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Dogmersfield Parish Council

Annual Parish Assembly Monday, 8th April 2019

Dogmersfield Parish Council

Alastair Clark alastair@dogmersfieldparish.co.uk

Dogmersfield Parish Council

Welcome & Housekeeping

• Welcome
• Housekeeping
• Thanks and best wishes to Geoff Beaven
• This evening:

– Brief presentations from each Councillor – Brief reports from our District and County Councillors

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Visitors to the meeting

I would like to extend a warm welcome to the following visitors:

• Andrew Harrison, the new manager at the Four

Seasons Hotel

• Angie Smith, Priest in Charge of our churches
• Ken Crookes, one of our district councillors
• David Simpson, our Hampshire county councillor

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Vacancy for a Parish Councillor

• As mentioned earlier, we now have a vacancy on the Council
• This will be filled by a process of interview and co-option
• We have already circulated a yellow leaflet advertising the vacancy
• If anyone is interested in applying for the position please contact

Helen clerk@dogmersfieldparish.co.uk or any of the Councillors and we will let you have an application form

• The closing date for applications will be 6:00pm on Friday, 3rd May
• The existing Councillors will then interview any applicants and offer

the post to the most suitable person

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Graham Chisnall graham@dogmersfieldparish.co.uk

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Review of Last 12 Months

• Changing of the Guard
• Geoff leaving – GC and JH joining
• Neighbourhood Plan
• Attention on planning – Influencing related plans
• Support to the village
• Events – The Horticultural Show, Christmas Lights
• Chicanes, verges, footpaths, noticeboards
• GDPR
• Communication
• Newsletters, website

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Finance Report

• Presented by Helen Wright who is the Clerk to

the Parish Council

• clerk@dogmersfieldparish.co.uk

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Income & Expenditure – over last 3 years

2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 Income: Precept (+ Lengthsman funding in 16/17 only) Neighbourhood Plan Grants Community Benefit Fund 9,481 1,100 5,715 28,000 13,481 (inc 2k earmarked for NHP) 4,500 11,481 785 318 Expenditure: Precept (inc LM funding in 16/17 only) Neighbourhood Plan Grants Community Benefit Fund 10,928 3,934 7,604 4,500 9,659 3,200

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Balances at end of Financial Year –

• ver last 3 years

2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 Cash Book 5,028 9,367 11,048 Grants/earmarked precept 1,781 4,566 1,366 Community Benefit Fund 28,000 28,000 28,318

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DPC Precept for 2019/20 as proportion of Council Tax – Band G dwelling

£2,796.47 , 96% £110.17 , 4% Council Tax Other DPC Precept

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Neighbourhood Plan Funding

• Total grant monies/earmarked funds received for NHP:

£13,000

• Total grant monies/earmarked funds spent on NHP: £11,634
• Remaining funds: £1,366

plus budget allocation for 2019/20 of £1,000

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In summary:

• The NHP has been funded to its final stages entirely by grant

and earmarked monies, and all grants applied for have been spent

• A small increase in the precept for 2019/20 is justified by the

need to avoid a large increase later

• DPC have sound accounts and the reserves are in line with our

agreed policy

• An Internal Audit will take place later in the month and will be

carried out by a independent accountant

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Key Planning Applications

• In Dogmersfield Parish –
• Chatter Alley – 5 houses
• Schoolfield Corner – 2 houses
• Fermoy – 22 housing units
• In Adjacent parishes –
• Netherhouse Copse (formerly Grove Farm)
• Pale Lane
• Wychwood Carp Farm

Key Planning Applications (2)

• Chatter Alley
• 5 houses
• Public viewing

event held – date tbd

• Application

refused

• Appeal lodged

Key Planning Applications (3)

• Schoolfield Corner
• 2 houses
• Revised

application

• Formerly 1

four bedroom house

• Decision

pending

Key Planning Applications (4)

• Fermoy
• 22 housing

units

• Revised

application

• Formerly 1

four bedroom house

• Decision

pending

Key Planning Applications (5)

• In Adjacent parishes –
• Netherhouse Copse (formerly Grove Farm)
• 423 residential dwellings and a community facility
• Pale Lane
• application for the development of up to 700 residential dwellings, site for

primary school and local centre

• Wychwood Carp Farm
• Construction of three single storey buildings to accommodate 30 business

units for light industrial uses

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Highways

• Traffic speeds – Plans to create a Speed watch

team to record traffic speeds and report speeding vehicles to the Police – Volunteers needed

• Equipment will be needed. Training available
• Parking – We are very conscious of the

congestion outside the school at certain times of the day and we are currently arranging a meeting with the relevant Councillors and Highway Officers

• Plans to have regular Highway meetings with our

County Councillor and the Highway Officers in the future

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Public Rights of Way and the Community Benefit Fund

• Presented by Jane Houston
• jane@dogmersfieldparish.co.uk

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Footpaths

Footpath

• No. 3

Community Benefit Fund (CBF)

• £28,000 received from the Winchfield Solar Farm
• Project to benefit whole Parish
• Initial ideas:

– Defibrillator in existing telephone kiosk – Footpath maintenance – Superfast broadband – General village maintenance

• Reinstate the Community Benefit Fund volunteer group
• jane@dogmersfieldparish.co.uk

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Dogmersfield Parish Council Neighbourhood Plan

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District Council Report Councillor Ken Crookes

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County Council Report Councillor David Simpson

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The Next 12 Months

• Appoint new Chair + 1 new councillor
• Complete last stages of the NHP
• Maintain activity around planning
• Develop a 12 month forward plan for the Parish council
• Action on the Community Fund
• Focus more on –
• Road issues (eg. Close to the school, the bridge in the village centre)
• Appearance of the Parish and village

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