The DPC Clerk has stated that the following questions have been submitted for the Extraordinary Datchet Parish Council Meeting on 21/10/2026.
Question 1 – If the Council is the sole trustee of the DRCCT, as item 26/163 states, why can’t it pay these costs from the charity’s own funds now?
Question 2 – Has any bank, the Charity Commission or HM Land Registry accepted the Council as trustee of the DRCCT? If so, when?
Question 3 – Item 26/163 proposes that the Council pays DRCCT-related costs now from public funds and recovers them from the DRCCT ” in due course once funds are available”. In effect, that is a loan of Datchet residents’ money to the charity, with no interest, no security and no repayment date. Under what statutory power can the Council lend public money to a charity in this way? And what will happen to that money if it is never recovered?