ST. GORAN PARISH COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 2009 | |
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MINUTES OF A MEETING of the St Goran Parish Council held on 3rd December 2009 in the St Goran Church Schoolrooms at 7.30p.m. with Mr P Grose in the Chair. Present were Messrs Ayres, Bullen, Church, Husband, Lobb, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Stokes, Community Network Manager Mr Steve Frost & Community Regeneration Facilitator Emma Grigg and 6 members of the public. 1. PUBLIC SESSION The wind turbine that was situated at Gorran School was the subject of discussion, as two blades were blown off during extreme weather on Friday 13th November. The Public are concerned about the safety of it and also the noise it creates. Mr Grose informed the meeting that the P.C. need to know the complete picture of the event. The school rooms were discussed and in the interest of the public the P.C. agreed to make their copy of the P.C.C. minutes dated 15th October 09 available to the public. The public brought to the P.C's attention their concerns of any works being carried out on the Church without public knowledge. After discussions the public agreed with Mr Grose's statement that any plans that were to go ahead would be ratified in the P.C.C minutes. A member of the public asked if the footpath from Gorran to the corner of Menagwins could be trimmed and informed the meeting there is a lot of dogs mess on the path.
Emma Grigg gave a presentation on her roll of Community Regeneration Facilitator. She can assist Parish Councils with their parish plans, assist with grants applications, and also deal with legal issues. There is a grant network that can be accessed on-line that helps find grants that are available to the Parish Council. She also informed the meeting about the Community Payback scheme – Offenders working with in the community can come to the local area and carry out maintenance work. Mr Grose thanked the members of the public present and the P.C. then went into formal session. 3. APOLOGIES Mr Trevarton and Mrs Dean. 4(a). GIFT DECLARATIONS None. 4(b). DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST (8.1) The Lime Kiln – Mr Lobb. 5. MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE 5th November 2009 The minutes were agreed with the amendment that Mr Ayres was present. 6. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES 6.1 Website . The Clerk gave feedback after consulting with CALC that if the P.C want to buy a domain with .co.uk/.com they could use www.uk2.net or if the P.C want a .gov.uk they would need to go through their service provider. CALC also recommend to use a web designer to create a really good site. A Mr. K Oliver had advised the Clerk that he and some others have recently purchased a Domain and are in the very early stages of setting up a website for the village, which will be non political and non advertising; He suggests The P.C website could link with the village website. The P.C agreed to keep the current Parish website up to date and did not need to purchase a new Domain, the Clerk will ask Mr.John Whatty to update the Councillor's details and the new Clerks details. The P.C agreed minutes would be kept only on the Parish website, but a new village website would be welcome to create a link to the current Parish website.
7.1 Footpaths. Nothing to report 7.2 Beach. Nothing to report 7.3 General Purposes. £100 has been given to the Gorran Haven Institute for Christmas lights. Refurbishing the Milford's direction sign has now commenced. 8 CORRESPONDENCE 8.1 The Lime Kiln The Environmental health were informed about rats in the Lime Kiln but responded that this is a matter for a private contractor, it does not come under them. The Clerk is to write to The Lime Kiln Trust. 8.2 Buildings control The Haven Cafe issue is now being addressed by buildings control. Noted 8.3 Highways Details received about resurfacing works to commence on 1st February 2010, streets involved are Chapel Lane, Church Street and Market Street/River Street. All roads will have to be closed over the period of approximately 3 weeks (one at a time). Noted 8.4 Cornwall Council Letter received about planning for Mr & Mrs Coates which is being reported to the central Sub-area Planning Committee for a decision. The committee met @ 5pm on 18th Nov 2009. Planning has now been granted. Noted 8.5 Quay Developments Letter received informing the P.C that Rural Foundations CIC is a sister company of Quay Developments. It is a community interest company that specialises in affordable housing. Posters have also now been displayed on notice boards around the village advertising the affordable housing. Noted 8.6 Town & Parish Council News letter received. Noted 8.7 St Goran PCC Minutes received from the P.C.C dated 15th October 2009. Only 8 letters objecting to the sale of the church rooms were received. Decided by the trustees that the only sensible option was to continue with the original plan to sell. Noted 8.8 CALC Minutes received from CALC dated 29th September. Noted 8.9 Gorran Pre-school –Letter received thanking the P.C. for the grant they received in June. Noted 8.10 Cornwall council – Discussion paper on pre-applications and a questionnaire to be completed and returned by 8th January 2010. Noted 8.11 Parish & Town council support officer – Email received from Helen Couch. As the Localism Team will be moving from Communities Directorate into the Chief Executives team, she has decided to take voluntary redundancy. She would like to say thank you to those councils who have invited her to their meetings and wishes everyone the very best for the future. Noted. The wind turbine Letter received from Mrs A Billing. She writes regarding the malfunction of the wind turbine at Gorran School on Friday 13th November. A cable broke and two sails were blown across the children's sports field. Miraculously no one was hurt – this could have been catastrophic suggesting that a wind turbine should never be sited so near to Gorran School again. A copy of a letter from Mrs Rowse to Parents of the School was received advising that in the next two weeks the manufacturer, will have a full understanding of the problem that caused two blades to come off the wind turbine in extreme weather conditions. They are keen to discuss their findings with the school and are working closely with the Cornwall Council. Mr Grose reported that he has had a lot of phone calls over this matter and people have been asking who they should talk to and what assurance do they have that this won't happen again. It was also reported that a boy had been hit on the head with flying debris on the Friday night. It was brought up that the School caretaker tried to stop the wind turbine on that day but the brake cable had failed. Concerns were expressed as to whether the school have had enough support from the manufacturer. It was agreed that due to the large number of parishioners expressing their concern over the wind turbine the Clerk would write to the School and ask them to keep the P.C informed at each stage of development, so the P.C can then pass this information onto their parishioners.
09/01499: Ms J.L Mitchell. Demolition of existing conservatory and garage: erection of a new conservatory and domestic garage. Full Planning. No objections
Gorran Haven R F Lobb Burial 335.00 Institute Donation for Xmas lights 100.00 R Mills grave purchase 250.00 St Goran Church School rooms Hall Hire. 16.50 Allan Roberts Grave digging 270.00 Mrs LCV Pothecary Clerks wages 356.63 Mrs LCV Pothecary Clerks Expenses 56.45 Mrs LCV Pothecary Clerks Purchases 29.91 Mr ME Crook Grass cutting 77.00 TOTAL £906.49 TOTAL £585.00 All the bills for October have been paid. Agreed to pay the bills for November. 11. PRECEPT After the Clerk presented the P.C with the Precept figures for 2010/2011 the P.C agreed the Precept for next year would increase from £13100 for 2009/2010 per annum to £13900 2010/2011 per annum, representing an annual increase per D Band household from £21.62 in 2009/2010 to £22.65. After discussions the P.C felt it necessary to increase the Precept only to replace the value of the grants that have been withdrawn by the C.C. This is the first increase for a number of years. 12. TENDERS It was agreed the tenders for Grass cutting & Minor maintenance, and for the Beach will be advertised late January 2010.
It was agreed that Rural Foundations could seek to distribute flyers concerning the Affordable Housing proposals in newspapers and suggested that they seek to put flyers in local retail outlets. The Clerk is to inform the C.C that the footpath from Gorran to the corner of Menagwins is a little overgrown. A recent purchase of a grave space charge needs to be agreed. The Clerk to inquire into the purchasers link to the parish. The P.C will decide at the next meeting if the charge should be the local rate or the double rate for non locals. It was reported that the surface water at the bottom of Treveor Hill may become extremely hazardous if it were to freeze over. The Clerk is to confirm with Highways that gritting will continue to the Treveor Hill turning triangle and a salt hopper is to be placed on Bell Hill as previously agreed.
The meeting closed at 9.20pm
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