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 25th January 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 January 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 December 2023.
4. To receive updates on resolutions from the last meeting (Clerk).
5. A presentation by Paul Salmon from National Highways regarding the work that has started on the Black Cat roundabout.
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 December 2023.
7.2 Speed Watch update.
7.3 Notification of the Annual Business Conference 2024 of the Police & Crime Commissioner.
8. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
8.1 Planning – 9th January 2024.
8.2 P3 Steering Group – 22nd November 2023.
9. Central Bedfordshire Council
9.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor P Daniels.
9.2 Correspondence from CBC regarding biodiversity initiatives.
9.3 Correspondence from CBC regarding the Local Plan Briefing Note and an invitation to workshops.
10 Finance
10.1 Accounts to be approved.
10.2 Feedback on grants.
10.3 To consider covering the costs of hall hire for the P3 Group.
10.4 To consider the appointment of an internal auditor for 2023/24.
10.5 Income and Expenditure to 31st December 2023.
10.6 Correspondence from Caldecote Cricket Club regarding the final instalment to repay the loan given to them by NPC.
10.7 Notification of the employer pension contribution for 2024/25.
11. Parish Matters
11.1 Ickwell Green a) i) Annual maintenance of the accommodation track; ii) Correspondence regarding future contributions; b) An update from CBC regarding the watercourse.
11.2 Caldecote Church Rooms.
11.3 Allotments.
11.4 To consider entrance gates to the villages.
11.5 An update on the A1 crossing.
11.6 An update on the 20mph by Northill Lower School.
11.7 Update on additional defibrillator.
11.8 Update report on the aspirations of the Neighbourhood Plan.
11.9 To consider Christmas lights.
11.10 An update regarding the recent flooding issues in the parish.
12 Information and communications
12.1 General correspondence for circulation: The Clerk January 2024; Clerks & Councils Direct January 2024
12.2 Correspondence from East Anglian Air Ambulance.
12.3 Correspondence regarding a British Horse Society event.
12.4 Correspondence regarding people littering in the parish.
13. Staff and Councillor matters.
13.1 Items for the next newsletter.
13.2 BATPC Training 2023/24.
14. a) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – St Johns Road, Moggerhanger; b) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – The Village, Old Warden; c) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – ZUC148 from Warden Manor Farm, Bedford Road UC147 to UC130 Keepers, Old Warden; d) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Hitchin Road, Upper Caldecote; e) Temporary Closure of part of Footpath No 17, Northill; f) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Bedford Road, Old Walden; g) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Thorncote Road, Northill; h) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Warden Road/Northill Road/Ickwell Road, Ickwell
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 – Thursday 14th March 2024.
19. To note: – closure of meeting.