Authority - January 2009

AGENDA

Business

1.Minutes of the meeting held on 25 November 2008.

2.Public Question Time.

The National Park Authority has allocated up to 15 minutes at the start of meetings to allow members of the public the opportunity to ask questions and/or to make statements that relate to the work of the Authority.

Notification of the subject matter of any question and/or statement must be received by the Chief Executive (National Park Officer) at Yoredale, Bainbridge, Leyburn DL8 3EL no later than 12 noon on the day before the meeting.

Each person will be allowed to address the meeting for up to three minutes.

3.Exclusion of the public from the meeting during the consideration of those items of business listed in column 1 of the following table on the grounds that each involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 specified in column 2:

4.Apologies for absence.

5.Declarations of lobbying.

6.Planning Committee Public Questions:  Visitor Accommodation Policy; Delegation of Planning Applications; and Caravan Sites Act 1960
       Appendix 1 Letter to Mr Tom Knowles
       Appendix 2 Letter from The Rt Hon Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

7.Chairman’s report.  

8.Member Champions’ report:
       a)    Oral report from the Member Champion for Forward Planning (Shelagh Marshall)
       b)    Other matters to be raised by Member ChampionsQuestions.

9.Chief Executive’s report.

10.Proposed Budget 2009/10.
           Annex
           Appendix

11.The Housing Challenge, the Yorkshire & Humber Plan 2009 update, Spatial Options.

12.Member Feedback.

13.To receive the Minutes of the meetings of the:

• (aAudit and Review Committee held on 7 November;
• (b)Planning Committee held on 11 November and 9 December;
• (c)Standards Committee held on 13 November; and
• (d)Finance and Resources Committee held on 5 December 2008

and to consider any recommendations contained therein that are not dealt with elsewhere on the agenda.

Private business – report circulated to members only

14.Trademarking of the Authority’s Logo.

15.High Court Proceedings in relation to eight Traffic Regulation Orders..

16.Future Development of the Dales Countryside Museum

17. Such other business as, in the opinion of the Chairman, should, by reason of special circumstances be considered as a matter of urgency

DAVID BUTTERWORTH
CHIEF EXECUTIVE

National Park Offices
Yoredale, Bainbridge

19 January 2009