A meeting of the Open Spaces Committee will be held on Tuesday 5 April 2022 at the
rising of the Planning, Highways and Transport Committee Meeting due to be held from
19:30hrs, in the Council Chamber, Council Office, North Street, Ilminster, TA19 0DG
Members of the public are welcome and encouraged to attend. However, due to ongoing
Covid-19 concerns and a duty to protect all attendees, there will be a limited number of
members of the public able to attend. If you wish to attend, please let Ilminster Town Clerk
know either by email town.council@ilminster.gov.uk or phone the office on 01460 52149 by
15:00 hrs on Tuesday 5 April 2022. Officers of the council will advise whether capacity
remains.
If members of the public have any questions on matters that are on the agenda, then if
possible, please notify the Council Office before the day of meeting which item you would like
to speak about.
This meeting has been advertised as a public meeting and as such could be filmed or
recorded by broadcasters, the media or members of the public. Please be aware that whilst
every effort is taken to ensure that members of the public are not filmed, we cannot
guarantee this, especially if you are speaking or taking an active role.
The business to be transacted at the meeting is outlined on the Agenda below. Any reports
listed as “to follow” will be made available as soon as possible, and in any event at least 30
minutes before the start of the meeting.
Yours sincerely
Mark Tredwin
Town Clerk
AGENDA
1. Public Forum
Fifteen minutes will be made available for public comment and response in relation to
items on this agenda. Individuals will be permitted a maximum of three minutes each to
address the committee.
2. Apologies for absence
To receive apologies for absence from Councillors unable to attend the meeting.
3. Declarations of Interest
To receive any declarations from Councillors and Officers of interests in respect of
matters to be considered at this meeting, together with an appropriate statement
regarding the nature of the interest.
Members are reminded that if they have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest on their register of
interest relating to any item on the agenda, they are prevented from participating in any
discussion or voting on that matter at the meeting as to do so would amount to a criminal
offence. Similarly, if you are or become aware of a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter
under consideration at this meeting which is not on your register of interests or is in the process
of being added to your register you must disclose such interest at this meeting and register it
within 28 days.
4. Dispensations
To note the grant of dispensations made by the Town Clerk in relation to the business of
this meeting.
5. Minutes
To confirm the Minutes of the meeting held on 7th December 2021.
6. Financial Monitoring report
For members to note the income and expenditure report
7. Open Spaces Team Report
For members to note the report
8. Burial space request;
For members to consider the report on a request to buy back a burial space.
9. Memorial Benches
For members to consider a memorial bench within Herne Hill
That in view of the confidential nature of the business about to be transacted, it is
advisable in the public interest that the press and public be temporarily excluded while
members consider this item in accordance with the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings)
Act 1960
10. Exempt Business
To move that under Section 1, Paragraph 2 of The Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings)
Act 1960, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for this item of business in
view of the likely disclosure of confidential matters about information relating to an
individual, and information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular
person, within the meaning of paragraphs 1 and 8 of schedule 12A to the Local
Government Act 1972 (see Section 1 and Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government
(Access to Information) Act 1985), as amended by the Local Government (Access to
Information) (Variation) Order 2006.
Open Spaces Committee:
Councillors Gunn, Swann, Shepherd, Taylor, Wilcock, White, Lancaster and Hamilton
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