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BUDGET V EXPENDITURE 2017-2018 April to June Figures as at 30.06.17

BUDGET ACTUAL BUDGET ACTUAL COSTSSPEND SPEND INCOME INCOME COMMITTED

AdministrationClerk's salary 4600.00 787.45 0.00 0.00 0.00Expenses 400.00 122.68 0.00 0.00 0.00Hall Hire 400.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 265.00Subscriptions 460.00 364.81 0.00 0.00 0.00Training 150.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Election costs 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Audit fees 200.00 167.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Insurance 750.00 494.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Newsletter 250.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Website hosting 50.00 171.58 0.00 0.00 0.00Donations 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Allotment Rental 0.00 0.00 113.75 59.38 0.00Cricket Club Rental 0.00 0.00 25.00 0.00 0.00Interest Payments 0.00 0.00 5.00 0.49 0.00Rent Pole & Stay 0.00 0.00 4.60 0.00 0.00Wayleave Payments 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Section 137 300.00 300.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL Administration 7560.00 2407.52 148.35 59.87

Burial GroundsChurchyard mowing 612.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Cemetery mowing 1122.00 430.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Rates 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Burial ground repairs 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Cemetery fees 0.00 0.00 350.00 210.00 0.00

TOTAL Burial Grounds 1734.00 430.00 350.00 210.00

Trees, Greens and VergesMowing and Maintenance 3100.00 980.00 650.00 0.00 340.00Clean-up Group 200.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Fixtures 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Tree Management 3000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL Burial Grounds 6300.00 980.00 650.00 0.00

Street LightingMaintenance 357.00 1118.50 0.00 0.00 0.00Electricity 2000.00 456.99 0.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL Street Lighting 2357.00 1575.49 0.00 0.00

Playing FieldMaintenance 510.00 139.19 0.00 0.00 0.00Safety Inspection 53.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL Playing Field 563.06 139.19 0.00 0.00

0.00 0.00 0.00 3589.00 0.00

TOTAL Precept 0.00 0.00 17800.00 8900.00 0.00

TOTAL Payments 18514.06 5532.20TOTAL Receipts 18948.35 12758.87

Bank accounts as of 30.06.17 HSBC Current 8914.92HSBC Deposit 5013.67Total 13928.59

715.70Cost commitments 605.00Outstanding income 1813.12 CRFunds available 14421.01

TOTAL Neighbourhood Plan

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Bank reconciliation 2018/2018 - 1st quarter

Balance B/Fwd as at 1st April 2017 Current 2562.54BMM 5013.18

7575.72Plus Receipts for month (Current) 8960.00Plus Receipts for month (BMM) 0.16 16535.88

Less Payments for month 472.38 16063.50

Balance at Bank at 1st May 2017 Current 11050.16 11050.16

BMM 5013.3416063.50

205.68Real balance 15857.82

Balance B/Fwd as at 1st May 2017 16063.50Plus Receipts for month (Current) 3441.00Plus Receipts for month (BMM) 0.17 19504.67

Less Payments for month 837.15 18667.52

Balance at Bank at 1st June 2017 Current 13654.01BMM 5013.51

18667.52

150.00Real balance 18517.52

Balance B/Fwd as at 1st June 2017 18667.52Plus Receipts for month (Current) 357.22Plus Receipts for month (BMM) 0.16 19024.90

Less Payments for month 5096.47 13928.43

Balance at Bank at 1st July 2017 Current 8914.92BMM 5013.67

13928.59

715.70Real balance 13212.89

Incurred liabilities 605.00 12607.89

Uncollected income 1813.12 14421.01

Absolute balance 14421.01

Unpresented cheques for month

Unpresented cheques for month

Unpresented cheques for month

Updated: 07/08/2017

Finance 17-18/Liabilities Page 1

Register of liabilities – 2017/2018

Date Detail Amount To pay To receive Complete Date01.04.16 2015/16 Cricket Club rental 25.00 -£25.00 Invoiced 03.07.1601.04.16 Solicitors re registration VG112 340.00 £340.0001.04.16 Reclaim tree work from residents 1140.00 -£1,140.0009.01.17 Hire of VH for January meeting 30.00 £30.0002.02.17 Hire of VH for training meeting 30.00 £30.0013.02.17 Hire of VH for February meeting 30.00 £30.0013.03.17 Hire of VH for March meeting 30.00 £30.0027.03.17 Hire of VH for March extra meeting 15.00 £15.0010.04.17 Hire of VH for April meeting 26.00 26.0024.04.17 Hire of VH for April extra meeting 13.00 13.0008.05.17 NCC Mowing Grant (16/17) 648.12 -648.12 Invoiced 03.07.1708.05.17 Hire of VH for May meeting 13.00 13.0012.05.17 Hire of VH for APM (12.05.17) 26.00 £26.0015.05.17 Hire of VH for Red Cross training 26.00 £26.0010.06.17 Hire of VH for June meeting 26.00 26.00

605.00 -1813.12

VHMC £15 Winter £13 SummerWinter = October to MarchSummer = April to September

Badby Parish Council

Parish Council Finances

At the June Parish Council meeting we considered the implications of the final figures for the 2016/17 finances and

the reasons for the significant overspend. We agreed several decisions:

(a) To revise budgets for 2017/18 which were unrealistically low as follows:

(i) Clerk’s salary, noting that some costs were offset by a Grant to cope with the needs of the Transparency

Act, and that additional hours used on burial matters were covered by the burial fees (see (c) below).

(ii) Audit

(iii) Mowing contract for the Greensand to reduce the number of mows in future years.

(iv) Street lighting electricity costs

(b) To apply for a further Transparency Grant to cover 1/mth to cope with the needs of the Transparency Act.

(c) To review the burial fees to ensure that they continue to meet increases in other costs.

(d) To seek a reduction in, or waiving of, hall hire fees for Parish Council meetings.

(e) To ensure that all invoices are received and paid promptly, especially towards the end of the financial year so

that liabilities are not carried over to the following year.

(f) To ensure that all monies owed to the Parish Council are obtained swiftly, and chased where the money is not

forthcoming in a timely manner.

(g) To monitor all expenditure carefully, to be sure that we are getting best value for money, and that all

expenditure falls within the budget or has alternative sources of funds to cover it.

(h) To seek to reduce costs where we can, for instance by using the Village Working Parties.

(i) To ensure that all recoverable VAT is claimed.

In addition, the 2017/18 budgets should be adjusted to reflect unpaid commitments and unclaimed income

carried over from 2016/17:

Repayment of NCC cheque for VH booking wrongly sent to BPC £150

Solicitor’s fees re registration of VG112 £340

Third grant for Neighbourhood Plan and its expenditure net £0

Income from Cricket Club rental for 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 (£75)

Income from payments for tree works on The Glebe (£1140)

Income from NCC Highways for mowing of verges (£648)

Reclaimed additional VAT on BPNP invoices (£539)

At Annex A are the proposed new budgets for 2017/18, taking all the above into account. This shows a predicted

net surplus on the year of £611 and end of year Reserves of £7900.

Assuming that the Parish Council accepts those new figures, I have then looked at the following four years, to

2022/23, as shown in Annex B. For the four-year forecast I have provisionally included a 5% p.a. increase in the

precept to bring our reserves up to the 50% of expenditure, in line with our agreed aims, which should be

achieved (just) by the end of 2021/22.

The Parish Council is invited to review the matters in this paper and, if agreed, to accept and adopt the revised

budget for 2017/18.

Peter Cooper

Chairman, Badby Parish Council

Annex A: 2017/18 revised budget

Administration Previous Budget Revised budget Notes

Clerk's Salary (inc PAYE) 4,600.00 4,800.00 Revised budget

Expenses 400.00 400.00

Hall Hire 400.00 550.00 Repayment of NCC chq

Subscriptions 460.00 460.00

Training 150.00 150.00

Election Costs 0.00 0.00

Audit Fees 200.00 265.00 Revised budget

Insurance 750.00 750.00

Newsletter 250.00 250.00

Website & email server 50.00 50.00

Donations/Grants made 0.00 0.00

Section 137 (expenditure) 300.00 300.00

Administration Expenditure 7,560.00 7,975.00

I/c: Grants/Donations rec'd 0.00 140.00 Transparency grant

I/c: Allotment Rental 113.75 113.75

I/c: Cricket Club Rental 25.00 100.00 Also owing 2014/15-2016/17

I/c: Interest on deposit a/c 5.00 0.00

I/c: Rent Pole & Stay 4.60 0.00

I/c: Wayleave payments 0.00 0.00

I/c: Section 137 (refunds) 0.00 0.00

NET EXPENDITURE (ADMIN) 7,411.65 7,621.25

Burial Grounds

Churchyard mowing & maintenance 612.00 612.00

Cemetery mowing & maintenance 1,122.00 1,122.00

Cemetery/graveyard repairs 0.00 0.00

Rates 0.00 0.00

Other/fees refunds

Burial Grounds Expenditure 1,734.00 1,734.00

I/c: Grants for cemetery repairs

I/c: Burial fees 350.00 350.00 Review rates NET EXP (BURIAL GROUNDS) 1,384.00 1,384.00

Trees, Greens & Verges

Greens & verges mowing & maintenance 3,100.00 4,540.00 Revised budget. VG112 legal fees

Tree Management 3,000.00 3,000.00

Village Working Parties 200.00 200.00

Greens fixtures

Greens/Verges/Trees Exp 6,300.00 7,740.00

I/c: NCC payment for verges 650.00 1,298.00 Also 2016/17 payment

I/c: Income for work on trees

1,140.00 Reclaim re Glebe trees NET EXP (TREES/GREENS) 5,650.00 5,302.00

Street Lighting

Maintenance 357.00 357.00

Electricity 2,000.00 2,500.00 Revised budget EXP (STREET LIGHTING) 2,357.00 2,857.00

Playing Field

Maintenance 510.00 510.00

RoSPA Inspection 53.06 53.06

NET EXP (PLAYING FIELD) 563.06 563.06

VAT

VAT paid out

Normal VAT paid/reclaimed not included

I/c: VAT reclaimed

539.67 BPNP VAT reclaimed from 2016/17

BP Neighbourhood Plan

Expenditure

3,381.00 Must spend or return grant

I/c: Grants received

3,381.00 Grant 3 NET Exp BP Neighbourhood Plan 0.00 0.00

I/c: PRECEPT 17,800.00 17,800.00

TOTAL INCOME (inc BPNP) 18,948.35 24,862.42

TOTAL EXP (inc BPNP) 18,514.06 24,251.06

Surplus i/c over exp (inc BPNP) 434.29 611.36

Total reserves at start of yr 7,292.00 7,292.00 TOTAL RESERVES AT END OF YR 7,726.29 7,903.36

Annex B: 2016/17 actuals (green), 2017/18 budget (blue) and forward look 2018/19 to 2021/22 (grey)

Administration 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22

Actual Rev budget Forecast Forecast Forecast Forecast

Clerk's Salary (inc PAYE) 4,651.98 4,800.00 4,896.00 4,993.92 5,093.80 5,195.67

Expenses 480.16 400.00 408.00 416.16 424.48 432.97

Hall Hire 777.00 550.00 408.00 416.16 424.48 432.97

Subscriptions 469.76 460.00 460.00 460.00 460.00 460.00

Training 279.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 150.00

Election Costs 0.00 0.00 0.00 800.00 0.00 800.00

Audit Fees 262.00 265.00 265.00 265.00 265.00 265.00

Insurance 744.95 750.00 750.00 750.00 750.00 750.00

Newsletter 276.00 250.00 250.00 250.00 250.00 250.00

Website & email server 18.78 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00

Donations/Grants made 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Section 137 (expenditure) 129.24 300.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 Administration Expenditure 8,088.87 7,975.00 7,937.00 8,851.24 8,167.76 9,086.62

I/c: Grants/Donations rec'd 854.60 140.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

I/c: Allotment Rental 118.75 113.75 113.75 113.75 125.59 125.59

I/c: Cricket Club Rental 0.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 430.59 430.59

I/c: Interest on deposit a/c 2.74 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

I/c: Rent Pole & Stay 11.77 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

I/c: Wayleave payments 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

I/c: Section 137 (refunds) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 NET EXPENDITURE (ADMIN) 7,101.01 7,621.25 7,798.25 8,712.49 7,611.58 8,530.44

Burial Grounds

Churchyard mowing & maintenance 526.60 612.00 624.24 636.72 649.46 662.45

Cemetery mowing & maintenance 1,101.54 1,122.00 1,144.44 1,167.33 1,190.68 1,214.49

Cemetery/graveyard repairs 1,361.90 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Rates 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Other/fees refunds 35.00

Burial Grounds Expenditure 3,025.04 1,734.00 1,768.68 1,804.05 1,840.13 1,876.94

I/c: Grants for cemetery repairs 300.00

I/c: Burial fees 1,205.00 350.00 350.00 350.00 350.00 350.00 NET EXP (BURIAL GROUNDS) 1,520.04 1,384.00 1,418.68 1,454.05 1,490.13 1,526.94

Trees, Greens & Verges

Greens & verges mowing & maintenance 4,100.12 4,540.00 4,284.00 4,369.68 4,457.07 4,546.22

Tree Management 4,016.67 3,000.00 2,100.00 2,142.00 2,184.84 2,228.54

Village Working Parties 16.85 200.00 204.00 208.08 212.24 216.49

Greens fixtures 40.00

Greens/Verges/Trees Exp 8,173.64 7,740.00 6,588.00 6,719.76 6,854.16 6,991.24

I/c: NCC payment for verges 0.00 1,298.00 650.00 650.00 650.00 650.00

I/c: Income for work on trees 104.75 1,140.00

NET EXP (TREES/GREENS) 8,068.89 5,302.00 5,938.00 6,069.76 6,204.16 6,341.24

Street Lighting

Maintenance 702.08 357.00 364.14 371.42 378.85 386.43

Electricity 2,441.04 2,500.00 2,550.00 2,601.00 2,653.02 2,706.08 EXP (STREET LIGHTING) 3,143.12 2,857.00 2,914.14 2,972.42 3,031.87 3,092.51

Playing Field

Maintenance 165.83 510.00 520.20 530.60 541.22 552.04

RoSPA Inspection 62.50 53.06 54.12 55.20 56.31 57.43 NET EXP (PLAYING FIELD) 228.33 563.06 574.32 585.81 597.52 609.47

VAT

I/c: BPNP VAT reclaimed

539.67

BP Neighbourhood Plan

Expenditure 4,306.53 3,381.00

I/c: Grants received 3,412.00 3,381.00

NET Exp BP Neighbourhood Plan 894.53 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

I/c: PRECEPT 17,000.00 17,800.00 18,675.00 19,600.00 20,575.00 21,600.00

(Increase over previous year)

4.7% 4.9% 5.0% 5.0% 5.0%

TOTAL INCOME (inc BPNP) 25,479.94 24,862.42 19,813.75 20,738.75 22,131.18 23,156.18 TOTAL EXP (inc BPNP) 28,693.43 24,251.06 19,782.14 20,933.28 20,491.45 21,657.78 Surplus i/c over exp (inc BPNP) -3,213.49 611.36 31.61 -194.53 1,639.73 1,498.40 Total reserves at start of yr 10,505.49 7,292.00 7,903.36 7,934.97 7,740.43 9,380.17 TOTAL RESERVES AT END OF YR 7,292.00 7,903.36 7,934.97 7,740.43 9,380.17 10,878.57

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BADBY PARISH COUNCIL

Village Confines

The Badby Neighbourhood Plan (BPNP) Group is preparing a draft Plan for public consultation over this summer. The latest draft includes defining the Village Confines and these proposals have led to questions being asked by a good number of parishioners.

The purpose of this paper is to set out information about Village Confines to assist in an informed debate. The paper does not make any recommendations – the view of the Parish Council is that, having established a BPNP Group with membership across the parish with the remit to consult and debate widely and openly, that Group should make its recommendations and that an informed consultation will enable those proposals to be assessed by all parishioners. The results of that consultation must be taken into account in revising the draft Plan before it goes forward for Examination and finally to a Referendum of all parishioners.

The issue is complex – that’s the nature of Planning. There’s no quick answer, and every decision – even leaving things ‘as they are’ – has consequences and possible repercussions. So, I am sorry that the paper is

long, but we urge all parishioners to read it and to give thought to the issue.

1. Why do Village Confines matter?

Badby is one of several villages in the Daventry area that are termed ‘Restricted In-fill Villages’ in the DDC Retained Policies [1]. In such villages development is allowed only as in-fill within the Village Confines – development outside the Confines is not permitted and the Parish Council has (successfully) used this principle to respond to Planning Applications on or outside these boundaries.

The DDC Planning Policies are being replaced by a new DDC Settlements & Countryside Local Plan, building on the West Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy [2] which sets the overall planning policies for the area. Like the DDC Retained Policies, this also states that residential development in rural areas will only be permitted within existing Confines, with strict limitations on any development outside the Confines. The Joint Core Strategy introduces a Settlement Hierarchy of villages and hamlets, which sets the scale and positioning of development depending on the services and facilities available. Where Badby sits in the hierarchy and what limits will be set will be part of the DDC Settlements & Countryside Local Plan and DDC has not released the final draft yet.

From these policies (given in full in Annex A) it can be seen that Village Confines are an important criterion in where development can, and cannot, take place in Badby.

2. How are ‘Village Confines’ defined?

The term comes from Policy HS22 of the DDC Retained Policies [1], which says (para. 4.90):

“existing confines of the village" will be taken to mean that area of the village defined by the existing main built-up area but excluding those peripheral buildings such as free-standing individual or groups of dwellings, nearby farm buildings or other structures which are not closely related thereto. Gardens, or former gardens, within the curtilages of dwelling houses, will not necessarily be assumed to fall within the existing confines of the village.

The criteria for determining the Confines are expanded in a DDC guidance document [3]:

Principles for inclusion within the confines:

1. Buildings, curtilages and open spaces which are contained and visually separate from the open countryside that are clearly part of a network of buildings that form the village, but refer to point 2 - exclusions) below regarding gardens.

2. Land with planning permission for built development.

3. Allocations for built development in the local plan or a neighbourhood development plan.

4. Boundaries should include the entire part of a dwelling house and attached outbuildings, but not those that are physically separate.

Principles for exclusion from the confines:

1. Property ownership boundaries should not form the basis for defining the confines. The key is the visual openness of the land and whether it relates best to the built-up area or countryside.

2. Gardens or former gardens within the curtilages of dwellings will not necessarily fall within the confines. If a garden is visually open and related to the open countryside, it should be regarded as being outside the confines.

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3. Individual or groups of dwellings, areas of employment, agricultural buildings or other structures that are detached, peripheral and not closely related to the built-up area.

4. Land between the natural edge of a settlement and a bypass.

5. Open space including recreation uses, which is detached or peripheral to the settlement.

3. Where are Badby’s Village Confines?

Beyond the DDC definitions and criteria, there are no precisely-drawn (i.e. geographically-defined) Confines for Badby. We have seen two different maps, both quite old and both marked as ‘draft’. It is fair to say that the Confines map at Annex B has been assumed by many to reflect the practical Confines.

As will be appreciated, the definition of Village Confines in DDC Policy HS22 above is open to some interpretation, in particular the terms “peripheral buildings”, “not closely related” and “will not necessarily be assumed” leave open alternative judgements whether particular properties (or groups of properties) should or should not be included.

4. Who determines the Village Confines?

The DDC Guidance [3] states that Village Confines can only be defined or amended through the production of a local plan or neighbourhood development plan. Up to now, for restricted infill villages such as Badby the definitions above provided principles to work to; however there is now encouragement for Neighbourhood Plans, including those for in-fill villages, to include clearly-defined boundaries within which the Plan’s policies will relate.

5. Once defined, how strong are the Village Confines?

The basis of the legislation that introduced Neighbourhood Plans, and one of the reasons why the Parish Council concluded that a Neighbourhood Plan would be beneficial to Badby, is that Village Confines set into our Neighbourhood Plan, once agreed through the consultation and referendum process and ‘adopted’ by DDC, will have legal standing to control development within and outside the Confines.

Thus, the DDC Policies prevent any development outside approved Village Confines, whether the development is adjacent to or separated from the defined Confines. (At one stage a BPNP draft policy document referred to allowing development “adjacent to” the Confines, but that was removed and now only refers to development within the Confines.)

Concerns have been expressed whether DDC could over-ride the Confines set, or whether any Confines could be challenged by a developer, for instance. That is not clear and there are mixed reports on experience elsewhere in such circumstances. There are concerns that, even when Confines have been defined (in some cases through a Neighbourhood Plan) the local authority has approved planning applications that are outside the Confines. And there is also the issue of Exception Sites…

6. What about Exception Sites?

Exception Sites break all the rules! Exception Sites are intended to provide “Affordable Housing to meet identified local needs in rural areas” (but Affordable Housing has a particular meaning in Planning – it is “housing that is provided to eligible households at a price/rent below the market rate, whose housing needs are not met by the market. It includes socially rented, affordable rented and intermediate housing)”.

Exception Sites can only be built adjacent to a village’s Confines (and do not extend the Village Confines as a result) and only if they meet specific criteria laid out in Joint Core Strategy [2], given in full in Annex A. These criteria particularly relate to local need, and the latest Housing Needs Survey undertaken in Badby [4] would not support an Exception Site.

7. So what’s the issue in Badby?

The currently-assumed Confines in Annex B notably omit two groups of houses which adjoin the main village – Nene Side Close and the group of 6 bungalows at the top of Bunkers Hill. The BPNP undertook consultations about whether these should be included in the Village Confines. Responses were not high but the majority view was that they should, and a vote at the BPNP Group agreed to include them. Thus the BPNP is proposing in its draft Plan to show Village Confines as in Annex C.

The concern expressed to the Parish Council is that the inclusion of these two areas will increase the likelihood that development could take place on land outside but adjacent to the BPNP-defined Confines.

There seem to be two key questions:

Question 1: By the definitions of Village Confines, do Nene Side Close and the Bunkers Hill bungalows fall within or outside the Village Confines?

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The question needs to be addressed for each of the two areas separately. How far is there a continuous building line/road system/pathways joining the area to the main part of Badby village? How far is there a degree of physical separation from, or connectivity with, the rest of village?

Question 2: If they are included, what areas could then be possible development sites with the ‘new’ Confines (Annex C) that would not be with the ‘old’ Confines (Annex B)?

Arguably, if the Village Confines are firm, and there can be no building outside the Confines, there is no difference whether these two areas are included or not. The Confines are the Confines, and development outside the Confines – whether adjacent to the Confines or not, and even if there is a ‘hole’ in the overall shape – makes no difference to the Policies. And much of the area around Nene Side is on the boundary of the Village Confines or limited by roads whichever set of Confines is set.

Neither question is easy. But importantly, Question 2 is only an issue if there is a possibility that development on land outside the Confines could be permitted (other than for Exception Sites), or the definition of the Confines challenged. If that is true, then we need to understand better how and under what circumstances that could occur, because the issue is not then just one for these two areas – if the Village Confines can be breached, then breaches could take place anywhere, whichever Village Confines are agreed.

Badby Parish Council, July 2017

References (all documents can be found on www.BadbyVillage.com): [1] DDC Retained Policies, 1 October 2007 [2] West Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy, adopted December 2014 [3] “Guidance Note for Defining Village Confines”, Version 1, DDC (April 2016) [4] Badby Parish Housing Needs Survey, October 2016

Annex A: Planning Policies defining development within and outside the Confines

DDC Saved Policy (HS22):

Planning permission will normally be granted for residential development in the restricted infill villages provided that:

A it is on a small scale, and

B it is within the existing confines of the village, and

C it does not affect open land which is of particular significance to the form and character of the village, or

D it comprises the renovation or conversion of existing buildings for residential purposes provided that the proposal is in keeping with the character and quality of the village environment.

West Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy Policy R1 covering Rural Development:

Residential development in rural areas will be required to:

A) provide for an appropriate mix of dwelling types and sizes, including affordable housing to meet the needs of all sectors of the community, including the elderly and vulnerable; and

B) not affect open land which is of particular significance to the form and character of the village; and

C) preserve and enhance historic buildings and areas of historic or environmental importance including those identified in conservation area appraisals and village design statements; and

D) protect the amenity of existing residents; and

E) be of an appropriate scale to the existing settlement; and

F) promote sustainable development that equally addresses economic, social and environmental issues; and

G) be within the existing confines of the village.

Development outside the existing confines will be permitted where it involves the re-use of buildings or, in exceptional circumstances, where it will enhance or maintain the vitality of rural communities or would contribute towards and improve the local economy.

West Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy Policy H3 covering Exception Sites:

The provision of affordable housing to meet identified local needs in rural areas on 'exception sites' will be supported. Schemes must either be purely affordable housing or mixed tenure schemes including an element of market housing where this is essential to the delivery of the affordable housing. It will be a requirement that the market housing:

1) is the minimum necessary to make the scheme viable; and

2) meets specific locally identified housing needs. In all cases the following criteria must be met:

a) the site is within or immediately adjoins the main built-up area of a rural settlement;

b) the form and scale of development should be clearly justified by evidence of need through a local housing needs survey; and

c) arrangements for the management and occupation of affordable housing must ensure that it will be available and affordable in perpetuity for people in local housing need.

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Annex B: Village Confines map currently in use but not formally agreed

Annex C: Village Confines map proposed by the Badby Parish Neighbourhood Plan Group

Councillors' reports for July 2017 meeting

001/06/17(e) Assets Inspection. The inspection was carried out by MR & PC on 28 June. No major concerns were identified but there are some minor points arising which will be reported to the July meeting.

006/06/17(c) Parking in the vicinity of the church. I have drafted a letter to residents, explaining the outcomes of the consultation as reported to the June BPC meeting. The letter (jointly with the PCC) will be delivered to all those who were invited to contribute to the original consultation by the time of the July meeting. The Parish Council needs to take forward actions as follows:

• To produce a guidance note on parking which could be used widely on noticeboards, the website, in newsletters, sent to event organisers, etc.

• To arrange for notices on the graveyard wall along Church Hill and Church Green

• To ask Northants Highways whether advisory signs warning HGVs of the narrow roads could be put at the bottom of both hills.

006/06/17(d) Village confines. I prepared a draft paper on the meaning of and policies relating to Village Confines and met with Jane Parry of DDC Planning to confirm and clarify what was in my paper in respect of DDC and Northants planning policies and practice, and the implications of those policies on planning decisions. I also took up with her the issues raised by Nene Side Residents at previous BPC meetings, and their reports of their discussions with DDC. I will report further on that at the July meeting. The draft paper on Village Confines was circulated for comments to Councillors, and a final version will be circulated for approval at the July meeting, following which it will be made widely and an informed discussion encouraged with parishioners.

006/06/17(i) AED training. The offer of EMAS training on Basic Life Support and AED use has been included in the latest Newsletter. A date for the training will be set and those who have expressed interest informed.

BPC Meeting of 10 th July 2017

Andy Witcomb Notes/Comments

Neighbourhood Plan reportThe Draft plan and all its contents have been submitted to NPiers for a “Health check”, as recommended by DDC. Full feedback was due before the 6 weekly meeting on June 28th, but early emails from the examiner indicate that a few minor amendments will be necessary, and that the document is c.90/95% complete for its next step.

The next stage will be to make these amendments, format the whole document (budgeted, and to be done by Orchard Print out of the new Grant), and submit it to DDC.

DDC will then carry out its own screening, and prepare the Plan for the six week Local Consultation to provide an opportunity for all parties to comment. It is anticipated that the Local Consultation should take place in early autumn, and the Referendum still looks like taking place in early 2018.

Leisure, sport and recreationNothing further to report.

WebsiteApril and May saw the number of Visitors (i.e. total number of people looking at the website) double the previous average monthly rates to 1600+; and over 4000 “Views”, compared to an average of 1500 over the previous 8 months. It is not known for certain where this increase came from, but Bluebell Weekend attracts many more people to visit the site each year. Increasingly local businesses and Groups appear to be using this media to communicate to the Parish, and we should continue to promote and encourage as many people as possible to use the website.