Parish Council Agenda: July 2025
Councillors: you are hereby summoned to attend a meeting of Oakford Parish Council, to be held in the Committee Room at Oakford Village Hall at 7.30pm on Thursday 17th July 2025 for the purpose of transacting the following business.
Members of the public and press are invited to attend the meeting.
AGENDA
1. To receive apologies for absence and note the resignation of Paul Potter.
2. Declarations of Interest:
In accordance with the Code of Conduct, members are required to declare any personal or disclosable pecuniary interests, in items to be considered at this meeting.
3. Public Forum:
an opportunity for members of the public to make representations, answer questions and give evidence in respect of any item of business on the agenda, or any matter of interest to the parish. No member of the public will speak for more than 3 minutes. The period of time designated for public participation shall not exceed 15 minutes.
4. To agree the minutes of the meeting held on 9th June 2025 as an accurate record of the meeting.
5. Matters arising from the minutes, not covered elsewhere on the agenda.
6. Planning
a) To comment on any planning applications received before the meeting.
25/00749/FULL Change of use of storage cabin to short term holiday use. Location: Play Cabin, Bampton, Grid Ref: 291803 / 121769.
b) To minute the response made to 25/00802/TPO Application to raise the canopies of 5 trees along the Northern boundary by a maximum height of 1.5m; remove single limb from 1 Beech tree; fell 1 Maple tree; remove limb from 1 Oak tree and fell 1 Scots Pine tree, protected by Tree Preservation Order 16/00001/TPO. No comment.
c) To note any planning decisions made by MDDC.
No decision notices received
d) Update on alleged planning breaches.
e) Local Validation Checklist 2025
f) Any other planning matters.
7. Highways:
Any matters to note or report
b) Update on flooding issues/blocked drains
c) Update on improvements to the fingerpost signs.
d) Any other highways matters
8. Footpaths
a) Update on P3 funding
b) Any other footpath matters
9. Reports:
a) District Cllr Report.
b) County Cllr Report
10. Community Area:
a) Any points to note from inspections of community area.
b) To receive quotes for the refurbishment of the pavilion interior.
c) Update on the possibilities of creating a footpath from the Village Hall car park to the Community Area.
d) Any matters to note
11. Finance
a) To approve any invoices or expense claims presented for payment.
b) To note any receipts since the last meeting and the bank balance.
c) Bank reconciliation 31.05.25 and 30.06.25
d) To receive a budget v actual report for quarter 1 of 2025-26
12. Correspondence:
DALC Newsletters
MDDC press releases