Watch Your Town Council in Action!

Next public meeting: Monday 17th June, 7.15
Chipping Norton Town Hall Council Chamber

Chippy’s 16 newly-elected Town Councillors meet for their first main monthly meeting.

Six new councillors join ten others, with Mayor Don Davidson back in the driving seat. What will their priorities be? How will they pick up important town issues like parking, HGV bypass ideas, the Tank Farm development and the Link Road – as well as spending our Council Tax for the benefit of the community?

Members of the public are welcome. If you wish to speak, please notify Town Clerk Vanessa Oliveri in advance – cntownclerk@btconnect.com or call 01608 642341

See you there?

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Come to Chippy’s Mayormaking!

19:15, Upper Town Hall, Monday 20th May

A newly elected Chipping Norton Town Council – somewhat changed with 6 new members out of 16 – meets for the first time at 7:15pm in the main Town Hall on Monday 20th May. The public are welcome and it’s a chance to see some of the ‘robes and ritual’ of our historic past – when the Town proudly ran many of its own affairs, rather than defering to District and County.

This first monthly meeting of the Council’s year is special as it includes the traditional Mayormaking ceremony, to elect and ‘swear in’ a new Mayor. Then it will be down to business with the Town Council representing the town in times of change, running some of our important town services.

Why not come along – take your seat by 7:05pm please – and see democracy in action?

Local Election Results 2019

Local Election Results

The results from the 2 May Local Election for Chipping Norton were as follows.

West Oxfordshire District Council – Chipping Norton Ward:

Mike Cahill	Labour and Co-operative	766 (elected)
Jonny Rosemont	Conservative	631
Juliet Byrne	Liberal Democrat	495

Turnout was 37.9%. Labour gain from Conservative (previously Cllr Guy Wall).
New district council includes 28 Con, 10 Lib Dem, 9 Lab and 2 Ind.

 

Chipping Norton Town Council – in order of votes gained for 16 seats:

16 candidates elected

Jo Graves	Independent	1026
Laetisia Carter	Labour	912
Eve Coles	Labour	863
Mike Tysoe	Independent	820
Don Davidson	Independent	788
Nova Bradley	Labour	724
Martin Jarratt	Independent	715
Chris Butterworth	Conservative	673
Lexy Tuckwell	Labour	656
Richard Benfield	Independent	646
Gordon Brown	Independent	643
Mark Walker	Labour	638
David Heyes	Labour	630
Rizvana Poole	Labour	621
Georgia Mazower	Labour	610
Sandra Coleman	Independent	569

 

9 candidates not elected

Aaron Miles	Labour	559
Alex Corfield	Independent	546
Dominic Harrison	Independent	505
Zoey Macgregor	Ind Chippy Res	398
Steph Harrison-White	Independent	393
Hasan Tahirul		303
James Kitcher		288
Andrew Villars		203
Catherine Salmon	U	178

Turnout 38%. There are 6 new councillors.
Previous council was 13 men and 3 women – now 8 and 8.

May edition – out now!

Pick up a copy of the May edition to find out more about plans for the new relief road through town, Co-op’s anti-plastic campaign, Spring gardening tips and much more.

Only 50p, on sale all over town.

Elections 2nd May – all the candidates!

Our next major  local elections are scheduled for Thursday 2 May 2019. 16 out of the 49 seats on West Oxfordshire District Council are being contested – this  includes 1 of the 3 seats in the Chipping Norton Ward. Separately, all 16 seats on Chipping Norton Town Council are up for election (amongst many other local parish and town councils).

Our May edition – out on Monday 29 April – will contain all the candidates’ profiles and pictures.

There are three candidates our seat at the District Council:

BYRNE, Juliet Elizabeth Anson; Liberal Democrats
CAHILL, Mike; Labour and Co-operative Party
ROSEMONT, Jonny; Conservative

Here are the 25 candidates for the Town Council’s 16 seats, with party allegiances where given:

BENFIELD, Richard Arthur; Independent
BRADLEY, Nova Jane; Labour
BROWN, Gordon Leslie; Independent
BUTTERWORTH, Chris; Conservative
CARTER, Laetisia Catherine; Labour
COLEMAN, Sandra June; Independent
COLES, Eve; Labour
CORFIELD, Alexander Miles Dickens; Independent
DAVIDSON, Don; Independent
GRAVES, Jo; Independent
HARRISON, Dominic James; Independent
HARRISON-WHITE, Steph; Independent
HEYES, David Marshall; Labour
JARRATT, Martin; Independent
KITCHER, James Robert;
MACGREGOR, Zoey Elizabeth; Independent
MAZOWER, Georgia Helen; Labour
MILES, Aaron James Michael; Labour
POOLE, Rizvana; Labour
SALMON, Catherine Elizabeth
TAHIRUL, Hasan
TUCKWELL, Lexy; Labour
TYSOE, Mike; Independent
VILLARS, Andrew Spicer
WALKER, Mark Linsley; Labour

 

 

 

 

What has the Town Council ever done for us?

If you’ve ever asked yourself that question, here’s your opportunity to find out.

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

Thursday 25th April 2019, 7.30 PM
TOWN HALL, CHIPPING NORTON

Everyone welcome!

Chipping Norton Town Council holds this public meeting, reporting to citizens on the Council’s activities for the past year and how they have represented us. It is an opportunity to ask questions of Councillors and raise issues you feel should be brought to their attention. This annual meeting is a week before the 2 May local elections when all 16 Town Council seats are up for election.

So if you have any questions at all about the role of the Council, what it does and how it does it, come to the meeting. This is YOUR opportunity – get involved!