2025 Parish Council Minutes

  DRAFT Minutes of the Saltfleetby Parish Council meeting held on 2nd September 2025 7pm at St Peters Church.

Present:

            Cllr Lusby

            Cllr Hatton

            Cllr Stone

            Cllr Harrison

            Cllr P Hall         

            Cllr B Hall

            Cllr Saul

            Cllr Marshall

Pauline Murray – Clerk

Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting.

There were 5 members of the public present

10 Minutes Open Forum for Residents

The conversation was started regarding the spate of burglaries in the area.  The Chair mentioned that the thieves used to use Google Earth to investigate the area but now they are armed with drones which give them live information. The Chair suggested that the Clerk arrange a Crime Prevention meeting and to ask a police officer to be present. It was suggested also that the Neighborhood Watch for Farmers be revisited via WhatsApp and that there was an item put in the next Parish Council newsletter. Cllr Saul suggested that Rural Crime should be kept on the agenda as a standing item.

Statutory commenced at 7.10pm

02286 Apologies for Absence

Cllr Clark

02287 Declaration of interest & requests for dispensations

None

02288 Notes of the Parish Council Meeting on 2nd July 2025

These minutes were approved and signed by the Chair. Cllr Harrison was not happy that there wasn’t a list of payments within in the minutes but the Clerk explained that there was a payments list as requested further down under Finance and Clerk’s Report.

02289 County/District Councillor Reports

Cllrs D McNally and P Rickett were in attendance but County Councillor Robinson sent his apologies.  Cllr Rickett mentioned that due to the August recess things were a little quiet however Cllr McNally mentioned the grants that were available again and this prompted discussion regarding the two applications that the Parish Council had put in for 1) £1300 gazebo and 2) £20k for land which were both turned down.  The Alford Windmill had been offered ‘Levelling Up’ funding but this was for the café and now that LCC were no longer repairing the actual windmill this had been withdrawn for the café. There is a possibility that some funding may be available regarding the ANPR equipment – Clerk to liaise with the Councillors when spoken to the Police.

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02290  Signing off main policies

A sheet was circulated by the Clerk for the Councillor’s to sign off two of the Parish Council’s main policies – the Standing Orders and the Code of Conduct – this was signed by all present.

02291  Finance and Clerk’s Report

1.         Update CILCA training & Planning training – the Clerk explained that at the last training session the LALC leader Katrina had expressed how important Planning training was as we needed to know what the ‘Material Considerations’ for Planning were before we could object to a planning application. The Clerk suggested that should some free training come up via LALC it would be good to attend.
2.         Update on ANPR – the Clerk has tried to contact the Police regarding this online but has had no response as yet
3. Bank reconciliation as at 31st August 25 – this was accepted
4. Payments list – this was signed by the Chair as below:-

5.         VAT claim – the Clerk explained that the VAT claim had been undertaken for the period 1st January 2024 to 31st July 2025 and HMRC had paid back an amount of £1097.75.
6. Defibrillator recall-one of the defibrillator’s is subject to a manufacturer’s recall and we are waiting for it to be replaced – this could be into next year.

02292  Three Bridge Signage

             Councillor Robinson has informed LCC that a local resident has requested official

             signage to direct travellers to Mablethorpe, Alford etc as cars keep coming on to her   

             property.  Following from this request an officer has visited the site to assess the

             location and the necessary sign is currently being designed.

02293  Rights of Way/Planning

               The LCC have approached the Parish Council to see if there’s anyone that would like

             to help looking at the footpath/bridleway styles and signs etc and report back to them

              – they have an app available. Cllrs Stone responded that he would be willing to help.

            From the planning side the Planning Inspectorate have approved the appeal decision

            at Lakeside Fisheries and therefore planning permission is granted there for use of

            land as a camping and caravan site – there can be no further appeal.  The other                

            application to be considered was for change of use of land to provide a small holding,

            siting of 1no. static caravan, a storage container with the erection of 4no. polytunnels   

            and a chicken coop. Land South Of Field Farm Charlesgate, Saltfleetby. It was

            resolved not to object to this application.

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02294  Correspondence/FOI’s

            There was an FOI request to the Clerk and this has now been sorted and the results

            fed back to the recipient.

Items for next meeting:-

Rural Crime

ANPR

New yellow traffic signs

New defibrillator

Planning

Finance

Next Parish Council Meeting will take place on Tuesday 4th November 2025

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