REPTON PARISH COUNCIL

REPTON PARISH COUNCIL

repton-pc.gov.uk

Chairman Steve Hardwick

The meetings are open to the public and information on accessing them can be found on the council website and on the council notice boards.

You can contact Caroline Crowder – Clerk and Responsible Finance Officer at Repton Parish Council, via Mobile: 07341 907137 or email clerk@repton-pc.gov.uk 

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Repton Parish Council – Annual Review 2025

You might not realise it, but the Parish Council has had a very busy year!  I won’t bore you with all the detail but summarise as follows:

  • One of the PC’s biggest ever projects came to fruition in October when the pump track was built.  This was immediately very popular, even before the builder’s fences were removed!  You can find it on Mitre Field – take your children to have a go!  It cost £80k and we are very grateful to Repton School, the Police & Crime Commissioner, Gibson Technology Ltd. and the 60 other commercial and private donors who gave so generously.  The Parish Council saved up over a few years for this.  Particular thanks go to Parish Councillor Stu Mason who worked endlessly on this for over three years.
  • We finally got all the permissions and testing done to acquire two vehicle activated 30mph signs (aka ‘SIDs’) and these were first installed in May.  You might see us rotating these around the sites from time to time.  We should also record our appreciation of the Community Speed Watch teams who are out there come rain or shine successfully encouraging drivers to observe the speed limits.
  • Officer Bob Marley from the Safer Neighbourhood Team also should be thanked for his tireless efforts in so many aspects of our village life, including helping to raise funds for the pump track and Youth Club.  Keep up the great work Bob!
  • We’ve been talking about having a speed limit of 20mph for both Repton and Milton villages for a few years now and we are taking this forward with support from Derbyshire County Councillor Matt Benfield and the Cabinet Member for Potholes, Highways and Transport, Charlotte Hill.  Unfortunately, we have received significant resistance from the DCC officers and will try to use the arguments adopted in many other English counties to get their acceptance.  Our starting position is to have the 20mph limit
  • near schools, residential streets and near shops, pubs and the common areas that people walk to i.e. the whole of each village.  Please do add your names to our 20mph petition which you can find here (https://c.org/gRgb8MK5TX).
  • The Parish Council supports Repton in Bloom, for which we won Silver Gilt this year and St Wystan’s School won a special award for their displays on the High Street.  Many thanks to all who cleaned and tidied their frontages and put out charming flower displays.  We’d like a few more residents to help out in 2026 – please contact Owen Jowett or a Parish Councillor.
  • We’ve been expecting the Dales to be rebuilt every month since January and continue to!  The latest expected date for them to start is January 2026.
  • We were unhappy to see large plans brought forward by big developers for land outside the village settlement boundaries.  The Mount Pleasant project went as far as a formal planning application which we objected to strongly following the public meeting in September.  Our MP, Samantha Niblett, also asked formal questions of government Ministers about the risks of PFA, etc..  We engaged with a few agencies on this and, as a result, at least DCC Highways have repeatedly requested further clarifications.  I thought that the response from the Environment Agency was particularly good!
  • The Flooding group recently commissioned a super report about the scope for natural flood management in the catchment areas of the Repton and Bentley Brooks that can cause flooding on the Square and Brook End.  We are grateful to the landowners for their past and future cooperation in this and look forward to making plans together in 2026.
  • The bread and butter work of the PC in areas such as footpaths, the burial ground, allotments, defibrillators, arboreta, Broomhills Pavilion, Mitre Field, Remembrance Sunday, Christmas, servicing the Public Works Loan for the Repton Village Hall, contributing to the Youth Club continues smoothly (usually!).  We donated nearly £1k to Milton Village Hall to support their purchase of a dishwasher.
  • We thank Martina Williamson and Tony Brown for their service as Parish Councillors and Tony’s continued support for special projects where his knowledge and experience really shows.  We welcomed three new Councillors this year: Andy Hignett, Elaine Newbold and Rachel Wilson who are already demonstrating their service to the community.  (Did you know? – Parish Councillors do not get paid, unlike District and County Councillors.)
  • Thanks too to our long-suffering Clerk, Caroline, without whom we’d be lost.
  • Next year, 2026, will see us kick off an update of the Neighbourhood Development Plan and we would appreciate some help with that.  Please do get in touch with me stevehardwick.rpc@gmail.com

                                            

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