1. MINUTES OF LAST MEETING
These were approved and signed as seen.

2. MATTERS ARISING
No Matters arising

3. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
a) Parish Council
The Treasurer noted that the accounts she would be presenting were unaudited ones. Copies of the breakdown of the income and expenditure figures for the year ending 31st March 2006 were distributed to the meeting, and are appended to these minutes. The balances at 31st March 2006 are:

Balance

The Treasurer noted that overall the council kept within the budget set and income exceeded expense. Some cost cutting across the board was achieved, namely grass cutting a saving of £3632 and by reusing internal envelopes and the use of emails a saving of £199 was also achieved on stationary. The community hall made a profit of £719 up by £448 and the flat roof was repaired at a cost £375. The precept was raised by £550 but still did not cover the administration costs.

b) Widows Acre

Statement of Accounts - Year ending 30.11.05

Dividends to November 30th 2005 were £258.37.
This, together with £228.94 carried forward from the previous year, gave a total of £487.31
on deposit at Barclays Bank.

Christmas payments of £ 225.00 (i.e. 15 payments of £15 each)
have left a balance of £262.31 to be carried forward.

Trustee: Mrs M S Longbottom

c) Wells Charity

The Trustees of the Wells Charity namely Rev'd Neville Khambatta, Kath Moody and Michael Elliott agreed to the purchase of book tokens totaling £40, which was duly drawn from the Account. Dictionaries were resented to Year 3 pupils at the Leaving Ceremony.

Statement of Accounts at 22nd May 2006

Mrs M Longbottom Secretary to Trustees 22nd May 2006

4. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT

During the last year we have co-opted two councillors, namely Deborah Mayhew and Brian Noye. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ross Donaldson for all his help with the village plan and helping David to organize the grass cutting. This is probably a good time to thank all the volunteers who help cut the grass on a rota basis and save the Parish a sizable sum of money.

On the 21st October a Beacon was lit on the recreation ground to celebrate the Bicentenary of Nelsons Battle of Trafalgar and the Church bells were rung, our thanks go to Tony Woodman for organizing this.

During the year the Old Village Hall was sold and the trustees have met with members of the Parish Council and they are willing to co-operate with the council in getting back the lost facilities in the village i.e. the snooker club.

The Stubb Road sign has at last been reinstated after an absence of tow and half years following countless letters and phone calls to various people including our District Councillors who did help us to get this sorted. We are now on the case of chasing up all the other signs in the village that are in need of repair or replacement.

The village web site (www.hickling-village-norfolk.co.uk) is very popular with 10936 pages visited in the last twelve months. The Village newssheet and minutes of the Parish Council meetings are just two of the items available on the site. Many thanks to Brian Sainsbury for running this on a voluntary basis and to everyone who has supported the site.

Hopefully you have all noticed a new plant container (in the shape of a horse trough) in front of the village sign that has been built and donated by Mike Young. I would like to thank him on behalf of the village for his hard work and generosity. I would also like to thank Hickling WI for supplying and planting the lovely plants and offering to maintain it during the year.

On the Parish Staithe there are a few dry berths vacant so if anyone is interested please contact Shirley, also the wet berth waiting list is getting shorter so once again anyone wishing to enter their names please contact Shirley, but please note there is a maximum length of 20ft. The Gwen Amis Memorial notice board has been well used but unfortunately two panes of glass have been broken and have had to be replaced.

The bottle banks have again bought in a considerable sum - the ones near the village pond raised £961.29 and the one at the Pleasure Boat raised £34.39, thank you to Darren & Julie for donating this to the Parish Council. Thanks to all the parishioners who use this facility, please do continue to recycle your bottles and jars, the more the merrier. Unfortunately there are still bottles and panes of glass left outside the banks so please could everyone make sure they place them in the banks and if full please take them home and ring Shirley so she can organize them to be emptied. Thank you.

The village marquee needs a home and storage if anyone wished to make use of this and store it please contact the council.

I would like to thank Shirley, the Clerk for all her hard work and support during the year and all the Parish Councillors for all their help.
They all put in a lot of effort and give up a lot of their time for the benefit of the village.

The Village plan which is being done to obtain the views and concerns of the parishioners and how they would like to see the village develop and also to help the Parish Council apply for grants. The questionnaire are all being analysed and Peter Berrie will give us an update later to night. I must thank him for all the time he already spent doing this and Shirley for her countless hours putting the data on to the computer. Our many thanks go to all the volunteers who helped deliver and collect the questionnaires.

5. DISTRICT COUNCILLORS' REPORT
A report from District Councillor Simon Partridge was received, and this is appended to these minutes.

6, REPORTS FROM VILLAGE ORGANISATIONS
Reports were received from various organisations in Hickling, and these are appended to these minutes. They were on display in the hall for any interested party to read them.

7. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

a). Mr A Tansley informed the council that the sign for Town Street needs repairing, he had contacted NNDC at least 5 times with no success. The finger sign only has 'Church' on it but the Car Park part is missing. David Pugh explained that the budget at NNDC had been non existence until this year.

b). Mr A Tansley also wanted clarification on the size of boats on the Parish Staithe, it is only new boats that are limited to the 20ft rule.

c). Mr a Tansley also stated he felt that the Staithe should not be used for commercial use i.e. boat trips by an individual.

d). Mr D Mayhew made his views known to the Parish Council who had allowed a mobile shop to park on the Methodist car park as he has only just reopened his own shop and the PO will follow on the 12th June.

e). Mrs K moody asked Mr Mayhew what hours he was opening, he replied 9-1pm minimum.

f). Mr B Sainsbury said why can't the mobile shop open when Mr Mayhew was shut.

g). Mr P Sparks mentioned the fact that the electric cable should be armoured.
The council to check on this.

h). It was noted that initially the mobile van was going to be self sufficient, i.e. generator driven.

i). Mr L Beales enquired about the 'Quiet Garden' at the Methodist Chapel, and how people could use it with the van parked up.

j). An extraordinary meeting was spoken about and to be looked into.

k). Mr A Tansley informed the council that some time back dog bins had been on a special offer from the NNDC. The council to follow up.

l). Mrs K Moody explained about a dog bin at Sea Palling which was over flowing, and dog owners should dispose of it themselves. Also nobody wanted the bins outside their houses.

m). Mr R Worrell explained about the boat trips he would like to offer from the parish Staithe, last year he operated from the Pleasure Boat Staithe but the Broads Authority won't issue him a licence for this year. He had 2000 people last year, a different trip to what the NWT offer. The council offered to have a site meeting with him for further discussions.

n). Mr A Tansley was concerned about damage to other boats as Mr Worrell's boat is 30ft long.

8. VILLAGE PLAN

Mr Peter Berrie gave an update on the village Plan, explaining that as all the data had not been encoded he couldn't give any real figures. Once the date has been encoded and drafted into some form of analysis the steering committee need meet and get a customised with the various aspects of the data.

There being no further business, the Chairman closed the meeting was closed at 8.20pm.

ADDENDUM TO 2005 HICKLING ANNUAL PARISH MEETING - ORGANISATION REPORTS

Annual Report Hickling W.I. 2005
Hickling W.I. continues to run smoothly under the guidance of our president - Sue Benjamin.
We have had an interesting year with several excellent speakers.
In order to be able to pay their fees, we have increased our funds by having a Jumble Sale in September and this raised £250 and in November we had a successful Ploughman's Lunch which raised £215.
For our birthday meeting we again asked Linda Scholes to entertain us which, as usual was very much appreciated by our members and guests.
We had a successful outing to Pensthorpe in August which was enjoyed by all.
During the summer we had three very pleasant teas in member's gardens. We hope this venture will increase membership, at the present time, this stands at 31 members. We were very sad at the death Phyllis Tate who had been a much liked and respected President in past years.
Gwen Gray has been extremely good in staying on as secretary but she has at last been able to retire. Evelyn Eagling has volunteered to take over this job. We are very grateful to her. Penny Vincent takes care of our accounts and is a first class treasurer.
We look forward to our 87th Birthday in May this year.

Football Club Report 2004.
The Club had a successful year, consolidating the increase in membership of 2003.
We started the season with an enthusiastic work party to carry out maintenance tasks to the premises.
In league competitions, we were successful in winning the Yarmouth League knockout cup, but were knocked out of the Rotary and Broadland cup competitions.
We finished 7th in the Broadland league, were demoted in the Yarmouth league, and had a very good season in the 3 wood county completion finishing 3rd
Some of our members took part in County competitions. Brian crane reached the final on the 4wood singles, and our team reached the Three wood rinks final, unfortunately losing.
Our Club events and competitions were well supported. A new doubles knockout was very popular, being won by Brian Crane and Keith Broom.
The singles was contested with the usual skill, Norman Belson beating Chris Nudd in the final.
The Barbecues and other social events were very enjoyable.
As ever, the green was much admired by members and visitors alike

Hickling Ladies Group Report for the year April 2004 to March 2005

Committee Members: Mrs.P Crabtree, Mrs.D.Gcorgc, Mrs,VJarvis,Mrs.P.Watton
The number of ladies committed to the group for 2005 is 49,
All meetings have been well attended.
We have been shown how to adapt gardening tools in order to save aching etc; how to in an emergency.
How to draw our own cartoons; how to make 3D cards and heard about the history of the North Walsham Canal.
We have been entertained with Christmas songs. Norfolk stories, memories of being an air and of how not to keep New Year resolutions.
We held an open summer social and once again visited Wayford Bridge Hotel for our Christmas meal. The August outing was to the grounds of FeJbrigg Hall.
Donations have been given to the Hickling News. Hawkswood Singers and Nancy Oldfieid Trust. Proceeds from the meeting in April 2005 will be going to the BREAK Charity.
The Committee would like to thank our members for their generous support with raffles, preparing food and helping with the tidying of the hall/kitchen at the end of meetings.
We aim to keep annual costs low and subsidise the Christmas meal in order to appeal to all in the village. New members are always welcome.

Pamela Watton April 2005

DISTRICT COUNCILLORS' REPORT

There are three major issues that have concerned the council in the last year.

1. The transfer of the local authority housing stock to a registered private landlord has been high on the councils agenda. A secret ballot during March when all council tenants had the right to vote took place during March. There had been a considerable amount of work running up to the ballot, including lots of paperwork and a video together with personal visits by housing staff to almost all tenant households. The result of the ballot was that 76% voted and 64% of those who voted were in favour. The official decision to go towards a transfer will be taken at full council on Wednesday evening, with the transfer expected to be completed by the end of the year.

2. The introduction of the wheelie bins, as we all know has happened during the last year. I know that there were some 'teething problems' to say the least, in the beginning, but by and large, the system is working relatively smoothly. The reason to go for the bins was primarily driven by the need to recycle more waste, and bins had been proven else where to raise the level of recycling. North Norfolk District Council now recycles over 30% of its domestic waste - which is the fourth (I believe) highest amount of any council in the country. That can only be good for everyone.

3. Probably the most important issue us has been, and will continue to be, the new proposed Shoreline Management Plan.

We are being asked to go from 'hold the line' to 'managed retreat'. If you know Happisburgh, you will know that 'hold the line' simply is not working and that is simply because of the lack of investment from central government.

The public consultation period closes on the 29th of this month, and I would urge as many people as possible to write in with your views.

Finally, one area we have singularly failed on is road signs! I have very embarrassed on promising residents their road signs (having been promised myself by certain officers at the Council), only to be seen as not delivering as they simply have not appeared. I have a line of emails going back 18months regarding this issue and I am totally frustrated by it. As, not just local members, but as leader and deputy leader, Clive Stockton and I are hugely annoyed by the lack of progress. This is going to be one of our target areas in the next cycle of council and all I can say, is, we will do our utmost to sort out this stupid problem once and for all.