January 2025 Agenda
SILK WILLOUGHBY PARISH COUNCIL
PARISH CLERK
Denise Gascoyne 82 Ermine Street ANCASTER NG32 3QP
Tel: 01400 230745 email: silkwillpc@gmail.com
Website: https://silk-willoughby.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk/
23rd January 2025
Dear Councillor,
You are hereby summoned to attend the meeting of SILK WILLOUGHBY PARISH COUNCIL to be held on 30 January 2025 in the Village Hall at 7.00pm
Prior to the commencement of the meeting there will be a 10-minute Public Forum when members of the public may address or put questions to the Parish Council on any matter connected with the Agenda, or for inclusion on a future Agenda. They are welcome to stay for the remainder of the meeting but can take no further part in proceedings.
Denise Gascoyne
Temporary Parish Clerk
1. Chair’s Welcome and Housekeeping Arrangements.
2. Apologies for absence To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Parish Clerk prior to the meeting.
3. Declarations of Interest To receive Declarations of Interest under the Localism Act 2011 – being any pecuniary or non-pecuniary interest in Agenda items not previously noted on Members’ Register of Interests and any written requests for dispensation.
4. To approve and accept as a true record the notes of the meeting of the Parish Council Meeting held on 28 November 2024 and to authorise the Chair to sign the official minutes.
5. Report from County Cllr Hagues/District Cllr Jackson
a. Flooding in village
b. Repainting Roundels
c. Update on CIL Payments
6. Chair Update
a. Update on Church Clock auto-regulation.
7. Parish Clerk Update.
a. Anglian Water supporting communities.
b. FOI Request Stream Bioenergy.
c. To confirm we still have over 2 hours available for the website.
d. To confirm quotations are being sought for insurance to begin 28.07.25.
e. Parish Council Meeting dates January-December 2025
8. Finance.
a.To resolve to approve and accept Bank Reconciliations and Cashbook (already circulated) to 30 November and 31 December and for Chair to sign.
b. To resolve to approve and accept Payments as per the Approval List (already circulated) and authorise the Chair to sign and Clerk to make the payments.
c. Update on Savings Accounts, reinvestment, and maturity statement.
d. Confirmation Precept request of £6000 has been submitted.
9.Village Hall
a. Latest updates
10.Correspondence
a. LALC e-news
b. NKDC Nov/Dec Newsletter – forwarded to Cllr Roberts
c. SLCC The Clerk – forwarded to Cllr Roberts
d. Sleaford Neighbourhood Plan – forwarded to Cllr Roberts
e. LCC Budget & Council Tax Proposal 2025/2026 – comments by 28.01.25
f. Consultation on proposed development of a Mainstream Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Hub at the Church Lane Primary School – forwarded to Cllr Roberts
g. NKDC Parish & Town Council Newsletter January 2025
h. Central Lincolnshire Design Code
11. Training
a. LALC Training Bulletin
b. Introduction to Planning – Zoom 6.00pm-7.0pm 04.02.25.
12.Date of Next Meeting.
To confirm the date of the next meeting as 27 March 2025 at 7.00pm in the village hall.
13. To resolve to exclude the media, press and members of the public from the meeting in accordance with S.1(2)Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 due to the confidential nature of business to be transacted regarding staffing matters.
• Former Clerk