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Meeting held on Thursday December 1st. 2005 in Itchen Abbas and Avington Village Hall.PRESENT: Alison Matthews (Chairman), Cynthia Bolton, Jennifer Ffennell, Steve Gapper, Geraldine Phillips, Eric Thompson, Paul Twelftree, Joyce Edgell (Clerk). 11.1 APOLOGIES: Bob Banham, Elaine Labram, Fiona Parry. 11.2 MINUTES of LAST MEETING The minutes of the meeting held on November 3rd 2005 were approved and signed. 11.3 MATTERS ARISING ACTION a) Couch Green The Itchen Valley football team is no longer using the football pitch. There is £50 outstanding ET will contact Mr and Mrs Pratt asking for payment and return of the keys. ET b) Low Cost Housing There is a delay with the building work until the electricity and water have been diverted. The s.106 agreement containing the criteria for selecting residents has not been completed and Hyde have proposed a unilateral declaration instead. It was decided that a s.106 agreement was more certain and therefore preferable. AM will discuss this with Hyde. AM Access from Bridgets Lane to the railway line footpath is being looked at by HCC and Hyde. c) Sign in Church Lane, Easton Estimate awaited from Norman Beaumont. d) Footpaths CB has notified Marilyn Meeks re 2 broken stiles on the St Swithun’s Way and a damaged footpath sign in Northington Road, Itchen Abbas. Concern expressed re the damage caused by the Trailriders. CB suggested writing to Mark Oaten with photographs. AM to obtain some appropriate pictures. AM e) Traffic Calming Gateway plans for Easton were discussed. CB proposed these plans be approved, GP seconded the proposal. JAE will write to Mike Barberof HCC, accepting the plans and asking for Please Drive “Slowly” to be put on the village nameplates rather than “carefully” JAE CB attended a meeting with Jackie Porter at HCC to discuss traffic calming along the B3047. Jackie Porter circulated a survey to residents who live along the Main Road. She will collate responses and inform IVPC. f) Easton Village Hall A resident of Easton has asked if a donation to IVPC could be used to increase the grant from the council to enable maximisation of the matched funding. JAE to write to Stephen Whetnall asking about the legality of this offer. JAE
11.4 REGISTER of INTEREST FORMS The Standards Committee of WCC is considering putting councillors’ interests on the net. JAE to write to the Standards Committee stating IVPC does not wish this to happen. JAE 11.5 COUNCILLORS’ REPORTS and QUESTIONS JF reported damage to the lines at Martyr Worthy War memorial. She will contact BT. JF The clerk reported that Bob Banham had thought the course for new councillors very informative. FP asked the clerk to inform the meeting that she has arranged for the Winchester Villages Trust to give £150 to Itchen Abbas Primary School to help with funding for outings. 11.6 FINANCE The revised budget was discussed. SG proposed that this should be adopted. PT seconded this proposal. A precept of £12236 will be applied for. The following cheques were approved and signed.: 101420 Avington PCC £300.00 101421 Easton PCC £300.00 101422 Martyr Worthy PCC £300.00 101423 Itchen Abbas PCC £300.00 101424 Easton Village Hall (5 years) £3250.00 101425 IA and Avington Village Hall £650.00 101426 Martyr Worthy Parish Hall £650.00 101427 Easton & Martyr Worthy News £130.00 101428 The Park Golf Club £158.63 101429 Southern Electricity (KGV) £19.48 101430 GH & IEJ Gray (Hedges) £183.95 101431 Joyce Edgell (Nov. salary, Exp. & Christmas Bonus) £368.07 101432 Information Commissioner £35.00 11.7 PLANNING APPLICATIONS W13146/03TPOCA Mr Mills, The Old School House, Church Lane, Easton. Remove dead wood and weak/broken branches from 2 Ash trees, crown lift to 5m above ground level and 2.5m above garage. FOR INFORMATION W07085/06TPOCA Dr Collis, Demelza, Avington Park Lane, Easton. Fell 1 Ash tree. FOR INFORMATION 11.8 PLANNING DECISIONS Noted as listed in the agenda 11.9 PLANNING MATTERS The drainage proposals for the Banner Homes development were discussed. They were thought to be inadequate. The application will be heard on 20/12/2005. AM has sent written comments. There has been no response from AM’s letter to WCC re Morn Hill’s hotel building asking if it fulfils the s.106 agreement. WCC will meet AM re removal of the Physiotherapy Signs. Drainage proposals for Chillandham Cross have been received. A resident has employed a drainage expert who has given his report noting deficiencies. AM has written supporting his comments. WCC-has published a Planning Service Improvement Plan. A pro-forma will be used for all comments. JAE to write to WCC asking what to do if there isn’t enough space on the form. JAE The inspector’s report re the Local Plan has been published. He has proposed that a criteria based policy should be substituted for development frontages. AM has attended two meetings arranged by WCC on this topic and has discussed the particular problems of Itchen Abbas with Adams Hendry, the consultants employed by WCC. She will attend the next two meetings of the Local Plan Committee on 9.12.05 and 9.01.06 on this topic. JAE 11.10 CORRESPONDENCE DEFRA-Managing Radioactive Waste SG to respond Correspondence re VDS (Ron Allan) In future the list of matters to be taken into account on planning applications will include VDSs. WCC are setting up a tree warden directory. JAE will put an article in the magazines asking if any resident would like to fulfil this voluntary post. JAE
11.11 DATE of NEXT MEETING Thursday 5th January 2006 at 7pm in Martyr Worthy Parish Hall. The meeting closed at 8.55pm |
