Author: James Anderson
Agenda March 2025
Agenda Feb 2025
I hereby give notice that the next meeting of the Community Council will be held in Mathern Village Hall on 10th February 2025 at 7 pm. The business to be transacted is as set out in the agenda below. Members of the public are invited to address the council between 7 pm and 7.15 pm.
Please contact the Clerk if you wish to attend remotely.
Mrs Jane Kelley
Clerk to the Council
Telephone: 01291 621031
AGENDA – February 2025
71/24 PROCEDURAL ITEMS
- Public Comment
- To receive Monthly police report
- Apologies
- Declaration of Pecuniary and personal interest
- Minutes of the previous meetings.
72/24 FINANCE
- To consider approval of payments as per below.
- Monthly Bank Reconciliation authorisation – November/ December
- To Consider Grants
Payments / Receipts- January/February
| 21 01 2025 | Bank Charges | 5.00 |
| 24 01 2025 | OVW Training | 40.00 |
| 27 01 2025 | HMRC – Paye | 134.72 |
| 27 01 2025 | J Kelley – Home Fee Via HMRC | 26.00 |
| 30 01 2025 | Salary Clerk | 630.43 |
73/24 PROGRESS REPORT ON ACTIONS FROM LAST MEETING
Responses to queries raised at previous meetings
- Update Welsh Water Meeting re Mounton Meadows – next meeting date
- Community Plan – 2025
- V E Day celebrations – 8th May 2025
- Noticeboard Mounton Village – Defibrillator Mounton
74/23 HIGHWAYS/FOOTPATHS
- Response MCC Highways re A48 removal of saplings
- Correspondence re Litter in Community.
75/24 COUNCILLORS’ REPORTS/CLERKS REPORT
- O.V W.
- Defibrillator – Monthly Checking’s –
- County Cllrs Report
76/24 PLANNING APPLICATIONS – Plus any applications received after Agenda is issued.
- New applications –
- DM/2025/00034 – Lindys Barn – Erection of an extension to form a breakfast /dining room
- DM/2024/01579 – Bigwood Bayfield Road – Proposed ancillary building to replace existing garage and storage building
- Decisions and Appeals –
- Enforcement –
77/24 CORRESPONDENCE AND FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
- 06 01 2025 Booking confirmation OVW Cllr J McConnachie 14/01 21/01 18/03 20/03
- 07 01 2025 Smart pension D D confirmation
- 07 01 2025 Have your say Police
- 09 01 2025 OVW Training list Jan – March
- 10 01 2025 Invoice Wales Audit £221.00 Paid
- 12 01 2025 Police report
- 13 01 2025 Grant application Village Hall
- 13 01 2025 Invoice Rose – Late Cllr D Harris Paid 13 01 2025 Link for Water meeting Mounton 21 01
- 14 01 2025 Receipt Precept Notification
- 14 01 2025 MCC Re Palace Farm
- 14 01 2025 PVW Area committee Survey
- 15 01 2025 MCC Highways 22402505/22406206/22406257
- 17 01 2025 MCC reply re footbridge – near St Pierre 17 01 2025 MCC Planning DM/2024/01579
- 17 01 2025 Reply Mounton Church re defib and notice board 17 01 2025 MCC Planning DM/2025/00034
- 21 01 2025 Slides re meeting 21.01. Mounton/Pwllmeyric Sewage
- 22 01 2025 Cllr D Carne re picture damaged sign Mounton Roundabout
- 23 01 2025 Invoice training Cllr J McConnachie £40.00 Paid
- 24 01 2025 Clerk Pay approved Cllr M Sidwell 24 01 2025 A Mead – Postcodes with Openreach
- 27 01 2025 Community Bennit response
- 27 01 2025 J Ovenden re computer
- 28 01 2025 MCC Budget engagement
- 28 01 2025 Merlin Watse New Contract – Dog Waste
- 28 01 2025 OVW AGM 11 03 2025
- 29 01 2025 Draft County Councillors Report
- 30 01 2025 OVW minutes 09 01 2025
- 02 02 2025 Invoice Merlin Wast 93.60 Paid
- 02 02 2025 Invoice Stock It 59.60 Paid
- 02 02 2025 Notification Defib batteries needed – replaced 02 02 25
- 02 02 2025 Correspondence re Litter in Community
- 02 02 2025 Verbal notification – road sweeper needed side of Mathern Athletic Club to Rose Cottage And ditch needs attention same area as a vehicle has collapsed the bank.
78/24 OTHER MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION
- Community Resilience – Climate Emergency
- Website Updates.
- Councillor Vacancy Mathern Ward.
79/24 PROJECTS AWAITING COMPLETION
- Works to benches/telephone box/war memorial fence
- Sign Clearance
80/24 DATE OF NEXT MEETING:
Next Meeting Monday 10th March 2025.
Minutes 11th November 2024
NOTICE OF CO-OPTION VACANCY IN THE WARD OF MATHERN
NOTICE OF CO-OPTION VACANCY IN THE WARD OF MATHERN
Letters of interest are invited to fill the vacancy for 1 Councillor in MATHERN Ward.
Applicants should submit a brief letter outlining why they would like to be considered and a little background information on themselves. By 3rd December 2024. For consideration at the next Council meeting.
Letters to be sent to the Clerk of the Council
Jane Kelley at 3 Parklands, Mathern, Chepstow NP16 6JL
NOTE FROM CHAIRMAN MATHERN COMMUNITY COUNCIL
COUNCILLOR MATT SIDWELL
NOTE FROM CHAIRMAN MATHERN COMMUNITY COUNCIL COUNCILLOR MATT SIDWELL
THE PUBLIC CONSULTATION FOR THE DEPOSIT STAGE OF TH3E RLDP IS OPEN FROM
4TH November to the 16th November .
If you can copy Clerk at info@matherncc.co.uk
We can then send comments from the Community Council of residents views and concerns.
PLEASE HAVE YOUR SAY
Place Committee on the 10th of October 2024-RLDP Deposit Stage
The agenda for this meeting covers the RLDP deposit stage of the plan. It covers both the strategic sites and other sites in rural areas including villages. The strategic sites include the change in relation to the previous proposals of 145 houses at Bayfield Chepstow and instead places this housing at the Mounton Road site next to the High Beech roundabout. This Monton Road site is also expected to include a hotel and residential care home. There are also proposed significant house building at Caldicot East/ North Portskewett, all of which will further exacerbate the traffic congestion issues.
There is a site being proposed for 26 houses in Shirenewton for Land West of Red Landes which is on the Earlswood Road past the village boundary on the opposite side of the road to the recreation hall.
The 6-week public consultation on the deposit stage of the RLDP proposals is expected to follow the County Council meeting on the 24th of October to cover the period from the 4th of November to the 16th of December.
The link to the meeting and documents can be found here:
https://democracy.monmouthshire.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=303&MId=5827