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2020
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Newsletters
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2019 Parish Council Elections
RESULTS
Nomination Papers
Nomination Papers (pdf version)
Nomination Papers (Word version)
General Information
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2018
Latest Agenda
Merton agenda 11th September 2018
Minutes to December 2018
Minutes for meeting on 9th January
Minutes for meeting on 10 April 2018
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Annual Meetings of the Parish
Agenda
2019 annual meeting of the parish agenda
Minutes
2018 annual meeting of the parish minutes
2017 annual meeting of the parish minutes
2016 Minutes for Annual parish
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Village Hall Restoration Project archive
Progress
2017 The Working Party looked into ways to raise funds and also ways in which the building might be used and become self-supporting once completed. These ideas will be presented to the Parish Council for approval during the April meeting. It is the intention that some of the fundraising ideas will be implemented in early April. 2015/2016 Outline Plans, presented at a Village Event in autumn 2016 received good support. A Structural Survey was commissioned, and a Draft business plan produced. In November 2016 a Village Hall Project Working Party was set up. .
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About the Village Hall
The Merton Coronation Hall, as it was then known, was given to the Parish of Merton in the 1950’s by the late Lord Walsingham. The hall is situated in the Village, just off the Green but started life in Westmere Farm and was moved to Merton Park when the battlefield area came into being.
The hall was moved to its present site in 1971, and was run successfully as a meeting place for some years. A Charitable Trust was established in 1977, and the Parish Council are the Custodian Trustees. The hall gradually started losing money, and by the 1980’s the maintenance costs were far more than the income generated, and it fell into disuse.
The Parish Council managed to register ownership of the Village Hall with the Land Registry in 2013, and explored options to replace or refurbish the hall. In 2015 parishioners opted for a refurbishment of the whole building. In response to the parishioners’ choice, the Parish Council launched the Village Hall Restoration Project.