Berrington Village Pump Edition 130 (Jun - Jul 2017) Final Copy

y Councillor R Purslow; seconded by Councillor S Mason.
v) Council to consider the replacement of the fencing between The Chestnuts and Noel Hill Road as this is falling down and
needs replacing. After discussion it was agreed that Councillor S Mason & E Brayne would meet with Shaun Bott to look at
making a temporary repair while the Parish Council is waiting for a response from Greenbelt. It was agreed to try and get a
turnstile put in the fence when it is replaced to save the children having to walk all the way round on the main road.
10. Planning Matters:-
Previously considered applications:
Reference: 16/03210/FUL: Address: Proposed residential development land to the South of Crosshouses, Shrewsbury
Awaiting decision
Reference: 17/00119/DIS
Address: Land west of The Bell Cross Houses, Shrewsbury. Permission granted 15th March 2017
Council to consider new planning applications:
Reference:17/Reference: 17/01204/FUL (validated: 23/03/2017)
Address: Meadow Bank Farm, Condover, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY5 7DB
Proposal: Erection of steel portal framed shed for housing non lactating dairy cows
After discussion it was agreed that the Parish Council had no comments on the building. However there are grave concerns
over the traffic accessing the site from the cross roads. All the feed delivery wagons drive in but reverse out onto the main
road. Clerk to scan the map in and send to Planning Officer with the Parish Councils comments.
Proposed by Councillor S Hawksworth; seconded by Councillor R Purslow and agreed.
Council to consider any new applications received after 29th March 2017
There were no new applications to consider.
11. Correspondence Received: list to be circulated at the meeting.
Council to respond to Draft Economic Strategy- Council agreed to pass this to Councillor S Hawksworth to comment on
behalf of the Council.
12. Defibrillator Training: This was all set for Tuesday 25th April at The Community Centre starting at 19.00 until 21.00. This
would be delivered by Heartstart Midlands. It was a life awareness course.
13. Playing field Matters:
i) Council to discuss dog fouling and damage to the Playing Fields. This is an on-going problem and the Parish Council is
considering options to deal with this. There would be a large full page article in the next Parish Pump discussing the options
to deal with the dog fouling problem and people not picking up after their dogs. Clerk to contact Shrewsbury Town Council
and see if they would be able to assist us with enforcement of fines for dog fouling.
Shaun Bott had been mowing the field and there was a lot of Dog Faeces on it.
ii) There was a bench on the cinder track which had to be removed and the members wish to have another one to replace
it. Councillor E Brayne to meet with Shaun Bott to look at removing the fixings for the bench. Clerk to look at prices for a
bench. Clerk to contact National Trust and see if they have any second hand benches we could recycle.
iii) Clerk to contact Fletcher’s and ask if we can have the turnstile they have in their security fence when they no longer
require it for the playing field.
iv) Council to discuss the proposal for a BMX track in the playing fields. The clerk had replied to Mr. Smout but received no
response from him. It was agreed that she contact him again to attend a parish council meeting to explain his ideas to the
Parish council with a firm plan of action written down. Councillor E Brayne said that a BMX track would take a lot of space
and would curtail the ability to use the field for other activities. It was agreed that there needed to be a consultation
meeting with the locals to ascertain the desire and support for this venture. The long term implications needed to be looked
at.
v) It was agreed that the clerk contact Shaun Bott and get a cost to have the football pitch marked out on the field now the
better weather and lighter nights were here.
vi) There were still leaves from last year in the Play areas in The Chestnuts that had not been collected and the grass has not
been cut. Clerk to chase this up with the Management Company that took on the maintenance of these areas after
Persimmon.
14. Parish Matters:
Members to report any parish matters; There had been some fly tipping at the top of Sandy Lane but this was in the farmers
gate and not the responsibility of Shropshire Council.
There had been 6 thefts from vehicles in the village in the last week. Tools had been taken from the vehicles.
15. Date and Time of next Meeting– It was agreed that this would be held on Thursday 11th May 2017. It was also agreed that
as the May meeting was later there would be no meeting in June and the next meeting would be on Thursday 6th Jul 2017.
The Chairman thanked all for attending and closed the meeting at 9.20pm
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