Clerk Tenders are invited for grass cutting in Broomhaugh & Riding Parish. For further information and a schedule of work, please contact Catherine Harrison, Parish Clerk – 01434 682348 or via email to ridingmillclerk@gmail.com.
Closing date: 1st February 2021
To view a copy of the Minutes from the parish council meeting held on Monday 14th September please click on Minutes 200914
BROOMHAUGH & RIDING PARISH COUNCIL
There will be an extraordinary meeting of Broomhaugh & Riding Parish Council for the purpose of considering and resolving upon the business to be transacted at the meeting as set out hereunder:
Date of Meeting: Monday 16th November 2020
Time: 7.30 pm
This meeting will be held online* – login details will be circulated to Councillors separately.
This meeting is confidential as detailed below.
Catherine Harrison, Parish Clerk
11th November 2020
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To receive: disclosures of personal and prejudicial interests from Councillors on matters to be considered at the meeting.
3. Confidential Matters: Pursuant to section 1(2) of the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 to resolve that, because of the confidential nature of the business to be transacted, the public and press should not be present during consideration of the following item (1. To consider: the quotes received for Phase 1 of the sports pavilion redevelopment, and to award the contract).
No other business is to be considered.
Date of next Council meeting: Monday 14th December
As permitted by the Local Authorities (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 No. 392, this meeting will be conducted “online”.
It has been agreed to hold a meeting of the Parish Council on Monday 9th November 2020 at 7.45 p.m.
This meeting will be held on Zoom only.
Questions to County Councillor Anne Dale will be taken from 7.15 pm, and questions from the public to the Parish Council will be taken from 7.30 pm.
For a copy of the agenda, please click here.
To view a copy of the draft Minutes from the last meeting held in September, please click here.
To join the meeting via Zoom, please use the link below or contact the Clerk for further details:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84401749460?pwd=NGhqZmpNTmIzeXZaMFNhY0x3N0tyUT09
Meeting ID: 844 0174 9460 Passcode: 607743
Understanding more about living with dementia is important at any time and, at this critical time, it is all the more important that we are all able to recognise the challenges faced by those living with dementia and those who care for them.
The isolation of the lockdown has been difficult for all of us, but so much worse when living with dementia, unable to welcome the company of family and friends and helpers which, in normal circumstances, is one of their main lifelines.
In the same way that the lockdown has prevented us playing our usual parts in the village community, bringing about a feeling of being left out of normal life, having dementia can exclude people. It can make it more difficult for them to feel part of the community by limiting what they are able to do and where they feel at ease to go.
There may be other people already living with dementia and managing well, with the help of family and friends. But there are also more who manage, but only just, for example they may lack company they feel at ease with. We need to be aware of how we can do more. That’s why we all need to be fully aware of dementia, to understand its effects and to recognise how we can help and support those living with dementia and those who care for them.
To achieve our aim of working towards a Dementia Friendly Riding Mill our first objective is to encourage the members of our village clubs, organisations and faith groups to become Dementia Friends.
It’s simple, can be done individually or by taking part in a group information session, depending on preference. The session only lasts between 45 minutes to an hour depending on the number and length of discussions or number of participants. Methods are very flexible in view of Covid-19.
If you would like to know more about how to become a Dementia Friend, please look on the village noticeboards or very simply use this link to the Alzheimer’s Society website: https://www.dementiafriends.org.uk/
One small request, if you go on to register as a Dementia Friend, please either give us a call or leave a note of your details in the Parish Hall letter box or in the hall (if open) as we would like to record the growing number of Dementia Friends for our own records.
If you need any help or would like any contact details we can help with, please telephone:
Jan Walmsley
tel: 01434682168 or 0795630802 jwalmsley.bb@gmail.com or
Suzanne Barker
tel: 07587068210 suzanne.barkerrmvht@btinternet.com
Click here for a summary of Dementia Activities and Support in West Northumberland
A Neighbourhood Plan for Riding Mill
Broomhaugh & Riding Parish Council is considering whether to prepare a neighbourhood plan for the parish. Neighbourhood Plans were introduced by the Localism Act and can be a powerful tool for communities to have their say over how and where they want development in their areas to take place. As well as directing development, they can also identify and protect things which are important to the community, such as local green space, community facilities or heritage. Once a neighbourhood plan is brought into force, it will be used to help determine planning applications in the area it covers.
In Northumberland, neighbourhood plans are created by parish or town councils and set out planning policies for the development and use of land in their area. These can be either general or site-specific policies but cannot block development already agreed through the Northumberland Local Plan.
The Neighbourhood plan process
The process of preparing a neighbourhood plan is set out in legislation and there are a number of steps that a plan must go through for it to be ‘made’ (brought into legal force). These are set out below:
Once prepared, the draft plan must be subject to a six-week period of consultation. This will include consulting national bodies as set out in legislation.
Following the consultation period, all comments received must be considered and any amendments thought to be necessary must be made to the plan before it is submitted to the County Council.
This information will be publicised for a minimum of six weeks and any comments submitted will be sent directly to an independent examiner.
The County Council will publish the examiner’s report and, where recommended, will organise a local referendum. For the plan to be adopted, it must receive majority support from the local community. If more than 50% vote in favour, the County Council must bring it into force.
The Parish Council is keen to find out if any members of the community would be keen to get involved, whether it’s getting involved in consultation with the community, coming up with ideas of what we would like to see in the Plan, or even helping write the plan itself.
There are already a number of successful Neighbourhood Plans in Northumberland and preparing a plan for Riding Mill could be a real opportunity to try to shape the area for the future.
For more information or to register your interest, please contact Catherine Harrison, the Parish Clerk, via email: ridingmillclerk@gmail.com
Please click below for the new railway timetable, introduced 14th September 2020.
To view a copy of the minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on Monday 13th July, please click here.
To view a copy of the accounts from August 2020, please click here.
To view a copy of the accounts from July 2020, please click here.
To view a copy of the accounts from June 2020, please click here.
