Minutes
of the Committee Meeting of the Albrighton & District Civic Society
held
at The Rylands,
Present :
Peter Woodman - Chairman
Rod
Smith – Secretary
David
Hughes - Treasurer
Paul
Joseland
Peter
Leigh
David
Beechey – ex-officio, representing Donington-with-Boscobel PC
1.
Apologies received only from Marylyn Silver & John Bulmer.
Chairman
asked that all members send their apologies in advance by email to the host
of the meeting with a copy to the Secretary
2.
Minutes of Meeting on
3.
Review Progress on the main projects:-
a) Village
Entrance Scheme. Task Group: JB/HH/PW
PL
has 400 No. wild primrose for use.
ACTION: After
the insurance is in place, PW will arrange for the RAF to carry out some
work.
The
updated List of Volunteers was given out. Some who offered particular
help with planting had called RS and complained that they had not yet
been contacted to participate. We need to contact these members or we
will lose their support for the Society. ACTION:JB/HH
b) Civic
Award Scheme for Schools. Task Group: PW/JB
Entries
below 11 years were a little disappointing but prizes will be awarded
and PW/JB will make the decision. The entries above 11 years did not
meet the civic entry requirements and did not deal with the subjects
required and so no prize will be given. Next year the scheme will be
more like that at Brewood and details will be issued to the schools
at the start of the September term. ACTION: PW/JB
c) Joint
Local Parish Plan. Subcommittee led by PJ
The
document “Planning for a flourishing
ACTION:
RS to obtain copy of the SC document and send to all members together with the
Draft Notes kindly given to us by Cllrs David Beechey and Ron Kidson.
d)
Other:-
i) 5 &
MP
had not managed to have SC Highways look at the damaged footpath and
it was agreed that PW would contact Brian Bennett directly. ACTION:PW
ii) The
Old Smithy.
It
was reported that children had been seen entering the site through the
partly fallen down hoardings and this could be dangerous as the Smithy
building appears to be partly collapsed and the rest could follow if
disturbed. PW to write to David Thompson to ask him to make the site
safe and repair the boundary fencing to seal off access, especially
to children. ACTION: PW
e) Albrighton
Station.
PW
and RS would join Cllr Peter Illes and meet at London Midland Trains
(Bham) with Network Rail and Shropshire Council’s Rail Officer on 12th May. RS would have a drawing produced of our proposal to use the triangle of
land at the north of the Station Access Ramp as additional parking ready
for the meeting.
ACTION:
PW/RS
f) Lack
of Parking :Provision in Albrighton
PL
had raised the lack of parking at the last LJC meeting. He had sent a report
with sketches of possible parking locations to SC and was waiting for confirmation
that it would be on the agenda oat the LJC meeting on 19th May. RS would make the sketches into a PP presentation for PL to show.
4. Insurance
ACTION: PW/RS/DH
to review the two options by Civic Voice and AON and to implement one
of them.
5.
Check Actions promised at previous meeting were done
ACTION:
PW to write to Brewery to ask that they repair the large pothole in the Crown Car
Park and the damaged entrance wall.
6.
Any other business
a)
PL will attend WestMASA meeting representing ADCS
b)
RS asked all members to refer to the Volunteer List and contact the appropriate
people – several have raised the matter and they are waiting to help with tasks. ACTION: ALL
c) Fayre
(10th July) ACTION:
DH will
book the same location for our stall outside PW house and will have the
Membership Register transferred to Excel sheet and in surname alphabetical
order with extra columns for each year of membership and printed ready
to renew memberships.
RS will
make a leaflet ready to hand out at Fayre Day and for sending by email
to those members who gave their address.
Date
of next meeting: Friday 4th June at
(Following
meeting to be on 1st Friday in month ie
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