2025 Agendas

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 1 December 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.

4. To approve as correct records the notes of the meeting of the Council held on 6 October and 4 November 2025 to authorise the Chairman to sign the official minutes.

5. Chairs Report –
   1. BT Phone box in the village square
   2. Elderly residents 
   3. Bridge over Blackleg Drain 
   4. Waithe Church
   5. Telegraph Pole

6. Training – Staff and elected Members

7. Parish Matters:
   1. Flag policy, appoint a volunteer to raise the flag 
   2. Youth club 
   3. Village Hall matters
      1. Booking system
      2. Upgrade village hall thermostat and programmer 
   4. Public conveniences and information point
   5. Update on LCC Parish Agreement Scheme
   6. Tractor run 21 December, use of village hall FOC, request collection buckets from organisers.
   7. Community room update
   8. Cyden homes update published on website
   9. Work is going well on site, the Foul sewers are around 90% complete, with the storm drainage around the 50% complete
   10. Both pump stations have now been successfully first fixed, DC’s will be trial digging next week to allow for the incoming water supply and beginning to shape the road entrance into site.
   11. As expected DC’s are currently dealing with vast amounts of rain water with no outfall
   12. Therefore subject to weather they may decide to hold on to completing the drainage and move on to constructing  Road 1 through to tarmac (Road 1 being the main access road into the site )
   13. Into the new year towards the end of January (26th) they will begin on the Section 278 Highway works to Ludborough Road, remediating and developing the road to the approved new design, this will also include completing our main connections to existing sewers.
   1. AGAR Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) 2024/25
   10. Highways
   11. Memorial Bench
   12. Named beneficiary will
   13. Update on grant applications
       1. Event Association
       2. Lottery grant application

8. Correspondence: To receive and dispose of correspondence received since the last meeting.
9. Date of next meeting: To note the date of the next meeting 13 January 2026 to be agreed
10. Financial matters:
    1. To note bank balances on bank statements as on November 2025
    2. To note income
    3. To authorise the signing of orders for payment for previous months

11. 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