NOTICE OF A MEETING OF NORTHILL PARISH COUNCIL
This meeting may be recorded/filmed
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 20th October 2022 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 14th day of October 2022.
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 held on the 21st July 2022.
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. Police reports July, August and September 2022.
7. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
7.1 Planning – 6th September and 4th October 2022.
7.2 Finance & General Purposes – 14th July 2022
7.3 Tree Planting Working Party.
7.4 Broom Quarry meeting – 10th October 2022.
8. Central Bedfordshire Council
8.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor F Firth.
8.2 Update on traffic issues at Northill Lower School.
9. Finance
9.1 Accounts to be approved.
9.2 Feedback on grants.
9.3 Notification of receipt of the second instalment of the precept.
9.4 Income and Expenditure to 30th September 2022.
9.5 To consider quotations for piping in the ditch at Caldecote Cemetery.
9.6 To consider grant applications.
9.7 Notification of the increase in hall hire charges from the 1st October 2022.
9.8 Notification from Mazars of the completion of the External Audit for the year ended 31st March 2022.
10.1 To approve the annual Risk Assessment as recommended by the Finance & General Purposes Committee.
10.2 To consider the grass cutting specifications as recommended by the Finance & General Purposes Committee.
11. Parish Matters
11.1 Ickwell Green a) Annual maintenance of the accommodation track. b) An update from CBC regarding the watercourse.
11.2 The restoration of the Lychgate.
11.3 Caldecote Church Rooms.
11.4 Warden Road bank
11.5 Allotments.
11.6 Completion report on dog waste bags project.
11.7 Sewage infrastructure
11.8 To consider the sustainability of new developments to access Biggleswade by foot/bicycle.
11.9 The misuse of gaps along the A1.
11.10 To consider an A1 crossing either by a footbridge or underpass.
11.11 To consider what to do regarding snakes that have been spotted in the parish.
11.12 Correspondence regarding the development at the Pound crossroads.
11.13 To consider assisting a volunteer to set up Speedwatch.
11.14 To consider winter plans for parishioners who may need help with the cost of energy.
11.15 To consider placing some raised beds around the parish and the planting of bulbs.
12 Information and communications
12.1 General correspondence for circulation: Countryside Voices Summer 2022; Clerks & Councils Direct September 2022; Bedfordshire Matters Autumn 2022; The Clerk September 2022.
13. Staff and Councillor matters.
13.1 Items for the next newsletter.
13.2 To consider dates for next year’s meetings.
13.3 Action Plan 2022/23 to include projects.
13.4 BATPC Finance Training Programme 2022-23.
13.5 To agree the poppy wreath for Remembrance Sunday.
14. a) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Hitchin Road, Upper Caldecote; b) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Caldecote Green, Upper Caldecote; c) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Bedford Road, Northill; d) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Ickwell Road, Upper Caldecote; e) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Thorncote Road, Hatch/Thorncote Road, Northill; f) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Bedford Road, Northill.
15. Items for the next agenda
16. Date of next meeting – Thursday 8th December 2022.
17. To note: – closure of meeting.