March 2007

AGENDA

MEETING:  YORKSHIRE DALES NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY

VENUE:  The Key Centre, Middleham

DATE/TIME:  Tuesday, 27 March 2007 at 10.30am

Business

1. Public minutes of the meeting held on 30 January 2007.

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 the existence and nature of personal interests.

6. Declarations of lobbying.

7. Chairman’s Report.

8. Chief Executive’s Report.

9. Changes to the Authority’s membership.

10. Treasury Management.

11. Capital Finance and the Prudential Code.

12. Assessment of Settle and Sedbergh National Park Partnership Centres.

13. Best Value Action Plan 2007/08.

14. Monitoring of the National Park Management Plan.

15. Procedure to save Minerals Local Plan Policies 1998.

16. Local Development Scheme.

17. Corporate Media Procedure and Protocol.

18. Member Feedback.

19. Corporate Governance Policy (Oral report).

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

• Planning Committee held on 9 January and 13 February;

• Finance and Resources Committee held on 15 January and 19 February;

• Access Committee held on 25 January;

• Audit and Review Committee held on 9 February 2007;

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

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Private Business - Minutes circulated to Members only

21. Private minutes of the meeting held on 30 January 2007.

22. To receive the Private Minutes of the meetings of the:

• Audit and Review Committee held on 9 February;

• Finance and Resources Committee held on 19 February 2007,

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

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23. 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

23 March 2007