October 2024
Thorpe on the Hill Parish Council
Meeting Agenda
Dear Parish Councillor’s,
You are hereby summoned to a meeting of Thorpe on the Hill Parish Council to be held on Wednesday 16th October 2024 at The Oliver Roper Village Hall at 7pm where the undermentioned business will be transacted.
There will be a 20-minute public forum at the start of the meeting followed by updates from our County and District Councilor’s. Your presence is required during this time.
Signed: K. Vickers, Parish Clerk.
1. To elect a Chair.
2. Chair’s welcoming remarks and note to the public to remind them of the Standing Orders regarding public participation in meetings - Notably there can be no participation in meetings once public time has ended. Members of the public raising issues or questions should be aware that only items on the meeting agenda can be debated or decided at the meeting, unless the Parish Clerk has delegated powers to deal with it as urgent, e.g. highway repairs. The Chair may decide to answer a question asked by a member of the public or call on a fellow councillor to do so, or, direct that a written response be given.
3. Public time (20 mins) - members of the public may ask questions or make short statements to the Council.
4. To receive updates from District and County Councillors.
5. Formal Session
6. Apologies for absence and declarations of interest in accordance with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011 to include any declaration of gifts and hospitality over £25.
7. To consider and sign the meeting minutes of the Parish Council meeting held 04 September as a true reflection of the meetings.
8. To consider whether the Parish Council will move any items on the agenda to the closed session in
accordance with the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 as per Standing Order 7h.
Should this resolution be passed the public and press will be required to leave the meeting at this stage.
9. Finance Report.
i. Discuss and authorise payments & note income received.
ii. To consider the financial report for this financial year to date.
10. Discuss and review the Parish Clerk report on ongoing/outstanding actions.
11 . To consider the following planning applications.
12. Village Hall Recreation Area. To discuss the following;
i. additions to décor within in the hall
ii. introduction of a fire assembly point
iii. purchase of a floor cleaning machine
13. To discuss and agree to the amendments on the village hall terms and conditions of use and booking form.
14. To remove Mark Bindley from the list of authorised signatories for the Skipton Bank Account and add Kerrie Vickers.
15. To discuss the request from the Bowls Club for a replacement shed.
16. Fosse Green Energy Update. To consider any upcoming costs associated with the Fosse Green Energy Action Group.
17. To receive and consider correspondence received that has not been circulated to the wider Parish or is not on the agenda.
18.To receive verbal updates from portfolio holders and discuss vacancies in the following;
Planning.
Future meeting dates
Parish Council Meetings
4 December 2024
15 January 2025, 5 March 2025, 16 April 2025, 28 May 2025, 9 July 2025, 3 September 2025, 15 October 2025, 3 December 2025.
Lake Committee Meeting
tbc
Portfolio holders
• Lake Management Committee – Cllr’s Bramford, Lyons, Sheldon
• Staffing Committee – Cllr’s Ives, Lyons and Sheldon MBE
• Whisby Quarry Liaison meeting – Cllrs Lyons and vacancy
• Whisby Nature Park Steering Board – Cllr Sheldon MBE
• Allotments – Cllr Lyons
• Planning – Cllrs Lyons, Williams and vacancy
• Finance – Cllr Bramford
• Tennis court – Cllr Bramford
• Oliver Roper playpark – Cllr Owen
• Wildlife – Cllr Lyons
• Village Hall – Cllrs Lyons, Ives and Owen