NOTICE OF MEETING OF NORTHILL PARISH COUNCIL
This meeting may be recorded/filmed
Dear Sir/Madam
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of Northill Parish Council will be held at the Methodist Church Hall, on Thursday 12th March 2026 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 6th day of March 2026
Tracy Duffy
Clerk
AGENDA
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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 22nd January 2025
4. To receive 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
6. Reports
6.1 Police reports January & February 2026
6.2 Speed Watch report.
6.3 Planning – draft minutes 3rd February (see website)
7. Central Bedfordshire Council
7.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor P Daniels.
8 Finance
8.1 Accounts to be approved.
8.2 Fixed savings account.
8.3 Insurance
8.4 UK Pothole quote for the accommodation track.
8.5 Quote for St Mary’s Wall.
9 Parish Matters:
9.1 Highways:
(a) A1 Crossing
(b) Entrance gates to villages.
(c) Pedestrian Crossing – Hitchin Rd
9.2 Planning:
(a) S106.
9.3 Ickwell:
(a) Home Farm Barns.
(b) Watercourse
(c) May Day – permission for stalls to be marked on green.
9.4 Upper & Lower Caldecote:
(a) Allotments
(b) Propose listing Upper Caldecote Church Room as an Asset of Community Value by NPC.
9.5 Other Parish Matters:
(a) AE558
(b) Community Emergency Plan
(c) CPRE Oak Tree Offer
(d) Great British Spring Clean 13th-29th March
10 Information & Correspondence
10.1 Temporary Road Closures: –
(a) Thorncote Rd, Hatch/ Thorncote Rd, Northill/ Thorncote Green, Hatch, Anglian Water – For Vac Pot Maintenance Works, From Bedford Rd to Brook End, closure will be in place from 0900-1500HRS from 18 to 19 May
(b) Blunham Road, Moggerhanger, Anglian Water – Stop Tap Replacement, outside number 17 – closure will be in place on 23rd April between the hours 0900 – 1500. Diversion Route Blunham Rd, The Ridgeway, A603 and vice versa.
(c) Warden Rd/Northill Rd, Ickwell and Ickwell Rd, Northill, Annual May day festival, Full length of each road, 4th May between 10:00 and 17:00.
(d) Kings Road, Broom, for Pole Replacement and cabling works, o/s no 2
The closure will take place from 3 to 4 June from 0800-1600, There is no alternative route for this closure.
10.2 Martyn’s Law
11 Staff and Councillor matters.
11.1 Items for the next agenda
11.2 F&GP committee members.
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 14 are discussed.
Item in closed session.
11.3 Staff appraisal
12. Date of next meeting – 26th March 2026 (annual parish meeting)
13. To note: – closure of meeting.