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26 Minster Matters June 2019 Minster Parish Council Meeting Summary of May Meeting The May meeting began with the election of the Chairman and Vice Chairman for the forthcoming year; councillors proposed Penny Gimes as Chairman and Danny Day as Vice Chairman. Both accepted the nominations and were duly elected. The Chairman opened by welcoming the five new parish councillors to their first meeting and thanked them for stepping up to represent their community. (There will be more information about these councillors later in this magazine.) The next step was to agree membership of the five committees of the council and the new councillors volunteered to join a number of them. PCSO Adrian Butterworth reported that there had been 65 calls to the Police in the last month, a significant increase on previous months. However, he assured the meeting that only two of these were crimes, both being theft from motor vehicles; one was a number plate and the other a catalytic converter. A number of the other calls related to fly tipping on the old top road and Marsh Farm Road, also various domestic, road traffic and missing person reports. He has been continuing to address complaints about nuisance motor cyclists and some have been identified and spoken to. KCC Councillor Dawson spoke of the county council’s efforts to improve support for parents of children with special educational needs. She also explained a planned initiative called Headstart, aimed at improving emotional resilience in 10-16 year olds. She was thanked for her assistance in addressing the concerns about the altered bus routes in the village. District Councillors were at a briefing for new councillors at TDC but Cllr. Pugh sent a written report. He thanked the villages for re-electing him and undertook to do his best to represent them. He also congratulated the new parish councillors particularly Cllr. Crow-Brown, whom he said had worked tirelessly for the villages for the last 4 years. He assured the meeting that he is taking an active interest in a number of planning applications in Minster and Monkton. The Chairman thanked councillors and staff (and their families) for their work in painting the parish office, which was much improved by their efforts. She highlighted a new project at Monkton Nature Reserve called the Nature Shed; this is aimed at providing a place for people of all ages to meet and participate in rewarding activities. In company with the Parish Clerk she had recently attended a parish forum, which is an opportunity for parish and town councils to meet with TDC. There had been some useful inputs from Iain Livingstone on the complexities of S.106 agreements in the planning process, and from Ms. Glaiser on the work of the TDC Enforcement Teams together with an update on the council’s financial pressures. She highlighted some points from these presentations: - Section 106 agreements are a way of ensuring developers make a contribution to mitigate the impacts of a development. They only apply to developments of 10 or more units, or 15 if affordable housing is on site. There are 11 enforcements officers in Thanet who deal with a range of parking offences including parking on pavements where there are yellow lines, bus stops/taxi ranks, zigzags outside schools, in disabled bays, etc. They issued 27,000 penalty notices in the year ending April 2019. It was useful to note that although disabled drivers are allowed to park on yellow lines for up to 3 hours, they commit an offence if they park opposite or within 10 metres of a junction. In relation to TDC Finances the council receives 56% less government funding compared to 2010, down from £13.3m to £5.8m. The overall budget is now 28% lower, despite the rise in council tax of 11%. The Clerk reported that KCC Highways had agreed to carry out work in Molineux Road to remove a tree that has grown to an excessive size, blocking the pavement and obstructing a nearby driveway. New trees would be planted and footpaths & dropped kerbs would be repaired and extended. Cllr Taylor, Chairman of the Planning Committee, gave a summary of recent and current planning applications/decisions in and around the parish. A debate then took place concerning the application on reserved matters in relation to 66 Monkton Road, Minster. Cllr. Burden reported on the Twinning Association, mentioning a quiz night on 8 th June, a visit on the day of the Open Gardens when a photographic exhibition will be held in the Old School Hall and a boules match in France on 22 nd June. In the period of questions from the public a request was made for 20 mph speed limits to be imposed in the village; Cllr. Quittenden agreed to look into this matter. It was suggested that the parish council consider supporting the Nature Shed Project mentioned earlier and it was agreed that contact would be made with the project organisers to find out more. The issue of low flying helicopters was raised and a request was made to write to Polar Helicopters to remind them of regulations. It was asked why CCTV footage cannot be used to enforce parking restrictions; it was explained that enforcement officers are obliged by law to observe a vehicle personally for 5 minutes before issuing a penalty notice. Finally, concern was again raised about the need to address the prevention of fly-tipping on the old top road; the cost of clearing must exceed the cost of preventative measures. It was agreed that we would yet again raise the matter with KCC but to date they had been reluctant to deal with the matter.
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