Woughton Parish Council
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WHITEHOUSE COMMUNITY COUNCIL
11 Gladius Grove
Fairfields
Milton Keynes
MK11 4DE
Minutes of Community Council Meeting
held remotely due to COVID-19 on 16th July 2020
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|Item 1. Members Present | |
|Cllr H Turner - Chairman | |
|Cllr E Tait | |
|Cllr M Kitshoff | |
|Cllr V Kanumuri | |
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|Mrs J Nicholas – Clerk | |
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|5 members of the public KB, MG, SD, RO, JK. | |
|Sarah Everest and Shaun Major-Preece (OneMedical Group) | |
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|Item 2. Apologies. | |
|Accepted unanimously from | |
|Cllr C Ritchie | |
|Paul vanGeete (MKC) | |
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|Item 3. Declarations of Personal and Prejudicial Interest | |
|All councillors present acknowledged that they may have an interest in all policies discussed but none felt it| |
|should prevent them from voting | |
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|Item 4. Public Time | |
|Items raised with Clerk prior to meeting by members of the public – | |
|Question 1. Who is responsible for green areas along Barrosa Way between Randall Avenue and Pembroke Lane. | |
|This area needs landscaping and nobody is looking after it. | |
|Answer Chairman has been in touch with L & Q and is awaiting reply. | |
|Question 2. Is there any updated information regarding the surfacing of Angus Way, all surrounding roads have | |
|now been finished except Angus Way. | |
|Answer Chairman will contact Abbey Homes about this problem. |Chairman |
|Question 3 The litter is bad there. There has been a discarded bag of rubbish on the corner of Berrenda Avenue| |
|for about 12 weeks, I have reported to main Council but have had no response. How can we escalate the litter | |
|problem outside of the community litter picks organised by Cllr Tait | |
|Answer Cllr Kitshoff knew of this bag and would deal with the problem but litter will not be main council. It| |
|is either the responsibility of the developers or the Management company, where developers have completed on |Chairman |
|site. | |
|Question 4 The footpaths at Lady Margery’s Gorse Play Park are very slippery and could lead to an accident. | |
|Answer Clerk to raise with Parks Trust who are due to take over the park very soon. Bovis are responsible at | |
|the moment. | |
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|Item 5. Minutes | |
|The minutes of the Community Council meeting held on 18th June 2020 were approved unanimously and it was |Chairman / |
|agreed they would be signed in the next few days |Clerk |
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|Item 6.Meeting Updates | |
|No meetings due to the virus | |
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|The general state of the development was discussed from last minutes and Action List. | |
|Councillors had agreed to contact developers to find out their plans for tidying up their part of the site as | |
|follows:-. | |
|Chairman – Abbey Homes, awaiting response | |
|Cllr Tait and Cllr Ritchie - Bellway and Calla, no contact made |Chairman |
|Cllr Kitshoff- Taylor Wimpey, are are clearing up at the moment before completing onsite. | |
|Cllr Kanumuri – Bovis Homes. No contact made |ET/CR |
|Action List updates | |
|Royal Mail require 1 sq meter space to install a post box. L & Q to be contacted re possible sites. |MK |
|Suggestions are by Health Centre or school or Lady Margery’s Gorse play park as high footfall areas. | |
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|Item 7 Whitehouse Health Centre update | |
|Sarah Everest introduced OneMedical Group, she explained their activities in the health field in many other | |
|parts of the country. The Health centre will be a standard GP and urgent care centre as well as a Wellness | |
|centre. An email address will be available shortly for residents to pre-register an interest in moving to the | |
|new Health centre GP practice. This will give OneMedical an idea of demand. Cllr Kitshoff to share via FB and| |
|website once received. When announcement can be made on website Sarah will let the Clerk know as the timeline| |
|is yet to be finalised.. | |
|Shaun Major-Preece gave information on the emphasis put on prevention and lifestyle management of OneMedical | |
|Group and use of modern technology including remote consultations which they have perfected during the | |
|pandemic. They have specialists that do outreach workshops for problems such as diabetes management rather |Clerk |
|than just handing out medicines. There will be no set catchment area - this is a new style contract where | |
|anyone in Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area can apply. CCG have stated approximately 2,000| |
|patients expected initially, so they are planning for 2,500 to 3,000 to cover this. He hopes to confirm the | |
|opening date very soon | |
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|Item 8 MKC and Developers | |
|MKC – PvG had emailed an update | |
|Highways team are stating third week of August for re-opening of the V4 | |
|Community meeting place planning application has been submitted and he is working on the finance | |
|Watling Academy construction is progressing well and is on time | |
|Land Registry issue for Whitehouse large park almost resolved. Site will transfer to Parks Trust soon. | |
|Lady Margery’s Gorse problems have mostly been solved so that should follow the big park to Parks Trust | |
|although there is still a problem with slippery paths. | |
|Strong interest in the new parcels of land by the new pond largely from national housebuilders. Results of | |
|tenders will be known week commencing 20th July. | |
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|No Developers attended meeting | |
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|Item 9 Finance | |
|a) Finance report had been emailed and was accepted unanimously. | |
|b) Cheques were approved and would be signed in accordance with mandate out of meeting | |
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|Item 10 Policies | |
|Casual Vacancies and Co-option Procedure and | |
|G.D.P.R. and Data Processing were both adopted unanimously | |
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|Item 11 Keep Britain tidy | |
|“The Great British September Clean up” is taking place as the Spring Clean had to be cancelled due to COVID. | |
|Cllr Tait said council should get residents involved and educate them that litter picking is not just for the | |
|clean-up but to keep their own areas litter free for the rest of the time. An article would be produced for | |
|the newsletter which is due to go to the printers very shortly. Flyers will be put on noticeboards. | |
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|Item 12 Notice Boards | |
|Cllr Tait explained that the boards which had been provided by L&Q were not suitable for a Community Council. | |
|Following discussions it was decided that Cllr Tait would bring costs of replacing them to the next meeting. | |
|One will be funded by MKC. |ET |
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|Item 13 Public Art Project | |
|The Digital Archive part of the project is commencing shortly and Louise Izod from the project had asked for | |
|volunteers to join the Steering Group. Chairman and Cllr Kitshoff agreed to join this group. Clerk to send |Chairman/MK |
|contact details to Louise. | |
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|Item 14 Planning | |
|The only planning application this month is for the Community Meeting Place and as this has been submitted on | |
|our behalf there was no need to submit comments to planning department.. | |
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|Item 15 Next meeting | |
|20th August 2020 | |
Meeting closed 19.50pm
Signed…………………………………………Chairman
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