Davenham Parish Council

Davenham Parish Council covers a large area of mid-Cheshire between Northwich, Hartford and Winsford and includes the Village of Davenham, the Hamlet of Whatcroft and the large Kingsmead housing development between Northwich and Leftwich. It is responsible for overseeing, advising and taking decisions on many aspects of village life. The Parish Council is the first tier of local government and members are elected every four years. Occasionally we co-opt members when people retire from the council for various reasons such as if they move away from the area. The Council has very little real power - our key role is to represent the interests of local residents and to lobby those authorities that do have the power and responsibility to get things done such as the Borough and County Councils and as we are a democratically elected body our voice is always listened to. In this Parish we are responsible for developing and maintaining the various playing fields that we own, making sure that planning applications are consistent with the character of the area, monitoring the state of public footpaths and the general natural environment, ensuring that litter is properly dealt with, and being the first port of call for community groups and initiatives for support in financial or advisory matters. We also employ (jointly with our neighbour, Moulton Parish Council) a Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) whose responsibilities and powers are detailed on this website.

	Name	e-mail	Ward	Lives in:
Chairman	Arthur Wood	a.wood@davenhampc.org.uk	Davenham	Davenham Village area
Vice Chairman	John Curran	curranj@davenhampc.org.uk	Davenham	South end of Davenham
	Susan Batten	battens@davenhampc.org.uk	Kingsmead	Regency Way area of Kingsmead
	Adrian Bridge	bridgea@davenhampc.org.uk	Kingsmead	Clock tower area of Kingsmead
	Chris Colclough	colcloughc@davenhampc.org.uk	Kingsmead	Dukes Way area of Kingsmead
	Steve Grzonkowski	s.grzonkowski@davenhampc.org.uk	Davenham	Hartford Road area of Davenham
	John Hurst	j.hurst@davehampc.org.uk	Davenham	Hartford Road area of Davenham
	David Ravenscroft	01606-43161	Davenham	Butchers Stile area of Davenham
	Glyn Roberts	g.roberts@davenhampc.org.uk	Kingsmead	Northwich
	Brian Robinson	01606-44826	Davenham	Mere Bank area of Davenham
	Beth Colbourne	beth@uwclub.net	Kingsmead

Meetings are held on the last Monday of each month* in the Committee Room of Davenham Methodist Church

*except when this falls on a Bank Holiday in which case the meeting is held on the preceding Monday. The Council does not usually meet in August or December

Meetings start at 7:30pm and are open to the public and press however the public is not allowed to participate in the meeting.

Residents of the Parish may raise matters with the council for discussion prior to the meeting from 7:15pm

but due to legal constraints the council cannot make decisions regarding such matters until the next Council meeting

The Annual General Meeting of the Council and the Annual Parish Meeting are held on the same date as the ordinary Council meeting in May

Monday 28th January	Davenham Methodist Church
Monday 25th February	Davenham Methodist Church
Monday 31st March	Davenham Methodist Church
Monday 28th April	Kingsmead Primary School
Monday 2nd June	Davenham Methodist Church
Monday 30th June	Kingsmead Primary School
Monday 28th July	Davenham Methodist Church
Monday 29th September	Davenham Methodist Church
Monday 27th October	Kingsmead Primary School
Monday 24th November	Davenham Methodist Church