Up Holland Parish Council

Parish Council Meeting

The next Parish Council meeting will be the Annual Meeting and is to be held on Tuesday 13th of May 2025, at 7:30 p.m.

in the Up Holland Methodist Church, Alma Hill, Up Holland, WN8 ONR.

Note: From 7.15pm to 7.30pm there will be 15 minutes for public participation

Members of the public do not take part in council meetings themselves. However, members of the public who wish to make comments may address the Council at this point. There is a normal time limit of four minutes per speech.

The agenda for the next meeting will be available on noticeboards, located below, three days before the meeting, and a link to it will be available here:

Agenda 130525 UpHPC Annual Meeting

Location of noticeboards:

Hall Green: outside The Artz Centre, WN8 0PB

Crawford Village: outside Crawford Village Hut & Playing Fields, WN8 9QR

Tontine: Sandbrooke Road, Orrell, WN5 7UB

Roby Mill: Roby Mill Primary School, School Lane, Roby Mill, Up Holland, WN8 0QR

Garnett Lees, Ormskirk Road, Up Holland, WN8 0AA

Mrs Elizabeth-Anne Broad, JP, LLB(Hons), MA, CILCA

Clerk to Up Holland Parish Council

e-mail: clerk@uphollandpc.gov.uk

Annual Governance & Accountability Return (AGAR) 2024

Annual Governance & Accountability Return 2023/24 is now available to view.

Notice of Public Right to view the accounts is also included below:

Notice of how we make provision for Public Rights to view accounts 2024

Up Holland Parish Council AGAR Section 1 2024_0049

Up Holland Parish Council AGAR Section 2 2024_0050

Up Holland Parish Council AGAR IA 2024_0048

Conclusion of Audit has now been issued by the external auditors, PKF Littlejohn LLP. The required notices are available below:

Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2024_0064

LA0217 S3 (2) External Auditor’s Certificate 120924

Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information Policy can be found here:

Up Holland Parish Council Bowling Green

The Bowling Green is located opposite Up Holland Methodist Church, Alma Hill, WN8 0NR.

The green is currently undergoing reseeding but there is some opportunity for Parish residents to use it on an arranged basis. Bowling equipment can be made available on loan.

Please contact the Clerk at clerk@uphollandpc.gov.uk to arrange access.

Annual Governance & Accounting Statements 2022/23

The links below are signed copies of the Audit papers, approved in meeting on the 13th June 2023, and amended on 12th September 2023, as requested by the External Auditors.

The first link explains the process should you wish to view the accounts. Please contact the Parish Clerk if you have any questions at all.

16-Making-provision-for-the-exercise-of-public-rights-2022-23

Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2023_0030

LA0217 S3 External Auditors Certificate 22-23

AGAR Section 1 2023 Up Holland PC_0003

AGAR Section 2 amended Sept 23_0028

AGAR Internal Audit 2023 Up Holland PC_0005

External Audit Report & Conclusion 2021-2022

To view the final audit report and conclusion, please click the following links

Conclusion of audit 2021 – 2022

External Auditor Report 2021-22

Elizabeth Broad

Responsible Finance Officer

Up Holland Parish Council

External Audit Year Ending 31 March 2022

To see the Notice of Public Rights and publication of unaudited Annual Governance & Accountability Return (AGAR) click here 16-Making-provision-for-the-exercise-of-public-rights-2021-22

Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

Annual Governance and Accountability Return for the year ending 31 March 2022 AGAR 2021-2022

Requisite information required to be displayed (Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Annual Return)

Section 1 AGAR 2021-2022 section 1

Section 2 AGAR 2021-2022 section 2

Section 3 AGAR 2021-2022 section 3

Mrs E-A Broad, Clerk and RFO, Up Holland Parish Council

External Audit Year Ending 31 March 2021

To see the Public Notice regarding the accounts for the year ending 31 March 21 click here

To see a Summary of the Electors’ Rights in respect of the Council’s Accounts click here

To view a copy of the Annual Governance Statement (Section 1) click here and the Accounting Statements (Section 2) click here

PLEASE NOTE: the Accounting Statement (Section 2) is at present unaudited and is subject to change.

David Hughes

Responsible Finance Officer

Up Holland Parish Council

Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Receipts 2022

In accordance with Regulation 62A of the CIL Regulations 2010 (as amended) the Parish Council must published by 31 December each year a report on CIL receipts received during the previous financial year.

For the report for the financial year 2022 please click here CIL Annual Report to WLBC UpH 2022

For the report for the financial year 2023 please click here Neighbourhood CIL Annual Report 2022-23 Up Holland PC

For the report for the financial year 2023 please click here Neighbourhood CIL Annual Report 2023 – 24 Up Holland PC

Accessibility Statement

Using this website

This website is run by Up Holland Parish Council. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

zoom in up 300% without the text spilling off the screen
navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
listen to most of the website using a screen reading (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

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How accessible is this website?

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you can’t modify the line height or spacing of text
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What to do if you can’t access parts of this website

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, Word, large print, easy read,

email –clerk@uphollandpc.gov.uk
call – 01695 557678

We’ll consider your request and get back to you as quickly as possible.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that aren’t listed on this page or think we’re not meeting the requirements of the accessibility regulations, contact: the Parish Clerk – email: clerk@uphollandpc.gov.uk or telephone: 01257 251775

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the accessibility regulations. If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS)