Committee Agendas - 1 April 2025 - 31 March 2026

Notice of a meeting of the Estate Management & Planning Committee

Dear Sir/Madam,

I hereby give you notice that a meeting of the Estate Management and Planning Committee of Ruskington Parish Council will be held on Tuesday 3 December 2025 at 6.30pm at Ruskington Parish Office, High Street North, Ruskington, NG34 9DY. A public session will commence at 6.30pm and members of the public and press are welcome to attend and may ask questions or make short statements to the Committee at this time. Due to the venue, please contact the Clerk in advance of the meeting for this to be arranged. Alternatively, you may submit a question or short statement to the Clerk in advance of the meeting.

All Councillor Members of the Estate Management and Planning Committee are summoned to attend for the purpose of considering and resolving upon the business to be transacted at the meeting, as set out hereunder.

Agenda

1. To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Parish Clerk prior to the meeting.

2. To receive declarations of interest and consider applications for dispensations in relation to DPIs. Disclosure of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests is to be in accordance with the Localism Act 2011. The need for Disclosure is to be based upon agenda items or at any suitable time during the Meeting when it becomes apparent to a Member.

3. To approve the notes of the committee meeting held on Tuesday 30 September 2025 as accurate Minutes.

4. To receive information from the Village Hall Management Committee regarding the requirements for a footpath from the village hall in case of a fire evacuation and agree a recommendation for making to Council. – Cllr Conway.

5. To receive the Clerk’s report (for information only).

6. To receive an update on the renovation of the lychgate and the funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, if available, and agree the next steps.

7. To consider the building regulation plans for the pavilion and agree any recommendations for amendments, if required.

   7.1. To receive / consider the report from the structural engineer, if available, regarding the load bearing walls inside the pavilion.

   7.2. To consider the conditions of planning approval for the pavilion and overflow car park.

   7.3. To consider the future use of the pavilion as a sports, community, and entertainment venue and café for recommending to Council and consulting with the Recreation and Environment Committee regarding any public consultation required.

   7.4. To consider the best individual or agency to run the community café.

   7.5. To consider the next steps to move the pavilion renovation and car park project forward.

8. To consider the Adjacent Parish Council Notification for Planning reference: PL /0016/25 received from LCC:

Development: For proposed erection and operation of biogas plant (biogas generated on site upgraded to biomethane, with a range of by-products for export) including connection to the national gas transmission system, associated highway modifications (including new road link to Moy Park facility from the a153), proposed landscaping and associated development (including pipeline connections)

Location: land to the west of Moy Park facility and the south of the A153, Anwick

Grid reference: 510848    350225 

  https://lincolnshire.planning-register.co.uk/

a. Regulation 25 - Covering Letter 07/11/2025

b. Regulation 25 - Biodiversity Net Gain Metric 07/11/2025

c. Regulation 25 - Environmental Statement Addendum 07/11/2025

d. Regulation 25 - Proposed Site Layout Plan 07/11/2025

(Information previously circulated and considered by the Environment and Recreation Committee on 2/12/2025)

9. To consider planning applications received from NKDC since the last Council meeting held on 9 September 2025.

   a. Planning Application Reference: 25/1396/HOUS

Proposal: Demolition of existing conservatory and detached garage. Erection of new

detached garage, new detached games room, front porch and single storey rear

extension with covered terrace and first floor terrace

Location: 9 Pinfold Lane Ruskington Sleaford Lincolnshire NG34 9EU

Comments are to be returned to NKDC by 6 Dec 2025

   9.1. To receive notice of planning applications approved by NKDC.

a. Application Reference: 25/1198/HOUS

Proposal: Extension to front of existing garage, erection of a sectional garage to side and

replace leylandii hedge with fencing

Location: 1 Priory Close Ruskington Sleaford

(Notice received on 14/11/2025)

   b. Application Reference: 25/0477/FUL

Proposal: Siting of an InPost Parcel Locker (retrospective)

Location: Red Lion 107 High Street North Ruskington

(Notice received on 27/11/2025)

10. To receive an update on a conservation area for Ruskington village centre in view of the North Kesteven Heritage Strategy. – Cllr Hislop

11. To consider the condition of the War Memorial in Sleaford Road cemetery and the quotes received for its cleaning (removal of algae and moss) and restoring the lettering (repainting/enamelling) and agree the next steps.

12. To consider the condition of the shelter walls in the Garden of Remembrance and consider the next steps and any expenditure required.

13. To consider the correspondence from a resident, if available, concerning locating a headstone in Sleaford Road cemetery (no remains interred) and the request to install this themselves as it was purchased online and local stone masons are unwilling to install a headstone that is not their own.

   13.1 To consider asking Council to amend the cemetery regulations (as approved in October 2025) to state that only stone masons registered with the British Register of Accredited Memorial Masons (BRAMM) can erect a headstone in the cemetery.

14. To consider any projects and expenditure for informing the budget and precept for FY 2026-2027.

15. To consider the proposed dates for four meetings to be held in 2026 and start time. (Additional meetings can be held as required.) Wednesday 4 March 2026, Wednesday 3 June 2026, Wednesday 2 September 2026, Wednesday 2 December 2026. Proposed meeting start time 6.30pm.

16. To resolve whether to exclude the public and press, in accordance with the Public Bodies (Admissions to Meetings) Act 1960, to discuss the following contractual matters below.  Should this resolution be passed, members of the public and press will be required to leave the meeting. The meeting will end, and a further meeting of the Council will be convened immediately.

17. To consider the following cleaning contracts from 1 April 2026.

   17.1. Cleaning contract for the rear of the parish office.

   17.2. Cleaning contract for the public toilets.