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Peasemore Parish Council Meeting

Tuesday 14th November 2017 at 8.00pm

in the Peasemore Village Hall


MINUTES

Present: AC, AF, GP, LP, RW + Dave Mullender and Deborah Brady (until Item 4)


1. Apologies for absence – Jenny Maskell
2. Declarations of interest – As and when
3. Open public forum (members of the public may raise any item for discussion)
Items 8 and 9 brought forward
    a. Item 8: Play Area development (Deborah Brady)
    -  Agreed design and supplier
    -  Final negotiations
    -  Sarah Bonas and Pete Jonas to make a fencing recommendation
    -  PC has raised £5300 so far for matching
    -  June Hately and Neil Sanderson working on funding
    -  Fund raising plans: Race evening, Curry evening and Festival for 2018
b. Item 9: Festival proposal (Dave Mullender)
    -  Draft Presentation for village festival reviewed [App.1]
    -  Probably 9-10 June; aiming for 250 people; Sat pm – Sun am
    -  Practicalities of financing of festival discussed
4. Approve minutes of last meeting (5.9.17) – Approved
5. Matters arising from minutes of last meeting
    -  AC to follow up re pond (seek recommendations from Daryl Buck)
    -  AC to follow up on churchyard mowing
    -  LP / AC to talk to Ampere re thermostats etc
6. Neighbourhood Watch report – no report
7. Village Hall and Pavilion report (LP) [App.2]
    a. Report to include entrance to cricket field and annual inspection of play area
    Posts repaired by LP
    Annual inspection [App.3] reviewed and swings need to come down (AC to see if he can do it)
8. Update on Play Area development (Deborah Brady)
    Agreed design and supplier
    Final negotiations
    Sarah Bonas and Pete Jonas to make a fencing recommendation
    PC has raised £5300 so far for matching
    June Hately and Neil Sanderson working on funding
    Race and Curry evening planned and Festival for 2018
9. Festival Proposal for 9-10/6/18 (Dave Mullender)
10. Treasury (AF)
    a. Treasurer’s Report [App.4]
    b. Approve payments: Payments approved
    c. Completion of Annual Return External Audit
        -  Need to confirm employment and VAT status and pay other than by cash
        -  And confirm what we need to do
11. Planning report (RW)
    One application in relation to trees [App.5]
    RW declares an interest
12. Any other business
    a. Social isolation – PPC to invite Village Agent Project Coordinator to next meeting
    b. GP to ask PC (as main users of hall) if they could produce someone to run it
13. Date of next meeting: Tuesday 30 th January 2018

 

Peasemore Parish Council – PARISH COUNCILLORS

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Currently the Parish Council has five councillors. Whilst we act collectively on behalf of the village, primary responsibilities are indicated in brackets:

  • Alex Cameron (Chair)
  • Adrian Foster (Responsible Financial Officer)
  • Rob West (Planning)
  • Gill Palmer
  • Liz Prest (Village Hall)
  • Sarah Cameron (Clerk)

 

This data is valid as of March 2017

Notice of Appointment date for the exercise of public rights

Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2017

See the attached PDF for details of the availability of the year end accounts for your review

A copy of the actual accounts for this year is also available for download and review

Peasemore Parish Council Meeting - Monday 8th May 2017

to follow Annual Parish Meeting which starts at 8pm

Peasemore Village Pavilion

MINUTES

Present: AC, AF, GP, LP, RW

  1. Apologies for absence - None
  2. Declarations of interest - None
  3. Open public forum (members of the public may raise any item for discussion) - None
  4. Approve minutes of last meeting (15/3/17) - Approved
  5. Matters arising from minutes of last meeting –
    1. Ownership of land outside Church view – land is unregistered – so ownership of land is unknown to the Land Registry. AC to inform Andy Stevens.
    2. New playground facilities – PC awaits preferred option presentation and a meeting is in the process of being arranged to discuss. PC has some reservations as to value for money of wholly new play area.
    3. Pond update – AC has liaised with Martin Griffiths and will now make contact with Mike Head, Andrew Smith and George Brown.
    4. Palmer’s Close path – WBC unable to assist: matter can be taken no further
  6. Neighbourhood Watch report – Nothing to report
  7. Village Hall and Pavilion report
    1. Report – see appendix 1 in the appendices
  8. Treasurer
    1. Treasurer’s Report – see appendix 2 in the appendices
    2. Approve payments - approved
  9. Planning report – Nothing of note
  10. Palmer’s Close footpath update – see 5(d) above
  11. New play area update – see 5(b) above
  12. Village pond update – see 5(c) above
  13. Grass cutting by those performing community service – matter discussed at annual parish meeting: (a) Parochial Church Council will obtain further information and review
  14. Additional correspondence – None
  15. Any other business – None

 

Peasemore Parish Council Meeting

Wednesday 15th March 2017

at 8.00pm Peasemore Village Hall

 

A number of appendices to these minutes are also available for view/download

A word document version of these minutes is available for download

 

MINUTES

Present: AC, AF, GP, LP, RW + Andy Stevens, Pete Jonas and Sarah Bean

 

1. Apologies for absence: none

2. Declarations of interest: none

3. Open public forum (members of the public may raise any item for discussion)

  1. Andy Stevens: concern re 2 trees on land outside his property: (a) AC to contact WBC re TPO (b) AC to contact Land Registry re who owns land between Meads Close and Church View
  2. Pete Jonas and Sarah Bean made playgrounds presentation. Will put together a pack for the preferred option and then email it and PC will apply for some grants.

4. Approve minutes of last meeting (18/1/17) - approved

5. Matters arising from minutes of last meeting

  1. Pond visit – AC to contact Martin Griffiths and the re-contact Andrew Smith
  2. Pond Wall – AC has contacted WBC – Ref No.149765
  3. Gigaclear – RW to make further inquiries
  4. Footpath – No response so far; GP to pursue

6. Neighbourhood Watch report – none

7. Village Hall and Pavilion report
a. Report (Appendix 1)
- Ampere approved to mend emergency light and heater

b. Hiring conditions / responsibility re. fire instructions etc
- GP will continue to show people around
- Hiring conditions to be re-drafted (AF initially) to put onus onto the hirer re fire safety etc

8. Treasurer

  1. Treasurer’s Report (Appendix 2)
  2. Approve payments – Rates for Hall £466.00 approved
  3. Insurance cover eg SIDs training
    - In principle approve change of insurers to Community Action Suffolk Insurance (via Zurich)
    - AF to clarify the long term undertaking provisions
  4. Rates changes: a. Pavilion has retained zero value; b. hall value stays the same at £466.00
  5. Annual accounts external audit: from 1/4/17 rules change – no requirement for annual external audit

9. Planning report
The Hearn – no comment made by PC – decision awaited

10. Pavilion

  1. Bookings – Lydia Hiscox is kindly taking bookings
  2. Grass cutting – Scoffel revised quote accepted

11. Any other business – AC to draft a 2017 Events flyer

12. Date of next meeting incl APM: Monday 8th May 2017 at the Pavilion

The minutes of the Peasemore Parish Council Meeting - 18th January 2017 are available for download as well as the appendices

Subjects discussed include:-

  • Traffic initatives being taken by the Traffic team
  • Peasemore Committee Update
  • Pond Clearance and repointing
  • Play Area