Louth Town Council

The Sessions House, Eastgate,

Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 9AJ

 

01507 355895

clerk@louthtowncouncil.gov.uk

 

To the Members of the Town Council of Louth:

You are hereby summoned to attend a Robed meeting of Louth Town Council and its Planning Committee which will be held on Tuesday 10^th January 2023 in The Old Court Room, The Sessions House, Eastgate, Louth at 7pm.  The business to be dealt with at the meeting is listed in the agenda below.

 

There will be a 15 minute public forum between 6.45pm and 7.00pm when members of the public may ask questions or make short statements to the Council, and your attendance is requested during this period. 

 

Please note, any public, wishing to speak in the public forum may do so on items which appear on the agenda or may ‘sit in’ on the meeting(s).  It would be much appreciated if any member of the public wishing to speak would please contact the Town Clerk, by emailing clerk@louthtowncouncil.gov.uk in advance of the meeting to discuss attendance arrangements.  If possible, please provide written representation rather than attending in person.

Just prior to the commencement of the meeting at 7pm there will be prayers or other religious observance, which will last for approximately 5 minutes.  Anyone not wishing to participate may leave the room at this time.

 

From 7pm a maximum of ten minutes will be set aside for the meeting to receive reports from elected Members of Lincolnshire County Council and East Lindsey District Council.

 

Members of the public should note that they will not be allowed to speak during the formal meeting.

 

Mrs. L.M. Phillips

Town Clerk

Dated this 5^th Day of January 2023

AGENDA

 

TOWN COUNCIL

(Chairman: Cllr. J. Baskett, Membership: All Cllrs.)

1. Chairman’s Remarks

2. Apologies for Absence
   To receive and note apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Town Clerk at least one hour prior to the meeting.
3. Declarations of Interest / Dispensations
   To receive declarations of interest in accordance with the Localism Act, 2011 – being any pecuniary interest in agenda items not previously recorded on Members’ Register of Interests and any written requests for dispensation received by the Proper Officer under section 22 of the Localism Act.
4. Minutes
   To approve as a correct record the notes of the Council Meeting held on 13^th December 2022. (Attached).
5. Committee Minutes
   1. Planning Committee – 22^nd November 2022
6. Mayor’s Announcements

 

 

7. Precept
   Following scrutiny by members of the Financial Overview Group and the Governance and Finance Committee Council to resolve to approve:
   3. A precept request for 2023/24 of £300,082 an increase on 2022/23 of 3.07%. (Details attached).
   4. That a further £8,500 of Council’s existing funds be ringfenced in the earmarked reserves. (Details attached).
   5. That the Town Clerk should complete the necessary form and submit to ELDC (Collection Authority) to meet its deadlines.

8. Co-option
   Council to consider candidates for co-option onto Louth Town Council and resolve as necessary.
9. Next Meeting
   To note that the next scheduled meeting of the Town Council will take place on 24^th April 2023.

PLANNING COMMITTEE

(Membership: All Cllrs.)

1. Apologies for Absence
   To receive and note apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Town Clerk at least one hour prior to the meeting.
2. Declarations of Interest / Dispensations
   To receive declarations of interest in accordance with the Localism Act, 2011 – being any pecuniary interest in agenda items not previously recorded on Members’ Register of Interests and any written requests for dispensation received by the Proper Officer under section 22 of the Localism Act.
3. Minutes
   To approve as a correct record the notes of the Planning Committee Meeting held on 13^th December 2022. (Attached).
4. Applications received by the Local Planning Authority
   To consider and make observations/ratify comments already submitted by the Planning Working Group to meet deadlines, on all planning applications received including those listed in the schedule (PA/Schedule 01-10-23). (Attached).
5. Planning Correspondence
   Committee to receive planning decisions, enforcement complaints, appeal decisions, temporary road closures etc., as advised by the District and County Council. (Attached).

6. Proposed Works to Trees
   Committee to consider the following proposed works to trees (details circulated by email 5^th January 2023) and resolve as required:
   5. Location: 54 Westgate Proposal: T1 – Holly – Reduce in height from 7m to 5.5m (below BT cable) and trim. T3 – Yew – Reduce from 7m to 6m and shape to clear neighbouring property by up to 1m and to within property boundary to clear footpath and public highway.  T4 – Weeping Ash – Tree stands at around 5m and is declining from its upper crown, remove deadwood and reduce the remaining by up to 1m to give an aesthetic prune.  T5 – Swedish Whitebeam – Tree stands at 10m and has lost a large limb to the rear; reduce the upper crown’s width towards the neighbouring property by up to 2m to compensate for the lost limb.  Broken stub from snapped limb will be reduced by half to remove weight, while avoiding a large diameter cut on the main stem.  T6 – Holly – Reduce by up to 1m in height from 6m to 5m and up to 2m from width to reduce overhang to river.  T7 – Hazel x 2 – Previously coppiced, remove thicker stems to thin generally, likely to equate to 50%, then reduce the remaining to 4m from 6m.  T8 – Holly – Tree has previously lost a leading limb causing a secondary branch to grow in an unnatural direction; tree stands at 7m, reduce its height to 4m to rebalance it.  T9 – Yew x 2 – Two trees standing at 6m, remove ivy and epicormic growth from the main stem then trim the crown by approximately 0.5m all around to round them for aesthetic reasons.  T10 – Copper Beech – Reduce width of garden side of the tree from 6m to 3m.  T11 – Dawn Redwood – Prune or remove branches as required to clear garage building by 1.5m, only side limbs will be removed, no reduction of the main stem will be made.
   6. Location: 1 Temple Terrace Proposal: T1, T2, T3 – Sycamore – Repollard to old stools, approx. 5m.

1. Appeals
   Committee to note that following refusal by ELDC of their planning applications appeals have been lodged as below.  Any representations made by Council in the planning stages have been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate.  If the Council wish to make further comments, modify or withdraw its previous comments it should do so by 23^rd January 2023:

1. N/105/00613/22 – 1 Grosvenor Road, LN11 0BB – Erection of a detached bungalow and alterations to existing vehicular and pedestrian access. Existing garage to be demolished – LTC objected to this application on 10th May 2022 on the grounds that the proposals overcrowd such a small tight space and are overbearing, constituting overintensification and garden grabbing. The Council asks that the ELDC Ward Councillor, Chris Green, please call the application in.
2. N/105/00411/22 – 31 Northgate, LN11 0LT – Change of use, conversion of and extensions and alterations to existing shop front and flat to form a single dwelling house. Demolition of existing rear extension, relating to 31 Northgate, LN11 0LT – LTC supported this application.

8. Next Meeting
   Committee to note that the date of the next scheduled Planning Committee meeting is 31^st January 2023.