February 2023 Agenda
Wyberton PARISH COUNCIL
Mrs Val Austin, Clerk, Wyberton Community Centre, 295 London Road, Wyberton, PE21 7DE
Telephone: 01205 351450
Email: wybertonpcclerk@mail.com
Dear Councillors,
You are summoned to attend the meeting of Wyberton Parish Council, which will be held on Tuesday 14th February 2023 at 7pm in the meeting room at Wyberton Community Centre.
Mrs Val Austin
Clerk to the Parish Council
Dated: February 7th 2023
AGENDA
1. Chairman to open meeting for Agenda Items:
2. Apologies for absence: To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have 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. 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:
5. Minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on Tuesday 10th January 2023- To resolve as a correct record and to authorise the Chairman to sign the official minutes.
6. Lincolnshire County and Boston Borough Councillors Comments
i. Cllr Mrs Alison Austin: Travel Plan submitted by the football club.
ii. Cllr Mr Richard Austin
7: Update on Items from previous agendas:
a) Guttering / Facias – Work has been completed; Invoice received.
b) Village Warden – Advert still up, received three applications.
c) Carpark Signs: - To arrange for installation.
d) New furniture / Heating – The clerk is looking – Ongoing.
e) Website: - Cllr J Stevenson dealing with DNA Web design & looking into the WIFI for the centre. The clerk has contacted BBC for plans of Community Centre, as there are none onsite.
f) T V Licence – T V Licence has been received & up in the noticeboard in the centre.
g) Fire Stick / USB – Cllr M Sharp is looking into.
h) Lincolnshire County Council – Crossing: The clerk has been in contact with LCC, not yet received any response.
i) Lightspeed – The clerk has been in contact with Lightspeed & has sent pictures of the poor condition of the repair to the carpark. Ongoing.
8: Councillors to discuss & resolve the following items.
a) LHP Land Parthian Avenue Playing Field – Update: Cllr’s R Austin, S Slater & M Sharp have received various emails from various companies with regards to testing the land for a potential, playing area.
b) Noticeboards – Cllr Hev Ainsworth to update on the noticeboard for the front of the community centre
c) Foot Way Lighting – To discuss & resolve – The footway lights – Wyberton Parish Council pay for the lights yearly. There are 59 old style lights which are now obsolete, if any problems with the lights there will not be any replacements & would require a new style LED light.
All the lights are currently on All night, this can be changed to part night, off at midnight & back on at 6am. The cost of replacement with 18-Watt LED lights is £350 plus VAT. & £65 plus VAT to change from All night to Part night.
To change the lights to LED would save the Parish council approx. £1322.00 per year.
Old Style Orange All Night – Cost per year £35.21
Old Style Orange Part Night – Cost per year £21.31
New LED Style All night – Cost per year £12.80
New LED Style Part night – Cost per year £7.04
All prices to include VAT
d) Coronation Celebration – Update: Date has been set for Monday 8th May 2023.
Cllr H Ainsworth has acquired singers / bands & food stalls. Ongoing with ideas.
Cllr J Stevenson, mentioned that there is a possibility of getting National Lottery Funding for the event.
e) From Public Forum in January 2023 – To Discuss & Resolve: Should the Parish council, apply for the registration & community valve for a piece of land which the public feel has a visual valve to the community
f) Village Crest – Update: Cllr J Smith to update on progress
g) Village Gateways – Update: Cllr S Slater to update on progress
h) Walkaround village – Update: A52 – B1397 Walk around outcome.
i) Bread & Butter Thing – To Discuss & resolve – From January 2023 meeting, Cllr S Slater mentioned about the Bread & Butter Thing, which is in operation at Old Leake Community Centre. Boston Borough Council are working in partnership with the Bread & Butter Thing.
j) Pincushion Pub & Drop in – Update. What was the outcome of the public meeting?
9. Finance
a. Approve Payments of Accounts – To advise at meeting.
b. Bank statements – dated 14th February 2023
10. Planning matters:
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 the Borough Council –
To include those received between the day of posting this notice and the day of the meeting.
a) B/17/0367 – No Objections received from Councillors, The clerk has advised BBC
b) B/22/0524 – Other than one comment, Disappointed, no EV Charging provided, there were no further objections, The Clerk has advised BBC.
c) B/22/0016 – No objections received from Councillors, The clerk has advised BBC.
d) B/22/0027 – Cllr R Austin has an interest in this planning, & has not made any comments on this planning. No objections received from councillors. The clerk has advised BBC.
11. Next Meeting: Tuesday 14th March 2023, Monthly Parish Meeting
12. Any other matters for discussion on the next agenda