30/11/2020 Over £4 million awarded to local projects since the launch of the Hinkley Point C Community Fund An incredible £4 million* has been awarded to local initiatives in Somerset since the Hinkley Point C (HPC) Community Fund was launched in 2017. Val Bishop, Programmes Director at Somerset Community Foundation (SCF), who administer the Fund, … Read more
The Department for Transport is inviting the public’s views on its future rural transport strategy and wants to hear from as many people as possible. You can have your say at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-of-transport-rural-strategy-call-for-evidence
Covid update With the ending of the national lockdown next Wednesday, 2nd December, Sedgemoor’s Parks Team have been out and about in the district. To keep the important messages of Hands-Face-Space in the forefront of everyone’s mind, they have been stencilling reminders on pavements and putting signs on bollards in parks to remind people of … Read more
The Christmas Lights competition will take place this year despite Covid-19! Please get your lights up as they will be judged by 17th December. The top three will be picked and the winners will receive gift vouchers which will be sent by post. We will announce the top three on East Huntspill Parish Council Facebook … Read more
Please find update from GWR about Christmas Travel Arrangements. Following the announcement of the five day Christmas travel period, we thought it would be helpful to let you know about our Christmas and New Year services. Services will run normally on 23 December. On Christmas Eve late afternoon and evening services will … Read more
Sedgemoor District Council is warning residents that the latest scam calls which are doing the rounds are supposedly from HRMC. (HM Revenue & Customs – “Tax office”). Several worried residents have contacted SDC to check. An automated recorded message informs people that they owe them tax and that if they don’t ring them back, they … Read more
The five councils in Somerset have been given the green light to implement the recently launched plan for Somerset to go carbon neutral by 2030. The Somerset-wide Climate Emergency Strategy considers how climate change will impact the County of Somerset and describes what we need to do to cut our emissions and build resilience to … Read more
More Somerset residents would back Stronger Somerset as the right solution for a better future than Somerset County Council’s vision for a single council according to the early results from an independent poll. Ipsos Mori, one of the world’s leading research companies, has been surveying a representative sample of 2,000 residents across the county regarding … Read more