To all Members of the Council
You are hereby summoned to attend
THE ORDINARY MEETING
of Blackmore, Hook End &
Wyatts Green Parish Council
which will be held on:
THURSDAY 16th JANUARY 2025 at 7.30pm
At Tipps Cross Remembrance Hall (Committee Room)
_SMClapham___
S M Clapham
Clerk to the Council
Dated: 9.1.2025 AGENDA – order of business
0133 Apologies for absence – T Thomas,
0134 Approval of minutes – 19.12.2024
0135 Declaration of interest (for items on the agenda) –
0136 Open Forum –
0137 Progress Check/Report –
0138 Correspondence/Communications (Clerk to report) –
Clerk received written confirmation that MDL will no longer be able to fulfil the PC’s grass cutting contracts. Clerk is in contact with a new contractor ‘KW Tree Care’, Hertfordshire (grass cutting & larger tree works).
0139 Reports of Borough & Essex County Councillors – Cllr Wagland, Cllr McCheyne, Cllr Poppy
POLICY & RESOURCES
0140 Finance – Payments made online: CLERK/RFO
S Clapham –
HMRC –
Essex Pension –
R Nelson –
Payments made on the PC Credit Card
Cash drawn: –
Transfers: –
Memberships:–
Income/receipts/Reimbursements:
0141 Financial Report to 31st December 2024 RFO
To consider and approve the summary financial report as circulated prior to the meeting.
0142 Financial Powers:
a) 2025-26 Budget approvalRFO
b) 2025-26 Precept approvalRFO
c) Clerk’s retirement update – OH / Pension requirements met.CLERK d) Shadowing period (3 months). Clerk’s Training budget/schedule to be discussed.CLERK
PLANNING COMMITTEE
0143Reports of the Planning meeting on 6.1.25, as circulated.
PARKS & OPEN SPACES (POS)
The minutes of the meeting held on 6.1.25 were circulated prior to the meeting. To accept the Minutes and the following items are to be discussed/approved:
0144 Walter Hobbs –
0145 Ted Marriage– a) Brambles & overgrowth trimming back (MDL)
b) safety surfacing x 2 – works in hand with Broadmead CLERK
0146 Mill Lane –
a) Brambles & overgrowth trimming back (MDL)
0147 Millennium Park – RK
a) Overflow car park – Andersons to complete work -17th to 19th January 2025. Monitoring. B) Cockleshell footpath – Spring 2025 – budget.
0148 Blackmore Village Hall –
a) Football Lease Request – Draft letter to the Blackmore Football Club to be approved. b) Village Hall Accounts. JS/CLERK/KB
GENERAL POS ITEMS
0149 a) Boot scraper x 2– Installation completed by Total Landscapes (£250). These are installed on one larger base on the footpath verge along Chelmsford Road. A site visit and risk assessment was carried out and this does not present a trip hazard.
b) Garden centre vouchers – watering volunteers – Clerk purchased 6 x £20 vouchers – to be distributed.
c) Kilne Field – dead tree – Clerk has asked John Sharpe to inspect and given a written report/recommendation which the Clerk will send to BBC to ask for it to be removed.
0150 CLERK’S REPORT
a) Bull Public House – Community asset status (5 years) registered October 2021 & expires October 2026. Clerk has asked Ward Members to enquire what weight this status holds for the Community in the event this asset is sold.
b) Clerk’s meeting with L Wagland – w/c 13/1/25. Items collated for escalation (nc. VAS & School parking).
c) South Essex LoRaWAN Project – aerial being installed at TXR Hall on 15.1.25.
0151 Date of next meeting(s):
POS – Monday 10.2.25– 10.00am – Tipps Cross R Hall Committee room.
PC – Thursday 20.2.25 – 7.30pm – Tipps Cross R Hall Committee Room –
Planning – Monday 10.2.25 – following the POS meeting – subject to planning applications being received.
0152 INFORMATION EXCHANGE/NEXT AGENDA ITEMS
– CLOSE OF MEETING –