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LATEST PARISH COUNCIL MINUTES: A QUICK SUMMARY
Planning Committee 28th August	Environment Committee 17th July
The WI has complained to the Parish Council about the removal of their latest topper from the postbox on the High Street. The Royal Main has now installed a solar-power roof on the postbox. 🟡 Three councillors apologised for their absence. 🟡 A neighbour complained at some length about the Parish Council's handling of planning applications for 31 Stevens Lane. A covenant on a nearby road should prevent this development, the resident claimed. The committee chair replied that the breaking of covenants is a civil law matter for the County Court. 🟡 The chair tried to prevent another question being put—about the status on the committee of a particular councillor at the previous meeting—on the grounds that this was a constitutional matter which would be handled at the next Parish Council meeting. The questioner stated that the answer was a matter entirely within the jurisdiction of the chair of this committee. When pressed, the chair said he had permitted the attendance of the councillor because the chair of the Parish Council had asked him to. 🟡 The committee is concerned about the proposed Hook Park development of 2,000 dwellings in eight-storey blocks which will be out of character with anything nearby. It has been requested that the front doors generally face Kingston rather than Claygate. How much extra traffic will these residences generate coming down Woodstock Lane South through Claygate? 🟡 PA Housing had obtained planning permission to build several dwellings in Foxwarren and on The Roundway, but both of these permissions have recently expired.	Two of the working group leaders resign, citing work commitments. 🔴 Work on a new crossing on Church Road will start in Autumn. 🔴 Will Claygate have to accept 20 mph zones in order to secure a share of Surrey's Low Speed funding? 🔴 An expert fails to detect evidence of rats in the brash pile on the Firs verge. 🔴 Ten highway verges in Claygate will gain blue heart status and thus not be mown, to promote insect wildlife. 🔴 Castle Water has taken £2,400 from the Parish Council by direct debit despite the water meter showing negligible usage.