Previous Meetings

Parish Council Meeting

Date: 2007-09-05
Time: 19:30
Venue: Church Meeting Room

AGENDA

Present
Apologies
Declarations
To approve Minutes
Matters arising
Correspondence
Payments
Planning Applications
Reports
Parish Plan
Post Office
Future Items
Date of next meeting

MINUTES

20007/108 Present

Cllrs. Carlisle, Crowther, Rodger, Ryder and Warwick

2007/109 Apologies

Cllr. Stewart and C/Cllr. Rob Toy

2007/110 Declarations

Cllr. Warwick¹ and Cllr. Ryder²

2007/111 To approve Minutes

Cllr. Ryder proposed, Cllr. Warwick seconded that the Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting of 2007-08-01 be accepted as a true record and this was agreed.

2007/112 Matters arising

2007/055 - Wheelie bins - Highways was still waiting for a reply from the pub. Cllr. Rodger informed members that 3 wheelie bins would be removed within a month.
2007/078 - Horse Chestnut tree - Highways have agreed to remove the dead branch.

2007/113 Correspondence

RCC - Details of Youth Opportunity Fund
Hacker Young - confirming receipt of Annual return
Leicestershire Constabulary - review of policing in Rutland
RAF Cottesmore - late night flying from now till Spring 2008

2007/114 Payments

Members agreed that the following invoices be authorised for payment-

ABB - Street Light Repair
MOPCC - Room Hire
Parish Clerk
BDG Mowing Services
Watmough's Forestry
Market Overton Village Hall¹ - S137 Grant
ABB - Street Light Maintenance
Market Overton Village Hall - Room Hire

Members noted balances on the Monthly Statement of Accounts

2007/115 Planning Applications

Members supported the following planning applications-

CAT/2007/0740/MT - 8 Teigh Road - fell 2 Leylandii trees
FUL/2007/0629/MT - 59 Thistleton Road - ground floor extension
LBA/2007/0692/NT - 20 Main Street - replacement windows & replace garage door
LBA/2007/0696/MT² - 23 Main Street - replacement windows

Members noted-

FUL/2007/0583 - TPO on tree 1 The Wharf, Teigh Road
FUL/2007/0519/CP - Industrial Estate - application withdrawn

2007/116 Reports

Speeding working group - Speed-watch survey has now gone to L.C.C. and the group was now waiting for a response.

2007/117 Parish Plan

Deferred to next meeting.

2007/118 Post Office

Cllr. Rodger informed members that the National Post Office Network was costing on hundered and fifty million pounds per year to administer and as the Post Office was already in the red, it could mean one in three post offices will close. A consultation period will take place in November for six weeks and a decision will be made by the end of January 2008 about the closures.

2007/119 Future items

Review Parish Plan
Post Office
Recycling

2007/120 Date of next meeting

It was agreed to hold the next Parish Council Meeting on Wednesday 3 October 2007 at 19:00 in the Village Hall. (Meeting closed at 20:08)