Agenda for Town Council meeting to be held on Monday, 6th October 2025
Mere Town Council
Town Clerk – Mrs. L. C. Wood
1st October 2025
Dear Councillor,
You are summoned to a meeting of Mere Town Council to be held on Monday, 6th October 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
- Apologies – To receive apologies for absence.
- 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.
- Minutes – To resolve that the minutes of the Town Council meeting held on Monday, 1st September 2025 be approved as a correct record. (attached)
- Matters Arising from Public Session
- Matters Arising from previous Meetings (not covered by other agenda items)
*a) Last month’s public session: Salisbury Street Parking Restrictions (see Chair & Clerks Report)
- b) Tree Survey Report (squirrels)
*c) Minute No. 71b) i) Highway Improvement Request Forms for B3092 – dated 29.7.25 (see Chair & Clerks Report)
*d) Report on SWW Area Board meeting held on Wednesday, 17th September and Mere Town Council application for funding for solar panels on public toilets (see Chair & Clerks Report)
- Reports & Consultations
- a) Wiltshire Councillors Report
*b) Project Co-Ordinator’s Report (report attached)
*c) Wiltshire Towns Programme Activities update (information in Chair & Clerks Report)
*d) New Licence Application – Premises Licence and Club Certificate in respect of Mere Social Club. Consultation between Mon 22nd September to Mon 20th October (redacted application forms attached)
- Planning
- a) Applications for consultation response:
Application No: | PL/2025/07308 |
Application Type: | Full planning permission |
Proposal: | Retrospective application for the cladding of an agricultural building |
Site Address: | Land and buildings at Woodlands Road, Mere, Wiltshire, BA12 6BY |
Planning Register Link: | https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000GYNtp |
Application No: | PL/2025/04203 |
Application Type: | Full planning permission |
Proposal: | Construction of an outdoor equestrian arena/manege with pedestrian access |
Site Address: | Burton Grange, Burton, Mere, Warminster, BA12 6BR |
Planning Register Link: | https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000E4xxV |
Application No. | PL/2025/07665 |
Site Location: | Breaches Barn , Mere , Warminster , BA12 6AB |
Proposal: | Conversion of the existing agricultural barn to a single dwellinghouse and conversion operations reasonably necessary to convert the building. |
Planning Register Link: | https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-application/a0iQ300000GpWflIAF/pl202507665 |
- Highways, Rivers, Footpaths, Traffic & Transport
- a) To identify jobs for the Parish Steward and MyWiltshire reports.
*b) Highways Improvement Request Form – Clements Lane, Edgebridge, Pettridge Lane & Boar Street – Nick Gosse – 14.8.25 (Redacted form attached)
- Buildings, Open Spaces, Play Areas, Sports Grounds, Car Parks, Allotments & Cemeteries
- a) Confirmation of receipt of RoSPA Annual Safety Inspection of Play Areas & Skate Park
- b) Lettings/hiring of Andy Young Pavilion
- Finance, Policy & Resources
*a) Payments – To review and authorise schedule of payments (attached)
*b) Conclusion of Audit of 2024/25 accounts (certificate attached)
- c) To set date, time, venue and membership for Annual Budget Meeting
*d) Assertion 10 of the AGAR for the 2025/26 accounts (information in Chair & Clerks Report)
- General Items
- a) The Old Nursery site off A303 at Burton
Briefing Notes:
*25-07 New Bus Stop Infrastructure funding and emerging process for requests (attached)
- Future meetings and events
Extra Town Council meeting – Monday, 13th October
Remembrance Day – Sunday, 9th November
Xmas Lights switch on – Friday, 5th December
- 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
MERE PEACE MEMORIAL SPORTS AND RECREATION GROUND
Registered Charity No. 1093497
For Trustees to consider the following:
- Payment to Water2Business (water supply to old cricket club – now being used by MTFC) 39
- To approve amendments to lease for Youth Club Building to Seeds4Success (see Project Co-Ordinator’s report)