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Council meetings will be held in the Ceremony Room at Richmond House, Richmond Park, Morton Terrace, Gainsborough. Public and press are welcome to attend.

All Members of Gainsborough Town Council:

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Council which will be held on Tuesday 6 August 2024 commencing at 6:30pm in the meeting room, Richmond House, Richmond Park, Morton Terrace, Gainsborough, DN21 2RJ and your attendance at such meeting is hereby requested to transact the following business.

AGENDA

Open Forum      Public Participation
(Members of the public are welcome to present any matter relevant to the wellbeing of Gainsborough Town and each president will receive the attention of the Council for a period not exceeding 3 minutes, with a maximum of 15 minutes in total. Please see the Council’s Public Participation at Meetings Policy and Standing Orders 3.6 – 3.9 for details.

Recording, including filming, audio recording, taking photographs, blogging, tweeting and the use of other social media websites is permitted at Council meetings which are open to the public.  Anyone wishing to do so MUST adhere to the protocol laid out in the Council’s  Filming and Recordings of Meetings Policy.

FC25/048  Apologies for Absence
To note apologies for absence.

FC25/049  Declarations of Interest
To receive any declarations of interest in accordance with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011.

FC25/050  Dispensation Requests
To consider any dispensation requests received by the Town Clerk in relation to personal and/or disclosable pecuniary interests, not previously recorded.

FC25/051  Items for Exclusion of Public and Press
To determine which items on the agenda, if any, require the exclusion of public and press under the Public Bodies (Admissions to Meetings) Act 1960 1 (2) and resolve to exclude public and press for these items.

FC25/052  Minutes of the Previous Meeting
To receive the minutes of the previous Council meeting and resolve to sign these as a true and accurate record.
Paper A Tuesday 4 June 2024 (pages 5 to 8)

FC25/053  Committee Meeting Minutes
To note receipt of the draft minutes of the Committee meetings and the decisions contained therein.
i. Property and Services Committee, Tuesday 11 June 2024 Paper B (pages 9 to 12)
ii. Planning Committee, Tuesday 18 June 2024 Paper C (pages 13 to 17)
iii. Finance and Strategy Committee, Tuesday 25 June 2024 Paper D (pages 18 to 21)
iv. Property and Services Committee, Tuesday 9 July 2024 Paper E (pages 22 to 25)
v. Planning Committee, Tuesday 16 July 2024 Paper F (pages 26 to 30)
vi. Personnel Committee, Wednesday 17 July 2024 Paper G (pages 31 to 33)
vii. Finance and Strategy Committee, Tuesday 23 July 2024 Paper H (pages 34 to 37)

FC25/054  Announcements
To receive and note updates from: –
i. Chair of Council
ii. Leader of Council
iii. Representatives on Outside Bodies
iv. Town Clerk Paper I (pages 38 to 75)

FC25/055  Committee Vacancies
To consider making appointments to vacancies on committees.
i. Planning Committee
ii. Finance and Strategy Committee
iii. Personnel Committee
Paper J (pages 76 to 78)

FC25/056  Recommendations made by Committee
To consider the following recommendation from Property and Services Committee held 9 July 2024 (PS25/043 Love Lane Allotment Pond):
RESOLVED:  to RECOMMEND to FULL COUNCIL to instruct Contractor C to construct a 1.8m fence around the boundary of the pond area on Love Lane allotments as a condition of the planning permission, please note this does not include the fencing along the boundary wall adjacent to Henley Court as the fence currently in situ is of satisfactory condition and does not require replacing.
Paper K (pages 79 to 80)

FC25/057  Recommendations made by Committee
To consider the following recommendation from Property and Services Committee held 9 July 2024 (PS25/044 North Warren Allotment Fence):
RESOLVED:  to RECOMMEND to FULL COUNCIL to instruct Contractor F to erect a 1.8m palisade fence on the inside of the site, 1m away from the North Warren Road boundary, 140m length of the site.
Paper K (pages 79 to 80)

FC25/058  Recommendations made by Committee
To consider the following recommendation from Planning Committee held 16 July 2024 (PL25/055 Foxby Hill Allotment Regeneration):
RESOLVED:  to RECOMMEND to FULL COUNCIL to agree to allocate £18,122.42 of CIL funds for the regeneration (demolition of the unsafe structures and removal of asbestos) of Foxby Hill Allotments. Instruct Contractor A to carry out the works.
Paper K (pages 79 to 80)

FC25/059  Motion from Councillor Woolley
Due to the importance of the potential new development / extension of the General Cemetery and reviewing / updating of policies I would like to form a Cemetery Working Group and adopt the Terms of Reference.
Paper L (pages 81 to 82)

FC25/060  Motion from Councillor Coxon
We look at replacing the 20 bus shelters that are our assets and our responsibility to the community and the 1000+ people that use the bus every week. To support this we could ask officers to talk to LCC and ask them for support with finance.

FC25/061  Tractor
To consider the following recommendation from Tender Panel held 8 July 2024
RECOMMEND to FULL COUNCIL to accept the tender from Peacock and Binnington to purchase a 40hp tractor and ancillary equipment as detailed in the report, funds to come from General Reserves (currently £214,693.49).
Paper M (pages 83 to 89)

FC25/062  Correspondence
To note the correspondence previously circulated by email (for information only).
Paper N (pages 90 to 92)

FC25/063  Items for Notification
i.       Presentation from NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board – September

FC25/064  Time and Date of Next Meeting
To note the date and time of the next Full Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 3 September 2024 at 6:30pm.

Councillor Kenneth Woolley
Chair
Richmond House
Gainsborough

Thursday, 01 August 2024