Gas generation starts at Walpole Digester   Deliveries of food waste to the anaerobic digester commenced on 20th August as part of the commissioning process. The amount of food waste will be increased gradually over the commissioning period until the point where all food waste arisings collected by SWP from the county will be received. The plant is already producing […]

Fly-tipping figures released today [15 October 2013] by the government show incidents county-wide have dropped by 497 or 8.7% from 5,687 to 5,190. South Somerset’s fall has carried on into the first three months of this financial year, down by 114 to 338 on the same period last year, and down by 94 on January-March […]

Looking for Charity Work or just trying to “put something back”? Abbey Manor Community Centre needs volunteers and more Committee Members. Some roles such as Chairman (and Deputy), Honorary Secretary, Bookings Secretary, Treasurer, Minutes Secretary and Caretaker are year round. Other roles form around tasks or events, for example fundraising to refurbish the Toilets and organsing an […]

  I’ve just been doing some hunting round to work up a comparison of the Somerset districts basic Council Tax. The graph below includes the very significant County Council tax, the Police precept, the Fire and Rescue Service Precept and each District’s own Council Tax element. It does not include the local Parish or Town […]

  Last Friday (1st March) I had the honour of chairing the Council Tax Setting Committee of South Somerset District Council. This doesn’t happen often (indeed ever), but the Police were so late setting their budget that it wasn’t available at the normal Council Meeting. Hence my sitting on a sub-committee with 5 colleagues (in […]

There are measures in place to ensure that nobody is actually on the street and that every rough sleeper, once identified, is able to access some form of emergency provision, (although some rough sleepers may reject help offered). We have two specialist outreach workers; Sharon Woodsell, who can be contacted on 07918 088118 and Kerry […]

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It’s always been an anomaly that you couldn’t get a bus to work from Abbey Manor, and some time ago we started to negotiate for improvements. The County Council has been cutting buses (and plans more cuts) so in order to get the change SSDC worked with Brympton-based South West Coaches to establish a commercially […]

SSDC’s net revenue budget is £16,577,000, a cut of £768,400 (or 4.4%) from 2011/12. This has been achieved in the face of significant cost inflation (e.g. fuel) and without any significant loss of front-line services. The Council’s share of the total Council Tax (for a Band D property) will remain at £150.74; which is 10 % […]

This of you who know me will realise that, whilst I’m always the optimist, I never count my chickens until they have hatched. Somerset County Council has now  responded formally to the community petition collected by Mandy Boniface and many others. They have conceded that a crossing is needed here and are proceeding to the […]