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 via a Zoom conference call (meeting ID 534-306-6108 password 112233) on Thursday 22nd April 2021 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 16th day of April 2021.
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 11th March and 29th March 2021.
4. To receive any 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 March 2021.
6.2 Correspondence regarding priorities for Community Policing,
7. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
7.1 Planning Minutes – 6th April 2021.
7.2 Finance & General Purposes – 8th April 2021
7.3 Community Led Housing webinar.
8 Central Bedfordshire Council
8.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor F Firth.
8.2 Local Plan Proposed Main Modifications Consultation – closing date 5th May 2021.
9 Finance
9.1 Accounts to be approved.
9.2 Draft end of year accounts 2020-21
9.3 To consider quotations for the recommended tree work following the annual tree inspection.
9.4 Notification of the receipt of the first instalment of the precept.
10. Parish Matters
10.1 Ickwell Green
An update on the Woodland play area at Ickwell Green.
10.2 Update from the Redgate Track Working Party.
10.3 To consider a Feasibility Study for the Caldecote Church Rooms project.
10.4 To consider where to store the sandbags and the sand for use in the event of flooding in the parish.
10.5 To consider the Lychgate renovation.
10.6 To consider removing the stile in St Mary’s Churchyard and replacing it with a single gate.
10.7 To consider whether to approach Highways England/CBC Highways regarding a footbridge over the A1 at Tingeys Corner.
10.8 To consider purchasing a green space at Dene Way, Upper Caldecote.
10.9 To consider the request from the WI to hold a casual socially distanced get together evening on Tuesday the 18th May on Ickwell Green.
10.10 To consider amendments to the Cemetery Regulations as recommended by the Finance & General Purposes Committee.
10.11 To consider whether to request a ‘No Left Turn for HGV’ at The Pound crossroads.
11 Information and communications
11.1 General correspondence for circulation – Clerks & Councils Direct March 2021; The Clerk March 2021.
11.2 Correspondence regarding the Great British Springclean.
11.3 Correspondence regarding the rebuilding of the Warden Road bank.
11.4 Correspondence regarding the Annual Greensand Country Festival.
11.5 Correspondence regarding the East West Rail consultation.
11.6 Consultation on the Great Barford Neighbourhood Development Plan.
11.7 Correspondence regarding parking in Manor Place, Upper Caldecote.
12 Staff and Councillor matters.
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 15 are discussed.
15 Item in closed session
To consider candidates for co-option.
16 Date of next meeting – Thursday 6th May 2021.
17 To note: – closure of meeting.
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