08 December 2025 Parish Council Meeting

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Notice is hereby given, and all members of the Council are summoned to attend a meeting of the Parish Council to be held 19:30hrs Monday, 08 December 2025 at Pinchbeck Hub & Library

Robert Smith

Clerk to Pinchbeck Parish Council
03 December 2025
clerk@pinchbeck-pc.gov.uk


AGENDA

1.To note members’ attendance and to receive apologies for absence.

2.To receive any declarations of pecuniary interests or other disclosable interests, and any written requests for dispensation.

3.To receive representations from members of the public[i].

4.To approve the minutes of the meeting held on Monday, 29 September 2025.

5.To adopt the co-option policy dated 8 December 2025.

6.To receive written applications for the office of Parish Councillor and to co-opt candidates to fill the existing vacancies.

7.To receive the clerk’s report and consider any matters arising from the last meeting.

8.To consider financial matters.

i.To approve the November 2025 bank reconciliation and cash book.

ii.To approve payments to 8 December 2025.

iii.To consider 2025 pension valuation results and proposed revised contribution rates.

iv.To approve Salaries Budget 2026-27 (Rev.1), as recommended by the Personal Committee.

v.To review the financial position to 30 November 2025 and to consider the Financial Budget 2026-27.

9.To consider recent correspondence.

10.To consider planning applications.

11.To note District Council planning decisions.

12.To consider highways’ matters.

i.To consider Lincolnshire County Council proposals for Knight Street waiting restrictions.

ii.To receive reports of speed data collected from the Council’s Speed Indicator Devices (SIDs).

iii.To consider the provision for SID data collection, movement, and battery charging.

iv.Other Highway’s matters.

13.To receive committee reports and consider recommendations.

i.Cemetery Committee

  • To receive the minutes of the last meeting.

  • To approve the committee’s Terms of Reference.

ii.Hub & Library – All Kinds of Everything Fund

  • To approve the constitution for the All Kinds of Everything Fund and to delegate authority to approve expenditure from the Fund to Cllr John Smith and the Chair of the Council (or, in their absence the Vice-Chair), such authority to operate within Financial Regulations and subject to the expenditure limit of £1,000 per item.

14.To resolve to move into closed session on the grounds of confidentiality in accordance with the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 s.1(2)

15.To consider quotes for works (confidential negotiation proposals).

16.To consider matters relating to Parish Council land (confidential negotiation proposals).

17.To consider cemetery matters (confidential individual personal matters).

18.To consider staffing & administration matters [confidential employment or personal matters].

i.To receive the minutes of the last Personnel Committee meeting and ratify its resolutions.

ii.To approve payment of the clerk’s time off in lieu (TOIL), as recommended by the Committee.

 

[i] 15 minutes are reserved for members of the public to make short statements or ask about issues. Each speaker has a 3-minute limit. Raise your hand to speak and wait for the chair’s invitation. Questions will not necessarily receive an immediate response or initiate a debate. Further public commentary will not be permitted during the remainder of the meeting.