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Parish Liaison meeting – 3 June 2015 Welcome John Richardson

Head of Community Services

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Involving people in parish council work as volunteers Jim McCallum

Voluntary Action Leicestershire

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Parish Council elections update Louise Beeston

Electoral Services Officer

Parish/Town Clerks Network Lorraine Ellis

Whitwick Parish Council

Local Plan timescale update and community engagement Ian Nelson

Planning Policy Team Manager

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Electronic planning applications update Sarah Worrall

Principal Planning Officer (Team Leader)

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Neighbourhood plans Ashby de la Zouch and Ellistown & Battleflat Jack Fargher

Ashby de la Zouch Town Council

Penny Wakefield

Ellistown & Battleflat Parish Council

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Street Action Team - Dogwatch programme Jackie Sykes

Street Environment Manager

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Licensing - Public Access System For Licensing Applications and Licensing Registers Catherine Ridgway

Community Focus Officer

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Public Access – The Benefits

• Visit the site as often as desired
• Register on the web site and receive automatic

– email updates – Notifications

• View other licences and applications
• View documents (future modification)

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Improvements to the registration system

• Licensing will now register all Parish and Town

Councils on their behalf.

• Receive a unique log-in and registration details.

This will relieve some of the administration burden and ensure that all Parish and Town Councils have the immediate ability to utilise the system.

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Improvements to the Search Criteria

• Licensing will save the relevant search

criteria for each Parish and Town Council so they will automatically receive the weekly notifications for their ward. This will take away the “set up” responsibility from the Parish and Town Councils.

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What is included?

• Proposed licensable activities and proposed

hours for licensable activities on the new record.

• Have the ability to print off information from

the Public Access System to present to Parish and Town Council meetings for discussion.

• Will remove the requirement to contact

Licensing to find out details of the application

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Training & Development

• training sessions will be available
• the system will be trialled

Contact: Stephen Eyre – Licensing Team Leader Tel: 01530 454844 Email: stephen.eyre@nwleicestershire.gov.uk

NWLDC funding opportunities Wendy May

Community Focus Team Leader

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• Small Grant Scheme up to £500 for new and

innovative projects for community and voluntary groups – 50% match funded

• Coalville Special Expenses Community Chest

up to £250 to support community activities that meet the needs of residents in Coalville, Bardon, Snibston, Thringstone and Greenhill

• Green Shoots - bulb planting

Grants of £100 are available to community groups and

• rganisations for bulb planting projects to spruce up their

local area. Cash match funding of £100 is required.

• Green Grants

£500 for environmentally focussed community projects, available to groups and organisations. Cash match funding of £500 is required.

Training Opportunities Catherine Ridgway Community Focus officer

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Planning & Development

• Pre – application enquiries
• Application Stage
• Validation & registration
• Notification
• Statutory consultees
• Material planning considerations
• Decision process
• S106

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Dates of Training

22 June 2015 2pm – 4pm & 6pm – 8pm Coalville – Council Chamber 24 June 2015 6.30pm – 8.30pm Castle Donington – The Spital 25 June 2015 6.30pm – 8.30pm Ashby de la Zouch – Legion House

Licensing Act 2003 Topics covered

• Licensing objectives
• Licensable activities
• Determination of applications
• Representations
• Making a valid representation
• Hearings
• Attendance

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Training dates:

7 July 2015, 6.30pm – 8.30pm Ashby de la Zouch – Legion House 9 July 2015, 6.30pm – 8.30pm Castle Donington – Council Chamber Date and time to be confirmed Council offices, Coalville

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Code of Conduct for Councilors

The Code of Conduct requires Councillors' to observe the seven principles of public life:

• selflessness
• integrity
• objectivity
• accountability
• openness
• honesty
• leadership
• rules governing disclosure of interests and

withdrawal from meetings

• public register of interests of members and co-opted

members - financial and other interests.

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Training date: 29 June 2015 6pm – 8pm Council Offices, Coalville

Funding and Volunteering Workshops

• Introduction to funding applications

9 September 10-12.30pm

• Recruiting and Managing Volunteers

15 September 10-12 midday 30 September 6-8pm Venue – Council offices, Coalville

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How to book a place

• All parish councils will be receiving an email with

information of planned training

• Book now by completing the section on your evaluation

form

• Councillors not attending tonight – please ask them to

complete and return the forms available

Any other training requirements? Let us know by commenting on your evaluation form.

Meeting close

• completion of evaluation questionnaires

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Community Focus Team - contact details

District wide and special projects

Wendy May – 01530 454769

wendy.may@nwleicestershire.gov.uk Ashby, Measham and Moira

Emma Trahearn – 01530 454567

emma.trahearn@nwleicestershire.gov.uk Coalville Area

Catherine Ridgway – 01530 454740

catherine.ridgway@nwleicestershire.gov.uk Northern Parishes

Gillian Squires – 01530 454771

gillian.squires@nwleicestershire.gov.uk