Nailsea Town Council is meeting at 7.30pm on Wednesday, December 3, at the Tithe Barn and agenda of business is so long we imagine they will still be there at Christmas!

As the landlord Nailsea Town Council has given permission for Nailsea United FC to create a new hardstanding as an entertainment area; new pathways around the pitch; and the installation of a two 40ft and 20ft shipping containers for storage and disabled toilets.

The town council licence for an extension and expansion for the garden of rest at Stockway North needs new planning permission before work can start likely to take 18 months before interments can start.

Planning consultants at a total cost of nearly £40k are to be engaged fight the massive growth for Nailsea and Backwell proposed in the local plan coupled with a media campaign ensure residents are aware of all being planned – basically lots and lots more houses with question mark about new roads!

A healthy food fair is proposed for early 2026 and it was agreed the decaying tree sculptures on Lion’s Green will be allowed to rot away as a bug habitat, with a sign explaining the fungus is not a health risk.

A volunteer for the Nailsea Community Group spoke in favour of the group’s grant application to support the community foodbank and larder.

Councillor learned every day 80-100 people come through the door of Nailsea Community Group shop in Somerset Square which is open six days per week.

The rent for the  unheated premises with one electricity point is more than £4,000 per year and were asking for £10k but looks as it only £5k is being recommended.

The group deliver 50-60 food boxes each month, pack 30-40 food club bags weekly and distributed 150 Holiday Hunger bags every school holiday with 4.5 tonnes of food distributed every month.

A budget of £25k for market research into communication methods people used to engage with the council is proposed.

Among the 130-page agenda papers are all the financial and grant updates with the bank balance still showing more than £4m surplus.

There is a section about North Somerset Council devolving land it owns/manages in Nailsea to the town council and includes Scotch Horn (Millennium Park presumably), Fryth Way, playgrounds and more BUT not the grass verges next to highways.

And there is a solution for all the odd pieces of land being snapped up at auction by speculators to resolve the wave of scurrilous planning applications. 

To read/download in full which has a report on whether to purchase £3k tablets and scrap expensive printouts of council papers go HERE.