Agenda
2025/014 To receive apologies for absence
2025/015 Declarations of interest
- a) To receive declarations of interest from councillors on items on the agenda
- b) To receive written requests for dispensations for disclosable pecuniary interests (if any)
- c) To grant any requests for dispensation as appropriate
2025/016 Suspend standing orders to allow members of the public to speak
2025/017 Report from County Councillor – Rebecca Tully
2025/018 To adopt the minutes of the previous meeting held on 7 January 2025
2025/019 Review of Annual Governance Statements 7-8
019.2 Assertion 7 – We took appropriate action on all matters raised in reports from internal and external audit.
019.3 Assertion 8 – We considered whether any litigation, liabilities or commitments, events or transactions, occurring either or after the year-end, have financial impact on this authority and, where appropriate, have included them in the accounting statements.
2025/020 Finance
020.1 Bank Reconciliation
020.2 Payments for consideration including the following:
21.1.25 E-On – DD – £130.54
BC Partridge – zip wire seat replacement
30.1.25- N Carless – salary – £195.05
30.1.25 HMRC – in respect of clerk’s salary – £130
29.7.24 – T A Matthews – legal fees in regards transfer for Village Centre – £438
20.1.25 – HALC subscription fee – £896.68
20.1.25 – Hop Pocket garden centre – hedging for Fromes Hill field – £1210.20
23.1.25 – Hop Pocket Garden centre – additional trees and stakes – £230.68
020.3 – appoint internal auditor for 2023/24
2025/021 Planning
021.1 Decisions made since last meeting
021.2 Plans for considered
P191355 – Cheyney Park, Frogend Lane, Bishops Frome – ON HOLD DUE TO PHOSPHATES – The conversion of a redundant rural building into a holiday let, the change of use of an existing dwelling into holiday accommodation and erection of a glazed link to connect the 2 dwellings
Premises Licence application for – Cookie Cartoonery, Unit 43, The Hop Pocket, Bishops Frome, Worcester, Herefordshire, WR6 5BT
2025/022 Correspondence
022.1 correspondences for reference – attached
022.2 correspondences for consideration
Request to use village green for village fete on 12 July from Steve Symonds
Notification of inspection of play area – cost £80 +VAT
Request for a Flash Flooding sign by the Five Bridges, and information on past flooding investigations in the area
Verge Cutting programme – 1 or 2 cuts a year – feedback required
2025/023 Fromes Hill Report
023.1 Update on possible purchase of St Matthew’s share of the Frome Hill Field
023.3 Update on community project for the Fromes Hill field
2025/024 Bishops Frome Report
024.1 Update on improved access to 13 Summerpool
024.2 Update of quotations for line marking in the carpark at Village centre
024.3 Bishops Frome Village Shop – Cllr S Fallas
2025/025 Tree and Footpaths’ Report
025.1 Update on tree planting project – Cllr R Jones
025.2 Request to redirect footpath at Dovehills
2025/026 80th Anniversary of VE Day – update from Cllr J Pudge
2025/027 Local Nature and Recovery webinar, requirements by Parish Councils
2025/028 Neighbourhood planning – update
2025/029 Date of next meeting
Date of next meeting – 11 March 2025
(Any other business will be included on the next meeting’s agenda unless very urgent and important. The Clerk must be given notice at least four clear days before the meeting)
Members of the Public and the Press are welcome to attend.