Meetings, Minutes & Agendas

Council meetings are held on the last Thursday of each month except during August and December, when there are no Council meetings. However, at times these dates can be subject to change for reasons beyond our control, so please check our news feed for any changes made.

Planning Committee meetings are normally held on a Thursday twice a week, or as required please check our news feed regularly for any changes, or the Committees page for more information.

Meetings are held at 7.30pm,

in the Sports Pavillion, Recreation Ground, High Street, Handcross, RH17 6BJ

Pease Pottage Community Centre, Finches Field, Old Brighton Road, Pease Pottage

Please check the agenda for full details

Any additional Committees may be called at any time, depending on requirements. Please check here or the Parish notice boards for updates.

Annual Parish Meeting - Is held between 1st March- 1st June

This is when the Annual Meeting will be held and all residents can attend and ask questions. The Council's Annual Reports are given and often there will be a speaker on an interesting subject.

MAY- Annual General Meeting

This is when the meeting dealing with the election of Chairman, Vice Chairman and Committees for the ensuing year will be held.
AUGUST - No Parish Council Meeting in August.
DECEMBER - No Parish Council Meeting in December.

To view minutes please click on the links below, for previous years, please contact the Clerk. You will require Adobe Acrobat Reader to see them. This can be downloaded for free by clicking here.

To view planning agendas and minutes please click here. Planning applications will only be viewable online via the Mid Sussex District Council Planning Portal. You can sign up and log in to the Planning Portal to view existing plans and also receive updates and notifications of new applications in your area. To find out more please click here.

The Minutes will remain in DRAFT until approved and signed at the next convenient meeting.

AGENDAS
Please use the links below to view the latest Council Agendas

COVID 19 UPDATE

CANCELLED - Annual Meeting of the Parish and the Annual Meeting of the Council

Following government advice on the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and under new legislation*which came into force on 4 April 2020 the Parish Council has cancelled the Annual Parish Meeting scheduled for 13 May 2020 and the Annual Meeting of the Council scheduled for 18 May 2020.

Under Regulation 4 of the new regulations, appointments continue. Therefore the current 2019/20 Council structure will remain until an annual meeting of the Council is held (possibly next year).

* The Local Authorities And Police And Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility Of Local Authority And Police And Crime Panel Meetings) (England And Wales) Regulations 2020

Regulation 6(c) removes the requirement for a parish council to hold an annual meeting in May 2020

Regulation 4 (2) carries the current appointment of chairman on until the Annual Meeting in May 2021 although councils may elect a chairman at earlier meeting should they wish to.

Regulation 5 covers remote attendance; extending the definition of “place” to include more than one location and including electronic, digital or virtual locations. It goes on to set out all the conditions that must be complied with, making sure the member attending remotely can be heard and where possible seen by other members and by the press and public and can hear and preferably see the other members.

Regulation 13 modifies the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 allowing for remote attendance by the press and public. Clerks should note that Regulation 13 (a) requires any electronic notice of a meeting to be published on the local authority’s website and does not negate the normal requirement under Local Government Act 1972 Schedule 12 Part II Paragraph 10 (2) (a) to publish a notice in a conspicuous place.

The Regulations come with an explanatory memorandum which can be accessed here.

MINUTES 2020

23rd January 2020

27th February 2020 DRAFT

26th March 2020 DRAFT

April CANCELLED

A meeting of the Council to conduct urgent, or necessary business may be called in accordance with the regulations above and will be advertised here and on the news feed. Committee meetings called will be advertised in the same way.

MINUTES 2019

16th May Annual General Meeting

5th December

MINUTES 2018