Full Council Meeting – 4 December 2025

Cherhill Parish Council

Cherhill Parish Councillors are hereby summoned to attend the Cherhill Parish Council Meeting on:

 

Thursday 4^th December 2025 at 7.00 pm

Cherhill Village Hall

Clerk to the Council –29 November 2025

 

Members of the parish and press are welcome to attend.
The period of time designated for public participation at a meeting in accordance with Standing Order 3(e) shall not exceed 20 minutes unless directed by the chairman of the meeting.  Subject to standing order 3(f), a member of the public shall not speak for more than 5 minutes (Standing Orders page 4, f-g).

For a detailed response it would be helpful for the Clerk to receive your questions in writing, 2 working days in advance of the meeting. Meetings are recorded purely for producing the Minutes, then deleted. Members of the public contributing may be identified in Minutes unless requesting otherwise.

 

 

AGENDA

4654     Apologies

To receive apologies for absence

 

4655     Declarations of Interest

To record declarations of interest from council members regarding items on the agenda

 

4656     Minutes

To approve and sign the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 23^rd October 2025 as a true and correct record

 

4657     Review of Actions

To review actions from the meeting held on Thursday 23^rd October 2025

 

4658     Public Participation

Opportunity for members of the public to address the Council

 

4659     Bridleway and Footpath Maintenance (Standing Item)

To review issues affecting byways and footpaths in the parish

 

4660     Wiltshire Council Update

Review by Wiltshire Councillor Ashley O’Neill

 

4661     Local Highway and Footway Improvement Group (LHFIG)

To review LHFIG issues across the parish

 

4662     Planning applications

To consider the Planning Applications below:

 

Application No	Address	Details
PL/2025/08431	6 Mill Lane, Cherhill SN11 8XS	Proposed replacement of existing dwelling and associated works.
PL/2025/09029	Mill Farm, Blackland, Calne, SN11 8PR	Proposed erection of American barn and associated works.
PL/2025/09335	3 Middle Lane, Cherhill SN11 8XX	Proposed reduction to silver birch and to holm oak and to reshape the latter to balance it following partial removal by power line company.

 

4663     Budget Overview   

To review Income and Expenditure to date for the previous month and the Financial Year

 

4664     Budget Discussion and Draft Precept for 2026-27

            To review the draft Budget and  Precept request for adoption at the January 2026 PC meeting

 

4665     Accounts 

To approve the following invoices and payments:

 

From	Invoice No	Details	Reason	Total
P Johnson	095	Home Office Expenses (September 2025) @ £26.00 Microsoft 365 subscription @ £84.99 New Epson printer @ £100.97 Printer inks @ £7.97 and £7.64	Clerk’s expenses	£201.57
Grist Environmental	P263034	Bin emptying October 2025 (5 weeks)	Maintenance	£321.00
DT and CB Grafton	22.11.2025	Supplying creosoted posts for kissing gates, mowing footpaths	Maintenance of rights of way	£138.00

 

4666     New Accounting Software

To review use of the Scribe Software package

 

4667     Working Groups

To review the activity of the working groups not otherwise covered on the Agenda

 

1. Planning Group – to approve bespoke Terms of Reference for the Group
2. Website/IT Group

 

4668     Vacancies on the Parish Council

To review progress re the filling of the last 2 vacancies

 

4669     New Website and Internet Domain

To review the new requirements for local councils and approve the next steps

 

4670     Newsletter and The Villages (Standing Item)

To discuss relevant articles for inclusion in the next Newsletter and The Villages magazine

 

4671     Clerk’s Salary and Hours

             To approve HR Group’s proposed increased monthly hours for Clerk and salary scale

 

4672     Councillor Responsibilities

To receive councillors’ reports on their delegated areas of responsibility:

 

Responsibility	Leader	Deputy
Area Board	Cllr D Grafton	Cllr M Purslow
Clerk Admin Matters	Parish Clerk	n/a
Facebook Page	Cllr M Purslow	Cllr N White
Combined Parishes Forum	Cllr D Grafton	Cllr N White
Hills Waste Solutions Liaison Group	Cllr D Grafton	Cllr N White
Parish Steward link	Cllr M Purslow	Cllr S Hickey
White Horse Restoration Group	Cllr D Grafton	Cllr N White
Lansdowne Monument	Cllr Sadler-Smith	Cllrs Purslow, Hislop
Defibrillators	Cllrs White/ Purslow	Cllr R Pooley
Wiltshire Association of Local Councils (WALC)	Cllr Sadler-Smith

 

4673     Date of next meetings

8^th January 2026 at 7.00 pm, Yatesbury Village Hall (provisionally)

26^th February 2026 at 7.00 pm, Yatesbury Village Hall (provisionally)