Parish Council Notices 

Duck End Planning Appeal

The Parish Council has submitted it's response to the Planning Inspectorate, continuing to object strongly to this speculative and unnecessary housing development. A copy of the PC response document can be found here. 

The Planning Appeal hearing is on the 28th April, it is open to the public, if anyone wishes to attend please inform planningappeals@bedford.gov.uk 


Flood Forum 2026

The annual flood forum will take place on the 26th March, 2.30pm to 6.30pm in Great Denham Community Centre. It's a free drop in event, no booking required. 

Police & Crime Commissioner

There's a meet and challenge event on 25th March, Lakeview Village Hall, 7pm to 8.30pm. Pop along to meet John Tizard if you'd like to discuss crime in Wixams and Wilstead, raise concerns, share ideas and challenge what needs to improve.  

Change of Office Day

Please note our Clerk will now be in the Parish Office on Wednesdays between 9am and 12 noon. 

Parish Council Meetings

The next meeting is on the 5th January in the Small Village Hall. Meeting. The agenda can also be found on the village notice boards.

Future meetings are:

9th March
13th April
11th May
15th June
20th July

Assurance Review 

The Annual Assurance Review has been completed by Forvis Mazars in accordance with The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015. The statement of accounts is published as may be inspected at the Small Village Hall on Mondays between 9am and 12 noon. It was a clean audit, no major or minor issues were identified.
 

Access to Wilstead Woods

Residents of Wilstead have Permissive Access to Wilstead Woods and this is being endangered by off road and quad bikes being ridden through the woods and along the Carriage Drive.

If you know who is doing this please ask them to stop.

If they don't there is a real possibility that public access to the woods will be stopped. The current permission is for pedestrian access only.

If you see anyone riding a motorbike or quad bike (anything with a noisy engine) going into the woods please report it to the Police by phoning 101 and let the Parish Council know. 


External Web Links 

Throughout our site you will find links to external websites. Although we make every effort to ensure these links are accurate, up to date and relevant we cannot take responsibility for pages maintained by external providers. We take no responsibility for information contained on external links from this website and and views expressed are not necessarily those of the Council itself. 

Reporting Incidents to the Police

There are a few ways to report incidents and information to the Police:

The first is 999 or 101 depending on the immediacy of the situation.

The police have an online reporting function.

There is also CrimeStoppers for anyone who wants to give information without providing their details. 

The local community team can be contacted by email. Please can this only be used to get in touch with the team or to let them know of any events taking place, as this isn't to be used for reporting of crime or intelligence. 

Click here for Bedford Rutal CPT Facebook page. 

And finally, click here for North Bedfordshire's Police Twitter page.

Financial Documents

The latest financial documents can be found below. 

AGAR page 1

AGAR page 2

AGAR page 3

AGAR page 4

AGAR page 5

AGAR page 6

Audit Report

Audit Notice 2024

Audit Notice 2025

Audit Variances

Receipts & Payments
 

New to Wilstead? 

Welcome to the village, there's lot going on to get involved with. For further information please see our village website which can be found here.