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The Council owns bus shelters at Mount Folly and Five Ways. Various seats around the town are also the responsibility of the Council. The Council has recently installed a new bus shelter in front of the Shire House in response to public request. It is also planning the erection of a new shelter in Westheath Avenue (to service the new Bodmin Hospital).



Priory Car Park is a Pay and Display car park for approximately 150 cars with additional spaces adjacent to the Football Club. Market Street has 9 bays rented out to permit holders on a quarterly basis.

  View printable town map showing car parks




Bodmin Town Council is a Member of Central Traders Partnership Initiative with North Cornwall District Council, Devon and Cornwall Police and Bodmin Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Town Council has been responsible for most of the CCTV monitoring and maintenance costs over recent years and has funded a major upgrade of this vital crime prevention and community safety tool.



The Old Cemetery including the Chapel as a store, the Garden of Remembrance in Cross Lane and the new burial grounds at Berry Lane are owned and maintained by the Town Council. Following the Best Value Service Review, grass cutting has been increased to a minimum of 10 cuts per year and there have been a number of other improvements to the grounds maintenance. The Living Cemetery increases the environmental enhancement of the Old Cemetery.


Link to Council web pages associated with Bodmin Cemeteries here for Memorial Application Forms, Cemetery Map and Memorial Regulations Policy.





Bodmin Town Council are now responsible for the administration of the St Lawrence's and St Petroc's Closed Churchyards.

  Contact Cemeteries Administrator



The Council owns and maintains St Lawrence’s Memorial Clock and the Turret Clock on the Mount Folly, which is a Grade II Listed Building.




Located at Coldharbour are 2 Town Council owned football pitches. The pitches are leased on a season-by-season arrangement to Mount Bodmin FC.









The Bodmin Town Museum, which has a steady increase in visitors each year, is run by the Museum Committee with advice and assistance from the Museums Officer.



Bodmin Town Council owns a number of areas of local landscape importance which contribute to the visual quality and amenities and provide vital “green lungs” for the town, including: Beacon Local Nature Reserve - comprising the Beacon Monument and 18.3 acres (7.4 hectares) of open land that the Council manages under a Countryside Stewardship Agreement in partnership with the North Cornwall District Council's Coast and Countryside Service.
 

• Beacon Playing Field
• Berrycombe Vale (Hillside Park) - including the Children’s Play Facility.
• Coldharbour - 2 football pitches, pavilion and store.
• Fair Park - including the Children’s Play Facility. This park is let out to fairs and circuses.
• Priory Meadow
• Priory Park - which includes the Children’s Corner Play Facility; Priory Pond; Priory Meadow; the Skate Park Facility; the 2 Football Pitches (the main pitch is floodlit), and Grandstand run under licence by Bodmin Town Football Club; 3 floodlit Tennis Courts and Pavilion.

In addition there are also areas of grass at Berryfields, Kay Crescent, Moor View, and Victoria Square.




The Council has a number of children's play areas including:

• Priory Park
• Fair Park)
• Victoria Park
• Berrycoombe Vale (Hillside Park)
• Skate Park - near Bodmin Town Football Association pitch

Funds have been allocated by the Council for a rolling programme of refurbishment for children’s play areas to include play equipment, access and fencing.



The Council provides a total of 6 public conveniences which are situated throughout the town:

• Priory Park - includes facilities for baby changing and disabled - Radar Key operable - open all year
• Dennison Road - includes facilities for disabled - Radar Key operable - open all year
• Higher Bore Street - open all year
• Mount Folly - closed in winter
• Fair Park - includes facilities for disabled - Radar Key operable - open all year
• Cemetery - open when Sexton is on duty

The Council's Public Conveniences were the subject of a Best Value Service Review in May 2005.




The Council owns 25 garages in Rhind Street which are leased to local people.



This is a Grade II Listed Building comprising the Main and Small Halls which are hired out to various organisations and individuals. The Bodmin Community Association Rooms are leased to the Bodmin Community Association. The Public Rooms also include the Bodmin Town Museum which has a steady increase in visitors each year and is run by the Museum Committee with advice and assistance from the Museums Officer.




Once the former Judge’s Lodgings, Shire House now serves as the Council Offices but also offers a range of meeting rooms of differing sizes, including the Shire Suite, a licensed premises which will accommodate up to 200 people and may be used for various functions and conferences. Bookings can be made by contacting the Facilities Administrator and you can view the rooms for hire online together with current rates here.



Once the County Assize Court, Shire Hall is a Grade II* Listed Building on the Mount Folly which was refurbished in 2000 with assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund, European Regional Development Fund and Single Regeneration Budget grants. It now serves as a 'visitor's one stop shop' multi-use facility which includes the Visitor Information Centre, the Exhibition Gallery, Jurybox Shop and the Charlotte Dymond Courtroom Experience. The top floor of Shire Hall is now being used by local community groups and commercial artists to stage exhibitions. The Shire Hall and Visitor Information Centre was the subject of a Best Value Service Review in 2003/04.

The Visitor Information Centre publishes an annual Accommodation List and the Bodmin Town and Moor Guide biannually.  Fast track ticketing for attractions include the Eden Project, ticket Box Office for the Theatre Royal, Hall for Cornwall, Carnglaze Caverns, local events and National Express Coach tickets.  It also has a web site which enables customers to book local accommodation online.




The Gymnasium and Squash Courts are run under lease by the Walker Lines Indoor Sport and Recreation Group and Rifle Range leased to the Small Bore Rifle Club. The Walker Lines Complex was subject to a Best Value Service Review during 2003/04.



With the growing emphasis on equality for disabled users and in the interests of helping them to access online content more effectively, Bodmin Town Council were keen to follow Cabinet Office guidelines which now require Principal Authority web developers to follow strict web code standards which are set by the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3). The challenge was to build in-house an accessible, cross browser friendly Town Council website that would meet, where possible, the highest standards in terms of web code and accessibility guidelines. The result is the present website, launched in March 2008, with all its pages conforming to WCAG Priority Level 3 (AAA) except for the PDF downloads which the Council intends to make more accessible in the future.  Additional purpose built accessibility features serve to enhance and support online disabled users.

Web statistics reveal healthy trends of online traffic and demonstrate the usefulness of the site as the Council’s ‘electronic front desk’.   With more and more online users taking advantage of the benefits of the internet, www.bodmin.gov.uk seeks to provide the community of Bodmin with important and interesting information both attractively and interactively. Online visitors can find helpful information on the community including local services, places of interest, tourist information, local history, maps and more as well as being able to access all the Council’s policy documents, Agendas for forthcoming Committee Meetings and sets of Minutes.

Information on the website is regularly updated by a Web Management Team led by the Council’s Webmaster

  Website Accessibility Features