From the locum parish clerk, Diane Taylor, 30 March 2022:
The Next Meeting of the Parish Council will be held in The Reading Room on Monday 18th May 2022 at 7:30pm. 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.
(The Agenda can be viewed offline by downloading the attached PDF file. Also available in PDF form is the Clerk’s report.)
Agenda
1. Silent Prayer.
2. Election of Chairman and signing of Declaration of Acceptance of Office.
3. Apologies for absence.
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. Election of Officers.
1. Election of Vice Chairman.
2. Cemetery Manager.
3. Playing Field Manager.
4. Reading Room Committee Representative.
5. Gransden Society Representative.
6. Sportsfield Association Representative.
7. Tree Warden.
8. Little Gransden Airfield Local Consultative Committee Representative and Gliding Club Consultative Committee Representative.
9. Communications Officer.
6. Minutes. Consideration of the minutes of the meetings on 4th April 2022 and 21st April 2022 and the Annual Parish Meeting on 21st April 2022.
7. Open Forum for 15 minutes to enable members of the public to bring any matters to the attention of the Parish Council.
8. Matters Arising.
1. Neighbourhood Development Plan – update and working party.
2. Multi-Use Games Area – update on repairs.
3. Playground Area – update.
4. Jubilee Tree – report from Cllr Capps.
5. Risk Assessments – update from Cllr Day.
6. Recruitment of Replacement Clerk/RFO – update.
9. Parish Council Insurance for 2022/23. To consider the renewal premium and sums assured.
10. Reading Room Cottage. Insurance renewal for 2022/23.
11. Cemetery Trees. To approve the quote for the additional tree work.
12. Clerk’s Financial Statement. For April 2022 and Budget Review.
13. Payments for Approval to include approval of fencing quote for Reading Room Cottage.
14. Mandene Gardens Play Area.
15. Crown & Cushion Public House.
16. Parish Council Vacancy/Co-option.
17. Play Equipment and Muga Annual Inspection.
18. Highways.
- Any repairs or maintenance needed;
- LHI Bid 2022/23.
19. Little Gransden Aerodrome Local Consultative Committee. Report by Cllr Capps.
20. Correspondence.
1. Dog Mess.
2. Fencing along Sand Road.
3. County Broadband.
4. Luton Aircraft Noise.
5. Cambridgeshire Crimestoppers – request for volunteers.
6. Adoption by HDC of The Landscape and Townscape Supplementary Planning Document (2022).
21. Planning.
21.1. PARISH COUNCIL CONSULTATION – APPLICATION REF. 22/00879/S73: Variation of condition C20 (off site works as per plan prior to commencement) for 17/01375/OUT to reconcile the approved planning drawings pursuant to condition 20 with the associated completed off-site Section 278 works.Land North East of Mandene Gardens Great Gransden
21.2. Hayfield Homes Development, Sand Road, Great Gransden. Correspondence on light pollution.
21.3. PARISH COUNCIL CONSULTATION – APPLICATION REF. 22/00981/LBC
The proposal is to fit PV solar panels to certain of the roof aspects together with ancilliary battery storage and cables, 2 Church Street Great Gransden.
21.4. MUGA (Former Tennis Court), Fox Street, Great Gransden Breach of Condition 4 of 18/00507/FUL (Opening hours).
22. HR Committee Update. In line with the legislation below*, this item will be closed to the public
23. Next Meeting Monday 6th June 2022 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.’