News & Notices

Parents and carers who have children who are due to start in Reception or to move to a Junior School in September 2023 have only till 5pm on Sunday 15 January to apply for their school place. With less than 2 weeks to go, Warwickshire County Council are urging parents and carers to submit their application by the deadline.     This deadline applies to children born between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019, who must submit their application

Volunteers Required - Community Litter Picking The Councillors have agreed that we should organise a community litter pick throughout Grendon to help us tidy up our village. We are looking for volunteers to come along and help make our village a better place to live.  We have arranged the date for our community litter pick which we will be as follows; Date - Saturday, 26th June 2021 Time - 10am Venue - Meet at the Grendon Community Centre, Boot Hill, Grendon. **Weather Permitting

The Parish Council apologises for the cancellation of the litter pick on 15th May, but the weather forecast was poor and we did not want people caught in a downpour. As it was our first we had no idea who would turn up, so could not contact people. Hopefully we will arrange the next for better weather and take people's contact details. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Volunteers Required - Community Litter Picking   The Councillors have agreed that we should organise a community litter pick throughout Grendon to help us tidy up our village. We are looking for volunteers to come along and help make our village a better place to live.    We have arranged the date for our community litter pick which we will be as follows;   Date - Saturday, 15th May 2021 Time - 10am Venue - Meet at the Grendon Community Centre, Boot Hill

Temporary Closure of Spon Lane, Grendon - 22nd February 2021 for up to 18 months, anticipated completion date 5th March 2021. Please use the following links below to view the full details and the proposed diversions. WCC - Site Notice Diversion Map

The Community Centre has teamed up with Amazon Smile. You can support your local centre every time you shop at Amazon by following the link below. This is at no extra cost to you, Amazon will kindly donate a proportion of your total order cost to Grendon Community Centre. Link - https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1148339-0

Co-op / Former Boot Inn   Contrary to rumours the CO-OP is still planned to open on the 4th December 2020.   Their shopfitters have removed signs and will be replacing them with the CO-OP's own.   The Howkins and Harrison  "TO LET" signs refer to the old accommodation which has been turned into 5 offices.   This information is direct from the building's owners.

Recreation Ground The Parish Council have received enquiries as to when the recreation ground will reopen. A vast amount of money was obtained with difficulty by Cllr. Wright for the following purpose. To lay new drains to make it suitable and safe to accommodate a senior football pitch and a number of smaller ones for the large number of junior teams which have nowhere to play. In the past pitches have been fouled by dog walkers who do not clean

Volunteers Needed - Local Newsletter   Members of the Parish Council have been working hard to revive a local newsletter to keep the community up to date with Parish Council and Community Centre news.   Our next edition will hopefully be produced in January 2021, we are looking for volunteers to assist us with the distribution of our next newsletter to ensure we reach all residents in Grendon.   If you are able to spare 30 minutes to deliver to your

Please view the October Newsletter, using the link below: Newsletter - October 2020  

Vistry Development - Land South of Dairy House Farm   Please use the link below to view the full letter send by Grendon Parish Council to North Warwickshire Borough Council.   Letter to NWBC

MEAL DELIVERIES DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME, BADDESLEY COMMUNITY CAFE IS OFFERING DELIVERY OF HOT MEALS TO THE ELDELEY, SELF-ISOLATING AND VULNERABLE IN BADDESLEY, GRENDON AND BAXTERLEY. THESE WILL BE DELIVERED ON WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. 2 COURSES - £4.00  3 COURSES - £5.00 PLEASE ORDER ON THE PREVIOUS DAY BY CALLING KAREN ON: 01827 715729  

Update from your Parish Council....    The Parish council has purchased "gateway" signsshowing ‘Welcome to Grendon’ with the speedlimit[s] for all road entrances to the village. These willbe installed shortly. We have also agreed to gift a newslide to NWBC for use at the Boot Hill play area whichwill be installed in February. A new Parish notice board will be installed nearWoodside School shortly. This will allow residents stayup to date with important local information.  

Ann Dodd who runs this long running and lovely group would like to recruit two volunteers to help. If you have two hours to spare on Fridays 10.00am till 12.00noon please contact Ann 01827 714032. Perhaps you are recently retired and looking for something new to fill your spare time.

On Tuesday, 30th July a resident drop in session was held at the Penmire Community Rooms where residents had the opportunity to drop in and discuss issues with the members of the Grendon Flood Action Group and Warwickshire County Council. The Parish Council has a limited number of inflatable sand bags available to assist those residents affected by flooding. These are available FREE OF CHARGE and can be collected from the Community Centre by prior arrangement with the Parish Council

It is possible that the next issue of the Newsletter may be the last as the compilers have decided to give it up after 13 years. It would be a shame to loose the Newsletter as it features all relevant and important village information, it would be good if someone else would be prepared to take it on. If you would like to consider it, please contact the Parish Council either via the website or 01827 716051.

New village "Gateway Signs" with “Welcome to Grendon” and speed limits have been ordered for all the road entrances to the village. Grit bins for strategic locations will be next on the list.

Update - Grendon Flood Action Group On Tuesday, 16th April the Grendon Flood Action Group, chaired by myself, held our first multi-agency meeting at Grendon Community Centre. Representatives from NWBC (Planning), WCC (Lead Flood Authority), WCC Highways, Environment Agency, Severn Trent Water and the National Flood Forum Charity met together to discuss flooding issues in and around Grendon and address the action points which the Grendon Flood Action Group had discussed and scripted for the meeting. We discussed a variety

Surgeries are held on Friday's in the Constituency Office, 76 Station Street, Atherstone. Appointments must be made. Telephone: 01827 715243 sallyb.wilson@parliament.uk  

The Parish Council expresses its heartfelt thanks to Peter Swift who has just stood down after over 20 years service. Even Peter can't remember the exact number of years he has served! In his place we welcome Chris Rich-Bate. As well as serving all residents, Chris has been deeply involved in the flood problems at Penmire Rise, so has got to know a lot of local residents.

There was a meeting held on Thursday 24th January 2019 at the Community Centre, Boot Hill, to enable residents to outline their concerns regarding flooding throughout Grendon and the surrounding areas. It was agreed that a 'Grendon Flood Action Group' would be formed, this group will meet regularly and be supported by the Flood Forum and Warwickshire County Council. The main aim of the group is to agree a strategy of which areas need addressing by the relevant authorities, raising