Appleton with Eaton Parish Council properly consists of seven councillors and a clerk.

At present your Parish Councillors are: Liz Gilkes, Sue Hine, Sara Murray, Claire Salmon, Keith Stammers, James Mansfield and Anna Yalci. With effect from October 2010 the Parish Clerk is Mrs Tian Davidson who can be contacted by email on parishclerk.appletonwitheaton@gmail.com

The Parish Council meets on the second Monday of every month except August at 7:15 pm in the Appleton Village Hall committee room. Everyone is welcome to attend and, at the discretion of the chairman, time is usually allotted before the meeting for comments and statements from members of the public.

The Annual Parish Meeting is held around the beginning of May each year and is the council’s opportunity to report to the parish what it has been concerned with over the year and for residents to raise anything of interest to the community. Agendas are displayed on the noticeboard outside the village shop, on the notice board at Eaton and on this website in the week before the meeting. Items for the agenda need to be sent to the Parish Clerk as below a minimum of one full week before the meeting.

The Council raises funds by the annual Precept which forms part of the community charge bill and is collected by the Vale. The amount is set following discussion of a draft budget at the December meeting. The precept for 2009-10 is £12,955; this is £30.15 on a Band D property.

The Council owns the Sportsfield and the Tennis Club and is managing trustee of the Village Hall. The council delegates day to day management of these facilities to dedicated and hard working committees. It owns the land where the war memorial stands, a small piece in Eaton Road, which is thought to be the last remnant of the Great Green, and a small strip at Bablockhythe.

A Rainwater and Flooding Committee has been formed which is actively working with the Vale of White Horse District Council, Oxfordshire County Council and various government bodies to improve drainage within the parish.

The council insures all village facilities. Among other things, it pays for the cutting of hedges at Appleton Landing to maintain access to the river and of Doctor’s Lane. It makes a grant to St Lawrence PCC towards cutting the grass in the churchyard and the Advertiser and to organisations that the community uses like the Citizens Advice Bureau.

The Council is consulted on Planning Applications submitted to the Vale of White Horse District Council. Any comments submitted to the planning authority by the Parish council must be taken into account. It reports concerns raised by the parish to the Vale, Oxfordshire County Council and Oxfordshire Highways.

If there is anything you would like the council to help with, come to a meeting or they can be contacted via the mailbox in the shop or this website. Please click here to send an e-mail to the council via this website.