2025 Parish Council Minutes

Draft Minutes of the Saltfleetby Parish Council meeting, held on 2nd July 2025 7pm at St Peters Church.

Present:

            Cllr Lusby

            Cllr Hatton

            Cllr Stone

            Cllr Harrison

            Cllr P Hall         

            Cllr Clark

            Cllr B Hall

            Cllr Saul

            Cllr Marshall

Pauline Murray – Clerk

Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting.

There were 7 member of the public present plus Cllr B Robinson

10 Minutes Open Forum for Residents

A gentleman made the point that there had been a road traffic accident recently because of the railings looking towards Swallowgate – they restrict the view – Chair to send pictures to the Clerk to report on Fix My Street.  Regarding rural crime a member of public mentioned that he was waiting for people to come back to him but the Rural Crime Team are very badly funded and down to 2 officers.  It was thought that ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) equipment would help as the thieves were now using drones to discover what was in barns to steal.  Another member of public reported an issue with hare cursing near her house.

Statutory commenced at 7.10pm

02276 Apologies for Absence

None

02277 Declaration of interest & requests for dispensations

None

02278 Notes of the Parish Council Meeting on 6th May 2025

These minutes were approved and signed by the Chair.

02279 County/District Councillor Reports

Cllrs D McNally and P Rickett sent their apologies.  County Councillor Robinson was in attendance and mentioned that LCC had moved away from the nuclear waste consultation and that he is now Vice Chair on the Highways and Safety Committee.  There is a new app you can get to report suspicious activity to the Police and data from urban and rural areas is to be split up.  As to the pylons he urged the public to make their opinions known on the online national survey.  He will be looking into the possibility of the village having the speed limit painted on the road and will get back to us at the next meeting.

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02280 Purchase of poppies and high vis Community Speed Watch jackets

It was resolved to purchase 9 lorry poppies and 2 medium and 1large CWS jackets estimated to cost £70.  Clerk to order

02281  Policies Sub-Committee

The committee were told that the Policies Sub-Committee had started looking at the Risk Register but it was a work in progress as it was quite a large document.
 

02282  Finance and Clerk’s Report

1. The Clerk reported that she’d had more training from Katrina Evans on the CILCA qualification – it was mainly Risk Registers this time and that there was another day’s training mid August.
2. Highways response re 40mph circles – Cllr Robinson taking this one up
3. Membership of the CSW – apparently Saltfleetby joined about 5 years ago
4. Bank reconciliation as at 30th June 25:-

5. It was discussed that a payments list between each meeting be issued by the clerk and signed off by the Chair.  This was agreed.
6. The AGAR has been signed off by the internal auditor and sent to the external auditor (Littlejohns) The documents will go onto the website for the 30 public rights exercise shortly.

02283  Planning Applications

  Application reference S/086/01190/24 – EIA scoping option re Grimsby to Walpole

This was considered to be done deal but we should still register our disapproval.

02284   LALC Annual Conference 16th July

               It was considered by the council that we would not be sending anyone to the

            conference this time.     

02285  Signing off Main Policies

            It was discussed at the policies sub-committee meeting that it would be a good idea to

            circulate the main policies to the full committee well before the meeting so that

            councillors could read through them and sign off as having seen them.  It was

            resolved to do this for September’s meeting.

Next Parish Council Meeting will take place on Tuesday 2nd September 2025

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Windfarm Committee Meeting – to commence after Parish      Council Meeting

1. DECLARATION OF INTEREST & REQUESTS FOR DISPENSATIONS – To receive any declaration from Councillors; Council to consider any written requests for dispensations and resolve whether to grant acceptance.

2. FINANCIAL REPORT

     3. GRANT APPLICATION RE LAND

            Councillor Stone explained that he had become aware of a piece of land for sale in the

          village and he was keen that the council put an application for grant funding – up to

           £24,999.  The Clerk had completed the grant form however there was a element for

           match funding – for the £20k claimed match funding was 20% ie £4k.  On contacting

           the fund lead it was concluded that we could put the application form in (as the    

           deadline was 30th June) and we could confirm with her after our meeting on 2nd July

           as to whether the committee approved the £4k match funding.  The match funding

           was agreed and the Clerk has confirmed this with the lead on the funding.  We are

           now waiting for the panel’s decision which (due to the amount of grants received)

            may not be until August.  At that point the decision to go ahead with the grant will be

            discussed again by the council.

4. ANPR EQUIPMENT

There was a discussion on where this could be located.  Clerk to consult the Road Safety Partnership and the Police to see if an ANPR camera was a possibility.

      5.   HIRE OF COMMUNITY GAZEBO

           It was agreed that the gazebo could be hired by resident or organisation for no fee but

           the deposit should be increased to £200 and that there would be a limit on hiring the

           gazebo to 4 hires per financial year per person/organisation.

     6.  WINDFARM APPLICATIONS:-

          a) Soloby Events:-

Dinner Club November to April

Warm Welcome November to March – grant for both £825

This was approved – however the Dinner Club grant should run to end of the financial year November to March and therefore the total grant would be £750

           b) Soloby Events:-

                Annual Scarecrow Fun Day – grant £530 – this was approved

           c) St Peters Church

                  Barn Dance - £600 – this was approved on issue of public liability insurance

              d) St Peters Church

                   Major Repairs - £2,500 – this was approved

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