5th October 2026 Brown Edge Parish Council

BROWN EDGE PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

 Monday 5^th October 2026

Brown Edge Village Hall at 7:00PM

AGENDA                                         Published 28^th  Sept. 2026 D Wheat Parish Clerk

1. A minute silence will be held in memory of former Parish Councillor Doug Wardle
2. Welcome:
3. Apologies:
4. Declaration of Interests:
5. Public Participation:
6. PCSO Report:
7. County Council Report will be circulated
8. District Councillors Reports will be circulated

9. To approve the following:
   1. Minutes of the meeting 7^th September 2026
   2. Matters arising not on the agenda

10. Items on Notice:
    1. Woodward to move to get the pavement cleaned on St Annes Vale adjacent to the school.
    2. Woodward to move to write to residents on Thelma Avenue to cut their overgrown hedges adjacent to the Playing Field.

11. Village Events:
    1. To decide on procedures for Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day
    2. To decide on any activities or decorations for Christmas

12. New Project Items:
    1. Local Heritage Register – Buildings, Structures, Parks, Gardens, Cemeteries, Archaeological and Historical sites
    2. Two new defibrillator locations to be decided
    3. To decide on a proposal for the use of the Brown Edge Community Plot
    4. Council to consider request from SMDC to complete Asset of Community Value process

13. Correspondence Received:
    1. Complaint about Cemetery maintenance
    2. Response from Office manager at St Annes School regarding parking problems at school events
    3. Parish networking event invitation, SMDC Friday 9^th October 2026, 1pm – 4pm

14. Financial Reports:
    1. Payments to be Authorised for September
    2. Cemetery Recorders Report
    3. Chairman to sign the grant funding agreement for the SMDC Rural Regeneration Fund
    4. VAT re-claim report
    5. External Audit report

15. New Cemetery Field Project:
    1. Topography Report: Used old documents from files
    2. Ecology Report completed
    3. Biodiversity Net Gain report in progress
    4. Transport highways report completed
    5. Next stage is a drainage report

16. Reports of Projects in Progress:
    1. Woodhouse Lane Railings – update on maintenance of that area
    2. Playing Field bins and blue bin bags
    3. Wildflower meadow mowing and mole hills on the Allotment update
    4. Restoration of Community Phone Box report
    5. Playground Maintenance: Report of play equipment checks and burnt tree surgery
    6. Brown Edge Action Group: forming a CIO
    7. Staff handover period and document storage
    8. To consider Eon quotation for a new streetlamp for Thelma Avenue/ Bank End

17. Planning Applications:

Exclusion of the Public:

The Chairman to move: “That in accordance with section 19 (2) of the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 by reason of the confidential nature of the business next to be transacted, the public and press be excluded from the Meeting”

18. CONFIDENTIAL ITEM
    1. To decide on a Legal representative to write the Terms of Lease for the Car park with Brown Edge Community Inn CIC. Quotations from two local Solicitors or to choose to askThe Bush CIC design the lease.

19. To note any items for the next Agenda:

Next Meeting: Ordinary Meeting – Monday 2^nd November 2026 at 7pm at Brown Edge Village Hall.