Draft Minutes of meeting 11.4.24
NOTES of a Parish Council meeting held at The Village Hall, West Street, Brant Broughton on
11th April 2024.
Present: Cllr M George (MG) (in the Chair), Cllrs P Dunning (PD), A. Early (AE); J. Salmon (JS); and K. Salmon (KS); Dist Cllr L Hagues and later Cty Cllr M Overton. There was one member of the public present.
24/01: Apologies –Cllrs Swain and Thornburn.
24/02: There were no declarations of interest.
24/03: Minutes of the meeting held on 29th February 2024 were read, approved and signed.
24/04: Information Boards – Cllr Salmon had had a meeting with Allen Signs and agreed the font to be used and resolved other issues they had. Rectory Field photos and information had been sent to Allen Signs but they needed better photographs – KS has this in hand. Information on Stragglethorpe has been prepared by MG but this needs “clipping” and better photos preparing. MG and JS will confer. Playing field information is a work in progress.
24/05: Highways – Hawthorn trees on verge at 114 High Street – still no update. 30 mph signs have been ordered and paid for – delivery some time in April.
24/06: Emergency Plan – no update but Mary Green is co-ordinating.
24/07: Planning
23/0887 – new dwelling at Guildford Yard –pending consideration.
23/1400 – Application for Lawful Development Certificate for use of Marshalls Mill – application withdrawn.
24/0058 – Brant House, Stragglethorpe - 4 bay garage with living accommodation above – pending consideration.
24/0072 – Tree works at 120 High Street – approved.
24/0141 - Tree works at Dovecote House, 7 Guildford Lane – approved.
24/0142 – Tree works at 2-4 Meeting House Lane – approved.
24/0228 – Erection of agricultural storage building at Brant House Farm – prior approval not required.
24/0304 – Replacement roof at 23 High Street, BB – no objections.
24/0330 – Tree works at 6 Maltkiln Lane – pending consideration.
24/0338 – Tree works at 1 Church Walk – pending consideration.
24/0428 – Tree works at 19 High Street, BB – no objections.
24/08: Rectory Field trees: Apple trees have all been cut and Simpsons have been paid.
24/09: Litter pick – the litter pick organised by the PFA recently had had a very poor turn out despite advertising the time and place well. It is agreed that it is good if members of the community can be involved. Litter picking will be a very arduous task for any organisation without a good number of helpers. If this is going to be the situation in the future then the Parish Council will have to consider a paid community cleaner employee and forego the option of asking organisations to do the “pick”. When the litter pick is next advertised, the PC will ensure that those organisations that have applied for a grant, will be informed of the ability to apply to do the litter pick.
24/10: Finance:
The Clerk gave a short explanation of the overspend for the year to March 2024 – primarily the information boards but also increased salary and insurance payments.
Resolved to sign the bank reconciliation/income/expenditure sheets at 29.2.24 and 31.3.24.
Bank balance at 31.3.24 was £9,648.28.
JS advised that she and the Clerk had agreed the Asset Register as at the year end.
Clerk advised Councillors of a letter of thanks from the Brownies for their grant.
The D-Day celebrations were then discussed – options included a flagpole and flags or metal silhouettes. There is a lot of protocol around installing a flagpole and the raising and lowering of flags and it was considered this would be too complex. Life size silhouettes cost around £175 each from the British Legion. It was agreed unanimously that we would pursue the silhouette option and agenda this for the May meeting.
D/C Hagues will not be available in May as she will be on holiday.
24/11: Next meeting – 16th May – Annual Meeting of the PC followed by the Ordinary meeting.
Agenda items needed by 2nd May.
As the meeting was about to close, C/C Overton arrived. Her newsletter had been circulated previously. Highways are better funded. Devo deal – write to our MPs saying NO. LCC screening opinion EIA/12/23 – she will look into this further. She suggested we either get movement of vehicles from our SID or ask for a further Archer survey. MG will contact LRSP to get SID data.
Meeting closed at 7.50 pm