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Minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on 9th October 2006 in the
Supper room of the Parish Hall at 7.45pm
Present: Councillors Horton, Ryder, Dunhill, and Cairns. Also present
were District Councillor Latham (part), a member of the press and 5 members
of the public. Dave Porter was in attendance.
1. Apologies were received from Cllrs Howey, Heslop,
Nitsch and County Cllr Thompson.
2. Minutes: The minutes of the previous meeting were agreed as a true
record.
3. Matters arising:
a. Website: Dave Porter, who is building the website, came to demonstrate
the progress on the website to date. There was some discussion as to extra
material which would be useful to the site and it was agreed how to get the
most useful things to Mr Porter. History pages relating to the two villages
would be included, the information card updated; links to other groups and
Societies in the village such as the cricket club would be initiated and
some could have their own page. It was noted that the site would always be
in flux and would be built up slowly.
b. Tender: The letter of complaint to the CEO of the County Council was having
an effect and Dick Fraser was keen to set up meetings to try and sort out
the problems. He admitted the County had not handled matters well. The chairman
suggested charging the County for all the time and costs which had been wasted
to date.
c. Weir Bridge: A quote for the work on this had been obtained and
was agreed to. It was also agreed that several of the Councillors would sort
out the stones of the weir which had come down. Mrs Stephenson offered the
loan of a small block & tackle to help.
d. Tennis Club: A further meeting is to be held to thrash out the possibilities
of the Tennis club moving it’s site. It was noted that it was all problematic
at the moment.
4. Planning
2006/1108 The Wellington, listed consent Permission granted
2006/1107 The Wellington Conditional permission
5. Correspondence:
a) General, for circulation
b) Parish Hall development fund: two letters had been received relating to
this; both asking for financial help from the Parish Council. There was some
concern that if the Parish council put the planning application through at
reduced cost, it might inhibit future comments. This would be clarified with
Tynedale council. Additionally, a document had been received from the Village
Hall Trust asking for an increase in their precept to help with repairs.
All the above will be considered at the Parish council’s budget meeting
in November. Cllr Horton agreed to let Mrs Niven know.
c. Cllrs Horton, Nitsch and Dunhill agreed to be booked on training courses
in November.
d. Cllr Cairns agreed to attend the Tynedale Planning forum meeting.
e. Following a request a letter had been received regarding the final treatment
of the knotweed. It was agreed to ask Mr Adamson if he could do the planting
of the grass seed. It was also agreed to either put up posts or a simple
fence to prevent parking.
6. Finance:
a) The financial statement and receipts were accepted by all councillors
b) The following payments were authorised by all councillors.
M F Anderton/Salary/Sept 352.42
M F Anderton/Expenses/Sept 89.45
CWC/knotweed 323.13
7. Minor matters:
Cllr Dunhill raised the issue of a pedestrian crossing or speed reduction
in the village. After some discussion, Cllr Horton agreed to raise the matter
initially when meeting with the county people about Millfield Road. Concern
was expressed about the fact that windows were being put into the Post Office
in contravention of Planning requirements. Tynedale would asked for their
view on this first before the parish council looked at further action using
the covenants. Cllr Dunhill also mentioned the NSP documents which he had
agreed to take on. He had been forwarded with a number of documents by the
County council and agreed to circulate to all councillors to respond individually,
or via himself.
The meeting closed at 9.05pm.
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