NOTICE OF A MEETING OF NORTHILL PARISH COUNCIL
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Dear Sir/Madam
Notice is hereby given a meeting of Northill Parish Council will be held at the Methodist Church Hall, Upper Caldecote on Thursday 12th September 2024 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 6th day of September 2024.
Lesley Rowe
Clerk
AGENDA
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 meeting of the parish council held on the 18th July 2024.
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.
6.1 Police reports July and August 2024.
6.2 Speed Watch update.
6.3 Notification of the OPCC and NFU Rural Crime Event 2024 to be held on the 6th November 2024.
6.4 Notification of Priority Setting Meeting on 9th October 2024.
7. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
7.1 Finance & General Purposes – 11th July 2024.
7.2 P3 Group – 24th July 2024.
8. Central Bedfordshire Council
8.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor P Daniels.
8.2 Correspondence from CBC regarding the Festival in Northill held in June.
8.3 CBC’s engagement on Rural Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans. (LCWIPs).
8.4 CBC’s Local Plan Engagement which closes on the 23rd September 2024.
8.5 Electric Vehicle Charging Points.
8.6 CBC S106 Training.
9 Finance
9.1 Accounts to be approved.
9.2 Feedback on grants.
9.3 To consider purchasing Speed Watch signs.
9.4 To consider 3 replacement trees plus 2 further ones.
9.5 To consider renewing the annual CPRE membership at the current rate of £60 or increasing the amount.
9.6 Notification from Mazars of the completion of the External Audit for the year ended 31st March 2024.
9.7 Notification from CBC of the second instalment of the precept.
10. Parish Matters
10.1 Ickwell Green a) Update on annual maintenance of the accommodation track; b) An update from CBC regarding the watercourse.
10.2 Caldecote Church Rooms.
10.3 Allotments a) Update; b) Fencing; c) Storage container.
10.4 Update on entrance gates to the villages.
10.5 An update on the A1 crossing.
10.6 To consider the report to be given at Traffic Management Committee regarding the 20mph speed limit outside Northill CE Academy on 24th September at 10.00am.
10.7 Update on flooding issues in the parish.
10.8 To consider the aspirations of the Neighbourhood Plan.
10.9 Thorncote Road safety concerns in the non 30mph limit and within the 30mph at Thorncote Green and Hatch.
10.10 Christmas lights.
10.11 Update on the review of the Neighbourhood Plan.
10.12 To consider requesting National Highways install ‘Beware Pedestrians Crossing’.
10.13 To consider a book exchange point in Upper Caldecote.
10.14 To consider the planting of trees in a Conservation Area.
10.15 To consider reports of speeding in Upper Caldecote.
10.16 Correspondence regarding the footpath from Ickwell to Northill.
10.17 To consider the new design for the Caldecote Cemetery ramp.
11 Information and communications
11.1 General correspondence for circulation: Clerks & Councils Direct September 2024.
11.2 Correspondence from Magpas Air Ambulance regarding fund raising ideas.
12. Staff and Councillor matters.
12.1 Items for the next newsletter.
12.2 To consider dates for next year’s meetings.
12.3 To confirm the appointment of the new clerk on a 6-month probationary period.
12.4 BATPC Training Programme.
12.5 Correspondence from Richard Fuller MP regarding the Festival in Northill.
12.6 To co-opt PW onto the Planning Committee.
13. Items for the next agenda
14. a) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Thorncote Road, Hatch/Northill Thorncote Green, Hatch; b) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Warden Road, Ickwell; c) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Northill Road, Northill; d) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Roundabout – Kingshill/Hill Lane Crossroad, Old Warden/Hitchin Road/Hill Lane, Upper Caldecote
15. 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 16 are discussed.
16 Item in closed session.
Correspondence regarding easement G.
17. Date of next meeting – Thursday 24th October 2024.
18. To note: – closure of meeting.