Hemsworth Ferret

Readers of Ferret will no doubt recall back in 2019 that Independent Hemsworth Town Council cleared the land at the former Farmers Public House site, which belongs to Councillors Eccles…

Independent Hemsworth Town Council have recently published their Unaudited Annual Governance Accountability Return. This is the document which is reviewed each year by an External Auditor. This is for the…

At the Town Council meeting 16 June 2022: 16 INTERNAL CONTROLS AND INTERNAL AUDIT To review the efficacy of the system of internal controls, to receive the internal auditor’s report…

When looking through the recently published accounts for March 2022 at Independent Hemsworth Town Council, Ferret was appalled to find even more entries for the “Vengaboys” Concert. The “brain child”…

Independent Hemsworth Town Council seems to have a very strange way of dealing with both Freedom of Information Requests and Subject Access Requests which members of our Township make. https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request…

Ferret readers will be aware of Independent Hemsworth Town Council being subjected to enforcement action by Wakefield District Council’s planning department with regards to the infamous free storage unit, that was…

Ferret thought, in good old “Blue Peter” style, it was important to have a total running cost of your money that Independent Hemsworth Town Council, formerly led by Mr Jim…

The following has been posted onto the Town Council website. As the cost of this work will be over £25000 they have to put this out to public consultation as…

We’ve all probably seen those TV make over shows where whatever it is they renovate, they follow the same pattern, by cheap, renovate to an acceptable standard within a pre-set…

Independent Hemsworth Town Council and in particular Jean and her husband Gordon Eccles, have been the subject of controversy on many occasions, over the last 3 years, whilst they have…