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Minutes
Thursday 20th September 2012
Howick Village Hall
7.15pm
Present
Chairperson
Joan Angus.
Clerk
Helen Brewis.
Parish Council Members Joyce Shaw, Margaret Brooks, Elizabeth
Pearson, Alan Punton & Michael Robson.
In Attendance CC
John Taylor.
Members of the public Mrs M Taylor & Mr K Brown.
1498. Apologies for absence.
Bryn Owen, Michael
Craster, John Gallon & Pauline Baird.
1499. Confirmation of minutes of last meeting.
Both the July Minutes
& the August LDF Minutes were accepted as a true record.
1500. Craster Community Trust Matters.
A letter has been
received from the Secretary of the CCT concerning the delays to the
Village Hall refurbishment. Joyce Shaw advised the Council that
they hope to begin work around the 27th September.
1501. Parking Sub Committee Update.
Michael Craster
circulated a paper concerning the recent site visit to the field car
park.
Hopefully we will be
able to secure funding for the meter, the prices charged will mirror
the NCC owned car park in the quarry & the field will remain
grassed this year and closed each night to prevent abuse.
Michael Robson was
concerned about the safety of the field access, which has already been
approved by Highways.
Action Point: Clerk to
defer any decisions to next months Meeting concerning this car park.
CC John Taylor advised
the Council that Highways Engineer has been looking at their quarry car
park & plan to re-paint the lines & create more spaces.
They also have been ticketing cars in Craster parked on the double
yellow lines, he will take the two letters & photos from Mr K Brown
back to NCC concerning the parking problems.
Action Point: CC John Taylor will
look into residential parking discs - 2 per household, he suggested the
Parish Council could organise this.
1502. Neighbourhood Plan Sub Committee.
NCC – Core Strategy
Workshops (25/09 Stannington Village Hall 7pm-9pm & 22/10 Ferguson
Hall Belford 7pm-9pm).
Action Point: CC John Taylor is
going to organise a smaller Meeting for the Parish Councils he covers
with Jenny Ludman to discuss Parish Plans, he will forward the details
on to us as soon as organised.
1503. Matters arising from minutes of last meeting.
Dunstan Water Leak.
The road re-surfacing is
still to do & there is water standing in the common field.
Action Point: CC John Taylor &
Joan Angus will meet with the farmer.
NCC – Dunstan Steads request to move from Craster to Embleton Parish.
The creation of the
order is still with NCC Legal Department.
Mrs E Pearson – Heugh Road water leak. The water leak has currently dried up.
Land Registry enquiry.
Action Point: Clerk to put on the
Agenda for the next Meeting.
The Methodist Church Sale.
It was agreed to remove
this item from the Agenda as nothing is currently happening.
Public Footpath by the Church between Heugh Wynd & Whin Hill No25.
This will be up before
the Rights of Way Committee Meeting in November, any further facts or
evidence should be forwarded to NCC Sustainable Transport, Local
Services, County Hall, Morpeth NE61 1BR as soon as possible.
Dunstan School.
Action Point: Clerk to put on the
Agenda for the next Meeting.
Marion Gallon – Electricity Substation obstructed by shrubbery.
CC John Taylor raised
this with NCC, but they will not be tidying it up.
Tourist Information Centre – road flooding.
Action Point: CC John Taylor will
arrange for NCC to put a camera down the drains to look at this problem.
1504. Planning Matters.
CC John Taylor declared an interest.
A/2008/0289 – Former Nursery Gardens – amendments. Ongoing.
1505. Financial Matters.
Bank Balance
£22,838.96
Transfer funds to LTSB Higher interest transfer – defer to next Meeting.
Cheques issued:
BDO (Annual Return
Audit) £144.00
Howick Hall (Room
Hire)
£ 10.00
H Brewis (Aug/Sept Wage
& stationery etc) £175.35
HMRC (Clerk wage
PAYE)
£ 36.00
1506. Correspondence received.
Archaeology in Northumberland. Noted.
NCC – Briefing on grass cutting. Noted.
NCC – Don’t stand for it – dog fouling campaign. Noted.
NCC – Code of Conduct & Standards Regime. Noted.
NCC – Communities & Place Scrutiny Committee Meeting. Noted.
NCC – Joint Meeting 8/10 Morpeth or 11/10 Berwick. Noted.
AONB – Joint Annual Forum 2012 – 18/10 Berwick. Noted.
NALC – AGM 20/10 Morpeth. Noted.
John Gallon – Bank Holiday weekend parking problems.
CC John Taylor is
liasing with NCC over Crasters parking problems.
Michael Robson - Overgrown verge between car park & harbour.
The verge is overgrown
on the south side of the road into Craster between the car park
entrance & harbour hill, its obstructing the easterly view for cars
pulling out of the car park.
Action Point: Clerk to email NCC.
Margaret Brooks - changes to bus times.
The new bus times is
making it very difficult for anyone from Craster to go to Embleton for
a doctors appointment without having to stay in Embleton for ½ the day.
Action Point: CC John Taylor will
look into this for us.
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