Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting on 3 March 2025
DRAFT Minutes of the meeting of Scredington Parish Council held on Monday 3rd March 2025 starting at 7.30 p.m.
Present: Councillors R. Johnson Chairman, J. Johnson, A Pywell and K. Sweeney, P. Griffiths (parish clerk).
Also in attendance was County Cllr A Hagues.
Three members of the public were also present.
Prior to the meeting, a public forum was held.
A member of the public raised the question of the play equipment being installed. Councillor R Johnson apologised for this taking so long and said that he will fix a date which he hoped would be “sooner rather than later” and should be before the end of April.
1. Chairman’s welcome
Councillor R. Johnson welcomed everyone.
2. Apologies for Absence
Apologies were received from District Cllr R. Jackson.
3. Minutes of the previous meetings
The minutes of the meetings of the Parish Council held on Monday 2nd December 2024, Wednesday 22nd January 2025 and Friday 21st February 2025 were approved and signed.
4. Matters arising from the Minutes
None.
5. Report from District Councillor and County Councillor
5.1 County Councillor Hagues said
The Greater Lincolnshire Council Authority is now in existence. A new mayor is due to be elected on 1st May 2025.
Over 6,000 trees have been planted in Lincolnshire in the Free Tree initiative which is still ongoing.
6. Planning Applications
6.1 The planning application for a solar farm will be discussed later this week and Councillor Sweeney said that she will be speaking at the meeting.
7. Finance
7.1 The current bank balance was reported as £51,549.37, made up of £1,622.86 in general funds and £49,926.51 in the Bell Legacy Funds.
7.2 The clerk reported that the precept had been set at £4,675 for 2025/26, an increase of 3.8 %.
7.3 The Chairman reported that there would be an increase on fees for cutting the churchyard grass from £155 per cut to £160 per cut for 2025.
8. Highway Matters
8.1 Cllr Sweeney said that a NKDC dog warden had visited the village and that as a result of the flyer circulated the paths seemed much clearer.
9. Matters Affecting the Village / Correspondence
9.1 Bus Stop Rubbish bin
Thanks to Alan Pywell for installing the new bin.
Unfortunately, the inner liner was not remaining in place and so everything was falling to the bottom of the bin. A solution with a cord had been found, but NKDC did not replace this properly when emptying the bin.
The Chairman said that he would contact NKDC.
9.2 Bulb Planting
This had taken place successfully and had a good response from the public.
9.3 Anti-Social Behaviour in the Village
Following on the notice on the village noticeboards, there had been no contact from any complainant.
9.4 Northbeck Flood Plan
There will be an update to this soon.
9.5 Lincolnshire Reservoir and the Community Liaison Group (CLG).
There had been no further meetings.
Survey work is to restart in the village.
9.6 Emergency Response Lists
To include Anglia Water, Western Power, etc and made publically available, possibly with an email group list.
11. Date of the next meeting has been set for Monday 19th May 2025
The Meeting closed at 8.45 p.m.