MINUTES OF THE MAULDEN PARISH COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON 20TH APRIL 2020 IN ZOOM AT 7.30 P.M. PRESENT Cllrs R Aston, J Coyle(Chairman), T Hindley, B Jackson, P Jackson, T Joel, K Lawrence, M Paterson, Clerk Alison Winskell and no members of the public. IN ATTENDANCE Ward Cllrs M Blair, P Duckett and M Smith 150. APOLOGIES Cllrs S Browning, M Richardson, S Summerfield and B Woodward, 151. DECLARATION FROM MEMBERS IN RELATION TO A PERSONAL OR PREJUDICIAL INTEREST IN ANY AGENDA ITEM None 152. STANDING ORDERS WILL BE SUSPENDED TO ALLOW MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL IN RELATION TO AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA OR TO REQUEST MATTERS TO BE DISCUSSED AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY HAVE 3 MINUTES AND MUST CONTACT THE CLERK BY 10AM ON THE DAY OF THE MEETING WITH THEIR QUESTION WHICH THE CLERK WILL READ OUT TO THE COUNCIL. No requests from the public were received 153. TO RECEIVE A REPORT FROM CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES Cllr Mike Blair had some good news that garden waste collections would be resuming on Monday 27 th April. He has been receiving a lot of enquiries about planning, job retention, food parcels etc. CBC has been making a massive effort, diverting people from their normal work to help out with the Coronavirus tasks. They are trying to manage planning deadlines too. Cllr M Smith told the meeting that voluntary organisations are working flat out to help out during the crisis. CVS are helping CBC by ringing round vulnerable residents checking that they’re ok. There have been appeals by the Fire service for people not to light fires, not all people are adhering to it. The planning application at 144 Clophill Rd will be called in to the Development Control Committee if it is accepted by officers. They have not yet worked out how they will meet. Cllr P Duckett commended CVS on the marvellous job they are doing. He said the Fire Brigade crews are working as Ambulance Crew to help out. He also restated that the 144 Clophill Rd application will be viewed by the panel. The Local Plan has been accepted to the next stage and is now sitting with the Civil Service. 154. TO RECEIVE THE REPORTED CRIME STATISTICS/ SPEED/STREETWATCH REPORT – CLLR PATERSON 01/02/2020 Snow Hill 40/6472/20 Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) 02/02/2020 Water End Road 40/6799/20 Theft or Unauthorised Taking of a Pedal Cycle 05/02/2020 Undisclosed 40/7557/20 Harassment - without violence (course of conduct) 07/02/2020 Silsoe Road 40/7991/20 Theft from shops and stalls 08/02/2020 Church Road 40/8189/20 Burglary - Business And Community 10/02/2020 Wingfield Avenue 40/8543/20 Burglary - Residential - Non-Dwelling Undisclosed 40/8699/20 Harassment - without violence (course of conduct) Kings Road 40/8695/20 Sexual 11/02/2020 Clophill Road 40/8727/20 Other criminal damage to a dwelling (Under £5,000) Signed _________________ Page | 1817 12/02/2020 Kings Road 40/9155/20 Theft from a motor vehicle 13/02/2020 Undisclosed 40/9274/20 Harassment - without violence (course of conduct) Kings Road 40/9251/20 Sec 4 POA Fear or provocation of violence 17/02/2020 Clophill Road 40/10139/20 Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) 18/02/2020 Clophill Road 40/10355/20 Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) 21/02/2020 Gardeners Close 40/10997/20 Sec 4 POA Fear or provocation of violence 26/02/2020 Church Road 40/12030/20 Theft if not classified elsewhere 02/03/2020 Almond Crescent 40/13095/20 Burglary - Residential - Dwelling Limbersey Lane 40/13047/20 Theft in a dwelling other than from automatic machi ne or meter 03/03/2020 Sandyacres 40/13141/20 Sec 4a POA Causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress 04/03/2020 Ampthill Road 40/13504/20 Attempted - Robbery (Personal) (Indictable) 06/03/2020 Undisclosed 40/13802/20 Sexual 07/03/2020 Sandyacres 40/14093/20 Theft from a motor vehicle Sandyacres 40/14089/20 Unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle 15/03/2020 Sandyacres 40/15841/20 Sec 4a POA Causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress 18/03/2020 Becketts Close 40/16295/20 Sec 4 POA Fear or provocation of violence 26/03/2020 Becketts Close 40/17722/20 Assault without Injury - Common assault and battery Due to the Corona crisis there is no Speedwatch report The Streetwatch group carried out 7 patrols over 11 1/4 hours, 5 in the afternoon, 2 covering Hall End and Green End. They reported a small gas canister in Wingfield Rd and George St. They noted potholes on Flitwick Rd, illegal parking on George St, suspected drug dealing in The Brache and reported the dog bins as they were overflowing. 155. TO CONSIDER PLANNING APPLICATIONS RECEIVED SINCE THE LAST MEETING (INCLUDING THOSE RECEIVED AFTER THIS AGENDA WAS ISSUED) – CLLR P JACKSON CB/20/00367/FULL - 11 Clophill Road, Maulden, Bedford, MK45 2AA – resp by 20/03 Single storey rear/side extension with loft conversion & 'Velux' style roof lights to front & dormer window to rear slope. RESOLVED – no objection Signed _________________ Page | 1818 CB/20/00565/FULL - 79 Water End Road, Maulden, Bedford, MK45 2BB – resp by 27/03 Single Storey Rear Extension RESOLVED – no objection CB/20/00829/FULL - 21 Cobbitts Road, Maulden, Bedford, MK45 2ED – resp by 07/04 Single storey front extension. RESOLVED – no objection CB/20/00741/FULL - Building A, Brickhill Pastures, Limbersey Lane, Maulden, MK45 2EB – resp by 15/04 Demolition of existing building and erection of replacement building for B1/B8 use to include additional hardstanding and associated development RESOLVED – this application is not in Maulden so no comment was given CB/20/00624/RM - Land East of No13 Clophill Road Maulden MK45 2AA – resp by 20/04 Reserved Matters: following Outline Application CB/18/04183/OUT Erection of 14 dwellings including access. Reserved matters sought on appearance, landscape, layout and scale RESOLVED – no objection CB/20/00917/FULL - Land adjacent to 144 Clophill Road, Maulden, MK45 2AE – resp by 21/04 Re submission of planning permission CB/19/01012/FULL Residential development of 23 dwellings. RESOLVED – to STRONGLY OBJECT on the same grounds as last time Site is outside the defined Settlement Envelope of Maulden and Clophill and CBC can currently demonstrate a five-year supply of housing land so conflicting with the councils current Development Plan under Policy DM4. Site is located within the Flitt Valley Landscape Character area –an area of distinctive countryside within the Greensand Country Landscape and development of this site would be harmful to the sensitive and vulnerable landscape arising from the sites open and underdeveloped character. Scale of the development would cause significant and demonstrable harm to the character and appearance of the area. Not suitable site for development – whilst the application states the development is in proximity to services in Clophill these are in fact on the opposite side of the busy A6. The shop in Maulden is approx 2 miles distance so in both cases residents would be unlikely to walk so would use cars so adding to the traffic and parking problems in both villages. Therefore does not meet the NPPF38 requirement that “ where practical key facilities such as primary schools and local shops should be located within walking distance of most properties.” Highway safety and traffic generation – the main entrance and exit of the site is through Sharps Close, which is currently a cul-de-sac and so is not a safe and suitable access to the site. In addition the development will cause an increase of traffic entering the A507 by-pass from Maulden onto the A6 roundabout or through Hall End, Maulden onto the A6. No significant contribution to meeting the housing needs of Maulden that outweigh the harm. Site is not an allocated site for housing in the emerging CBC Local Plan Loss of agricultural land. In addition changes since the pre-application CB/17/04595/PAPC dated 22 November 2017that have had a negative impact on the advice contained in the report: Overdevelopment of this area of Maulden. Two recent Outline Applications CB/17/00981/OUT for 21 dwellings and CB/17/04583/OUT for 25 dwellings already approved within 100M of this site. CBC Local Plan has reached submission stage and submitted to the Secretary of State in April 2018. Therefore reference should be made to the plan which should be given limited weight in view of the stage of the emerging plan. Planning Application CB/17/03546/OUT was refused permission on the site opposite and the reasons for refusal are applicable to this application. Recommendation for a Toucan crossing to the north of the A6/Clophill Road junction to afford safer movements for pedestrians/cyclists not included in the application. Signed _________________ Page | 1819 CB/20/00996/FULL - Highfields, Limbersey Lane, Haynes, Bedford, MK45 3QX – resp by 30/04 Two storey front and side extension with front porch, single storey rear and side extension and creation of first floor RESOLVED – another application not in Maulden so no comments were sent 156. TO RECEIVE A RECREATION GROUND / REPLACEMENT SLIDE REPORT – CLLR SUMMERFIELD/RICHARDSON Cllr Summerfield has spoken to Peter Palmer and it has been very quiet in the Rec. Only the odd dog walker and no children on the play equipment. All seems ok. He has the two bins and will get Ben Palmer to concrete them in. Peter said the old bins are hanging on at the minute.