NOTICE OF A 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 the Methodist Church Hall, Upper Caldecote on Thursday 13th March 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 7th day of March 2025
Tracy Duffy
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 23rd January 2025.
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 January & February 2024
6.2 Speed Watch update.
6.3 Walk in Session report from 23rd January 2025
7. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
7.1 Planning – draft minutes from meeting on 4th February & 4th March 2025
7.2 Update from County Committee 13th February
7.3 Update from Rural Crime Event 24th January 2025
7.4 Update from PCC event Biggleswade 20th February 2025
7.5 Update from Broom South Liaison Group Meeting – 11th March 2025.
7.6 Volunteer needed for Crime Priority Setting meeting 9th April 2025
8. Central Bedfordshire Council
8.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor P Daniels.
8.2 CB/SN/24/0284 – Street Naming for land rear of Roffen House. To discuss proposals of street names, Watchmakers Mews, Maypole Mews & Willow Tree Way.
8.3 To discuss CBC tree planting project
8.4 Update from CBC budget meeting 19th February 2025
8.5 Community Governance Review (CGR) for the whole of the council area starting on the 30th June 2025.
9 Finance
9.1 Accounts to be approved.
9.2 To note I&E for 3rd quarter. April – December 2024.
9.3 To consider a grant for the Northill Parish Film Club
9.4 To consider a grant for Northill Church Hall.
9.5 Feedback on Grants
9.6 Quotations for the annual maintenance of the accommodation track.
9.7 Notification from CBC of the grass cutting contribution for 2024/2025.
9.8 Quotation for Annual Tree Survey.
10. Parish Matters
10.1 Update on the A1 crossing. a) Underpass b) reply re pedestrian signs and widening of barrier.
10.2 Ickwell Green a) Update on annual maintenance of the accommodation track; b) An update from CBC regarding the watercourse. C) to discuss and agree on how to achieve action on the watercourse.
10.3 Update regarding 20 mph speed limit outside Northill CE Academy.
10.4 Shuttleworth Events schedule
10.5 Update on Caldecote Church Rooms.
10.6 Update Allotments.
10.7 Update on entrance gates to villages.
10.8 Update Hitchin Rd Speed Camera a) results from traffic survey b) results from FOI.
10.9 To discuss Flooding: Thorncote Road, Northill.
10.10 Update on the review of the Neighbourhood Plan.
10.11 Mayday celebrations. To consider the request for stalls marking on the green.
10.12 Update Exploratory work in field to South of Biggleswade Road
10.13 Update on Walk in Sessions.
10.14 Caldecote Green – a) To discuss a course of action for driving and parking on. b) to consider a footpath on the small green at the wide area from Water Lane to Biggleswade Road.
10.15 To consider the offer of donation to Caldecote Cemetery.
10.16 Lapwing Drive / Vinegar Hill ditch ownership
10.17 To discuss and identify projects for future S106.
10.18 To discuss traffic management of Manor Place – meeting 20th March
10.19 To review Annual Play Area inspection and agree course of action for remedial works.
11 Information and communications
11.1 General correspondence for circulation: Clerk & Council magazine.
11.2 To discuss ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ campaign.
11.3 Proposed temporary road closure, a) Thorncote Rd, Hatch / Thorncote Rd, Northill / Thorncote Green, Hatch. B) Warden Rd/ Northill Rd, Ickwell & Ickwell Rd Northill
12 Staff and Councillor matters.
12.1 Items for the next newsletter.
13. 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 14 are discussed.
Item in closed session.
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15. Date of next meeting – Thursday 24th April 2025, 1930, hours at Upper Caldecote
16. To note: – closure of meeting.