Sandhoe Parish Council
The
minutes of the Council meeting held on Thursday 21st October 2004 at
7pm in Beaufront County First School, Sandhoe.
Councillor
A. Winstanley (chairman of the Council in the chair) Councillors R.
Macfarlane H. Learman M. Baxter
P.
Rodgers (Resident of the Parish for the first part of the meeting) W. C Grigg (Clerk to the Council)
There
were no declarations of interest.
P. Rodgers a resident of Anick attend
the first part of the meeting to raise his concerns and other local residents
concerns in regards to the condition of the Village Green at Anick and the
issue of parking on and around the Village Green by mainly visitors, who are
visiting the Rat Inn at Anick.
P.
Rodgers presented a very comprehensive report with photographs of the problems,
and the damage to the Village Green and verges. He also pointed out the
attitude of some drivers and the way they park causing problems and concerns
for local residents gaining access to their property.
It
was also felt in an emergency there would be problems for emergency vehicles
gaining access to local properties. It was fully noted and agreed that the Rat
Inn provided local employment and a very good service to the area, and any if
any proposals are suggested at the end of an investigation it should in no way
effect the Rat Inn.
It was agreed the Green should be
protected and the Green is registered as Village Green by the Parish Council
and any work thought necessary to the Green would have to be paid for by the Parish
Council.
Councillor
R. MacFarlane agreed to contact the Land Registry office via their web-site to
seek clarification within the Anick area of who owns certain areas of land
around the Green. Councillors agreed to study P. Rodgers report fully and hopefully
by the next meeting have the Police report available and will discuss the
matter again at the next Council meeting and decide hopefully the best way
forward.
The
Council chairman thanked P. Rodgers for attending and preparing a full and
detailed report.
At
this point P. Rodgers left the meeting.
1. The Minutes of the Council meeting held on 21st
July 2004
The minutes of the Council
meeting held on the 21st July
2004 were signed as a correct record.
2.
Matters arising from the minutes of the Council Meeting held on July 21st 2004
A)
Ref: B8.1 Hexham Waste Transfer
Station
The Council fully agreed that the new
arrangements were much improved and the staff were giving their full
co-operation to the general public.
3.
Planning Matters
R. J. Down, The Old Barn, Beaufront Woodhead, Sandhoe Construction of single storey lounge extension.
Construction of new lift enclosure
and escape stair externally, new pitched roof over existing rear extension and
loft conversion providing 5 bedrooms.
Granted permission dated 2nd September 2004
4.
Financial
Matters
A)
Income
27th
July 2004 20p
27th
August 2004 17p
27th
September 2004 15P
27th
September 2004 £1.35
B) Payments
4/8/04 P. Stewart (replacement windows) £250.00
5/8/04 W.C Grigg (fee) £120.00
5/9/04 W.C Grigg (fee) £120.00
5/10/04 W.C Grigg (fee) £120.00
21/10/04 W.C Grigg (admin) £20.00
21/10/04 NCC (rent of room) £15.00
21/10/04 HLU Audit (fees) £58.75
21/10/04 St John Lee PCC (grant) £250.00
21/10/04 Royal British Legion (grant) £25.00
Balances of accounts as at 1st October 2004.
Deposit Account: £271.53
Current Account: £2044.02
D) Annual Accounts 2003/2004
The annual
accounts fully audited by HLB Audit were presented to the Council and signed
off by HLB Audit. The Council accepted the accounts and fully approved the
accounts for 2003/2004.
5.
Correspondence
A)
Notice from Tynedale
Council re: Tynedale Open space Sport and Recreation strategy. Draft for consultation.
It was agreed R. Macfarlane would read the draft and make any comments if any
on behalf of the Council.
B) Notice from C.C. of N. in regards to their AGM to be held on
the 10th November 2004.
C) The minutes of the By-Annual Joint Tynedale Council/ Parish
Town discussion forum were noted by the Council and notification that the next
meeting will be held on Wednesday 19th January 2004.
D) Letter from Tynedale Council in regards to Tynedale
Council’s overview and scrutiny work programme for 2005/2006 asking if the
Council have any issues they wish the scrutiny committees to discuss. The
Council had no issues to put forward at this time.
E) Notice from Tynedale Council re: The Licensing Act 2003
consultation on statement of Licensing Policy. The Council noted the contents
of the report.
F)
Notice from Tynedale
Council re: Interim planning policies on Housing. The Council noted the
contents of the report.
G) Two Road traffic regulations Act 1984 section 14 were noted
by the Council Temporary speed restriction A695 Hexham to County Boundary Road
and A68 Allensford to Elishaw Road.
H) Notice from DEFRA in regards to the clean neighbourhoods
schemes. The Council noted the contents of this notice.
6.
Any urgent business allowed by the chairman
A)
Location on
Planning Applications
It was agreed
the Council would write to the chief Planning officer at Tynedale Council in
regards to the weekly planning lists published in the local press. Requesting
that every effort should be made to make sure planning applications are listed
in the correct Town/Parish areas for example some of this Councils applications
are listed under Hexham or Acomb and Corbridge. Apart from the inconvenience it
delays the consultation process.
Councillor R. Macfarlane has raised this matter at joint Town/Parish
forum meetings in the past but it is still happening.
7.
Date of next meeting
It was confirmed the date of the next meeting would be
Thursday 20th January 2004.
The meeting closed at 8.15pm.