Minutes - 12 July 2022

CROWTON PARISH COUNCIL

Minutes of Crowton Parish Council meeting held on

Tuesday 12th July 2022 at Crowton Village Hall

2022

Present

Cllr Ross McCrickerd (RM)(Chair), Cllr Richard Thorne (RT)(vice Chair), Cllr Jennifer Currie (JC), Cllr Elizabeth Stubbs(ES) Ward Cllr Charles Fifield

Clerk T Whitlow (TW)

Apologies for Absence were received from:

Ralph Oultram, Robert Stubbs, Joel Rutter & Roger Hammond

Ward Cllr P Williams

Declarations of Members’ Interests –None received

Approve Minutes The minutes of the Parish Council meeting on Tuesday 14th June 2022 were approved & signed by the Chair

Matters arising from Minutes of 0/05/2022

(1) Broadband – Factco, one of the broadband fibre companies approved by Cheshire West and Chester Council, are holding off at present due to internal contract issues, it is hoped these will be resolved shortly. Freedom Fibre, another option, have been contacted on numerous occasions but to date have not responded – To invite to the next PC meeting to see what they could offer the village.

(2 )Station Road surface –A number of the PC and Clerk were involved in a Team’s meeting with highways, although no positive information or action came of this another meeting has been arranged for September. Highways have advised to make sure every pot hole is reported, as the more reports, the more possibility of getting this section of road moved up the list for attention. A Freedom of Information request has been put in to CWaC for results of surveys to this section of road, but has been refused. Another meeting has been set up for September. Thanks to Cllr Gillian Edwards for facilitating these meetings.

(3) SID’s - This was discussed at the teams meeting, it was suggested that a moveable unit, with various posts in the village to site it on would be a better option for the village. RT to provide clerk with a plan to send in to highways for agreement.

(4) 30 mile hour zone – area outside the school and the Station Road end of Ainsworth Lane, to reduce to 20 mph. This was discussed during the Highways teams meeting. It will be looked into by Highways

(5) Fence on Millennium Green - Carried over to the next meeting.

Public Participation : No members of the public present

Planning Applications –

21/04313/FUL Quarry Bank Farm, Livestock building -Objection has been sent in to planning.

A number of AGR applications are appearing in the locality, planning don’t forward these to the Parish Council, TW to check planning website on a regular basis to enable the PC to be aware of these applications

Parish Field: The new lease has been signed by the new tenant.

Millennium Green - The staging has been taken down and is now looking very nice. Thanks were offered again to the volunteers.

A skip is required to remove debris, RM to organise, cost approximately £260 agreed.

Correspondence – email received MCFS (mid Cheshire Footpath Society) to ask the PC to re-join post Covid, MCFS walk a lot of local footpaths and will report back any issues ie broken stiles etc. This was agreed.

Accounts-

PC Computer -Due to holidays, PC computer has only just gone to TW’s family member to try and improve its performance, TW has looked back through all cash books to 2015 and can’t find any payments for a computer. PC work currently being carried on own computer via memory stick

Payments agreed:

(1) Clerk’s salary July

(2) MCFS £8.00

Village issues – None

Items for next agenda –

SID’s

Fibre Broadband update

Station Road Update

30 mph update

External fence on the Millennium Green

PC computer

Date for next meeting – Tuesday 13th September 2022 7pm

There is no meeting in August

The meeting closed at 8.10 pm