May 2025 Agenda
Clerk’s Contact Details:
Village Hall, Brookside, Scopwick. LN4 3PA.
07872943179 | clerkscopwick@gmail.com
Scopwick and Kirkby Green Parish Council
https://scopwick.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk/
20th May 2025
Dear Councillors,
You are hereby summoned to attend the full Council meeting to be held on Tuesday 27th May 2025, commencing at 7.00pm in Scopwick Village Hall. The business to be dealt with at the meeting is listed in the agenda.
At the discretion of the Chair, prior to the commencement of the meeting, members of the public will be invited to make representations or to ask questions in respect of matters on the agenda and other matters in the parish. Time is set at a maximum of 3 minutes per person, or 15 minutes overall.
A further 10 minutes will be set aside to receive brief reports of the Police, elected members of Lincolnshire County Council and North Kesteven District Council.
If the time allocated is not required, the Council will go into formal session.
Jack
Jack Sargent
Parish Clerk
AGENDA
1. Welcome from the Chair of the Parish Council and introduction.
2. Apologies for Absence.
To resolve to accept apologies for absence and where valid reasons are given to the Clerk prior to the meeting, in accordance with Local Government Act 1972 s85 (1).
3. Declaration of Interest.
To receive any declarations of interest in accordance with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011 and to consider any requests for dispensations.
4. To approve as a correct record the minutes of the full Council meeting held on Tuesday 25th March 2025.
5. To approve as a correct record the minutes of the extraordinary meeting held on Friday 2nd May.
6. To approve as a correct record the minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Council held on Tuesday 20th May 2025.
7. To approve the record of accounts for:
a. March
b. April
8. To receive the bank reconciliation for:
a. March
b. End of Year 2024-25
c. April
9. To consider a schedule of regular payments.
10. To receive a budget review for the fourth quarter of the 2024-25 financial year.
11. To approve the Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) forms for the 2024-25 financial year:
a. To approve section 1, points 1 - 9 of the Annual Governance Statement.
b. To approve section 2, the Accounting Statement.
12. To receive reports:
a. Village Hall Committee
b. Playing Field Committee
c. Community Speed Watch
d. Environmental Report
e. The Chairman
f. The Clerk
13. To receive notification of any planning permissions, refusals, withdrawals, or amendments.
a. Planning Application: 24/1301/FUL - Erection of two detached dwellings at Land Off Vicarage Lane, Scopwick.
b. Planning decision: 24/1498/LBC - Installation of solar panels to roof and associated infrastructure at Gardeners Cottage, Bloxholm Lane, Scopwick.
c. Planning decision: 24/1497/HOUS - Installation of solar panels to roof and associated infrastructure at Gardeners Cottage, Bloxholm Lane, Scopwick.
d. Planning Application: 25/0332/LBC - Relocation of existing air source heat pump at 6 Manor Farm Barns, Church Lane, Kirkby Green.
e. Planning Application: 25/0331/HOUS - Relocation of existing air source heat pump at 6 Manor Farm Barns, Church Lane, Kirkby Green.
14. To receive an update for the kerbing project around the village green.
15. To receive an update on:
a. Fosse Green Energy Solar Farm Proposals
b. Springwell Solar Farm Proposals
c. Navenby Substation
d. Battery Storage, near Navenby
16. To consider updating the layout of the website.
17. To consider using .gov.uk email addresses for Council business, the Clerk and Councillors.
18. To consider a request from a resident to support their wish for a streetlight on Main Street, Scopwick, to be removed.
19. To receive a record of previous resolutions and action points.
20. To confirm the date of the next meetings as Tuesday 28th July 2025.
21. To appoint Members to Committees of the Council:
a. Personnel Committee.
b. Grievance Committee.