16th April 2025 Finance and General Purposes Committee
Dear Councillors,
You are hereby summoned to attend meeting of Mareham le Fen Parish Council Finance and General Purposes Committee which will be held on WEDNESDAY 16TH APRIL 2025 commencing at 7.30pm at Mareham le Fen Community Centre. A period of Public Participation will commence 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. 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: 11/4/2025
AGENDA
1. Welcome by the Chair of the Parish Council.
2. Apologies for absence with reason given
3. Declaration of Members’ interests 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).
4. To receive the draft minutes to be approved as the minutes of the Mareham le Fen Parish Council meeting held on 5th February 2025 and to note the Clerk’s Report.
5. To receive verbal and written reports from ELDC and LCC Councillors.
6. Correspondence
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; Elections notices.
7. Planning Matters – https://publicaccess.e-lindsey.gov.uk/online-applications/
- 00286/25/FUL - Planning Permission - Erection of a replacement dwelling - Wyncrest Fieldside Mareham Le Fen Lincolnshire PE22 7RA - NEW
- S/114/00181/25 - Planning Permission - Erection of a boundary fence with existing fence to be demolished (works completed) - KINWYND THE GREEN MAREHAM LE FEN BOSTON PE22 7QN - NEW
- S/114/00084/25 - Planning Permission - Extensions and alterations to existing dwelling to provide additional living accommodation and to include the provision of dormer windows.- TRELAWNEY FEN LANE MAREHAM LE FEN BOSTON PE22 7SD – To note ELDC APPROVED.
8. To consider and approve financial matters
a) To approve expenditure on the payments schedule.
b) To note the bank statement balances and bank reconciliation.
c) To consider amendments to the bank signatory list and online banking controls.
d) To consider interest rates on deposit accounts.
9. To consider applications for cemetery memorials.
10. To consider quotations for Speed Indicator Devices for Mareham le Fen.
11. To consider parish council newsletter and distribution.
12. To consider the Parish Council’s Risk Register 2025.
14. To approve date of Annual Parish Meeting, future ordinary meetings of the Parish Council 2025 and dates of committee meetings.
15. Training Bookings to be approved.
16. Date of the next meeting and items to be added to the agenda.