9th May 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 FRIDAY 9TH MAY 2025 commencing at 3.00pm at Mareham le Fen Community Centre to consider urgent business hence a shorter period of notice. 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: 6/5/2025
AGENDA
1. To consider the member to chair the meeting.
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 note the Clerk’s Report.
5. 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; Election notices.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. To consider parish council newsletter and distribution.
9. To consider the Parish Council’s Risk Register 2025.
10. To consider date of Annual Parish Meeting and the Annual Parish Council meeting.
11. Training Bookings to be approved.
12. Date of the next meeting and items to be added to the agenda.
13. To resolve that under the Public Bodies (Admissions to Meetings) Act 1960, the public and press be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following item(s) of business as they involve the likely disclosure of confidential information.
14. To consider quotations for Speed Indicator Devices for Mareham le Fen.
15. To consider tenders for grass-cutting and hedge-cutting in Mareham le Fen for 2025.