Durham County Council has published the Notice of Uncontested Election for Seaton with Slingley Parish Council.

The notice can be viewed via the link below:

Notice of Uncontested Election 2025

To find out more about the elections please contact Durham County Council’s electoral services team on 03000 261 212 or email [email protected]

If a salt bin near you needs refilling, call 03000 260 000.

You can also report it by completing an online form at durham.gov.uk/saltbins quoting the number on the top of the bin or Contact Us.

Would you like to contribute to the creation of Slow Ways – an ambitious crowd-sourced, community-verified national walking network that connects all of Britain’s towns, cities and national parks.

Do you want to help boost walking and wheeling. Slow Ways is a great resource to help achieve that goal.

Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund, their mission is to make it easier for people to walk and wheel between places. Having a network of recommended and trusted routes is key to unlocking this – and you could help.

Contributing to the Slow Ways walking network will help your community across multiple agendas including:

• Health and wellbeing
• Connecting people and communities
• The Climate Emergency
• Active Travel
• Tourism, Leisure, Culture, Heritage
• Accessing Nature
• Planning
• Levelling Up
• Cost of Living
• Happiness and joy

Residents from across the country have already drafted 9,000 routes that stretch for over 80,000 miles.

Now these routes need checking on the ground to make sure they are good enough for people to follow.

So far 1 in 5 Slow Ways have been checked and verified by people across the country.

They now need your help to scale-up their national effort and verify the whole network. Each route requires at least three positive reviews and a survey for it to become part of the Slow Ways trusted network.

The aim is for every place in the network to be 100% checked. Once that’s happened you will have helped to create a national network that everyone can use. Every place in the network has a place page like Kimberley does, why not search for a local town here to see how it’s getting on?

Can you help check your local part of the network?

Learn more – Download our toolkit to discover how and why to help.

Walk the walk – Choose a suitable route from the Slow Ways website or iPhone app, walk it and then leave a review. You can do this on your own or organise a day for the wider community to walk all of the Slow Ways in your area.

Share this message – Do you know people or groups in your community who would like to get involved? Please share this opportunity by forwarding this message and posting it online.

Stay in the loop – Would you like to be kept up to date with the progress of Slow Ways? Sign up for the Friends of Slow Ways newsletter.

To find out more information please visit the Slow Ways website.

Durham County Council has been running a contamination campaign and there has been many questions with regard to greasy pizza boxes. Please note these cannot be recycled kerbside.

Pledge2Recycle Plastics are working with Durham County Council to help reduce residents’ confusion on plastics recycling, what to recycle and how.

www.durhamrecycles.co.uk has hints, tips and guidance on single use plastics packaging. There are a number of key hints and tips including;-

• Make sure all plastic bottles are empty, and lids replaced before recycling.
• Make sure you recycle plastic bottles from the bathroom as well as the kitchen such as shampoo, conditioner bottles, domestos and cleaning trigger spray bottles.
• Although black plastic containers cannot be accepted for recycling in County Durham all other colours can.
• Plastic bags and wrappings should go to front of store recycling schemes. Check out recyclenow.com/recyclelocator for more information.
• Items that CANNOT BE RECYCLED and should go into your GENERAL WASTE BIN include toothpaste tubes, compostable and biodegradable packaging, kitchen roll and tissues, food, nappies, and textiles.

It is important to remember the golden rule of recycling – Clean, Dry, Loose.

Items inside other items or inside carrier or black bags cannot be recycled as these cannot be opened at the Materials Recovery Facility.

More detailed information on plastics can be obtained from www.pledge2recycle.co.uk.

There is a questionnaire on recycling at www.durhamrecycles.co.uk – complete for the opportunity to win a £50 shopping voucher.

Seaton with Slingley Parish Council is putting civility and respect at the top of its agenda and is committed to treating Councillors, Officers, employees, members of the public, representatives of partner organisations, and volunteers, with civility and respect in their roles.

At the Parish Council meeting held on Wednesday 19 October 2022, Seaton with Slingley Parish Council signed up to the Civility and Respect Pledge set out by The National Association of Local Councils, the Society of Local Council Clerks and One Voice Wales.

Seaton with Slingley Parish Council has registered and agreed to the following statements:

·   Seaton with Slingley Parish Council has agreed that it will treat all councillors, the Clerk and all employees, members of the public, representatives of partner organisations, and volunteers, with civility and respect in their role.

·   Seaton with Slingley Parish Council has committed to training Councillors and staff.

·   Seaton with Slingley Parish Council has signed up to Code of Conduct for Councillors.

·   Seaton with Slingley Parish Council has good governance arrangements in place including, staff contracts, and dignity at work policy.

·   Seaton with Slingley Parish Council will commit to seeking professional help in the early stages should civility and respect issues arise.

·   Seaton with Slingley Parish Council will commit to calling out bullying and harassment if, or when, it happens.

·   Seaton with Slingley Parish Council will continue to learn from best practice in the sector and aspire to being a role model/champion council e.g., via the Local Council Award Scheme.

·   Seaton with Slingley Parish Council supports the continued lobbying for the change in legislation to support the Civility and Respect Pledge, including sanctions for elected members where appropriate.

Civility and Respect Pledge Certificate

For more information from the National Association of Local Councils please visit https://www.nalc.gov.uk/our-work/civility-and-respect-project

The Scotland to England Green Link (SEGL1) is a High Voltage Direct Current Link, “electricity superhighway” which will transport clean green energy produced in Scotland to England. The link will run under the sea for most of its length, between the Torness area in East Lothian and Hawthorn Pit.

Arrangements have been made for a briefing on SEGL1 to be given to the Parish Council on Wednesday 18 May 2022 at 6pm  in the Community Centre, Seaton Village.

There will be a 30 minute briefing on the proposal followed by a 30 minute question and answer session.

Residents are welcome to attend the briefing and there will be an opportunity to ask questions during the question and answer session.

For more information on the proposal please see below.

SEGL1 Public Information Events | National Grid ET