Minutes

18th JANUARY 2020

ANDERBY PARISH COUNCIL

 

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF ANDERBY PARISH COUNCIL

HELD VIA “ZOOM” ON 18th JANUARY 2020

 

Due to the uncertainty of the spread of Covid-19/Coronavirus and in order to limit the risk to members of the public and elected council members the Parish Council meeting on the above date was held via video conference facility “Zoom”. 

 

There was no Public Forum as no members of the public or press had requested to join the meeting by sending an e-mail to anderbyparishcouncil@gmail.com by 05.00pm on Saturday 16th January 2021.

 

Present via “Zoom”:   

Councillors: G. Fisher (Acting Chairman), D. Wood, Gwen Fisher, J. Hayes, L Johnson.  Also, present County Cllr C. Davie and District Cllr Paul Hibbert-Greaves.

 

Chairman’s Remarks – Chairman thanked all for attending this meeting.  He has points he needs to raise but will do so during the meeting as appropriate.

 

The Parish Council still has vacancies for two new Councillors.  Parish Clerk has placed adverts for candidates on both Parish notice boards and web site.

 

  1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE –None received.

 

  1. DECLARATION OF INTEREST – None received.

 

  1. TO AGREE THE NOTES OF LAST MEETING - The Minutes of the meeting held on 16th November 2020 were unanimously approved and will be signed by the Chairman when restrictions are lifted.

 

  1. CLERKS REPORT ON MATTERS OUTSTANDING

 

  1. Additional Rubbish Bins for Anderby Village; A form had been submitted by clerk to ELDC on this matter, no further information had been received.  Unfortunately, the original application form had been misplaced in the system so no action had been carried out on.  A copy of the original application form has been sent to ELDC Waste Service passed it onto Neighbourhood Services Support.  Email received from them and they will investigate the matter.  Dist Cllr P Hibbert-Greaves aware of this and has said that requires a follow up if no action in next 3 weeks.  Matter ongoing
  2. Parish Web site update:  Clerk informed members that the new web site was complete and had now gone live.  Clerk informed members that he now needed to look how to update as new items are required on the site.  Cllr D. Wood will let “Friends of Anderby Creek” know. Matter on going.
  3. Barriers: This is an ongoing issue; Environment Agency require a licence to proceed.  Parish Council are willing to pay for the installation of the barriers.  Cllr D. Wood gave an update as to where we are with this.  Council to look to putting this issue back to LCCP and the Environment Agency to sort out as they believe they should take the lead on this.

 

  1. TO RECEIVE REPORTS FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF OUTSIDE BODIES – County Cllr C. Davie said LCC are responding to ongoing Coronavirus issues.  He gave an update on the situation as it effects this area, vaccination has now started and hopefully will meet government targets.  He gave an update on the possible “Flood Situation” following to rain over last few weeks and the possibility of more next week.  The County Council are hoping that visitors will come back when restrictions are finally lifted.  

 

He then outlined the contents of the letter received LCC Reference “Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park – Coastal Access Sites and Parking” received 8 January 2021.This outlined the plans to manage the parking situation along the coast.This includes constructing barriers to prohibit access to larger vehicles such as motorhomes using the car parks for overnight camping.They have also concluded that they need to introduce charges to the car parks plus effective and rigorous enforcement and ticketing.

 

The details of this are still to be finalized however, the intention is to introduce a “Pay by Phone” charging regime to manage parking for 2021 season.Charges to be levelled during the summer months but suspended during winter months.However, vehicle restrictions would be in place all year.This prompted much discussion by members as follows:

  1. Yellow Lines need to be extended especially on Sea Road by caravan parks.
  2. Horse Boxes using picnic areas at Marsh Yard.
  3. Elderly people deal in cash and will have to make phone calls to pay, not all elderly people have access to mobile phones.
  4. Mobile signal strength in some areas not good.
  5. When is this all likely to start?

 

Cllr C Davie took all this on board and would update council at next meeting.

 

  1. REPORTS FROM OTHER MEETINGS – Nothing to report no other meetings attended.

St January 2021.

  1. CORRESPONDENCE

 

  1. Grit Bins:  Following a request from the chair the clerk had contacted LCC Highways reference Grit Bins.  Several emails received on the subject with the clerk asking for details & forms on The Parish Scheme for the provision of a 1 tonne bag of salt which can be used in the area.  This has now been passed onto the LCC Network Resilience (Winter & Emergency Team) for action.  Matter ongoing.
  2. LCCP – Coastal Access Sites & Parking:  See Item 5 above.

 

  1. FINANCIAL MATTERS

 

  1. To agree Parish Clerks Hours and Rate of Pay for 2021:  Discussion took place on this and following LALC Guidance Notes the following was agreed:
    1. Hours to increase to 5 hours per week starting 1st January 2021
    2. Hourly Rate to increase in line guidance to £13.78 per hour backdated till July 2020.  LALC Guidance was that rate should be increased from April 2020, but clerk said would not take this.

 

 

 

  1. The Clerk presented the Financial Statement to 31st December 2020 agreed by council members.
  2. The Clerk presented the Budget for 2021/2 which included salary increase.  Council members agreed to the Budget for 2021/22.
  3. The Precept was discussed for 2021 by council and agreed to keep Precept as per 2020.
  4. The following payments were approved by council:
    1. £1002.05 to M Smith, Parish Clerk. for Salary and Expenses to 31December 2020.
    2. £250.00 to Intellitech Services Limited for Parish Web Site update
    3. £109.98 to Cllr D. Wood for expenses (Purchase of 2 Christmas Trees).
  5. Future Grant application requirements:  Cllr L. Johnson outlines that a total annual grant of £10,000.00 was available from a Tritton Knoll panel which is in the process of being set up.  Applications Forms are available grants which need to be in by 12th February 2021.  for panel applicants.  Members asked Cllr L Johnson to investigate the criteria for both this and the grant.  Matter on going.

 

  1. SPEED INDICATORS ANDERBY VILLAGE - Cllr J. Hayes had spoken to Community Speed watch with a view to having the Speed Indicators in Anderby Village moved to a different location as it was felt that vehicles were speeding through the village and that the speed signs were not responding.  She had met with Graham Butler of Community Speed watch to look at different locations.  He had suggested 3 other locations were posts could be sited with a view to move speed signs at regular intervals.  The cost for this would be £200.00 for each post. Council gave approval for Cllr J. Hayes to go ahead with this along with looking at additional Speed Limit signs to put up.  Council also asked about a reduction in the speed limit through the village.  Cllr J. Hayes will investigate this and report back at next meeting.  Matter ongoing.

 

  1. CLOUD BAR CLOSURE – Mr. Chris Millar, LCCP about the closure of the Cloud Bar in the current situation.  Council agreed that this was the correct decision to adopt during lock down.

 

  1. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – It was agreed that the next meeting via Zoom would be on Monday 15th February 2021 subject to confirmation.

 

  1. AOB – Council still requires 2 new members.  Councillors to look for suitable applicants.  Cllr D. Wood informed members that Snowdrop Cottage had now been sold so that matter is now close.

 

Meeting closed at 08.30pm.