CHACOMBE PARISH COUNCIL

 

Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Monday, 6^th September 2004 at 7.30pm in the Village Hall.

 

Present: Cllrs. Harper, Coates, Wyatt, Jones, White, Woolley, Reid, and Clerk.

Apologies: Cllrs. Offers and Jenkins

Public Time.

Minutes of previous meeting on 2^nd August: adopted and signed.

 

Matters arising

1.1 S/2004/0930/PO for one pair of semi-detached dwellings on Land at Beanfurlong ≠ confirmation that application has been withdrawn.

S/2004/0686/P Chacombe Hill Farm. Recommendation ≠ approval subject to legal agreement for meeting on 12^th August.

 

Finance

Internal control needs to be completed as of end of September.

Expenditure                                                                                                                                                    Income

101131                        D Cochrane £144.55

101132                        Jeffs Coaches (July) £80.00

Authorise: PCC £500.00, David Cochrane £169.84 + £25.29 (VAT) from last invoice Jeffπs Coaches (Aug) £80.00, Chimes £780.00 and Clerkπs salary £750.00

 

Correspondence

CPRE Northamptonshire News ≥Outlook≤

                        ≥A September Evening at Cranford Hall≤ Friday, 3^rd September 7.30 ≠ 11.00pm

                        Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub-regional Strategy Panel Report ≠ press release

                        AGM Friday, 24^th September at 7 30pm in Weedon Lois Village Hall

NCC/Atkins Highways Engineering Partnership Contract ≠ Performance Appraisal Questionnaire Reply by 30^th September

NPFA   Photography competition

                        NPFA publications

CCLA Investment Management Ltd COIF Charity Funds. Half year reports and accounts to 30^th June 2004

Office of Deputy PM Consultations on: a draft Code of Conduct for local government employees, a review of restrictions on political activities of local authority employees and pay of political assistants. Reply by 19^th November

EMDA Newsletter

Ron Thomas telephoned re: grass cuttings on pavements

Banbury CAB Thank you letter

CPRE ≥Fieldwork≤ September 2004

Annual Public Meeting Thursday 23^rd September at 7.30pm at the Council Chamber, Bodicote House

 

NCC       i) NCC require members of the public to serve on its Membersπ Allowances Independent Review Panel

ii) Consultation on County Council Priorities: Views of Town & Parish Councils. Reply by 10^th September

iii) Community Scrutiny Committee Minutes from 8^th July and agenda for 9^th September

iv) NCC Voluntary Sector Support Unit. Database update required

 

SNC        i) Performance Plan 2004             

ii) Peter Kay is the Councilπs Community Safety Officer based at Towcester Police Station 01327 303223 or peter.kay@nothants.police.uk

iii) Parish Facility and Open Space Audit. Reply by 24^th September

iv) Playground Inspections ≠ SNC are not able to co-ordinate

v) ≥Art News≤ etc

vi) Planning applications week ending: 6/8/04, 12/8/04, 19/8/04 and 26/8/04 e-mailed

 

Brochure: Husson International ≠ play equipment

                       

Agenda

3.1 Audit π03 ≠ å04

The accounts for year ending 31^st March 2004 had been returned because, although the Council had completed a Risk Assessment in May, this was outside the financial year in question. The accounts needed to be amended and this was duly done and signed by the RFO.

 

3.2 Proposed extension to 30mph speed limit

Banbury Road. The Council proposed that the limit be extended for a distance of 500m along the Wardington Road, as far as the village name sign.

Thorpe Road. The Council considered this to be an appropriate extension as it included the Village Hall.

Middleton Road. The proposal was that the limit be set further back to include the point at which golfers cross the road by the salt bin.

The Clerk was asked to forward comments to Highways.

 

3.3 Future of the John Walker Charity

The Charity Commissioners had suggested that smaller charities should be wound up as some were costing more to administer than the revenue they were creating. The Clerk was asked to contact the Charity Commissioners to find out what would be involved in winding up the charity.

 

AOB

1. Cllr Jones had received an enquiry from Bob Blake regarding data from the Parish Portrait (Village Appraisal 1996) to support a lottery application on behalf of the Village Hall. Itπs now nearly ten years since that original appraisal: should the exercise be repeated? A copy of the original questionnaire and the results would be circulated in the reading folder and would be an agenda item for the next meeting

2. The Clerk reminded the Council that it had been almost a year since the last new residentπs social.

 

Meeting closed at 8.15 pm.

 

The next meeting will be held on 4^th October 2004 at 7.15pm.

 

 

 

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