Saxmundham
Town Council website was last updated on 16/08/2019
Saxmundham
is a popular market town on the River Fromus at the centre of Suffolk's
Heritage Coastal region, providing an excellent base for tourists
wishing to visit the many attractions in the area. This website
is run by Saxmundham Town Council and is intended
for both residents and visitors. We hope that you find what you
are looking for and that you drop by again soon.
This information
featured on the website relies on the various groups and bodies
updating us with any changes. If you wish to notify us with a change,
please contact the Town
Clerk. Please download our privacy notice for
people contacting the Council here
Saxmundham Town Council will be considering grant applications from local groups at its next meeting on 9th September. Please get in touch with the town clerk if you would like to be considered.
Our caretaker, Judy
Chesterfield, who has worked tirelessly for many years,
decided to retire at the end of May 2019. Sincere thanks to
Judy for all her hard work - we will miss her as I am sure will
many hirers of our Market Hall.
Saxmundham
Town Council's Planning response regarding the proposed application
regarding Saxmundham Railway Station - please click
here for our response and click
here for points and issues of substantial concern
Chairman of Saxmundham
Town Council is Cllr Jeremy Smith
Vice Chairman
of Saxmundham Town Council is Cllr John Fisher. Cllr Fisher
is also your District Councillor.
  
Georgia Watson
Jeremy Smith
John Fisher Nigel Hiley James Sandbach
 
John Findlay
Jonathan Tim Lock
Macro
At
the Town Council's Annual Meeting (on 13th May), we co-opted one
experienced person in order to make sure that the Council meeting
can run if someone cannot attend. However we now have 11 Councillors.
More photos to follow.
The Town Council now have
11 Councillors. Cllrs Mrs Diana Eastman, Charlotte Hawkins
and Annabelle Reynolds were co-opted at our June STC meeting.
Last night, 8 July 19, a further three Councillors were co-opted
- Tim Lock, Jonathon Macro and Georgia Watson.
NEWS
FROM THE 1ST SAXMUNDHAM SCOUTS.
Haydn
Morris has just circulated the following good news:" After
attending a heavily oversubscribed selection event last month, one
of 1st Saxmundham's scouts (Courtney Nightingale) has been selected
to be one of the 35-strong scouting contingent from Suffolk who
will be attending the European Jamboree (a.k.a. "EuroJam")
in Gdansk, Poland in August 2020.
EuroJam
is a huge global scouting event - 17,000 Scouts and Guides from
around the world will be attending this week-long event.
We
are obviously delighted that Courtney has been chosen and I
am reliably informed that Courtney will be the first scout ever
from the Saxmundham group to attend a Jamboree. So a really exciting
"first" for our scout group and also the town. "
Fantastic
News and congratulations to Courtnery.
SAXMUNDHAM
TOWN COUNCIL'S RESPONSE TO FIRST DRAFT LOCAL PLAN OF SUFFOLK COASTAL
DISTRICT COUNCIL: STC
Local Plan response Sept 2018 final
For
Press release click
here
Neighbourhood
Plan - click
here for the new Neighbourhood Plan website.
Please
see below minutes of the meetings in regards to the Neighbourhood
Plan for Saxmundham:
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Click
here for the minutes of the Saxmundham Neighbourhood Plan Steering
group, held on 20/12/17.
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Click
here for the minutes of the Saxmundham Neighbourhood Plan Steering
group, held on 15/01/18.
- Click
here for the minutes of the Saxmundham
Neighbourhood Plan Steering group, held on 12/02/18.
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Click here for the minutes of the
Saxmundham Neighbourhood Plan Steering group, held on 05/03/18.
SAXMUNDHAM
RAILWAY STATION
The
Town Council are deeply saddened by the massive fire at our railway
station particularly as the Art Station have been working so hard
with their project to transform it.
Understandably,
everyone at The Art Station has been devastated by today's events
and it has taken time for the enormity of the impact of the fire
to sink in. Although we were at the very beginning of our journey
to transform the disused station building at Saxmundham, we were
very excited by our plans to breathe life into an iconic town building
to offer contemporary art and an arts education programme after
it had been uninhabited for at least five years. Only last week
we held a fundraising quiz as part of our fundraising programme
to raise money to start making the building safe in the summer.
Since obtaining a short lease in August 2017, we were looking forward
to stripping the building out and getting in to the main building
in September after agreeing terms with the landlord Greater Anglia.
Today's events will obviously pose a significant risk to the future
of The Art Stations ambitions but we will work with Greater Anglia
and the local authorities to identify if there is a possibility
of saving the building and restoring it to its former glory,
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Please click
here to report potholes, pavement defects etc. on Suffolk County
Council's online logging tool.
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Dog Fouling - please click
here and fill in the following form if you see any individual
letting their dog foul in Saxmundham.
-Saxmundham
Youth Booth - please click here
for more information.
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Electronic copies of Saxmundham News can be found here.
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Don't forget to support your weekly market every Wednesday - for
more information please click here.
Contacts
for Council Services
The administrative
area of Saxmundham has a population of about 4000 and prior to local
government re-organisation in 1974 had its own Urban District Council
carrying out the majority of functions and services for their community.
Saxmundham Town Council has succeeded the Urban
District Council for minor functions such as managing the Market
Hall, the Memorial Field, and now the Wednesday street market. Services
such as refuse collection and street cleaning are administered by
Suffolk
Coastal District Council. The various strategic services
e.g. highways, education, fire service, etc, are the responsibility
of the Suffolk
County Council. Domestic water is supplied by Essex
and Suffolk Water Company and Anglian
Water Authority is responsible for sewage disposal
services.
Environment
Agency data for the River Fromus
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