STAPLEFORD PARISH COUNCIL UPDATE - VACANCY IS UNFILLED AT 4 JULY 2025 There is a vacancy for Co-option to the Parish Council, please see the notice on the village notice board and as copied below the Village Hall Notice. Further information, please contact the Parish Clerk, contact details below.

Should you be interested in serving your village and would like to know more.

Please contact the Parish Clerk – CONTACT DETAILS BELOW;

Carole Slater

The Old Forge

Over Street

Stapleford

Salisbury

SP3 4LR

Mob 07831 836 521

Email: staplefordpcclerk@gmail.com

4 JULY 2025.

VILLAGE MATTERS: PROPOSED END DATE FOR CLOSURE 18 jULY 2025

ROADWORKS; FROM 12 May 2025 to 18 July 2025 between the hours of 08.00 to 17.00 - all depending on weather conditions etc., at B3083 (Part) Berwick St James additional information available from Wiltshire Council 0300 456 0105 - Road Closure Order and alternative route published on the Village Hall Notice Board. Access to residents and business will be retained where possible. (Information extracted from Wiltshire Highways Assets Commissioning)

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DRAFT AGENDA STAPLEFORD PARISH COUNCIL FOR MEETING No. 2 - YEAR - 2025-2026: TUESDAY 8 JULY 2025 AT 7.00PM AT STAPLEFORD VILLAGE HALL, STAPLEFORD.

All Council members are expected to attend.

Village Residents of Stapleford are invited to attend.

Chairman’s Welcome

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12. APOLOGIES - To be received.

13. MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL MEETING No. 1 HELD ON 13 MAY 2025 – To be accepted and agreed.

14. CLERKS REPORT ON MATTERS ARISING FROM PARISH COUNCIL MEETING NO. 1.

A) Community Orchard proposal/application via Resident Dr Richard Wells – All actions complete Grant payment received from Wiltshire Council. Closing update and future plans.

B) 20250325 PKF Littlejohn.co.uk; WI0216 Stapleford Parish Council – 2024/25 AGAR completed and forwarded to PKF – duly acknowledged. Publication of AGAR and Notices completed.

15. COUNCILLORS’ DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST AND ACCEPTANCE OF OFFICE.

Declarations of Interest and Acceptance of Office, to be declared.

Brought Forward Councillor Sue Waldron to complete Declaration of Interest and Acceptance of Office Action to be taken

16. CORRESPONDENCE: (Information circulated to Councillors, for information and interest, unless stated).

A] General Correspondence

A. 20250522 NALC - Event Newsletter – upcoming events and Topics including; 2025 Financial Regulations and emergency planning.

B. 20250522/20250606/20250612/20250626 NALC - Chief executive's bulletin - Circulated.

C. 20250616 NALC all-new digital edition of Local Councils Explained information circulated.

D. 20250522 WALC – our Councillor Essentials course on June 2nd, 2025 – Councillors to be aware.

E. 20250520 WALC – May and June Newsletter.

F. 20250521 Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office - tackling knife crime as week of intensified operational activity commences.

G. 20250624 RBL – advertisement - The end of the Second World War 80th Anniversary - Information.

H. 20250606 Police: Amesbury Rural Council Report - May 2025 – presentation on scammers and their activities.

I. 20250523 Town and Parish Clerk / Council meeting - 29th May 2025, 9.30am

J. 20250530 Town and Parish Clerk / Council meeting - 29th June 2025, 9.30am

K. 20250616 Town and Parish Clerk – Update – 16 June 2025 – Climate change

L. 20250611 Town and Parish Clerks - Thank you & Reminder: Flood Warden Lunch & Learn Thurs 19 June: MS Teams Meeting Link,

M. 20250626 Town and Parish Clerks- Flood Warden Lunch and Learn - Property Flood Resilience - information and links – 17 July 2025

N. 20250620 Clear Insurance - Clear Councils newsletter .

O. 20250621 Advertising – Easy Website – Important AGAR update 2025 Practitioners Guide – General email addresses for all Parish Council by FY 2026 change to .gov.uk – discussion

P. 20250622 Wiltshire Police - Road Safety Conference - cancellation message for 4 July 2025.

B) Briefing Notes:

1. 20250618 - Briefing Note 25-04 Wiltshire's Housing Land Supply Statement – for information.

2. 20250624 - Briefing Note 25-05 Wiltshire Community Air Network -Sensors Project – public invited to hire monitors.

C) Wiltshire Council:

A. 20250522/20250620 Update - Blanket Order – Stapleford works complete.

B. 20250527 Flood Resilience WC - SSEN Grant funding has been launched, closing date 25th June 20250616 - Visit Wiltshire Partner Newsletter – June 2025.

C. 20250611 Parish online June 2025

D. 20250616 Local Homes for Local People – an offer for Town and Parish Councils

E. 20250617 Stonehenge Area Board Supplement 1 to the agenda for Stonehenge Area Board, Tuesday 17 June 2025, 6.30pm

F. 20250630 Minutes for Stonehenge Area Board, Tuesday 17 June 2025

17. FINANCIAL UPDATE from – 14 May – 8 July 2025 - to be confirmed.

a. Cleared Bank Balance: at 31 May 2025 - to be confirmed

b. Cleared Bank Balance at 1 June 2025- to be confirmed

c. Authorisation's raised post 13 May 2025 – to be confirmed.

d. Cash Book Statement - to be confirmed.

e. Bank signatories for 2025-2026 - Update

f. Auditing Solutions: Audit completed – it was also agreed to authorise payment of the Auditors account in the sum of £324.00. Account settled 26 May 2025.

g. Financial Regulations updated at 2025 -amendments to the Regulations to be completed – for agreement at the July Meeting. Update.

h. 2024-2025 Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) 2024/2025 accepted and agreed by Council, being signed by the Chairman and the Responsible Officer (P/Clerk) – submitted to the external auditor - see Srl 14/b above.

i. 2024-2025 VAT reclaim form submitted 01 June 2025 Refund requested £737.37 - update

18 REVIEW OF GOVERNANCE AND FINANCIAL DOCUMENTATION FOR 2025 – to be completed and accepted by Council members – Parish documentation as reviewed were accepted at the AGM – include: Standing orders, financial regulations, assets register, data protection. Additional policies for considered: complaints procedure, freedom of information, and press/ media. Action by Parish Council

19 PLANNING APPLICATION/S - RECEIVED/APPROVED and Planning meeting updates. (Circulated to council members as appropriate) .

A) Application Ref: PL/2025/03935 - Householder Application - Address: 1 The Paddock, Over Street, Stapleford, Salisbury, SP3 4LP Proposal: Removal of canopy porch over front door and erection of a brick-based wall with oak framed porch and tiled roof. Respond By: 30 May 2025 – Determined and accepted by Planning with conditions

20 TO RECEIVE REPORTS: STONEHENGE AREA BOARD REPORT AND/OR WILTSHIRE COUNCILLOR’S REPORT

21 PARISH STEWARD SCHEME, AND VILLAGE MATTERS AND MAINTENANCE, etc

a. 202504523 Wessex Water visit to Council meeting agreed on the 13th May brought forward – details to be confirmed.

b. 20250522 National Highways Grish Lohani Highways Engineer Covering the Area Boards of Stonehenge & Tidworth - Re: Defective road gullies, B3083 – see Mr T Bale email dated 21 May 2025 – circulated to Council – consider the opportunity to arrange a visit from National Highways Engineer Grish Lohani – for consideration at the July meeting.

c. 20250514/20240528/20250603 Final call - Wessex Water, Incident Control Room Face to Face Drop-In Visits - 5 June Bridgewater and Blandford Offices/ Reminder circulated.

d. 20250505 Road Carriageway Works - B3083 - A36 North To Over Street (Stapleford) – update commencing 12 May 2025 – works complete.

e. Foot Path from the B3083 to the Village Hall – update.

f. Wessex Internet Infrastructure Project –Update - situation to be monitored, - consider. to include Daffodil Bulbs restoration .

g. Resident’s concern re gutter clearing - Update response outstanding from WC Officer and Cllr Dom to comment. it was agreed the situation be monitored – consideration.

h. 20250611 CPRE Wiltshire – for June 2025 – Newsletter

i. 20250623 CPRE Best Kept Village Competition Judges Report – successful 1st Round – next inspection July 2025

j. 20250430 Wessex Water – public meeting for Shrewton/River Wylye Discharge – See Srl 21/a above. Brought forward see Srl 19/k below.

k. 20250525 Wiltshire Fisheries Association – Shrewton Sewage Treatment Works – Report b Wessex Water – forwarded to Council members/Mr Tim Bale and Mrs Butler for information and consideration. Update.

l. Defibrillator/s :

m. A] Defibrillator currently installed at the Riverside Garage – this location is no longer suitable for quick access – further enquiries to be made re location preferably to the Pelican bus -Stop on the A36.

Chairman to Update

B] Purchase of additional defibrillators at Village Hall and the Berwick Road Bus Stop – accepted – further enquiries to be made - Cllr Jackson to update

n. Request from Villager for the removal of a sign on the A36 Triangle, to avoid continued use.

m. 20250701 Village Hall agendas for VH AGM and meeting

O. Proposal by the Chairman – Council to consider an annual plan for the Council – Chairman to action

p. Proposal by Councillor Sue Waldron for consideration – Permission to use the Post Office Car Parking area by the village Hall visitors.

22. TOWN AND PARISH COUNCIL ELECTIONS AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS 2025

Co-Option of Councillor - advertised – meeting update.

23 VILLAGE HALL MATTERS

a. 20250506 VH Committee meeting Minutes highlighting VH Business activities – circulated.

b. Village Hall – condition and remedial works. Outcomes to be updated Cllr Jackson

24 ANY OTHER BUSINESS correspondence/information received after the publication of the Agenda for the Meeting.

Date of next meeting Tuesday 9 September 2025 Meeting No. 3 – Village Hall Stapleford ay 7.00pm

Carole Slater

Parish Clerk for Stapleford Parish Council

Mob 07831 836 521

Website address: www.staplefordwiltshire.org.uk

Email: staplefordpcclerk@gmail.com

Date 4 July 2025

A Short History of Stapleford

Click the arrow on the right hand side for more information

The village of Stapleford lies on a B road joining two major trunk roads — the A36 and the A303 positioned southwards between Stonehenge and the Iron Age Fort of Yarnbury. An ancient track way leads from the village directly to each. Stapleford is the Saxon name for a ford marked by a post or staple. It became the name for the strategic point where the road from Old Sarum to Bath crosses the River Till. The village, which was included in Domesday book and is crossed North-South by the river Till, has four parts, each built on a narrow strip of gravel. On the Till's East bank stand Church Street (named after its chief building) and Uppington Hamlet (now only two houses); on the West bank, Over Street and Serrington. In the eighteenth century the largest settlements were Church Street and Over Street, now perhaps they are Church Street and Serrington. West of the Till a small castle was built probably in the twelfth century by the Normans to guard the important crossing of the Till. It can still be seen as a tree-covered mound. Its deep ditch survives and also the site of the camp, now mostly covered by the buildings of Manor Farm. There were fishponds on the low ground east of the castle. Between the castle and the farm was a gate called the Slay Gate which was, perhaps, the entrance to the castle precincts. Tradition has it the lord of the manor was hanged there for murder of a priest in 1280. The lands of the village always appear to have been fertile for sheep and communal husbandry. In 1086 there were two water mills, the last not demolished until the mid-nineteenth century. It stood west of Serrington on the River Wylye.

The census of 1851 gave a good picture of village life in Victorian times, but is also an indication of what life would have been like for centuries before. In 1851 the village had 70 houses and a crossing of the Till. It can still be seen as a tree-covered mound. and a population of 300 (now about 115 and 250). Half the men were labourers. Apart from a handful of women —schoolmistress, milliner, victualler—most were housewives or employed in domestic activity in cottages and farms. There were ten tenanted farms working about 1,200 acres. The main road encouraged a few crafts: clockmaker, draper, carpenter, and blacksmith. The land had some good water meadows and farms, described by William Cobbett in 1826 as 'singularly fine'. They supported dairy cows and horses, but sheep were the money spinners. Life must have been austere. Families were large, seven or eight crowded into a cottage, the staple diet bread and cheese, meat a luxury for the breadwinner. Children then formed about 20% of the population (now perhaps half that). Many, when old enough, acted as bird scarers or stone pickers and helped with harvests.

The church is basically Norman with a wonderful arcade of ornamented arches resting on massive drum columns. It was much added to in the Middle Ages, the tower erected much later in the seventeenth century. The Victorians restored it heavily, but it still retains much of its beauty. It is surrounded by a large graveyard which allows good views of the Till valley.

From Norman times Stapleford Manor and its land were held by a succession of people including the Seymour’s, Dukes of Somerset The Seymour crest is displayed in the South window of the church. The church did not remain with the Seymours and for various reasons, in the sixteenth century the Dean and Canons of Windsor became patrons of the church and continue to be so.

This short History of Stapleford is extracted from the Village Design Statement dated May 2009 Version No.1 The Design Statement has been reviewed recently. Additional information please contact the Parish Clerk at the details shown below.

Carole Slater, Stapleford P/Clerk, Mob 07831 836 521

June 2023.