6 October 2025 Agenda

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN and Members are summoned to attend a meeting of North Thoresby, Waithe and Grainsby Parish Council to be held at North Thoresby Village Hall, The Square, North Thoresby, DN36 5QL on Monday 6 October 2025 at 7.00 p.m.

Prior to the commencement of the meeting there will be a public forum for a maximum of 15 minutes when members of the public may ask questions or make short statements to the Council (maximum 3 minutes per person/subject) in respect of any item listed on the agenda.

A maximum further 15 minutes will be set aside for the meeting to receive reports of the elected member of Lincolnshire County Council and East Lindsey District Council (oral, tabled and as attached).

Binal Sawjani 

Acting Parish Clerk

AGENDA

  1. Chairmans welcome to council
  2. Signing of Acceptance of Office: To receive declarations of interest under the Localism Act 2011 – being any pecuniary or non-pecuniary interest in agenda items not previously recorded on Members’ Register of Interests.
  3. Apologies for Absence

To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Parish Clerk prior to the meeting.

  1. To approve as correct records the notes of the meeting of the Council held on 3 September 2025 and to authorise the Chairman to sign the official minutes.
  1. Chairs Report
  1. Training – Staff and elected Members
  1. Parish Matters
    1. BT Phone box in the village square
    2. Update on grant applications
      1. Grant application by North Thoresby Community Event Association
    3. Outside Gym
    4. Community room update
    5. Flag pole
    6. Bridge over Blackleg Drain 
    7. Village Hall matters
      1. Booking system
      2. Trees pruning and pollarding of trees at village hall and memorial garden
      3. Annual inspection
      4. ZK Electrical Services
    8. Remembrance Day 
    9. AGAR Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) 2024/25
    10. Cyden homes
      1. Street names for the Beanlands development
      2. Update on the development
    11. Highways
    12. Emergency Plan
    13. Christmas Tree
    14. Grass cutting LCC Parish Agreement Scheme
  1. Correspondence: To receive and dispose of correspondence received since the last meeting.
  1. Date of next meeting: To note the date of the next meeting 6 October 2025 to be agreed
  1. Financial matters:
    1. To note bank balances on bank statements as on September 2025
    2. To note income
    3. To authorise the signing of orders for payment for previous months
  1. To resolve to move into closed session in accordance with the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 due to the confidential nature of the business to be discussed in relation to the following: -

To receive updates and financially sensitive information in respect of employment matters