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MARY TAVY PARISH COUNCIL
NOTICE OF VACANCY
There is one vacancy on Mary Tavy Parish Council.
A by-election to fill the vacancies will be held if within 14 days of the date of
this Notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,
New Year’s Day and Bank Holidays) ten electors from the Parish give notice
in writing to the Returning Officer requiring that such an election be held.
The address of the Returning Officer is West Devon Borough Council,
Kilworthy Park, Drake Road, Tavistock, Devon PL19 0BZ. A request for an
election can also be scanned and emailed to ku.vo1788565805g.nov1788565805edtse1788565805w@sno1788565805itcel1788565805e1788565805,
but the document must contain “wet ink” signatures.
If no such notice is given, the Mary Tavy Parish Council will fill the vacancies
through co-option.
For further information please contact the Clerk to the Mary Tavy Parish
Council – ku.vo1788565805g.lic1788565805nuoch1788565805sirap1788565805yvaty1788565805ram@k1788565805relc1788565805
Dated: 4th September 2026

Many of you will have seen Openreach and their contractors working around the parish to begin installation of full fibre broadband to properties (known as FFTP). At present the wider infrastructure is being put in – this is a mixture of overhead cables and trenching that brings fibre to the edge of each property in the current scheme. This work should be completed by mid-August and includes the majority of properties in the parish.

While it would be nice for Openreach to contact households and invite them to access FTTP, this is not how it happens.

Each household needs to go online at https://www.openreach.com/fibre-checker. From there, enter your postcode and select your house name/number from the dropdown list. This will tell you whether FTTP is now ready for order or give the option to “tell me when it’s ready” by clicking the appropriate box.

If you select the “tell me when it’s ready” option, in theory Openreach will contact you when FTTP is available but in practice this doesn’t always happen so it’s best to check back every week or so until you get the message that you can now order FTTP.

Once it’s available and if you then choose to order FTTP, contact your service provider and an Openreach engineer or approved contractor will visit to bring fibre into your property. There should be no charge for this. In general, the fibre cable will be installed along the route of the current copper wires although there may be occasions when a different route will be more practical.

You do not have to be a BT customer or buy a BT package to have this happen – most internet providers have an arrangement with Openreach and it will still be Openreach that complete the installation. While not a guarantee, Openreach expect all eligible properties to be able to request connection by the end of September 2026.

Dartmoor National Park Authority to notify you of their Notice of Intention to Commence Local Plan Preparation. Please find the attached notice for your information; the notice can also be viewed on DNPA’s website.

If residents would like to be kept informed of the Local Plan process or of consultations, they can be directly informed by us by signing up to DNPA’s consultation newsletter found on DNPA’s website.

29.06.2026 Notice of Intent (1)

Ref: TTRO2670233 A386 [TAVISTOCK], TAVISTOCK Mon 29 JUN – Sat 4 JULY 26 Between the hours of 19:00 and 06:00

We have vacancies for 2 councillors on Mary Tavy Parish Council. If you are interested, please contact the Clerk or any current member of the council. Being a councillor does not require any special skills other than a desire to work with others to ensure the parish is a good place to live or work.

NOTICE OF CO-OPTION

Mary Tavy has 2 vacancies for Councillor

To be filled by Co-option.

Mary Tavy Parish Council has two vacancies for Councillor. The vacancies are to be filled by co-option. If you are interested in serving as a Parish Councillor for Mary Tavy Ward, please contact the Parish Clerk confirming that you are qualified to be a Councillor at which point an application form will be issued for completion or alternatively this can be downloaded from the Parish Council’s website www.marytavyparishcouncil.gov.uk

The Council meets monthly. A large proportion of Council work dealt with by Full Council which meets monthly on a pre-agreed schedule of meeting dates.  Meetings take place predominantly at the Coronation Hall on Tuesday evenings.

The council may co-opt any person who is legally qualified to hold such office, and who is willing to serve, provided they are a British citizen, or a citizen of the Commonwealth or the European Union, and are neither the subject of a bankruptcy restriction order or interim order or have, within five years before the day of the election, been convicted in the United Kingdom of any offence and been sentenced to not less than three months’ imprisonment (whether suspended or not) without the option of a fine (for a full list of disqualifications, please contact to the parish clerk).

A person is eligible to be a parish councillor if they are at least 18 and:

• is and thereafter continues to be a local government elector in the Council’s area; or
• has during the 12 months preceding the day that they are nominated as a candidate occupied as owner or tenant any premises in the Council’s area; or
• their principal or only place of work during the 12 months preceding the day that they are nominated as a candidate has been in the Council’s area; or
• during the whole of the 12 months preceding the day that they are nominated as a candidate resided either in the Council’s area or within three miles of it.

If you would like to know more about the role, please contact the Parish Clerk Amy Christie ku.vo1788565805g.lic1788565805nuoch1788565805sirap1788565805yvaty1788565805ram@k1788565805relc1788565805 The closing date for completed applications is midday on Friday 5^th June 2026. Candidates will be invited to speak at the next Parish Council meeting, after which a vote by Councillors will take place. Full details of the process can be obtained via email and along with a copy of the application form and Qualifications for Candidates.

Dated: 12 May 2026       Signed: ___A Christie_____(Parish Clerk – Mary Tavy Parish Council)