October 2019 Minutes
WELBOURN PARISH COUNCIL
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF WELBOURN PARISH COUNCIL (NOTES will become Minutes when signed at the next Parish Council Meeting) HELD ON WEDNESDAY 9h OCTOBER 2019 IN WELBOURN VILLAGE HALL AT 7.30 pm
PRESENT
Councillors
Mr. Robert Cross (RC) Chairman
Mr. John Storer (RS)
Mrs. Maureen Lunn (ML)
Mrs. Katie Stark (KS)
Mr. Brian Percy (BP)
Mr. Jake Beaty (JB)
Mr. Stephen Short (SS)
Parish Clerk - Miss Sarah Brown
10.01.00 Chairman’s Welcome
10.01.01 The Chairman, Councillor Robert Cross, welcomed everyone to the meeting.
10.02.00 Public Forum
10.02.01 Three members of the public were present for the meeting.
10.03.00 Acceptance of Reasons for Absence.
10.03.01 Apologies received and accepted from Councilor, Cllr J Smith and Cllr H Huntsman.
10.04.00 Declarations of Interest.
10.04.01 No interests to declare.
10.05.00 Notes of the Parish Council Meeting held on 11th September 2019 to be approved as minutes.
10.05.01 The Notes of the previous meeting held on 11th September 2019, copies of which had been circulated previously to members, were accepted as Minutes.
10.05.02 Proposed by Cllr R. Storer and seconded by Cllr S. Short.
10.06.00 Police update.
10.06.01 No crime reported.
10.07.00 District and County matters.
10.07.01 Cllr L. Hagues sent her apologies for not being able to attend.
10.08.00 Football Club storage
10.08.01 Propose to have a storage container on the village playing field for storage, painted green to camouflage with hedge row and trees.
10.08.02 The Football Club will fill in the forms to apply for planning permission although the Parish Council will submit and pay the £250 application fee and the condition that if the football club leave in the future they leave the container for the Community to use.
10.08.03 Cllr Stephen Short will check with the Village Hall Committee at their next meeting that the container will be covered under their insurance policy for public liability insurance.
10.08.04 Proposed by Cllr S. Short and seconded by Cllr B. Percy.
Action: SS
10.09.00 Is Parish Council or Village Hall Committee paying for the anti-tamper guards for the heating in the Village Hall?
10.09.01 Cllr Rod Storer proposed Parish Council paid the £279.11 to fit the anti-tamper guards as the Village Hall landlords. Cllr Stephen Short seconded the proposal and it was approved by the Parish Council.
10.10.00 Village Hall update
10.10.01 The village Hall Committee have not paid Wickstead for the slide installation, as they are waiting for the installation to be improved.
10.10.02 The Clerk was asked to get a tree trimmed on the Playfield which was catching on BT lines.
Action: Clerk
10.11.00 Any objection to Western Power pruning the trees in the village to protect the power lines?
10.11.01 The Parish Council have no objections to the tree trimming required to protect the village Power lines.
10.12.00 Road Safety on A607 and in the village.
10.12.01 Passive speed signs have been ordered to be placed around the village.
10.12.02 If the community S.P.I.D is going ahead soon with the Cliff Cluster Villages group, we will carry on taking part in the shared ownership scheme.
10.12.03 If there is much more of a delay, we will put on the agenda whether or not we should buy our own.
10.12.04 The Clerk was asked to contact Stagecoach and ask them to remind drivers to slow down near Sir William Robertson Academy.
10.12.05 The Clerk is to ask The Road Safety Partnership and the Police for the speed camera van to be placed near the school to help reduce the problem of people speeding.
Action: Clerk
10.13.00 Drainage in the Parish.
10.13.01 In the recent heavy rains, there was problems with the drains by The Green, which caused a garage by The Forge to be flooded and some gardens were flooded down Crosby Lane. The drains at the top of Hall Lane was silted up again and the drains at the bottom of Mill Hill were blocked. The layby drain is still blocked with road plannings as are another three, which have been previously reported. The Clerk is to contact the drainage board to get their involvement in sorting the drainage issues.
Action: Clerk
10.14.00 Allotments and Community Orchard.
10.14.01 Next year we will hold an Apple Day to make sure the apples are used.
10.14.02 Cllr R. Cross and Cllr J. Beaty, to tidy the vacant allotments.
Action: JB RC
10.14.03 A member of the public fell down due to the weak drain cover slipping.
10.14.04 The Clerk has put cones and hazard tape around the area to stop anyone else falling.
10.14.05 The Clerk is to write to the owner of Sycamore Lodge to ask them to purchase a heavy-duty manhole cover and to repair the mounting.
Action: Clerk
10.15.00 Are the Parish Council donating the cost of the Poppy wreath this year?
10.15.01 It was agreed to donate again this year.
10.16.00 Planning Application Reference 19/0568/FUL-Decision Notice
10.16.01 Proposal: Change of use from residential to part business use (car sales)/part residential (Retrospective)
10.16.02 Location: Greenacres Main Road, Welbourn, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN5 0QJ
10.16.03 Application Refused
10.16.04 Planning Application Reference: 19/1280/FUL
10.16.05 Proposal: Creation of an Artificial Grass Pitch (AGP) with associated fencing, barriers and entrance gates plus associated porous asphalt surfacing for portable goals storage, pedestrian circulation access, vehicular maintenance and emergency access; floodlight system, erection of high maintenance equipment store, together with soft landscaping work involving the creation of grassed mound within playing field and screen planting.
10.16.06 Location: Sir William Robertson Academy, Main Road, Welbourn.
10.16.07 The Parish Council supports the application for AGP pitch at Sir William Robertson Academy but would like to ask for consideration for road safety issues.
Action: Clerk
10.17.00 Clerks report.
10.17.01 The Clerk has reported the streetlight outside the shop which is not working.
10.17.02 The Clerk has successfully applied for a business rates reduction for The Forge as classed as a museum.
10.17.03 Manor Close has two blocked drains which have been reported, the clerk will chase up.
10.18.00 Appendix B and C – cheques paid and cheques to be paid.
10.18.01 Accepted and signed.
10.19.00 Dates for future meetings
Wednesday 14th November 2019 at 7.30pm
No meeting December 2019.
Wednesday 8th January 2019 at 7.30pm
Wednesday 13th February 2019 at 7.30pm
Wednesday 11th March 2019 at 7.30pm
Wednesday 8th April 2019 at 7.30pm
There being no further matters to discuss, the Chairman duly closed the meeting at 9.05pm.