The next meeting is on Monday the 7th of October, 2024. A copy of the clerk’s notice, including the agenda, is given below and is also available in PDF format; a copy of the clerk’s notes can also be downloaded or (depending on your browser and its settings) viewed online.
From the Clerk, Sharon Brown, on 1 October 2024:
The next meeting of the Parish Council will be held in The Reading Room on Monday 7th October 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: 9 QUORUM: 3
- Silent Prayer.
- Apologies for absence.
- 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. - Minutes. Consideration of the minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on 2nd September 2024.
- Open Forum – 15 minutes to enable members of the public to bring any matters to the attention of the Parish Council.
- Matters Arising.
6.1 MUGA 6-monthly inspection report.
6.2 Crown & Cushion – update. - RoSPA Play Safety Inspection Reports – update and quotes.
- Mandene Gardens ‘play area’ and Dutton Gardens ‘greenspace’.
- Winchfield greenspace.
- Community Right to Buy.
- Reading Room – update
- Reading Room Cottage – update.
- Mowing Specifications for cemetery and churchyard.
- RFO’s Financial Statements and Budget Review – August and September 2024
- Payments for Approval.
- Conclusion of Audit 2023/24.
- Draft Budget 2025/26.
- Highways & Rights of Way
• any repairs or maintenance needed.
• LHI bid 2024/25 – result.
• LHI round 2025/26 – Expressions of interest – by 11/10/24.
• Proposed meeting with Local Highways Officer. - Correspondence and Consultations
19.1 Banner on lychgate for F4 (Friendship, Fellowship, Food & Faith) Church services.
19.2 HDC Local Plan Engagement – 18th September to 27th November 2024.
19.3 Lithium-Ion Batteries Campaign: update 1st October.
19.4 Highways and Streetlighting Contracts for CCC – Stakeholder surveys – 2024. - Planning Applications:
None. - HR Committee Update. In line with the legislation below*, this item will be closed to the public.
- Date of Next Parish Council Meeting: Monday 4th November 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.’