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Financial audit

Click here to view the notice of financial audit.

New Councillor

At the February meeting the Parish Council co-opted a new Parish Councillor Stephen Sherbourne from Park View. Stephen will replace Mal Gillan who stood down from the council recently.

Solar-powered Crowmarsh!

Crowmarsh Parish Council has taken a small step towards sustainability with the installation of solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of the Recreation Ground sports Pavilion. The 22 panels generate electricity (up to 3,850 Watts) from sunlight. This will reduce the annual electricity bill at the Pavilion. In addition, the Government has sponsored a scheme whereby 41.3p is paid for every kWh generated, with an extra 3p given for every unit (kWh) exported to the national grid. So as long as the sun keeps shining our installation should pay for itself within 9 years.

Three bids were received and the Parish Council decided the PHOTON Company offered the best value. The Sharp solar panels used are manufactured in the UK. In our case, as the Pavilion is not a dwelling, full planning permission had to be obtained. Everything finally came to fruition in December, just before the snow made its presence felt. Users of the Pavilion can now view a monitor which shows the current and total electricity generation from the sun in real time. We look forward to publishing the first year's figures in the Crowmarsh News at the end of 2011.

Several householders locally have installed similar (smaller) panels and are also benefitting from lower bills and feed-in payments.

For more details of the installation please talk to Andrew Johnson.

Publication Scheme

To see what information is available from Crowmarsh Parish Council under the publication scheme, please click here.

Contact

Parish Clerk: Sue Rance. Tel 01491 839170. Email susanrance@btinternet.com