Annual Governance and Accountability Return 2021/22
The audited accounts for 2021/22 can be seen on the Audit page.
Little Melton Parish Council
Notice of conclusion of audit
Annual Governance & Accountability Return for the year ended 31 March 2022
Sections 20(2) and 25 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014
Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)
- The audit of accounts for Little Melton Parish Council for the year
ended 31 March 2022 has been completed and the accounts have been
published. - The Annual Governance & Accountability Return is available for
inspection by any local government elector of the area of Little Melton
Parish Council. - Copies will be provided to any person on payment of £5 for each
copy of the Annual Governance & Accountability Return.
Announcement made by: J Heaser - Chair
Date of announcement: 28/08/2022
Audit Reports
The reports below are stored as PDF files - you can download a PDF reader here.
Bus service autumn 2023
Changes to bus service
Norfolk County Council has provided the following information (14/08/2023). David Bills is our NCC councillor. -
Following a review of bus services under contract to the council, along with forthcoming commercial changes, there is a change to bus services for the village. The change reflects the low usage on the current service 9. The service 9 will continue to operate until October 27th, to allow a transition to the new services.
Community Cafe
You are invited to come to the Village Hall on Wednesdays between 2pm and 4pm, to enjoy a mug of tea or coffee and some biscuits - see below for current dates. There will be books available to take home to read and you are welcome to bring along any books that you are willing to pass on to others. The idea is to provide an opportunity for people to come together for a chat and also to swap books, now that the mobile library only calls at the bottom end of School Lane.
Conclusion of Audit
LITTLE MELTON PARISH COUNCIL
Notice of conclusion of audit
Annual Governance & Accountability Return for the year ended 31 March 2023
Sections 20(2) and 25 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014
The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)
Covid-19
This page will be kept up to date with information received by the Parish Council. Please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. the PC with any updates for the page.
Please call the local team at South Norfolk Council on 01508 533747 if you need help or can offer help.
Dong Wind farm Cable and the Consequences for Little Melton
Dong wish to build a new windfarm in the North Sea and National Grid want it to connect to the substation at Mangreen; this requires Dong to construct an 80m wide cable corridor from near Cromer to the substation. In order to minimise transmission losses the cable should follow the shortest route. The cables will be buried 1.2m underground in 6 trenches about 8m apart (could be 0.7m where there are obstructions). Dong have been planning the route for several years and are proposing the route shown below through Little Melton - the purple area shows a possible alternate route.
Read more: Dong Wind farm Cable and the Consequences for Little Melton
Local Plan - 2021
South Norfolk Council (SNC) is consulting on plans to build at least 1200 houses in villages similar to Little Melton, no upper limit has been set. One preferred site and two shortlisted sites, each considered suitable for 25 houses, have been proposed for Little Melton. There is also a proposal to include a small triangle of land between Ringwood and Limes Close as being within the Settlement Boundary.
Minutes
The next meeting is on 19/09/2022 - click here for the Agenda
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Parish Meeting - 2021
The PC is supposed to hold an Annual Parish Meeting in March but Covid rules don't permit that. Please see the notes below about curent PC activities and please ask any questions on the village Facebook group or contact PC members. We will hold a Zoom session on 15/03/2021 at 19:30 but would like to answer most questions before that as long Zoom meetings are not much fun for anyone - please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like to attend the Zoom.
Parish Meeting - 2022
The Parish Meeting will be held at the Village Hall at 18:00 on Monday 28th March. It is a statutory requirement to hold an annual Parish Meeting in person, however because of the high levels of Covid the PC will offer an alterantive on line discussion at a later date but it won't have the legal status of a Parish Meeting. If you want to come to the meeting then please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so that we can provide appropriate seating. Please also let us know if there are other items that you would like on the agenda for either the in person or online meeting.
Parish Meeting - 2023
Traffic Calming Plan - click to enlargeThe Parish Meeting will be held at the Village Hall at 19:30 on Tuesday 28th March. It is a statutory requirement to hold an annual Parish Meeting at which parishioners can discuss issues relevant to the village. If you want to come to the meeting then please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so that we can provide appropriate seating. We will answer questions on the items below, Please also let us know if there are other items that you would like on the agenda. We are hoping that our local Police Constable will attend - if there are no urgent problems for him to attend to.
Parish Meeting - 2024
Traffic Calming Plan - click to enlargeThe 2024 Parish Meeting will be held at the Village Hall at 19:30 on Monday 11th March. It is a statutory requirement to hold an annual Parish Meeting at which parishioners can discuss issues relevant to the village. If you want to come to the meeting then please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so that we can provide appropriate seating. We will answer questions on the items below, Please also let us know if there are other items that you would like on the agenda.
Planning Policy
Sites offered for development in 2018
In 2014, South Norfolk Council published its Local Plan. The plan suggested that 10 to 20 houses should be built in LM over the next 10 years. The development at Ringwood Close provided 20 houses, 6 of which were 'affordable'. Subsequent developments at Limes Close and All Saints (each of 30 houses) were allowed because there was judged to be a shortfall in the housing supply for the Greater Norwich Development Area. Recently, a planning inspector overruled SNC and gave permission for 30 more houses to be built south of School Lane because the inspector considered that there was still a shortfall in the housing supply. So 110 houses will be built in LM instead of the 20 that were planned.
Road closures during April / May
These road closures scheduled for April / May. Information about all these closures has reached us in a fragmented manner!
Traffic Calming survey results
Thank you to the 134 people that responded to the survey. 95% would like to see some form of trafic calming. A couple of people oppose traffic calming because the road is already obstructed by parking near the school - parents are encouraged to use the Village Inn car park but this arrangement is dependant on the good will of the Village Inn owners.
Tree Warden
Pippa Gunn is the volunteer Tree Warden for Little Melton - her article for the Parish Magazine in April 2018 is below. Pippa will be building on the work started by Sue Bell, who created a map of the most important trees in the village. The map also shows which trees are the subject of a preservation order.
As some of you may know, the position of tree warden for the village has been unoccupied since it left the very capable hands of Sue Bell last summer. My husband, son and I have recently moved to Little Melton and I am excited to be taking on this role. I hope to build on Sue's fantastic work by continuing the survey of the village's trees on the Google MyMap and by using County Council resources to add new native trees to open spaces. The new housing developments with their ecology zones and the expansion of the parish boundary in 2019 will provide particular focus for this. I am no tree expert, but if you have any questions or ideas with regards to any of the above, please don't hesitate to get in touch!
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Village Show
The Village Show is where people exhibit the fruits and vegetables that they have grown and the things that they have created.
Water Supply Improvements
A new pipline is planned to help with increased demand for drinking water - details are at Anglian Water. The map of the proposed route is only indicative at this time.
