Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Parish Council Minutes 24th Nov 2011

ORLINGBURY PARISH COUNCIL
Minutes of the Meeting held in the Village Hall on
Thursday 24th November 2011

120. Present:
Councillors P Allen, (Chairman), A Campbell,
P Meadow-Jones, Councillor G Timms and A McLaven (Clerk).

121. Apologies:
Apologies were received and accepted from N Reynolds and B Rootham,

122. Open Session for the public
There were no members of the public in attendance.

123. Minutes of 19th September
The agreed corrections having been made these were signed as a true and correct record. Proposed A Campbell seconded P Meadow-Jones, All in favour.

124. Minutes of 6th October and matters arising.
These were signed as a true and correct record, proposed A Campbell seconded P Meadow-Jones, All in favour.

125. Minutes of 20th October and matters arising.
125.1 These were signed as a true and correct record, proposed P Meadow-Jones seconded A Campbell, All in favour.

125.2 -116.2 The final tranche of the section 106 monies has been received.

125.3 115.7 The Development focus meeting will now meet in early January.

125.4 115.8 Councillor Allen will talk to OOAPS on 6th December regarding the village sign and lectern, asking for any village history recent past included.

125.5 Helen Howard has agreed to put returns on the gateways.

126. Parking on Public Footpaths.
126.1 Cars are being parked on the footpath, by the post box and the public telephone. This makes it difficult for people using the footpath, especially if they are wheelchair users, or pushing pushchairs. It was felt best to write to all residents in that area advising them of the problem. It was also agreed to raise the general problem of parking on footpaths and pavements into the newsletter.

126.2 Several residents have driveways that have been extended straight to the highway. This is an inherited problem that should have been dealt with in the past as the infringements occurred.

127. Boundary Commission recommendations for the North Ward.
127.1 The Boundary Commission are looking to reorganise the constituency boundaries. There suggestion is that the North Ward, Orlingbury, Isham, Little and Great Harrowden, and Hardwick be put in the Kettering parliamentary constituency.

127.2 Councillor Timms explained in the past a similarly unworkable situation had occurred involving Earls Barton being placed for a period of time in the Daventry constituency.

27.3 It was agreed the Clerk should write that this is unacceptable as we have no affinity with Kettering Borough Council, all our amenities come from Wellingborough Borough Council and important links are well established with Wellingborough.

128. Developments including Centre of Village sign and Information Board.
128.1 It was agreed that the meeting for the sub-committee should take place on Thursday 8th December.

129. Results of Consultation of litter bin.
It was agreed to leave this matter until the January meeting.

130. Correspondence
130.1 WBC re-instating planning consultation information
130.2 WBC letter re changes to garden waste collection (dated 24/10 collection ceased week commencing 18/10)
130.3 Fire service – re fire at Blackbridge Farm
130.4 WBC – request for information regarding future 106 expenditure – in future, arising out of the localism bill all new properties built will incur 106 penalties, when the money is collected the borough will then spend it in the village it came from, we have updated the form they sent us.
130.5 NCC grass mowing agreement, our grant will be £217.35 for the year to cover 3 cuts of urban grass.
130.6 Email NCC
130.7 Email NCalc – re Localism Bill, many of the provisions coming into effect 1st April 2012

131. Financial matters
131.1 It was agreed to hold a precept, budgeting meeting on 10th January at 7.30 in the village hall.

131.2 It was agreed to pay for the cost of repairing the tap at the rear of the church, which services the allotments.

131.3 The following accounts were agreed for payment.

722 Orlingbury Village Hall – rent £ 15.00
723 Royal British Legion cost of wreath £ 20.00
724 Eon- electricity maintenance £243.32
725 Mrs A Mclaven – salary £ 99.40
726 Mr S Miles –petrol for mower £ 81.00

131.4 It was agreed to sign a cheque for next month’s PAYE

131.5 E-on have issued reminders for invoices we have paid, the Clerk contacted them and advised of cheques issued, but if E-on are unable to find them then we will cancel and reissue the cheques, outside of a meeting if necessary.

132. Planning
132.1 An application for a wind turbine in Pytchley on a Farm in Broughton Road had been received from Kettering Borough Council. The website was difficult to access and notice of the application was very short, not giving time for proper consultation.

133. Any Other Business
There was no other business

134. Date of next meeting.
The date of the next meeting is 19th January 2012, although there is a precept meeting for Councillors on 10th January 2012 . There being no other business the meeting closed at 9.00 pm with thanks to those attending.



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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Parish Council Minutes 20th October 2011

ORLINGBURY PARISH COUNCIL
Minutes of the Meeting held in the Village Hall on
Thursday 20th October 2011

112. Present:
Councillors P Allen, (Chairman), B Rootham, (Deputy), A Campbell,
P Meadow-Jones, N Reynolds and A McLaven (Clerk).

113. Apologies:
Councillor G Rowlett sent her apologies, as well as her resignation as a councillor. Clerk to write and thank for her long service and sterling work. She was a vibrant and useful member of the Parish Council, in particular with respect to her work on highways and footpaths, and on the development sub-committee.

114. Standing Orders:
114.1 NCalc and Northumbria Council had both provided copies of Standing Orders, which we will adapt for our use. The NCalc orders are written for a range of councils and are a very complex guide on the composition of councils, committees, practise and code of conduct. The Northumbrian ones are more succinct, providing a working guide for smaller councils.

114.2 Both suggest that Declarations of interest should be on each agenda and we will incorporate this in future agendas.

114.3 A time limit for members of the public to speak was also discussed and it was agreed to put a discressionary 5 min limit per person.

114.4 The Standing Orders also give guidance regarding the Annual review of finance and risk assessment.

114.5 It was proposed by Nicola Reynolds and seconded by Barry Rootham that we trial with the Standing Orders given to the meeting and review them at the April meeting and then review at the April meeting each year. All were in favour.

115. Development Plan
115.1 A copy of the plan is kept on record.

115.2 Although we are at the end of a 4 year period the work continues. The Government are making moves to include all villagers in consultations. We need to agree our draft priorities.

115.3 With reference to recording future Council Action it was felt we should a) log our future actions and review them to accertain whether they had been achieved, also b) log forum and Police meeting attendance.

115.4 The Development Plan for 2088-11 was discussed. We should reflect that we have achieved a lot, sometimes against a backdrop of tardiness from other major authorities. There is still much to be done and we need to keep up pressure to achieve maintenance and improvement of roads and footpaths.

115.5 The Development plan for 2011 was discussed and how the complexity of the plan for the next four years could be to communicated to the village whilst giving opportunity for meaningful contribution and consultation. It was also felt that a context of financial restraint should be underlined.

115.6 There was discussion of the lectern and sign, costed at £12,000. It was felt that there needs to be still more consultation with residents regarding these.

115.7 It was agreed to focus on Priority 3 (106 funded next steps), and Priority 2 (Roads and Pathways) work to be continued. Consultation would be particularly important on Priority 3. It was agreed that we publish a flyer reminding villagers of the history of the Section 106 developments and next steps in developments and we invite contribution and consultation. This would be mentioned within the context of the new four year development plan.

Nicola Reynolds, Allison Campbell, Pen Meadow-Jones and Peter Allen are to work on this item, which will be prepared in time for the November meeting. Details of a focus meeting to inform a sub-committee in early January will be planned. A sub-meeting will take place prior to the meeting on 24th November.

115.8 It was thought that it would be helpful for Peter Allen to attend a meeting of OOAPs to speak about Priority 3 of the Development Plan (in particular content for the centre of village sign and information lectern), and to take ideas away from the meeting.

115.9 The Emergency Plan needs re- starting, it needs some-one with time to lead a village action group to co-ordinate activities arising from the plan.

116. Correspondence
116.1 Helen Howard had met with Peter Allen following his letter thanking her for support in erecting gateways to the village, but bringing her attention to matters outstanding. Following a meeting with Councillor Allen, Mrs Howard had agreed some important additions to the gateways. We are still awaiting confirmation of new speed limits. It was noted the repeater speed signs are to be kept on Harrowden Road.

116.2 Joe Hubbard has advised that we should be receiving the third tranche of the Section 106 money shortly.

117. Financial matters
It was agreed to sign the cheque for HMRC for next months PAYE so that it can be sent off before the next meeting.

118. Any Other Business
118.1 It was agreed that a joint chair for the next few meetings would help new councillors experience the Chair role within the council, Nicola Reynolds would help at the next meeting, followed by Allison Campbell at the following meeting.

118.2 Thanks were again given to Allison Campbell and Pen Meadows-Jones for the production of the newsletter.

118.3 Clerk to contact Borough regarding the election of new councillors.

119. Date of next meeting.
The date of the next meeting is 24th November 2011. There being no other business the meeting closed at 9.15 pm with thanks to those attending.




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