The Board of Supervisors are scheduled to meet for the July work session meeting at 8:30am on Tuesday July 13th. The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Supervisors is scheduled for Wed. July 14th at 7:30pm. Agendas are available under the Township Government tab.

Silverdale Recreation Association, 2021 schedule, Concerts in the Park

State Representative Shelby Labs: Contact information & resident assistance:

My website, RepShelbyLabs.net, is easily accessible and contains a list of resources including my latest news, local events, citizen access portal and PennDOT forms to name a few. I also encourage you to visit and like my Facebook page. I will always provide the most up-to-date and accurate information on what is happening in the 143rd and across the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Services we provide include (but are not limited to):
*Driver’s license and vehicle registration applications and renewals
*PennDOT paperwork (changes, corrections, registration plates, handicap placards etc.)
*Voter registration forms and absentee ballot applications

* Birth Certificates, Death Certificates
*State tax forms
* Copies of legislation
* Referrals to agencies to resolve state-related matters

If you need help with any of the above or with any other state-related matter, please do not hesitate to call my district office at 215-489-2126. My office is located at the Silo Hill Professional Building, 1032 N. Easton Road, in Doylestown (Plumstead Township) and the office hours are 9:00AM-4:30PM, Monday-Friday. In order to keep my constituents and my staff safe, we ask that you contact the office before stopping by. We will be taking precautions such as limiting the number of people in the district office, continuing to wear face masks and practicing social distancing. Thank you for your cooperation!

For important Stormwater Management documents, visit the Stormwater Management section under building/zoning section.

Stormwater Management Ordinance: Adopted October 2020

Pollution Reduction Plan Draft

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

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! 

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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