Chedworth Parish Plan Steering Group

Minutes

Date: Thurs 1 June

Time: 6.30pm

Place: The Seven Tuns

1 Present: Committee Members- Lindy Gallagher (co-ordinator),Richard Todd ( finance officer), Elaine Cutting(secretary), Alison Lovett-Turner, Howard Phelps, Isabel Milne, Peter Milne

GRCC member- Melanie Tarrant

Residents- Mark Aveline, Bill Sykes, Dai Wilson, Beth Pryor,Rosemary Bauer, Susie Moore

2 Apologies: Caroline Sibbald

Isobel Milne (for early departure)

3 Minutes of the last meeting

The minutes previously circulated were accepted as a correct record of the meeting held on Thurs 25 April 2006.

4 Matters arising:

4.1 H Phelps and P Milne had agreed to act as members of the CPPSG

4.2 The raw data from the public meeting of 27 Mar had been circulated

4.3 It was agreed that the 'Specimen Constitution' previously circulated would be adopted as terms of reference for the CPPSG - ( copy attached)

4.4 Communication. It was agreed that a regular short update of progress would be published in the Hill and Valley,and on all notice boards, including The Seven Tuns, the Village Hall, and the Farm shop, as well as on the web-site. Agendas and minutes of meetings to be available for residents via a link from the web-site, and the possibility of using the Village Hall notice board for hard copies to be explored. LG confirmed that she would continue to update the PP content on the web-site and that Alex Priest had agreed to provide technical updating, as indicated in a previous email. Thanks due to H Westlake for a subsequent offer of help in this area.

Action :LG, AL-T

4.5 After some discussion, it was agreed that the committee members would meet as a working group after the meeting to agree a time table for action on wider consultation and on production of the Plan.

5 Bank account

It was agreed that R Todd would set up the bank account with NatWest, LG and RT to act as joint signatories

Action: RT

6 Stream project

LG outlined the progress of the project started by the parish council, and explained that a number of volunteers had commenced work, although they were now without a leader.

S. Moore suggested that this project might be a suitable one for the CPPSG to take over, as part of the Parish Plan. After further discussion, it was agreed that the Parish Council would continue to manage this project until further notice. D Wilson expressed concern about the state of the waterwheel and the area around the waterfall.

7 Calor Gas bid

Thanks were expressed to all involved in completing this bid in a very short time scale. H Phelps expressed concern that the bid did not adequately present the considerable achievements of the village over the last twenty years, and agreed to provide LG with a summary of these achievements to inform future bids for start-up funds.

Action: HP

M Tarrant (GRCC) identified 4 possible sources of funding for start-up funds:

· Awards for All

· GRCC Rural Initiative Fund

· Tudor Trust

· Co-op Community Dividend Scheme

and suggested that community fund-raising schemes had been successful elsewhere for particular projects included in Parish Plans. It was agreed that more detailed discussion of funding sources would take place in the working group following the meeting.

8 PP courses

Timing and location of current courses (info circulated by LG) made it impossible for members to attend, however M Tarrant indicated that further courses were planned in a variety of locations.

9 Aqueous publishing

Information previously circulated re commercial provision of services to support Parish Planning, such as questionnaire development, production of documents and editing. It was agreed to explore sources of relevant expertise within the parish in the first instance.

10 CCRU/University of Gloucestershire

It was agreed to invite Prof Steve Owen of the CCRU to meet the CPPSG informally. Prof Owen has been involved in research relating to Parish Planning with the Countryside Agency over a period of time.

Action: EC

11 Aob

There was no further business

12 Date, time and place of next meeting:

Fri 30 June 6.30pm at The Seven Tuns