Question 1

Gillian Henshaw

Subject

Consideration of alternative sites for GDF

Response by

Councillor Craig Leyland, Portfolio Holder for Corporate Affairs

Supplementary

None

Question 2

Jeff Bedford

Subject

Support for MP’s call for a vote on the GDF

Response by

Councillor Craig Leyland, Portfolio Holder for Corporate Affairs

Supplementary

None

Question 3

Nigel Barker

Subject

Effectiveness of the Community Partnership

Response by

Councillor Craig Leyland, Portfolio Holder for Corporate Affairs

Supplementary

As ELDC are interested in the flood defences, given the sighting process is 10 to 15 years where NWS is concerned and regardless of whether the Council pulls out or gives us the vote in in 2027, I assume ELDC is already repeatedly and vigorously lobbying central government for the money it needs for local investment, and in particular for sea defences? Can we wait up to 15 years before improving our sea defences?

Response

ELDC is a responsible Council and recognises all the challenges that we face in East Lindsey.  Some of those are exacerbated by our coastal communities in terms of our indices of deprivation.  Our economy, our skills, agenda, and looking at statistics on indices of deprivation, you'll understand why we are engaged in this process. We are not wasting our time. Our engagement with NWS is ongoing.  And the funding formula for flood defences is complicated and is not as generous as you think to areas such as East Lindsey where farmland isn't recognised in terms of its value that it should be, and we are constantly talking to government about how that changes.  But we will take any opportunity that we can to secure those flood defences and it's not inappropriate for us to engage in conversations with the Environment Agency, Lincolnshire County Council and also NWS as a government agency.  This is all government money, and as a Council, we have to seek every opportunity that we can to gain funding and also to get the investment that we need along our coast and in East Lindsey in general.

Question 5

Peter Hill

Subject

Lack of assurance and clarity ref. the GDF

Response by

Councillor Craig Leyland, Portfolio Holder for Corporate Affairs

Supplementary

None

Question 6

Bridget Odlin

Subject

Alternative areas for exercise - Wood Lane, Louth

Response by

Councillor Graham Marsh, Portfolio Holder for Community Safety, Leisure and Culture and Carbon Reduction

Supplementary

None

Question 7

Phil Odlin

Subject

Removal of green space – Wood Lane, Louth

Response by

Councillor Graham Marsh, Portfolio Holder for Community Safety, Leisure and Culture and Carbon Reduction

Supplementary

Doesn’t Wood Lane support other sports and functions rather than just football?

Response

It does, and part of this development is to
increase and improve the MUGA area and the youth skate parking area.  Those will be used for other sorts of sports, but I think the primary use at the moment for Wood Lane is for football.

Question 8

Robert Duell

Subject

Respect to withdraw application – Wood Lane, Louth

Response by

Councillor Graham Marsh, Portfolio Holder for Community Safety, Leisure and Culture and Carbon Reduction

Supplementary

In light of this, does this mean that the views and mental well-being of local residents are not taken into consideration as this application was submitted without any public consultation at all?

Response

This is not the case.  The notice going out with the planning application and the responses back is a form of consultation and we do take seriously the views of local people.  It is the views of a great many people that I've been involved with in the layout area that say there is not enough sports facilities to meet the demand that is currently available.  This development will allow this pitch to be used seven days a week for several hours a day rather than the grass pitch where use is weather dependent. So this is an expansion of the facilities that are available which people have rightly asked us for because of the
growth in popularity of the sport.

Question 9

Mrs A Duell

Subject

Noise level – Properties adjacent Wood Lane, Louth

Response by

Councillor Tom Ashton, Portfolio Holder for Planning

Supplementary

Does any of you on this Council have a clue how the noise affects us? it’s got worse since the MUGA pitch was built.

Response

This is a matter that's going to come to the Planning Committee. It's not my place as the Portfolio Holder for Planning to direct the Planning Committee in any of its decision making.  To undertake a site visit would be a decision for those Members on that Committee at that time. But given that this is a live planning application, it would be wrong of me to speak further.

Question 10

James Timson

Subject

Protection and increase of green space in Louth

Response by

Councillor Tom Ashton, Portfolio Holder for Planning

Supplementary

The answer that you've given me only refers to the Local Plan. What about the Council's overall responsibility to provide and protect open space for residents and take pride in our places as set out in the Council's own corporate strategy, not just through the Local Plan?

Response

The adopted Local Plan, which includes relevant policies are described in the full answer relating to the provision of open space.   From a planning perspective this policy will be reviewed.  Through the update of the Local Plan, as part of this process the evidence base is being updated, with the results expected in early spring.   There is a pressure through biodiversity net gain requirement to provide social housing requirement and to provide NHS and education provision and the requirement as it's coming down the track to provide a 150% uplift in the number of houses being built in East Lindsey and the deliverability of this.

Question 11

Clive Damms

Subject

Failure to provide sufficient grass pitches in Louth

Response by

Councillor Graham Marsh, Portfolio Holder for Community Safety, Leisure and Culture and Carbon Reduction

Supplementary

When the leisure centre was built, there was a 25-year agreement which never got signed and that was one of the main agreements why the leisure centre should have been built.  The replacement football pitch got condemned and that never got replaced.  So, we've lost 4 football pitches and nothing's been done about it in that time and I just want to know why we've been left in a bit of a mess?

Response

It's important that we put this into perspective.   I'm fully aware that there is a dire need of more grass pitches in Louth and I have spoken to both the local town council, local councillors and it’s also been in the Press.  Again, this is a request if you, the residents of Louth know of areas which would be suitable to put a grass pitch on, please let me know and we will investigate it and see what we can do to bring that land forward.  We rely on local people informing us of opportunities that we may have missed.

Question 12

Andrea Spink

Subject

Progress made on GDF in last 6 months

Response by

Councillor Craig Leyland, Portfolio Holder for Corporate Affairs

Supplementary

None

Question 13

Elizabeth Lawton

Subject

Information withheld ref moving GDF site

Response by

Councillor Craig Leyland, Portfolio Holder for Corporate Affairs

Supplementary

None