Ravenstone Parish Council
Minutes of the Meeting held on Thursday, 8th December 2011 at 7.30pm in the Village Hall.
Present: Cllr Howkins (Chair), Cllr Brock, Cllr Faulkner-Stevens, Cllr Fry, Cllr Meades.
Guests John Caplin and Glynis Bailey.
1. Apologies: There were apologies for absence from Cllrs Humphreys and Geary.
2. Declaration of Member’s Interests:
Cllr Howkins for 11/02456/FUL: Erection of agricultural buildings & alterations to vehicular access
Cllr Meades for 11/02645/FUL & 11/02646/CON: Home Farm Barn, Bay Lane – Bungalow
3. Minutes of the Last Meeting: The Minutes of the October meeting were proposed by Cllr Howkins and signed as a true and correct record of the meeting.
4. Matters Arising:
a) Follow-up the matter of edging of Bay Lane and Ravenstone House (water collating due to new road surface) – Action: Cllr Brock.
b) Follow-up reinstating the chevrons at the 90° angle on Weston Road with J. Pollock – Action: Cllr Brock.
c) Development of Wind Farms at Lavendon/Bozeat granted but grounds for challenge apparent; development at Stoke Park halted due to request for more information (Rule 19) – details to be obtained from Cllr Geary.
d) Cllr Howkins supplied paperwork for cheque issued (sleepers for rec. ground) at £495 (incl £82.50 VAT).
5. Finance: Cheques were signed off as below
a) Thomas Redding Gardening Services (2/2011): £598
b) AON Parish Councils Scheme Premium (Policy No 11/AC/17033120/12): £400.43
6. Planning:
a) Home Farm Barn (Cllr Meades excused himself):
Plans were presented & perused and the decision was made to defer feedback until January’s meeting, when other residents would have had the chance to look at the plans and comment.
b) Agricultural buildings, Stoke Road (Cllr Howkins excused himself):
Plans were presented & perused and no issues were raised.
7. Correspondence
a) Correspondence from AON was discussed (Parish Councils Scheme Insurance Renewal) and a cheque was issued.
b) Correspondence re the Parish Financing Arrangement was acknowledged and deferred to the RPC February meeting.
c) Correspondence concerning a High Speed Internet survey was discussed. Action: Clerk & Cllr Brock.
8. Councillors/Residents Item
a) Audrey Edwards sent a note to Cllr Howkins with a request to be copied on RPC meeting notes to publish on the Ravenstone website. Action: Clerk.
b) Glynis Bailey posed the question of plans for the 2012 Jubilee. The enquiry was referred on to R. Macgowan.
9. Date of next meeting:
Thursday 12th January 2012 at 7.30pm
Meeting closed 8.30pm
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RAVENSTONE PARISH COUNCIL
The Minutes of the Annual Parish Meeting held on Thursday 8th April 2010 in the Village Hall at 7.30pm.
Present: Cllr Meade (Chairman), Cllr Fry, Cllr Howkins, Cllr Humphreys & Cllr Geary, Cllr Brock (Milton Keynes Council).
- Apologies: Cllr Faulkner-Stevens
- Minutes: The Chairman advised that, although he hadn’t actually been in attendance at the Annual Parish Meeting last year, the minutes of the Annual Meeting held on 16th April 2009, had been previously formally agreed by Council members at the May 2009 meeting of the Parish Council, and could be signed as a true and correct record.
- Chairman’s Report: The Parish Year 2009-10 has been a stable year with respect to our compliment of Councillors, with a new member ready and waiting in the wings for the event of a vacancy, and thus we are very pleased to welcome on board Robert Humphreys in place of Richard Craven. This year Jane Craven our Clerk, together with Richard had to resign due to a work move back to Malvern, we wish them every success and would like to thank them for their hard work and commitment during the year.
Ravenstone Parish Council has been very fortunate to secure the services of Mary Lane as our new Clerk, a very capable person who is known to many of our residents.
The main interests this year, apart from the regular planning applications and our never ending request for the repair of potholes, has been the undergrounding of the electricity supply, together with the erection of new lamp standards for our existing lighting followed by a major road improvement scheme for the village. There will be a degree of inconvenience for residents due partly to road closures for through traffic, but we hope that this will be kept to a minimum.
Our Parish Precept (Band D equivalent) has risen by approximately £7.50 per household to cover part of the cost of our new lamp standards, the main part of the cost being undertaken by our application for funding from the Parish Partnership Fund, together with a generous donation of £1400 from the Ward Fund of our Ward Councillors Peter Geary and Debbie Brock.
As in previous years the attendance by Ravenstone residents to Parish Council meetings has been rather disappointing and I hope that we may look forward to an improvement in this direction, especially from the newer members of our community. At present, due to popular demand we have no vacancies on the Council, but should one occur we would like to have someone waiting in the wings, so come along to a meeting and see what it is all about.
I would like to thank my current councillors, Steven Howkins, Alan Faulkner-Stevens, Chris Fry, and Robert Humphreys for their help and contribution this year and also to our Ward Councillors Debbie Brock and Peter Geary for their valuable advice and assistance.
- Reports from Groups and Organisations: There were no groups present.
- Parishioners Business: There was no business to discuss.
There being no further business the meeting closed at 7.45pm
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