Full Council Meeting
Meeting Summary
Meeting Agenda
Notice of Meeting
Date: 13th April 2026
Time: 19:00
Place: Parish Rooms, 17 Vicarage Rd, St Agnes, TR5 0TL
Summons to Attend
TO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL:
Councillors: Brown (Chair), Kimberley (Vice-Chair), Watson, Porter, Pudney, Woolcott, Clark, Sheard, Palombo, Williams, Biggs, Law, Griffiths.
I hereby give you notice that the Council Meeting of St Agnes Parish Council will be held as detailed above in the Notice of Meeting. All members of the Council are hereby summoned to attend for the purpose of considering and resolving upon the business about to be transacted at the meeting as set out hereunder.
Yours sincerely
Catherine Nutting, Parish Clerk
Press & Public
Members of the press and public are invited to attend. Meetings are held in public and may be filmed or recorded by broadcasters, the media or members of the public.
Biodiversity
The Council has a duty to conserve and enhance biodiversity and must consider what policies, objectives, and action it can take, consistent with the exercise of its functions, to further the general biodiversity objective. Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, s.40 & Environment Act 2021, s.102
Youth Strategy
The Parish Council is committed to supporting children and young people through its adopted Youth Strategy which shall inform all its decision-making.
Agenda
1. To appoint a meeting Chair
Due to advance apologies received from both the Chair and Vice Chair of the Council.
Time estimate: 1 min
2. Apologies for absence
To receive and approve any apologies.
Time estimate: 1 min
3. Declarations of interest/Request for dispensations
To receive any declarations of interest. To RESOLVE to grant dispensations where appropriate.
Time estimate: 1 min
4. Public participation
Members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting. Any member of the public may speak at this point of the meeting on items within the remit of the Council. No previous notice needs be given.
Time estimate: 15 mins (max – Standing Order 3(g))
5. Cornwall Councillors’ Reports
To receive written reports and/or verbal updates and raise any queries.
Time estimate: 10 mins
6. Council meeting minutes: 2nd March 2026
To RESOLVE that the minutes of the meeting of the Council as above, having been previously circulated, be taken as read, approved and signed. To note any matters arising.
Time estimate: 1 min
7. Committee meeting minutes
To note the draft minutes and resolutions therein of the Committee meetings as below:
Cemeteries & Allotment Sub Committee – 26th February 2026
Planning Committee – 16th March 2026
Asset Management Committee – 30th March 2026 (to follow)
Time estimate: 2 mins
8. Schedule of Payments (to follow)
To RESOLVE to approve as above and record the Councillor signatory who will approve. Any queries to be directed to the office before the meeting. To receive a budget report (to follow) and Significant Variation Report.
Time estimate: 2 mins
9. Year End Report
To receive as above.
Time estimate: 1 min
10. 2025/26 grant award review
To note resolution 221/25, 02.03.2026 and allocate the £1,701 grant budget underspend, with particular focus on
applicants who received less than 50% of their requested amount.
Time estimate: 5 mins
11. Parish Youth Project, temporary funding
To receive a report as above and RESOLVE to adopt the Youth Strategy Working Group’s recommendation to
award a one-off grant of £8,757 as interim support for the Parish Youth Project pending public consultation.
Time estimate: 3 mins
12. St. Agnes Parishwide Defibrillator Network annual support fund request
To receive a request for recurring annual support fund of £1,500 and report and RESOLVE a course of action.
Time estimate: 3 mins
13. Porthtowan public toilet RTC repair update
To receive a report as above.
Time estimate: 1 min
14. Porthtowan Bus Shelter
To receive a report as above and RESOLVE a course of action.
Time estimate: 3 mins
15. Hollow flying rings
To receive a request from a MOP and RESOLVE a course of action.
Time estimate: 3 mins
16. Cornwall Cultural Strategy 2026-2036 consultation
To note the consultation and RESOLVE a course of action.
Time estimate: 2 mins
17. Clerks update: (1) St. Agnes School Parking Permit Scheme (2) Potholes (3) Saints Trail safety concerns (4) traffic applications
To note a report as above.
Time estimate: 1 min
18. Microsoft Licences upgrade
To receive a report as above and RESOLVE to upgrade all staff to Business Standard licences.
Time estimate: 1 min
19. Public Realm and Re-introduction of Weed Treatment
To receive a report as above and RESOLVE a course of action.
Time estimate: 2 mins
20. Request to Use Area Adjacent to War Memorial for Carnival Judging
To receive a request from the Carnival Committee to permit four judges to place a small table and chairs on the gravelled area to the left of the war memorial during the carnival procession for judging purposes and RESOLVE a course of action.
21. Reports from Council representatives
To note written reports regarding Local Policing | Community Area Partnership | Village Hall committees | CIoS
Marine and Coastal Partnership |Playing Field Committee 5 Park forum and any others not covered at meetings
of other Council Committees.
Time estimate: 2 mins
22. Notification of meeting/Suggested items for agenda: 11th May 2026
To note the Annual Parish Council meeting as above.
Time estimate: 1 min
23. Extension of meeting time (Standing Order 3(w))
If it becomes necessary to do so, to RESOLVE that the meeting be extended for a maximum of 30 minutes to
complete items of business on the agenda.
Time estimate: 1 min
24. Public Bodies (Admissions to Meetings) Act 1960
If it becomes necessary to do so, to RESOLVE that in view of the confidential/special nature of the business about
to be transacted it is advisable that the press/public be excluded and instructed to withdraw during discussion.