Councillors: You are hereby summoned, and members of the press and public are hereby invited, to the Parish Council on Monday 8 June 2026 at 7.30pm.

Any person who may find difficulty in access to the meeting through disability is asked to advise the Clerk at least 24 hours before the meeting so that every effort can be made to provide access. This meeting will be recorded and anyone speaking will have deemed to have given consent to being recorded.

DRAFT AGENDA

1. Co-option: Councillors to receive applications for the position of Parish Councillor.

2. Apologies for absence:

3. Declarations of Interest and Dispensations:

4. Minutes of previous meeting: Councillors to approve the minutes of the Annual Parish Council meeting held on 11 May 2026.

5. Public Forum:

a. Councillors are asked to raise questions resulting from the receipt of Rowland

Warboys District Councillor monthly report.

b. Councillors are invited to ask Andrew Stringer County Councillor questions further to receipt of his monthly report.

c. To receive comments from members of the public.

6. To receive reports/updates from the following working groups:

a. Biodiversity

b. Community Emergency Plan

c. Community Infrastructure Levy

d. Neighbourhood Plan: To include an update on the number of houses Wickham Skeith is required to deliver.

e. Road Safety:

I. To include an update from Anglian Water relating to Dodmans Pightle.

II. To receive an update on the position of white village entrance gates.

7. Planning:

a. to consider planning applications made to the District Council

b. to note determinations made by District Council relating to Wickham Skeith.

c. to receive update on the register of ‘The Grimmer’ with the Land Registry.

8. Finance

9. Correspondence:

10. Other matters for inclusion on a future agenda:

11. Councillors to note the date of the next meeting as 6 July 2026.

 
Wickham Skeith Parish Clerk

Could you be our next Parish Clerk?

Due to the retirement of our current Clerk, the Parish Council would like to recruit a Clerk, preferably from Wickham Skeith. No experience needed although some admin skills would be helpful and training will be available The time requirement is about 3 hours a week with five evening meetings through the year and the post is paid.

Duties include:   

·        minute taking and setting up/publishing agendas

·        recording and managing payments and receipts

·        bringing planning applications to the attention of the council for consideration

·        preparing documents for audit, the draft budget and precept documents

 Skills:

·        Computer literate, particularly in Word and Excel.

·        Organised, numerate, a good communicator

·         Must have internet and phone access.  The council has a dedicated laptop and printer that can be loaned to the clerk for council business.