Parish Council
Next Meeting
The date of the next meeting is Friday 2nd July 2010 at 8:00 pm at the Longham Village Hall
You can view or download a copy of the agenda here.
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Minutes of Previous Meetings
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Chairman's Message
Thank you to those people who attended the last parish council meeting.
Mark Kiddle-Morris our Norfolk County Councillor, told the meeting that he was meeting with the highways engineer to go over matters that were of concern in this area. He was asked to mention several things on our behalf, the cleaning of the grup’s at the side of the road, the poor state of the road surfaces after the severe weather. He agreed to discuss the gritting routes for the village and the Chairman had printed a map of the present gritting route and the revised route that the parish council would like.
The next round of documents to do with the proposed new sand and gravel extraction sites is due out in June. Elizabeth Goulding, our District Councillor was also present at the meeting and told the meeting that the next consultation document for the Local Development Framework will be circulated soon and we should re-iterate any comment’s we have previously made.
She told the meeting that Breckland have invested in a new CCTV system throughout the district. Breckland have several mobile units that can be lent to areas with anti-social problems to monitor the situation.
At the last meeting Councillor Collins told the meeting that the electricity is still going off for several hours quite regularly at his end of the Village. The substation is sited in his garden and the last engineer to come out to look at it said the box is running at 75% over capacity. The parish council are trying to get the Electricity Company to replace the substation with a more powerful one. Both Mark and Elizabeth asked to be kept informed about this matter.
Councillors Roddy and Donna Mcleod asked if the traffic police had been out to monitor the speed of the traffic along the Litcham Road as there has been 3 accidents along there in as many weeks, the Chairman said she would contact the Local policeman again about this matter.
The Chairman and David Smith meet to discuss the next stage of the Village Appraisal, it was agreed that this should be sent out in 3 sections, with a limited number of question for each subject, it is hoped to deliver the first section before the beginning of June. The Chairman told the meeting that it was important that people filled the questionnaire in. Firstly to find out what people want to happen in the village but also it is a useful tool to help obtain grants for other organisation in the village.
The next meeting will be the Annual Parish Meeting on the 10th may at 7:30pm, please come along and support the members of the Parish Council, who work on your behalf.
Sue Douglas
Chairman, Longham Parish Council