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Newsletter – Summer 2019 – Edition 11 Annual Report 2018/19 Photo: Courtesy Bingley Camera Club See inside for: • Information on how your money has been spent • The Town Council’s work • Building civic pride • Speaking up for our Photo: Deborah Clarke Bingley Camera Club communities FREE Please take a copy Serving the residents of Bingley, Cottingley, Crossflatts, Eldwick,www.bingleytowncouncil.gov.uk Gilstead & Micklethwaite 1 Play in the Chair’s welcome Park days Dear resident, Bingley Town Welcome to this Annual Report 2019 – Council has the first newsletter since the new team of provided councillors was elected in May this year. several Play in the Park This report explains what the Town Council is work- events during ing on and how the precept has been spent. Thank you to the summer those residents who’ve taken time to provide feedback on holidays. The the work of the Town Council since it started three years events were ago. I am very grateful for the many positive comments free to about the progress made to re-build civic pride, improve participants with a range of outdoor games our town, and speak up for our community. on offer along with toilet Please take part in the consultations being held in facilities at each event. At the September. More details are below. Your views are vital Myrtle Park Play day a mobile in helping the Town Council set its priorities until 2023, Changing Places toilet facility when all councillor seats are next up for election. In the was also available. The play days were extremely popular meantime, the hard work continues. with local families, with many Best wishes, Ros Dawson enjoying a picnic and meeting up with friends. Community consultations – please get involved Bingley Town Council is running a series of There is also a paper questionnaire, available community consultations for residents to have from the Town Clerk and at the following events: their say on important issues for Bingley. The town council would like your views on: • Sat 07/09/19 9am to 1pm – Bingley Market and Bingley Arts Centre • The town council’s priorities for 2020-2023 • The draft Neighbourhood Plan* • Mon 09/09/19 2pm to 4pm – Eldwick • How to spend proceeds from the Community Church (in the café area) Infrastructure Levy (CIL)** • Thu 12/09/19 5.30pm to 7.30pm – COPWA (Crossflatts Old People’s Key priorities for the town council are: Welfare Association) • Good governance • Mon 16/09/19 1.30pm to 3.30pm – Bingley • Management of the Beck Lane and Methodist Church Stanley Street allotments • Tue 17/09/19 7pm to 9pm – St Wilfrid’s, • A new Bingley Hub – re-providing public Gilstead toilets and a new central office for the • Fri 20/09/19 10am to 12pm – Cottingley Town Council by refurbishing the closed Community Centre toilet block in Jubilee gardens • Wed 25/09/19 10am to 3.30pm – Bingley • A Neighbourhood Plan Business Expo, Bingley Arts The consultations will run from Saturday Centre 7 September to Wednesday 25 September. Town councillors and members of the You can make your views known via an Neighbourhood Plan Working Group will be at online questionnaire, available at the events to help with any questions you may www.bingleytowncouncil.gov.uk have. Please come along and have your say. * Neighbourhood Plan: This is a document that creates policies that will influence building and development in the Bingley Town Council area until 2030. It will also entitle Bingley to receive a greater proportion of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) monies. ** CIL: This is a charge paid by developers to Bradford Metropolitan District Council. As Bingley has a Town Council it receives 15% of any CIL paid on development in the parish. When we have a Neighbourhood Plan, Bingley will receive 25% of any CIL. CIL can be used to fund a very broad range of facilities. At present, CIL generated in Bingley amounts to around £16K. 2 Bingley Town Council Annual Report 2018/19 What your money was spent on in 2018 Opening balance Receipts Payments Carried forward £108,348 £174,877 £145,303 £137,922 Receipts £ Grants to Community Groups Precept 140,918 Bingley Camera Club £500 Allotment rental 2,092 Laptop Allotment grant 2,878 Council tax support grant 11,170 Bingley Congs Cricket Club £2,000 Grants and donations 3,630 New path to car park Interest 416 Friends of St Ives £836 VAT 13,773 Trees/shrubs for Betty’s Wood Total 174,877 Riverside Riding for the Disabled £1,500 Expenditure Competitive opportunities for riders Salaries 44,036 Bingley Little Theatre £300 NI 3,721 Marketing for establishing a cinema Pension 920 Bingley Walkers are Welcome £250 Travel and subsistence 337 Room hire for conference Payroll admin 409 Training 1,956 Cottingley Community Association £1,782 Chair allowance 38 Christmas lighting Bank charges 157 Audit 778 Cottingley Community Centre £450 Solicitor fees 1, 650 Two new projectors Subscriptions 2,483 £2,000 Insurance 958 Cottingley Town Hall Restoration of great organ Office space 4,517 Printing, stationery 1,676 Friends of Prince of Wales Park £1,536 Newsletter, publicity 4,500 Access path improvements Website and domain 883 IT support 689 Gilstead Village Society £500 Telephone 259 Lasering and lettering of war memorial Room hire 1,488 Storage 200 Trinity & All Saints Community Kitchen £2,000 Elections 7,507 Chairs for community kitchen Total 79,162 Bingley Chamber of Trade £2,000 Entertainments at Bingley Service delivery Christmas Fayre Emergency support (grit bins) 1,400 Eldwick Church/Eldwick Goldies £500 Allotments 5,387 First year operating costs Neighbourhood plan 3,430 Repairs 300 Parkrun Regeneration and tourism 7,856 Contribution to park run in Bingley £2,000 Green and clean 15,263 Grants 17,887 Refund of unspent grant £267 Christmas and events 7,706 Total 17,887 Total 59,229 For more information on the Community Groups VAT on payments 6,912 and the grants they received please see pages 6-7. www.bingleytowncouncil.gov.uk 3 Climate Crosley Wood At our full council meeting in June Emergency InCommunities shared with us their plans for the site where the three high rise blocks The Council declared a climate currently stand on Crosley Wood Road. emergency in May 2019 and has InCommunities plan to build 93 new now set up a working group that homes on the site. Half of these will be will comprise four councillors and made available for affordable rent (which four non-councillors. Their task is defined nationally as being no more will be to work alongside local than 80% of the market cost + service groups and statutory charges). Another 25% will be available organisations to reduce Bingley’s for shared ownership meaning that the impact on the climate, mitigate tenants will have to take out a mortgage the effects of climate breakdown to pay for half of the property while still on the town and help Bingley paying rent to the housing association. become resilient to changes The other 25% will be sold at market rate caused by the climate for the benefit of the housing association. The Council is pleased breakdown. Links are already to see that, after a difficult period of upheaval for Crosley Wood being made with other local residents and considerable support given by councillors, some councils and groups keen to elements of rented housing will be retained on this site. take action on this issue. Green and Clean The summer 2019 floral displays are again being provided and managed by Carlton Nurseries, this year with added features in Crownest, Eldwick, Gilstead, Poplar House, Priestthorpe and Bingley Town Centre. The Council was pleased with the success of its small-scale wildflower planting on the banking at the junction of Ferncliffe Road and the A650 sliproad. An order is being prepared for including Friends of Prince of Wales Park, Friends winter bedding and bulbs for community groups of St Ives, Action Stations and the Jerr Wood and village societies for their own local planting. Action Group. We are grateful to Eldwick Village Society for their The next Green and Clean Forum will be held contribution towards this year’s displays. on Saturday 28 September, from 10am to 12pm at Bingley Bloomers (from Five Rise Frocks WI) Cardigan House, Ferncliffe Road, Bingley. Anyone have planted up the blue market square planters with an interest in keeping our green spaces tidy and the Main Street ‘Bingley’ planters, and have and well planted or a clean environment in general also been active in the new Incredible Edible is welcome to attend. Along with speakers, there Bingley project. Along with Gilstead Village Society will be the usual round-up and sharing of activity and Friends of Myrtle Park, they have been planting from local groups. vegetables and herbs in public spaces for residents to pick and eat as part of a national project that Community galvanises communities by growing and celebrating local food. Look out for Litter Picks salad leaves, courgettes, The Council’s runner beans and programme of strawberries! See the community litter Keeping Bingley picks continues, and the next dates are: Beautiful Facebook • Saturday 12 October page for other Green • Sunday 10 November (Remembrance Sunday) and Clean activities run • Saturday 7 December by local groups, 4 Bingley Town Council Annual Report 2018/19 Bingley Market – fresh food and local produce. You asked, we delivered. A return of a thriving market to Bingley was the most requested measure identified by residents in 2016. After a trial run in 2018, the Town Council organised markets began in April this year and take place on the first Saturday of every month from 9am to 1pm The market has quickly established itself with regular stalls selling bread, baked goods, cakes, pies, pretzels, gluten free sausage and cheeses.