Datchet Parish Council Meeting on Monday 14th July  2025 at 7pm in Datchet Village Hall 

Datchet Parish Council Precept 

Since RBWM issued the Council Tax bills, we’ve received several requests for more information about the increase in Datchet Parish Council’s precept for the coming financial year.

To provide clarity, please see the attached letter and documents, which explain the precept and the agreed budget in detail. If you have any further questions, please feel free to get in touch.

Thank you

Datchet Parish Council

Precept Letter

Annual Approved Budget 2025-26 

Budget and Precept Report 2025-26 

Latest News updated 16.05.2025

Datchet Parish Council – Councillor Vacancy

Datchet Parish Council currently has a vacancy for a parish councillor, following a recent resignation. The council intends to fill this vacancy by co-option and is seeking expressions of interest from members of the community.

To be eligible, you must be:

• At least 18 years old, and
• A British citizen, a qualifying Commonwealth citizen, or a citizen of the European Union, and
• Meet at least one of the following criteria:
• Be registered to vote in the parish of Datchet,
• Have lived in Datchet or within 3 miles (4.8 km) of the parish boundary for at least the last 12 months,
• Have your main place of work in the parish,
• Or own land or property in the parish.

If you are interested in becoming a parish councillor and helping to shape the future of Datchet, please contact the Parish Clerk by phone, email, or in person. You’ll be asked to complete a short application form about yourself and what you would bring to the role.

Applicants will be invited to attend a council meeting, where a short informal interview will take place before the co-option decision is made.

We encourage anyone with a passion for their community to come forward and apply.

  

Datchet Conservation Area Guide

This guide to Datchet’s Conservation Area aims to help shape new development in the Conservation Area for three key reasons.

• To ensure it is visually attractive, sympathetic to local character and history

• To maintain a strong sense of place

• To preserve and protect the character of the village, its attractive historic centre and village greens, public riverside, heritage assets and special views.

This guide has been produced to support the Conservation Area Statement and the policy requirements which cover the Conservation Area. Although it has been compiled by the Datchet Neighbourhood Plan Delivery and Monitoring Group for Datchet Parish Council, this is a standalone document, it is not associated with the Neighbourhood Plan and it is not a policy document.

Community Orchard Update

 Sunday 11th May saw a hearty number of volunteers come out in the sunshine to complete the final phase of planting for the Community Orchard. A huge thank you all our volunteers and particularly to John Padwick for lending his expertise and to the RBWM for the initial grant to get us going.

This time we planted various shrubs and also inserted over 300 wildflower plugs. The ground was dry on top but with some judicious pre and post-planting watering, it all went smoothly. We now need to let nature take its course, and over time ,the shrubs, small trees, whips, and wild flowers will grow, and the orchard should take shape.

There will be more opportunities to help maintain and care for the orchard in the future - so watch this space!

Remembering Datchet’s soldiers

In Ditton Road Cemetery, there are graves of servicemen who served in WWI and WWII. Over Remembrance Weekend, 9-11 November 2024, Datchet Village Society will be placing discreet information signs next to their graves so that residents can learn more about each of the servicemen and honour their memory. You can find more detailed information about each of the soldiers here on this website.

Proposal to clean the gravestones of WWI and WWII servicemen

Datchet Village Society would like to honour these men by cleaning those gravestones which are not maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission or by their families. We have listed these graves below. Our intention is to do this simply with soap and water, cloths and soft brushes, between January-June 2025. If there are any reasons why you would not like these gravestones to be cleaned, please let us know before 31 December 2024. Contact Datchet Village Society, info@datchetvillagesociety.org.uk, or the Parish Council Clerk, clerk@datchetparishcouncil.gov.uk, tel 01753 773499.

Graves to be cleaned

WWI

BUTT John Gillis
KINROSS John
LLEWELYN Robert Harman
LOVE William Powis and Joseph Powis
MCGRIGOR James Neil Grant
STANLEY Ronald Bruce
SUTTON William
WARD Artemus and Richard (We are currently trying to contact the Ward family)

WWII

CROSS, Cyril Duncan
KNIGHT, William James
RICKCORD, John Scott

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