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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.
MARY TAVY PARISH COUNCIL is inviting tenders for
Grass Cutting & Maintenance Contract October 2026 – End September 2029
We welcome contractors to tender for this opportunity.
The work will be on a contract basis for a period of three years, to undertake grass cutting and general maintenance for designated areas within the Parish.
Tender Submission deadline: Monday 24th August 2026.
Tenders will only be accepted as hard copies in sealed envelopes
Timescales relating to this Tender are as follows:
a) Issue of tender document and advertising Wednesday 1st July
b) closing date for receipt of interest Friday 10th July
Optional site visit for tenderers with parish councillors available upon
advance request and prior arrangement only Friday 10th – Friday 17th July
c) closing date for questions relating to the tender Friday 17th July
d) closing date for receipt of tender Monday 24th August
e) selection considered at Full Council Tuesday 8th September
f) earliest tender award Wednesday 9th September
g) contract start date Thursday 1st October 2026
The tender specification, form of tender, questionnaire and location maps can be accessed in the attachment below
If you have any questions please contact the Clerk, Amy Christie, by email at ku.vo1783281586g.lic1783281586nuoch1783281586sirap1783281586yvaty1783281586ram@k1783281586relc1783281586.
A reminder that waste collections will run a day late next week because of the bank holiday
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:
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact the Parish Clerk Amy Christie ku.vo1783281586g.lic1783281586nuoch1783281586sirap1783281586yvaty1783281586ram@k1783281586relc1783281586 The closing date for completed applications is midday on Friday 5th 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)
See attachments for details
If you would like to help with ground preparation and sowing wildflower seeds at the Mary Tavy Parish Cemetery tomorrow between 10am and 11am please feel free to wander down. A sturdy rake, gloves and a small fork would be useful items if you have some or all of them, but if you don’t, come along anyway.
Visitors to our cemetery may have noticed a strip of black matting running along a section of the fence. Please see the attachment below to see what we’re up to.
Biodiversity – what does it mean I hear you say and why do you need to know? A definition from the Oxford dictionary says it is…
“the variety of all life on Earth, encompassing all the different plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms, as well as the ecosystems they form and the genetic differences within them”.
Also, under the 2021 Environment Act, Parish Councils must consider what they can do to conserve and enhance biodiversity,
so here at Mary Tavy we are now beavering away with plans to do this! In the spring, we plan to engage the community to help
with, bio-blitzes, planting and animal homes to name just a few of the projects we shall be starting.
We have a policy, that can be found on the website, where our aims and actions are set out. Hopefully, if you are reading it, you
will notice that some of our projects have already begun.
If you are interested in taking part in any of our projects, please
do look out on the website and social media for more information
on how to get involved!
Please follow this link to report livestock in danger or distress on the Moor