Kingsley Parish Council Thursday 24th 7:30pm

Kingsley Parish Council meets on Thursday, 24th November 2016 in the Kingsley Centre at 7.30pm

AGENDA

1. Chairman’s Opening Remarks
2. Apologies for Absence
3. Declarations of Personal/Prejudicial Interest
4. Election by Co-option
To consider the co-option of Roger Fletcher as parish councillor

5. Declaration of Acceptance of Office from New Co-opted Councillor
6. Public Question Time
Public Questions
Consideration of agenda items which will be open to public participation
Presentation form Bob Stammers – Funding for Community First Responders

7. Approval of Minutes of the Meetings held on 22nd September 2016
8. Matters Arising
9. Planning Applications
Applications ongoing:
TAG Farnborough Airport Air Space Change Proposal
20050/025 Dennard Ltd, 4 Park Ironworks, Main Road, Kingsley, Bordon, GU35 9LY Retention of extraction flues for a paint spray booth within the unit
27706/005 Oxney Cottage Kingsley Common, Main Road, Kingsley, Bordon, GU35 9LR Single storey side and rear extension, alteration to existing & new fenestration and existing front/side timber cladding to replace with render finish to match existing house
SDNP/16/03821/FUL Land to The South West of Sickles Lane Kingsley Alton Hampshire
Temporary siting of a mobile home and agricultural storage barn
26242/053 Dean Farm Golf Course, Main Road, Kingsley, Bordon, GU35 9NG
Conversion of former machinery shed to holiday cottage

New application:
EC/26242/054 Dean Farm Golf Course, Forge Road, Kingsley, Bordon, GU35 9NG
Alleged change of use - material change of use from clubhouse to residential; first registered with Council Tax 1 Dec 2015
54919/001 Land at Kingsley Golf Club, Forge Road, Sleaford, Bordon
Erection of 7 houses and 6 flats with associated car parking and external works
30633/030 Frith End Sand Quarry, Grooms Farm Lane, Frith End, Bordon GU35 0QR
Variation of condition 1 of planning permission 30633/019 to allow the continued importation, handling and re-sale of aggregates until 31 December 2022
30633/031 Frith End Sand Quarry, Grooms Farm Lane, Frith End, Bordon GU35 0QR
Variation of condition 2, 5 and 24 of planning permission F30633/012/CMA to revise the approved timing, working and restoration of sand extraction operations
27396/048 Old Park Farm, Forge Road, Kingsley, Bordon, GU35 9LU
B8 storage building after demolition of existing grain store/dryer
22246/004 Sickles House, Forge Road, Kingsley, Bordon, GU35 9NA
Listed building - demolition and rebuild of sun room and garden elevation, part demolition of roof of 20th century addition and rebuild to provide additional accommodation with re-cladding, remodelling of porch, new detached car port, enlargement to car parking area and internal remodelling
22246/005 Sickles House, Forge Road, Kingsley, Bordon, GU35 9NA
Demolition and rebuild of sun room and garden elevation, part demolition of roof of 20th century addition and rebuild to provide additional accommodation with re-cladding, remodelling of porch, new detached car port and enlargement to car parking area

10. St Nicholas Cemetery & Cemetery Chapel
To receive an update from Cllr Rigden

11. Transport, Highways and Road Safety
To receive an update from Cllr Lowe

12. Commons, Village Greens and Rights of Way
13. Community Resilience
14. Environment and Biodiversity
15. Kingsley Village Forum
16. Housing, Business & Commerce
17. Review of Capital Projects
18. Communications
The correspondence received this month was listed & circulated to all Cllrs prior to the meeting.

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

20. District Councillor
21. Procedures, Finance and Payments
To discuss digitisation of Parish Council legal documents
To agree & accept the budget for year 2017/18
Review of Audit Commission Issues workbook
To consider actions necessary to implement recommendations from the 2015/16 External and Internal Audits
Clerk contract of employment to be signed
To consider the payment of the invoice for £930 for services from the Kingsley Centre

Payments to be made & Accounts to accept
October 2016 Payments authorised by Cllr Rigden & Cllr Lowe
Payment Date
Payee
Payment Mode
Description
Amount
20/10/2016
SSE
DD
Electricity bill at St Nicholas Chapel period 25/06/16 to 29/09/16
21.05
25/10/2016
ICO
DD
Data protection registration renewal
35.00
28/10/2016
South East Water
BACS
Water bill at Allotments site period 14/03/16 to 13/09/16
147.54
28/10/2016
HMRC
BACS
PAYE October 2016
3.80
28/10/2016
Karine Nana Yonko
BACS
Clerk's October 2016 expenses invoice 0007-2016/17
80.50
28/10/2016
Karine Nana Yonko
BACS
Clerk's October 2016 salary
332.20
November 2016 Payments to be authorised
Payment Date
Payee
Payment Mode
Description
Amount
29/11/2016
Richard Thorpe
BACS
Inv E24577 for annual fire extinguishers at St Nicholas
48.24
29/11/2016
P.J Grace
BACS
Inv for annual ground maintenance at Upper Green & St Nicholas
3840.00
29/11/2016
Kingsley Organisation
BACS
Inv 13335 for 2016/17 annual fee towards hire of rooms for parish meeting & facilities including storage & mail box
930.00
29/11/16
Euroffice
BACS
Inv 3046538 stationary
44.98
29/11/2016
HMRC
BACS
PAYE November 2016
3.60
29/11/2016
Karine Nana Yonko
BACS
Clerk's November 2016 expenses invoice 0008-2016/17
80.50
29/11/2016
Karine Nana Yonko
BACS
Clerk's November 2016 salary
332.40


Date of Next Meeting of Kingsley Parish Council –
Thursday 22nd January 2017 – 7.30 pm at the Kingsley Centre

Interesting times; drunken sex with your mate's partner?

People voted Leave or Remain in the #BREXIT referendum for many different reasons some considered ones, some less considered. Most (but surprisingly not all) Leavers are satisfied with the result, a narrow margin for Leave. Most (but once again not all) Remainers are dissatisfied with the result.

It is clear already that nobody (Leavers, Remainers, UK politicians, Europeans, world leaders) was in any way prepared for the result and the last few days have been amusing watching the Leave campaign members tripping over one another to say "we didn't mean X would happen when we suggested X could happen". The first thing the leading Leave politicians did was to beg David Cameron to stay on as PM rather than resigning on the spot. His position is untenable: he tried to settle an internal Conservative party dispute by calling an absurd gamble and he comprehensively lost.

Nobody now knows what happens next. The referendum is not binding on Parliament which is and always has been sovereign. (The Leave campaign's stance on sovereignty was completely dishonest and some of them at least must have been educated enough to know that) If Brexit happens, it will be the will of Parliament not "the British people" that makes it so. What does Brexit mean, exactly? I know it means that we leave the EU but what does that mean, exactly? Do we leave the single market? Do we close our borders to EU citizens? Do we stop making products which conform to single market specifications? Do we abandon regulation of working hours, redundancy pay? Have we suddenly become filthy rich? Will China launch a bid to become our preferred market? Will all the Brits retired in Spain have to come "home" again?

What should have happened with this referendum, if it was to have been called in the first place, was that senior politicians on both sides should have informed and educated the public rather than relying on spreading fear and appealing to dog-whistle politics. The Remain campaign did little to nothing to explain the history of the EU, the wider benefits of the EU, how the EU actually operates. The Leave campaign comprised a simple series of sound bites, none of which provided an actual vision of what leaving the EU would mean in practical terms. The £350 million per week claim may go down in history as one of the more obvious lies of the campaign along with David Cameron's ridiculous "non-mention" of World War III. The £350m was debunked by reliable sources early on but continued to be plastered all over buses, posters, leaflets and speeches. Many will have seen Nigel Farage's weasel words about "a mistake" and "nothing to do with me guv".

It feels like the morning after a drunken night when waking up bleary eyed to discover you've just had sex with your sister or your best mate's wife. I conversed with many Leavers before the vote and tried to understand their reasons for voting out. One woman's entire argument was "350 million per week" unassisted by any thought of whether that's a lot or a little or what might or should happen to it. An ex-serviceman gave as his motivation "I served in Germany, I bloody hate the Germans" . Many thought that "the country is full". "the Euro was a disaster". The Remainers fared little better: "I don't see the point of leaving"; "I hate Nigel Farage"; "Nissan will leave if we vote out". "We're stronger in Europe".

Riding across Europe since the vote I've met Germans, Austrians, Hungarians & Romanians all of whom expressed shock and concern for the wellbeing of Great Britain. (The exception was a Frenchman in Hungary who said "fuck off Great Britain" or something like that, he was driving away and scowling at his girlfriend at the time so he might just have been being French)

I see from the news and social media that outright racism clearly played its part as well.

An ancient Chinese curse is to hope that "you live in interesting times". I think Britain in June 2016 now fits that description. The Conservative party as hopelessly divided over Europe as ever; the Labour party hopeless; other parties marginalised and ineffective. The SNP threatening a second independence referendum. Half the population being pleased that we've voted out, the other half sad that we could have behaved so stupidly. I don't mean that leaving the EU is stupid, I mean that the process which got us here couldn't have been more stupid if it was designed to be a stupid process - Blackadder was actually fiction you know!

We can't wind back the clock, we are where we are. I am personally torn between "let's trigger Article 50 right now and just do it" and "let's give the politicians a good kicking and make them do their job properly". I am not afraid of life outside the EU, perhaps life will even be better that way, but I really do think that we have sleepwalked into this position and we ought to wake up and take control. Take control back from the politicians who've played the game so badly, take control back from the racists and scaredy-cats. Let's hold our politicians to account, not just when they do something that offends us but all the time. Let's insist that they explain issues properly, not just soundbites supporting their own position.

In the 2014 European Parliament elections UK turnout was 35%, twice that of a parish council election. UKIP got 27% of the votes cast resulting in 24 MEPs. Of course we didn't do well in EP voting, UKIP MEPs either abstained or just voted against everything, even when that was against our interests. If that isn't a strong indicator of voter ignorance and/or apathy I don't know what is.

When Tony Blair resigned his mate Gordon got his job. No-one asked us, the electorate, they just anointed him. There were clear calls for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty and Cameron promised one if he got in. Brown sneaked off and signed the treaty anyway making calls/offers of a referendum useless. The most likely outcome now is that we'll get Boris Johnson, no-one will bother asking us, and he'll claim a mandate for all kinds of things as well. Is that what you want? Boris "I'll announce tomorrow which way I'm going to campaign in the referendum" Johnson as Prime Minister with a free hand to do as he pleases (or can persuade enough Conservative MPs to agree).

I was a Remainer and I'm sorry that I and others didn't do a better job of reaching out to the Leavers and undecideds and non-voters. I have many friends in the Leave camp and they are just as guilty as me but they're less bothered because of course they won.

Whether we leave the EU or stay in (yes I do still think that's a live option) we have presented a hugely divided face to the world and to ourselves. Many have been offended by the campaign, the result and the widespread dissatisfaction after the event. We do need to to explain our positions properly, to understand and address opposing positions properly, not dismiss them out of hand. We need to invest time and effort to ensure that we properly understand the various issues and we need to aim for consensus and compromise rather than division.

There is a petition with some 2.5 million signatures calling for a second referendum triggered by the narrow margin. Ironically it was started by a Leaver who thought Remain would scrape through. If that petition, a perfectly sensible requirement if announced at the outset, is granted now, it would simply cause more dissent and turmoil. If Brexit is to be halted now it needs politicians to step up to the plate of bringing both sides together. Is the current Conservative party, regardless of leader, really up to that job? If Brexit is to go forward, I would make the same assertion and ask the same question.

Interesting times. Will the British people, the 34 million who voted, really take back control or were we really only able to tick a box on somebody else's question?

Bells in Kingsley

Following the piece in the Kings World on bellringing so many people from Kingsley have applied to become bellringers that the Ringing Foundation has agreed to provide matching funds to build a new tower at All Saints, Kingsley!

This will be the first new tower in the district since 1897 when St Matthews' tower was built in Blackmoor and is a very exciting project. The tower will contain a ring of six to replace the current three chimes and on completion Punch Taverns have agreed to change the name of The Cricketers Inn to The Six Bells.

If funding proceeds in an orderly fashion the new tower and bells will be complete in time for Easter 2016.

Legion 1000 results

The results of the Royal British Legion 1000 event are now in:

• 210 Riders and 20 Pillions registered for the ride
• 160 Bikes actually started the ride
• 5 bikes did not finish (1 minor injury, 4 mechanical breakdowns)
• 146 bikes completed the ride within 24 hrs and gained IBA accreditation
• 9 bikes completed the ride in over 24 hrs
• Those who completed travelled an average of 1045 miles

• Furthest home to Squires – 331 miles
• Oldest Bike – 1979 BMW R100RT
• Oldest Rider – 68 years young
• Youngest Rider – 23 years
• Smallest CC – 125cc
• Youngest Participant (pillion) – 11 years

British Legion - Motorcycles

On Sunday I helped marshal the 2013 Ride of Respect event which saw 2,500-3,000 motorcycles parade through the villages leading up to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire as a mark of respect for those handling repatriations now that RAF Lyneham has closed and, in so doing, raised thousands of pounds for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

The Riders Branch of the Legion has raised more than £139,000 in each of the last two years by events such as the Ride of Respect and the RBLR1000 which takes place this coming weekend.

It's not too late for you, even with no motorbike, to contribute: you can sponsor Ray Walton and his 11 year old son Ben to ride the 1,000 miles this weekend by visiting his JustGiving page here.

Village Fete THIS Sunday

The village fete takes place this coming Sunday, 9th June, in what is sure to be glorious weather at Kingsley Sports Club, Sickles Lane

Bring your dogs from 11:30am onwards for the DOG SHOW commencing at 12:30

Mary Herbert jumps

Just to let you know that on Saturday 27th April I will be doing a tandem skydive for St Michael's Hospice in Basingstoke. I've set up a JustGiving page at http://www.justgiving.com/Mary-Herbert. Do take a look.

They say 'Life begins at 40': my father died from cancer at 39.

So I have a 'bucket list' which began with the gift of three gliding lessons from my husband for my fortieth birthday.

My husband (Brian) and two daughters (Gwyneth and Katherine) and several of my friends have helped me achieve many of the other things on that list: abseiling for Scope, parasailing in Mauritius, paragliding in New Zealand, a hot air balloon trip from my home in Hampshire, a helicopter flight following the River Thames in London, a microlite flight over the places where I grew up in Surrey, bodyflying ...

Now, over 20 years later, it's time for the ultimate challenge - a tandem skydive!

Why tandem? Well, I don't have the skill, the experience or the courage for doing it alone!!

We all have our own challenges which we meet in different ways. St Michael's Hospice can help people face up to the challenge of a life-threatening illness either for themself or for a loved one. I appreciate that many of you will have a particular charity that you already choose to support. If, however, you are able to sponsor my skydive challenge you will also be enabling the Hospice to continue to help many others cope with their own personal challenges.

Thank you for your support. Best wishes, Mary

RBLR1000 update

After reporting the Royal British Legion Riders Branch RBLR1000 event in the summer I thought we could all use an update on the results:

152 bikes returned to Squires. 138 completed at least one IBA ride:

• 14 did the RBLR 1000 only, completing the ride in over 24 hours
• 2 completed Bun Burner Gold (1500+ miles in 24 hours)
• 1 completed the RBLR 1000 (a SaddleSore 1000), but then went on to ride another 500 to complete a Bun Burner (1500+ miles in 36 hours)
• 1 set out from Lowestoft at 0400 Friday and covered 2468 miles for a combined SS2000/4 Corners/RBLR 1000
• The rest ONLY did 1000+ miles in the worst riding conditions imaginable

A total of £148,000 has now been raised by the riders branch.

The 2013 event will be held over the weekend of 21st-23rd June 2013 and you can enter now by completing this form.

If you'd like to know more about long distance motorcycling, you can find out everything you want to know and more via the Iron Butt UK website.

RBLR1000 2012

I spent this weekend helping to marshal the Royal British Legion Riders branch 1000 mile SaddleSore event, the fourth time it's been run raising funds for the British Legion's Poppy Appeal.

The idea is that motorcycle riders, mostly but not exclusively members of the RBLR branch of the British Legion, ride one of two designated 1000 mile routes within Great Britain (either clockwise or anticlockwise, so four possible routes) within a maximum of 36 hours to gain an RBLR1000 certificate or within a maximum of 24 hours to gain both an RBLR1000 certificate and an Iron Butt Association SaddleSore certificate.

The event starts and finishes at Squires Cafe Bar in North Yorkshire and the photo above shows the group of about 100 ready for the off at 0500 Saturday  The other half left at staggered times up to 0800 Saturday. Us marshals then went back to our tents to sleep for a bit followed by breakfast in the cafe or the other way round.

The fastest allowable completion time was 17 hours and the first rider duly appeared at 2201 Saturday night - President of IBA UK, Phil Weston - and the riders continued to arrive throughout the night and Sunday morning.

The weather in Kingsley was not typical of conditions elsewhere in the country; Cornwall, northwest England, Scotland and northeast England were virtually underwater for most of the time the riders were out. They were possibly the worst conditions in which Iron Butt rides have ever been completed; one of the riders left this comment in the discussion forum "I had some new experiences I'd like to share: 1) Buffalo waterproof gloves do what they say, they did not lose one drop of the approx 1.5ltrs of water trapped within each of them. 2) Cool crisp Scottish rain trickling down your crotch combined with 100mph wind chill factor, becomes so much less pleasant after 13 hours, more so than one would ever imagine. 3) I have NEVER felt rain on my arms through a thick HG jacket, two jumpers and vest. 4) I have never had a bike aqua plane with both wheels at the same time. 5) I have never had water knock my feet of bike pegs."but he summarised it as "Awesome, loved it!" 

More than 130 of the riders gained IBA certificates by completing the ride within 24 hours. Total funds raised won't be known for a while yet but last year it raised more than £32,000 and this year is expected to raise considerably more.