April 2026 Minutes
MARTON & GATE BURTON PARISH COUNCIL
Clerk to the Council: Mrs A McArthur Field Farm Sand Lane Spalford NG23 7HG Tel. 07392113832 clerk@martonandgateburtonparishcouncil.gov.uk
Website https://marton-gate-burton.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk
Minutes of the meeting held on 13th April 2026.
PRESENT Cllr S Spence ( Chairman)
Cllr N Cody ( Vice Chairman)
Cllr C Durning
Cllr L Musgrave
Cllr P Kent
Cllr J Ridley
Cllr.J Patrick
Also present:
Anna Blythe Peter Watson A McArthur
1 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE: None
2.DECLARATIONS OF MEMBERS' INTERESTS. None
3.PUBLIC FORUM: Anna Blythe advised-the parish council on the action her group is taking to try and get the crossing for the school, their petition currently has 250
signatures, she stated they have the full support of MP Sir Edward Leigh, Cllr Wimhurst has withdrawn his support.
Peter Watson gave a resume of his experience and would like to join the Parish Council.
4. Co-Option of Councillor: Peter Watson and Anna Blythe agreed to join the Parish Council.
5. Notes of the meeting held on 2nd March 2026 were signed as a true record.
6.REPORTS ON MATTERS FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS:
The street light reported by Northern Powergrid has been identified as the reposibility of WLDC, clerk will notify Northern Powergrid. Krinkel UK have stated their current system does not enable them to upload a completion picture to the client. Cllr Wimhurst had been emailed and a request for an update report had failed to get a response.
7. PLANNING: No applications received.
8. Finance: Agreed to approve payment for clerk salary £208.38 HMRC £49.80 Zurich Insurance £212.54 Lincs Stump Grinding £840.00 the clerk advised LCC grass cutting contribution has finally been received and total in the bank was £30,580.33 this included the 2026/7 precept.
9. Mobile Post Office:Cllr Spence advised he had no update but will keep up the pressure.
10. Request for information from the solicior on more information on Parish land. The clerk has been requested to contact the solicitor and ask in addition to the information already supplied what exactly did they require as some of the information the solicitor suggested dates back many years and may not be available. Cllr Durning kindly offered to go through papers supplied by the previous clerk.
11. Offer of transferring car park at Marton Academy from the developer to the Parish Council. The clerk will email and ask if there is any funding from the developer and if the remedial works requested by the school had been completed. Anna Blythe stated Mr Green headmaster had already costed out the running costs. Cllr Kent stated he would contact Mr Green and request a meeting to discuss these costs.
12. LCC Bus shelter scheme. The clerk will look into this further and obtain some costs.
13., Request to turn phone box into a community bookbox. This was agreed as the person requesting this had advised she would clean out the phone box and put up some basic shelving. Cllr Spence stated he would see if he could find a painter to smarten up the outside.
14, Correspondence. An email had been received to request a bus shelter on the Stow Park road. See 12 above. Also an email received regarding the overgrown state of the cemetery. Cllr Spence will contact the contract supervisor to discuss.
15. Coronation Wood. The stump grinding had now been completed. Mr Porter is unable to carry on the maintenance works, Cllr Ridley agreed to obtain some quotes for grass cutting. It was agreed to send a 'thank you' card to Mr Porter and a cheque for 100.00. The clerk will organise.
15. AOB: Cllr Durning has received a safeguarding letter from HSBC as the account is closed NFA is required.
Cllr Cody and Cllr Kent need their email passwords reset. The clerk will contact Parish Online.
The meeting closed at 8.45pm date of next meeting meeting Monday May 11th 2026.