Action: Broseley and Barrow

Do you live in the Broseley and Barrow area? This is your chance to get involved in decisions affecting your community.

'Action: Broseley and Barrow' is a pilot series of meetings held four times a year that gives people in the Broseley and Barrow area a chance to meet with local councillors, get involved in decisions affecting their community and help decide how the committee spends its budget.

Jean Jones, Shropshire County Councillor for Broseley, said: “Action: Broseley and Barrow is giving local people a real chance to say how they think services and facilities in the area could be improved. The meetings held so far have offered some valuable suggestions about how and where the committee should spend its budget.

“This is a time of great change for local democracy in Shropshire, and we are really keen for people to come along to the meetings and share their concerns and ideas with us."

Action: Broseley and Barrow is one of five local committee pilots that have been meeting in Shropshire for the past year.

It is one of eleven local joint committees that are now meeting regularly across Shropshire.

The next meeting will be held on - Tuesday 30 September. The meeting starts at 7.00pm and all local residents in the area are invited to attend. Watch this space for details of the venue.

Last meeting - 19 June 2008
At the last meeting on 19 June 2008 you were invited to have your say about parking restrictions in the area, the redevelopment of William Brookes school and applications for funding from the new Broseley and Barrow opportunities fund.

Future meetings:

• Thursday 15 January 2009 at 7pm
• Thursday 26 March 2009 at 7pm

Previous meetings:

Action: Broseley and Barrow also held meetings on 24 May 2007, 11 July 2007, 18 October 2007, 17 January 2008* and 1 April 2008

Please follow the link entitled 'Broseley and Barrow local meeting papers' to see the agendas and reports for all the meetings.

January 2008 meeting
* At the meeting on 17 January 2008, 16 local community based organisations were also awarded grants totalling £30,500. These were:

• £3,000 to support the development of a business plan for the provision of multi use community facilities at the Birchmeadow Centre and Victoria Hall, Broseley;
• £500 to Broseley Churches Together to develop a volunteering programme to assist the elderly/ disabled to keep their gardens tidy.

The provision of transport for pupils attending William Brookes School was also scrutinised and requests were made for further discussions on ways to provide more frequent services and low fares so that the new secondary school facilities at Much Wenlock could be available for young people in Broseley and Barrow.