Parish Council meeting, January 2022

From the locum parish clerk, Diane Taylor:

The Next Meeting of the Parish Council will be held in The Reading Room on Monday10th January 2022
at 7:30pm with Giles Scott 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. The agenda is set out below, and is also available in PDF form – as is the clerk’s report to the parish Council.

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 meeting of the Full Council on 6th December 2021.
  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.
    6.1. Neighbourhood Plan – Update.
    6.2 Use & management of the MUGA – draft policy.
    6.3. Speeding Vehicles – cost of MVAS signs.
  7. Recruitment of Replacement Clerk from March 2022.
  8. Clerk’s Financial Statement. For December 2021 and Budget Review.
  9. Payments for Approval.
  10. Great Gransden Church Wall – structural engineers report.
  11. Reading Room Cottage Repairs – update.
  12. Highways. Any repairs or maintenance needed.
  13. Correspondence
    13.1 Letter from HDC – CIL Funding Round 2.
    13.2 Letter from CCC – Celebrating Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
  14. Planning
    14.1 PARISH COUNCIL CONSULTATION – APPLICATION REF. 21/01851/HHFUL
    Single storey rear extension with pitched roof and internal layout changes
    30 Winchfield Great Gransden Sandy SG19 3AN

    14.2 PARISH COUNCIL CONSULTATION – APPLICATION REF. 21/02673/HHFUL
    Proposed rear and side extensions, ridge height of existing extension to be raised to create additional rooms, demolition of garage and re-build brick boundary wall to match existing.
    1 Middle Street Great Gransden Sandy SG19 3AD

    14.3. PARISH COUNCIL CONSULTATION – APPLICATION REF. 21/02728/HHFUL
    Fit 18 solar panels onto our Garage and shed, these are detached outbuildings.
    The Manor House 10 Manor Lane Great Gransden Sandy SG19 3RA

    14.4. Hayfield Homes Development, Sand Road, Great Gransden. Recent correspondence on light pollution.
  15. Review of HR Policies.
    In line with the legislation below*, this item will be closed to the public
  16. Next Meeting Monday 7th February 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.’