BROOMFIELD AND KINGSWOOD PARISH COUNCIL

Broomfield and Kingswood Parish Council

Notice of Meeting of the Parish Council

To: All Councillors

Dear Sir or Madam,

I hereby give you notice that a Meeting of the Broomfield and Kingswood Parish Council will be held at Kingswood Village Hall on Monday 2^nd June 2008 following the Annual Parish Meeting which commences at 7.0pm

Dated this 24^th day of May 2008. Signed: Susan M Wotton Parish Clerk

Note: Public questions will be taken before the start of the Meeting. Questions will be limited to fifteen minutes in total and one minute per speaker

A G E N D A

Apologies for Absence

1. Personal & Prejudicial Interests

2. Minutes of the Meeting held 12^th May 2008 and Matters Arising

3. Minutes of the Planning Meeting held on 24^thApril 2008 and Matters Arising

4. Policing

(i) Police Report and Crime Figures 1^st – 31^st May 2008

(ii) Neighbourhood Watch - Cllr Bowker

5. Maidstone Borough Council - Ward Cllr Peter Parvin

6. Planning - Clerk

Applications:

(i) MA/08/0611 – Homefield, Chartway Street, Sutton Valence – erection of replacement stables, tack room, hay barn and grounds maintenance building (re-submission of MA/07/2213) – no comment

(ii) MA/07/2532 – Orchard Farm Nursery, Chartway Street, Sutton Valence – amendment to original submission and additional details – if approved, wish to see condition applied that the mobile home be used solely as a staff room and not as a residence, either temporary or permanent

(iii) MA/08/0678 – Rose Cottage, Chartway Street – erection of a two-storey side extension and installation of one front and rear dormer window - approve

(iv) MA/08/0333 – The Finches, Chartway Street – increase number of caravan pitches from ten to twenty involving revised access road and layout – clarification on several issues required prior to decision being made

Above (i) – (iv) for ratification of decisions at Planning Meeting held 24^th April 2008, see Agenda Item 3.

(v) MA/08/0868 – The Apiary Business Park, Gravelly Bottom Road, Kingswood – full planning permission for the erection of a new building to house and operate a bio-mass electricity plant

Other:

(i) MBC Planning Enforcement

7. Finances and Finance Officer’s Report – RFO

(i) Invoices for payment

Clerk – work/mileage/expenses 20 Apr to 20 May 2008 672.70

Ass Clerk / RFO – work/mileage/expenses 20 Apr to 20 May 2008 339.01

HMRC – PAYE & NI 253.42

Clive Stanley – Webmaster services 16 Feb – 21 May 2008 165.00

(ii) Payments for ratification £

M. Cuerden – additional IT – supply & install 330.50

Phil Tweddell – repair / re-erect goal post at Sports Field 264.88

Phil Tweddell – hedge maintenance, replace stolen hedge plants 209.76

Phil Tweddell – grass cutting village area & Sports Field play areas 140.00

Came & Company – PC Annual Insurance 2008/9 760.04

Graphic DeSign – Litter signs, Sports Field 144.90

Kevin Funnell - 2007/8 Audit 60.00

(iii) Other

Concurrent Functions 08/09 - RFO

Clerk / Assistant Clerk – expenses - RFO

Clerk’s holiday pay, 07/08 – Cllr Evans

Request for donation – Kenward Trust - Clerk

8. Parish Website and Renewal Webmaster’s Contract – Clerk

9. Affordable Housing – Clerk

10. Recreation & Sports Field - Cllr Coleman

(i) Quote for additional seating, Glasdons

(ii) Litter signs

(iii) Disrepair of car park

(iv) Damage to signs / theft of hedging plants

11. Twinning Project – Broomfield, Colorado – Cllr Coleman

12. Roads - Clerk

13. Eastern Parishes Bus Group Meeting, 19^th May 2008 - Clerk

14. Correspondence File - Clerk

(i) Letter – South East Water Resource Management Plan 2010 - 2035

(ii) MBC – Parish Charter

(iii) Letter - Southern Water

15. Items for next Meeting’s Agenda

16. Any Other Business

17. Parish Council Meetings

The next Meeting of the Parish Council will be held at Kingswood Village Hall on Monday 7^th July 2008 commencing 7.30pm.