NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS – Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026
BLACKSHAW PARISH COUNCIL
NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION OF ANNUAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN (EXEMPT AUTHORITY)
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 25, 26 and 27
The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)
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| 1. Date of announcement 23 June 2026
2. Each year the smaller authority prepares an Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR). The AGAR has been published with this notice. It will not be reviewed by the appointed auditor, since the smaller authority has certified itself as exempt from the appointed auditor’s review. Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the AGAR, the accounting records for the financial year to which it 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 2026, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to: Sally Hughes Clerk/RFO Blackshaw Parish Council, The Town Hall, St George’s Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7BY 07425 261 289 blackshawclerk@gmail.com commencing on Thursday 30 June 2026 and ending on Monday 10 August 2026 3. Local government electors and their representatives also have:
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 only subject to review by the appointed auditor if questions or objections raised under the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 lead to the involvement of the auditor. The appointed auditor is: PKF Littlejohn LLP (Ref: SBA Team), 30 Churchill Place, London E14 5RE 5. This announcement is made by Sally Hughes, Blackshaw Parish Clerk & Responsible Financial Officer
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Exercise of Public Rights 2025-26
VACANCY FOR COUNCILLOR
In accordance with Section 87(2) of the Local Government Act 1972, a vacancy exists in the office of Parish Councillor for the Blackshaw Parish Council.
A by-election to fill the vacancy will be held if, within 14 working days from the date below, ten electors for the Parish give notice in writing, claiming such an election to the Returning Officer.
The Address of the Returning Officer is:
Halifax Town Hall
Crossley Street
Halifax
HX1 1UJ
electoral-services@calderdale.gov.uk
On receipt of a valid request, the Returning Officer will set the date of an election to be held within 60 days of this notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays), in accordance with Rule 5 of the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) (England and Wales) Rules 2006.
If an election is not requested, Blackshaw Parish Council will fill the vacancy by co-option as soon as practicable.
Sally Hughes
Clerk/RFO
Blackshaw Parish Council
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Blackshaw Parish
Blackshaw is a predominantly rural South Pennine Parish within the area of Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council and is a part of the Calder Valley Parliamentary Constituency. The bulk of the Parish is part of the Calder Terrace moorland fringe and upland pasture framed by the moorland tops, Noah Dale, the wooded Colden and Jumble Hole Cloughs and crossed by the Pennine Way. The Parish stretches from the valley settlement of Charlestown on the busy A646 between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden to the high moorland plateau on the border with Lancashire at Hoof Stones Height (479 metres high). The upland settlement of Blackshaw Head sits on the ancient trans-Pennine “Long Causeway” 12 miles from Halifax and 7 miles from Burnley. The 2011 census estimated a population of 963 in the parish for mid 2010.
The 2026 Village fete will be held on Saturday the 29th of August. Records of previous fates going back to the from 2024 to the 2016 fete are online.
The Parish has one Chapel, Blackshaw Head Chapel, and one public house The New Delight at Jack Bridge.
The area is served by two primary schools, Colden Junior and Infants and Hebden Royd, both of which are just outside the Parish Boundary.
Young people residing within the boundaries of Blackshaw parish are eligible to apply for a grant to help with their studies from the Heptonstall Exhibitions and Richard Naylor charities to which the parish council together with other local councils makes an annual grant.
May’s shop at Height Gate Farm on Edge Lane Colden close to the parish boundary is open daily early til late for newspapers, provisions and providing snacks and hot drinks. The closest Post Office is in Heptonstall.