Cllr Carl Carrington
Chair of MWPC
About The Parish Council
Millom Without Parish Council is a local council, the first tier of local government, in our case beneath Cumberland Council.
We serve an electorate, with individual councillors being either elected by public vote or if there are insufficient candidates compared to the number of seats available, no election will take place and candidates are deemed to be elected. If vacancies on the council remain after elections, individuals may be co-opted to serve in the council (voted onto the council by the existing members).
A Chairman is selected from the council members and their role is to chair the meeting. The Clerk is a paid employee of the council whose responsibilities include arranging meetings and maintaining correct governance of the council’s business. The Clerk is the first point of contact for the council.
All councillors must conform to a code of conduct and declarations of interest covering financial or other interests must be completed and made available to the public.
What We Do
The aim of all local councils is to improve community well-being and help provide better services through the input and co-operation of the local community.
Our work at Millom Without Parish Council falls into three main categories:
We have an extensive range of discretionary powers to provide and maintain a variety of important and visible local services. For local councils in general, these can include; allotments, bridleways, burial grounds, bus shelters, car parks, commons and open spaces, community transport schemes, community safety and crime reduction measures, events and festivals, footpaths, leisure and sports facilities, litter bins, public toilets, planning, street cleaning and lighting, tourism activities, traffic calming measures, village greens and youth projects. The remit of the Millom Without Parish Council covers many of these areas.
One of the main areas of Parish Council business is in the scrutiny of planning applications. All planning applications within the Millom Without Parish are discussed by the council and relevant comments may be passed on to the Planning Authority (Cumberland Council), where the ultimate decision is made.
About Millom Without Parish
Location
The parish of Millom Without is located in the southwest of Cumbria, forming the southernmost part of the borough of Copeland. The Parish straddles the boundary of the Lake District National Park and is designated to be within the setting of the National Park.
The community lives within a picturesque landscape which comprises pastoral farmland, open fell and salt marshes along the northern banks of the Duddon Estuary. Our main centres of population for the nine-hundred or so residents are the villages and hamlets of The Green, The Hill, Lady Hall and Hallthwaites. Flowing through the length of the parish is the small river of Black Beck, reaching the coast at the Duddon Estuary.
All is within the shadow of the rounded, 2000ft peak of Black Combe which borders the winding pass of Whicham valley.
Landscape
Much of the Millom Without Parish is under agricultural use primarily sheep and cattle for market and for milk. The grass which grows well in the mild climate covers a host of low, rolling hills and valleys punctuated by small patches of broad-leaf woodland and run through with old lanes and stone bridges. Occasional reminders of the areas industrial past can be seen in small mine workings, quarries and the remains of furnaces, kilns and woollen mills, sometimes recorded in the names of houses.
The Duddon Estuary is the wide tidal outflow of the River Duddon which rises in the southern Lakeland fells and is a designated SSSI and RAMSAR site (1990). William Wordsworth described the river as his favourite and wrote extensively upon it, recalling time spent there in his early years.