Bramley Parish Council Minutes, 16th September 2013

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Minutes of the Meeting of Bramley Parish Council

Held in the Bramley Room at the Village Hall on Monday 16^th September 2013 at 7.30pm.

Minutes

Parish Councillors present were:

Chris Holland (Chair), Richard Wood, Janet Grieve, Malcolm Bell, Chris Wright, Tony Durrant, Alison Jayawardena, Bruce Ansell

Also present were:

Parish Clerk, Borough Cllr. Tomblin, 3 members of the public

1.0                    Apologies

Borough Cllrs Jayawardena and County Councillor Chapman who were all at other meetings.

2.0             Minutes of the last ordinary parish council meeting

It was resolved that the minutes were a true and accurate record.

Proposed Cllr. Grieve, seconded Cllr. Jayawardena

Minutes of the extraordinary parish council meeting

It was resolved that the minutes were a true and accurate record.

Proposed Cllr. Durrant, seconded Cllr. Wood

3.0                    Finance

Monthly bank Reconciliation and Accounts for approval

It was resolved that the accounts for payment would be approved. Please see appendix.

Proposed Cllr. Wright, seconded Cllr. Ansell.

4.0             Burial Ground

              It was resolved that the parish council would cover the cost, expected to be £125 +VAT, to repair a grave stone which had become unsafe, as no known relatives are available to send a request to. Cllr. Wood was liaising with both the Church Council and Spencer and Peyton who had quoted to make the stone stable.

              It was noted that the grave stone was for the late famous scientist Lise Meitner.

              Proposed Cllr. Holland, Seconded Cllr.Durrant

5.0             Planning – please see appendix for applications

It was noted that there was only one full planning application for discussion, that being the conversion of outbuidlings at the Bramley Inn.

It was resoled that the parish council would respond: No Objection

6.0             Local Plan

Cllr. Durrant explained that there were set criteria against which the parish council could comment. There had not been time before this meeting to formulate a full response on behalf of the parish council and it was agreed that this would be done between meetings in order to meet the consultation deadline of 4^th October, by circulating a copy of the response by email. This will then be ratified at the October monthly meeting. 

There was some further review of the information available and whether the parish council felt it could ask for the allocation of 200 new homes to be delivered through neighbourhood planning within the settlement boundary to be reduced. It was noted however that a local housing need of 72 new affordable homes had been identified for Bramley residents and given the enforced percentage of 40% affordable new homes for any development, this would likely result in a number so close to the original 200 that it would not likely be possible to ask for the number to be reduced. There was further discussion about infrastructure concerns, traffic etc and this would be fed into the formal response where possible under the format required, relating specifically to whether the plan is lawful and sound. 

7.0             Police, County and Borough Councillors Report

Borough Cllr. Tomblin continued the conversation about solar panels and said that he would be in favour of utilising Borough Offices, car parks etc, to install solar parks rather than green fields.

Public Interval

Ray Morton asked how members of the public are expected to be able to respond to the local plan consultation when the criteria was so difficult to understand, and that responses had to refer to the soundness of specific polices. It was noted that the Borough Council would also accept an email with an overview of the views or concerns of members of the public. He also commented that the Local Plan surely cannot be sound when the allocation of 200 homes through NDP was taken out, but was put back into the final draft. 

Phyl Davies asked if there was an update for the proposed solar park at Beaurepaire Farm and it was noted that the decision on this application was still pending.

8.0             Transport Update

There was an update about the roundabout at the junction of Campbell Road as a question had arisen following the release of the final plans by Hampshire County Council Highways engineers. The Chairman and Vice Chairman had been to visit the Agents for the Sratfield Saye Estate to discuss the inclusion in the final design of the additional exit into the farm. The parish council had always insisted they would not support the inclusion of a 4^th exit which could be seen as potentially indicating a future desire to develop the fields. It was noted that the PC as consultees had strongly opposed this exit, but that the PC do not have the final say, and as one of the other consultees Stratfield Saye Estate who are allowing the use of some of their land so that the roundabout could be developed, had insisted that this additional exit would be useful as farm access. Hampshire County Council noted the PCs objections, but had made the position clear that they would proceed with the roundabout including the fourth exit.

SID/SLRs

It was proposed that the Parish Council would re-start the use of these devices. The arrangement to hire these from BDBC had been put on hold while the roadworks were undertaken in the village, and while the community speed watch was being trialled, however there were not enough volunteers to make this a long term solution to managing the speed of vehicles passing through the village. It was noted that the parish council budget had allocated £3,000 for the hire of these devices and this would not all be needed to cover the months leading up to year-end if we were to hire the signs, with assistance from the Borough Council who supply the equipment, move the devices every 4 week period, and report the information recorded by the devices.

It was resolved that the hire arrangements would be restarted as soon as the Borough had availability.

9.0             Items for the next meeting

None specified

There being no other business the meeting closed at 9.30pm

Chairman ................................................................................................Date................................

 Appendix: 5.0 Planning Applications

Appendix 3.0: Monthly bank Reconciliation and Accounts for approval