Saluting Bay

The Town Council is based at St Johns Chapel, The Butts Belper, Derbyshire. It owns and maintains the Belper Memorial Gardens on King Street, Belper, DE56 1QA. This area used to be the garden of the Strutt family who then gifted the land to the Urban District of Belper in 1920 in memory of those who died in the Great War. The UDC erected a war memorial in the Gardens and it has since been dedicated as a Commemorative Field. The Council has used the area marked in Green on the attached plan as a saluting base for a number of years. The saluting base is used to salute the uniformed organisations as they pass on parade for St George's Day and Remembrance Sunday. The current saluting base is no longer appropriate and the Council wishes to create a new saluting base on the area marked in yellow on the attached plan. The new Saluting Base will be created over the top of an existing air raid shelter. The Council has applied for planning permission for the works. Permission is awaited. The Council seeks a Contractor to create the new saluting base. The Town Council has agreed a budget of £10,000 for the works.