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 Methodist Church Hall, Upper Caldecote on Thursday 27th January 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 21st day of January 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 meeting held on 9th December 2022.
4. To receive any updates on resolutions from the last meetings. (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 November and December 2021.
6.2 Community Priority Setting Meeting 2nd February at 6pm.
7. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
7.1 Planning Minutes – 7th December 2021 and 11th January 2022.
7.2 Finance & General Purposes Committee – 13th January 2022.
7.3 Tree Planting Working Party.
7.4 Town and Parish Conference – 15th December 2021.
8 Central Bedfordshire Council
8.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor F Firth.
8.2 An Update on the road safety issues at Northill Lower School.
9 Finance
9.1 Accounts to be approved.
9.2 Feedback on grants.
9.3 To consider the appointment of an Internal Auditor.
9.4 Income and Expenditure to 31st December 2021.
9.5 To consider the recommendation from the Finance & General Purposes to accept a quotation for the replacement fencing at All Saints Churchyard.
9.6 Notification from CBC of the receipt of the Ward Cllr grant.
9.7 Notification from CBC of the receipt of the grass cutting contribution for 2021/22.
10. Parish Matters
10.1 Ickwell Green a) Annual maintenance of the accommodation track b) An update from CBC regarding the watercourse c) Hire Agreement for the Platinum Jubilee event on Ickwell Green.
10.2 The restoration of the Lychgate.
10.3 Caldecote Church Rooms.
10.4 The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
10.5 Warden Road bank.
10.6 Emergency Plan a) to review the plan. b) to consider what flood equipment is needed.
10.7 To consider applying for Rural Match Funding.
10.8 To consider street names for the development at The Pound crossroads.
10.9 Correspondence regarding traffic issues in the parish.
10.10 To consider when to review the Neighbourhood Plan.
10.11 To consider how to dispose of the two bags of soil at Northill Cemetery.
10.12 Correspondence from the PCC regarding a conservation area in the Churchyard.
11 Information and communications
11.1 General correspondence for circulation – Clerks & Councils Direct January 2022; The Clerk January 2022.
12. Staff and Councillor matters.
12.1 To consider whether a councillor representative should apply to join BATPC County Committee.
12.2 To consider whether to have a permanent memorial to Helen Papworth.
13. Proposed Temporary Road Closure Stanford Road, Southill.
14. Items for the next agenda
15. Date of next meeting – Thursday 10th March 2022.
16. To note: – closure of meeting.