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    <strong>HOLNE PARISH COUNCIL
        <br />
        <br />
        Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Wednesday
        1 November 2006 in Holne Village Hall 
        <br />
        Present</strong>: Cllrs Paul Arrowsmith, Richard Copus, Cynthia Irish, Michael
    Maddicks (Chairman), Belinda Owen, Ru Roberts
    <br />
    <strong>Clerk:</strong>
            Joanna Radford
    <br />
    <strong>Members of the Public</strong>: Mr R Gray, tree warden, Mr K Evans, County
    Cllr Pennington (at end of meeting).
    <br />
    <strong>Public Forum : Ross Gray</strong> –commented on the needs of the PCC and
    on the project to improve Play Park. He was astonished at response of DNPA officers
    in relation to the leat which he felt does need attention. He also wished the meeting
    to know pub has now taken over management of village green. (Cllrs Owen and Copus
    arrived)
    <br />
    Cllrs noted District Cllr Ramsay’s report: <strong>Cllr Roberts</strong> commented
    on it, expressing pleasure at the success of the art auction for the Alzheimers
    Society.
    <br />
    <strong>
        <br />
        0611.01 Apologies for absence</strong>: Gill Simpson, District Cllr Ramsay
    <br />
    <strong>
        <br />
        0611.02 Minutes of the Meeting
        of 4 October 2006</strong> were approved and
    signed.
    <br />
    <strong>
        <br />
        0611.03 Declarations of Interest:</strong> Cllr Roberts stated that she would
    not declare a prejudical interest in planning items although she was a friend of
    Mr French and Miss Olwen. Cllr Owen declared a personal and prejudicial interest
    in planning application 0740/06 as did Cllr Irish, both having business connections
    with the applicant. Cllr Maddicks declared a prejudicial interest 0740/06 as a friend
    of the applicant. All left the meeting for the duration of this item.
    <br />
    <strong>
        <br />
        0611.04 Planning matters</strong> 0740/06 Barn (300sqm) for storage of machinery, animal feeds and hay, plus sand
        school for Dartmoor ponies for Mr J French: Cllr
    Arrowsmith took the chair, Cllr Roberts made a report on the application, having
    visited the site with Cllr Simpson, describing the project whereby Mr French keeps
    young ponies as stores in order to be able to sell them with more value. Cllr Roberts
    proposed that the Council should recommend approval of the application but in addition
    emphasize its support because of the nature of the project as being in the interests
    the socio-economic well being of both Holne and of the Moor. Agred also to recommend
    that there should be a proviso that the proposed sand school be for domestic use
    only.
    <br />
    Amended Plans: Agreed that when amended plans come to the Clerk she calls an extraordinary
    meeting of the council unless the time scale allows the item to be discussed at
    a regular meeting.
    <br />
    Planning application at Wootton: Amended plans had been received, re-positioning the
        shed, as recommended by this Council. A copy of a letter from Mr Sowman to the
    Chairman was given to each councillor and its contents noted. Councillors had also
    been sent copies of a letter form Mr Sowman to the Planning Authority. Cllr Owen
    described how she had been informed of the building, and the advice she had given
    to Mr Sowman and Ms Thomas. Cllr Arrowsmith commented that he had met the complainants
    who were obviously upset and had not understood the
        powers of the Parish Council.
    He proposed that the Council should comment again, because the circumstances had
    changed in that Mr Sowman’s plan showed that there had been a lot of development
    on the site, but after further clarification from Cllr Owen it was agreed that the
    Council would not comment again. Cllr Roberts proposed that Council should write
    to Mr Sowman and Ms Thomas that planning application is now for the planning authority
    to make a decision and that matter was fully debated at this meeting. Agreed <strong>
        <br />
        <br />
        0611.05 Proposal put by Cllr Roberts</strong> that the Council should write to the
        Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to express its dismay at
        the fact that rural communities seem to be ignored by that Ministry. Cllr Roberts
    proposed that this should be deferred until Council discusses the White Paper recently
    published. Agreed 0611.06 Accounts for the Month the following payments were approved.
        a) District Audit £58.75 b) Moorland Team Ministry (2nd half of annual grant) £200.00
        c) Project Cosmic for hosting website until September 2007 £146.88 0611.07 Report
    from the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee Cllr Copus and Cllr Arrowsmith made
    verbal reports, and Minutes were available to councillors. Agreed that the Council should write as requested by
        the Committee to Mr Reading at SHDC to ask for a meeting
    with him, that the Council should write to DCC Housing
        Enabler Sue Hitchcock about another survey. Agreed also that the Council should write to Buckfastleigh
        West Parish Council about formal commitment to the project and to a further housing survey.
    0611.08 Proposal put by Cllr Simpson that the Affordable Housing Advisory
        Committee should have a public forum as part of its regular agenda: Cllr Copus reported and
    expressed concerns of members of the committee. He proposed that the Committee have
    a brief public forum at the beginning and the end of the meeting. Agreed after discussion.
    <br />
    <br />
    <strong>0611.09 Response from Holne Church Charity</strong>
        to the Council's letter on the offer of Holne Fete Committee to fund improvements
        to Play Park: Agreed to
    wait until Fete committee meets.
    <br />
    <br />
    <strong>0611.10 Holne Leat</strong> Jo Rumble had written to say
        DNPA does not feel that the Leat needs repair at present: Cllr Roberts moved that the letter be noted.
    Agreed
    <br />
    <br />
    <strong>0611.11 Finance Committee</strong> to meet and discuss next year's budget:
    Wednesday 29 November at 7:30 pm. Cllr Roberts suggested that it should be minuted
    that members of public could suggest expenditure, with the information that this
    would affect council tax. Agreed. (Members should note that the Clerk has booked
    the Village Hall for the meeting.)
    <br />
    <br />
    <strong>0611.12 Correspondence</strong>
    <br />
    DNPA Forum on Friday 24 November: Gill Simpson to be informed to see if she wishes
    to attend.
    <br />
    DNPA Management Plan Workshop 12 December: Cllr Arrowmith to represent the Council.
        S Hams Parish Cluster Meetings 15 November - no one able to attend;
    <br />
    Road Closure for 27 November Holne Turn to Holne Turn Fork
    <br />
    <br />
    <strong>0611.13 Agenda of the next meeting</strong>: Cllr Robert asked that the
    Rural White Paper to be on next agenda. Cllr Arrowsmith asked that Highways to be
    on next agenda in particular with regard to recent tarmacing. Wreath in pub will
    be laid by Chairman. Agreed that the article on the October Meeting of the Council
    in the November issue Parish Link should be on the next Agenda.
    <br />
    <br />
    County Cllr Pennington had arrived during the meeting and made a report before the
    meeting closed.
    <br />
    <br />
    <strong>There being no further business the meeting closed at 10:00 pm. The next regular
        meeting of the Parish Council will be on Wednesday
        6 December at 8 pm.
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