Furneux Pelham Parish Council

Minutes of Meeting

On Thursday 10^th March 2005

At 8pm Furneux Pelham Village Hall

Present

Messer's Cantes, Hagger, Pigg, James, Watson and Parish Clerk.

Apologies for absence

Mr Hadley

Minutes of Last Meeting

The Chairman, with approval of the members present, signed the minutes as accurate and correct.

Matters Arising from Last Meeting

No letter regarding the car park has been drawn up as yet.  Mr Cantes and Mr Hadley still to meet to discuss.

The Noise Abatement Hearing which was listed for Pallets Unlimited on 3^rd February 2005 has now been adjourned until 28^th and 29^th April 2005.

Thank you to Rosmarie Rosier for emptying the bin by the Bus Shelter, a new key has been ordered.

Mr James has given leaflets to the residents of the Brewery regarding the Flood Plan.

Letter has been sent to Highways Department regarding the state of the roads in the village.

Thank you to Mr Hadley and Mr James for their efforts regarding Footpaths.

Finances have been finished and sent off to Lubbock Fine.  Mr Cantes to sort gratuity.

The East of England meeting was attended by the Parish Council and are willing to fight against development.  Chair to write a letter of objection by 16^th but still awaiting info from EHDC.

Mrs Welsh is willing to help with the Village of the Year, but will need to have some new initiatives.  The ideas the Parish Council came up with were about the new playground scheme, footpaths, cricket training and neighbourhood watch.  More community ideas would be appreciated.

Correspondence

Stop Stansted Expansion are willing to provide a presentation to the village regarding the changes which would occur with the Stansted Expansion.  Clerk to arrange all details.

Highways

As detailed before letter has been sent to Highways regarding poor state of repairs.

Finance

Clerks salary and expenses.  £121.84

Review Maintenance Tasks

After a review of the maintenance tasks to be carried out by the Parish Council, it was stated that £430 was needed to keep on top of all problems.  Tasks will be looked at and rotated so all repairs etc. are tackled on a bi-yearly basis.

Footpaths

Survey of the rights of way network is now complete. Mr James and Mr Hadley will be meeting with Angela Forster from the Countryside Management Service on 22 March to draw up a work schedule for 2005/6 (for which we have been allocated £1000). Mr Hadley plan to distribute copies of the survey and the work schedule to footpath volunteers and other interested parties before the end of March.

Playground

Sarah Wright has contacted Greene King with regards to land they own that might be suitable for a village playground. Thanks to her persistence, the company has now said they are keen to discuss the matter with the Parish Council, and a Mr Martin Page has undertaken to call Mr Hadley in the near future.

Crimewatch

Bogus callers have been reported collecting at doors stating they are from MacMillan Nurses.

Electric fence unit stolen.

Any Other Business

Nothing to report

Date of Next Meeting

8pm 19^th May Annual Meeting and Parish Assembly.

8pm 14^th July

Meeting Closed 9.00pm

Furneux Pelham Parish Council

Minutes of Meeting
On Thursday 4^th November 2004
At 8pm Furneux Pelham Village Hall

Present

Messer's Cantes, Hagger, Pigg, Hadley, James and Watson, five members of the public and Parish Clerk.

Apologies for absence

None

Minutes of Last Meeting

The Chairman, after discussing with Mr James that there was one error which stated that Gemma was to contact CPRE concerning Stop Stansted Express, when it should have said Stop Stansted Expansion.  Once this was amended Mr Chairman signed and dated to everyone's approval.

Matters Arising from Last Meeting

Village Hall Car Park Drains - Mr Cantes and Mr Hagger both had a look at the drains and found that when they took off the manhole cover it was blocked with road grit.  Clerk to ‘phone Highways to see if it is there responsibility to remove the grit or whether it is ours.  Also there was a tree root found to be blocking part of the drains,  Mr Cantes sought a quote to have the work done and have the tree root removed from  and if Highways are not responsible for the blockage then we can go ahead with the quote of £200.00 to have the area dug up and the blockage removed. 

Audit - Lubbock Fine have no recollection of the paperwork being sent to them so they have re-issued their paperwork to be filled in again with the accounts and sent back to them.

Stop Stansted Expansion - Gemma rang CPRE re the position of the Parish Council and someone was to ring back.

Correspondence

Footpath 6 - The Parish Council feel that the appropriate signage would be the smallest available for the footpath.

Mrs Woodcock - The Parish Council wrote on behalf of Mrs Woodcock concerning the transport for her son for school, and Mrs Woodcock has been awarded remuneration for her son and will have free transport for the next two years.

Village Hall Car Park - There has been no payment of any kind.  One member of the public has made a positive comment that they will get around to paying.  Several members of the public have made comments that they weren't happy about the payment.  It was decided that if people weren't prepared to pay a voluntary payment then payment will either be made obligatory.  If they weren't willing to pay then the car park would be closed.  Mr Cantes and Mr Hadley were going to draw up a new letter to give to everyone.  Mr James proposed and Mr Hadley seconded and a unanimous vote to pay or close the car park.

Pallets Unlimited

When the court case came together it was set for November but Mr Barouch decided that half a day was insufficient so a full day was needed.  The date has now been set for February.  There is a court case on the 5^th November concerning the height of the pallets.  Mr Cantes will phone them to find out the outcome, if Mr Barouch doesn't lower the height then an injunction could be forced upon him whereas he either shuts down until the matter is closed or somebody will come and remove them.  The members of the public who have been given monitoring sheets have until the 8^th December to get them back to the council.  With regards to the Certificate of Lawfulness there is a huge grey area as to whether he is a waste transfer site or whether the waste that is there is his own.

Highways

The work outside Clay Chimneys has been done.

Planning

Permission Granted - Tinkers Hall

Permission Refused - Patient End Farm

1 The Old Common - Enforcement to remove Garage

Village Hall - extension

Finance

£250.00 Church Yard

£74.39 Bin

£100.32 Clerks wages/expenses.

Also money has to kept aside for the bill we should receive for the election.

Personally thank Marie Martin for emptying the old bin on a regular basis.

Sarah Wright

Sarah put forward a very good case for a playground area in the village.  Sarah also asked if the parish council would be able to put forward a sub-committee, to discuss the feasibility of the project, Ted James and Chris Hadley were put forward to be on the committee.

Any Other Business

Mr Pigg asked if a notice could be put up for dogs to be kept on a lead when walking on the footpath through his farm as there is livestock present.  This information should be inserted into the January Parish Magazine.

There is a new police non-emergency number 0845 3300222.

Mr Cantes also stated that he had one person to speak to about the Parish Clerk job.

Meeting Closed at 9.20pm

Date of Next Meeting
January 27^th 2005 8pm.