HAVERAH PARK WITH
BECKWITHSHAW PARISH COUNCIL
MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON Tuesday 11 April 2023
Location: Beckwithshaw Village Hall
Present: Councillors – Cllr D
Spence (Chairman), Cllr A Ellis, Cllr M David, Cllr J Parish, Cllr
Mr S Swires, Cllr Mrs S
Swires and Cllr N Hull.
Parish Clerk – Mrs J H Galloway.
1
Member of the public were present.
Following the Open
Meeting the meeting commenced at 8.10pm
1
Apologies None.
2 Declarations
of Interest None.
3 Exempt Information None.
4 Minutes of the meetings held on 14 March 2023
Approval of the Minutes of the Parish Council
Meeting was proposed by Cllr Parish, seconded by Cllr Steven Swires and signed
by the Chairman.
5 Urgent Business – Bench
– Email received from Persimmon Charles Church, the
siting
of bench passed to their technical department.
Defib Grant - Grant Approved. Negotiating the positioning of
defib at the Squinting
Cat. Equip to be ordered.
Newsletter and Litter Pick – 250 Newsletters delivered, only
35 needed to be posted.
Litter
Pick was held on 25 March at 10.00am, starting in Village
Hall
Car Park. Only 7 persons volunteered. Litter Picking Policy
needs
to be reviewed as the roads are getting extremely
dangerous
– cars not slowing down, even when volunteers are wearing Hi Viz jackets. 10
bags of rubbish, 1 piece of guttering, 1 plastic pipe and 1 Metal clothes post were
collected on the day. 4 more bags collected by Cllr Ellis on 30 March
Coronation – 72 mugs have been ordered for distribution to
School
Children.
6 Finances The bank balances at 31 March 2023 were reported
to the Parish Council:
Business Current Account £
933.32
Business Money Manager (Deposit
Account) £5,456.24
£6,389.56
Clerk to investigate
the possibility of a ‘Debit Card’ for some payments. – ongoing.
Bank Mandate needs
updating with new signatures.
Payments include Clerk’s Salary £542.95
Clerk’s Tax £135.80
Clerks Expenses £170.76
Needs approval Beckwithshaw
Village Hall – Room Hire £350.00
Prop Cllr Ellis Sec Cllr Mr Swires
TP Jones – Salary Calculation
Fees £ 79.20
Prop Cllr Mr Swires Sec Cllr David
Clerk’s final Expenses £ 63.80
Prop Cllr Spence Sec Cllr
Ellis
Year end accounting Accounts have been prepared and need an
internal audit.
Insurance renewal Insurers
to be contacted re increase in precept amount which
is used for calculation
of fee.
7 North
Yorkshire Councillor
The Transition to Unitary is taking place. All
old web addresses
can
still be used and will redirect to new.
8 Planning
Matters Decisions
23/00385/FUL Permission Refused
Erection of a proposed storage building on land at Bradbury House, Moor
Park (Mrs D Manton)
23/00568/TPO Granted
Subject to Conditions
Lateral reduction to a
Beech Tree TPO 34/1995 at Parish Council Land at junction
of B6161 and B6162 in Beckwithshaw (Beckwithshaw Parish
Council)
23/00781/PBR and 23/00793/PBR Granted Subject to Conditions
Prior notification for conversion of
agricultural buildings to 1 dwelling and annex at
Beckwith Barn,
Beckwith (Jenny Cairns)
Applications
23/00860/FUL
Proposed detached
single storey garage at Snell House Farm, Otley Road (Mr Robert
Fearnley)
The Parish Council does not object to or
support the application but wishes to make
comments or safeguards as set out below:
“That
the temporary second entrance be blocked up as no planning permission has been
granted.”
23/01095/FUL
Erection of double
garage and stable block and enlargement of domestic curtilage at Central House
Farm (DAB Developments
The Parish Council has
no objections
9 Local Plan Local
group still in contact re plans locally
10 Traffic
and Highways Clerk still waiting for Highways to forward the slide show
information
for report.
Problems can be reported to North Yorkshire on the following webpage:
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/report-online
11 Copse
and Grass cutting Quote
requested from Chevin Landscapes.
12 Correspondence A letter received from a resident thanking the
Parish Council
for
all the work they do to support the community. Chairman to reply.
13 Councillors
Questions A question of who owns fencing was asked.
Looking at the Land
Registry
Records was recommended.
14 Date & Time of next meeting: At 7.30pm Tuesday
9 May 2023 Annual and PC
Tuesday
13 June 2023
Tuesday
18 July 2023
Tuesday
12 September 2023
Tuesday
10 October 2023
Tuesday
21 November 2023
The meeting closed at 9.30pm
Please check the website
for further information – www.beckwithshaw.org
SUMMARY
OF ACTIONS REQUIRED
No. |
Action |
Responsibility |
1 |
Reclaim
VAT - ongoing |
Clerk |
2 |
Broadband,
continuous |
Cllrs
Spence and Ellis |
3 |
Speed
on Lady Lane, Data Loggers |
Cllr
David |
4 |
Parish
needs for Traffic Management |
Cllrs
Spence, Ellis and David |
5 |
Contact
Highways - ongoing |
Clerk |
6 |
Extract
data from Traffic sign - ongoing |
Clerk |