Draft Minutes 20.2.25
NOTES of a Brant Broughton & Stragglethorpe Parish Council meeting held at The Jubilee Hall, West Street, Brant Broughton on 20th February 2025 at 7 pm.
Present: Cllr M. George (MG) (in the Chair), Cllrs A. Early(AE), J. Salmon (JS), K. Salmon (KS), and (after co-option) R. Hollingworth (RH). There were 12 members of the public present.
The public were there to raise their concerns that the Parish Council had not called a public meeting to discuss the Leoda Solar Farm pre-consultation consultation. The Parish Council is not an official consultee and individual councillors would respond to the consultation as members of the public. The Parish Council is prepared to consider calling a parish meeting at a later date. A few members of the public waited to hear the PCs discussion and decision of item 9 on the Agenda.
Another member of the public raised issues over the last meeting’s additional agenda item (no public were present at that meeting) and the issue raised has been dealt with by email response.
The meeting commenced at 7.22 pm
24/85: Apologies – Cllrs Thornburn and Swain were away on holiday and it was resolved to accept their apologies. Dist Cllr Hagues had offered her apologies.
24/86: There were no Declarations of Interest.
24/87: Co-option of Robert Hollingworth – it was unanimously agreed that RH should be co-opted as a parish councillor and he duly joined the table and signed his Declaration of Acceptance of Office. He handed the Clerk his completed RPI form.
24/88: Minutes of the meeting held on 2nd January were read, approved and signed.
24/89: Information Boards – minor amendments had been made to the information. The revised information will be circulated to Councillors for final approval. The siting of the Boards was discussed and was agreed.
24/90: Highways and footpaths – An email from Richard Fenwick [to a parishioner] was read out which set out LCC’s stance on the A17 accidents and any action to mitigate them. They are looking at what they can do but traffic lights or a roundabout are very expensive. It was agreed that councillors will advise clerk of all accidents over the next 3 months, then that data will be collated and submitted to Richard Fenwick at LCC.
The new “High Street” sign for the verge near the fire station is still awaited.
The tree survey will be carried out this week.
24/91: Emergency Plan –LCC had agreed that their form was not suitable for a PC of our size. The flood response was confusing members and was being updated. The Village Hall Committee has registered itself with LCC as a place of safety – thanks to them for doing this.
24/92: Planning:
23/0887 – New dwelling at Guildford Yard, West Street – refused.
24/1010 – 110 High Street extensions – approved.
25/0018 – Change of use of land at Harts Close to equestrian + stables and menage – pending consideration.
25/0032 – tree works at 3 High Street – pending consideration.
25/0049 – retrospective single storey outbuilding at 101 High Street – pending consideration.
25/0155 – retrospective erection of a pergola at Generous Briton – pending consideration.
25/0156 – tree works at 58 High Street – no objections.
24/93: Leoda Solar Farm consultation – the feedback form was not conducive to a corporate response and therefore each Councillor will send in their own responses separately. Similarly it is important that parishioners send in their own responses. Information leaflets were delivered to each property so that all parishioners were aware of the consultation. There is no formal consultation as yet. The PC has had notification from the Planning Inspectorate of a Scoping report for an EIA and JS will formulate a response and distribute – deadline for responses is 27.2.25.
24/94: Financial
(a) It was resolved to accept the bank reconciliation as at 31.1.25. The bank balance at that date was £13,444.80.
(b) It was unanimously resolved to pay LALCs annual membership fee of £266.58.
(c) After discussion it was unanimously agreed not to join LALCs Annual Training Scheme.
(d) It was resolved to accept P Barnett’s increase to £1,280 per annum. As he does a good job and is local, and has always given us favourable quotes, it was agreed not to seek alternative quotes at this time.
24/95: Dates to note: Mayoral elections and County elections on 1st May 2025.
24/96: Date of next meeting: 3rd April 2025.
Meeting closed at 7.55 pm
Agenda items for April meeting by 20th March please.