Minutes of the
Annual Meeting of Beech Parish Council
held in the Village Hall on
Monday 16 OCTOBER 2006
PRESENT:
Councillor John Henderson (Chair)
Councillor Edward Neish
Councillor Patrick Burridge
Councillor
Norman Miles
Councillor
Jenny Poole
Mrs Sheron Gillard – Clerk to the Council PC
Lucy Ryan, Beat Manager for Beech (during
Public Question Time)
Councillor Ian Gibson arrived during
item
PC Lucy Ryan attended the Public
Question Time session to introduce herself to Councillors. She will be
invited
to the Annual Parish Meeting.
06.44 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
Apologies were received from
Councillor June May.
06.45 CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES
The Minutes of the Council
meeting held on 18 September 2006, copies of which had previously been
circulated,
were
confirmed. Chairman John Henderson
signed them as a true record.
06.46 MATTERS ARISING
An acknowledgement had been
received to Council’s letter to MP Michael Mates regarding Regional
Assemblies.
06.47 REPORTS FROM ADVISORY
PANELS AND ITEMS FOR REFERRAL
I) Finance & General Purposes Panel
Agreed
next meeting to be held on Tuesday, 14 November at 7.30 pm.
II) Development & Planning Advisory Panel
a) One application had been considered:
Proposed, Seconded and RESOLVED: That Council’s comments
be confirmed as follows:
i) F39081/001/FUL Beechmount,
d) Previous
Applications: EHDC Decisions: NOTED
i) F32501/002/FUL 7 Medstead Road Change of Use of Parking Area and Grazing
Land to
Equestrian
Use and Riding Area REFUSED
ii) F32221/011/FUL Lansdales,
formation of vehicular access PERMITTED
III) Highways and
Footpaths Advisory Panel: Item referred:
a) Link Local Transport Plan/Countryside Access Plan Priority Schemes
IV) Community
and Environment Advisory Panel
a) EHDC – Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 – Dog Control
Orders
Panel considered that
the procedural issues for DCOs would be
disproportionate to any gain for Beech and felt that whilst the EHDC blanket
DFOLA remains, Beech would not require DCOs.
06.48 EHDC – Developers’ Contributions Workshop, Liphook – 29 September 2006
Councillor
Ian Gibson reported that the workshop had been well presented and useful. In future, developers’
contributions of £2,000 per new dwelling would be taken for
and divided between transport and community
facilities. Such
contributions would only be taken if there is a proven need, if it is relevant
to the application
and is fair and reasonable.
It will be necessary for Parishes to demonstrate such need which should
be
evidenced. It would
also be possible for contributions to be used to benefit a group of parishes eg. improving
transport in outlying villages.
In
the following discussion, Councillors identified a
need for improved youth facilities in
bus service for Beech (and local villages) to
Council
thanked Councillor Gibson for attending the seminar.
Minutes
October 2006 continued…./page 2 of 3
06.49 EAST
HAMPSHIRE TRANSPORT FORUM
Next meeting to be held on 8 November at 9.45 am. No Councillors were
available to attend.
06.50 HAMPSHIRE
ACTION TEAMS
Details
were circulated of the new initiative from HCC.
NOTED.
06.51 VILLAGE
HALL REPORT
a) AGM had been held on Tuesday, 19 September
2006. Clerk gave details of new
committee and social events
organized for the rest of the year.
b) Grant requests: Council had received two
requests for financial assistance for the purchase of a tractor and
new tables and chairs.
Matter was referred to the next Finance & General Purposes Advisory
Panel meeting
to be held on 14 November 2006.
06.52 HAPTC AGM – Saturday, 7 October 2006
Chairman John Henderson and
Councillor Norman Miles had represented Beech.
Councillor Miles gave details
of the
resolutions considered and Chairman John Henderson advised that due to a reduced
grant from HCC,
our
affiliation fees to HAPTC would rise slightly for 2007.
06.53 FINANCE
a) Summary Receipts & Payments for 2nd
Quarter to 30 September 2006 - To be presented at Finance & General
Purposes Advisory Panel/November meeting.
Councillor Edward Neish to
carry out interim internal audit.
b) Payments authorised:
Proposed Ian
Gibson, Seconded Patrick Burridge
RESOLVED: i) Mrs Sheron
Gillard: Clerk’s Net Salary, Allowance and Administration
Expenses (October 2006) £367.96
ii) HCC - Pension Payments (contributions for October
2006) £79.52
06.54 REPORT FROM
DISTRICT COUNCILLOR
Councillor Patrick Burridge advised that EHDC is committed to a 0% increase on
its precept for the next 3
years. It has been considering alternative means of
income generation eg. Franchise for car-washing in
Council
owned
car-parks.
A new Core Strategy is to be
developed for the Local Development Framework (takes place of Local Plan).
New toilets are to be built in
Consideration is being given to the
provision of short stay sites for gypsies/travellers but EHDC awaiting
response
from other local authorities before agreeing any such sites.
06.55 CORRESPONDENCE
The following items were formally
received:-
Vitalise – Thanks and acknowledgement of grant
EHDC
– Village Business Grants
HAPTC
– The Employment Equality (Age) Act
HCC
– Hampshire Minerals and Waste Development Framework – Newsletter 3
06.56 NEXT MEETING
a) Finance
& General Purposes Advisory Panel to meet on Tuesday, 14 November at 7.30
pm.
b) Confirmed
that the next meeting of the Council would be held in the Village Hall on
Monday, 20
November
2006 at 7.30pm preceded by Parishioners’ Question Time at 7.15 pm.
Minutes
October 2006 continued…./page 3 of 3
c) Meeting
dates for 2007 were approved as follows:
2007
3rd Monday of month unless shown otherwise
January 15th
February 19th Half-term week
March 19th
Annual
Parish Meeting March 26th
April 16th
Annual Council Meeting May
14th (2nd Monday due to election)
June 18th
July 16th
August No meeting scheduled
September 17th
October 15th
November 19th
December No
meeting scheduled
CLOSURE OF MEETING
Chairman
thanked all present for their attendance and closed the meeting at 8.46 pm.
signed:
...........................................................
Chairman
Beech Parish Council
date: 20 November 2006