Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill Community Website
Welcome Everyone
Welcome to the Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill Community Website. We hope you will find it better, brighter and more useful than our previous one. It is packed with new and up to date information about the Parish Council and the area we serve. The Parish Council has worked in partnership with Durham County Council and Coxhoe Community Partnership to produce this comprehensive, accessible and user friendly site. We invite you to have a look around it. The site has had hits from countries from Australia to Jamaica. We would like to say a very big thank you to visitors to our site from all over the world. November 2011 was the sites best month yet with 773 site visits and 2,845 page views from 18 countries.
New Police Telephone Number for non emergency calls.
There is now a new Police telephone number to help you report crime locally. 101 is the number to call when you want to contact your local police - when it’s less urgent than a 999 call. 101 is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Find out more by following this link
Changes to waste collections service
The County Council will commence rolling out a more efficient waste collection service from April this year. This means that recycling will be collected one week and recycling collected the next. The normal day of the visit may also change.
All households in the County will receive a new grey wheeled bin with a blue lid for recycling. You will need to use this for your reycling items rather than the green bag you have now
. The following can be placed in the new grey bin:
- mixed paper and card;
- mixed plastic;
- food tins and drink cans;
- cartons; and
- aerosols
Bottles and jars will still be collected in the green plastic box that you currently use. You will need to leave the new grey bin out with the green box one week and the existing waste bin the next week.
In Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill the new recycling bin will be delivered between April and May. You will receive details of the collection day with the delivery of your bin. The new service will then start in mid June although you can use your recycling bin as soon as you get it. If you have a green bag you can either re-use this in or around your home or if you cannot find a new use for it just put it in your new erecycling bin.
Visit www.durham.gov.uk/bins to find out more or call 03000 261000
Coxhoe Calendars now available
Coxhoe History Group have commissioned some Coxhoe Calendars. They are availabe from Barbara Hepplewhite for only £5 including delivery. Contact Barbara on 0191 3771366 if you would like a copy.
New Healthy Living Page
We have launched a new healthy living page as part of our 'one stop shop' approach to our community website. Access it here.
New Leisure Centre Page
We have a new page on things happening at the Leisure Centre. This can be found on our Local Business and Traders pages. It provides details of the centre and its activities. Check it out by following this link
Thank you to everyone who entered the naming competition. The winning name will be announced in the New Year.
Website Visitors Survey
Please help us improve our website. Please complete our on-line survey. There are only 10 questions which take less than 5 minutes to complete. You can access the survey from the link below:
Coxhoe Website Visitors Survey November 2011
New page on relationship help and advice from Relate
Having problems in your personal relationships. There is help and advice on hand from Relate. Find out more from our new Relate web page by clicking here
New Limestone LinX page
We have established and a new page on the website to celebrate and inTo share the Household Survey Results and to get volunteeers working on the new action plans a meeting has been arranged for Wednesday 16th November 2011. It will be held in Coxhoe Village Hall and will start at 7pm. Please come along to help us.form you of the ongoing development of brilliant walks and cycle routes around Coxhoe, Quarrington Hill and adjoining villages. These have been developed in partnership with a range of nearby communities, Durham County Council and others and are known as the Limestone LinX. Find out more by following this link
Parish Plan Household Survey results now available
The Parish Council is now embarking on a further round of community engagement events to secure volunteers to work on developing action plans to respond to the results of our previous engagement activity, including the household survey. Events will be held in Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill during November to get this part of the planning process underway. Action Plans will be developed and incorporated into a Draft Parish Plan for consultation. Further community engagement will be undertaken to see views on the community developed plans before the Parish Council formally adopts a final version.
The Parish Council has produced headline survey results documents which it intends to deliver to all households in December. You can access these documents in advance from the links below as well as accessing the more detailed documents we have received from Durham Rural Community Council. you can access these from this link.
To share the results and to engage volunteers in developing the action plans events have taken place in both Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill.
County Council consulting on the Future of Community Buildings
Durham County Council is currently consulting communities on the future of community buildings in their ownership. Some of these such as Browns Close and Landsdowne House are in this Parish area. You can access the consultation information by clicking on this Durham County Council Community Buildings Review link.
Opening times for Parish Council Offices
Please note that we have changed our opening times for the general public. In future we will not open on a Tuesday and Thursday morning. Instead we will be open for visiting members of the public on Wednesday between 9.30am and 12.30 pm and 1.30pm and 3.30pm. The office will be open between 6.00pm and 6.30pm on the evenings of Parish Meetings. Outside these hours the offices can be open by prior appointment. Please also note that all Monthly Parish Council Meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of the month for the forseeable future.
New Equality Act 2010
The Equality Act comes into force on 6th April 2011. Have you a view about how we meet our duties and responsibilities from an equality and diversity point of view. The Parish Council wants to hear from anyone in its community, and particularly from anyone who is a person who shares a relevant protected charactersitic due to age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Find out more here.
Check out the local crime website
If you are interested in knowing about crime rates in your area then the Police have developed a nwebsite to let you access this information quickly. The site provides information about the type of crime as well as local police contact information. Why not check out the site by clicking on the following link and typing in your postcode or address?
Local crime information
Next Parish Council Meeting
The next Parish Council Meeting will take place on Wednesday Ist February 2012. As usual it will be held in Landsdowne House, 64, Lansdowne Road, Coxhoe and will commence at 7.00pm. Members of the public are invited to attend and at the beginning of the meeting there is the opportunity for you to have your say. Please come along. You can access the agendas and minutes of previous meetings as soon as they are publicly available.
The Parish Council would particularly like to encourage people to attend our meetings who might feel missed out because of age, disability, gender re-assignment, pregnancy and maternity, race religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
What the Parish Council is about
Coxhoe Parish Council is an ambitious and aspirational council. You c
an find out what makes us tick here. We have been implementing our Parish Plan since 2004 and we have now started work on 'Parish Plan 2' . You can find out all about our work from this link
If you have any queries comments or suggestions about the site please do not hesitate to contact us on ianforster176@btinternet.com
Young People's Page
We have included a page for young people and we would like to build upon what we have done. If you have any ideas or have any activities for young people to promote please let us know. We would particularly like to hear from young people. Check out our young people's page here . We are even on facebook. See the link below.
We are on facebook and twitter. Check out our facebook page at Coxhoe Facebook page Check out our group pages at Coxhoe on facebook. Follow us on Twitter at CoxhoePCouncil
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