Parish Council Meeting, October 2022

The next meeting is on the 3rd of October. A copy of the acting clerk’s notice notice, including the agenda, follows below; the notice is also available in PDF format, as is a copy of the clerk’s notes.

(Please note that the agenda originally posted, dated 28/09/22, has been updated. The PDF and the copy below have been corrected, but the clerk’s notes remain unchanged.)


From the clerk, Sharon Brown, 28/09/22:

The Next Meeting of the Parish Council will be held in The Reading Room on  Monday 3rd  October 2022 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 meeting on 5th September 2022.

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

6. Matters Arising.     

  1. Neighbourhood Development Plan – HDC Consultation concludes on 7th October.
  2. Multi Use Games Area – update from meeting with public, maintenance contract.
  3. Dog Poo Bins, costings and progress.
  4. ACV on Crown & Cushion.
  5. GGPC Website.
  6. EWR Meeting 26th September, (verbal update from Councillor Catmur).

7. Playground Maintenance and Development.

8. Reading Room Cottage Water Supply.

9. Clerk’s Financial Statement.  For September 2022 and Budget Review.

10. Payments for Approval.

11. Highways.

  • Any repairs or maintenance needed.
  • Caxton Road.
  • Footpaths (Councillor Rowbotham).
  • Transport Strategies Huntingdonshire & Fenland.
  • LHI Process 2023/24.
  • Great Gransden 20MPH Zone – Formal Consultation.

12. Correspondence.   

  1. Memorial Bench update.
  2. St Neots Museum Funding request.
  3. Mill Weir.
  4. Warm Spaces activity.
  5. Waresley Woods Closure.
  6. Burial Policy.
  7. Oil Brokerage.
  8. The Stukeleys Neighbourhood Plan Submission.

13. Planning.

13.1.     PARISH COUNCIL CONSULTATION – APPLICATION REF. 22/01994/HHFUL.

Erection of cartlodge/store to rear of dwelling 36 – 38 Church Street Great Gransden.

13.2      PARISH COUNCIL CONSULTATION – APPLICATION REF. 22/01623/HHFUL.

Construction of new metal storage barn.  46 Meadow Road Great Gransden SG19 3BB.

13.2.     DMC Meeting report from September 26th.

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

15. Next Meeting Monday 7th November 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.’