2019 Parish Council Meetings

Notes of the Meeting of the Parish Council held at The Chapel, Little Hale on Tuesday 3rd September 2019 at 7.31 pm.

Present: Cllrs P Ireland, J Stapleton, S Poulton and A Lennox, Mrs D Scott (Clerk).

Cllr Sally Tarry and Cllr Stewart Ogden (NKDC).

72/19 Welcome – Cllr Ireland welcomed all to the meeting.

73/19 Apologies for Absence – Cllr N Rooke,

74/19 Declarations of Interest and Applications for Dispensation – none.

75/19 The notes of the Parish Council Meeting, held on 1st July 2019: it was agreed unanimously that these were an accurate record.

76/19 Finance – it was noted that the period of inspection for the 2018-19 accounts had passed without any enquiries.

2019-20. The Clerk circulated updated financial statements showing a balance of £2464.79 in the Lloyds account before this meeting’s payments. It was noted that of this, £35.40 was still set aside for the ‘Community Building Fund’, £452.22 for the Defib Fund and £682 for the War Memorial Fund, leaving £1295.17 ‘unrestricted funds’, again before this meeting’s payments. As regards cash flow projections, no invoice had yet been received in respect of Election costs and payments would be due for the War Memorial works, before receipt of the WMT grant.

1. The following payments were approved: Clerk (August and September) plus expenses (reimbursement of travel, etc) £155.01, HMRC £35.40 (mth 5 due 19/09/19, to be paid by bank transfer), Payments by transfer were authorised for HMRC
2. Bank Account Signatories – Mrs Scott reported that the forms had been submitted to Lloyds (post meeting note, confirmation of changes was received 9th September)

77/19 Clerk’s Report and Correspondence.

1. LALC news and weekly e-newsletters - noted
2. Community Lincs – update on merger with YMCA - noted
3. NKDC – update re access to Electoral Register portal - noted
4. NKDC - Code of Conduct training presentation – Mrs Scott summarised - noted
5. National Ploughing Championships – Nocton 12-13th October - noted
6. NKDC – Boundary Commission for England review 2020 - noted
7. Sleaford CAB  - 80th anniversary 12th September 3pm to 4.30pm - noted
8. Lloyds Bank Statements.

78/19 Policing Update – no update had been received.

79/19 Highways Matters

1. HGV route - Cllr Ireland reported that Rowan Smith had agreed to send a draft plan for replacement signage for discussion and agreement. It was agreed that, if the plan seemed viable, then an additional Parish Council meeting would be convened to formally approve the plan. It was also noted that there appeared to have been seasonal in traffic numbers the last few weeks, as expected.
2. Burton Road junction with Helpringham Road – it was noted that ‘repairs’ had been made to the surface, but they looked very temporary and quite inadequate.

80/19  Flooding – Mrs Scott had reported the slow draining at the junction of Fen Road and Main Street and outside Rock House, but no response had been received.  Councillors agreed to keep an eye on the situation

81/19 Broadband – Cllr Ireland reported that he had been asked again to confirm numbers of residents interested in Broadband but found that numbers were dropping as more people in the village were moving to wireless/mobile broadband. It was suggested that it would be more useful to promote existing alternative services rather than pursue the BT Broadband.

82/19 Planning

1. 19/0816/FUL – Erection of new dwelling, 1B Chapel Lane – it was noted that this had been approved by NKDC 9th August 2019
2. Foxys Barn – NKDC had given formal notification of the new address

83/19 Planning Inspectorate Matters

1. Viking Link Interconnector Project – newsletters had been distributed by the company
2. Triton Knoll – it was noted that work was ongoing

84/19 Community Defibrillator – Checks continued and all was in order.

85/19 Dog fouling – as before, no major issues. Cllrs discussed providing bag dispensers but felt that this was not necessary at this stage

86/19 War Memorial – Mrs Scott reported that all paperwork had now been submitted to WMT and it was hoped that permission to start work would  be granted shortly (post meeting note, received 4th September). It was agreed that as soon as a completion date was known, further discussions would be held to arrange the unveiling and a celebration event.

87/19 Social Media Policy and update on village facebook account. Mrs Scott apologised for the late circulation of the draft policy and the item was deferred to next meeting

88/19 Matters for the next meeting – Facebook, Highways traffic route signage plan, plans for War Memorial unveiling. Cllr Lennox also asked whether the Parish Council would agree to nominate her for a place on the LALC County Committee; this would be added to the next agenda.

89/19 Dates of Next Meetings: for 2019-20 at 7.30pm, Tuesdays.

5th Nov, 7th Jan 2020, 3rd Mar, 5th May (APM and Annual meeting)

The meeting closed at 8.30 pm

7th October 2019 - The Minutes were agreed as a true record and signed by Cllr Paul Ireland