This year the Christmas tree provided by Bishop's Stortford Town Council in Market Square is proudly sponsored by the BID. 

https://bishopsstortfordbid.co.uk/christmastree/ 

To celebrate they are running a competition on their Instagram page. You can win a £50 voucher to spend in the business of your choice in Bishop’s Stortford town centre.

To enter simply head over to their Instagram page and simply:

LIKE the Christmas Tree Post

FOLLOW our page

COMMENT with a Christmas Emoji

TAG your favourite shop / cafe / business in Bishop’s Stortford

The competition is open until midday on Christmas Eve. The winner will be selected at random and the organisers decision is final. No cash alternative.

It is with great sadness we can confirm that Bishop’s Stortford Town Council will not be holding a Christmas Event for 2020 due to the Coronavirus (Covid 19) pandemic. The Town Council were planning to hold a smaller event substituting for the annual Christmas Fayre but recent developments, such as the nationwide restrictions, have lead the Council to conclude that it is not reasonably practical safely to organise an event. We plan to organise a bigger and better Christmas Event for 2021

NOTICE OF CONCLUSION OF AUDIT

ANNUAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2020

Sections 20(2) and 25 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014
Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)
Accounts and Audit (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/404)

1. The audit of accounts for Bishop's Stortford Town Council for the year ended 31 March 2020 has been completed and the accounts have been published.

2. The Annual Governance & Accountability Return is available for inspection by any local government elector of the area of Bishop's Stortford Town Council on application to:

        Mark Westwood, Responsible Financial Officer
        Bishop's Stortford Town Council
        The Old Monastery, Windhill, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 2ND
        01279 712140, mark.westwood@bishopsstortfordtc.gov.uk

       Between the hours of 10:00 and 15:00 Monday to Friday

3. Copies will be provided to any person on payment of £0.15 for each copy of the Annual Governance & Accountability Return.

Announcement made by: Mark Westwood, Responsible Financial Officer

Date of announcement: 16th November 2020

View the Notice of Conclusion of Audit and the Audited Annual Governance & Accountability Return 2019/20.

Bishop’s Stortford Town Council is now undertaking a limited revision of the two Neighbourhood Plans to bring them up to date.

Please complete our survey on our website:
https://www.bishopsstortfordtc.gov.uk/content/neighbourhood-plan-revisi…

HOW TO FIND OUT MORE:
• download the latest draft of the Plan from our website at:
https://www.bishopsstortfordtc.gov.uk/planning

HOW TO COMMENT:
• via our website and sign up to our newsletter at www.stortfordplan.org
• by email at comments@stortfordplan.org
• by post to Bishop's Stortford Neighbourhood Plan, Bishop's Stortford Town Council, The Old Monastery, Windhill, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2ND

Bishop's Stortford Town Council is inviting quotations for a planning consultant to assist with exploring whether there is a realistic prospect of a planning application being successful for a Multi-Sport Complex to the north of town.

Further details can be found here.

Our Remembrance Sunday Service can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/z9t7eyfh7iE.

Thank you to all those attended.

Bishop's Stortford market will remain open for essential retail. Please continue to support your local market and traders. All of the traders have steps in place to help protect their customers and themselves. The market will continue to be every Thursday and Saturday from 8:30 till 4:30.

#mymarket

Bishop’s Stortford Town Council is now undertaking a limited revision of the two Neighbourhood Plans to bring them up to date.

Bishop’s Stortford Town Council are holding a Covid secure Remembrance event on Sunday 8 November in Castle Gardens. It will be a carefully choreographed event in the form of a static parade and a short service, strictly socially distanced, and with a very limited public audience. The commemoration will be lived streamed to Youtube https://youtu.be/z9t7eyfh7iE

70 free tickets are available to attend the event, to apply visit:https://www.bishopsstortfordtc.gov.uk/content/remembrance-draw no later than 1 November at midnight Entries are placed in a draw and 70 are chosen at random. Successful entries are allocated a space and given a ticket. Do not attend if you do not have a ticket, there will be no access to the site. A paper version of the form is available at the Tourist Information Centre, 2 Market Square Bishop's Stortford CM23 3UU, 01279 715001

A mini French Market will be setting up stalls all day to showcase a veritable tour de France of products in Bishop’s Storford, these Friday and Saturday, this will remain a COVID secure market.

There’ll be delicious cheeses, Wines and charcuteries from all the French regions, the new harvest garlic from Brittany, irresistible crêpes and galettes (savoury buckwheat crêpes) from Normandy, paella from the Basque country, Tartiflette (delicious Mountain Speciality) , Saucissons, and so much more.

North Street 8:30 - 4:30