2026-27 Minutes

Present

Parish Councillors: Trevor Tyrrell, Eric Fragale, Chris Elliott and Sam Cooke

District Councillors: Anthony Casson and Thomas Sneath

County Councillor: Raymond Condell

SHDC Officer: David Reed

10 Parishioners

Clerk: Angela Harrison

In the Chair: Eric Fragale  

 To receive details of the new waste collection service from SHDC Officer, David Reed followed by a Q & A session.

Mr Reed explained the following: -

• New legislation requires separate food collections and paper and card collections.

• 30% of waste is food and the rest goes to the North Hykeham energy from waste plant.

• Food waste will go to energy for power stations with the residue going to farmland as fertiliser.

• Plastic bins are better for recycling paper and card.

• Recycling in Lincolnshire is currently  45% but in South Holland it’s only 30%

• Contamination rate is currently 20% in South Holland.

• Vehicles are regularly hitting maximum capacity leading to missed collections.

• Currently reviewing all the rounds along with the number of vehicles and crew.

• 190,000 bins have been acquired.

• Going out to Parish Councils, events, schools, markets and anywhere else that people feel it would be beneficial, to explain the process.

• Beginning of October the calendars for collections will be sent out and the service will start at the beginning of November.

o 1st week = Black Bin + Food Waste

o 2nd week = Plastic and Tin + Food Waste

o 3rd week = Black Bin + Food Waste

o 4th week = Paper and Card + Food Waste

Answers to questions raised were as follows: -

• Some people will be exempt from having bins, e.g. those with nowhere to store the bins, or if they would have to bring the bins through their home.

• Assisted collections are available for those who would struggle to put the bins out themselves.

• Provision of additional bins free of charge for larger families.

• There will be assistance/support during the first 3 months of the service

• 52 liners will be supplied with the kitchen caddy, once full this will be put into the outside food caddy which has a lockable lid.

• There will be a no side-waste policy, but there might be an exception for Christmas when there is notoriously more recycling.

Any other questions or short statements from the public to the Parish Council.

• Marcus Pell asked about the litter picking on the field.

o Street Scene collections are carried out separately.

• Resident of Mill Drove North stated that there were 858 vehicles per day in 2011 now there are nearly 6,000.

o Everyone is aware of this and there have been over 52 vehicles pulled out of the dyke.

o Written to the House of Lords, have met with ex Cllrs Pepper and Poll.

o LRSP knew it would become a rat-run back in 2010.

Cllr Condell asked the resident to send him all the information and he will look into it.

Request that this item be included on the next meeting’s Agenda.

ACTION:  Cllr Condell & Clerk

AGENDA

27. To receive and approve apologies for absence.

Apologies were received and approved for Jake Mason and Janet Barnes.  Apologies had also been received for Cllr Andrew Woolf, which were noted.

28. To receive Declarations of Interest in accordance with the Localism Act 2011 and to consider any requests for dispensations.

There were none.

29. To approve the Minutes of the May ACM and for the Chair to sign them as a true record.

The Minutes were approved and signed as a true record by the Chair.

30. Matters arising from the Minutes, (not covered in this agenda).

There were none.

31. Clerk’s Report on matters outstanding.

Accessibility for the Pavilion

The Clerk advised that the PC had been granted under a half of what was applied for, meaning that the work could not go ahead.

Cllr Condell stated that he had just been made aware of a funding pot for local projects.

Members asked the Clerk to send the details to Cllr Condell for consideration.

ACTION: Clerk

Correspondence

Orchard Trees

Members resolved that the PC apply for as many as they can supply for the area for the proposed Community orchard, along with 30+ flowering trees.

ACTION: Clerk

32. Finance Matters: 

a. to receive Bank Reconciliations for May and June.

The bank reconciliations were reviewed and signed by the Chair.

b. to receive a list of recent receipts and the Summary Budget Report.

The reports were received.

c. to approve invoices for payment received since the last meeting.

It was resolved to approve the invoices totalling £6,269.01 Net.  Along with the general monthly payments, this amount included the annual insurance premium of £1,103.77 and £2,210.00 for the repairs to the septic tank and drain covers at the park.

33. Blossom Trees for the park.

As discussed under item 5, it  was resolved to apply for 30+ flowering trees for the park. 

34. Highways Matters: 

a. to receive the CSW report for May and June 2026.

01.05.2026   

Stonegate            30mph        42 vehicles checked 4 over limit fastest 40mph

23.05.2026

Stonegate            30mph        34 vehicles checked 3 over limit fastest 39mph

27.05.2026

Stonegate             30mph        28 vehicles checked 3 over limit fastest 47mph

12.06.2026

Stonegate             30mph        47 vehicles checked 5 over limit fastest 38mph

17.06.2026           

Stonegate             30mph        37 vehicles checked 6 over limit fastest 38mph

35. Planning Matters: 

a. to agree a response to any applications received since the last meeting.

Members resolved to support this application.

36. Police matters: 

a. to receive the online Police report.

A total of 6 Crimes were reported in April 2026, as follows: -

37. Items to be included on the next meeting’s agenda. 

Mill Drove South

38. To confirm the date of the next meeting, set for Monday the 14th of September. 

The date was confirmed.

Meeting ended at 20:55