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 26th October 2023 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 20th day of October 2023.
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 September 2023.
4. To receive updates on resolutions from the last meeting (Clerk).
5. Brief presentation from David White regarding a feasibility study for a potential underpass at FP 7 under the A1.
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 September 2023.
7.2 Speed Watch update.
8. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
8.1 Planning – 3rd October 2023.
8.2 Finance & General Purposes – 12th October 2023.
8.3 BATPC AGM.
9. Central Bedfordshire Council
9.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor P Daniels.
9.2 CBC Salt Bag Scheme.
9.3 Correspondence from CBC regarding Safer Communities Events.
10. Finance
10.1 Accounts to be approved.
10.2 Feedback on grants.
10.3 Income & Expenditure to 30th September 2023.
10.4 To consider purchasing 4 bleed kits for the parish as recommended by the Finance & General Purposes Committee.
11. To approve the annual Risk Assessment as recommended by the Finance & General Purposes Committee.
12. Parish Matters
12.1 Ickwell Green a) Annual maintenance of the accommodation track; b) An update from CBC regarding the watercourse; c) A request from ICC to install a cycle rack; d) A response from ICC regarding the disability access work.
12.2 Caldecote Church Rooms.
12.3 Allotments.
12.4 An update on the raised flower beds.
12.5 An update on the 20mph at Bedford Road, Northill
12.6 To consider entrance gates to the villages.
12.7 An update on the A1 crossing
12.8 To review the Emergency Plan.
12.9 Update on additional defibrillator and East Anglian Air Ambulance training session.
12.10 Land at Lower Caldecote.
12.11 Correspondence requesting support against a decision made by a Planning Inspectorate for a development in Staffordshire.
13 Information and communications
13.1 General correspondence for circulation: Countryside Voices Autumn/Winter 2023
13.2 Correspondence regarding Slow Ways national walking network.
14. Staff and Councillor matters.
14.1 Questions for Richard Fuller MP.
14.2 Items for the next newsletter.
14.3 To consider what action NPC needs to take to further the general biodiversity objective (conservation and enhancement of biodiversity).
15. a) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – Sand Lane, Northill; b) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – ZUC147 from UC150 Bedford Road, Old Warden to B658 Bedford Road, Old Warden; c) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – St Johns Road, Moggerhanger; d) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – The Village, Old Warden; e) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – High Street, Shefford; f) Proposed Temporary Road Closure – B658 from Broom crossroads to Hill Lane, Old Warden, Broom/Broom Road, Stanford/Shefford Road, Stanford – change of dates.
16. Items for the next agenda
17. 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 18 are discussed.
18 Item in closed session.
Correspondence regarding easement G.
19. Date of next meeting – Thursday 14th December 2023.
20. To note: – closure of meeting.