Approve and sign Minutes  Prop. M Hills,  sec. I Reveco.

Matters arising
There were none.

District Councillor's report
J Stimson had read the appraisal document sent to him and thought it was interesting. He asked whether there was an expressed need in the village for a small group of affordable housing and suggested that if there was, then there was an officer at SODC who could be approached to undertake a survey and if there was sufficient need and a suitable site etc. then a bid could be put in for support from SODC.
He said there was funding of £40,000 being made available for the provision of some underground glass recycling bottle banks, sites were being sought, they had to be away from housing and accessible by road for the collection lorries. N Northcott asked about the possibility of kerbside collections as happened in the Vale. This was not likely to happen in South Oxfordshire. The parish council congratulated SODC on their existing recycling arrangements and wished that more parishioners would use green boxes.
With regard to the parking problems at the Park Homes Site, Cllr Pat Dawe had been notified and it was suggested that he invite her to the next parish council meeting before a meeting with site residents.

County Councillor's report
J Howell was not impressed with R Dix's sending out of date and unprocessed traffic data in response to Sandford's complaints about increasing traffic and speeding. He had asked for first sight of correspondence from the County. Clerk would write to R Dix and J Howell would keep up the pressure.
With regard to the South East Plan, it effectively means that we as residents of the south east will have no control at any level over what happens to planning in our region. He found the document frustrating and a waste of money and time but we must take it seriously and encourage all residents to respond with comments when they received their individual letters. The important issues were likely to be inadequate infrastructure provision, inadequate water supply, flooding, environmental degradation, much increased traffic and pollution of all kinds.

Matters for consideration

	Highways matters - Had been discussed in County Councillors' report.
	Playgrounds - M Robson had produced an excellent report and action plan based on the last RoSPA inspection report. Most of the items could be covered by non specialist labour so it was agreed that clerk would ask G Surman to attend to the items in priority order. There was also a 'wish list' of new playground equipment tabled following

	discussions with the toddler and youth groups. M Robson would try to get some of this priced by next meeting. She was congratulated on the thoroughness of her report.
	Grasscutting tenders for 2005 - Three tenders had been sought, one contractor had declined and there were two valid tenders. It was resolved to accept the lower bid which was submitted by Berinsfield Community Business in the sum of £3,169.79 inclusive of VAT

Planning  Two applications had been received. P05/W0103/T and P05/W0100. The council had no strong views on either

Income and expenditure  Prop. H Hutton,   sec. N Northcott.

Income		Expenditure Parchment (Appraisal)	972.64
Total		Total	972.64

Matters raised 
The draft 'Rights of Way' document from the County Council was handed to M Norton to study and report on.
There had been a spate of late night drunken vandalism in the village. Residents were urged to notify police so that we were not regarded as a totally crime free zone.
H Hutton said that the Park Homes residents were going to hire a skip from their funds now that the community skip had been withdrawn.
She had been notified that work would start on repairing the banks of the Northfield Brook near Orchard House soon.
M Hills said that the village appraisal expenditure had been finalised and there was a small sum to be returned to the Countryside Agency.
Clerk would contact SODC and arrange for the abandoned van to be towed away from the village hall car park.

Items for agenda of next meeting

Date of next meeting - Monday 7 March 2005   7.00pm in the village hall.

The meeting closed at 8.40pm