KIRBY HILL & DISTRICT PARISH COUNCIL

(Incorporating: Kirby Hill, Milby,Thornton Bridge, Humberton and Ellenthorpe)

 

A meeting of the above Parish Council was held on 14 July 2009 in the Coronation Hall, Milby, in accordance with the Local Government Act 1972, due notice having been given.  The meeting opened at 7.00 pm.

 

 

Present:  Cllrs. Smailes(Chairman), Helliwell, Lister, McKenzie, Merson, Parr, Wilkinson, NYCllr Watson, DCllr Brown, Sgt Ramshaw, PC Waite and Martin Rae (Clerk)

 

1   Apologies: Cllr Widdows

 

2   Code of Conduct: Cllr Wilkinson expressed an interest in agenda items 7a and 

     7b

 

3   Minutes of the Meeting  held 12 May 2009 had been distributed and were 

     accepted as a true record and duly signed.

 

4   Finance

Balance stood at £1,926 (incl £500 grant from NYCC J. Watson fund to be refunded to NYCC but 13/5 cheque not yet presented)

Rent of room to pay £8.00

A Foster (grass cutting 1st half-year) to pay £275

PWLB loan 1st half-year payment £728.67 paid

 

5   Correspondence

a)      NYCC Footpaths diversion order

Confirmation of diversion of footpaths 15.94/3 and 15.94/4 Milby

Period of 6 weeks from 29/5/09 in which any person may question its validity.

b)     Boroughbridge Community Care

Letter of thanks from David Allon for parish’s donation of £25, which will go into the new minibus fund

 

6  Clerk’s/Councillors’ Reports

a)      Police Liaison – This item was taken before item 4 to enable Cllr Helliwell to attend another meeting. Cllr Helliwell had attended the last CAP meeting at Rainton, which all attendees agreed had been a waste of everyone’s time. He had taken it upon himself, after discussions with the police and DCllrs Brown and Leather, to try to create a more meaningful style of meeting in future and had booked the Coronation Hall for an ‘inaugural’ meeting on 7 September.  The police officers present agreed that CAP meetings had degenerated and welcomed Cllr Helliwell’s initiative..

Sgt Ramshaw reported on the low crime figures for the area, noting that only one house break-in had occurred in Newby ward in the past year.

The fact that there was so little crime in the area, while laudable, was regarded as a possible reason for so little interest in the CAP meetings.

The clerk thanked the police for the increased monitoring/surveillance of the Milby Lock area, where trouble with under-age drinking and excessive littering by groups of youths had been getting worse.

b)     Joint Parish Council – the clerk reported that RAMS Chairman, Gareth Owens, had attended the last meeting to which representatives of Dishforth, Marton-le-Moor and Skelton parishes had also been invited. Gareth had geiven a presentation about the RAMS work as a Rule 6 party to the forthcoming inquiry and the nearly completed Statement of Case. He urged all attendees to get objections into the Planning Inspectorate by the 13 July deadline.

Next JPC meeting 17 September. Clerk asked councillors to suggest agenda items.

 

 

 

 

7  Ongoing matters/updates

 

a.      Kirby Hill MSA – this item was taken before item 4 to enable DCllr Brown to leave the meeting for another engagement.  DCllr Brown reported on the latest development, that the Secretary of State had ‘called in’ the Leeming Bar application (for upgrade to MSA status) for consideration at the public inquiry alongside the Kirby Hill application/appeal rather than by Hambleton District Council’s planning commmittee.  This will probably put back the start of the inquiry into  spring of 2010.

The clerk had distributed copies of the RAMS final Statement of Case to all councillors prior to the meeting.

b.      B6265 Layby – this item was also brought forward to before item 4 to enable NYCllr Watson to go to another engagement. The clerk reported that he had been in corresondence with Donna  Hodgson of NYCC Highways, who had quoted £50k for closure of the layby. The clerk had reminded her that her predecessor, Ken Major, had agreed to pursue the possibility of a single gate at the southern end of the layby, to deter heavy lorries.  NYCllr Watson considered that the priority of this, being just an aesthetic rather than a safety matter , was inevitably low but that the time to raise it was when priorities were being reassessed. The clerk would contact Donna Hodgson again to ask for a quote just for a gate as such a small and low cost piece of work would have more chance of having its priority lifted.                    ACTION CLERK

c.      Boroughbridge Area First Responders – this item was also taken before item 4 to enable Cllr Helliwell to go to another meeting.  Cllr Helliwell talked about the work of this new group and explained the problems with recruiting new members.  Around £200 annually was required to pay for the training venue (2 weekend courses per year) and the Joint Parishes meeting had provisionally agreed at their 14 June meeting that the four local councils should contribute, subject to confirmation by each council on the pro-rata amount. Cllr Merson proposed, seconded by Cllr Wilkinson, that the parish council should make a contribution but with a ceiling of £75. Agrred amounts per council could be confirmed at next JPC meeting (17 Sept).                                                                 ACTION CLERK

d.      Commuted Sums – Cllrs agreed that the £165 available for ‘amenity green’ space within 400 metres of the Crown Farm development in Milby should be spent on the planting of a further oak tree near the locks.            ACTION CLERK

e.      Village Green  Cllrs agreed that the clerk should write to the owner of the old school reagarding the state of the hedging/trees between his property and the village green (behind war memorial), and also to the owner of Pond House regarding regular parking of vehicles on the village green.           ACTION CLERK

 

8. PLANNING

 

a.   6.47.52.B.OUTMAJ(EIAMAJ)  08/05860/OUTMAJ(EIAMAJ)

      Heather Ive Associates – MSA Kirby Hill  see  7a

b.     6.47.83.FUL  09/01323/FUL

17 The Grange, Kirby Hill – Mr I Shepherd

Erection of first floor side extension

APPLICATION REFUSED 11.5.09

c.      6.57.4.M.FUL  09/01821/FUL

Russell Hume Ltd -  Milby

Retention of single storey rear extension to house cold store

APPLICATION GRANTED  2.7.09

d.     6.57.65.FUL  09/02489/FUL

Lever  31 Market Hill, Milby

Erection of single storey rear and side extension.

Parish Council neither supported nor objected but made comments that they had regarded similar developments on other parts of Market Hill to adversely affect character of estate.

 

Meeting closed at 8.00pm

 

 

 

NEXT MEETINGS:            Tuesday 15 September 2009 7.00pm

                                    Tuesday 10 November  2009 7.00pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNED…………………………………………………………. DATE……………………