MEETING OF DENBY DALE PARISH COUNCIL TO BE HELD AT 7PM ON TUESDAY 6 MARCH 2007 IN THE CIVIC CHAMBER, COUNCIL OFFICES, SKELMANTHORPE

AGENDA

  1. Declaration of Councillors’ interests in any item on this agenda 
  2. Public discussion time 
  3. To receive apologies for absence 
  4. To confirm as a correct record, if agreed, the minutes of the meeting held on 6 February 2007 
  5. Business arising
    1. To discuss the public meeting regarding traffic
    2. To discuss school transport issues(original letter to KMC enclosed)
    3. To discuss Lower Cumberworth play area signage
    4. To receive information about publicity for parents concerning availability of recreation areas
    5. To receive a report on the provision of bus shelters in Skelmanthorpe and High Flatts
    6. To discuss the Scissett Mount Care Home
    7. To confirm visit to Textile Museum
    8. To receive a report on the provision of play facilities in Skelmanthorpe
    9. To discuss submission to Postwatch concerning the future of post offices in the area
    10. To receive a report on the blockage to Footpath No. 77 in Denby Dale
    11. To receive a report on Bromley Farm Household Waste Recycling Centre (Minute No. 429) and discuss opening hours (Cllr R Allen)
  6. To receive such communications as the presiding Chair may wish to lay before the Council:
    1. To discuss the future of nurseries in Kirklees (Cllr Sigsworth)
    2. To discuss the issue of windpower and council buildings (Cllr Turner)
    3.  To receive information about Upper Denby play area and to consider a request from Kirklees Council to contribute £5,000
    4.  To discuss times of illumination of street lights (Cllr R Allen)
    5. To suggest a street name for the residential development off Cumberworth Road, Skelmanthorpe
    6. To receive a progress report from EON UK about the Blackstone Edge Wind Turbine Cluster project (enclosed)
    7. To discuss litter problems at Skelmanthorpe Health Centre car park (Cllr Turner)
    8. To discuss condition of road surface on Shelley Woodhouse Lane (Cllr Turner)
    9. To discuss the possible adoption by Kirklees MC of Low Fold in Cumberworth (Cllr Turner)
    10. To discuss the need for a crossing refuge by the triangle on Huddersfield Road in Skelmanthorpe (Cllr Turner)
    11. To consider sending the Campaign for Sustainable Communities Bill model letter to Mary Creagh MP (enclosed)
    12. To consider correspondence from Kirklees MC concerning Denby Delf (enclosed)
    13. Other reports for information
  7. To confirm as a correct record, if agreed, the minutes of the Plans Scrutiny Committee held on 27 February 2007 and business arising therefrom
  8. To receive a progress report on the Parish Plan
  9.  Government and Local Authority documents
    1. To receive correspondence from Defra on the Government’s review of the quality town and parish council scheme (enclosed)
    2. To discuss and formulate a response to the Defra Communities and Local Government Consultation on Amendments to the Model Code of Conduct for Local Authority Members (enclosed) and to receive correspondence on the proposed model from Kirklees MC
  10. Modernising Local Government
    1. To receive the minutes of the Area Committee meeting held on 14 December 2006
    2. To receive a report that it is proposed that the term of office of parish and town council representatives to the Standards Committee be extended from 2 to 3 years
    3. To receive a report from Cllr Weatherby on the Standards Committee meeting held on 22 February 2007
  11. To consider matters relating to the Yorkshire Local Councils Association
    1. To receive minutes of the South Pennine Branch meeting held on 8 November 2007 and the agenda for the meeting to be held 7 March 2007 (enclosed) and to discuss any items that the Council may wish its representatives to raise at the June meeting
    2. To receive correspondence from the YLCA regarding a request from a group of residents in High Flatts to discuss parishing
  12. To authorise the signing of orders for payment
  13. Date of next meeting
  14. To consider urgent or major planning notifications

 

Hazel Chowcat
Council Offices
Skelmanthorpe
28 February 2007