Under the terms of the Licensing Act 2003 Brackley Town Council is required to appoint a Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) who has a Licensing Qualification BIIAB Level 2 National Certificate or GOAL Level 2 Certificate for the sale of alcohol during functions and parties held at the Town Hall.

The Town Council has reached the end of a fixed term contract with its current license holder and wishes re- tender the position to all license holder's in Brackley to ascertain who would be interested in taking on this role for a fixed period of three years subject to satisfactory performance from April 2012. The appointed DPS would be the main supplier of bar facilities and would be responsible for all licensable events in the Town Hall and Brackley Park where alcohol is served. Currently all booking forms requiring a license bar are signed by the DPS and therefore it would be advantageous if the appointed person is easily contactable by hirers of the Town Hall.

A copy of the Town Hall premises licence is attached for your information detailing the hours of opening along with the Brackley Park premises licence . There have been eight licensed bars in 2011.

If you wish to be considered for this position please contact myself in writing by 31st January 2012 and further information will be sent to you in due course. References will be taken from Northamptonshire Police prior to appointment.

Sue Crouch

Town Clerk

Brackley Premises Licence
South Northants Premises Licence

Once again there was a wonderful ‘Switch On' event this year on the Piazza and Town Hall which drew a considerable number of residents and visitors to the Town Centre to signal the start of the Christmas festivities 2011. It is understand that the shops and restaurants, cafes and public houses also enjoyed a busy afternoon.

The Town Council would like to invite organizations to discuss the 2012 celebrations with view to them taking over the arrangements and being able to provide further funding to update, renew and possibly create a Festival of Lights to end an historic year for the town.

The neighbouring town's displays are organized by business clubs and local community

not-for-profit organizations which may be able to access funding which is not available for local authorities. The Town Council would therefore like to offer an organisation the exciting opportunity of lighting Brackley in 2012 and beyond which is a festive way for them to enhance their profile within the community and make a visible contribution to the town.

Brackley Town Council has agreed to work closely with the organisation, especially in the early years to guide and support them with our own expertise and offer you:

•  The current stock of lights

•  Assistance with the cost of the electrical contractor for two years

•  The cost of the electricity involved in running the lights

To take advantage of this opportunity, please write to me by 31st January 2012 expressing your interest. A short list of applicants will be drawn up and invited to make a presentation to the Council and I will write to you will all the details as soon as possible after the above date.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Town Clerk

The Town Council wishes to invite professional  arboriculturalist to tender for hedge laying works as in the attached documents.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the Town Clerk.

The closing date for returning the completed tender forms is 9am Monday 16 th January 2012.

Click here for the Tender Form
Click here for the map

The Town Council wishes to update its website and is inviting designers and website companies to produce a website that; uses excellent colour, clear information, is well laid out, very readable, easy to access and navigate by all residents.

If you would like to be considered please click here for the ‘Brief for Web Designers' and respond to us by FRIDAY 6 th JANUARY 2012. The Town Council will then consider all applications and respond with a formal tender documentation to those shortlisted.

With the help of the Christmas Fairy We're switching on the Christmas Lights in Brackley At 5.30 pm On Saturday November 26th !!

But first, find your way to the Piazza at 3.00 pm to hear the winners of Brackley's Got Talent 2011, three boys and a girl who make up the band The Room Next Door, herald lots more entertainment from:

** Tim Jones & his Bucket of Puppets,

** The Brackley Morris Men

** Angela Bright ‘n Funny Stiltwalker

** Isabelle Coates

** The new Brackley Rock Choir

** Refreshment nearby from The Red Lion and Cafes around the Piazza including scrumptious on-the-spot Pig Roast from C J'S Diner!

** More exciting things going on in The Courtyard Mews and Livability will be offering Christmas Tea ‘n Cakes in the Lower Town Hall.

** ** LIGHTING UP BRACKLEY 5.30 PM 26TH NOVEMBER ** **

Click on the image for more details.

Please download these two documents, NRF flood leaflet.pdf and SNC Flooding Info Leaflet Feb 2011 v2.doc, and take action now before there is danger of flooding in the area.

You are responsible for protecting your home or property – not the Environment Agency, your local council or the Emergency Services.

These agencies will of course help where they can, but when flooding is happening over a wide area they cannot respond to every call for assistance.  If your home or property is at risk from flooding then you should take reasonable steps to protect it beforehand.

Reporting flooding

If life is not in danger, incidents of flooding should be reported to:

• the Environment Agency on 0800 80 70 60

Reporting flooding even if properties do not seem to be affected will help build up a picture of where flooding can occur. This will be very helpful to a number of agencies as we work to help reduce the likelihood of floods occurring.

Key points of flooding

• If you are trapped by rising flood waters or your life is in imminent danger dial 999 and ask for the Police
• Flood water is dangerous – as far as possible do not go in it; certainly do not let your children play in it. Flood water will remove manhole and drain covers, vary in depth and speed, and be so dirty you are unlikely to see what's in it. You could fall into a storm drain or become entangled in debris, and the emergency services may not be able to reach you in time; children are particularly vulnerable
• You are responsible for protecting your property from flood water. Northamptonshire County Council does not distribute sandbags or other flood defence products to members of the public or businesses. Your local district/borough council may provide sandbags, but this varies across the county
• To see if your property is at risk of flooding, or to receive free flood warnings please contact Floodline on 0845 988 1188
• We urge you to make sure you have suitable buildings and contents insurance in place as this will significantly help you should your property be flooded – remember, flooding can occur anywhere not just near rivers.

Click here for more information.

South Northamptonshire Council Emergency Contacts

31/05/2011

A programme to reduce the cost of street lighting energy by 50 per cent as part of reducing Northamptonshire County Council's overall streetlighting budget by £2 million began on Monday 9th May.

The initiative, which will see about one in two of county council owned lights switched off, is being carried out as the authority aims to make £73 million in-year savings.

However, turning off roughly half the lights does not mean turning off every other light. A priority list is being developed in conjunction with the police and road safety officers that will enable the council to identify where it is most appropriate for most lights to be maintained, and where they can be switched off.

As well as making cash savings the initiative will also help the county council reduce its energy consumption and carbon footprint.

Corby will be the first area to have some of its lights turned out and it is expected it will take seven working days to turn off the selected lights in the borough.

The second area for switch off is in South Northamptonshire and this should start during the week commencing 16th May. It is expected that the switch-off programme will be completed by the end of June.

To carry out the switch off, it will be necessary to go to individual columns and turn out the lights one by one. Adhesive stickers will then be placed on the columns which have had the lights turned off in order to advise people which lights should be on and which should be off.

If anyone has a complaint regarding this policy please forward to Street Doctor streetdoctor@northamptonshire.gov.uk and their County Councillor.

South Ward: Cllr Ron Sawbridge

East and West Ward Cllr Andrew Grant

TOURISM IN BRACKLEY

The new Tourism Boards which are to be found in Burgess Square in Brackley are available as a download on the Brackley are Towcester parts of the South Northamptonshire Council website:

Brackley - http://www.southnorthants.gov.uk/2638.htm

Towcester - http://www.southnorthants.gov.uk/2637.htm

NCC have announced the new bus services in and around Brackley starting from the 5th September.  Please see the leaflet (click here) for the new 500 service to and from Brackley and includes Pavilions Way/Market Place/Tesco.

For the new County Connect service which will link Brackley/Towcester/Northampton leaflet ( click here).

Please note you must register from 22nd August for the County Connect service before you travel on your first journey buy either calling 0845 456 4474 or register on line:  www.county-connect.co.uk

Please click here to see the NCC press release for more information.

TEX Cars and TEX Coaches

Weston Favell - Northampton - Towcester - Brackley - Bicester

Banbury - Kings Sutton - Brackley

Brackley - Middleton Cheney - Banbury

South Northamptonshire Action Group Against HS2 have formed themselves into a lobby group to gain support for amendments to the proposed High Speed Two route.

http://snag-against-hs2.org/  

Click here for details of the Hardship Scheme

Please see page 3 of a Department of Transport report published 20th December 2010.

The proposed route through Northamptonshire has now been modified (20th December) which takes it away from Brackley please see the attached link for more information.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/pi/highspeedrail/
proposedroute/maps/#HS2APR00DRRW04000

Click here for a Press Release of the 20th December  2010 from Philip Hammond Transport

Brackley Town Council invites Tenders for the Design of Town Talk, Brackley Council's quarterly newsletter to residents.

The Response to Tender form can be downloaded from the Council's website and completed digitally. Guidance Notes are also available.

Click here for the Response to Tender

www.brackley-tc.gov.uk/TownTalkResponsetoTenderForm.docx

Click here for Guidance Notes

Closing date: 3pm on Friday 14 October 2011 .

SUE CROUCH | Town Clerk

1 September 2011

The Town Mayor, Councillor Theo Hayward

invites you to this year's civic service at

St Peter's Church Brackley

on Sunday 18th September at 12 noon.

The service will be a celebration of the civic and community life of our town with prayers, readings and music. There will be drinks served afterwards.

Everyone is welcome.

An Election is to be held of One Town Councillor for Brackley - East .

Click here for further details.

Click here for details of SPLAT Summer Activities

I herewith give notice of a vacancy for a Town Councillor arising from the resignation of Councillor

GEOFFREY WILLIAM NUELLE

Unless ten electors of the Parish give written notice to the Proper Officer of the District Council within 14 days # after the date of this notice requesting an election to fill this vacancy, the Town Council will fill the vacancy by co-option.

Sue Crouch. 5th August 2011

After the recent Elections there remains two Councillor Vacancies on the West Ward of Brackley and the Town Council has been instructed to fill these by Co-opting new Members.

Any person willing to fill this vacancy should apply in writing on or before the 24 th June 2011. The applicant's name must appear on the current electoral register or the applicant should, during the whole of the twelve months preceding the relevant date, reside in or within three miles of the parish or the applicant's only place of work during the whole of the twelve months preceding the relevant date is in the parish. PUBLIC elections cannot be held until the year May 2015 therefore election to Brackley Town Council will be voted for by the present Councillors.

If you would like to represent your community please contact:

Ms Sue Crouch the Town Clerk.

The Brackley Masterplan is now available and sets out how the town will be renewed and regenerated, through limited growth in housing, employment and associated services in a way that is sustainable.

Between June and August 2010, residents and businesses in Brackley had their say on the draft Masterplan and amendments were made to the plan following the consultation. These include more details on the establishment of a Town Fund which will be used to invest in town centre improvements. It will also be used to integrate new developments with the existing town to avoid increasing the existing high level of out commuting.  For more details click here http://www.southnorthants.gov.uk/1948.htm  to see the document in full.

Residents of Churchill Way , Brackley and South Northants Homes (SNH) have been working together since February 2010 to develop the newly formed Churchill Way Residents Association (CWRA).

CWRA have been working to tackle local issues which are relevant to them including speeding, parking and anti-social behaviour. CWRA has also been working with key organisations in the area including the Police, Brackley Town Football Club, Brackley Cricket Club and Brackley Town Council to raise awareness of the common issues around Churchill Way .

Chair of CWRA Russell Barre says "CWRA is there to be a stronger voice for the residents in the local area and the minority are working together to make changes for the better at Churchill Way . Any resident who lives locally to Churchill Way is more than welcome to come along to the meetings!"

Meetings are held the 2 nd Monday of every month at Brackley Fire Station 7pm - 9pm. CWRA and SNH hope to see you there!

You can contact Community Development at South Northants Homes on 01327 357825 for more information.

The Town Council is inviting electrical companies to tender for the installation of Christmas Lights around the town. Applicants are sought from suitably qualified organisations who can demonstrate reliability, insurance and compliance with health and safety legislation.

The Christmas Light specification and forms can be obtained from the Town Clerk at the above address or downloaded from the website. They must be completed and returned by 15th April 2011 at the latest.

Click here for Tender Details.
Click here for Tender Letter.
Click here for Contractor H&S Details.
Click here for notes for tenders.
Cick here for further Tender information.

Town Clerk

Residents are invited to attend the

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

to be held on

MONDAY 14TH MARCH 2011, 7:30pm

in the Upper Hall of the

Town Hall

ALL ARE WELCOME

Click here for the Agenda, to include discussions on the Queen's 2012 Diamond Julilee Celebrations

The retailers of Brackley would like to welcome you to Brackley and invite you to visit the wide range of fantastic independent shops and facilities we have on offer.  As local business people who are passionate about serving our community, we work hard to ensure that visitors to our town are made welcome, receive top quality service and have access to experienced and knowledgeable professionals when they need them.

Visit the new Try Brackley First website.

Travel News

http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/

Preparing to travel

Be cautious about travel - Listen for radio or television reports of travel conditions.

Put safety before punctuality when the bad weather closes in. While it's always a good idea to allow extra time in winter for your journey, drivers must accept the inevitability of being late for work if they are caught up in an unexpected delay.

• Get up at least 10 minutes early to give you time to prepare the car.
• Plan routes to favour major roads which are more likely to have been gritted.
• Don't drive off with a tiny hole cleared in your windscreen.
• Clear all windows of snow and ice using a scraper and de-icer.
• Use a cigarette lighter to warm a key for a frozen lock. Don't breathe on the lock, as the moisture will condense and freeze.

For more information click here    http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/
fire/eadvice/Pages/winter_driving.aspx

The Government has sponsored a national strategy for local major incidents called Go In, Stay In, Tune In. The advice is fairly straightforward:

http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/
fire/eadvice/Pages/GoIn.aspx

The first community crafting roadshow will take place at Brackley Methodist Church Hall on Saturday 4th December from 10am to 4pm.

Come and try your hand at a variety of crafts.

Click here for more information.

The Town Mayor Cllr Chris Blunden would like to invite you all to the Christmas Carol Service to be held on the Piazza on Sunday 19th December at 7pm.  Free soup will be served by the Town Councillors, Father Christmas will appear by demand only and members of the public will have to sing a rousing chorus of 'Santa Claus is coming to Town' to make their requests heard. Please click here for a Carol sheet for you to download to bring to the event.  (There will be copies available on the night but we would appreciate it if residents will return them for next year's event). The High Street and Market Place car park will be closed to all traffic for this event at 6pm until the event is finished, all residents in the High Street have been advised by letter.

HIGH STREET ROAD CLOSURE 19TH DECEMBER

It is necessary to carry out a routine survey of the Clock Tower and the road closure for the above event will be extended to last from 12 noon to 8pm.  The Town Council is sorry for the inconvenience this may cause on that day and will endeavour to keep the disruption to a minimum during this time.

The Town Council is inviting companies to Tender for the Design and/or Print of Town Talk, Brackley Town Council's quarterly newsletter to residents.

Should you wish to tender for this work, please download both the Design and Print Tender and the Response to Tender documents below.  Your Response to Tender, together with the supporting documentation requested, should be retuned by 5pm on Friday 17 December 2010.   Although the Council has asked for a price per issue, if your quote is accepted you will be contracted to produce 4 issues.

Although you may email your Response to Tender form, you are required to mail hard copies of the supporting documentation.  These should be placed in an envelope and be clearly marked TENDER TOWN TALK.   

If you have any queries please contact the Town Clerk.

Design and Print Tender

Response to Design and Print Tender (PDF)

Response to Design and Print Tender (Word)

Scottish Ceilidh in celebration of St Andrews day.  

Tuesday 30th November 8.00pm - 10.30pm

Waynflete Hall M.C.S.

All proceeds to Northamptonshire and Warwickshire Air Ambulance

Click here for more details.

COME TO JOIN US TO SPEAK WITH MR JOHN MARSHALL POLICY MANAGER for the Office for Civil Society & Cabinet Office.

Mr Marshall aims to explain the current thinking and development behind the 'Big Society' vision and hopes to learn from meeting residents as to how this can work out for the local community and the issues Brackley faces in the future.

This meeting is to be held in the Lower Hall of Brackley Town Hall at 5.30pm on the 1st December 2010. Please email your partner organisation to book your seat and share your views.

nick@snvb.org.uk
jan@brackleyinformationbureau.co.uk
town.clerk@brackleynorthants-tc.gov.uk

Click here for the results of the recent Town Council Election held on 28th October 2010.

THERE IS TO BE AN ELECTION 

A POLL FOR THE ELECTION OF A TOWN COUNCILLOR IN THE SOUTH WARD OF BRACKLEY WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2010 BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 07.00 AM AND 10.00 PM AT  THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE HALL, 22 MANOR ROAD.

THE TWO CANDIDATES ARE MR A P RAWLINSON, Derby House, 3A Market Place, Brackley NN13 7AB AND MR DON THOMPSON, 16 St Peters Road, Brackley, Northants, NN13 7DB.

There is to be a meeting in the Town Hall on Friday 15th October at 4.30pm which is being organised by Bus Users UK to discuss all the bus services to and from Brackley.
The aim of the meeting is to:

• Inform Northantamptonshire County Council as to the state of existing service.
• To get better links to Northampton with hourly services.
• Reinstate the 08:00 service from Brackley to Northampton.
• To improve the Brackley Buzzer.
• To improve the Brackley to Banbury Service.
• Are you aware of the National Express service which goes from Northampton to Bristol with connections for South Wales and the South West or the Oxford service to towns such as Bournemouth?
• Do you want a National Express agent in Brackley?

PLEASE COME ALONG TO THIS MEETING

How will you celebrate health and wellbeing this summer?

Join in with one of the Wellbeing events being held during the first two weeks of June over Northamptonshire.

Click here to see the diary of events.

SATURDAY MAY 1ST 5.00 am Rise early and come to join
Brackley Morris Men

May Day morning in Brackley used to be a quiet peaceful affair, not much stirred apart from the birds and perhaps the milkman or occasional postie. In 1980 all this changed. At the ungodly hour of 5.30 a.m. precisely, mayhem replaced the peace! Brackley for the first time in many years heard music, jingling bells and the clashing of sticks on a May morning. An event was taking place, an event designed to welcome in the summer! The perpetrators of this event were none other than The Brackley Morris Men! They had decided that dancing out in the wilds on May Bank Holiday Monday, like sensible Morris men, was for wusses. No, they had to be different and dance on the 1st of May regardless of what day of the
week it fell.

Click here for more details of this event.

http://www.thebrackleymorrismen.org.uk

In 1260 Brackley was granted its first charter of borough status and many people in the town still remember the week of celebrations that took place in 1960 to commemorate the Septcentenary of this event.

2010 therefore marks the 750th anniversary and, to this end, there will be festivities in the Market Place on Saturday 10 April.

They will start at 11.00am with performances of Morris and country dancing by the Brackley Morris Men. Public participation may well be sought. There will also be some side stalls where local organisations will offer activities; a Punch and Judy show; jugglers; musical interludes.

Refreshments will be available inside the Town Hall as well as at the town's many food and drink outlets.

A few items have still to be finalised but further details may be obtained from Brackley Town Hall on 01280 702441.

Put the date in your diary and come along to celebrate with the Town Mayor and Councillors.

Click here for details of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry Association event 10 April 2010 in Brackley

Please click here for the Play Space PRESS RELEASE

Please click here for the Play Space Policy

There is to be consultation meeting held on Saturday 20th February 2010 in Brackley Town Hall from 10am - 12 noon with a view for members of the public and various stakeholders to comment on the proposals for Swift Way Play Space and to enable further comments on the future requirements for other play spaces within the town.

Brackley Town Council invite you to come along to the consultation to see the types of equipment and facilities that are available for the immediate construction of Swift Way Play Space and to further comment on future requirements for the town. You will be able to meet with members of the Play Space Working Party and other stakeholders.

There will be further opportunities to discuss all of the above at Brackley Town Council's Annual Town Meeting scheduled for 7.30 pm on Monday 8th March 2010 in the upper hall of Brackley Town Hall.

THE TOWN COUNCIL IS ORGANISING A COURSE WHICH COVERS THE USE OF FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND FIRE TRAINING.

This includes a practical training session in the use of fire extinguishers where candidates are presented with different classifications & types of fire which allows trainees to experience fire extinguisher use within a controlled & safe environment.

THE COST IS £5.00 AND THERE WILL BE A CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE

AND IT IS TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY 12 TH MARCH AT 2.30PM ON THE PIAZZA

PLEASE CONTACT  

Telephone: (01280) 702441
Email: town.clerk@brackleynorthants-tc.gov.uk

TO BOOK YOUR PLACE

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

TO BE HELD IN THE

TOWN HALL

8th MARCH 2010

7.30PM

To include a discussion on Swift Way Play Space.

EVERYONE WELCOME

MGWSP, the highways service provider for Northamptonshire County Council, has been salting the county's roads throughout the night and is continuing to treat and plough routes across the county. For more information please click here


http://www.mgwsp.co.uk/
Please click on the link for the latest gritting and snow information

The staff members of the Town Council would like to thank all those who attended the coffee morning in aid of the Katharine House Hospice on 18th December in the Lower Hall of the Town Hall the total raised on the morning was £394.

The Town Mayor Cllr Caryl Billingham would like to invite you all to the Christmas Carol Service to be held on the Piazza on Sunday 20th December at 7pm.  Prior to this there is a Christmas Parade organised by Brackley Community Events which will leave Brackley Park at about 6.30pm. Free soup will be served by the Town Councillors, Father Christmas will appear by demand only and members of the public will have to sing a rousing chorus of Jingle Bells to make their requests heard. Please click here for a Carol sheet for you to download to bring to the event.  (There will be copies available on the night but we would appreciate it if residents will return them for next year's event). The High Street and Market Place car park will be closed to all traffic for this event at 6pm until the event is finished, all residents in the High Street have been advised by letter.

There have been a number of successful Craft Fairs held at regular intervals in the Town Hall over the last 18 months, generally coinciding with the Farmers Market (but not December).

A 'holiday break' was taken July to September 2009 but we are back again on 17th October, 21st November and 12th December so come along and do your early Christmas shopping.

There's a wide variety of gifts to choose from including:

The event runs from 9am to 1pm, in both the Upper and Lower Halls. Coffee and biscuits/cakes are on sale so pop in, you might find just what you need.