October 2024 Agenda
FREISTON PARISH COUNCIL
Email: clerk@freiston-pc.gov.uk
The next monthly meeting of Freiston Parish Council, which will be held on Thursday 17th October 2024, at 7:30pm in the Danny Flear Community Centre.
Mrs Val Austin, - Clerk to the Parish Council, 8th October 2024
AGENDA
1. Chairman to open the meeting:
2. Apologies: To receive and accept apologises where a valid reason for the absence has been given to the clerk prior to the meeting.
3. Public Forum: To resolve to suspend the meeting for a maximum of 10 minutes to allow members of the public to ask questions or make short statements to the council.
4. Police Matters: Stats & incidents are available to view on the police website.
- To be presented at the meeting
5. Minutes: To approve the minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on the 19th September 2024. To resolve as a correct record and to authorise the Chairman to sign the official minutes
6. Declarations of interest (if any): To receive declarations of interest under the Localism Act 2011 – being any pecuniary interest in agenda items not previously recorded on Members’ Register of Interests
7. Planning update: Town and Country Planning Act 1990 - To consider and make observations on all planning applications received and to note planning approvals, refusals, enforcement complaints and appeal decisions advised by Boston Borough Council. – To include those received between the day of posting this notice and the day of the meeting.
8. Updates / Discuss and resolve the following items
8.1. Highway & Roads – Update
- The clerk has written a letter to the proprietor about the hedge along Church Road, no reply received.
8.2 Churchyard – Nettles / Rubbish in Churchyard Grounds. – Cllr Nigel Marshall – Update
- The clerk has written to the PCC with the proposal from the Parish Council, Cllr Nigel Marshall delivered the letter directly to the PCC chairman.
To remove the sheep fence and to continue with the maintenance of the grass.
- The clerk has been in contact with Boston Borough Council for the prices of a general 1100L waste bin.
The cost of a 1100L general waste bin will be £17.50 per collection, which can be weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
- The clerk wrote to Bates asking if they would donate towards the cost of the regeneration. No reply
8.3 Interactive Speed Signs for Village
- The clerk has been in touch with Graeme from LRSP, for a suggestion with regards to Butterwick Road, and suggested a battery powered unit.
- The clerk sent the quotes to the councillors on the 8th October.
8.4: Grovefield Lane Complaint
- The clerk received a complaint regarding Grovefield Lane, Cllr Nigel Marshall visited the resident who made the complaint regarding the mud left behind by the tractors, even after they have scrubbed the area
8.5: Village Litter Picking Day – Cllr Judith Godwin
- To suggest a day for litter picking in November
8.6: December 2024 Newsletter
- To decide on items to go into the December 2024 newsletter.
9. Finance:
9.1 Bank Account: Statement of accounts as at 17th October 2024
9.2 To approve the accounts for payments
9.3 Draft Budget for 2025 – 2026 – Spreadsheet will be sent to the councillors before the meeting
10. Date of next parish council meeting: Thursday 21st November 2024
11. Any other business to go forward to the November 21st 2024 Agenda / Note for information.