Hoveton Community Council

Hoveton Parish Council recently received confirmation of the completion of the Council’s external audit for 2019-2020. No concerns were raised in the external auditor’s report, resulting in another successful audit. Your Parish Council has now published its ‘Notice of Conclusion of Audit’ alongside its audited Annual Governance and Accountability Return. These may be viewed on our Financial Documents page.

At Hoveton Parish Council’s meeting of 6th July 2020, the Council approved its annual accounts for the financial year 2019-2020. The Council’s inspection period, during which ‘public rights’ may be exercised, is Tuesday 1st September 2020 to Monday 12th October 2020 inclusive (please note that the Council’s inspection period has been delayed this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and staff availability in August):

Notice Of Public Rights 2019-2020
Local Authority Accounts – A Summary Of Your Rights

During this period, any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records. For the year ended 31st March 2020, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to the Parish Clerk (07572 349600 or [email protected]). For more information, or to review the Council’s financial documents for 2019-2020, please visit our Financial Documents page.

Hoveton Parish Council will soon be drawing up its draft budget for the 2020/21 financial year and planning how funds will be spent. As part of this process, your Parish Council welcomes and encourages feedback from local residents on items to be included in the budget and on the setting of the parish precept. So if you have identified a particular need for funding within the parish, or if there is a specific project you would like to see Hoveton Parish Council pursue in the near future, please do get in touch and let us know.

In particular, we welcome local residents’ views on any highway improvements the Parish Council may be able to part-fund via Norfolk County Council’s Parish Partnership Scheme. This scheme offers 50/50 funding up to a maximum of £25,000 per bid (the parish council must ‘match fund’ the amount applied for) for projects such as small lengths of formal footway; trods; improved crossing facilities; improvements to Public Rights of Way; flashing signs to tackle speeding; and part-time 20mph signs with flashing warning lights outside schools.

Ideas already put forward by local residents include new bus shelters, dropped kerbs, and ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras, while Hoveton Parish Council is considering whether it may be possible to fund speed humps or other traffic calming measures via the Parish Partnership Scheme following concerns raised by local residents about persistent speeding on Church Road. Which projects would you support? What would you like to see in your village? Please send your feedback to Lisa, the Parish Clerk (07572 349 600 or [email protected]).

Hoveton Parish Council recently received confirmation of the completion of the Council’s external audit for 2018-2019. No concerns were raised in the external auditor’s report, resulting in another successful audit. Your Parish Council has now published its ‘Notice of Conclusion of Audit’ alongside its audited Annual Governance and Accountability Return. These may be viewed on our Financial Documents page.

At Hoveton Parish Council’s meeting of 3rd June 2019, the Council approved its annual accounts for the financial year 2018-2019. The Council’s inspection period, during which ‘public rights’ may be exercised, begins on Wednesday 12th June and ends Tuesday 23rd July 2019:

Notice Of Public Rights 2018-2019
Local Authority Accounts: A Summary Of Your Rights

During this period, any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounts to be audited and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts relating to them. These documents are available on reasonable notice on application to the Parish Clerk (07572 349600 or [email protected]). For more information, or to review the Council’s financial documents for 2018-2019, please visit our Financial Documents page.