A kind of multi-purpose meeting has been scheduled at the Shalfleet Parish Council offices on Wednesday 22nd October 2014. As you will see from the embedded agenda, Councillors are 'invited', the press and public are 'welcome' to attend. It's called a 'Planning Meeting' but the first agenda item is the Declaration of Acceptance of the three new Councillors. The Declaration of Interest on the planning matter is to be 'discussed'. No public question time is being allowed other than for agenda items, and that requires 24 hours notice in writing!
The legal status of that is questionable. This is your (last?) opportunity to see your new Parish Council together under one roof; at least, your last opportunity this year, as the December meeting has been moved from 10th December to 3rd December (change your diaries, folks) presumably so that Mrs Broadhead can get home to Spain in good time for Christmas, as she suggested at the last Parish Council meeting.
I believe you have a legal right to ask questions of your Parish Council at the meeting without giving 24 hours written notice or sticking to the agenda. I'll have to let you sort that out if you are interested.
The planning issue is newly-elected Councillor Myles's third attempt to get her planning consent for a new home on non-residential land this time with a £10,000 financial inducement to the Parish if she gets permission, according to her Planning Statement. £10,000 is a fine inducement. Traditionally served in a brown envelope, this one is neatly packaged in a pdf file but will no doubt serve the same purpose and times move on. Don't hold your breath on the Declaration of Interest issue. When discussing the Bouldnor Mead proposal Mrs Broadhead was challenged by the Manager of the Yarmouth Abbeyfield about her personal interest in the proposed Abbeyfield in Bouldnor Mead (Mrs Broadhead's mum is apparently in one of these places, I think it was said), Mrs Broadhead overruled the objector and carried on chairing the meeting while jaws dropped in astonishment on the public seats. One doesn't want to be too nit-picky about the law, does one, unless it suits one?
At the last Parish Council meeting on 8th October it was stated that a new arrangement needs to be agreed with the landlords of the Parish Office. It was stated that it would be discussed at the next meeting (presumably this one?) but it is not on the agenda. This would need to be ratified by the Parish Council and it would not be legal to add it to the agenda without the statutory times and conditions being met. Maybe this needs to be looked into.
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