SUDBROOKENEWS FEBRUARY 2020 REFERENDUM THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY THE FATE OF SUDBROOKE’S FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS. HOW WILL YOU VOTE ON THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN? ALSO INSIDE: Parish Council Notes, p4-11 and p14-15 2 http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Sudbrooke/ February 2020 EDITOR’S RAMBLINGS FEBRUARY 2020 DISGUSTING. That was the word a disgruntled reader called my front page of Sudbrooke News for the December/January edition. But what heinous crime had I committed, I hear some of you ask.... well, believe it or not, the logos I had used on there to represent the parties standing in the General Election for the Gainsborough constituency, were not equally the same size as each other, and that constituted the crime of the century. After criticising the fact I had led on one of the biggest news events of the year, she then hit out at some perceived bias of my mine to give favour to certain parties over the others by way of reducing the sizes of a couple of the images. You really could not make this up. I didn’t know whether to laugh or laugh. No doubt I’ll be getting another angry call now... Anyway, this is a bumper Parish Council notes edition, Terry Mayo is rafting in Central Europe and oh yes, don’t forget to vote in the Sudbrooke Referendum. Smiley smile. Dom MARCH ISSUE – DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: FEB 20 EDITOR & ADVERTISING MANAGER DISTRIBUTION Dominic Picksley Andrew Cottam Telephone: 01522 595705 Telephone: [email protected] 01522 750470 PAWSITIVE PET SITTING Dog Walking * Pet Sitting Cats, Dogs & Small Animals catered for DBS Checked, Insured, Dedicated & Experienced Contact Jayne Haley on 01522 752629 or [email protected] www.pawsitive-pet-sitting.co.uk February 2020 http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Sudbrooke/ 3 SUDBROOKE REFERENDUM Dear Resident of Sudbrooke... Welcome to the third decade of the the third Millennium or in shorter terms, ‘Happy New Year’. The Parish Council wish you all the very best for the future. To try to help with that future your Parish Council and group of volunteers created a Neighbourhood Plan to guide the village through the next 25 years. On February 13 you will have the opportunity to vote on this long-awaited document. WHAT IS THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN? It is a review of Sudbrooke in terms of housing, environment, historical significance and finally heritage. It also has a series of policies for how you want the village to develop over that period. We are defined as a medium village so the development potential for new housing is constrained within that definition and clarified by the neighbourhood plan. It is your wishlist for housing, schools, medical services and busi- ness. It has to be put to a referendum and for it to be approved it needs only a simple majority. Without that approval then the plan is dead and development in Sudbrooke will be controlled by the wider policies of the Central Lincolnshire plan. The Parish Council hope that you will take the time to look at the plan and that you will support it with your vote. There are copies of this on-line, at the Village Hall, Nettleham library, and I have a copy if need be. Peter Heath, Parish Council Chairman The date for the Spring Litter Pick will be Saturday 28 March, 2020 (amended from 21). PLEASE SAVE THE DATE 4 http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Sudbrooke/ February 2020 PARISH COUNCIL MINUTES NOVEMBER 2019 Minutes of the monthly meeting of Sudbrooke Parish Council held on Thursday 7 November in the Sudbrooke Village Hall. PRESENT Councillors Ian Russell (Chairman), Mrs Barbara Bingham, Mrs Lyn Etheridge, Stuart Hewson, Mike Turnbull, Christine Myers (Clerk), Bridget Solly (Treasurer) n 112 TO APPOINT A CHAIRMAN FOR n 117 POLICE MATTERS THE MEETING w Nothing to report. Members asked that the w That Councillor Ian Russell take the Chair for Clerk contact PCSO Jackie Parker and invite her the meeting unanimously Resolved. to the next PC meeting. n 113 PARISHIONERS ITEMS n 118 COUNTY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT w Broken/dead tree branches overhanging w None received highway in Church Lane. The owners of the trees had been contacted politely requesting n 119 DISTRICT COUNCILLOR’S REPORT cut back of the branches. w None received w A request had been received for the siting of a picnic bench in the village hall play area n 120 MATTERS OUTSTANDING – Agenda item for next PC meeting. w Parking problems – Beresford Drive: No reply received from the Police. That the n 114 TO RECEIVE APOLOGIES AND parking problems on Beresford Drive be REASONS GIVEN monitored unanimously Resolved. w Councillors Andy Cottam, Peter Heath and w Upgrading of CCTV, Village Hall – i. Reply Bob Waller: The reasons given be accepted from Village Hall Committee: The VHC had unanimously Resolved. agreed to the proposals of the upgrade of the CCTV and to share costs as previously reported. n 115 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST ON That the upgrading of the CCTV go ahead with ANY ITEM ON THE AGENDA Councillor Stuart Hewson liaison with the w None declared. contractor – unanimously Resolved. ii. To consider CCTV Policy: Councillor Hewson n 116 NOTES OF MEETING HELD ON 3 had drafted a CCTV policy which was consid- ered. Some amendments were suggested and OCTOBER TO BE APPROVED AND this would be brought back to the next PC SIGNED AS MINUTES w meeting for discussion. Amendment – add to Minute 109 – 19/20 w Christmas Tree Event: The licence for the sale Consideration of either regular maintenance or of alcohol had been received by Cllr Peter removal of the hedge fronting the Village Hall. Heath; Tree required paying for in advance; With the above addition/amendment that the Insurance company had stated a fire extin- notes be signed as minutes unanimously guisher should be available if naked flames Resolved. were used. That the Clerk purchase a fire extinguisher and fire blanket – Resolved. February 2020 http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Sudbrooke/ 5 PARISH COUNCIL MINUTES NOVEMBER 2019 n 120 MATTERS OUTSTANDING n 121 TO CONSIDER THE FUTURE USE continued... OF THE TENNIS COURTS/MULTI w Work to the beck: Provisional date of PURPOSE SPORTS AREA November 27 for planting of trees. w Item deferred until next meeting of Parish w PROW 160 and 817 closure: Reply received Council. from LCC stated that the applicant had responded as follows: “Both sections are still n 122 TO CONSIDER FORMULATING A closed, but we are intending to open 817 and MAINTENANCE PLAN FOR THE WILD- the section of 160 from the junction with 817 FLOWER AREA IN THE JUBILEE GARDEN and the (A)158 for pedestrians by the end of the w For this year Councillor Ian Russell offered to month (subject to the weather).” strim the area, Councillors Mrs Barbara Footpath 159: The Parish Council had received Bingham and Stuart Hewson to rake up the numerous complaints regarding this footpath cuttings. That Glendale be requested to move as the electric fence had now been removed the debris unanimously Resolved. and cattle placed in the field creating a danger It was agreed to discuss further at next meeting to pedestrians. Stiles had been built which also of Parish Council. created problems for those with reduced mobility. The PC had been advised by LCC n Footpaths Officer that the original route of 123 TO CONSIDER PARTICIPATING IN VILLAGE HALL OPEN DAY JAN 25, 2020 FP159 is within the boundary of the 10 acre w covert and not as recognised by the village. It was understood that this was an initiative That the Parish Council contact the landowner by Community Lincs. Members felt that on this requesting that reinstatement of the current occasion the timing was not right to attract route be reinstated or that an application would residents to the hall and unanimously resolved be made to LCC to have that footpath recog- not to participate. nised as a legal right of way on which there can be no restrictions, unanimously Resolved. n 124 TO AGREE DATES OF PARISH w Work required to trees at Jubilee Garden: – COUNCIL MEETINGS FOR 2020 Quotations received from Arborez as follows: w The following meeting dates were To crown lift trees near to the millennium stone unanimously Resolved. protruding low over the path – £100.00 plus All Thursdays in the Bramham Lounge, Village VAT. To dismantle five elm trees that are dead Hall, Sudbrooke, commencing at 7.30pm. or dying on the edge of the copse of trees near January 2, February 6, March 5, April 2, May 14 to millennium stone – £380.00 plus VAT – Annual Parish Council Meeting June 4, July 2, That the quotations be accepted unanimously September 3, October 1, November 5, December Resolved. 3. w Work to be carried out to play equipment: Proposed date of Annual Parish Meeting – Quotation from EKM received in the sum of April 9. £340.00 for works as per the RoSPA annual Annual Parish Meeting subject to availability of reported. That the quotation be accepted Hall. unanimously Resolved. 6 http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Sudbrooke/ February 2020 PARISH COUNCIL MINUTES NOVEMBER 2019 n 125 PLANNING MATTERS an air bnb and an ‘overflow’ for hospital w a) To consider request by Truelove Homes to consultants. This does not fit in with Sudbrooke alter specification for construction of footpath, Neighbourhood Plan. Nettleham Lane: Members discussed the LP10 has already been met by The Park suggestion of a change of specification to the development for the next 25 years; it conflicts construction of the footpath. That the original with Neighbourhood Plan 4.5.1.