2023-03-20 NPPFCT Agreed mins JN V1

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North Petherton Playing Fields Charitable Trust
Town Council Office
Small Hall
North Petherton Community Centre
Fore Street
North Petherton
Somerset
TA6 6QA
Tel 01278 574074
Email townclerk@nptc.info

Trust Meeting
Minutes of the Trust meeting held on Monday 20th March 2023 in the Small Hall of North
Petherton Community Centre which started on the rising of the Town Council’s General
Purposes Committee.
Present:
Chair: Cllr L Hyde
Councillors: L Dennis-Smith, S Habberfield, L Parchment and P Reddington

PF7/2023

Apologies for absence.
Apologies for absence were received from Councillor D Baker, Councillor D Bunce,
Councillor P Spencer and L Spelman-Ives
PF8/2023
Declarations of interests
There were no declarations of interest
PF9/2023

Minutes of the Meeting held on 6 February 2023–
RESOLVED that the draft minutes of the meeting held on 6 February 2023 be
confirmed as a correct record.

PF10/2023
Community Time
No matters were raised
PF11/2023
Financial Matters
The bank balance as at 30 September 2022 (most recent bank statement) was
£14,253.54
RESOLVED to provide Lyng Parsh Council a donation towards the defibrillator
(recompense for RLT monies)
PF12/2023

General Update

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The general update report regarding the RLT money and the proposed festival
project was noted.

PF13/2023
Appointment of a Councillor Trustee to the Management Committee
Councillor Bradford has resigned from the Management Committee and a
replacement is required. Councillor Redington had been nominated but requested
time to consider if he was able to take up the position.
PF14/2023
Footpath BW23/5 & Football Pitch Maintenance
Consideration was given to recent correspondence regarding Footpath BW23/5 &
Football Pitch Maintenance
RESOLVED
(i)
that a letter be sent to the North Petherton Football Club explaining that:
• the Trust, having considered the difficulties caused by the temporary fencing,
consider it unreasonable to block public access to the playing field particularly
when this involves a Right of Way;
• the Trust has discussed the possibility of applying for a diversion order
however it is of the opinion this will not be practical.
• the Trust has discussed principal use of Parker’s Field and wish to re-affirm
that this is an open access playing field for the whole of the North Petherton
community and therefore does not expect members of the football club to
imply anything different in dealings with members of the public.
(ii)
That a meeting be convened with representatives of the football to discuss
maintenance responsibilities etc. and the letter referred to in (i) above should
be delivered at the meeting.
(iii)
That a copy of the letter referred to in (i) should be circulated to all Town
Councillors.

The meeting closed at 21:07hrs