Special Parish Council Meeting - Planning Application Review

There is a special Parish Council meeting taking place at the Village Hall at 7.30pm on Tuesday 3rd April 2012.

The purpose is to consider the planning application for an extension to a property in Keightley Way (details available of the Suffolk Coastal DC Web Site - HERE ) and for a tree removal.
There is an opportunity for you to be involved in the discussions. Please come.

Agenda for the special Parish Council Meeting which is to be held at 7.30pm on Tuesday 3^rd April 2012 in Tuddenham St Martin Village Hall.

1.     Chairman’s Welcome and Apologies.

2.     Public Forum – For a short interval residents are invited to give their views and question the Parish Council on issues on this agenda, or raise issues for future consideration, at the discretion of the Chairman.

3.     To receive declarations of interest.

4.     Minutes of Meetings held on 6^th March 2012

5.     Matters arising

6.     Planning Matters

         (a) C12/0517/Lavenir, Keightley Way, Tuddenham – Erection of single storey side extension.

         (b) C12/00044/TCA/Bay Cottage, 1 The Street, Tuddenham – Removal of twin stemmed ash tree.           

7.     Items for next agenda

8.     Date of next meeting.

C Frost.

Parish Clerk. Tuddenham St Martin

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Tuddenham St. Martin Parish Council is now on Twitter

The Parish Council now have a twitter account.

You can follow us at  @tuddenhamsmpc.

Go to www.twitter.com

It will be used to highlight new information on the blog at http://tuddenhamsmpc.blogspot.com/

Report on Parish Council Meeting - 6th March 2012

There was a lively council meeting on 6th March 2012. The high points include:

• A replacement bench has been acquired and will be sited at the bottom of Church Hill in the near future. An insurance claim is in the process of being settled to pay for it.
• Julie Beckett has, unfortunately, tendered her resignation as a Parish Councillor. A notice advertising the vacancy is to be posted on the village notice boards. Applicants can, of course e-mail, the Blog Webmaster if they are interested in applying.
• There was a long discussion regarding the planning application for installation of wind turbines at Great Pinners Farm on the Clopton Road. The full planning application may been seen on the Suffolk Coastal DC (SCDC) web site - HERE.
• SCDC has proposed to transfer the ownership of the land that comprises the Play Area and Football Field in Tuddenham to the Parish Council. This was a bit contentious because of the cost of the legal fees which were looking like being about 80% of a full years PC income. However, Steve Hudson - the District Councillor for Tuddenham has raised this with SCDC and the District Council has agreed to bear the cost of the legal requirements. Further details on this will be provided as and when available. A map was provided in a recent blog post showing where the play area is and we would like very much to see it's use expanded.
• The Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The Parish Council has agreed to provide £200 towards the costs of putting on some activities on the day. At the moment the agreed actions have resulted in the Village Hall being booked for the day and each child in the village that is 16 or younger on the day will receive a commemorative mug.

The next Parish Council meeting is on Tuesday the 1st May 2012 and all are welcome to come along.

The full minutes in DRAFT form are available as both an MS Word Document and an Adobe PDF

MS Word  -  PDF

To read MS Word documents you either need MS Word installed on your computer or the Microsoft Word Viewer available from the Microsoft Web Site

To read PDF files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader - available from HERE.

Children's Playground - Map

For those of you who do not know, there is a Parish Council provided Children's Playground in Tuddenham St. Martin.

It is quite hidden away round rhe back of Keightley Way and is currently un-signposted.

Here is a map of the site. We will provide some photos of the playground over the next few days.
By double clicking on the map you will see a larger version.