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Agenda for Town Council meeting to be held on Monday, 3rd November 2025

29th October 2025

 Dear Councillor,

You are summoned to a meeting of Mere Town Council to be held on Monday, 3rd November 2025 at 7.00 pm in the Andy Young Pavilion 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.
  2. 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 meeting held on Monday, 6th October 2025 and the Minutes of the Town Council meeting held on Monday, 13th October 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)
  2. a) The Old Nursery site off A303 at Burton (Minute Ref: 86a) Further information in Clerks Report

 

  1. Reports & Consultations
  2. a) Wiltshire Councillors Report
  3. b) Project Co-Ordinator’s Report Report attached
  4. c) Wiltshire Towns Programme Activities update
  5. d) Wiltshire Council Parking Plan engagement sessions Further information in Clerks Report

 

  1. Planning
  2. a) Applications for consultation response:
Application No: PL/2025/06080
Application Type: Full planning permission – Amended Plans/Additional Information  **Re-start Application**
Proposal: Erection of 2 no. new dwellings with associated vehicular entrance, car parking and landscaping
Site Address: Red House, Pettridge Lane, Mere, Warminster, BA12 6DG
Planning Register: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000FVWCf

 

Application No: PL/2025/06960
Application Type: Removal/variation of conditions
Proposal: Variation of condition 2 of PL/2022/07937 to replace two approved car parks with single garage and carport
Site Address: West Swainsford Farm, Woodlands Road, Mere, Warminster, BA12 6JT
Planning Register: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000GGClZ

 

Application No: PL/2025/07929
Application Type: Full planning permission
Proposal: The construction of an agricultural dirty water above ground store (covered) and an extension to an existing agricultural building to be used for general storage use.
Site Address: Manor Farm, Mere, BA12 6HR
Planning Register: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000GzDDd
  1. Highways, Rivers, Footpaths, Traffic & Transport
  2. a) To identify jobs for the Parish Steward and MyWiltshire reports

 

  1. Buildings, Open Spaces, Play Areas, Sports Grounds, Car Parks, Allotments & Cemeteries
  2. a) Solar panels for public toilets – grant funding, costings and elevation proposals – Cllr. Rachael Hansford
  3. b) To set fee for card payment to use the toilet at night
  4. c) Recent issues relating to vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
  5. d) Summary of actions identified within recent Tree Inspection Report – Report attached

 

  1. Finance, Policy & Resources

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

  1. b) To note the reconciliations for August 2025; the Chairman to sign and verify against the bank statements seen
  2. c) To consider and approve Budget Expenditure Report for Quarter ending 30.9.25 Report attached
  3. d) To consider and adopt IT Policy for Mere Town Council (Draft attached)
  4. e) Electricity contract for Clock Tower Further information in Clerks Report

 

  1. General Items

Briefing Notes

Briefing Note No. 25-08 Gypsies & Travellers DPD – Update and Call for Sites Briefing Note attached

 

  1. Future meetings and events
  • LHFIG meeting – 26th November 2025 2.00 pm at The Nadder Centre, Tisbury
  • Remembrance Day Parade – Sunday 9th November
  • Budget Meeting – Wednesday, 19th November

 

  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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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