NOTICE OF 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 Methodist Church Hall, Upper Caldecote, on Thursday 23rd July 2026 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 17th day of July 2026
Tracy Duffy
Clerk
AGENDA
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1. To receive apologies for absence.
2 To receive declarations of interest from councillors on items on the agenda that have not previously been registered.
2.1 To receive any written requests for dispensations for disclosable pecuniary interests.
2.2 To grant any requests for dispensations as appropriate.
3. To approve the minutes of the annual parish council meeting held on the 28th May 2026
4. To receive updates on resolutions from the last meeting (Clerk).
5. Open forum for 10 minutes to allow members of the press and public to speak on any open agenda item.
6. Reports
6.1 Police reports for May & June
6.2 Speed Watch report.
6.3 F&GP – draft minutes 09.07.26 (on website)
6.4 Planning – draft minutes from 02.06.26 & 07.07.26 (on website)
7. Central Bedfordshire Council
7.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor P Daniels.
8. Finance
8.1 Accounts to be approved.
8.2 Fixed term account.
8.3 Consider quote for shark teeth on ramps on the accommodation track.
8.4 Grant – Northill Village Hall
8.5 Grant – Northill Parochial Church Council
8.6 To consider quotes re tree survey.
9. Parish Matters:
9.1 Highways:
(a) CBC road safety partnership offer
(b) Entrance gates to villages.
(c) Pedestrian Crossing – Hitchin Rd
(d) Traffic calming on Biggleswade Road, Upper Caldecote.
(e) To consider no parking zone at bus stop, outside All Saints, Upper Caldecote.
9.2 Planning:
(a) S106.
(b) Parish Online
(c) Picnic Area – Lychfield Close, Northill.
(d) CBC Call for Sites
9.3 Ickwell:
(a) Home Farm Barns.
(b) Watercourse
(c) Local community event featuring food vendors and artisan stall holders on the Green request.
9.4 Upper & Lower Caldecote:
(a) Allotments, Land registry deeds,
(b) Trustees of the Harvey Cottages Charity
(c) Caldecote Church Rooms
(d) Flower bed / box at The Pound
(e) Flooding Ickwell Rd / Skylarks
(f) To consider memorial tree on Caldecote Green.
9.5 Northill:
(a) St. Mary’s church, wall, stile / gate
10. Other Parish Matters:
(a) Strategic Plan & Projects for 2027-2028
(b) Dog Exercise Field
(c) To agree on variety and location of any new trees within the parish.
11 Information & Correspondence
11.1 Temporary Road Closures: –
(a) Ickwell Road, Northill, Kerbing Works, from Bedford Road to The Bridge, Date: 10th August to 11th September for 24hrs a day. Diversion Route Thorncote Road, Vinegar Hill , Ickwell Rd and vice versa.
(b) Biggleswade Road, Upper Caldecote, resurface carriageway and footpaths. Junction of Maise gardens for approx. 50m east, 5 to 9 October for 24hrs a day, Diversion Route – A1, A603, Hitchin Rd and vice versa.
12. Correspondence –
(a) SLCC ‘The Clerk’ magazine.
(b) Clerks & Councils Direct magazine
13 Staff and Councillor matters.
13.1 Items for the next agenda
13.2 CiLCA for clerk.
13.3 NPC open surgeries.
13.4 Dates, times for 2027 meetings
14 Date of next meeting – 10th September 2026
15. To note: – closure of meeting.