How the Council Works

The Parish Council meets approximately 12 times and year and devolves much of its work to three sub-committees. The Parish Council oversees the activities of the sub-committees and makes council-wide decisions such as agreeing budgets and dealing with key issues. The three sub-committees are:

  • Planning Committee - considers all planning applications and planning issues that affect the parish. The committee has a local voice, but not any decision making powers, in planning issues. The Planning Committee meets on a "when required" basis. All planning applications can be seen on Huntingdonshire District Council's Planning Public Access website.
  • Rights of Way (ROW) Committee - maintains the parish's green spaces and network of footpaths and liaises with Cambridgeshire County Council and Huntingdonshire District Council on rights of way and highway issues. The ROW normally meets monthly.
  • Wyton-on-the-Hill (WotH) Commitee - focuses on the special issues that affect residents living on the ex-MOD estate, following the purchase of the estate from the MOD by Annington Homes. The committee meets monthly.

Our meetings are open to all and there is a "Public Comment" item on the agenda of every meeting which allows any member of the public to speak to the meeting. Meetings are generally held in the Memorial Hall.

Agendas are published at least 3 days before each meeting and are posted on the Parish Council Notice Boards and on this website in the Document Library. You can also subscribe to an automated service that will send you agendas of upcoming meetings by email - to register for this service click here.

Draft minutes are published in draft normally within 10 days of the meeting. Draft minutes are posted on the Parish Council Notice Boards and on this website in the Document Library. Final signed versions of the minutes are available for viewing at Ye Olde Village Shoppe at The Green, Houghton.

Parish Council Notice Boards are at The Green, Houghton and near the children's play area in Churchill Avenue, Wyton-on-the-Hill. Noticeboards where public can put notices on, providing the notices are not political, are at Manor Close and Loxley Green in Wyton, The Green, Hill Estate in Houghton and Churchill Avenue and Cromwell Road in Wyton-on-the-Hill.

The Standing Orders, Financial Regulations and other detailed rules that the Parish Council operates by are shown in the Document Library section.

Parish Councils are the most local tier of government. Responsibility for providing facilities and services for our parish is divided between central government, Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) and Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) and Houghton and Wyton Parish Council.

Other Parish Council Roles

Although not Parish Councillors, the following people also provide very valuable assistance to the Parish Council.

Tree Warden, Molly Gilbert   -   01480 462512

CALC Representative, John Hadley   -   01480 465119