The next meeting is on Monday the 6th of November. A copy of the clerk’s notice, including the agenda, follows; it is also available in PDF format, as is a copy of the clerk’s notes. Note: The link to the clerk’s notes points at a revised version that was circulated to councillors and posted here before the meeting, with the new/amended sections indicated in red.
From Sharon Brown, Clerk, 31/11/2023:
The Next Meeting of the Parish Council will be held in The Reading Room on Monday 6th November 2023 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 2nd October2023.
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 / for information:
- Noticeboards repair.
- Tree Survey.
- Gigaclear works – concerns.
- Sewer leak Mandene Brook.
- Playing Field – MUGA.
- Cambs ACRE – Housing Needs Survey
- E-W Rail Huntingdonshire / South Cambridgeshire Local Representatives Group – October meeting.
7. Crown & Cushion – Asset of Community Value.
8. Green Space Land North East of Mandene Gardens. S106 Agreement under planning application 17/01375/OUT (‘Dutton Gardens openspace’).
9. Gransden & District Bowls Club – lease.
11. RFO’s Financial Statement October 2023 and Budget Review.
12. Payments for Approval
13. Bank signatories – update.
14. Councillor email addresses.
15. Precept proposal / Budget Review 2024-25.
16. Risk Register – update.
17. Highways – any repairs or maintenance needed.
- LHI bid – Autumn 2023 bidding round.
- Waresley Road flooding – update.
- Meadow Road closure – Anglian Water – 23-1362 Proposed TTRO – Meadow Road (B1046), Great Gransden 11/12/23 to 13/12/23
18. Correspondence:
- St Neots Museum Funding.
- Public Rights of Way Officer – Huntingdonshire.
- Greater Cambridge Statement of Community Involvement consultation 18/10 – 5pm, 29/11/2023.
- Cambridge Gliding Club Consultative Committee Meeting 8/11/23 and Minutes 5/4/23.
19. Planning Applications: REF. 23/01997/FUL Extension to existing warehouse, Aquadistri Uk, Highbury Fields, Eltisley Road, Great Gransden, Sandy, SG19 3AR.
20. HR Committee Update. In line with the legislation below*, this item will be closed to the public.
21. Date of Next Meeting: Monday 4th December 2023 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.’