6 May 2025 - Recreation & Environment Committee
Notice of a meeting of the Recreation and Environment Committee
Dear Sir/Madam,
I hereby give you notice that a meeting of the Recreation and Environment Committee of Ruskington Parish Council will be held on Tuesday 6 May 2025 at 6.30pm at Ruskington Parish Office, 7-9 High Street North Ruskington, NG34 9DY. Members of the public and press are welcome to the public session commencing at 7pm and may ask questions or make short statements to the Committee at this time. Alternatively, questions or statements may be submitted to the Clerk in advance of the meeting: clerk@ruskington-pc.gov.uk
All Councillor Members of the Recreation & Environment 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.
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Signed: K. H. Locke Clerk to the Parish Council |
K. H. Locke |
Date: 30 April 2025 |
Agenda
1. To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Parish Clerk prior to the meeting.
2. 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 receive an update on the budget and expenditure for environmental projects and maintenance.
3.1. To receive an update on the budget and expenditure for recreation projects and maintenance.
4. To receive the Clerk’s Report (for information only).
5. To receive information on a visit to Ruskington by the LCC Flood Team and their appointed flood contractors to investigate flood events in the village.
6. To consider the revised CCTV policy for recommending to Council, to ensure this meets with GDPR legislation regarding the releasing and sharing of CCTV footage/images.
7. To receive the Environment Caretaker’s Report (for information only).
8. To review and revise the allotment policy for recommending to Council in accordance with allotment legislation, following allotment training and membership to the National Allotment Society, if available.
8.1. To review and revise the allotment agreement in accordance with allotment legislation and the revised allotment policy for recommending to Council, if available.
9. To consider the management plan for Horseshoe Hollow as revised by the Environment Caretaker. (Information previously circulated)
9.1. To consider the designation of Horseshoe Hollow as a local nature reserve, as proposed by the Environment Caretaker. (Information previously circulated.) – Environment Caretaker.
10. To consider a proposal from the Environment Caretaker regarding an ash tree dieback action plan for the ash trees owned by Ruskington Parish Council. (Information previously circulated.)
11. To consider the following planning application with a focus on any environmental impact:
Planning application reference PL/0016/25
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
12. To receive an update from the pavilion project working party on the pavilion project and planning application, consider any recommendations, and the draft public consultation document, and agree the next steps.
12.1. To review, and amend as required, a draft letter for sending to potential financial donors for the pavilion project for recommending to Council.
13. To receive an update on the requirement to install new water tanks and the supply of hot water to the showers. (The tank does not comply with current regulations and the hot water only trickles from the showers/ taps, possibly due to limescale build up.) – Cllr Tomlinson.
14. To receive an update on the S106 contribution for the Flaxwell Fields development.
14.1. To consider eligible projects for the Section 106 Public Open Space (POS) claim following the development of housing on land East of Lincoln Road and North of Springfield Road (Flaxwell Fields). These, once approved by Council, will be sent to NKDC for initial review and feedback.
15. To confirm the date of the next scheduled committee meeting as Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 6.30pm.
End of agenda.