Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Parish Council Minutes 23rd June 2011

ORLINGBURY PARISH COUNCIL
Minutes of the Meeting held in the Village Hall on
Thursday 23th June 2011

71. Present:
Councillors P Allen, (Chairman), B Rootham, (Deputy), A Campbell,
N Reynolds, G Rowlett G Timms (Borough) and A McLaven (Clerk).

72.Apologies:
Councillors Norton and Meadow-Jones sent their apologies.

73. WP/2011/0225/F
Land at Orlingbury Hall Buildings adjacent 21 Harrowden Road Orlingbury - New house and access road on land at Orlingbury Hall (development within the curtilage of a Listed Building), Mr P Webb
73.1 Concerns about enlargement of proposed building footprint.

73.2 Concerns about access, on road with a 60mph speed limit with a series of bad bends. A lot of walkers and cyclists use road and traffic volume has increased since last application.

73.3 Site is outside of village envelope and compromises agreed planning regulations. Insufficient evidence exists that the planned development will harmonise with the landscape and improve amenity value overall.

73.4 Concerns about sewerage and water overflow and effect on streams and current services.

73.5 Little notice taken in Design Statement and Application of conditions in 1993 planning consent.

73.6 It was agreed Councillor Allen would produce a letter, adressing our concerns and request a site visit, and the Clerk would send a hard copy to the Planning Officer and paste the letter on the website portal.

74. Annual Return/Accounts
74.1 The Annual Return was approved

74.2 The Accounts were approved, but it was agreed to separate the auditors charges in future.

74.3 Councillor Rootham will investigate the costs of changing to the NCALC auditor as previously discussed.

74.4 The Clerk to chase the final tranche of Section 106 monies (as the final property is now occupied) and to request interest as developers have held this money for a very long time.

75. Date of next meeting.
The date of the next meeting is 21st July 2011.There being no other business the meeting closed at 7.50 pm with thanks to those attending.

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