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 21st July 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 15th day of July 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 meetings held on the 19th and 26th May 2022.
4. To receive updates on resolution 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. To consider the following planning application CB/22/01975/FULL – Land rear to Roffen House, Tompions End, Ickwell SG18 9EN – conversion of existing outbuildings to 1 no 2-bed and 1 no 3-bed dwellings and erection of 2 no new 3-bed dwellings, total 4 no dwellings off existing access to Northill Road.
7. Police reports May and June 2022.
8. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
8.1 Planning – 7th June and 5th July 2022
8.2 Public Meeting Notes – 19th May 2022.
8.3 Tree Planting Working Party – the grant process.
8.4 BATPC meeting – 9th June 2022.
9. Central Bedfordshire Council
9.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor F Firth.
9.2 Update on traffic issues at Northill Lower School.
9.3 CBC’s assessment of playing pitch and outdoor sport facilities.
10. Finance
10.1 Accounts to be approved.
10.2 Income & Expenditure to 30th June 2022.
10.3 Optimum balance that NPC should hold.
10.4 To consider quotations for tree works in the parish.
10.5 Feedback on grants.
10.6 To consider quotations for piping in the ditch at Caldecote Cemetery.
11. Parish Matters
11.1 Ickwell Green a) Annual maintenance of the accommodation track; b) An update from CBC regarding the watercourse; c) To consider a request to hold a fund-raising fete on Ickwell Green; d) To consider a request to hold a classic car event on the 5th August.
11.2 The restoration of the Lychgate.
11.3 Caldecote Church Rooms.
11.4 a) Warden Road bank; b) Correspondence received from a resident.
11.5 The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
11.6 Update on dog waste bags project.
11.7 Correspondence regarding traffic issues in Upper Caldecote.
11.8 Allotments.
11.9 Correspondence from Hedgehogs R Us.
11.10 Electric charging points in the parish.
11.11 To consider applying to place the Post Office in Upper Caldecote on the CBC Community Asset Register.
11.12 Correspondence regarding the closure of the central reservation at Tingey’s Corner and the increase in the number of football teams playing at Upper Caldecote.
11.13 Correspondence regarding proposed street names at Woodlands Nurseries.
11.14 To consider supporting Upper Caldecote Methodist Church’s grant application to Broom Quarry South Liaison Group.
11.15 To consider an A1 crossing.
12 Information and communications
12.1 General correspondence for circulation – Clerks & Councils Direct – July 2022; The Clerk – July 2022.
13. Staff and Councillor matters.
13.1 Items for the next newsletter.
13.2 To consider venues for next year’s meetings.
13.3 The clerk’s annual leave.
14. a) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Bedford Road, Northill; b) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Northill Road, Ickwell.
15. Items for the next agenda
16. Date of next meeting – Thursday 8th September 2022.
17. To note: – closure of meeting.