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Stratton St Margaret Pc Og

The Parish Council

Stratton St Margaret Parish Council serves a population of approx. 23,000 residents, one of the largest in the UK!

The Parish Council is served by 19 Parish Councillors.  We have 5 wards within the Parish, consisting of Lower Coleview, Coleview, Lower Stratton, Upper Stratton and Merton. We employ 26 full and part-time staff over all of the areas of the organisation and services the Council provides; Open Spaces, Democratic Services, Library and Youth Provision. The Stratton St Margaret Parish Council staff are led by the Clerk and Proper Officer of the Council and leads a workforce that consists of Council Officers and supporting staff who all hold the necessary skills and qualifications to undertake their roles.

The Precept calculated is £1,369,964.00, which has been frozen for the past 5 years, for this payment per household we provide all of the below:

Millennium Park

Local Facilities & Amenities

  • Meadowcroft Community Hall facilities
  • Beechcroft Library on Beechcroft Road
  • Community Groups and Clubs
  • £25,000 Community Grants
  • Maintain 2 cemeteries and burial services
  • Various community events, Summer Festival, Car Boot Sale, Annual Assembly, Remembrance Service, Christmas Carol Service
  • Youth provision including a regular free youth club
  • Landscaping improvement projects
  • We have around 200 acres of land we maintain
  • We are a burial authority and carry out a burial on average every 4.8 days
  • We have football pitches which we maintain and rent out
Parish tractor driven by a person in a dragon suit

Parish Council Activities

  • 10 play parks, which are formally checked weekly, the safety surfaces are subject to constant vandalism and need regular repairs
  • 123 public bins in total of which around 30 need to be emptied every day else they will overflow
  • We litter pick every street, alleyway and footpath in the entire Parish on a rota that takes 4 weeks to complete
  • We have 2 large tractor mowers that work almost every day for 7 months of the year, plus a larger tractor to cut larger areas and as well as this we have council housing lawns which need hand cutting
  • We also strim grass verges
  • We have many flower beds and welcome tubs which have needed watering every 2-3 days this summer
  • We have 2 large allotment sites which are very time consuming and have shown enormous improvements in the last 2 years
  • We have at least 2 miles of hedging to cut, some of this is cut twice a year
Parish Boundaries Map 2024

The Parish Boundary Map

The parish boundary map is available in a PDF. As this is a map and a visual reference, if you require further assistance from the council in gaining parish council boundary information please contact the clerk.

Parish Boundary Map Of Stratton St Margaret (PDF)

Where we are

The map provided shows Stratton St Margaret in proximity to Swindon.

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