2024 Parish Council Meeting Agendas

Dear Councillors,

You are hereby summoned to attend the next meeting of Mareham le Fen Parish Council which will be held on WEDNESDAY 21st FEBRUARY 2024 commencing at 7.30pm at Mareham le Fen Community Centre preceded by a public participation period starting at 7.15pm. Parish Council business must be conducted in public (except for items deemed to be confidential and not in the public interest) but it is not a public meeting.  Items to be discussed are shown in the agenda.

If you cannot attend the meeting, please send your apologies to the Clerk with reasons.

PRESS AND PUBLIC WELCOME.  There will be a public participation period at this meeting starting at 7.15pm.  Parishioners may ask questions or raise issues of local interest with the parish council for up to 15 minutes.  The chair of the meeting may limit the amount of time that each person may speak.  The formal Council business will commence at the end of the public forum. Members of the public may not speak during the Parish Council meeting unless the Chair of the meeting allows this.           

Signature:  A. Everard    Clerk to the Council                   Date: 16/02/2024

AGENDA 

1. Apologies for absence with reason given

2. Decalration of Members' nterests in accordance with the Localism Act 2011 and requests for dispensations (Disclosure by all members present of disclosable pecuniary interests in matters on the agenda that have not already been declared on their Declarations of Interests form. Councillors may not take part or vote on items they have a pecuniary interest in unless granted a dispensation. Requests for a dispensation should be sent to The Clerk by email or at the start of the meeting).

3. To receive the draft minutes to be approved as the minutes of the meeting held on 17TH January 2024.

4. Matters arising from the minutes of 17th January and Clerk’s updates not already on this agenda.

5. To receive and note correspondence from LALC ENews (two-weekly); LALC Training Bulletin (monthly); LCC Town and Parish News and ELDC Town and Parish E-News (monthly); ELDC Messenger; ELDC media releases; purchase of 0.22 acres of land at the Cemetery; Beggars Lane to Main Street footpath condition; ELDC Community Leaders’ Forum minutes and invite 21st March; National Grid non-statutory consultation – Grimsby to Walpole Pylons proposal; Email - LCC Planning consultations will not be extended in future; ELDC South and East Lincs Crowd Fund; Marc Jones (Police and Crime Commissioner) Parish Council Engagement Session on Road Safety invitation; Lincolnshire Police Parish Council Engagement Session EL - Thursday 27th June 2024 invitation; ICCM Environment Agency charge proposals for water discharges; residents’ comments about trucks travelling to Hill Farm, Wood Enderby through Watery Lane and Fieldside West not Horncastle Road; LCC Highways invitation to take over maintenance of white leaner rails outside Anglian Water facility, Fen Lane; Lincs Digital sessions coming to Mareham le Fen Community Centre Tuesday 21st March 1.30pm; LCC email to request sites in the parish for potential electric charging points; Victoria Atkins Flood Forum 1st March 2024.

6. ELDC and LCC councillors invited to make verbal or written reports on local matters.

7. To consider and comment with material considerations on any local planning matters as a statutory consultee and to note decisions made by East Lindsey District Council

• S/114/01809/22 - LAND EAST OF SHERATON, MAIN STREET, MAREHAM LE FEN - Planning Permission - Erection of 30no. dwellings and construction of a vehicular access – to receive and respond to any updates.
• S/114/00477/23 - MEMORIAL LAWN, MAIN STREET, MAREHAM LE FEN, PE22 7RL - Outline erection of 2no. dwellings - to receive and respond to any updates.

8.  To consider and approve financial matters

a) To receive the revised NALC pay scales effective 1/4/2023 and approve their adoption.

b) To approve expenditure on the payments schedule.

c) To note the bank statement balances and bank reconciliation.

9. Highways

a) To receive updates, consider and approve spending, training preparation and volunteer co-ordination for Community Speed Watch.

b) To consider updates to LCC Highways faults and issues list, Fix My Street and other highway matters.

c) To consider the request from LCC Highways to take on the maintenance of Fen Lane white leaner rails.

10. To respond to consultations and invitations received in correspondence.

11 To consider appointments to external bodies, groups and to receive reports.                                                          

12 To meet and consider any applicants for co-option to the parish council following the Co-option Policy and Procedure.  The Council may resolve to go into a private confidential session in accordance with the Policy and Procedure if necessary.

13.  Training Bookings to be approved.

14. To receive and approve updates on

1. the purchase of the 0.22acres of land to extend the cemetery and payment of fees and appointment of two councillors to sign the legal agreement.
2. Installation of the defibrillator in Tumby Woodside.

15. To approve biodiversity policy and implementation of some reduced grass-cut areas during 2024.

16. To approve setting up of a litter-picking group for Mareham le Fen

17. To consider grants, events and other approaches for 80th D-Day commemorations.

18. Date of the next meeting Wednesday 20th March 2024 and items to be added to the agenda.