The Fifth meeting of Buckland Plan Steering Group was convened and held in the Reading Room on Monday, December 10th 2001.

Present: - Councillor Les Elson (Chairman), Councillor Amanda Allen, Everett Leeds, Howard Longstaff, Alison Walshe, lain Laurenson (Clerk).

1. Apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were received from Sue Dovey, Karen Munroe and Councillor Philip Haynes.

2. Minutes.

The minutes of the meeting held on Monday November 12th 2001, having been circulated were taken as read and accepted as correct.

3. Matters arising from the minutes.

Children’s Poster Workshop. Cheque number 280 to Kent County Council £53.69 was given to Amanda Allen to pass on to the Acorns School to pay for materials for the Poster Competition Workshop. The payment was proposed by Councillor Les Elson and seconded by Councillor Amanda Allen. The Dorking Group of Artists had proved to be not very helpful in offering assistance to the workshop therefore alternative arrangements were made Meike Laurenson had agreed to help as facilitator for the workshop and as a judge. Alison Walshe was to approach Marjorie Hill to see if she would give Meike support.

Proposals were received on time capsules. Howard Longstaff suggested an ammunition box and Les Elson a shell case. The Clerk was expecting information on time capsules and Archival protection.

3.2 Flier Analysis. Alison Walshe produced an analysis of the Flier results in an easy to read graph form.

4. Budget. The Clerk reported that The Countryside Agency had agreed a grant of £4105 against the £4530 asked for. They only agreed to half the funding for the Website and put in the condition that the Countryside Agency requests consultation on the planned series of publicity events for the website and reserves the right to use the website for publicity purposes. Not withstanding these restrictions it was agreed that Howard Longstaff proceed with the plans for the website at the budgeted cost of £850 plus VAT.

5. Select Questions for Questionnaire. A review of the questions was started, some 150 questions having been discussed and selected.

6. There being no other business the date of the next meeting was set for Monday 14th January 2002.