Brayford Village News

Please see attached PDF, road closed 22 Nov 2025 - 24 Nov 2025

Please see attached document.

ROAD CLOSURE NOTIFICATION 

Location: ROAD FROM THORNPARK CROSS TO BRAY BARN, BRAYFORD

Date(s): Thursday 16 October 2025 09:30 - 15:30.

See attached file for more information

If you have any questions or concerns about any aspect of planning applications within our community, you can contact either of the following:

• The Parish Clerk  - brayfordparishcouncil@gmail.com
• The Local Planning Department -  planningcomments@northdevon.gov.uk

Parishioners can contact the above contacts if they would like further information, guidance, or wish to raise any matters relating to planning in the parish.

The North Devon Planning Portal website is available for all members of the public to look up, comment, support or object to planning applications: https://www.northdevon.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control

Your local policing team is holding a public meeting. This will take place on 28th August at South Molton Pannier Market, Broad St, South Molton between the hours of 0900 - 1300.

Please come along as this is your opportunity to speak with your local officers to discuss any issues of concern to you, we will also be bringing along our bike marking kit which will provide you with an opportunity to have your bikes registered and safely marked. 

If you are unable to attend this meeting but wish to speak to us about an issue, please call 101 or make contact via the Devon & Cornwall Police website.

Please see attached PDF;

Road closed from "Bray Barn to Newtown Bridge. 19:00-06:00 July 10th-11th"

A vacancy for the position of Councillor has arisen in the Parish Council.

Please contact the chairman for more information.

Chairman Brian Symons:

Tel: 710294

Email: brian.symons@btinternet.com

Beware of some of the plants growing up and down the banks of the River Bray; the main plant is Hemlock Water Dropwort. These are large plants in the river and on the banks with large white florets. Pictures will be placed on the website. Quite a lot adjacent to the Millenium area. The root fangs if pulled up are EXTREMELY POISONOUS as is the rest of the plant and if touched can result in severe blisters please keep away from them.

The annual much enjoyed event this year takes place on Monday May 26th.

1. Duck Race - field by the bridge, Monday, 2pm
2. Dog Show - Methodist field, 1pm

We all look forward to seeing everyone there.

The Parish Council is seeking an individual who can work with the council in producing and editing the Village Newsletter.

Please contact the Parish Clerk at brayfordparishcouncil@gmail.com for more information.

A vacancy for the position of Councillor has arisen in the Parish Council.

Please contact the chairman for more information.

Chairman Brian Symons:

Tel: 710294

Email: brian.symons@btinternet.com

Road resurfacing work on the A399 is planned from the 25th-29th March 2025.

The area affected is from Bray Barn to Newtown Bridge (passing the quarries).

See attached documents from Devon Highways.

Please see the attached noice from Devon Highways

Please read the attached document from Devon County Council.

Applies from Monday 7th to Friday 11th October.

Warning

In the millennium area and in other areas of the Parish, there is Hogweed, Hemlock, Ragwort and Water-dropwort - all highly poisonous and must be avoided - it can cause severe skin burning and blistering. 

Today the upgrade works to pathway 1 & the new path parallel to the road were completed by the group of volunteers, Mark Padgham would like to thank Bob, Ferg, Norman, Malcolm, Mark L & Stuart for their efforts.

Also many thanks to Maxine for keeping us fed and watered.

The upgrade & the new path look great, just needs a final snag in a couple of weeks once it has settled. We have put in a temporary step in place while we await County Council support for new steps.

Following the General Election, as most of you will know we have a new MP.

Ian Roome.

You can learn more about Ian here:

https://democracy.devon.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=3673

and here:

https://www.northdevonlibdems.org.uk/ian-roome 

https://www.northdevon.gov.uk/news/2024/special-meeting-will-focus-dental-provision-in-north-devon-and-torridge#:~:text=Dental%20provision%20in%20North%20Devon%20and%20Torridge%20will%20be%20the,on%20Thursday%2C%2018%20July%202024

If you have not already had your Covid booster, and are eligible for one, then there will be two sessions at The Victory Hall for walk in vaccinations.

Wednesday 15th November 2023 and Thursday 14th December 2023 - both 9:30 to 12:30.

There is no need to book. Boosters are for the over 65s, clinically vulnerable and immunosuppressed. Please do not attend if you are not eligible (you can check at www.nhs.uk/covid-vaccination or by calling 119). 

Flash flooding is rare but can be very dangerous. Across Devon and Cornwall there are a large number of vulnerable communities. 

Know what to do. Please read the attached article.

Important Opening:

Administrative Assistant to the Edgemoor Group Team Rector and Team Vicar.

This is a volunteer position, which could be shared between several volunteers, involving up to a shared total of approximately six flexible hours per week.

All expenses will be paid. Basic computer skills needed. Work from home, with availability to the Team Rector in North Molton as required.

You will play a vital role in supporting the Team Rector/Vicar and our clergy team. Let us know if you are interested; for more information call Jonathan Brownell at 01598 710389. 

Please see attached document, contact the chairman if you are interested in joining the Parish Council.

A new Rector for High Bray Parish has now been appointed to serve the several parishes in the Edgemoor area! We are excited to welcome him as part of our Brayford community.

The Reverend Dominic Coad will take up post when he is licensed on 6th September. He will be based in North Molton. We hope many of you will soon get to know him and his family.

Dominic is currently a vicar near Newcastle. He was originally ordained in Exeter. He and his wife, Frances, have 2 children, James 5 and Isaac 1, and they are looking forward to settling in beautiful North Devon.

Brayford Village celebrations for the coronation of King Charles III, details on the images below.

Don't forget - Coronation Mugs available from the Parish Council

We are emailing you on behalf of Devon County Council. Devon County Council is reviewing its library services and the different ways that people use it. That's because the council is facing huge financial challenges, and in order for them to invest more money in services that support vulnerable children and adults, they are having to make considerable savings elsewhere in their budget. The council therefore is proposing to stop running the mobile library service.  We run four mobile libraries on the council’s behalf, three of which are 15 years old and at the end of their serviceable lives, and the fourth is nine years old.  All of our aging vehicles have become increasingly unreliable and expensive to maintain. There are also fewer people now using the mobile library service. Tomorrow, they will be launching a consultation with library customers to get a better understanding about how people will use the library service in future. They will be asking whether you have considered other ways to access library services, such as our Good Neighbours service, Home Library Service, or via our 50 library buildings across Devon.  Or, whether you are familiar with the range of digital books and other materials that are available to all of our library members. The consultation will be online from Friday 31st March //devon.cc/mobilelibraries, and you will be able to read more about it on the Council's website. Alternatively, there will be copies of the consultation on each of our four mobile library routes, and in your nearest library. If you have any questions about the consultation, please visit the Have Your Say webpage or contact Devon County Council via communitiesconsultation@devon.gov.uk or telephone 0345 155 1001.

The Council has made it clear that they will not be making any decision about the proposal until they have had chance to consider all of the responses to their consultation. If you would like to respond to the consultation, we would encourage you to do so directly to Devon County Council. The consultation will close on Friday 26th May.

Bone China Mugs to commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III are made available by the Parish Council.

FREE to children under 16 who live in the village.

£7 otherwise.

Please contact the Parish Clerk brayfordparishcouncil@gmail.com 

Fantastic map of Parish Footpaths and Rights of Away available to download here.

Please see attached documents, contact the chairman if you are interested in joining the Parish Council.

The very sad, though well deserved retirement of Colin and Sue Wallis and the closure of the shop in North Molton, also means the loss of the Post Office service.

https://www.postofficeviews.co.uk/national-consultation-team/north-molton-ex36-3hr-482519/

If anyone in the community has an interest in opening a shop, or offering the Post Office facilty, please get in touch with North Molton Parish Council - nmpclerk@gmail.com 

Please see the attached document