09 September 2026
AGENDA
Public Forum for a maximum of 15 minutes when members of the public may ask questions or make short statements to the council. Items not on the agenda will not be debated, but if appropriate, will become an agenda item at the next appropriate meeting. Members of the public are expected to be polite, civil and respectful always during the meeting.
To receive reports from representatives on outside bodies. a) District Councillor Dickinson
b) County Councillor Hume
1. Chairman’s welcome:
2. Apologies for absence: To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Clerk prior to the meeting
3. Declarations of interest: (if any) To receive declarations of interest under the Localism Act 2011 – being any pecuniary interest in agenda items not previously recorded on Members’ Register of Interests
4. Notes of the Parish Council meeting held on 08 July 2026.
To resolve as a correct record and to authorise the Chairman to sign the official minutes
5. Financial matters: To resolve as correct and authorise.
Community Account 31 August 2026 £7118.63
Deposit Account 31 August 2026 £13132.66
a) To receive the cash book and bank reconciliation August 2026
b) Income
Interest July £
Interest August £
6. Internal Council Matters
a) Village Gates Update
b) Bench for walk to school Update
c) Midville Bus Stop Update
d) War Memorial Monument Update
e) Placement of Remembrance Plaques
f) Wreath
g) External Auditor
h) Advert for 2027-28 Grants
i) NALC annual pay increase agreed at 3.3% with back pay to April 2026
7. Policies
a) Safeguarding
b) Chairman’s Allowance
c) Training and Development
d) Accessibility
e) To Review our current grant policy.
8. Planning: Town and Country Planning Act 1990. To consider and make observations on all planning applications received and to note planning approvals, refusals, enforcement complaints and appeal decisions advised by the district council. To include those received from the date of this notice and the day on the meeting
Application reference 00976/26/FUL Observations are requested no later than 2nd September 2026.
Planning Permission - Change of use of land to form caravan and container storage, siting of 9no. holiday lodges, erection of an amenity building, change of use of existing dayroom to form a shop, excavation of land to form a fishing lake and construction of access roads.
Stickney Showground Equestrian Centre East Fen Lane Stickney Lincolnshire PE22 8DE
9. Highways
a) Repeater Signs
b) Reactive Speed Data
10. Clerk’s reports, outstanding matters and new matters
11. To resolve on whether the council will move into closed session to consider the following confidential staffing and legal matters in accordance with the Public Bodies (Admission to Meeting) Act 1960. (Should this resolution be passed the public and press will be required to leave the meeting at this stage).
12. Eastville, Midville and New Leake Village Hall.
a) Update on set up.
13. Items for information or next agenda
14. Date of next meeting: Wednesday 14 October 2026