February 2024 Agenda
FISKERTON PARISH COUNCIL
Chairman: Cllr Adrian Walker Clerk: Mrs Michelle Vail
E: clerk@fiskerton-lincs.org.uk Tel: 07707 807894
Notice of Meeting
The next meeting of Fiskerton Parish Council will be held on Thursday 22nd February 2024 at 7:00pm in Fiskerton Village Hall at which the business listed in the agenda below will be transacted. The time between 7.00pm and 7.15 pm may be given over to a public session if required, but if no members of the public wish to speak, the meeting will start at 7.00pm.
Michelle Vail Clerk/RFO: Fiskerton Parish Council
Agenda
1. Open Session: suspension of standing orders for up to 15 minutes
2. Apologies for absence
3. Declarations of interest
4. Approve draft minutes of meeting held on 25th January 2024 as a true record
5. To receive observations of the District and County Councillors
6. Chairman’s report
ALLOTMENTS:
7. Report from Allotment Inspectors: consider and resolve on the following as required:
a. Update on production of draft risk assessment report
b. Update on untended plot
c. Update on talks with tenant of the grazing land
d. Update on putting plans into place to increase number of plots
e. Agree any further steps
FINANCE
8. ACCOUNTS
a. Receive circulated schedule of payments/receipts made for January 2024
b. Approve any known non-regular accounts for payment for February 2024
c. Confirm verification/signing of bank reconciliation/bank statements Qs 1, 2 and 3
PLANNING: to consider and agree actions as required:
9. Neighbourhood Plan – update, draft policies, liaison with school, public consultation, meeting with Church Commissioners on 30/01/24, resolve to submit NP draft plan documents to WLDC and move to Regulation 14 consultation
10. Neighbourhood Plan: Procedural issues (Cllr C Darcel)
i. I believe the Neighbourhood Plan Group in the parish council operate under the identical standing orders to those of the parish council. So the vote to extend the deadline for the closing date for some residents should not have been discussed without a special dispensation from the council as the matter had previously been voted on by the group in July
ii. I cannot see how the Neighbourhood Plan Group can choose who it receives responses from. I was surprised Cllr Hill’s motion to accept all the returns was not supported by the group.
iii. Surely in rejecting the paper responses the Neighbourhood Plan Group has rendered the whole consultation process now and void.
11. Village questionnaire – update
12. Gallagher Developments - Land north of Fiskerton Road East, Cherry Willingham - public consultation event in Spring 2024, date TBC (email from D/Cllr C Darcel)
13. Proposed development for up to 150 dwellings on land north of Corn Close, Fiskerton. There will be a public consultation on 27 February (4-8pm) at the village hall in Fiskerton, hosted by Deloitte LLP. (Note: This is an outline application, with all matters reserved except access. The site is allocated for residential development in the Central Lincolnshire Local Plan (April 2023). A pre-application pack was submitted to West Lindsey District Council in 2023)
CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED: to consider and agree actions as required:
14. LCC advising change to their processes regarding planning applications
15. Police: Parish Council Engagement Session on Road Safety, 20th Feb 2024, Teams
16. Police: Monthly report
17. Police: Parish Council Engagement sessions, 4th July 2024, Teams, appoint attendees
NEW ITEMS: to consider and agree actions as required:
18. To note that, in respect of agenda item 24ii (January 2024 meeting), Cllr C Darcel has since advised that he had made an error and £5000.00 was the correct figure suggested should be returned to the Hodgson Trust, and not the £50.00 he stated in the January meeting
19. Large easy to use instructions for the defibrillator to be printed and placed on the village hall wall (resident request via Cllr C Darcel)
20. Suggestion that the police speed camera’s position be moved from place to place and not just be stationed at the Primetake site (resident request via Cllr C Darcel)
UPDATE REPORTS: to consider and agree actions as required:
21. Draft constitution documents for Village Hall: car park agreement, play area agreement, and Village Hall Management Committee constitution – any update from Charity Commissioners, joint meeting with VHMC with an independent Chairperson
22. Financial matters raised by Cllr C Darcel in the January 2024 meeting.
23. Village gateway project – installation of speed indicator devices, update on gates, LRSP review of new locations, LRSP speed survey
24. Witham Valley Access Group – February 2024 meeting, improving the Nelson Road-riverbank footpath
25. Repairs/replacement play equipment, grants
26. Emergency Plan
27. Action log – to consider any other items which have an update
MEETINGS:
28. Matters for inclusion on next agenda:
29. Date of next meeting: 28th March 2024, 7 – 9pm, Fiskerton Village Hall
Mrs Michelle Vail Clerk/RFO to Fiskerton Parish Council Dated 14.02.24