An Extraordinary Meeting of the Parish Council will be held at Cross Hill, Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall on Monday 20 July 2015 commencing at 7.30 p.m..

AGENDA
This meeting is open to the public unless Members decide to exclude the public for any exempt or confidential item of business.

Members’ Interests (Personal or Prejudicial) relating to Agenda items for this meeting : to be declared prior to consideration of the appropriate item

Apologies of absence and reasons
Declarations of Interests (existence and nature) with regard to items on the agenda
Public Participation Session with respect to items on the agenda
To consider the following Planning Application:
1. PA 15/00844/FUL : Change of use agricultural land to touring caravan site (30 pitches) including facilities building : land off Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall
2. PA 15/00832/HSE : New porch to front elevation : 3 Townfield, Heptonstall
To consider any other late notifications of Planning Applications

R M Greenwood
Clerk

A full copy of the official agenda can be found here.

30 June 2015 by Nick Dymott

Parish Council Meeting – 6 July 2015

Follow this link to see the agenda for the July Parish Council Meeting.

The meeting will be held at the The School Hall, Heptonstall J I & School, on Monday 6 July 2015 commencing at 7.30pm.

11 May 2015 by Nick Dymott

Parish Council Meetings – 18 May 2015

Follow these links to see the agendas for the 2015 Annual Parish Council Meeting and the May Parish Council Meeting.

Both will be held at the The School Hall, Heptonstall J I & N School, on Monday 18 May 2015 commencing at 7.00 pm and 7.30pm respectively.

12 April 2015 by Nick Dymott

Parish Council Meeting – 13 April 2015

The monthly meeting of the Parish Council will be held at The School Hall, Heptonstall J I & N School on Monday 13 April 2015 commencing at 7.30 p.m.

The Agenda for the meeting can be seen here.

More about the Parish Council…

13 March 2015 by Nick Dymott

The Future of the Heptonstall Christmas Tree.

For the past 3 years Heptonstall Lights and Planting Group (HeLP) and other volunteers have provided the village with a Christmas tree. A resident in Weavers Square has very generously let us use his electricity for the tree lights free of charge.

Understandably this arrangement is not sustainable indefinitely and so HeLP has applied for planning permission to have a power cable installed in Weavers Square to provide electricity for the tree lights and for other existing events. We do not wish this to lead to a mushrooming in the number of events held in the square. HeLP, who will hold the key to the supply, will only grant any additional access to it after proper consultation with residents in the vicinity.

HeLP have received a Community Grant from Calderdale to cover the cost of running a cable from the centre of the road under the wall into Weavers Square by the litter bin. Northern Powergrid tell us the work will be completed in half a day to minimise disruption. The power supply will be housed in a small stone box which will be attached to the inside of the wall adjacent to the sign to the toilets, protruding above the wall at about the same height. The box will be 2 ft x 2 ft x 1 ft 4 ins with a lockable door.

This can only go ahead with the approval of Calderdale Council. As part of their consultation process they will inform the Parish Council of our application.

If you wish to actively express your support send an email Roger Greenwood, Clerk of the Parish Council.

We hope you will be supportive of this scheme so we can continue to enjoy having a Christmas tree in the square.

26 February 2015 by Nick Dymott

Grant Applications to Parish Council

If your organisation wishes to be considered for a Grant from the Parish Council you need to be aware of the Protocol below :

PROTOCOL FOR GRANTS (GENERAL)

1. Grants should be applied for in writing under the criteria laid down by the Parish Council (PC) which has sole discretion in respect of making an award.

2. All Grant claims should be received by the PC by 30 November in respect of payments to be made in the following financial year (commencing 1 April), and should be accompanied by a copy of the claimant’s Constitution, Committee structure (if any) and bank account details together with a copy of the latest audited accounts.

3. All Grants of £250 or less will be paid in a lump sum after the first PC meeting of the financial year. There will be no requirement for the organisation to account to the PC for the way it has spent the Grant.

4. No organisation will be given more than one Grant of £250 or less in any financial year.

5. For Grants over £250 it will be necessary for the organisation to discuss the application with PC members at a meeting to be held in either November or December each year which should include an agreement with the PC as to how it wishes the Grant to be paid. This will normally be by means of staged payments.
The PC will require evidence of the expenditure for each claim except where such payments are contributing to the day to day administration of the organisation, and shall require the completion of a ‘feedback’ form.

6. If the Grant is given for a specific project the PC will require evidence of the fulfilment of the project.

An application form can be downloaded here or obtained from :

Roger M Greenwood
The Clerk
Heptonstall Parish Council
The Mallards
Underbank
HEBDEN BRIDGE
HX7 6PP

Tel : 01422 844283

E-mail : rmghpc@hotmail.com

26 January 2015 by Nick Dymott

Parish Council Meeting – 2 February 2015

The monthly meeting of the Parish Council will be held at The School Hall, Heptonstall J I & N School on Monday 2 February 2015 commencing at 7.30 p.m.

The Agenda for the meeting can be seen here.

More about the Parish Council…

30 June 2014 by Nick Dymott

Parish Council Meeting – 7 July 2014

Details of the next Heptonstall Parish Council meeting can be seen here.

30 March 2014 by Nick Dymott

Parish Council Meeting – 7 April 2014

The agenda for the next Parish Council meeting can be seen here.

24 February 2014 by Nick Dymott

Parish Council Annual Assembly and Meeting – 3 March 2014

Details of the Parish Council Annual Assembly on 3 March 2014 can be seen here.

Details of the next Parish Council meeting, also 0n 3 March 2014, can be seen here.

28 January 2014 by Nick Dymott

Parish Council Meeting 3 February 2014

The Agenda for the next Parish Council Meeting can be seen by clicking here.

22 January 2014 by Nick Dymott

Heptonstall Parish Council Newsletter

The following has been received from Roger Greenwood, Clerk to Heptonstall Parish Council…

I hope Christmas and the New Year went well for you and the weather has not interfered with your daily routine. As I write there has been no flooding or snow disruption, and I hope it continues. Calderdale Council has published its statement on the provision of winter gritting. With any luck it will prove to be adequate for our needs.

The Council has given opinion on fourteen Planning Applications during the past 3 months, a couple of which has excited many members of our community. It is probably worth reminding you that the Parish Council, whilst being a public consultee, can only make a recommendation to the planning authority – it does not have a power of veto.

On other planning matters we maintain a dialogue with the Enforcement Manager at Calderdale Council, and Councillor John Scarborough (who chairs our Planning Committee) and myself will hold what is now a regular twice a year meeting with her very shortly.

Your members have considered a wide range of topics in the past quarter. It has been good to see members of the public attending recent meetings. They tell me how surprised they have been at the detail and wide range of issues. Do remember you will always be made welcome should you choose to attend. Details are shown on the council’s notice boards about a week before each meeting.

Topics considered have included :

Speed of traffic & consultation with Calderdale Council re 20 mph orders for residential areas
Restricted access caused by inconsiderate parking
Road closures
Dumping of waste
Public Footpaths
Bus service : effect of proposed changes for hill top routes
Review of the council’s Standing Orders
Tour de France/Fell Race – public meeting to review and advertise impact in July 2014
Dog Fouling (yet again! – it never goes away)
2014/15 Finance – beginning to look at a budget for the coming year

Finally……

Congratulations on the success of the community Christmas Lunch for the ‘young at heart’. All reports I have received were positive, and thanks must go to all who volunteered their time and energy in making it go so well.

On a personal note I was so pleased to see the happy faces in the Hebden Bridge Times photograph, particularly that both my aunt (Nellie Dawson) and my mother (Marian Greenwood who is the oldest person still alive who was born in the parish) were at the forefront of the picture.

The Parish Council provided a donation from its charity fund and, more importantly, also provided Father Christmas in the shape of Councillor Adrian Baldwin who tells me he dispensed with the need for padding under his outfit!

Congratulations too to the Lights & Planting Group for the constantly improving Xmas lights in Weavers Square. Their work is surely applauded by us all.

Roger M Greenwood
The Clerk
Heptonstall Parish Council