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Agenda – Full Council January 2025

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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 Marriagea) 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 RequestDraft 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 –