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 Ickwell Village Hall, Ickwell on Thursday 25th April 2024 at 7.00pm. 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 19th day of April 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 held on the 14th March 2024.
4. To receive updates on resolutions from the last meeting (Clerk).
5. A presentation by Jane Hubbard from CBC regarding reviewing the Neighbourhood Plan.
6. Open forum for 10 minutes to allow members of the press and public to speak on any open agenda item.
7.1 Police reports March 2024.
7.2 Speed Watch update.
8. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
8.1 Planning – 2nd April 2024.
8.2 Finance & General Purposes – 11th April 2024.
8.3 P3 Group – 22nd November 2023 and 13th March 2024
8.4 Police Priority Setting meeting – 10th April 2024
9. Central Bedfordshire Council
9.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor P Daniels.
9.2 CBC’s response regarding the DMMO application.
9.3 CBC’s Settlement Audit.
9.4 CBC’s consultation on the Local Transport Plan
10 Finance
10.1 Accounts to be approved.
10.2 Income & Expenditure to 31st March 2024 and draft accounts for 2023/24.
10.3 Notification of receipt of first instalment of precept for 2024/25.
11. Parish Matters
11.1 Ickwell Green a) To consider quotations for the annual maintenance of the accommodation track; b) An update from CBC regarding the watercourse; c) To consider what to do with the mistletoe when it is removed from the tree; d) Correspondence regarding setting up a book exchange point near the play area; e) To consider pruning the Cherry tree near to the vehicular entrance of Colemoreham Court.
11.2 Caldecote Church Rooms.
11.3 Allotments a) Questions raised by F&GP; b) To consider the proposed storage unit.
11.4 To consider entrance gates to the villages.
11.5 An update on the A1 crossing.
11.6 An update on the 20mph outside Northill CE Academy.
11.7 Update on flooding issues in the parish.
11.8 To consider the aspirations of the Neighbourhood Plan.
11.9 Thorncote Road safety concerns in the non 30mph limit.
11.10 Christmas lights.
11.11 Parking on Caldecote Green including the Fish & Chip van.
11.12 To consider light-up speed monitors for Thorncote Green and Hatch.
11.13 Warden Road bank.
11.14 Response from IDB and Anglian Water to NPC’s letters.
11.15 To consider the Annual Tree Survey.
12 Information and communications
12.1 General correspondence for circulation: CPRE 2024 Members Guide; Countryside Voices Spring/Summer 2024.
12.2 Consultation on Cople Draft Neighbourhood Plan
13. Staff and Councillor matters.
13.1 Items for the next newsletter – a suggestion to include school numbers and numbers of new houses approved since the last newsletter.
13.2 BATPC Training programme.
14. a) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Hill Lane, Upper Caldecote/Caldecote Road, Ickwell/B658 from Broom Crossroads to Hill Lane, Old Warden; b) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Stanford Road, Southill; c) Next phase – Proposed Temporary Road Closure -Bedford Road, Old Warden; d) Next phase – Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Ickwell Green, Ickwell; e) Next phase – Proposed Temporary Road Closure – ZUC148 from Warden Manor Farm, Bedford Road UC147 to UC130 Keepers, Old Warden; f). Proposed Temporary footpath and bridleways closure for the Shuttleworth Air Shows.
15. Items for the next agenda
16. 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 17 are discussed.
17 Item in closed session.
a) Correspondence regarding easement G.
b) To consider candidates for co-option.
18. Date of next meeting – Annual Meeting Thursday 30th May 2024.
19. To note: – closure of meeting.