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January 2018 Date: Friday 5th January 2018 Councillors: C Bidwell (Chairman), B E Dack, P Daffarn, N P Hanks, S L Jones and T Milliken. You are hereby summoned to attend the following meeting: Fairfield Parish Council Date / Time: Thursday 11th January 2018 at 7.00 pm (Planning) and 7.30 pm (Rest of meeting) Venue: Fairfield Community Hall, Kipling Crescent. Members of the press and public are invited to attend. Katrina Henshaw, Parish Clerk Meeting Agenda 1 Apologies for Absence 1.1 To receive any apologies for absence from Councillors. 2 Disclosures of Interest and Dispensation requests 2.1 To receive any declarations of interest from Councillors on matters contained in the agenda. If, at any time during the meeting, a Councillor feels they have an interest in an item being discussed they should declare it at that point. 2.2 To receive written requests for dispensations for declarable interests. 2.3 To grant any requests for dispensation as appropriate. 3 Council Minutes 3.1 To approve and sign as a correct record the minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on 14th December 2017. 4 Public Participation Session 4.1 15 minutes is allocated for public participation. Up to five members of the public will be given no more than three minutes each to speak, provided the correct notice has been given to the Parish Clerk prior to the meeting. Planning (Between 7.00 pm and 7.25 pm) 5 Planning Applications 5.1 CB/17/05145/FULL 23 Dickens Boulevard Two storey rear extension, part over existing ground floor. 5.2 CB/17/05763/FULL Land adjacent to 163 Hitchin Road Residential development if four, four bedroom semi-detached dwellings with associated access, parking and landscaping on land adjacent to 163 Hitchin Road. 5.3 CB/17/05901/FULL 2 Charlotte Avenue Loft conversion to include rear dormer windows and roof windows to front and rear roof elevations 5.4 CB/17/05966/VOC Former Pig Testing Unit Removal of Condition No. 16 of planning permission ref: CB/15/03182/FULL dated 18/12/15 5.5 Any urgent planning applications received between 5h and 11th January 2018 6 Planning Decisions 6.1 CB/17/04818/OUT 153 Hitchin Road Outline Application: development of four dwellings and associated parking and amenity. Outline Application – Granted by CBC 12th December 2017 6.2 CB/17/05292/FULL 44 Heathcliff Avenue Proposed rear orangery, width 8.3 m, projection 3m, hgt to eaves 2.5m, hgt to ridge 3.55 m CBC granted full planning permission 22nd December 2017 Rest of meeting (From 7.30 pm) 7 Central Bedfordshire Council Ward Members Report 7.1 To receive a report from a CBC Ward Members on matters pertaining to Fairfield. Decision items 8 Local Plan (Appendix A) 8.1 The consultation runs from 11th January until 22nd February. FPC to agree how to review the Plan and respond. 9 Anticipated compensation from Anglian Water 9.1 To discuss and agree what projects to suggest for Anglian Water to fund. 10 Community Governance review 10.1 The consultation is open from 1 November 2017 until 1 February 2018. FPC have already agreed to request changing parish boundary to include the second farmhouse that fronts Stotfold Road. 10.2 FPC to discuss the results if the poll asking residents if they wish to keep “parish council” to request a change to “village council”, “community council” or “neighbourhood council” and agree next action. Information items 11 Phone box exchange library 11.1 Quotes have been requested for creating the base and converting the box to a library. Full costs will be supplied at the February meeting. Finance and Correspondence 12 Finance 12.1 To receive receipts and agree payments. (Appendix B) 13 Correspondence 13.1 CBC – Budget consultation. Between 4th and 29th January 2018 CBC is inviting residents to take part in a consultation to let CBC know their views on the proposed Council budget. Full details can be viewed on CBC website. 13.2 Any urgent correspondence received between 5th and 11th January 2018 14 Any other business NB This is for exchange of information only. No decisions or actions can be agreed at this time. 15 Date of next meeting 15.1 The next Parish Council meeting will be held on 1st February 2018 at 7.00 pm for planning and 7.30 pm for all other matters. Appendix A Local Plan Further to my email before Christmas, I am writing to let you know that the Local Plan for Central Bedfordshire is now published online as part of the Executive agenda for 9 January. The plan is a technical document and therefore it is by nature a long and complex document. We recognise how critical it will be for local people and stakeholders to engage with the plan and the central role that you, as representatives of the community, will have in this process. We have therefore developed a range of briefings and summaries that you might find useful. The attachments include: a briefing which summarises the Local Plan; a map showing the locations for growth; and some frequently asked questions. We will be sending you some posters to help promote the consultation; these should arrive shortly. At the point of the consultation going live we will also send you some summary leaflets to make available to the public. In the meantime, you can direct residents to our website which is up to date and includes maps of the sites www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/localplan As a reminder, the timetable for the Local Plan is as follows: Local Plan timetable 3 January The Local Plan is published online as part of the papers for Executive. Briefing packs will be emailed to all town and parish councils. 8 January Overview and Scrutiny Committee* 9 January Executive* 10 January Full Council*l 11 January Consultation opens Public drop in events (3pm-7.30pm): Thursday 18 January – Barton Rovers Football Club Thursday 25th January - Lidlington Village Hall Tuesday 30th January - Arlesey Village Hall Thursday 8th February - Biggleswade Orchard Centre 22 February Consultation closes * These meetings are open to the public and will be broadcast live and available to watch after the meeting online. You can read Executive agenda item on the Local Plan using the following link: http://centralbeds.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=577&MId=5348&Ver=4 Pre-submission Local Plan - summary 1. Why we need a plan What is the Draft Local Plan? The Local Plan sets out how Central Bedfordshire will develop over the next 20 years. It outlines the strategy for ensuring the growth that we need is delivered in the right place, and is of the right character and quality. It also ensures that growth is delivered with the supporting roads, schools and services such as health, as well as retail, leisure and community facilities. Why is the Local Plan important? Our prime location and excellent connectivity means that we have high growth pressures, and this is the reason we need to plan for it. We need more homes and in particular, homes that you and your families can afford to buy and to rent. It means that we need to continue to create more jobs to grow the local economy, and that we need to keep improving our transport networks. It also means that we need to protect and enhance what you love about where you live. Producing a Local Plan is a priority for us for a number of reasons. The government is clear that local authorities are expected to have up-to-date plans in place to guide development within their area and to plan for the infrastructure, homes and jobs that our residents need. Failure to have an up-to-date plan would risk government intervention and a resulting loss of control of the process, as well as potentially more new homes than we are currently planning for. Having an up-to-date plan in place also means that we retain control over where development should be located, rather than it being delivered in an ad hoc way as a result of speculative development, sometimes without sufficient benefit to local communities. How we’ve been developing our Local Plan The Local Plan has been informed by a number of new evidence studies. These look at issues such as population, housing, employment, retail and flooding. We’ve also considered existing, potential and new transport infrastructure (e.g. roads and railways), so that growth and transport infrastructure go hand-in-hand. We’ve developed the Local Plan with residents’ input – through Community Planning events; the Shaping Central Bedfordshire consultation; and consultation on the draft Local Plan in the summer of 2017. Listening to the community From the consultations and community engagement events, we know that local communities want us to: make sure our roads and other transport networks can cope limit the impact on the countryside keep the character of Central Bedfordshire plan for homes for the older generation and affordable homes to help people get on the housing ladder plan for local jobs and services use brownfield sites. Thousands of people had their say on our draft Local Plan that we published for consultation in the summer of 2017. In this draft Local Plan, we consulted on seven strategic options for growth, which is more than we would need. You told us that you were concerned that the local services and roads and transport infrastructure wouldn’t be able to cope with some of the proposed locations. We’ve listened to this. 2. The Local Plan (pre-submission) Our aim is to deliver the growth in a way that respects and maintains the character of Central Bedfordshire, and delivers infrastructure and services to support it.
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