Tuesday 25 April 2017

Kingsley Parish Council AGM

You are requested to attend the Annual General Meeting of Kingsley Parish Council on Thursday 27th April 2017 at 7.30pm in the Kingsley Centre.

AGENDA

1. Apologies for Absence
2. Election of Chairman
3. Declaration of Acceptance of Office as Chairman
4. Election of Vice-Chairman
5. Declaration of Acceptance of Office as Vice-Chairman
6. Approval of Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 28th April 2016
7. Registers of interests
8. Review of Appendix F of Standing Orders and Agreement of Lead Councillors for 2017/18 (Appendix attached)

9. Approval of Standing orders, Financial Regulations and Risk Assessments
Councillors to propose any areas where they think amendments are needed
10. Approval of Final Accounts for the Financial Year 2016/2017
11. Date of Next Meeting – April 2018
This Annual General Meeting will be followed by the monthly meeting of the Parish Council.

Kingsley Parish Council Thursday 27th

Kingsley Parish Council on Thursday, 27th April 2017 in the Kingsley Centre at 8.00pm following the AGM

AGENDA

1. Chairman’s Opening Remarks
2. Apologies for Absence
3. Declarations of Personal/Prejudicial Interest
4. Public Question Time
Public Questions
Consideration of agenda items which will be open to public participation

5. Approval of Minutes of the Meetings held on 23rd March 2017
6. Matters Arising
7. Planning Applications
Applications ongoing:
TAG Farnborough Airport Air Space Change Proposal
52947/003 Old Park Farm (Land to the East of Kingsley Sports Club, Sickles Lane), Kingsley, Bordon
Change of use of land for the siting of up to six tourism pods, car parking and general landscaping (Amended plan received 01/02/17)
54919/003 Land at Kingsley Golf Club, Forge Road, Bordon
Garage block containing 6 garages and associated access and landscape works on former golf course following demolition of existing sheds
New applications:
22246/006 Sickles House, Forge Road, Kingsley, Bordon, GU35 9NA
Detached dwelling with associated car parking and landscaping

8. St Nicholas Cemetery & Cemetery Chapel
To receive an update from Cllr Rigden
To consider the updated new fees following the Church of England fees increase for St Nicholas

9. Transport, Highways and Road Safety
Speedwatch update
To receive an update from Cllr Lowe
Lengthsman Scheme
To receive an update from Cllr Lowe

10. Commons, Village Greens and Rights of Way
Upper Green, Lower Green
To receive an update from Cllr Rigden
To consider the quote of £25 (ex VAT) per cut of the newly reinstated area of upper green. This work
will be added to existing contract for this year at a total likely extra cost of £175 for the year (i.e. 7
cuts)

11. Community Resilience
12. Environment and Biodiversity
13. Kingsley Village Forum
14. Housing, Business & Commerce
15. Review of Capital Projects
16. Communications
The correspondence received this month was listed & circulated to all Cllrs prior to the meeting.
Parish email database

17. Broadband
To receive an update from Cllr Coury & Cllr Clayton

18. District Councillor
19. Procedures, Finance and Payments
To discuss digitisation of Parish Council legal documents
To consider the renewal of KPC’ Insurance – Current agreement with Zurich is terminated end of
May 2017

Payments to be made & Accounts to accept
April 2017 Payments Schedule
Payment
Date Payee
Payment
Mode Description Amount
21/04/2017 SSE DD St Nicholas Chapel electricity period 23/12/16 to 01/04/17 21.67
28/04/2017 Karine Nana Yonko BACS Clerk's April 2017 expenses invoice 0001-2017/18 88.36
28/04/2017 Karine Nana Yonko BACS Clerk's April 2017 salary 336.00
28/04/2017 HALC BACS Inv 1526 Affiliation fees 2017/18 244.00
28/04/2017 Cllr David Lowe BACS
Reimbursement train fares to London for CAA meeting
17/02/17 51.00
28/04/2017 PCS BACS Inv 2915 Mole control at Upper Green 140.00
28/04/2017 P.J Grace BACS Inv for work done at Upper Green 1336.00
Date of Next Meeting of Kingsley Parish Council –
Thursday 25th May 2017 – 7.30 pm at the Kingsley Centre

Tuesday 18 April 2017

Dorset John (2)

Having met John, as described last month, Don and I began to encounter him on each and every time we visited the beach. In fact it wasn’t long before John had provided us with his phone number in order that we could consult him with regard to the conditions and 'fishability' of our proposed trips. This has proved invaluable as it has saved us many trips which would have, no doubt, been fruitless. Over the ensuing months, not only were we advised by John, he joined us on a number of our fishing trips. So it was that we began to get the story of John’s life.

Like many country folk John has lived his life in and around the village in which he resides today. He worked on the farm all his life until retiring. Clearly, a careful man he managed to buy his own house of which he is justifiably proud. He is a keen gardener and grows most of his own vegetables. John is of the old school, no political correctness for him. He is used to expressing an opinion freely and without fear or favour. John has an opinion on most things and he doesn’t like a lot of what he sees as modern life. He believes in good manners and being decent to his fellow man. He likes his sport, particularly football. On one occasion when John joined us he had read the previous day about a group of footballers at a race meeting, I think Ascot, whom had urinated on the people below them, they being in a posh box above the stalls. John was absolutely outraged and spent most of the fishing trip going over the matter in minute detail. Not only was he outraged but he couldn’t, for the life of him imagine how such highly paid "professionals" could have done such a thing. His view was, without a doubt, they should be sacked. 

In the summer months when the mackerel arrive along the beach in large numbers many anglers are attracted to what, on a good day, can be easy pickings. John likes mackerel fishing and Don and I have joined him on a number of occasions. He has a strict personal rule which would put a lot of other anglers to shame, take only that which you can use. So often, to their shame, anglers keep fishing and catching large numbers of fish only to leave the ones they don’t want on the beach to rot. Not only is it an affront to good practice but it is untidy and yobbish. It really gets John going and he’s not afraid to tell offenders what he thinks. When fishing himself he takes only the amount of fish he is likely to eat for his next meal and a few extra which he provides for a number of elderly people, free of charge, in his village. 

Perhaps the most outrageous event during last year’s mackerel season, as far as John was concerned, happened over a fine weekend when the mackerel were of the beach in great numbers. According to John, the matter was set up over the mobile phone network and was, "not on". 

Anyway, John was on his usual dog walk when he encountered large numbers of Asian people spread out all along his usual walking route. Not only were there large numbers of them but, "there wasn’t a hands width between them". Of course, as is his way John tried to engage with them but without much luck, "bloody rude they were". This did nothing to endear these people to John and matters took a decided turn for the worse when he discovered, from sources in the angling community, that the people concerned were all restaurant owners from a number of large towns and cities around the south west. Matters went from bad to worse when John discovered that the fish caught were to be provided on the menus of the various restaurants owned by the group. On top of all this when an angler, not a part of the Asian group, started to catch fish several Asians would rush to their side and try and push in, absolute outrage! It is the unwritten rule that a reasonable space is left between fishermen. In addition to all of this when shoals of little fish, (whitebait), were forced out of the sea and on to the beach by mackerel or bass, the Asians were rushing up and down,beneath the lines of everyone, scooping up the fish also for restaurant use. It took a great deal of diplomacy to prevent John telling this community what he thought of them. Even the warning of possible hate crime charges did little to calm his outrage. In all his long life he had seen nothing like it and John was not impressed. 

Just last week we heard from John that the mackerel were back and to his amazement there were also good numbers of herring appearing. So, I expect, in the next few days Don and I will be renewing our meetings with John. He is a joy to listen to and a pleasure to be with, a great character, of the like the world could do with a lot more. 

Friday 7 April 2017

Elections 4th May 2017

Elections to Hampshire County Council will take place on Thursday 4th May 2017 and in the King's Blog region we have to choose a single councillor in the Alton Rural division.

The candidates have been announced and my prediction is that Mark Kemp-Gee will be returned with a comfortable majority unless everyone's really cheesed off about #Brexit in which case Nicholas James will enjoy a serious upswing even though nobody knows who he is or those enraged that the prime minister isn't taking #Brexit seriously enough will promote Rigby Andrews. Obviously Janice Treacher and Christina West are only standing to make up the numbers.

NamePartyWhereWhat
ANDREWS, RigbyUKIPPassfield#Brexiteer
JAMES, NicholasLibDemsAltonInvisible
KEMP-GEE, MarkConservativeArlesfordSitting councillor
TREACHER, JaniceLabourFour MarksInvisible
WEST, ChristinaGreensPassfieldInvisible

Tuesday 4 April 2017

#PinkPassports

When the UK leaves the EU British passports should have pink covers.

Leaving the EU is all about taking back control and making Britain great again. Let's set our sights high and, remembering the pink all across the globe just 100 years ago, let's have our British passports proudly clad in pink!

Don't be the last to sign the petition !