The next meeting is on Monday the 4th of December. A copy of the clerk’s notice, including the agenda is available in PDF format, as is a copy of the clerk’s notes.
(Our apologies that, due to a reconfiguration of our web hosting service, we were unable to post this notice here until the Thursday preceding the meeting. It had been posted on the noticeboard outside the Reading Room in a more timely fashion!)
From Sharon Brown, Clerk, 29/11/2023:
The Next Meeting of the Parish Council will be held in The Reading Room on Monday 4th December 2023 at 7:30pm, with Nick Ginn in the chair.
All members of the Council are hereby summoned to attend for the purposes of considering and resolving the business to be transacted at the meeting as set out below.
Members: 8. Quorum: 3
1. Silent Prayer.
2. Apologies for absence.
3. Co-option to the Parish Council – proposal.
4. Declarations of Interest.
(a) Councillors to declare any disclosable pecuniary interest in any items on the agenda:
(b) Councillors to declare any other interest in any items on the agenda.
5. Minutes. Consideration of the minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on 2nd October 2023.
6. Open Forum – 15 minutes to enable members of the public to bring any matters to the attention of the Parish Council.
7. Crown & Cushion – Asset of Community Value.
8. Playing Field – MUGA.
9. Tree Management.
10. Churchyard management.
11. Meeting with Anthony Browne MP – report.
12. RFO’s Financial Statement November 2023 and Budget Review.
13. Payments for Approval.
14. Bank account: Clerk / RFO access.
15. Highways & Rights of Way
- any repairs or maintenance needed.
- LHI bid – Autumn 2023 – support funding level.
- Rights of Way – proposed meeting.
16. Correspondence
16.1 CIL Funding Round 2023/2024 – open.
16.2 Neighbourhood Policing Team – liaison meeting.
16.3 Cemetery bridge.
17. Planning Applications:
- 23/02047/S73 Variation of condition 25 (Affordable Housing Scheme) of 17/01375/OUT.
Land North East of Mandene Gardens Great Gransden.
NOTE: This relates to the Dutton Gardens development, not the new housing at the bottom of Mandene Gardens. - 23/02047/S73 Variation of condition 25 (Affordable Housing Scheme) of 17/01375/OUT.
Land North East of Mandene Gardens Great Gransden. See note on 17.1, above. - 23/02075/S73 Variation of condition 2 (As Plans) and removal of conditions 14 (Joinery), 18 (Oak) and 19 (Corrugated Steel Roof) of 18/010909/FUL (Retrospective).
Rippington Barn 18 Church Street Great Gransden Sandy SG19 3AF. - 23/02074/S73 Variation of condition 2 (As Plans) and removal of conditions 3 (Joinery), 7 (Oak) and 8 (Corrugated Steel Roof) of 18/01910/LBC (Retrospective).
Rippington Barn 18 Church Street Great Gransden Sandy SG19 3AF. - 23/02196/FUL Retrospective planning application to retain and use units 4 & 5 including extension to Unit 5 for business use.
Land West Of Highbury Fields Eltisley Road Great Gransden. - 23/02230/HHFUL Single-storey rear extension to replace existing conservatory.
34 Church Street Great Gransden Sandy SG19 3AF. - 23/02198/FUL Erection of agricultural building, hard-standing and access track.
Land West Of 24 Little Gransden Lane Great Gransden. - 23/02096/LBC Repair of slate roof using a mixture of existing slates, and like for like reclaimed slate, and addition of insulation.
The Reading Rooms Fox Street Great Gransden Sandy SG19 3AA.
18. HR Committee Update. In line with the legislation below*, this item will be closed to the public.
19. Dates of meetings Feb 2024 / Jan 2025.
20. Date of Next Meeting: Monday 8th January 2024, to commence at 7:30pm.
*‘Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960
(2) A body may, by resolution, exclude the public from a meeting (whether during the whole or part of the proceedings) whenever publicity would be prejudicial to the public interest by reason of the confidential nature of the business to be transacted or for other special reasons stated in resolution and arising from the nature of that business or of the proceedings;
and where such a resolution is passed, this Act shall not require the meeting to be open to the public during proceedings to which the resolution applies.’