NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF NORTHILL PARISH COUNCIL
This meeting may be recorded/filmed
Dear Sir/Madam
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of Northill Parish Council will be held at Ickwell Village Hall, Ickwell, on Thursday 29th May 2025 at 7.30pm. All members of this Council are hereby summoned to attend for the purpose of considering and resolving upon the business to be transacted at the Meeting as set out hereunder:
Dated this 23rd day of May 2025
Tracy Duffy
Clerk
AGENDA
1. Election of Chair/Vice Chair – Declaration of Acceptance of Office to be signed.
2. To receive apologies for absence.
3. To receive declarations of interest from councillors on items on the agenda that have not previously been registered.
3.1 To receive any written requests for dispensations for disclosable pecuniary interests.
3.2 To grant any requests for dispensations as appropriate.
4. To approve the minutes of the meeting held on the 24th April 2025
5. To receive updates on resolutions from the last meeting (Clerk).
6. Open forum for 10 minutes to allow members of the press and public to speak on any open agenda item.
7 To review committee structure and terms of reference.
7.1 To elect members for: –
(a) Planning and Finance and General Purposes committee.
(b) Grievance Committee.
(c) Allotment
(d) P3/Redgate,
(e) Accommodation Track
(f) Emergency Planning
(g) Church Rooms
Working parties / Representative on: –
(a) Broom Quarry Liaison Group.
(b) Newsletter Editors.
7.2 To Elect representatives on: –
(a) Ickwell Village Hall Committee
(b) Northill Village Hall Committee.
7.3 To Approve, as recommended by the Finance & General Purposes Committee. (All documents can be found on the website).
(a) Standing Orders
(b) Financial regulations
(c) Code of Conduct
(d) Policies
8. Reports
8.1 Police reports April 2025
8.2 Speed Watch report.
8.3 Walk in session report from 24.04.25
8.4 Planning – draft minutes from 06.05.25
9. Central Bedfordshire Council
9.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor P Daniels.
10 Finance
10.1 Accounts to be approved.
10.2 In relation to AGAR – To approve:
(a) Internal Auditor’s report for the financial year 2024-2025
(b) Annual Governance Statement
(c) Accounting Statement
(d) Annual Governance and Accountability Return for the financial year ending 31st March 2025.
(e) To agree the date for the exercise of public rights.
10.3 To approve Annual Subscriptions for 2025-2026
11 Parish Matters:
11.1 Highways:
(a) A1 Crossing
(b) Hitchin Rd Speed Camera
(c) Speeding issues within the parish.
(d) Entrance gates to villages.
11.2 Planning:
(a) Review of neighbourhood plan.
(b) To discuss and identify projects for future S106.
11.3 Ickwell Green:
(a) Maintenance track
(b) Watercourse.
(c) To consider a request to use The Green for 3 classic car meets.
11.4 Upper Caldecote Green:
(a) Muddy footpath Hitchin Rd end to the tarmac towards water lane,
(b) Parking on the Green.
11.5 Allotments:
(a) Deed transfer
(b) Anglian Water
11.6 Northill Cemetery:
(a) Path
(b) Clearing the shed
(c) Topping up of graves
11.7 Caldecote Cemetery:
(a) Caldecote Cemetery donation.
(b) Ramp
(c) Bench
11.8 Other Parish Matters:
(a) Religious convention.
(b) To consider action from the Tree Survey Report.
(c) Jason Hillyard – Muntjac problems
(d) Defib Training
12 Information and communications:
12.1 General correspondence for circulation: Clerks & Council, Clerk SLCC magazines.
12.2 Temporary Road Closures:-
(a) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Zuc157 From Uc157 Warden Road Ickwell To Church End Old Warden, OLD WARDEN
13 Staff and Councillor matters.
13.1 Items for the next newsletter.
13.2 Items for the next agenda
14. To resolve that under Section 1 of the Public Bodies (Admissions to Meetings) Act and in view of the confidential nature of business about to be transacted, it is advisable in the public interest that the press and public be temporarily excluded, and they are instructed to withdraw whilst matters pertaining to item 19 are discussed.
14.1. Item in closed session.
a) Easement.
b) Councillor matters.
15. Date of next meeting – July 24th 2025
16. To note: – closure of meeting.