The Board of Supervisors will meet for the July work session meeting on Tuesday July 7th at 8:30am. The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Supervisors is scheduled for 7:30pm on Wednesday July 8th. Agendas are available under the ‘Township Government’ tab.

The US Census is underway, make sure to respond on 2020census.gov! The US Census is also hiring census takers with pay starting at $20.50 per hour. For more info visit 2020census.gov/jobs.                                                                                

UPDATE: MAY 1 2020:

In accordance with Governor’s Wolf’s announcement March 23rd, Township office staff is working remotely and office hours are limited. You can still contact staff by calling 215-249-3320, contact can also be made via email, fax, US mail, and the drop box on the building.

Although our office is closed to pedestrian traffic, beginning May 1st the Governor’s orders allows our building code official to begin performing building inspections again, as per the normal schedule of Monday/Wednesday/Friday afternoons. Our Zoning Officer is also completing Resale Use & Occupancy inspections again starting May 1st.

For contact information, visit our department contacts page.

Important information about the Coronavirus:

Information from the Bucks County Department of Health

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The Board of Supervisors will meet for the March Work Session meeting on Tues. March 10 2020 and the regular monthly meeting on Wednesday March 11th 2020. Agendas are available under the ‘Township Government’ tab.

For information on Bucks County hazardous waste collections and recycling, visit their website. 

Important Stormwater Management Information

On October 1st 2018, the state of Pennsylvania officially adopted the 2015 Building Codes (IRC, IBC, etc). Please be aware that building plans submitted to the township after that date must comply with the 2015 Building Codes.

Sign up to receive emailed monthly newsletters and alerts at the bottom of our home page! Stay tuned into what’s happening in our area. Make sure you look for the verification email to confirm! 

TreeVitalize is a public-private partnership established by DCNR to help build capacity within communities to plan for, plant, and care for trees, and to offer educational trainings to help citizens understand the diverse benefits of trees and the importance of properly planting and maintaining them. TreeVitalize offers a broad range of services to support sustainable urban and community forestry programs across the state.

**On October 30th the Township Office had a new phone system installed. Please listen carefully to our menu as the options have changed.**

**UPDATE: Bedminster Municipal Authority office has MOVED! Water and Sewer bill payments will now be taken at 442 Elephant Road (at the waste water treatment plant office) as of Friday June 16th 2017! For updates, visit www.bedminsterma.org. After June 16, payments will not be accepted at the Township Building. The new phone number for the Municipal Authority is 215-249-1042.**

Bedminster Township requires a Resale Use & Occupancy permit for resale of homes in the Township. For more information, click here.

Ordinance #223

Requirements for building permit submissions have recently changed. Read about the new requirement here.

Agricultural Security District:

The Township has recently received applications for inclusion in the Agricultural Security District which are now being processed.  Any farmland owners interested in becoming part of the Agricultural Security Area, please complete this application and forward to the Township Administrative Office, 432 Elephant Road, Perkasie, PA 18944.

It’s pothole season! Report potholes on PennDOT roads by calling 1-800-FIXROAD, or online at PennDOT’s customer care center. Not sure if a road is Township or PennDOT owned? Check our list of PennDOT Roads.

LIHEAP (Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program) Information here.

New Civic Organization: Bedminster Citizens for Sustainable Growth

Visit BedminsterCitizens.org to learn more about this organization and how to get involved in maintaining the rural character of Bedminster Township, and support growth that preserves the environment, our history and way of life. 

Bedminster staff moves, voting locations remain the same

In 2013, the Township’s administrative staff relocated from the Township & Police headquarters at 3112 Bedminster Road to the Township’s Annex building at 432 Elephant Road. The Township’s new address is 432 Elephant Road, Perkasie PA 18944. This move does not affect the voting locations, they will remain the same. The police building at 3112 Bedminster Road will continue to be open on election day for those in the Bedminster East voting district.

TO FIND OUT HOW TO PROPERLY DISPOSE OF OR RECYCLE OTHER MATERIALS OR ITEMS, visit Earth911.com. Just type in the material and your zip code, and find a place to take your items!

Potholes

To report potholes, signage issues, brush and tree removal, and animal carcass removal on a state-owned PennDOT roadway, call 215-345-6060. To see a list of State Roads, click here.

2018 meeting schedule

fee resolution 2018

Bedminster is a scenic, rural township located in the central part of upper Bucks County. The gently rolling hills, divided by streams such as Deep Run, Mink Run, Deer Run, and Cabin Run likely attracted the earliest settlers. Although William Penn had become proprietor of this area as early as 1681, the earliest settlers were Scotch-Irish and German immigrants in the early 1700’s. The heavily wooded areas, where small game abounded, were helpful in building homes, barns, and churches.

Almost a third of Bedminster was conveyed by the Penn family to a William Allen of Philadelphia in 1730, a prosperous and prominent businessman of his time. William Allen was a Tory and in 1776, while war clouds gathered over Philadelphia, he took his family to England. Much of his property was confiscated in 1778 by the Pennsylvania Assembly. His estate managed to re-obtain his land holdings in the early 1800’s and proceeded to auction off any unsold land at the John Shaw’s Tavern in Dublin, now the Dublin Inn. By 1815 most of the undeveloped land in Bedminster had been sold.

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