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Agenda for Town Council meeting to be held on Monday, 1st September 2025

Mere Town Council

Town Clerk – Mrs. L. C. Wood

 

28th August 2025

 

Dear Councillor,

 

You are summoned to a meeting of Mere Town Council to be held on Monday, 1st September 2025 at 7.00 pm at Duchy Manor, Springfield Road, Mere, Wiltshire.  BA12 6EW.  The meeting will consider the items set out below.

 

Before the meeting there will be a public session to enable the people of Mere to ask questions of, and make comments, regarding the Town Council.  Questions not answered at this meeting will be answered in writing to the person asking the question, or may appear as an agenda item for the next meeting.  Members of the public are asked to restrict their comments, and/or questions to three minutes.

Please Note: By entering the meeting room you are consenting to the use of your name being recorded in the Minutes.  The meeting may also be recorded by the press or members of the public.  Any person or organisation choosing to film, record or broadcast any meeting of the Council or its committees is responsible for any claims or other liability resulting from them so doing and by choosing to film, record or broadcast proceedings they accept that they are required to indemnify the Council, its members and officers in relation to any such claims or liabilities.

Any person who may find difficulty in access to the meeting through disability is asked to advise the Clerk by email (lindseywood@merewilts.org) at least 24 hours before the meeting so that every effort may be made to provide access.

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Lindsey Wood,

Town Clerk & RFO

 

 

Public Participation Session

Members of the public are invited to address the Council on any issue over which it has a power. This session will be limited to 15 minutes (3 minutes per speaker). The Chairman will convene the Town Council meeting after the public session (please note that once the meeting has been convened members of the public are no longer permitted to speak unless invited to do so by the Chairman).

Reports from local police representatives

 

AGENDA

  1. Apologies – To receive apologies for absence.

 

  1. To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests and other interests from Councillors on matters to be considered at the meeting.

2.1 To receive declarations of interest from councillors on items on the agenda

2.2 To receive written requests for dispensations for disclosable pecuniary interests (if any)

2.3 To grant any requests for dispensation as appropriate

A request for dispensation must be made on an individual basis

 

Members are invited to declare disclosable pecuniary interests and other interests in items on the agenda as required by the Mere Town Council Code of Conduct for Members and by the Localism Act 2011.  The disclosure must include the nature of the interest.  If you become aware, during the course of a meeting, of an interest that has not been disclosed under this item, you must immediately disclose it.  Whether you can remain in the meeting and the extent to which you can participate depends on the type of interest you have.

 

  1. Minutes – To resolve that the minutes of the Town Council meetings held on Monday, 7th July 2025 and Monday, 4th August 2025 be approved as a correct record. (attached)

 

  1. Matters Arising from Public Session

 

  1. Matters Arising from previous Meetings (not covered by other agenda items)

*a) PCC Community Action Fund 2025 – update from Chair and report on meeting with Sgt. Lyndsey Smith (see Chair & Clerks Report)

*b) Report on SWW Area Board meeting held on Wednesday, 16th July – report from Vice-Chair (see Chair & Clerks Report)

 

  1. Reports & Consultations
  2. a) Wiltshire Councillors Report

*b) Project Co-Ordinator’s Report (report attached)

*c) Wiltshire Towns Programme Activities update (information in Chair & Clerks Report)

 

  1. Planning
  2. a) Applications for consultation response:

 

Application No: PL/2025/06462
Application Type: Removal/variation of conditions
Proposal: Variation of conditions 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 18, and 19 relating to application 20/07469/OUT, to include the wording ‘Excluding Demolition’ in conditions
Site Address: Beaumont Business Centre, Woodlands Road, Mere, Warminster, Wiltshire, BA12 6BT
Planning Register Link: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000FqVwj

 

 

Application No: PL/2025/06709
Application Type: Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Proposal: T1 Crab Apple tree – Reduce crown by up to 1 metre in height and spread. Thin by 20%, remove major dead wood and Ivy.
Site Address: FLAT 2, NEWPORT HOUSE, SALISBURY STREET, MERE, WARMINSTER, BA12 6HE
Planning Register Link: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000G2rBt

 

Application No: PL/2025/06526
Application Type: Removal/variation of conditions
Proposal: Variation of conditions 2 (approved plans) 4, 6 & 7 on PL/2022/06955 to allow for design changes
Site Address: Land North of St Marys Catholic Church, Pettridge Lane, Mere, BA12 6DGE
Planning Register Link: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000FscIT

 

 

Application No: PL/2025/06806
Site Location: LAND AT BURTON, MERE, WARMINSTER, WILTSHIRE, BA12 6BR
Proposal: Application for prior approval under Class Q of the GPDO 2015 (as amended), for change of use of agricultural building into 3 no. dwellinghouses (Class C3) with associated operational development.
Planning Register Link: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000G8IY1IAN/pl202506806

*b) Pre-planning engagement event for Fives Court (information in Chair & Clerks Report)

  1. Highways, Rivers, Footpaths, Traffic & Transport
  2. a) To identify jobs for the Parish Steward and MyWiltshire reports.

*b) Highway Improvement Request Forms:

  1. i) for B3092 – dated 29.7.25 (Redacted form attached).
  2. ii) for North Road – dated 19.8.25 (Redacted form attached)

*c) Wiltshire Connect ‘on-demand’ bus service for south-west Wiltshire – email attached.

*d) Information relating to highway maintenance works past and pending along Manor Road (information in Chair & Clerks Report)

 

  1. Buildings, Open Spaces, Play Areas, Sports Grounds, Car Parks, Allotments & Cemeteries

*a) Tree Survey Report (information in Chair & Clerks Report)

*b) Notice to end tenancy for Mere Croquet & Boules Club at Steep Street & request to use a part of Duchy Manor Sports Field for a croquet lawn. (information in Chair & Clerks Report)

 

  1. Finance, Policy & Resources

*a)  Payments – To review and authorise schedule of payments (attached)

  1. b) To note the bank and accounts reconciliations for June and July 2025

 

  1. General Items

*a) Closing of Mere Police Station (information in Chair and Clerks Report)

*b) Wiltshire Council Plan 2025-2035 Drop-in sessions/community engagement (information in Chair & Clerks Report)

*c) A special request from CPRE Wiltshire (information in Chair and Clerks Report)

 

  1. Future meetings and events
  2. a)  LHFIG meeting 3.9.25
  3. b) South West Wiltshire Area Board Meeting, Wednesday, 17th September 2025 at 6.30 pm – Hinton Hall, Church Street, Tisbury.

*b) Community First AGM Wednesday, 8th October 2025 (information in Chair and Clerks Report)

  1. c) Wiltshire Neighbourhood Watch Association AGM – Saturday, 18.10.25 between 10 am until 12 noon at Wiltshire Police HQ

 

  1. Future agenda items

 

Note:  Members are reminded that the Town Council has a general duty to consider the following matters in the exercise of any of its functions: Equal Opportunities (race, gender, sexual orientation, marital status and any disability), Crime and Disorder, Health and Safety and Human Rights.

 

*Further information on these items enclosed/attached

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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