West Monkton Parish Council at NALC Stars Awards in Westminster

SALC Chair, Loretta Whetlor, Vice Chair, Stuart Haskins, and Chief Executive, Ewan Jones, joined representatives from our fellow county associations at last Tuesday’s NALC Star Council Awards ceremony and reception, in the Cholmondeley Room and Terrace, at the House of Lords, Westminster.

Loretta, Stuart, and Ewan met with new Taunton and Wellington MP, Gideon Amos, and several peers of the House of Lords, to raise the importance of strengthening the standards of city, town, and parish councils, and the key role that parish sector must play in delivering the most local services, owing to its focused understanding of residents’ needs and wants.

Despite the fact that West Monkton Parish Council did not win the award for Climate Response of the Year, it remains that it put in place excellent work on active travel, high energy efficiency in buildings, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure, among other things, and the thoroughness with which this Somerset parish council has integrated climate change considerations throughout its planning and strategies is an example to all in the sector.

The spirit of the Star Council Awards was genuinely one where all councils nominated were already stars.

Photo: Ewan, Loretta, and Stuart with Baroness Jenny Jones