Llywel CC meeting April 2025

Entry by Community Group: Community Council

Agenda

1. Present:
2. Apologies:
3. Declare a personal Interest:
4. Approval of minutes – 20th March 2025
5. Matters arising from minutes:
   1. Point 5a – 3 quotes clerk sent an email to all community councillors and message, once approved clerk contacted successful quote.

Quote 1: - For 5/6 meters of wall to come down and be rebuilt, sand, cement, labour and remove excess material, extra stone as needed £3500.00 + VAT

Quote 2 - For 5/6 meters retaining wall by 1.5 high approx, taking waste away, bring stone in and sand and cement £2550.00 + VAT

Quote 3 - for the whole wall £20,000.00

1. Point 14 b – One Voice Wales response : The General Power of Competence (GPoC) was established by The Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021. It allows eligible community councils to do ‘anything that individuals generally may do’ as long as it is not prohibited by other legislation. It is a ‘power of first resort’ and means that the council does not need to search for a specific power to act.

Criteria for eligibility [specified in the 2021 Act s 30 (2)-(4)]

•  At least two-thirds of the total number of councillors must have been declared elected (as opposed to being co-opted).

•  The clerk must hold a specified qualification – usually in the form of CiLCA

•  The council must have received unqualified auditor’s opinions from the Auditor General for Wales for two consecutive financial years, the latest having been received within the previous 12 months.

If a community council wishes to exercise the GPoC, and meets the above criteria, it must resolve itself eligible through a formal resolution made at a full meeting, clearly noted in the minutes. At each subsequent annual meeting, the council must reaffirm, by resolution, that it continues to meet the eligibility criteria. If it does not, it ceases to be eligible.

1. Planning:
2. Powys (27.3.25) - Section 73 application for the variation of condition 2 of planning approval 24/0874/FUL in relation to approved plans, Site Address: Bailea Farm , Brecon, LD3 8RH
3. BBNP (31.3.25) Ynisfaen, Cwmwysg,Trecastle Use of the building for a licenced civil ceremony with up to 8 guests on the 26 July 2025 between the hours of 1pm and 5pm.

1. Highways update:  
2. Bank reconciliation

1. Buses

1. Correspondence:
   1. Powys (24.3.25) collating information of councillor vacancies and clerk.  Clerk responded.
   2. Carmarthenshire (27.3.25) - Carmarthenshire County Council’s Revised LDP 2018-2033, In light of these additional sites we are also consulting on updates to the following documents: Integrated Sustainability Appraisal (ISA) Habitats Regulation Assessment (HRA)
   3. Gov Walea (28.3.25) - The Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales (the Panel) will be abolished on 31 March. The Panel’s functions will transfer to the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru (the Commission) (formerly the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales - LDBCW) on 1 April 2025.
   4. Llangollen Eisteddfod (2.4.25) – letter seeking donation to support its future
   5. Sustainable Powys (3.4.25) - Good afternoon all,

I am writing to invite you to the next Town and Community Council Sustainable Powys meeting.

This invite is for up to two representatives of your town or community council. This can be any representative, whoever you feel is best placed to represent and feedback.There are five meeting locations and dates, one for each core area, the information is below:

Please RSVP through the link where you can choose the meeting(s) you'd like to attend: https://forms.office.com/e/XVtpM8fVhM

1. AOB

1. Date of next meeting: 15th May 2025

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