May 2023 Leisure & Amenities Committee Minutes
Meeting of Cherry Willingham Parish Council’s
Leisure and Amenities Committee
held on Monday 22nd May 2023 at 7.00pm at the Millennium Hall
Present: Cllrs Traheran (Chair), Angela Burge (Vice-Chair), Cllr Brylewski, Cllr Houghton, Cllr Mellor.
Meeting started at 7pm.
No members of the public were present
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To Elect a Chairman for the committee.
RESOLVED unanimously, to elect Cllr Trahearn as Chair of the L & A committee
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To Elect a Vice-chairman for the committee
RESOLVED unanimously, to elect Cllr Angela Burge as Vice-chair of the L & A committee.
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Declarations of interest. To record declarations of interest by any member of the council in respect of the agenda items listed below.
To note dispensations given to any member of the council in respect of the agenda items listed below.
None.
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To Elect a member for the Finance and General Purpose Committee from and behalf of the committee.
RESOLVED unanimously to elect Cllr V Houghton.
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Apologies, welcomes and attendance, including accepting apologies and reasons for their absence were given.
RESOLVED unanimously to accept apologies from Cllr J Robinson.
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To receive the minutes of the L & A Committee meeting held on the 6th February 2023 and minutes for the extraordinary meeting held on the 19th January 2023 and agree for them to be signed as a true record.
RESOLVED unanimously to accept and to sign as a true record.
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To discuss the clarification on the proposed Playground Risk Management Policy.
RESOLVED unanimously, to create a policy to refer to the yearly, and monthly inspections. Speak to the RFO for clarification on the workings of this.
(Action - Ass/Clerk & RFO)
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Approve action to be taken over all items on graves in the burial ground that are listed against the Term and conditions.
RESOLVED unanimously that everyone would meet on Wednesday 31st May 23 to all inspect the burial ground to gauge the situation with the potential to carry one out every 12 weeks to have a potential tidy.
St Pauls & Laburnum
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Matters relating to Laburnum Drive Playing Field & St Pauls play area.
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To receive a report of any play inspections and maintenance work undertaken since the last meeting and agree to any further action as necessary.
RESOLVED unanimously deferred until the next meeting in June when the report has come through.
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To consider a request from a resident for a lower level basketball hoop at St Pauls Park.
RESOLVED unanimously Cllr Brylewski to go to ST Pauls to see if there is somewhere we can place one. Concerns of a lower hoop could be misused.
(Action - Cllr Brylewski)
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Items in progress: to consider and agree to any actions as appropriate.
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To receive an update on the Cricket Club, and the new nets.
To note that the planning application has finally gone through, the grant form can now be filled in which the assistant Clerk and RFO to do later this week.
(Action - Ass/Clerk & RFO)
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To note and to discuss risk assessments for the play areas.
RESOLVED unanimously chose the sign to be A4 sign and should read ‘Children should be supervised while in this area’ with CWPC to be placed in smaller text in bottom right corner.
(Action - Ass/Clerk & Helen)
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To receive an update on the mound at St Pauls.
The plans were received and all members approved.
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To review the asset register and approve, as necessary, missing assets to be added to list.
RESOLVED unanimously to ask RFO for a copy of the asset register, to be able to check what is currently on there.
(Action - RFO)
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General: Any other matters to report for inclusion in the next agenda.
Tree inspections & the list of trees that our.
Grass cutting Glendale Play areas
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To confirm the date for the next meeting.
Tuesday 27th June 23
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Meeting ended 19.55pm
Signed:..................................................................................Jude Sparks Clerk/ RFO
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