Community Notices

CASUAL VACANCY

We are looking for two amazing people to join the Parish Council

Do you care about our village life?
Are you engaged with our community?
Then now is a good time to think about joining the team – see here for more information and how to apply.

Road Closures

You can see the full list of all roadworks taking place in the county by visiting the One Network map and typing ‘Wiltshire’ into the search box.

Grants & Donations

One of the ways small Parish Councils can support and invest in our community is through donations or grants made under either existing powers, or what’s known as S137 expenditure (section 137(4)(a) Local Government Act 1972). The amounts are not fixed (although there is a limit), but they must be for initiatives directly relevant to the interests and benefit of the Keevil area or any part of it and some or all of its inhabitants.

If you are part of an established village group or you have a new village project in mind, please review the Parish Council’s Grant Policy_2025_03_03 first, and get in touch with the Clerk if you have any questions.

Dog poop bag scheme…

Like many rural villages we suffer perennially with dog poop and, whilst additional notices help a little, there are times when the actions (or non-actions) of a tiny minority undoes all the good that the vast majority of our dog walking community conscientiously do every single day. 

All litter bins are mixed waste bins

Wiltshire Council treat all bins as MIXED WASTE – so you can put bagged poo in any of the public Litter Bins. With this in mind, Wiltshire Council (at our request) moved one of the two bins on the footpath by the Banfield Recreation Ground to the beginning of Towmead Lane, and supplied us with some notices for the bins that might help make it clear that bagged poo is ok.

Free poo bag scheme…

There are seven dispensers deployed around the village:

  1. By the waste bin next to the Recreation Ground;
  2. On the waste bin next to the bus stop opposite Field Head on Main Street;
  3. On the 30mph sign on Main Street;
  4. On the waste bin on Towmead Lane;
  5. At the end of Martins Lane;
  6. At the end of Martins Road.
  7. By the gate on the footpath out of the Churchyard

Funded by the Parish Council and with the help of dog-owning volunteers, these are kept filled up, but if you come across an empty dispenser, please be patient, or contact the Clerk, who can let a volunteer know.

These bags are provided free in case dog walkers get caught short while out – please use them considerately and do not take the whole roll!

More at the village website here…

Emergency Awareness Training

Following the success of the session in December 2025, the Parish Council will consider another event in autumn 2026.

A little extra awareness of what to do in an emergency can have a huge impact on someone’s chances of survival while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.

The Parish Council booked a community session with W+BAA, providing a hands-on opportunity to learn or refresh life-saving skills such as Defibrillator, CPR, choking, bleeding and recovery position….

Free, and open to all residents. Each session lasts 60-90 minutes for up to 30 people – book your place with the Parish Clerk, Sarah Dow: clerk@keevilparishcouncil.gov.uk, WhatsApp 07870 909757, or call 01380 871729 and leave a message.

Keevil Airfield activity

Updates and information can be found here on the village website.

A plea for considerate parking…

Our village roads are overstretched by modern parking needs, plus tradesmen, visitors and deliveries, particularly around Pyatts Corner, Stocks Green and Martins Road where many homes have little or no off-road parking of their own, and slender verges are easily damaged.

If you have space for vehicles on your property, please use it whenever possible. If you’ve no choice but to park on the road, be considerate of neighbours, wheelchairs, disabled scooters, buggies, and of visibility safety, especially with high or wide vehicles.

Highway Code 243 states no parking on a bend, within 10m of a junction, in front of a property entrance or by a school entrance, on pavements, or anywhere that limits emergency vehicle access.

Thank you to those residents who have already tried to be more mindful about parking, and to those who have written to the Parish Council, it is appreciated.

Our Country Code

The Country Code item was created by our Rights of Way advisory group, to try and educate villagers about the difficulties our farmers have when walkers stray off designated footpaths, and so that walkers can enjoy our village and the surrounding countryside, whilst remembering to be considerate to other villagers and the farmers whose land you are crossing.

RESPECT EVERYONE

  1. Be considerate to those who work on the land. They depend on it for a living.
  2. Be aware of others who are enjoying walks in the village and countryside.
  3. Please leave gates AS YOU FIND THEM.
  4. Follow local footpath signs, remembering to keep to pathways. The field you walk through is pasture for cattle and should not be trampled over.
  5. Be careful in fields containing livestock, mindful of the gates and fences that hold them. Don’t disturb or frighten them. Cows could be in calf or turn aggressive.

RESPECT THE ENVIRONMENT

  1. Keep your dogs on a lead whilst walking around the village, don’t let them wander into other peoples garden. Keep them under strict control whilst in fields.
  2. Don’t let your dog worry any livestock.
  3. Take care to clear up their poo, around the village roads and verges and in particular in fields. Livestock grazing in these fields can pick up serious infections if they eat this. It is not okay to think you don’t have a responsibility just because you are out in the middle of a field.
  4. Take any litter home with you. Discarded waste can harm livestock and seriously damage plant life.

Proclamation of His Majesty King Charles III

In Keevil, the Parish Proclamation of the new King was read by the Chair of Keevil Parish Council, as First Citizen of the Parish, at 6pm Sunday 11th September 2022, by the War Memorial.

If you need a more accessible format of a document, please email the clerk and tell us what you need – it will help if you say what assistive technology you use. Read our Accessibility Statement here.