The next meeting is on Monday the 7th April 2025, at 7:30pm, in the Reading Room. A copy of the clerk’s notice, including the agenda is available in PDF format; a copy of the clerk’s notes are also available for offline reading. (If the clerk’s report has been updated since its first posting, changes will be shown in red.)
(the numbering on the originally-posted version of the agenda was wrong, and has since been corrected. Apologies! Please ensure you are using the version labelled 2025_04_agenda-1.pdf, and similarly 2025_04_clerks_report-1.pdf for the clerk’s report.)
A copy of the notice follows, with some punctuation and layout changes to improve accessibility, but if there is any conflict between this and the PDF version, the latter shall be deemed authoritative.
Notice of meeting on 7th April 2025
From the Clerk, Sharon Brown, on 1st April 2025:
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
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 3rd March 2025.
5. Open Forum – 30 minutes to enable members of the public to bring any matters to the attention of the Parish Council.
6. Matters Arising.
7. Crown & Cushion – update.
8. BT Phone box – update.
9. Bowls & Croquet Club – lease and lease legal costs.
10. Solar panels Project – update.
11. Cemetery bench by shed.
12. Play equipment maintenance update.
13. Playing Field – opening / closing gate.
14. Shop – Asset of Community Value.
15. RFO’s Financial Statements and Budget Review – March 2025
16. Payments for Approval.
17. Appointment of Internal Auditor.
18. Highways & Rights of Way
- any repairs or maintenance needed.
19. Correspondence
19.1 Speeding in the village.
20. Planning Applications:
20.1 REF. 25/00427/LBC – Removal of solar panels, repairs to 2 x chimney stacks and lead gutter of main roof, repair and replace timber fascia and barge boards and replacement of existing gutters. 10 East Street Great Gransden Sandy SG19 3AB.
20.2 REF. 25/00467/HHFUL – Single storey side extension/Garden room in place of existing conservatory and loft conversion with dormers and rooflights. 30 West Street Great Gransden Sandy SG19 3AU.
21. HR Committee Report and Recommendation. In line with the legislation below*, this item will be closed to the public.
22. Date of the Annual Parish Meeting: Monday 28th April 2025, commencing at 7:30 pm.
23. Date of Next Parish Council Meeting: Monday 12th May 2025, commencing at 7:30 pm.
* ‘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.’