NORTH AND SOUTH WHEATLEY PARISH COUNCIL Parish Clerk: Sara Stilliard T The Old Milking Parlour, Cottam Road, South Leverton, Retford, Notts. DN22 0BU. Tel: 01427 881582 www.northandsouthwheatleyvillage.co.uk. Minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on Tuesday 10th November 2020 This meeting was held remotely via Zoom and all documents had been circulated by e-mail prior to the meeting Present: Cllrs M Newby (Chair), R Naish; D Cooke; V Wilson; M Burton; A Parker; J Goacher; D Cartwright; J Nixon; and Clerk: S Stilliard. Residents: none present Guests: CCllr John Ogle PUBLIC FORUM – none present PLANNING MEETING Apologies for Absence – Cllr C Page Declarations of Interest and Confidentiality – Planning Meeting – none New Applications – none Old Applications awaiting decisions – none Decisions – none Other planning issues SWNP Neighbourhood Plan: The Wheatley Steering Group had a positive meeting and agreed a path forwards, subject to the publication of revised housing figures in Bassetlaw's updated Draft Local Plan. This will be published at the end of the month. Wheatley's figures will almost certainly be lower than the current 20% target due to the rejection of several sites by BDC, even though the Steering Group had approved them on behalf of the village Page 1379 PARISH COUNCIL MEETING 11.20.01. Apologies for Absence – Cllr C Page and DCllr Naish which were accepted by Council 11.20.02. Declarations of Interest and Confidentiality None declared at this stage. 11.20.03. Report from the Chair – agenda issues The Chair gave a vote of thanks to DCllr Naish for producing the latest Covid update leaflet for Sturton Ward and to those who helped to deliver the leaflets. He also thanked Cllr Cooke for putting up the lamp post poppies in the village. Council voted to order more for 2021 Action Clerk to order another 20 at £3 each The Chair confirmed that a Poppy Wreath had been laid on the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday and that a donation is being made to the Poppy Appeal 11.20.04. Police report PCSO Airey submitted his report and noted that there were 2 reported crimes in North Wheatley during October – the theft from a motor vehicle and a theft other. This month there have been eight reported crimes of interest across the whole beat area. This compares with six crimes reported throughout September 2020 and ten crimes in the same month last year. From 01/04/2020, there have been forty nine crimes of interest reported across the beat area. This compares with fifty eight reported in the same period last year. As such, at the conclusion of the seventh month in this tracking year, these figures equate to a decrease in reported crimes of interest of nine crimes. Please continue to report crime - and incidents - through to our control room on 101, or 999 as appropriate. Even in these most difficult of times, where possible, reported crimes will be dealt with in the same way as they have always been recorded, and dealt with. Please remain aware of any suspicious persons, vehicles and activity in the area and continue to report such instances through to our control room, as normal. Nottinghamshire Police recently started using a new system for recording incidents. As from February 2020, the Police report will include anti-social behaviour incidents only, negating other incident types from this category, such as hoax calls to the emergency services, found/ abandoned vehicles and wildlife/ animal issues. Again, these figures should, therefore, start to decrease but will be more accurate in relation to actual anti-social behaviour incidents on the area. This month there have been six reported incidents of anti-social behaviour across the whole beat area. This compares with one reported incident for September 2020 and seven reported for the same month in 2019. For those of you that follow national, and also regional, news programmes, certainly throughout the pandemic situation we are in, you will have noticed an increase in the number of incidents where a victim has been scammed. Some scammers are operating under the front of the situation, in relation to purporting to be able to supply equipment and supplies relating to the same. Nottinghamshire Police, and forces nationwide, does receive calls from victims, and potential victims, of scammers where phone calls are received and scammers are claiming to be from the Police, the Bank and also from HMRC department. Be clear, that you would never receive phone calls from these people asking, or making enquiries about your personal details, particularly bank details. Sometimes the scammers might give you a further telephone number to contact, including 999, which might sound very genuine. However, the scammers would invariably have not terminated the original call and when ringing the number, which you think you are ringing, the call is resumed by the scammers, probably even a colleague of the original scammer, which might make it seem even more genuine a call. Please terminate these calls as abruptly as you need to. Confirmation of any earlier call from your bank, or other organisation, can then be made from using contact numbers you have for them, either through paperwork you have in relation, or searching the intranet for customer services contact details. Towards the end of October, the control room received a number of calls from older residents, in rural Bassetlaw, including Ranskill and Blyth, who have been approached by telephone Page 1380 from people purporting to be working for the Metropolitan Police, and have subsequently been scammed out of money and/ or property. It has become noticeable over the last couple of months, in particular, that criminals would appear to be targeting small trailers. Across the three beat areas which I cover, there have been three thefts of trailers over the last couple of months in Clayworth, Clarborough and Beckingham. If you do own a small trailer, it would be good practice to store the same away from view from the public highway and also to chain it up to other items stored alongside, particularly to a non-moveable structure which would make a theft more difficult to succeed in. Also, over the last few weeks, there has been a noticeable increase in scrap collectors operating in the area. Some of these, I am sure, will be operating legally with the appropriate licence. However, there will be others that are not. Over the last month, or so, there has been an increase in scrap metals being stolen from properties. Please ensure that this type of material, too, is not left in full view of the public highway offering temptation to any potential criminals. There have been more recent calls received to the control room of door step salespersons operating in the area, particularly Clarborough and Wheatley, where one of the persons, themselves, had confirmed that he was working as part of a re offending scheme. Please continue to report this type of activity in the area to our control room so that Police attendance can hopefully ascertain identities of these cold callers and the organisations which they are potentially working for. My contact number is 07525 226838 and my E mail address is [email protected] PC 3258 Jason Fellows is the beat manager for the area. He has a contact number of 07525 226893 and an E mail address of [email protected] Please do not use these telephone numbers to report incidents and/ or crimes. Our works numbers should only be used for non-urgent matters – including seeking advice and/ or information. I continue to receive calls on my works phone from residents wising to report incidents and crimes. In many cases these calls are received when I am on rest days or annual leave and have not got my works phone to hand. Residents must be comfortable in reporting these occurrences to our control room on 101 in order to receive the best, and real time, service from those officers who are on duty. When ringing 101 the first item which is asked is which Police force you require. This is because 101 is the non-urgent number for all Police forces throughout the country and the signal is picked up from where you are ringing from. In rural East Bassetlaw many parishes are located close to county boundaries, hence the first question. Then, you are asked if you know the person or extension number of the department you require. At this stage, just hold the line. After this, there are a number of options available. For reporting an incident or crime the option is option 7 – there is no need to listen to all the alternatives before selecting this option number. Thanks again for all your interest and support. Please continue to follow the Government instructions and guidelines. Keep safe and best regards. PCSO 8139 Dave Airey 11.20.05. Community Speedwatch / traffic calming The Interactive speed sign has been delivered and Cllr Newby and Terry Davey met with an engineer who gave them an overview of the data collection process. The sign gives a car’s speed only up to 35 MPH to avoid racing vehicles trying to record high speeds. Above 35 MPH the sign says SLOW DOWN A lamp post in Low Street will be used as the first host for the sign which is easily movable so can be relocated in the future. Action Cllr Parker / Terry Davey to let the Clerk know which lamp post has been selected to inform Highways. Page 1381 11.20.06. District and County Councillor Reports CCllr Ogle told Council that there had been a response from Notts CC to the petition regarding North Leverton crossroads - they have agreed that a traffic survey will be commissioned and thereafter a residents meeting will be held to discuss the options Prior to the pandemic, Notts CC were £5 million short on their budget however the Government has awarded more money to the County as a result of Covid so the budget is now balanced.