Parish Council meeting, November 2024

The next meeting is on Monday the 4th of November, 2024. 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.

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

From the Clerk, Sharon Brown, on 29 October 2024:

The next meeting of the Parish Council will be held in The Reading Room on Monday 4th November 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

  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 7th October 2024.
  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.
    6.1 RoSPA Play Safety Inspection Reports – update and quotes.
    6.2 Mandene Gardens ‘play area’ and Dutton Gardens ‘greenspace’.
    6.3 Winchfield greenspace – PC meeting with residents.
    6.4 Cemetery bench – update.
  7. Meeting with Ian Sollom, MP.
  8. Reading Room – veranda drain.
  9. Reading Room Cottage – update.
  10. Mowing Specifications for cemetery and churchyard – proposed specifications.
  11. Bowling & Croquet Club – fencing and hedging.
  12. Defibrillator pads.
  13. Poor’s Land – correspondent.
  14. RFO’s Financial Statements and Budget Review – October 2024
  15. Payments for Approval.
  16. Draft Budget V2 & Precept proposal 2025/26.
  17. Highways & Rights of Way
    • any repairs or maintenance needed.
    • LHI round 2025/26
    • Meeting with Local Highways Officer – report.
  18. Correspondence and Consultations
    18.1 HDC Local Plan Engagement – 18th September to 27th November 2024.
    18.2 Government consultation – Enabling remote attendance and proxy voting at local authority meetings 24/10 – 19/12/24.
    18.3 Solar carports for village carparks.
    18.4 Bowls & Croquet Club – request for support and funding for new mower.
  19. Planning Applications: None.
  20. HR Committee Update. In line with the legislation below*, this item will be closed to the public.
  21. Date of Next Parish Council Meeting: Monday 2nd December 2024, to 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.’