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LLANBADARN FAWR COMMUNITY COUNCIL

Minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 6^th December 2007

Present:

Nick Shepperd (Chairman), H Jeffreys, T Simpson, P Knill, D Price, County Councillor Fred Barker, J Early (Clerk)

1.            Apologies:

J Harding, M Lewis

2.            Minutes of Last meeting:

Adjustments made to        3. point 6

                                        4. point 1; delete point 6

                                        7. point 1&2 delete

                                            point 3

Matters Arising:

None

3.            Highways Matters

·                                      D Price has been to speak to Brian Davies in Street Lighting at PCC.  Brian Davies would prefer requests to be channeled through local community councils rather than individually.  In recognition of this request D Price will put together and distribute a letter to all residential areas in Crossgates about the issue of the street lights being turned off between the times of 12.30 and 05.30 hrs.  A reply box will be situated in the Post Office for all replies to be returned too.  Feedback to be discussed at the next meeting.

·                                      A seminar was attended by Community Councillors with local traffic officers on Saturday 17^th November at The Fron.  It was discovered that lasers were used to  monitor speed.  It was decided that Speed Monitors would be put in place on The Fron A4583 North bound.

·                                      D Price stated that he would visit the Traffic section at PCC to see if they had received any other interest from Community Councils re. Community speed camera programme.  If so may be a possibility of buying in-conjunction with another council and sharing the equipment.

·                                      D Price also stated that a traffic counter had been placed at the bottom of the lane at Tan y Fron which leads to Guidfa Farm.  The traffic counter does not belong to PCC; they stated it may have been placed there to measure flow on behalf of a third party.  It is only monitoring flow to 3 properties.

4.            Finance

·                                      Current bank statement received HSBC received. Balance stands at £1167.19.

·                                      Cheques were issued for Grass Cutting and the rent for the community centre for the monthly meetings.

·                                      N Shepperd issued the provisional budget for 2007/2008.  There was a shortfall of £970.00.  To make up the shortfall it was discussed to cut outgoings or to increase the precept.  It was decided to increase the precept to £3500 for next year.

5.            Correspondence

Letter received from PCC stating that the Weekly Planning Register can now be accessed online or via email notifications.  N Shepperd will reply with email details for Chairman and Clerk for notification purposes.

Letter from One Voice Wales inviting to the Powys Community Council review to be held at Llanelwedd Hall on Friday 7^th December at 7.00pm – no takers.

Information on Continuous Professional Development – J Early to read through.

Letter from PCC re. CC Elections.  It states that if there any vacancies then an election will be held.  Also about training seminars for clerks – J Early to reply to letter.

Letter from BDQ – Auditors in response to letter received.  N Shepperd to look at in depth and discuss with H Jeffreys.

Fire Risk Reduction plan received – T Simpson to look at.

Fred Barker has left the meeting.

6.            Planning Applications

·                                      PR664100 – change of use of agricultural land for siting of 4 holiday chalets – new access; construction of 2 passing bays and installation of a new septic tank – No Objections.

7.            Any other Business

·                                      J Early to look at computer based letter header following D Price’s original design.

Date of next meeting – Thursday 7^th February 2008 at 7.30pm.

Meeting closed at 8.45pm.