2. MINUTES OF LAST MEETING
These were approved as circulated.

3. MATTERS ARISING -
4. Appointments to Working Parties -
add Brian Noye to Planning Working Party and Deborah Mayhew to Play Area Working Party

4. CORRESPONDENCE

a) Campaign To Protect Rural England - East of England Region. A one day workshop for Parish & Town councils to be held on Thursday 5th October 2006, Hinchingbrooke Country Park, Huntingdon, Cambs, due to the distance involved it was not cost effective to attend.
Clerk to request minutes from meeting.

b) Norfolk Police Authority - Strategic Forces/Almalgamation & Safer Neighbourhood Policing.
A list of dates and venues for various meetings for discussions on these issues.
No-one was available to attend.

c) NNDC - Area Parish Forum Agenda for the 5th July at Ingham Village Hall.
Clerk to remind councillors nearer the time.

d) NNDC - Parish Review. The District Council has completed its parish review of the civil parishes in North Norfolk but this has not affected Hickling.

e) Charter 88 - Community Decline & Charter 88's Campaign.
A recent report by the All Parliamentary Group for Small Shops concluded that unless urgent action was taken, many high streets would be dead within ten years. It was proposed by K Moody and seconded by B Noye that the enclosed form be completed and forwarded to Norman Lamb MP asking him to sign and hand to the Table Office.
Clerk to respond.

f) Mr R Worrell. A letter requesting whether the council would consider the proposal for his boat Lady Ann to use the Parish Staithe for local boat trips. This had been discussed at the Staithe Forum meeting on the 23rd May with the opinion that the boat is too large to be able to operate safely from the Parish Staithe. The council will write to the Broads Authority and Norfolk Wildlife Trust to see if they would reconsider his application, as it was felt the boat trips were an asset to the village.
Clerk to respond.

g) Mr G Edwards. A letter confirming his intention of operating a mobile convenience store on the Parish Car Park between the hours of 8am - 6pm Monday - Saturday.

h) Mr G Edwards. A letter addressed to the Chair of the Council outlining various concerns and opinions that Mr Edwards felt towards the way the council had treated his application to trade on the Parish Car Park. (see 11)

i) Mrs F E Hannant. Mrs Hannant has written to the council with her views on the operation of the mobile shop and the fact that it is there for 10 hours per day. Also the mobile van is parked in the driveway of Mr Edwards house and his other vehicles are parked outside on the verge.
Clerk to respond

j) Broadland Rivers Catchment Flood Management Plan. A workshop has been arranged for 6th July in Norwich. No one is available to attend but Clerk to request details.

k) NNDC - Draft Gambling Policy. A booklet outlining the gambling policy regulations.

5. TREASURER'S REPORT
a)

b) Allianz Cornhill Insurance policy changes confirmed as in previous months minutes.

c) Budget to Date. To be distributed with minutes

6. PLANNING

a. NNDC New Applications - None

b) NNDC Decisions - None

7. PARISH PLAN

The next meeting to be arranged for the 13th June Tuesday at 7pm in the Community Hall for
Peter Berrie to give the Steering Committee an overview now the encoding has been completed.
The Steering Committee consists of Mrs A Glass, Mrs G Smith, Mrs K Moody, Mr B Noye, Clerk and Mr P Berrie.

8. PARISH COUNCIL PROPERTY REPORTS

a) Staithe
1. The Staithe Forum meeting was held on the 23rd May and D Pugh gave an update on matters discussed. The Staithe working party had a tidy up of the Staithe on the 3rd June and Mrs P Deane arranged for the District Council to come and collect all the rubbish. Clerk to write and thank her for organising this.
Also the request for the boat 'Lady Ann' to operate from the parish Staithe was discussed with the conclusion that the Staithe was not suitable for a boat of this size, being 30ft long.
Clerk to write to Mr Warrell.

b) Community Hall

1. Lock on Internal Door. This door has been repeated locked which has stopped people getting into the hall.To miminise this happening again the playgroup has the only other key.
Clerk being the main key holder of all keys.
2. Side and Internal door.
Mrs D Mayhew to follow up request for borrowing the tool for cutting the bottom of doors.

c) Recreation Ground

1. The grass cutting of St Mary's Churchyard has been resolved by the Parish Council loaning mower equipment to the church on a permanent basis and arranging for Andrew Blair to cut the grass at a cost of £409.50 for this season.
Clerk to write requesting yearly donation towards the cost of last years grass cutting which was £585.

9. VILLAGE POND

Mr L Beales met with Mr P Burley from the Unpaid Work Unit in Great Yarmouth at the Chapel Pond and discussed the options available for tidying up the pond and surrounding area.
Mr Burley will send the Parish Council a full report and assessment of the area stating what they are allowed to do under their rules and regulations.

10. MARQUEE & VILLAGE NOTICE BOARD

Mr H Gibbons has agreed to store the Parish Council's marquee indefinitely. The marquee has been deleted from the councils insurance policy. It was suggested that a new marquee be purchased and Mr H Purnell will get quotes etc for the next council meeting.
The village notice board will be deferred until the parish property inspection walk in August when various places can be looked at to see their suitability.
Darren at the Pleasure Boat will put up the original one from the Treasure Box in due course.

11. SHOP

The mobile shop letter from Mr Edwards to the Chair of the Parish Council (4h) stating various points he was unhappy about, one being that the council had granted him permission but no dates on either side had been discussed hence he took it to be that he could trade the next day.
The Parish Council had requested copies of his insurance policy and any papers allowing him to trade as a shop, but these were not produced before he started trading, consequently the council requested he stopped trading until they had the copies.
The copies were produced the next day and he resumed trading.
As letters are put to the Parish Council meetings before any decisions can be made this letter had been outstanding since 12th May, it was said that an extra meeting could have taken place beforehand so the letter could have been replied to sooner.
It was suggested by the Town & Parish Association that a legal lease be put in place to protect both parties and a charge for rent as it is parish land.
Clerk to respond with letter to Mr Edwards requesting a meeting to discuss matters with him.


DATE OF NEXT MEETING - Monday, 10TH July 2006 at 7.15 pm in the Community Hall.

The Village Property Inspection walk will take place 14th August at 6 pm, meeting at the Parish Staithe

There was no further business and the meeting was closed at 9.40pm