May 2025 Agenda
SKILLINGTON PARISH COUNCIL
Grantham, Lincolnshire
Chair: Adrian Clark Vice-Chair: Paul Elston
Councillors: Emily Clark, Neville Clark, Bronwyn Hedley, Mike Jackson, Roseanne McKee.
Parish Clerk: Pamela Harrison (Mrs), 45 Newton Way, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Grantham, Lincs. NG33 5NP
Telephone: 07707 104187 e-mail: clerk.spc@gmail.com
The Annual General Meeting of the Parish Council will be held on WEDNESDAY 7th May 2025 at 6.30pm. The meeting will begin with a ten-minute OPEN FORUM which all residents are invited to attend and to ask questions, or to make short statements to the Parish Council.
AGENDA
1. Apologies for absence
2. Election of:
2.1. Chair 2.2 Vice-Chair
3. Notes of the Annual Parish Meeting and meeting of the Parish Council on 7th April 2025
4. Councillors’ Declarations of Interest
5. Review of:
5.1. Standing Orders
5.2. Financial Regulations
5.3. Appointment of Internal Auditor
5.4. Terms of reference and appointment of councillors to the Planning Committee
5.5. Register of Fixed Assets
5.6. Risk Management
5.7. GDPR
5.8. Code of Conduct
5.9. Approval of Complaints procedure
5.10. Accounts held with Yorkshire Bank and MMBS and the signatories to these accounts
5.11. Subscriptions to other bodies
6. Determining the time and place of ordinary meetings of the full council up to and including the next annual meeting of the full Council.
7. Insurance for the year to 31st May 2026
8. Matters arising from the minutes:
8.1 04.23/11.1 Clerk’s appraisal.
9. Planning applications:
9.1 S25/0261 Mr J Stoneman: Manor Farm House, Middle Street- Section 211 notice to T1 Sycamore – to reduce western side branch back to main stem. T2 – Weeping Ash, reduce large branch on western side by 2.5 metres – Work allowed.
9.2 S25/0556 Mr P Lord: Beeches, Park Lane – Section 211 notice in relation to fell three Ash trees with Ash dieback. Work allowed.
9.3 Any other planning applications.
10. Cemetery:
10.1. Proposed cemetery extension: Hedge work
10.2. Ant infestation.
10.3. Maintenance or other matters arising.
11. Payments and Accounts:
11.1. Bank Balances at 25th April 2025
11.2. Income received in April.
11.3. Invoices due for payment in April.
11.4. Completion of Audit.
12. Clerk’s Report:
12.1 Reports of lagoon smell.
12.2 Paddock.
13. Matters to be discussed at this meeting:
14. District and County Councillor’s Reports
15. Any matters arising at the discretion of the Chairman.
Our next meeting is scheduled to be held on Monday 2nd June 2025. It will be held at Skillington Village Hall at 6.30 pm.