Parish Council Meeting Monday 10th August

David Kirkham, Clerk to Parish Council (5/8/2026) 

Contact:        email: [email protected]           Call: 07557 339541

To invite and listen to issues raised by members of the public.   Details of how residents can address the council during public time can be found in the Public Participation Policy on the website and notice boards. Members of the public are allocated upto 3 minutes to speak or at the discretion of the Chairman.

Receive reports from County and Borough councillors.

To receive apologies for absence

• To receive declarations of interest from Councillors on items on the agenda
• To receive written requests for dispensations for disclosable pecuniary interests (if any)
• To grant any requests for dispensation as appropriate

To resolve to approve as a correct record the minutes of the July 2026 meeting.

26/0344   WREA LODGE DUBSIDE THE GREEN WREA GREEN

Proposal CHANGE OF USE OF INDOOR SWIMMING POOL AT REAR OF DWELLING TO MIXED PRIVATE AND COMMERCIAL USE TO ALLOW THE PROVISION OF SWIM

SCHOOL SESSIONS AND PRIVATE LESSONS WITH TEACHING SPACE, AND

ERECTION OF ENTRANCE CANOPY TO SIDE ELEVATION (RETROSPECTIVE)

The amendments relates to the following:

1. 45 minute gap between each lesson to give customers time to vacate the premises prior to the next lesson starting

2. Removing all activities on Sundays

3. Reducing activities on Saturdays to morning only

4. Making Saturday mornings one to one’s only and no group lessons offered with the exception of scuba training bookings

5. Reducing the opening hours as proposed and now proposing 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday

6. The majority of customer parking will now be directed to the front driveway of the property

7. The application now includes the retrospective canopy structure that has been erected to the side elevation at the pool entrance

25/0752   RIBBY HALL LEISURE VILLAGE, HOTEL AND SPA RIBBY ROAD

Proposal ERECTION OF AN EXTERNAL ACTIVITY AREA INCLUDING: 1) GO-KART TRACK AND SHED, 2) HIGH ROPES COURSE AND NET ACTIVITY AREA, 3) 2 NO.

SPRINKLER TANKS AND SPRINKLER PUMP HOUSE, 4) EXTRERNAL SEATING

AREA, WITH ASSOCIATED 2M MESH SECURITY FENCE AND LANDSCAPING

ARRANGEMENTS.

Granted    1 BRYNING AVENUE RIBBY WITH WREA PRESTON PR4 2WL

EXTERNAL TERRACE TO REAR OF DWELLING (RETROSPECTIVE)

1. To resolve banking reconciliation and payment requests as presented by the RFO

b.      Update on any general matters relating to parish finances

To consider the following items of correspondence previously distributed by the clerk:

a.      Conservation Area update including survey on 5^th August (£480)

b.      Consideration to resolving legal paperwork for the PC

c.      To consider correspondence to FBC planning in relation to the Wrea Croft development and ground levels allegedly exceeding planned height (as reported by resident adjacent to the development)

d.      LALC ‘Fylde Area Committee’ meeting will be held on Monday 28^th September 2026 at the ‘William Segar Hodgson Pavilion’, Coronation Road, Kirkham, PR4 2HE, commencing at 7pm.

e.      Update on garage electrical supply – request for PC to apply for permissions. Clerk to update.

f.       3 parishes dinner – reservations outstanding

g.      LGR – decision notification