2025 Parish Council Minutes of Meetings

Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting on 1st December 2025

Minutes of the Meeting of Scredington Parish Council

Monday 1st December 2025

Prior to the meeting, members of the public were asked if there were any issues that they wished to raise. Brief discussions on rhe following topics took place:

*          Engaging with our MP about the Anglian Water reservoir and also flood risk mitigation

*          Road repairs in and around the village.

Present:

Councillors A. Pywell (Vice Chairman), J. Johnson, K. Sweeney, H. Thorogood and P.D. Griffiths (Parish Clerk).

Also in attendance was County Cllr R. Whitaker and District Cllr R. Jackson.

  1. The Vice-Chairman welcomed everyone and thanked them for their attendance.

 

  1. Apologies for absence

Cllr R Johnson sent his apologies.

  1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting

The minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on 1st September 2025 were signed as a true and correct record.

  1. Matters Arising From the Minutes

 

There were none.

 

  1. Report from District Councillor and County Councillor

 

  1. District Councillor R. Jackson presented a report – a copy of which is attached.

 

  1. County Councillor R. Whitaker gave an overview verbal report – a more detailed report is attached

 

  1. Planning Applications

5.1       Letter about Solar Farm dated 28 November.
District Cllr Jackson agreed to see if he could find contact details for us to discuss this direct with them.

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  1. In the absence of Cllr R Johnson, there was no current finance report but the current bank balance was given by Cllr J. Johnson as £42,789.90.

 

 

 

  1. A further discussion took place on the parish precept for 2026/27 and the council agreed to give the RFO the ability to set the precept (expected to be around £5100).

 

  1. Highway Matters

8.1       Letter about road closure of Station Road and Main Street was discussed.
Cllr Pywell agreed to ask about use of the Village Hall car park for those residents affected by this.

8.2       The issue of the road sinking in Northbeck was discussed.

  1. Other Village Matters
    1. Letter about Greater Lincolnshire For All (dated 28 Nov 2025) was noted

 

  1. Letter from Anglia Water about reservoir (dated 27 Oct 2025) was briefly discussed

 

  1. Anglia Water request to put up posters around village (dated 30 Oct 2025) was noted and poster passed to Cllr Pywell

 

  1. Letter from NKDC to display posters about new food waste recycling was noted and poster passed to Cllr Pywell

 

  1. Note from NKDC about Christmas bin collections and it was agreed to send email to contactable residents

 

  1.        Letter from Mid Lincolnshire Citizens Advice Bureau asking for Donation was discussed and it was decided not to donate to this at this time.

 

  1. Dates and Times of Meetings for the Year

Meetings for the coming year are set as:

Monday 2nd March 2026

Monday 18th May (AGM) 2026

All meetings to commence at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Centre.

The meeting closed at 8:45pm.