2025 Parish Council Meeting Agendas

The next meeting of Fishtoft Parish Council, will be held on Thursday 12th June 2025 at Rochford Tower Hall, Fishtoft commencing at 7pm.

Members of the public and press are welcome to attend.

There will be a public forum for a maximum of 10 minutes where members of the public may ask questions or make short statements to the council followed by a maximum further 10 Minutes set aside for the meeting to receive reports from Lincolnshire Police, elected Members of Lincolnshire County Council, Boston Borough Council and other outside bodies.

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Agenda of Parish Council Meeting

1.    Chairperson’s Remarks
2.    Apologies for absence 
To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Clerk prior to the meeting
3.     Declarations of interest 
To receive (if any) declarations of interest under the Localism Act 2011 – being any pecuniary interest in agenda items not previously recorded on Members’ Register of Interests
4.     Notes of the Parish Council Meeting held on 12th May 2025
To resolve as a correct record and to authorise the Chairman to sign the official 
5.     Finance
a)    Payment of accounts to be approved
i.    TA Blackamore Ltd    Ground Maintenance (May 2025)        £1371.47
ii.    Guardian Storage Ltd    PC Document Storage (June 2025)        £60.00
iii.    Sibsey Parish Council    Reimbursement of Printer Ink        £42.86
iv.    S Knowles        Staff Costs                £423.26
v.    S Knowles        Reimbursement of Litter Picking Signs    £119.82
b)    Additional payments to be approved after setting of agenda 
c)    Payments & receipts: since 12th May 2025: Appendix A
d)    Balance of Community Account as of 31st May 2025: £8,782.32
e)    Balance of Savings Account as of 31st May 2025: £35,604.02
f)    Balance of 30-Day Notice Savings Account as of 31st May 2025: £35,381.55
6.    Planning matters: Town and Country Planning Act 1990: 
To consider and make observations on all planning applications received and to note planning approvals, refusals, enforcement complaints and appeal decisions advised by the Borough Council.
To include applications received after this agenda has been posted and the day of the meeting
a)    B/25/0196 - Erection of electrical sub-station (area 02) and associated works including installation of new electrical upgrade, decarbonisation works in the form of 18 no. air source heat pumps (area 01), installation of linear bank of louvres to existing boiler house elevations and inclusion of external door sets at Pilgrim Hospital, Sibsey Road, Boston, PE21 9QS
b)    B/25/0200 - Proposed change of use to form takeaway and installation of extraction system at Wags N Whiskers, 17 & 17A Eastwood Road, Fishtoft, Boston, PE21 0PH
c)     B/25/0201 - Advertisement consent for 2no. fascia signs at Wags N Whiskers, 17 & 17A Eastwood Road, Fishtoft, Boston, PE21 0PH
d)    Planning Reports and Information received including Planning Application decisions
7.    Highway
To consider and make observations associated with Highways matters that are not associated with Appendix B
a)    A16 to Sibsey
b)    Scalp Road
c)    Interactive Speed Signs
d)    30mph Reflective Signs
8.    Members reports and business
a)    Clearing and tidying the wooded area near the Hobhole pumping station -Update 
b)    Fishtoft 400 Community Group: Any updates from Councillor Armstrong
c)    Outer Dowsing Liaison Community Group – update from Councillor P Skinner
d)    Parish Council Website
e)    Parish Council Liaison Meeting – 26th June 2025
f)    Fishtoft Primary School – Councillor Lucy Webb
g)    Household Waste & Recycling Centre
9.     Correspondence received, Events & Reports
To discuss any correspondence received including after setting of agenda
•    Email from resident re Speeding along Kingsway 
10.    Fix My Street, Highways and Boston Borough Council: To receive any updates on reported issues Appendix B
11.    Dates for future confirmed meetings