Smaller authority name: _____Arne Parish Council

NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION OF UNAUDITED ANNUAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN

ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 26 and 27

The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)

1. Date of announcement_______8th June 2021

2. Each year the smaller authority’s Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) needs to be reviewed by an external auditor appointed by Smaller Authorities’ Audit Appointments Ltd.  The unaudited AGAR has been published with this notice. As it has yet to be reviewed by the appointed auditor, it is subject to change as a result of that review.

Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested. For the year ended 31 March 2021, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to:

     ________Amanda Crocker; Clerk & RFO_________________

______arneparishcouncil@gmail.com

commencing on __Monday 14 June 2021 

and ending on ___Friday 23 July 2021

3. Local government electors and their representatives also have:

• The opportunity to question the appointed auditor about the accounting records; and
  • The right to make an objection which concerns a matter in respect of which the appointed auditor could either make a public interest report or apply to the court for a declaration that an item of account is unlawful. Written notice of an objection must first be given to the auditor and a copy sent to the smaller authority.

The appointed auditor can be contacted at the address in paragraph 4 below for this purpose between the above dates only.

4. The smaller authority’s AGAR is subject to review by the appointed auditor under the provisions of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 and the NAO’s Code of Audit Practice 2015.  The appointed auditor is:

PKF Littlejohn LLP (Ref: SBA Team)

15 Westferry Circus

Canary Wharf

London E14 4HD

(sba@pkf-l.com)

5. This announcement is made by  ___Amanda Crocker RFO

There are new times during which car-parking charges will be made in Wareham from 1 April 2021. You can click here to see a PDF of the whole notice, or click the image to enlarge it and then use the back button (←) at the top left of your browser to return to the same page.

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to the Dorset Local Plan.        

Following on from the recent consultation on the pre-submission draft of the Arne Neighbourhood Plan, a Strategic Environmental Assessment of the draft plan has now been undertaken and is available for consultation. This can be found in the 'Documents' section of this web site, together with a non-technical summary. The report does not suggest any specific changes are likely to be required to the plan, having considered the likely impacts, the significance of the effects and the reasonable alternatives. 

Responses and comments can be made up until the 29th May and can be sent via email to arneparishcouncil@gmail.com or by post to the Clerk at Rye Hill Farm, Rye Hill, Bere Regis, Wareham BH20 7LP.