Barham
Parish Council
Parish Council
Parish Council
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED BECOMING A PARISH COUNCILLOR?
Barham Parish Council has a vacancy for one new member.
Would you like to help make a difference to your village? Do you care about where you live, its facilities, activities, open spaces? Whatever needs tackling or improving locally, becoming a Parish Councillor gives people the opportunity to change things.
YOU can help to make a difference to the quality of life for people in Barham.
If you are, age 18 or over, you are an elector of the parish, during the whole of the last 12 months have occupied as owner or tenant, land or other premises in the parish.
The Parish Council meetings are usually held every other month on a Monday evening at 7pm in Barham Church Hall.
The best way to find out what it’s like to be a Parish Councillor is to talk to someone who’s doing it now, come along to a Parish Council meeting or speak to our Parish Clerk (see contact details below)
APPLICATIONS TO BE SENT TO THE CLERK BY MONDAY 10TH MARCH 2025
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Barham Parish Council would like to acknowledge the generous donation of £2005.00 which
our Suffolk County Councillor has given towards the new vehicle activated speed sign.
This has been installed just by the junction of Church Lane on the Norwich Road, within the
30mph speed limit. John has been very committed to helping reduce speed through the village.
The new sign displays and registers the speed which a vehicle is travelling and if travelling over
30mph will flash SLOW DOWN. A Bluetooth Data Collection Unit has also been purchased,
so that the Parish Council can download and analyse speed data. Results so far have proven that
a lot of traffic travels in excess of 30mph along the Norwich Road, in some cases 60mph has been
recorded. This evidence is extremely useful in our bid to reduce the speed limits within the village.
The Parish Council is in the process of purchasing a second vehicle activated sign, which will
be installed the opposite end of Norwich Road. John Field has again offered funding towards
the second sign along with Mid Suffolk District Councillors John Whitehead and Tim Passmore who
have also offered funding.
Read more on Thank You John Field - Suffolk County Councillor
The site has undergone a substantial amount of work to make it a viable fishery and to save the river bank from eroding away after decades of minimal maintenance, turning the venue into a special place for all wildlife.
