Shalford Parish Council Parish Clerk: Cathryn Carlisle Herkstead Green Bungalow, Cornish Hall End, Braintree, CM7 4HH Tel: 01440 731964 [email protected]

Minutes of the Annual Parish Assembly Monday 20th April 2016

Welcome – Corinne Eves Parish Council Chairman Cllr Eves welcomed everyone for attending the Annual Parish Assembly.

All Councillors attended the meeting plus 32 members of the public DC Peter Tattersley

Apologies

CC Roger Walters Peter Schwier The Vicar

Minutes of the meeting held on 11th May 2015 were approved and signed

Roger Hirst Conservative Candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst is the Conservative Candidate up for election on the 5th May 2016, prior to this Mr Hirst Was cabinet minister for ECC and Deputy Leader at Brentwood Council he led the Essex Communities Strategy and has a track record of successfully working in collaboration with the Police and local authorities to deal with inlawful gypsy and traveller issues. He has now stood down from these roles to focus on Police and Crime Commissioner, we will stand for the whole of Essex. Professionally he has work in the City of London as a financial analyst at mayor British, European, and American banks.

As our Police and Crime Commissioner Mr Hirst will put needs of Essex residents first. The Police need to mend the broken elements of our society. That is why he promises to;

1. Crack down on Anti-Social Behaviour – keeping our communities safe across the whole of Essex and reducing the disruption and distress it causes people.

2. Be tough on Domestic Violence – helping those who suffer in silence and reducing its impact on children and families.

3. Reverse the trend in serious violent crime – helping the Police get a grip on knife crime and supporting early intervention to improve public safety.

4. Tackle gangs and organised crime – making sure that crime doesn’t pay, eradicating people- trafficking, and using seized funds to help affected communities.

5. Make the Police more local, visible, and accessible – ensuring that crime prevention is based in the community, that victims come first, and that you know what is happening in your neighbourhood.

Mr Hirst would like to see the Police, Fire Service, Health and Social Care all working more closely together. Especially the Police and Fire Service could use the same back office staff working as one team. More than 26,000 rural crimes are reported to Essex Police a year, Mr Hirst is determined to help

Page 1 of 12 farmers and rural residents stay safe. Mr Hirst will support Essex Police to focus on identifying and investigating rural crime including the work of Rural Special Constables and will strengthen Farm Watch and Farmers’ NAP which now have 2,000 farmers on board.

101 service is not good enough and needs improving.

Q With a lot of speeding traffic in Country Lanes Mr Hirst agreed that deaths on rural lanes is very high.

A resident said he had taken the online test for speed watch camera but has not heard anything for anyone as yet.

The Parish Clerk and Chairman explained that we have speed watch in the village but only Whites Hill which is a 40 mph speed was assets by the Police. The speed watch co ordinator has spoken to the Police on numerous occasions asking for Church End Shalford to be asset.

The Clerk and Chairman also reported that they Parish Council had managed to get Water Lane a Quiet Lane so hopefully this should stop some of the traffic going down there.

After the last speed and volume survey at Church End Shalford the area near Poplar Cottages is being looked at for traffic calming by ECC Highways.

Q A resident wanted to know how Mr Hirst was going to fund all the new technology, A Mr Hirst explained that a lot of Police Stations would be closed as they cost a lot of money to run and in the last year only 10 people or less called in to report a crime. Braintree Police Station will be remaining. Chelmsford police station costs 2 million to run the building is old so a new building would cost less, there will be other cuts across the board at some stage.

FOSTAC

Activities over the last year have included the Group continuing to arrange events to raise money for the restoration of the Organ in St Andrew’s Church. This work is now scheduled for the summer, and an Organ Recital has been arranged for the 11 September 2016 to celebrate the refurbishment.

2016 started with a March Spring Tea held on the 1/3/16. Other events that are planned and will be taking place during the year are:

Chelmsford Cathedral Choir - 21 May 2016

Come & Sing - 25 June 2016

60’s evening with Hog Roast - 16 July 2016

Organ recital to celebrate the refurbished organ – 11 September 2016

Braintree Male Voice Choir – 11 October 2016

Christmas Fayre coach trip to Ely Cathedral 17 November 2016

Christmas Concert – 10 December 2016

Tickets for events are available from Shalford Village Stores.

Page 2 of 12 After the FOSTAC AGM, in May, the committee will be made up of 8 members. We would welcome anyone wishing to join our group who is interested in helping to raise funds to help preserve St Andrew’s Church, and at the same time supporting events for our local community.

Village Hall Management Committee - Colin Golding For those of you who do not know Shalford Village Hall and recreation ground are owned by a charitable trust for the benefit of village residents. It is independent of the Parish Council and is run by a Management Committee who are “Managing Trustees” of the Charity. The revenue we raise through letting the Hall, football pitch and cricket pitch currently meets our routine expenditure on maintaining the hall and recreation ground and funding to improve the facilities comes from our fund raising activities and grants. Over the last few years we have been able to refurbish the showers in the changing rooms, the toilets and most recently the kitchen thanks to grants from Essex County Council’s Communities Initiative Fund. We have also benefited from Section 106 money which most recently was used to replace the railings around the hall. Section 106 money is collected by Braintree DC from developers every time a new house is built and we are fortunate in that they pass that money down to local communities to improve open spaces in the parishes where the houses are built. We currently have 3 improvement projects on the go. The first is to buy a replacement tractor for use on the playing field because our existing one is passed its best and beyond economic repair. The new one, for which we have grant funding in place, will allow us to undertake some of the remedial work which we currently have to contract out, thereby saving us money. Hopefully it will also make life a bit easier for Lawrence Rawlings who has given his time free of charge for many years now to cut the grass on the playing field. The second is our biggest project and that is to replace the roof on the hall and remove the false ceiling and create a vaulted ceiling with integral insulation. Most of our recent fund raising has been put towards this project and it has been added to by grant money from the Parish Council. We currently have around £17k towards this project but still have a long way to go. The third project is to refurbish the basketball area which is beside the children’s playground and we are waiting for the section 106 fund to build up a bit more before going ahead with that. Looking forward we have 3 events coming up. Two are to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday, the first tomorrow night, the day of her actual birthday when a beacon will be lit on the field at 7:30 as part of the chain of beacons across the country. So please come along, hot drinks will be served. The celebration of the Queen’s official birthday takes place on the weekend of the 10th,11th and 12th on June with a service at Westminster Abbey on the Friday, Trooping of the Colour on the Saturday and the street party in the Mall on the Sunday. So to join in we are arranging a party in this Hall on the Saturday evening . We want the Sunday to be a village celebration so we are providing a free tea for the senior citizens of Shalford at 2 O’clock and on the playing field there will be a BBQ, beer tent and fun and games for all the family. So please put the dates in your diary, watch out for the posters and flyers with more details and if you prepared to help with the organisation then come and see me later. Finally our annual cricket festival will take place on 9th July. This has become a regular event and keeps alive the spirit of cricket on the village green. It also raises around £2.5k for our funds.

As a village we are lucky to have a hall like this, it is a great community asset and we would like to see it used to its full capacity. We do give discounted rates to encourage new activities.

Page 3 of 12 Maintaining it and improving it take a lot of effort and hard work by what is a small management team and because of this we are limited in the number of events we can organise but when we do it is a little soul destroying when we have to cancel them do to lack of support which is what happened to our quiz night last year.

So as they say if you don’t want to lose it then use it. Your support makes all the difference.

Shalford Local History Association – Report Activities over the last year have included the Group continuing to catalogue and index its artefacts and archives. The display in the glass cabinet in the Village Hall, is now regularly updated by a member of the Group.

The group assisted the Shalford Primary School in judging their May Holmes Langford History Project for 2015. The subject for the project was “How People in my family were affected by War”. This was a home based project for the children to start and complete during the 2015 Summer Term. The project was well received by Shalford School Children, and the standard of work was most impressive.

The group has continued to work further on producing another local interest book, for publication this year. We are pleased to report that “Tales told by a Shalford Fireside”, is now ready for printing, and that the Village Hall has been booked for 7.00 pm on Friday 9 September 2016 to launch the publication. The book will cost £5, and once the copies are received from the printers, they will be made available on the launch evening, and after that at the Shalford Village Stores.

We are a small group, and would welcome anyone with an interest in local history to join us.

District Councillor Report - DC Peter Tattersley DC Tattersley paid tribute to the late Andrew Overall who was a highly thought of Chairman of the Planning Committee at BDC.

The May 2015 District Council elections saw the fulfilment of an election promise by the Conservative Group on the Council to reduce the cost of democracy. One way this was achieved was by reducing the number of Councillors from 61 to 49, a saving of around £50,000.

The impact of this for residents in the Three Fields Ward (Gt Bardfield, , Wethersfield, Shalford, and Panfield) is the amalgamation of Parishes to create a new ward served by two Councillors instead of the previous three.

This has provided a better opportunity for us, as District Councillors, to attend more of your parish meetings. A specific slot on the agenda will also allow us to feed back issues which affect the parish together with an opportunity to give a more general briefing on additional significant district wide matters. Of course, our District Council responsibilities mean it may not always be possible to attend every meeting but we aim to remain in close contact with your Parish representatives.

The Council’s key achievements since the May 2015 election are provided, but we are particularly pleased to highlight the following:

Page 4 of 12 • Endorsed successful bids to the Council’s Mi Communities Fund for improvements to Gt Bardfield and Blackmore End community/village halls • Maintaining budgets to ensure our district remains one of the cleanest in the country • Developing the successful and popular recycling schemes • Increasing the emphasis on health and wellbeing initiatives in rural areas. • Providing additional financial support to the County Council to ensure fast broadband reaches our more rural areas quicker. • Making financial provision to provide infrastructure before major house building schemes are put in place. • Ensuring a continuous emphasis on the needs of our rural population in health, business, education, and housing.

We are now looking forward to the challenges of the next 12 months

• Taking advantage of new planning rules which allow increased accessibility of mobile phone signals in rural areas • Whilst recognising the Government’s targets imposed on local councils for new housing,( estimated for the to be around 14,500 over the next 17 years or 850 per year), we will need to ensure that these are located in the most appropriate locations with adequate infrastructure , whilst at the same time recognising the wishes of parish councils • Ongoing central government grant reductions will continue to affect local government at all levels, ensuring greater emphasis on value for money and efficiency If you wish to contact your District Councillor our email addresses are:, [email protected] and [email protected]

ACHIEVEMENTS 2015/16 BDC Our Priorities are to:

Keep our District clean and tidy

• Protect our environment • Provide green space for everyone to enjoy To support this in 2015/16 we have:

Continued to support an anti-litter campaign across Essex and participated in campaigns that reduce waste resulting is an 83% reduction in litter across the district and a 41% reduction across Essex.

Awarded ‘Local Authority of the year’ at the Keep Britain tidy awards for the council’s innovative approach for creating a cleaner and greener district.

Installed additional solar panels on Witham Leisure centre and new solar panels on the Discovery Centre and Unit 9, Lakes Road.

Worked with Essex County Council to open a new adventure skyline visitor attraction at Great Notley Country Park

Expanded our recycling waste service in flats to an additional 300 sites

PEOPLE Our Priorities are to:

• Support vulnerable people in our community

Page 5 of 12 • Promote safe and healthy living • Encourage flourishing communities To support this in 2015/16 we have:

Introduced a home inspection and handyman service to help frail residents as part of our action to reduce hip fractures in the district

Worked with the Health and Wellbeing Panel to reduce obesity levels across the District by delivering local activities to enable residents to eat well and increase activity levels.

Delivered the second stage start of the Friends Life Women’s Tour and follow up festival to encourage cycling and other physical activities.

Refurbished three play areas at Rosebay Close, Witham, John Ray Park in Braintree and Tabor Field in Braintree

Successfully supported community groups to deliver local projects through the Mi Community fund by awarding 21 grants

PROSPERITY

Our Priorities are to:

• Increase job prospects and support business • Promote and improve our town centres • Secure appropriate infrastructure and housing growth • To support this in 2015/16 we have:

Promoted inward investment through a dedicated website and increased marketing activities.

Invested £500,000 in a business loan scheme to help the District’s businesses expand and grow to create new jobs and support enterprise in town and rural areas.

Completed the extension to Springwood Drive Enterprise Centre

Delivered two Area Business Forums providing business support to local businesses

Delivered 60 affordable homes across the district and exceeded the four year target set in 2012 to provide 400 affordable homes.

PERFORMANCE

Our Priorities are to

Provide value for money

• Deliver excellent customer service • Improve access to our services for all To support this in 2015/16 we have:

Page 6 of 12 Carried out a review of all public sector land and property within the district to identify underutilised assets, opportunities for sharing or disposing of assets and the potential for developing sites for additional housing

Redesigned our website to be more responsive improving access on a range of devices for our customers

Increased our long term investments to £12million and increased the amount that can be placed in individual pooled funds to £5million.

Identified opportunities to develop income for the Authority under our Better at Business Commercialisation Programme

PARTNERSHIP

To support this in 2015/16 we have:

Worked with the Leaders of all the Greater Essex Authorities on a devolution proposal to explore how devolved powers could benefit residents

Continued to lobby for improvements to the A120, A12 and rail link ensuring co-ordination with the Local Plan proposals

Worked with health partners to launch a social prescribing model for residents connecting them to non- medical sources of support and activities taking place across the district

Established a business rates pooling arrangement with nine Essex Authorities which will result in additional resources being available to the Council

Continued to explore the opportunity of a shared building control service between eight Authorities.

County Councillors Report - CC Roger Walter

1. At Full Council on February 9, Essex County Council passed the budget for 2016/17. The impact of cuts from Central Government means that ECC faces having to save more than £1 million every week for the next four years. The budget saw council tax rise for the first time in five years, by 1.99%, and the introduction of the Government’s Social Care levy of 2%, equating to an increase of 84p per week for a Band D property.

Despite the pressures the budget outlined £1.8 billion of spending on public services for residents and a £1 billion capital investment plan for the next three years. Cllr David Finch, Leader of Essex County Council, set out five key areas for investment during his budget speech today.

Business An economic powerhouse • Investing over £200 million in an Essex growth package to boost economic growth by creating jobs, investing in roads and infrastructure, stimulating trade, and supporting business growth • Investing in innovation centres in Harlow and Colchester. • Regenerating town centres in Basildon and Hadleigh. • Investing £43 million in a pioneering housing programme to boost growth and provide homes that will support people to live independently. • £114 million highways maintenance package will keep Essex moving by improving traffic congestion, local roads, footpaths, and bridges. Taking care of our elderly and vulnerable

Page 7 of 12 • In 2016/17, we will be spending £418 million on adult social care. • Investing in programmes that will help people live independently in their own homes for as long as possible. • Developing new and innovative programme focusing on prevention and early intervention. A first class education system • Investing more than £365 million over the next three years in one of the biggest school building programme the county has ever seen, creating nearly 10,000 new schools places. • Radically overhaul and increase the provision of Special Education, spending £57 million on new special schools and pupil referral units across the county. Sustainable public services • In 2016/17, we will take a further £7 million out of our back office costs. • Generate an additional £10 million by tackling council tax fraud and improving collection. • Save over £1 million by bringing services together under one roof, like moving our registration services into our libraries. • Make the best use of publically owned land to deliver new homes that will help vulnerable people live more independently. A greater role for local communities • Looking at who is best placed to provide services – whether that is our districts, town or parish councils, or even communities themselves. • Move to a model where we facilitate people helping themselves and each other, building on the success of innovative initiatives like Community Agents and local designed Community Hubs. 2. In October 2015, Chancellor George Osbourne stated that local authorities would retain all business rates (aka National Non Domestic Rates) collected locally by the end of the decade. This potentially offers new opportunities to create better links between business rates and supporting infrastructure for commerce, by offering local leaders more powers and incentives to stimulate economic growth and investment in public services. This is worth up to £26bn for councils. Currently only 50% of this comes back to local authorities. The formula for determining its allocation does not give favourable terms to Essex, particularly ECC, which will receive only £164.3m in 2016/17. As at quarter 3 of 2015/16, £500m was collected from local businesses but only £219m has come back to 13 Essex local authorities and the Essex Fire Authority. ECC is pushing for full control of the rate multiplier for all authorities, and not just the power to cut rates as the Chancellor sets out. This would allow local government to respond to business needs and revenue requirements. Consideration will need to be made of how businesses with no or low property values make a fair contribution to property taxes, and for councils to be given full control of small business rate relief.

To understand the impact on local government finances, this change needs to be considered together with the phased removal of the revenue support grant. There are fears that the full settlement including business rates retention will exacerbate current gaps between reducing local government funding and increased service demand, particularly in dealing with our ageing and increasingly frail elderly population.

3. At the Council meeting the Leader also announced changes to the Cabinet following the decision of Cllr Roger Hirst to step away from the Cabinet. Cllr Graham Butland has joined the Cabinet with responsibility for Health and Cllr Eddie Johnson has taken on the additional responsibility for Transport Delivery, including passenger transport and Park and Ride services. The new Cabinet is as follows:

Name Portfolio David Finch Leader Kevin Bentley Deputy Leader and Economic Growth, Waste and Recycling

John Spence Finance Rodney Bass Infrastructure

Page 8 of 12 Eddie Johnson Highways and Transport Delivery Anne Brown Corporate, Communities and Customers Dick Madden Adults and Children Ray Gooding Education and Lifelong Learning Graham Butland Health

4. We have heard a lot about devolution recently. The Chancellor announced more deals across the country in his Budget, including an East Anglia deal with an elected Mayor.

The Leader has said previously that devolution is perhaps one of the most important opportunities for local government in a generation. This is because the is the most centralised country in the West. We raise less revenue at a local level than almost any other developed economy and we have limited levers to pull at a local level to improve people’s lives.

Simply put, devolution means a greater say for local areas. A greater say to decide on the things that matter most to local people. And it means faster local growth, more jobs, and better local services.

So in Essex, ECC is continuing discussions with district councils to agree on a proposal to put forward to Government for devolution of powers from Westminster to Essex.

But the principle of localism doesn’t stop at the County level. So ECC is keen to engage with town and parish councils to discuss this, which we see as an obvious next step.

5. The rollout of superfast broadband in Essex has now reached a further 10,000 homes and businesses across the county since the last Programme Update was issued in November and work remains on schedule. It means around 85% of the county now has access to speeds of 24Mbps and above, with it set to increase to 87% by this summer.

We are in the process of updating the Superfast Essex interactive map to show the latest rollout progress, and hope to have the latest version live by the end of this month. Residents can also check if their cabinet has been fibre-enabled by checking our live cabinet list on our website which is updated every Friday. The same page also provides a link for people to be able to check which cabinet serves your address if they do not already know. Weekly progress updates are also available on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Residents are reminded that nobody is automatically connected to superfast broadband when fibre becomes available - residents need to ask their provider to switch to fibre, or buy a fibre service!

Superfast Essex is holding a series of digital workshops to help businesses to stay ahead of competitors and promote themselves online. The four workshops, being held in the coming weeks in partnership with Eastern Enterprise Hub, will aim to help businesses make the most of superfast broadband connectivity when it arrives together with a host of information now available in an online digital toolkit on the Superfast Essex website. The toolkit includes a case study film highlighting the benefits superfast broadband has had on a number of Essex businesses, a Digital Health Check, and some downloadable fast tips.

Find out more and register to attend one of our business workshops through the 'Digital toolkit' page on the Superfast Essex website

Superfast Essex and UK Government have launched a Satellite Broadband Scheme to help those with no or slow broadband connectivity access a basic broadband service. Full details including eligibility criteria,

Page 9 of 12 instructions on how the scheme works and how to apply, along with FAQs are all available at www.superfastessex.org/satellite .

6. ECC has announced that it will convert some 19,000 of its streetlights to LED, saving approximately £900k a year in energy and maintenance costs, as well as carbon taxes. The streetlights which will be affected are those that remain on all night.

Beginning this year and scheduled to be completed in 2018, the LED conversion project will deliver payback over ten years and a return on investment of 115% by year 20. Electricity consumption on the affected lighting stock is estimated to reduce by 63% as a result of the LED conversion project. The authority is investing £9.2m into the project, £4.3m of which will be forward funded by an interest free Government loan.

In 2015, the council carried out a countywide pilot of 1,700 all night streetlights, aimed at evaluating the energy savings, road safety and traffic management benefits of LED technology. ECC maintains around 127,000 streetlights and is the third largest lighting authority in the country. It currently spends £3.9m a year on energy costs relating to streetlighting as a whole and the authority’s part night lighting scheme saves approximately £1.4m a year and significantly cut carbon emissions

7. Options for a new Lower Thames Crossing are being consulted upon and ECC is urging businesses to respond. The Council believes Highways ’s proposed dual carriageway bored tunnel crossing, with entrances and exits east of Gravesend and Tilbury (known as ‘location C’), connecting junction 1 of the M2 to the M25 between junctions 29 and 30 (known as ‘route 3’), will deliver the largest benefits to Essex.

Route 3 provides a strategic link between the Channel Ports and the Midlands and North, as well as improved connectivity to and from Essex. It will create better network resilience. Research shows, depending upon the direction, south or northbound travel, and time of day, 23% and 34% of drivers respectively would use route 3, rather than the existing crossing.

Details on the proposals and the consultation can be found at www.new-thamescrossing.co.uk . The Highways England consultation closes on March 24.

8. We want to make sure Essex has a first class education system. That is why we have set ourselves a target of every child in Essex attending a good or outstanding school by 2018.

ECC has worked proactively and successfully to support school improvement across Essex:

• 82% of Essex primary schools are now rated good or outstanding, up from 65% in 2010 • 81% of Essex secondary schools are now rated good or outstanding, up from 63% in 2010 • 100% of special schools are now rated good or outstanding (as of January 2016)

And we want to see this record of success continue. We want Essex to have the finest schools with the best teachers in the country. And we want every child in Essex to have a place in one of those schools.

We are committed to ensuring Essex has the school spaces needed to meet demand and are planning to spend about £364 million over the next three years on delivering thousands more places across the county.

9. The Government has published a number of important proposed Education reforms:

Page 10 of 12 • A new Education White Paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere, which sets out reforms that aim to ensure that by 2022 no school will be maintained by a local authority. It promotes the academy model for all schools, including faith ones. • A consultation to introduce a new national Schools Funding Formula. An initial consultation on proposed principles closes on 17 April 2016. • A consultation on introducing a new High Needs Funding Formula.

We support many of the proposals outlined in the White Paper but it is important the Government listens to feedback from schools and councils.

In a county as diverse as Essex, we welcome the proposal to introduce a national schools funding formula which will lead to greater fairness and transparency.

Academies can be a good option in terms of choice and driving up standards but they are not a ‘silver bullet’. We would rather schools and communities could choose for themselves.

Essex is already on a remarkable school improvement journey with more than 4 in 5 of the county’s schools rated as good or outstanding. The assumption that schools will perform better without local authority support is questionable. We have not ‘run schools’ for many years but we closely support them to ensure all pupils receive the best possible education.

The Government is now consulting and the Council hopes they listen and respond to any concerns raised

10. An exciting new Demand Responsive Transport (DaRT) is being introduced in parishes in the North of Essex.

This service will allow residents to travel between 0600 and 2000 Monday to Saturday. It increases the opportunities to travel and improve access to shopping, health appointments, work, school or college. It can also be used to visit friends and family. Passengers can travel alone or as a group. Concessionary Bus pass holders can use the service for free after 0900 Monday to Friday and all day on a Saturday.

Instead of using fixed routes with fixed stops and times, customers book journeys with the operator in advance and are picked up from an agreed point – often their own home, a bus stop or local place of interest. To book the DaRT service contact Arrow Taxis on: 01621 874411

In order to ease the introduction of the new DaRT, the service will be introduced in a graduated manner. From April 11th most of the current shopper service routes will be served. As passengers become used to the service (and drivers) it will move to a pre book service. To find out more, visit http://www.essexhighways.org/Transport-and-Roads/Getting- Around/Bus/Services/Demand-Responsive-Transport-DaRT.aspx

St Andrews Church -representative

Angela Tanner Explained that the Church had had a shed put in the Church yard. The joint venture of coffee and cakes on the 3rd Thursday of each month. They sell books/plants fund go to the restoration of the church. The Organ will be restored in the coming months, which means the church will be closed in the week and only open for services.

The new Parish Mag is going really well if anyone has articles for the magazine please feel free to pass the over. If anyone would like to help distribute the magazine, please see Angela Tanner.

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Jo Groves Smith has taken on the Chairman ship of the trust.

The more people that get involved the better, please leave your names with the Clerk.

Questions A Resident is concerned that Jaspers Green won’t be getting superfast Broadband and would like the Parish Council to Formally invite James Cloverlly to meet with the PC to see if there is anything that can be done. There’s no plans to fibre optic into Jaspers Green in the next 5 years.

A Resident said that Fibre Optic has been put into the Street Shalford and should be working early next year.

A resident ask why we can’t have all the signs taken off the triangle, The Council explained that this was going to go ahead it had been agreed that an oak finger post be put back but then highways said that we would need to put some of the signs on the grass area over the road. So the PC thought it would be better to keep them where they are.

A Resident wanted to know when a new footpath map was coming out, The Clerk explained that she was having trouble getting a cartographer to do the work, the gentleman who did it before has retired and wont do it again.

Speed Calming Measures at Pod brook.

Parking outside the shop is really bad

PROW are looking for lost footpath etc some have got lost over the years and are now being reviewed this will go on to 2026.

The Chairman once again Thanked everyone coming to the meeting. Please stay and have some refreshments and talk to the Councillors etc.

Meeting Closed at 9.06 pm

Signed………………………………………. Dated……………………………………………….

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