Parish Council meeting, January 2024

The next meeting is on Monday the 8th of January 2024. A copy of the clerk’s notice, including the agenda, follow and is also available in PDF format; a copy of the clerk’s notes are also downloadable in PDF format.


From Sharon Brown, Clerk, 02/01/2024:

The Next Meeting of the Parish Council will be held in The Reading Room on Monday 8th January 2024 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.  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.

4.  Minutes.  Consideration of the minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on 4th December 2023.

5.  Open Forum – 15 minutes to enable members of the public to bring any matters to the attention of the Parish Council.

6.  Matters Arising.

7.  Crown & Cushion – Asset of Community Value.

8. RFO’s Financial Statement December 2023 and Budget Review.

9. Payments for Approval.

10. BT contract.

11. Highways & Rights of Way

  • any repairs or maintenance needed.
  • A428 Community Fund.

Highways correspondence.

  • Disability space on Caxton Road.
  • Drainage on Sand Road/Mill Road junction.
  • Meadow Road speeding.
  • Suggestions for A428 legacy fund.
  • Local Transport and Connectivity Plan approved.
  • Highways and Streetlighting Contracts – Stakeholder surveys.

12. Correspondence

  • Pizza van parking – 400 degrees.

13. Planning Consultation

  • Review of the Huntingdonshire Local List.

14. Planning Applications:

14.1 22/00390/FUL & 22/00223/LBC – Barns, East Street, Great Gransden.

14.2 23/02127/LBC – 1 Fox Street, RETROSPECTIVE Renovation of 4 windows on the South elevation and 1 on the north elevation.

15. HR Committee Update. In line with the legislation below*, this item will be closed to the public

16. Date of Next Meeting: Monday 5th February 2024 which will 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.’