Draft Minutes 16.3.26
NOTES of the Meeting of Cranwell, Brauncewell and Byard's Leap Parish Council held at Cranwell Village Hall, Old School Lane, Cranwell Village, NG34 8DF on Monday 16th March 2026.
Present: Chair: Cllr S Daley
Councillors: Cllrs. J Bhunnoo, L Boden, G Fox, and M Robinson
Also in attendance: D/C Clarke and Lesley Frances (Clerk/RFO), Ian Whitehead of the RAF plus five members of the public.
Public time:
D/Cllr Clarke – the Target newspaper has reported some good news promoting Sleaford. NKDC is to have more social housing. The A15/Metheringham junction is to have traffic lights. There is a grit bin at the top of the incline at the end of Thorold Avenue and there has been a request for one at the bottom of the incline at the bend. There is to be Government support for families on low income which have oil heating.
Ian Whitehead – the world problems have had a knock on effect at the Station and there is a total social media ban. They cannot do any wider community communications. Any events are for RAF families only. Stations across Lincolnshire are all heavily involved. The Hive is still available to the public. Note there will be a fireworks display at 10 pm at the graduation ceremony on 2nd April.
Babcock – Mr Holderness was in attendance to offer volunteer support as they have “be kind days”. Cllr Daley has contact information which she will pass on to the Clerk.
MoP offered a donation of £50 to the new Christmas tree lights. She also offered her concerns over the 50% increase in parking charges in Sleaford and asked if the PC could do anything. Cllr Clarke said that NKDC had had to increase their charges to cover additional costs. We cannot comment on privately owned car parks.
Meeting commenced at 7.32 pm
1. Apologies for absence – Cllrs Liivet due to a prior commitment and Cllr Youle due to working– resolved to accept the reasons given.
2. To receive declarations of interest and to consider applications in relation to Disclosable Pecuniary Interests. Cllr Fox declared an interest in agenda item 5 -planning application 25/1536.
3. The Notes of the Meeting held on 9th February had been read and it was unanimously agreed that they be approved and signed.
4. Financial Matters;
a. It was unanimously resolved to approve the payments made since the last meeting. Appendix A
b. It was unanimously resolved to approve the “Payments to be Authorised” sheet – Appendix B
c. It was unanimously resolved to approve the bank reconciliation as at 28.2.26.
d. It was unanimously resolved to accept the latest Summary of “Reserves” balances.
e. It was unanimously resolved to accept the budgets -v- actual spreadsheet at 28.2.26
5. Planning applications:
25/0932 – 28 dwellings at land off Sycamore Road – pending consideration.
25/1377 – replacement bungalow at 21 Willow Lane - pending consideration.
25/1536 – erection of new bungalow and double garage at rear of 20 Willow Lane –
pending consideration.
26/0244 – Metering equipment at Land at Sewage Treatment Works, Flowerdown
Avenue – no objections from PC – pending consideration.
6. Road safety and Highways matters: Cllr Daley has met with someone
from Heckington PC who has given her the information on downloading the data from the SIDs. She will now try and get the reports printed off.
Village entrance gates – Cllr Daley has contacted Highways to see if we could have them and where, but she has not heard back yet.
Cllr Wright’s volunteering service – preference would be to install new village gates but as we have no idea when and if we can have them, this is not feasible so it was agreed we would request clearing of the ginnels.
The Cross – all work has now been completed and paid for. It was agreed to defer any discussion and decision regarding bollards for The Cross till we have a full Council in attendance.
7. Defibrillators – Clerk has chased Fulbeck PC re Byards Leap defibrillator once it
expires, but not heard back.
8. Village Hall and Social Club – Clerk advised that she has instructed Wellers solicitors to produce a draft Lease. The Chair of the Village Hall has said that there is always a committee member present at the end of a hire, who ensures the building is locked up. Discussion took place regarding the cost of the social club’s new heating system but a discussion is needed before any payment is made by the PC who do not accept any liability at this point. The existing lease does not cover this and the Social Club lease is with the Village Hall.
9. Village Green Christmas tree – Cllr Daley has found some lights at 20m or 30m
lengths at a cost of £178. She will circulate the information for further discussion. It was
resolved to pay up to £200 for new lights and the person who offered a donation of £50
towards this cost was thanked.
10. Flood sensors – both flood sensors are now installed – thanks to Cllr Bhunnoo for
allowing LCC access through his garden to get to the Dyson field.
11. The Great British Spring Clean – on Saturday 21st March between 12 and 2 pm there
will be a litter pick – Cllr Boden is preparing a flier to advertise it. The Bowls Club are opening up to provide tea and coffee at the end of the Pick - the PC thanked all involved.
12. Play area and playing field: Cllr Youle not in attendance so defer to next meeting.
13. Noticeboard at Bristow Estate – it was agreed we would try and get this noticeboard cleaned up and unlocked to use it. Quote to sort out lock £85. Clerk to contact Babcocks to see if they can open it and provide a new lock and key.
14. Advertising sign Willow Lane fence – Clerk has chased this – it has now been removed.
15. APM – representatives from LCC flood resilience team and the Lincolnshire Resilience Forum will attend. Cllr Richard Wright hopes to be there to update us on the Government Reorganisation. Sgt Mumby-=Croft from Sleaford Police will attend. We do not know if there will be any representative from the RAF given the impact of the world issues at the moment.
Cllrs Robinson and Boden and a MoP will provide cakes and the Clerk will arrange tea, coffee, milk, sugar and biscuits.
16. Reports from councillors – Cllr Boden said we could do with a litter bin at the pull in on Sleaford Road as it gets a lot of litter there. Clerk said she would need to check it would get emptied if we purchased one. The spotlight at the end of the bowls club near the hedge is flashing – Clerk to see if she can arrange for it to be looked at.
17. Date of next meetings: 13th April (regular meeting) and 20th April (APM).
Meeting closed at 8.33 pm.
APPENDIX A
Payments made 1.2.26 to 28.2.26
19.02.2026 £16.64 £3.33 £19.97 28.02.2026 Adobe AcroPro Adobe
09.02.2026 £70.00 £0.00 £70.00 17.02.2026 Anglian Water Playing Field Acc Anglian Water / Wave
09.02.2026 £21.00 £0.00 £21.00 17.02.2026 Anglian Water Old School Account Anglian Water / Wave
09.02.2026 £7.82 £0.39 £8.21 17.02.2026 Electric Bill for Village Green EDF Energy
27.02.2026 £949.55 £0.00 £949.55 28.02.2026 Clerk's Salary Lesley Frances
17.02.2026 £4.25 £0.00 £4.25 28.02.2026 Bank charges Lloyds Bank PLC
17.02.2026 £87.49 £17.50 £104.99 28.02.2026 Microsoft subscription Office Microsoft Ireland Operations
03.02.2026 £140.00 £0.00 £140.00 17.02.2026 Village Hall rent Cranwell Village Hall Management Committee
02.02.2026 £389.33 £0.00 £389.33 17.02.2026 Grounds Maintenance Steve Riley
RECEIPTS 1.2.26 to 28.2.26
09.02.2026 £11.99 £0.00 £11.99 28.02.2026 Interest Lloyds Bank PLC
16.02.2026 £1,397.25 £0.00 £1,397.25 17.02.2026 Insurance receipt for Cross Ansvar Insurance
04.02.2026 £35.00 £0.00 £35.00 17.02.2026 Bowls Club electric and water Cranwell Bowling Club
03.02.2026 £37.28 £0.00 £37.28 17.02.2026 Cranwell JFC electric and water Cranwell Junior Football Club
APPENDIX B
Payments to be Authorised at 28.2.26
156 30.01.2026 £398.00 £79.60 £477.60 17.02.2026 SID devices annual maint. Elan City Ltd Lloyds Current Account