29 April 2021 Agenda
Dear Parish Councillors Bowell, Dilks (District), Fowler, Gilbert, Hall, Halls, Hardy, Hosking, Little, Robinson, Rose, Shinkins-Hoppe, Stevens (District) and Thomas (District). Copy to County Councillor Dobson.
Minutes of the meeting of Deeping St James Parish Council held on Thursday 29 April 2021 at 7.30 pm using the virtual meeting link ID and passcode below:
https://zoom.us/j/91241824527?pwd=UmNNdTFNeE1tU21DTytEZkpZY3hQQT09
Meeting ID: 912 4182 4527
Passcode: 802796
Present: Parish Councillors Bowell, Dilks (District), Fowler, Gilbert, Hall, Halls, Hardy, Hosking, Little, Robinson, Rose, Shinkins-Hoppe, Stevens (District) and Thomas (District). Copy to County Councillor Dobson.
There will be an open forum, including a three-minute report from the Police and any County/District Councillors present, lasting a maximum of thirty minutes to permit residents to address the Parish Council before the meeting is formally opened, which will be at the closing of the open forum or at 8.00pm, whichever is the sooner.
The business to be dealt with at the meeting is listed in the agenda below.
Julie Fortnum
Parish Clerk
AGENDA
155.21 To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Parish Clerk prior to the meeting.
156.21 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.
157.21 To approve the minutes of the previous meeting held on Thursday 25 March 2021
158.21 To receive the Clerk’s report.
159.21 Financial matters -
1. To approve the payments for April 2021.
2. To note the income received in April 2021.
3. To consider the grant application from the Deepings Swimming Club following the meeting to held at 7pm on Thursday 8 April 2021
160.21 Planning matters
1. To consider the minutes and any recommendations from the planning and transport committee meeting which took place on Monday 26 April 2021.
161.21 To consider the following correspondence received.
1. Ongoing inconsiderate parking issues at the Eastgate/Station Road corner causing access issues for a local resident and emergency vehicles.
2. Ongoing anti-social behaviour issues by a certain group of individuals at Low Locks/Scout Island. A local resident and regular visitor to the area is concerned about this behaviour continuing in an area that is used and enjoyed by a wide range of people.
3. Invitation to register to ring the Church Bells at the grand finale of the NHS Social Care and Frontline Keyworkers Day at 8pm on 5th July 2021.
4. Gedney Parish Council seeking support and financial assistance towards the cost of a Memorial at Brotherhouse Bar to all the 19 aircraft that crashed between 1938 and 1945 within a 15-mile radius of Crowland resulting in loss of life.
5. Resident requesting removal of two trees planted very close to his rear boundary wall as part of a previous year Tree Charter Day.
6. Resident enquiring when further work will be carried out on the trees in the Cemetery
7. Invitation to join in the Great British Spring Clean between 28 May 2021 and 13 June 2021.
8. Notification from Eon the they have cancelled the quarterly maintenance of the ground mounted floodlights at the Cross as yet again they have filled with water, burnt out and needed to be disconnected and can therefore no longer be maintained. If lighting is required another type of lighting will need to be considered.
9. Resident expressing concern at what they describe as an illegal encampment on Back Lane off the Broadgate Lane Junction.
162.21 To receive and consider minutes and recommendations of committees, reports from advisory committees, members reports from external bodies, members reports of meetings, seminars, training and events attended on the Council’s behalf:
1. Meeting to discuss the summer playscheme at 7.30pm on Tuesday 30 March 2021. Attended by the Parish Clerk, Councillor Shinkins-Hoppe, a representative from the play scheme provider and two representatives from Market Deeping Town Council (Councillors Sked and Moran).
2. Question and answer session on 30 March 2021 about creating a wildlife friendly village – Risby Wildlife Project – attended by Councillors Bowell and Stevens
3. Meeting to discuss ‘flood risk, defence and response’ held at 8pm on Thursday 8 April 2021.
4. Meeting at ‘Our Forest Garden’ at 10.30am on Monday 12 April 2021 attended by Councillor Shinkins-Hoppe and the Parish Clerk to discover what Forest School’s future plans are and whether they would be able to offer a DSJPC funded scheme for a week in the summer holidays.
5. Staffing sub-committee meeting held at 2pm on Monday 12 April 2021
6. Chairman’s Workshop (LALC) at 7pm on Wednesday 21 April 2021 attended by Councillor Halls.
7. Allotments Footpaths and Open Spaces committee meeting at 8pm on Monday 26 April 2021.
8. Councillors training (LALC) at 6pm on Tuesday 27 April 2021 attended by the Assistant Clerk, Councillor Little and Councillor Rose.
163.21 In light of the latest accident involving another car smashing into a family home in the Waterton Arms vicinity of Church Street, DSJ, the parish council URGENTLY considers campaigning for appropriate traffic calming measures in the locality.
164.21 To consider the quotations received for the Insurance renewal from 1 June 2021
165.21 To consider the quotation received for the installation of electricity at the revised location on Jubilee Park off Thackers Way.
166.21 To consider the transfer of responsibility for Jubilee Park play area from SKDC to DSJPC after it has been refurbished.
167.21 To consider using a Security Company to provide Wardens to patrol the parish to deter anti-social behaviour and work with the neighbourhood Policing team.
168.21 To consider a reinstating the Business continuity contingency plan (agreed in March 2020 pre-virtual meetings) delegating additional powers to the Clerk due to the requirement to return to face to face meetings from 7 May 2021 onwards – Dependent on the outcome of the hearing on 21 April 2021
169.21 Parish Pump – items for information or inclusion on future agenda.
170.21 To agree the date of the next meeting which will be the annual meeting of the Parish Council – 7.30pm Thursday 27 May 2021.