We are currently recruiting volunteers for our very successful Speedwatch team.
Do you have a few hours to spare per month to help keep our villagers safe?
Full training given by Cambridge Police with constant support.
Please enquire to cliffrichmond99@yahoo.com
Come along and join in at St Michael’s Church in Great Gidding for our ‘Songs of Praise’ service on Sunday afternoon at 4.00pm.
After the service there will be refreshments.
If you have a favourite hymn please let Michael Keck know (tel: 01832 293357) and we’ll do our best to include it.
Title: Songs of Praise
Location: St Michael’s Church
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2016-04-17
£5 per Table if Booked in Advance (Traders £10)
£1 Entrance for Buyers (Children under 16 Free)
Coffee & Home Made Cakes on Sale
Wednesday 13th April 2016
7.00pm – 9.00pm (Sellers set up from 6.00pm)
Lydia on 07962 099922 or email: lydiajames2010@hotmail.co.uk
Great Gidding Village Hall
Main Street
Gt. Gidding
Huntingdon
PE28 5NU
An excellent turnout for the annual trim and tidy of the pathways and hedges around the Jubilee Wood. Another is planned for next week, 30th January from 9.30 am.
PRESENT: Cllrs Alexander (Chair), James (Vice-Chair), Howden, Giddens and the Minute Taker (Mrs Julie Trolove)
Key: CCC = Cambridgeshire District Council HDC = Huntingdon District Council PC = Parish Council
Members of the Public: 3
82.15 To receive apologies and reasons for absence Cllr Hayden due to ill health.
83.15 Member’s declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests
NONE
84.15 To confirm and accept minutes of 17th
Minutes confirmed as a true and correct record of the meeting. The Chairman signed and dated them.
85.15 Matters arising from minutes
48 Main Street – Cllr Alexander had spoken to a legal adviser who advised that for between £200 and £500 a licence could be obtained that would permit variance of the access. This is a nontransferable licence.
Also agreement in principle has been given to tradesmen using the car park and the owner of 48 Main Street had offered to make a payment for this permission.
Member of the public asked about the future of the Village Hall. The Clarion will convey the information to the villagers that the Trustees have agreed to support and fund the Village Hall for at least 12 months. There will be no increase to the Parish Precept.
86.15 Items for discussion on next agenda
Discussions with owner of 48 Main Street
Meeting Closed 8.15PM
PRESENT: Cllrs Alexander (Chair), James (Vice-Chair), Howden, Giddens and the Minute Taker (Mrs Julie Trolove)
Key: CCC = Cambridgeshire District Council HDC = Huntingdon District Council PC = Parish Council
Members of the Public: 3
281.15 Chairman’s Welcome
282.15 To receive apologies and reasons for absence Cllr Hayden due to ill health.
283.15 Member’s declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests NONE
284.15 Public and Press participation session with respect to items on the agenda
Salt box on Chapel End – a member of the public queried the siting of the salt box near Chapel End Pond, as it had been intended to site this on the grass triangle on the bend in Chapel End. It was confirmed that this was in the wrong spot and the member of public offered to relocate it.
285.15 To confirm and accept minutes of 17th. Minutes confirmed as a true and correct record of the meeting. The Chairman signed and dated them.
286.15 Matters arising from minutes (information only)
Eastern Tree Services had requested payment of their invoice, Cllr Alexander has reminded them that payment will be made once written confirmation has been received that all trees have been checked.
Cllr Giddens enquired if the trees surrounding the Playing Field had been checked and Cllr Alexander advised that all trees on the boundary had been visually inspected.
287.15 Communication from the Parish Cllrs
Cllr Giddens reported there had been damage to the bridleways caused by horses. Also that her contact at Cambridgeshire County Council is no longer available.
Cllr Hodson has checked the accounts.
Cllr Alexander advised that the Clarion is ready to be delivered.
Cllr James will deliver the Clarion in the near future – a member of public offered to assist with Chapel End deliveries.
288.15 Update on the Parish Clerk vacancy
The closing date for applications is 17 December 2015, there has been 1 applicant.
289.15 Finance
a) Payment of accounts
Expenditure:
All items on the agenda were agreed
(Eastern Tree Surgery – see above, payment was to be deferred).
Receipts: None
b) Noted
c) C Bradley (Parish Clerk) has completed the Barclays Bank Change of Mandate form and has provided an accompanying letter to confirm removal of her name from the list of signatories. Cllr Alexander will post the form and letter.
290.15 Items for discussion on next agenda
291.15 Date of next meeting 19th January 2016
Meeting closed 8.15PM
The first cycling Tour Of Cambridgeshire took place in June 2015 The route on public roads that were closed specifically for the race to happen. Around 5000 cyclists were reported to have signed up to take part. So on a stunningly glorious day we watched and waited to see what 5000 cyclists looked like speeding through the village. What a spectacle apart from the heads down first few hundred who were on a mission to win the great mass of riders responded in kind to the roadside cheering and reserved clapping that Brits do so well. It was a grand spectacle and is to be repeated in 2016 on the same route. A Gran Fondo is a cycling event on closed roads for mass participation.
It should be noted that there were a few grumbles and the notification process before hand could have been more robust. The idea of the roads closed for 12 hours was a nonsense and should never have been allowed to be displayed, despite rectification the die had been cast. Hopefully the organisers will take this on board and make bigger efforts to contact affected buisnesses on route and make it clear that nobody is trapped in their homes.
The plus side of all this is Gidding is on the map and not some backwater beyond Sawtry and Stilton. It provided grand entertaiment on the roadside at no cost and no doubt charities were the biggest winners.
Winter maintenance is required in the wood to keep it visitor friendly and safe.
If you can spare a couple of hours on the morning of Saturday the 23rd January to trim overhanging branches or nip arching bramble runners off at ground level or litter pick (there’s not much but it looks unkept) Branch loppers, pruning shears and stout gloves are all that are required. Tea and coffee will be provided.
Start anytime after 9.30am until lunchtime.
Great & Little Gidding Parish Council Parish Council office, Village Hall, Main Street,
Great Gidding, Huntingdon PE28 5NU
Tel 01832 293068 email giddingspc1@btinternet.com
AGENDA
82.15 Apologies and reasons for absence
83.15 Member’s declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests
84.15 To confirm and accept minutes of 17th November 2015
85.15 Matters arising from minutes (information only)
86.15 Update on 48 Main Street boundary
87.15 Items for discussion on next agenda
88.15 Date of next meeting
Great & Little Gidding Parish Council Parish Council office, Village Hall, Main Street, Great Gidding, Huntingdon PE28 5NU
Tel 01832 293068 email giddingspc1@btinternet.com
AGENDA
281.15 Chairman’s Welcome
282.15 To receive apologies and reasons for absence
283.15 Member’s Declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests
284.15 Public and press participation session with respect to items on the agenda
285.15 To confirm and accept minutes of 17th November 2015
286.15 Matters arising from minutes (information only)
287.15 Communication from Parish Cllrs
288.15 Update on the Parish Clerk vacancy
289.15 Finance, inc:-
a) Payment of accounts
Expenditure
£305.21 – Salaries (STO)
£21.67 – C Bradley, additional Hours (2, as agreed in min ref. 251.15) (CHQ)
£20.79 – C Bradley, stationery reimbursement (CHQ)
£15.33 – (£2.55 VAT) BT November payment (DD)
£54.00 – (£9.00 VAT) Wicksteed Playgrounds (CHQ)
£20.00 – CARESCO, Clerk’s vacancy advertisement (CHQ)
£701.74 – (£116.96 VAT) Eastern Tree Surgery – (deferred payment, min ref. 272.15) (CHQ)
£25.00 – Royal British Legion (receipt to be sent when payment received) (CHQ)
Receipts
None
b) To note the reconciled bank account balance
c) To remove C Bradley from the banking mandate
d) To stop STO for C Bradley’s monthly wage
290.15 Items for discussion on the next agenda
291.15 Date of next meeting
Key:
CCC – Cambridgeshire County Council
HDC – Huntingdonshire County Council
PC – Parish Council