The next meeting is on Monday the 4th of March 2024. A copy of the clerk’s notice, including the agenda, is available in PDF format; in addition, a copy of the clerk’s notes are also downloadable in PDF format.
From Sharon Brown, Clerk, 27/02/2024:
The Next Meeting of the Parish Council will be held in The Reading Room on Monday 4th March 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 8th January 2024.
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.
- Mandene Gardens and Dutton Gardens open space areas – report of site meeting with HDC.
7. Churchyard management.
8. Tree management – quotes.
9. RFO’s Financial Statement February 2024 and Budget Review.
10. Payments for Approval.
11. Internal Audit – appointment of auditor.
12. Highways & Rights of Way:
- any repairs or maintenance needed.
- LHI bid – Caxton Road.
- Caxton Road pavement.
- A428 Community Fund bids.
- Little Lane to Playing Field access.
- Sportsfield car park.
- Meadow Road speeding.
- Cemetery bridge retaining wall – update.
- Waresley Road flooding – update.
- Sand Road / Mill Road junction and nearby– update.
- A428 road closure – liaison Little Gransden PC – re. a weight limit: – update.
- Highways correspondence:
- Weeds Strategy – Highways, CCC.
13. Correspondence
13.1 King Charles III portrait.
13.2 Yarn installation – at village sign.
13.3 MUGA – slippery surface.
14. Planning Applications:
- REF. 22/00390/FUL and 22/00223/LBC (Land at Audley Barns, Great Gransden) – update.
15. HR Committee Update. In line with the legislation below*, this item will be closed to the public
16. Date of Next Meeting: Monday 8th April 2024 which will commence at 7.30pm.
17. Date of the Annual Parish Meeting: Monday 22nd April 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.’