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Feb 2025 Notice of Vacancy Parish Councillor Ian Ord has indicated that he will be resigning from the Parish Council with effect from the end of March.  This will create a vacancy on the Parish Council, which will coopt an additional member to fill the vacancy.  Anyone interested in applying to fill this position should contact the Clerk ahead of the next Parish Council meeting on 10 March to express their interest. The Parish Council is grateful to Ian Ord for his many contributions to our community, including through his membership of the Parish Council and through his tireless endeavours as the coordinator of HEARD (the Hope Environmental and Rail Delegation).

The Peak District National Park have announced that their CEO Phil Mulligan will be doing a number of informal roadshows in 2025.  The first one scheduled will be at Bamford Village Institute on Thursday 13th February, 2pm to 4pm.  Later roadshows are planned for locations including Grindleford and Tideswell.

Derbyshire County Council have introduced a registration scheme for users of any DCC recycling centre.  The rationale for registration and guidelines on how it will apply are given at the DCC website at https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/news-events/news-updates/news/residents-required-to-register-to-use-household-waste-recycling-centres.aspx

Hope with Aston Parish Council has a new Clerk. Alison Wheeler took over from Sheree Smallwood in January 2025. She also works as Assistant Clerk for Hathersage Parish, and has long experience running the Glenbrook Outdoor Centre, as well as ongoing voluntary work with Girlguiding. Councillors are very pleased to welcome Alison to the role. She can be contacted at clerk@hopewithastonparishcouncil.co.uk. The parish council would also like to express our appreciation to Sheree Smallwood who was Clerk to the Council for the last two years and who has been an excellent support to the community.

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The Peak Park is currently seeking feedback as part of preparation of a new plan for the Peak District.  A full explanation of the process and questions on which the Peak Park is seeking responses can be found on the Peak Park website.   The Parish Council is in the process of drafting our responses to these questions.   An initial draft version of these responses can be found at the link below. Individual residents are free to comment directly to the Peak Park, but if you would like to feed into the response from the Parish Council, please email your thoughts to the Clerk.  HwAPC draft response to Peak Park plan

Agenda Nov 2024

Unknown Soldier Silhouettes were stolen on Saturday night from the village. If anyone has any information., please contact the Clerk. But a massive shout out the the residents of Hope and the Hope Community neighbourhood, we have had pledges to replace them and a plan to put them in place for remembrance Sunday. A big thank you

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