Minutes of the meeting of the EDaN Parish Plan Steering Group

Alan Williams, Elizabeth Braiden, Kathryn Day, Karen Coppen, Richard

Dorrance, Malcolm Grant ( Jim Wright joined the meeting later)

Kathy Bovington, Vicky Lee, Jim Wright, Pat Bender, Christine Yates,

Mick Yates.

Robert Tigg, Adrian Bush, Richard Evans, Tim Sanders, Ceri Davis, Tony

Denson, Steve Thurgood.

Agenda

3 Feedback from meetings with the Parish Council and Parish council

4.Projects arising from the questionnaire feedback presentation attached

(homework)

7 Confirm future meeting dates for the next months- March onwards

8 AOB

particular threw up a need for information on single person households

and the number of pre-school children in the Parish. Elizabeth to work on

Elizabeth has completed a significant amount of work evidenced by the

presentation of data on tonight’s agenda. We expect that following the

presentation to the Steering Group and the Parish Council further cross

tabulation work will be needed. ACTION PRESENTATION SUB-GROUP.

The input from the group will be built into the presentation prior to the

presentation to the Parish Council. ACTION PRESENTATION SUBGROUP.

Suggestions were made on the Next Steps portion of the presentation .

These included -

Sharing the presentation with The Eaton Bray Parish Council as some of

the items have joint relevance. It was also suggested that Ringshall be

The issue of projection facilities was raised. Sarah suggested that BCA

may be able to provide the equipment if we let them know the dates in

Sarah asked if we had submitted any input to the Strategic Review that

Bucks County Council was conducting. Information needed to be in by the

end of January. Alan would raise this with the Parish Council and act

a copy of the latest situation she prepared and supplied is attached. On

the second page is the original budget plan. The two totals reflect what

we should have spent to date with the second total showing the actual

spending.

Thanks to all presenters and Steering Group members who attended the

presentation to the Parish Council. The presentation was well received

and compliments were made about our progress so far.

It was agreed that delegates of the Parish Council viz. Anne Thompson,

David Brown and John Wilkinson would meet with Alan and Jim to identify

the items that were already being worked on by the Parish Council. It was

suggested that summary information should be included in the

Parish Council delegates to meet before the next Steering Group meeting

(this one) and the delegates were very helpful in providing the current

situation analysis together with information on the relevant bodies that

have responsibility for the items raised in the questionnaire.

The Finance data above clarifies the statement made by Councillor

Cubbage at the Parish Council presentation in that the final plan printing

costs were budgeted for in the original allocation of funds to the

Steering Group. The current position shows that there is enough money in

the budget to meet this original estimate. However the plan has not been

developed and the cost of production is yet to be determined. We will go

back the Parish Council when we know what the commitment might be for

The meeting reviewed the presentation again and identified the following

list of projects that need teams to action and progress for the final plan.

We also reviewed this in conjunction with feedback from the meeting

with Parish Council delegates. Thanks to Jim for recording the feedback

from the meeting.

Transportation

Traffic Management –Speed etc

Road Safety (Railings and Crossings)

Parking

Footpaths and Pavements

Cycleways

Housing

Youth Facilities

Street Lighting

Police / Anti Vandalism /Cooperation between Bucks and Beds

Luton Postcode

Village Shop Co-operatives (Dagnall and Edlesborough)

Post Office (May/ June announcement by Royal Mail management?)

Drainage

Beautify the Village

Village Hall improvements (Dagnall and Northall)

It was agreed that we would post these projects on boards/tables at the

Public Meetings together with sign-up sheets for volunteers.

The following dates were confirmed and will appear in Focus in March. We

agreed the following times as shown. Doors open 30 minutes before the

start times.

challenge as the Brownies are in the hall until 7.30pm!

It was agreed to provide tea, coffee and squash refreshments at each

We expect the presentation to take approx 40 mins followed by

questions. The presentation charts will be produced on A3 to attach to

Richard suggested printing handouts for Northall as large numbers are

Sarah has confirmed that we can have the projector for all the meetings

We need boards to attach charts to. The following persons will take the

We also need to deliver Flyers to Northall and Dagnall as FOCUS will be

Dagnall - KAREN and KATHRYN to liase with the Dagnall members.

Northall

Northall – RICHARD to co-ordinate. Lorna Cubbage has volunteered to

help. JIM and ALAN also volunteered.

We need more publicity than FOCUS. See below

Elizabeth will take care of the WI.

Alan will contact the Tennis Club and Cricket Club

We identified the following other groups that need to be contacted. Alan

will follow up.

Allotments/ Gardners’ Society

Age Concern/ Over 60s

Mothers Union

School Notice Boards

Village Hall Notice Boards

Church Notice Boards

Malcolm volunteered to seek advice from his wife who has contacts.

ACTION ALAN to provide summary of content to MALCOLM.

Invites to be sent to the following

John Bercow MP

Avril Davies County Councillor

Terry Jones District Councillor

Edlesborough Parish Council

BCA

This item was not discussed though it was agreed that we need to get on

The proposal for the fourth Thursday in the month identified in the last

minutes was discussed. Those present confirmed to a large degree that

this was workable. Alan felt strongly that we need a regular date to

enable everyone to plan and to be able to plan venues in advance. Alan

reminded everyone that when the Parish Plan has been published the

Steering Group will probably meet every other month to steer the work

of the project teams. We can always take meetings out of the calendar

but it is difficult to put them in unplanned.

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