Notice of the Environmental Committee Meeting to be held on Thursday 13th June 2024 at 7:00pm. Meeting Room, Village Hall, School Road, Kelvedon Hatch, Brentwood, Essex. CM15 0DL
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COUNCILLORS ARE RESPECTFULLY SUMMONED TO ATTEND THE ABOVE MEETING TO TRANSACT THE BUSINESS SET OUT BELOW:
Signed by:
L Loizou, Parish Clerk & RFO on 7th June 2024.
Members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting
AGENDA
ENV/0624/1 Election of Chairman of the Environmental Committee
ENV/0624/2 Acceptance of Apologies for absence.
Motion: To accept the received apologies for absence from Parish Councillors.
ENV/0624/3 Declarations of interest & amendments to the register of members’ interests.
To receive declarations of interest pertaining to matters included in this agenda, whether they be personal and/or prejudicial.
ENV/0624/4 Minutes of the Environmental Committee Meeting held on 4th March 2024.
Motion: To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held 4th March 2024.
ENV/0624/5 Suspension of the meeting to receive questions and/or comments from members of the public.
ENV/0624/6 Play Area Update
Review of latest report and discuss maintenance quotes.
ENV/0624/7 Planters
Summer planting – budget and what, where to buy.
ENV/0624/8 Speed Indicating Device
To discuss possible new location
ENV/0624/9 New 3 Rubbish bins and quote to install them
ENV/0624/10 War Memorial
To arrange maintenance (trimming back) to the conifers boarding the properties at the war memorial as per agreement. Last time done was August 2022. Should be scheduled to be done every couple of years.
ENV/0624/11 Salt bag partnership
To consider the offer of Salt bag partnership from Essex Highways.
To support local communities to help themselves during periods of heavy snow and build on their community resilience, Essex County Council (ECC) would like to make available to each participating Town and Parish Council a one tonne wrapped pallet made up of individual 25kg bags for use by the community on the local highway. ECC is offering this free of charge again this year.
ENV/0624/12 Essex County Council – Support for ECC LEVI project
To discuss support for ECC LEVI project
ENV/0624/13 BioDiversity Policy
To discuss BioDiversity Policy (Oct 2023) / ways to adopt it in the village – Draft-model-biodiversity-policy-October-2023
ENV/0624/14 Information items from members.
Matters for information only with a view to placing on a future agenda.
The next meeting of the Environmental Committee will be on Monday 8th July 2024 at 8pm.
Venue: Kelvedon Hatch Village Hall, School Road, Kelvedon Hatch, Brentwood, Essex. CM15 0DL.