Minutes June 2020
MINUTES OF THE LEGBOURNE PARISH COUNCIL MEETING HELD ONLINE (ZOOM) ON THURSDAY JUNE 22nd 2020
PRESENT Cllrs: M Chapman (Chairman), P Maw (Vice Chairman), A Hallifax, D. Harrison, C Stephenson; County Councillor S Parkin; the clerk A Claydon.
30 / 2020 CHAIRMAN’S REMARKS – The Chairman welcomed everybody to the meeting.
31 / 2020 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE – Cllr S Cole; district councillor A Grist
32 / 2020 MINUTES – the notes of the meeting on 28h May 2020 were considered and it was RESOLVED to adopt them as minutes of that meeting. (pAH cCS)
33 / 2020 DECLARATIONS OF PECUNIARY INTEREST. No changes were received or declarations made
34 / 2020 CLERK’S REPORT – there had been no further requests for assistance received either directly from residents or via LCC CVC.
35 / 2020 PLANNING APPLICATIONS: N/100/00918/20 - Planning Permission - Erection of a water boosting pumping station, generator kiosk, compressor kiosk and associated ancillary infrastructure including construction of an internal access road and surge vessel. PUMPING STATION, KENWICK HILL, KENWICK.
It was RESOLVED to make no comment on this application. (pAH sPM)
36 / 2020 STATEMENT OF LOCAL PLANNING PRINCIPLES / CONSIDERATIONS. There were no new matters to discuss at this meeting.
37 / 2020 PROJECTS. The clerk had emailed a list of projects identified via consultation with residents and local organisations in February 2020, which had a wide range of subjects and scales. Councillors were informed that there was no need to commit support to any at this stage but it would be useful to know any agreed priorities. There were a few pieces of information required in respect of one of the larger projects at the Community Centre and the Chairman agreed to make contact with his counterpart at the Centre.
County Councillor Parkin asked if there were any qualifying criteria or rules in place for projects. The clerk stated that there were not as the council had not been in a position to support local projects emanating outside the organisation until this year. Councillor Parkin indicated that she had a locally held budget which may also be directed towards one or more projects in her ward but this was subject to a time limit and that the principle of match funding may be important in determining where resources are directed to.
Members were aware that Coronavirus had affected the local position, in terms of the readiness of organisations to go ahead with ideas previously mooted and / or changing their focus to other activities (in some cases, clubs had not managed to meet since the early Spring); and the potential need to support community initiatives in the event of a “second wave”, especially during the winter, with food and necessity supply or assistance towards, say, fuel poverty. It was felt that the Council needed to try to understand how widespread and significant these needs might be.and discuss this at subsequent meetings.
38 / 2020 PARISH ISSUES -
a. Street Lighting – none reported.
b. Highway matters – Cllr Hallifax had undertaken a comprehensive exercise to identify and photograph various highway faults in the mid section of Station Road and over the length of Mill Lane. The clerk had raised faults on “Fix My Street” and was awaiting LCC’s responses. Cllr Parkin requested that the acknowledgements were forwarded on to her and compared against the monthly LCC task report
c. Parishioners’ issues – the clerk stated that newsletter had been produced this month and thus the comments previously destined for the noticeboard had been include therein.
39 / 2020 FINANCIAL MATTERS
a. Accounts to be paid/authorised: It was RESOLVED to pay the following items (pDH sAH)
Clerk’s salary & expenses May 2020 including postage
HMRC – income tax deducted - £30.70
Information Commissioners Office – Registration renewal fee £40
40 / 2020 CORRESPONDENCE – this was noted.
41 / 2020 COUNCILLORS REPORTS. none
42 / 2020 AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: internal audit; internal control statement; response to NALC consultation on code of conduct.
43 / 2020 NEXT MEETING – Monday 20th July 2020 at 7.30PM , ONLINE. Subsequent meetings are intended to return to the second Monday of each month with effect from September.
The meeting closed at 8.10 pm
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